The Good Land – Taking Possession of the Land
In previous posts we saw that the good land is a type of the all-inclusive Christ (link to post), the goal of God’s calling for His people to enter the good land (link to post), and the way the children of Israel entered the good land by crossing the River Jordan (link to post). In […]
Partakers of the Divine Nature
Second Peter 1:4 states that God has “granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature.” The greatest blessing bestowed by God upon human beings is that we may partake of His divine nature! This post will consider what the divine nature is and what […]
The Renewing of the Mind
God’s full salvation includes many items. When we receive the Lord Jesus by repenting of our sins and believing in Him, we are justified according to God’s righteousness and regenerated with God’s life (Rom. 3:24; 1 Pet. 1:3). As Romans 5:10 reveals, the process of God’s full salvation includes first, our reconciliation to God through […]
Avoiding the Influence of Judaism in the Church Today (2) – The Law
As believers in Christ, we face many challenges in our walk with Him. One of these challenges is the tendency to drift away from the living person of Christ into the old things of religion, which is a matter of doing things for God but doing them apart from Him. In particular we tend to […]
Shepherding as Seen in John 21
To enter into all the aspects of Christ as life revealed in the Gospel of John, we must pay close attention to the last chapter of this book. John 21 is the completion and consummation of the entire book of John and presents shepherding as the practical way to enter into and experience all the […]
The Burnt Offering Life
In Leviticus 1:9, God speaks of the burnt offering, one of the many offerings that the Israelites offered to Him: “…The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, as a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.” This offering was wholly burnt on the altar; nothing was left for man […]
The Lamb as the Lamp Shining Forth the Glory of God
In Revelation 21:23 we read that the New Jerusalem “has no need of the sun or of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.” God is the light, and He is embodied in and shining through the Lamb as the lamp. […]
Entering into the Good Land – Crossing the River Jordan
Previously, we saw that the purpose of God’s calling is to bring His chosen people into the good land (Exo. 3:8; link to post), which is a type of the all-inclusive Christ (link to post). God’s chosen people left Egypt by means of the passover and the crossing of the Red Sea. After journeying through […]
The Glory of God (3): Inclusion
According to Hebrews 1:3, Christ is the effulgence of God’s glory and the impress of His substance. In other words, the glory of God is altogether embodied in Christ, who glorifies the Father with the glory which the Father gave Him (John 1:14; 2:11; 5:41; 8:50, 54; 17:4-5). During the first stage of Christ’s ministry, […]
The Altars in Genesis (1) — The Significance of Building an Altar: Consecration
Genesis, the first book in the Bible, records the histories of four men – Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob –all of whom passed through distinct situations in the course of their lives. Noah built the ark, Abraham left his country for a promised land, Isaac inherited all the riches of his father and married Rebecca, […]