Pentecost was a historic event that forever changed the cosmos. And while each believer who experiences the indwelling of the Spirit may experience their own “personal pentecost”, the event of the Spirit’s filling of the believers on the day of Pentecost was a one-time unique event that had never happened before and would never happen, …
“In the Last Days”: The Old Testament Background of Pentecost Read More »
The prophecy of Isaiah is a glorious book from beginning to end. From the first chapter where God invites Israel to repentance and salvation (Isa. 1:18) to the final promise of a New Heaven and New Earth (Isa. 66:22-23), God is revealing His covenant love, compassion, judgment, and promise for redemption to His wayward people. …
Until He Brings Justice to Victory (Isaiah’s Servant Songs Pt. 1) Read More »
In an age like ours, simple beats complex. The money goes to the company that can simplify their sales and marketing messages and catch consumers’ attention. The votes go to the candidate who can simplify the issues in a catchy one-liner. Products are designed to simplify our lives and eradicate complexity. We want things to …
The Bible’s teaching on our union with Christ is rich and inexhaustible. We could spend our whole lives growing in our intellectual understanding and personal experience of it and still not exhaust the glories of it. Over the past several articles in this series we have dug into the doctrine of union with Christ from …
We Will Always Be With the Lord (Union with Christ Pt. 5) Read More »
The struggle of the Christian life can often be traced back to the struggle to live out our identity in Christ. So often our legalistic striving and our sin-laden self-condemnation is driven by a failure to grasp and live in our new identity as God’s children. As we’ve explored the theme of union with Christ …
Spiritual Blessings in the Beloved (Union with Christ Pt. 3) Read More »
In the introduction to this series on union with Christ, we examined the covenantal structure of God’s dealing with humanity and humanity’s standing before God. There are two options: either we are “in Adam”, represented by him and inheriting his guilt and condemnation, or we are “in Christ”, united to Him as a covenantal representative …
Alive to God in Christ Jesus (Union With Christ Pt. 2) Read More »
At the heart of the Gospel lies the doctrine of union with Christ. In many ways, union with Christ explains how we are saved, the implications of our salvation in the daily life of faith, and the end-goal of salvation. We are saved through union with Christ. We live our life of faith by union …
Humanity has a big problem. It’s the problem of holiness. God, our Creator, is holy, which means that He is “set apart”. We are not holy. We bear the image of God but have been corrupted by sin. Sin separates us from God and thus, from life itself. This brings up a quandary. In God …
In the last installment of the series on eschatology titled “Our Blessed Hope” we began to examine the teachings of Jesus in the Olivet Discourse found in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. We will pick up where we left off in Matthew 24, namely verse 15. So when you see the abomination of …
In the last installment of the series titled “Our Blessed Hope”, we asked the question of whether or not we are living in the last days, right now in 2022. We examined the influence of dispensational premillennialism that has developed the “last days” as the few final years of world history rather than the entire …
