LUCIFER'S RISE AND FALL IN THE LIGHT OF REDEMPTION VERSES: Ezekiel 28; Isaiah 14; Revelation 20:1-3; John 17:21-23a Why did Lucifer, created in splendor and majesty, fall? Why did he not repent? Why is he called the "that old serpent… the Devil, and Satan…”? Scripture says he is presently the god of this [...]
THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 2:1 - 3:20 THE DISCOVERY OF SIN AND GOD'S WRATH God told Jeremiah to go down to the potter's house. (Read Jeremiah 18:2-12). There he observed a potter who was forming a lump of clay into a beautiful vessel. But the clay would not cooperate with the Potter, [...]
THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 1:18-31 THE GOOD NEWS - THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED Let us keep in mind that in the first 3 chapters, Paul was shaping the Roman Believers’ understanding that both Gentiles and Jews are on the same ground with God in the New Testament. It was generally [...]
THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 1:1-17 THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD Paul’s Introduction Interestingly we have just completed our study of the Book of Hebrews, a Book addressed to Jewish Christians, and now we have begun a study on the Book of Romans, a Book addressed primarily to Gentile Christians (verse 13). The salutation [...]
CONTRASTING THE GOSPEL OF GRACE WITH THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM THE BOOK OF ROMANS (An introduction/preface to our forthcoming study on the Book of Romans) THE NEW TESTAMENT, referred to as the Gospel (good news) answers to the Old Testament. It is made up of 27 separate accounts of Jesus the Christ’s [...]
HEBREWS 12:25-29 The Holy Spirit calls the Hebrew Christians to come completely out of Judaism. Out from Temple participation, out from its services, its feasts, its earthly blessings, even out from its City (Revelation 11:8). The out calling for modern day Christians can be also found in these passages and Book, but not so obvious. [...]
Hebrews 12:18-24 (the 5th warning continued) “For ye (we) have not come unto the mount that might be touched (that might be felt, not only seen) and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of trumpet, and the voice of words; (the terrifying voice of God; “I am [...]
HEBREWS 12:14-17 WHO SHALL SEE GOD? Just a few reminder words about VERSE 11-13…. “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peacable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” Chastisement in itself is painful. When faced with it, our emotions run wild. Some [...]
HEBREWS CHAPTER 12 VERSES 1-6 The life of a Christian answers to the course and the race according to God’s design. We are in Biblical spiritual training to run the course to attain unto the reward/prize of first-born sons to reside and rule with God from the heavens, and not fall out of the race. [...]
HEBREWS 11:20-40 (the remaining of the “faith” chapter) VERSE 20 “By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come” The things to come speak to the prophetic significance of the rights of first-born sons in God’s great salvation plan. Esau was the first born by birth to Isaac but lost the blessing to [...]
