The Altars in Genesis (4) – The First Altar Built by Abraham: An Anti-Testimony
In a previous post we considered the altar that Noah built to Jehovah (link to post). We saw that Noah was a man who cared for God, but his descendants did not. Noah’s great-grandson, Nimrod, established the great city and kingdom of Babylon (Gen. 10:1, 6, 8, 10). Then, instead of exalting God, Nimrod’s descendants […]
The Altars in Genesis (3) – The Altar Built by Noah
The first post in this series showed that we can build a spiritual altar to God through our consecrating ourselves to Him, that is, through our consent to let God work in us and through us. The second post presented the motivating factor for our building an altar to God—His spiritual appearing to us. In […]
Crucial Points regarding the Lord’s Ascension
The account of the Lord’s ascension and the significance of His ascension are recorded separately in the New Testament. For instance, Mark 16:19, which says “The Lord Jesus, after speaking to them, was taken up into heaven and sat at the right hand of God,” records only the ascension of Christ. In order to understand […]
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 […]