The teaching that Christ is our satisfaction, especially in John, makes everything so simple. He’s our food. He is our drink. He’s the bread from heaven. He’s the living water. He’s the oil, and He’s the wine. He’s the riches of the good land. He’s the milk and the honey and the fat and everything. […]
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Blessed are all who put their trust in Him. “He who overcomes and keeps my works to the end, I will give power over the nations and He shall rule them with a rod of iron…Even as I received from My Father.” Revelation 2:26 We are to share with Him in His inheritance. We are
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The blood of Jesus sanctified the altar. He is the real offering, and He is the real altar. He sanctified us with His blood and presented us to God in Himself. In Christ, we are on the real altar. We are those who are presenting ourselves (in Him) as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable (which is our reasonable service of worship) (Rom 12:1-4). We are holy because of our union with Christ and our contact with the altar.
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Further Meditation on the Law of Life vs. the Law of Sin and Death . Condemnation is the main way that sin has its hold on us. We are not talking about condemnation from the wrath of God (that was taken care of by the blood of Jesus in the heavens in Romans 3). Condemnation in
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The Subject of Hebrews is the Speaking of God in the Person of His Son, which concerns His Person and His Work. This is the Gospel. Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken
If you want to talk about holiness in the Christian life, please see it not as a matter of a servant learning to be a “better person” so he can get a “Reward” and make his “boss happier.”That’s not what this is. This is a sick person being nursed back to life very gently by
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Transcribed from YT Original Message Dated 1/29/22: I want to try to encapsulate something I feel like I’m just starting to see more and more clearly in the Word. We are all learning and growing and seeing things more clearly, and it is the Lord’s mercy. No one can claim, “I got a special revelation;”
Msg 1 Obeying Truth Rather than Following Men Gal 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) Here Paul is already distinguishing himself from the people that are influencing the churches in Galatia. The people that are influencing them are much about perception and man’s authority and man’s stamp of approval. “He’s associated with James therefore I should
This is a misinterpretation of a passage in Galatians: Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. Paul uses Abraham Isaac and Jacob
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We are talking about discernment and approving that which is excellent. In the last message we saw that he prayed that their love would abound in discernment so that they would be able to approve that which is excellent in order to be sincere and without offense unto the day of Christ, being filled
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