4/4/2020 It has been a long time since I have worked on this site. What a year it has been. And now even more of an adventure with the pandemic fear of Covid-19. Be of good cheer, our God is not surprised. Nothing is outside of the operation of His Loving Sovereignty. All things do indeed work together for Good to those who are the called according to His Purpose. You find His Will and Purpose spelled out in Ephesians 1.
Having said all of that, I wish to take note of the movement of the "topic heads" under the cross scene. The blog, In The Son of His Love is now next to this home page. Lord willing, I will be posting to the blog frequently. Check there each time you open this sight.
"Sin is so loathsome in the sight of God, a stench to his Nostrils, yet men think it beautiful!" (Edward Samuel) And we are so used to it that it requires the indwelling Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth to peel back the "skin" of our fleshly comfort, and to show us sin as God sees it. Legalism will not suffice, it only creates a thicker skin--the skin of pride & self satisfaction!
4/4/2019 Consider "Grand Theft Blessings" in the blog
3/14/2019 New blog post, "Tamar". It's time for us to get off our religious high horse!
What if, when you woke up tomorrow, the only things you had were what you thanked God for yesterday?? "In everything give thanks for this is the will of God concerning you." 1 Thessalonians 5:18
3/3/2019 New post: A different "take" on Growth in Grace.
2/27/2019 New post in the blog--"God isn't into retreads."
2/15/2019 "The Gospel of the Resurrection Preached in Isaac's Sacrifice." This is the final installment of the "rabbit trail" provoked by our Galatians study. God only has one Gospel, both in the OT and the NT. Jesus, the Son of His Love, IS THE GOSPEL!!! No man comes to the Father, but by Him!!! (John 14:6-11) Jesus is the Narrow Way to the Father, but He has spilled a wide path of His Blood for repentant sinners of all ages to come into the Presence of God Eternally!!! (Hebrews 10) " "This is the Work of God, that you believe on Him Whom He has sent." (John 6:29)
Having said all of that, I wish to take note of the movement of the "topic heads" under the cross scene. The blog, In The Son of His Love is now next to this home page. Lord willing, I will be posting to the blog frequently. Check there each time you open this sight.
"Sin is so loathsome in the sight of God, a stench to his Nostrils, yet men think it beautiful!" (Edward Samuel) And we are so used to it that it requires the indwelling Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth to peel back the "skin" of our fleshly comfort, and to show us sin as God sees it. Legalism will not suffice, it only creates a thicker skin--the skin of pride & self satisfaction!
4/4/2019 Consider "Grand Theft Blessings" in the blog
3/14/2019 New blog post, "Tamar". It's time for us to get off our religious high horse!
What if, when you woke up tomorrow, the only things you had were what you thanked God for yesterday?? "In everything give thanks for this is the will of God concerning you." 1 Thessalonians 5:18
3/3/2019 New post: A different "take" on Growth in Grace.
2/27/2019 New post in the blog--"God isn't into retreads."
2/15/2019 "The Gospel of the Resurrection Preached in Isaac's Sacrifice." This is the final installment of the "rabbit trail" provoked by our Galatians study. God only has one Gospel, both in the OT and the NT. Jesus, the Son of His Love, IS THE GOSPEL!!! No man comes to the Father, but by Him!!! (John 14:6-11) Jesus is the Narrow Way to the Father, but He has spilled a wide path of His Blood for repentant sinners of all ages to come into the Presence of God Eternally!!! (Hebrews 10) " "This is the Work of God, that you believe on Him Whom He has sent." (John 6:29)
2/15/2019 Genesis 17 & Philippians 3:3 The Gospel in the Mark of Circumcision Here we explore this physical sign of the physical people and see it's slide into little more than a bloody "religious" surgery that became a physical mark of racial pride & prejudice! The physical mark became a religious mask of a uncircumcised heart!
2/11/2019 Genesis 15:17-21 The Gospel in God's cutting the covenant with Abraham. I believe that here we see a very comprehensive shadow gospel of our Lord's sacrifice for the sins of His people. Please consider that all of this predated the sacrificial worship of the Old Covenant and pointed to the Seed of Abraham , the sacrifice prepared by God, as the only adequate Sacrifice that God Most High Could and Would accept!
2/9/19 Please consider two installments in the Galatians study. They are part of a bit of a rabbit trail centered upon Galatians 3:8, the Gospel preached beforehand to Abraham. First of all, Melchizedek! This "digression" is central to Paul's argument against the Judaizers that were seducing the Galatians. His premise is that the Gospel of the Grace of God predates the giving of the Law just as faith predates circumcision. It's all part of a "package"! The Law & it's circumcision & observances was a parenthesis between God's Covenant of Promise given to Abraham and the coming of the Seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:15-18) Who is the Christ!
1/29/2019 A new post in "In the Son of His Love" blog. Heart Surgery!
12/25/2018 Whether "Christmas" is your thing or not never forget the historical event that it purports to celebrate. Consider "Merry Humiliation Day" (blog post) and bask in the Peace & Righteousness of the Son of God's Love who was made like sinful human flesh for us. An old saint said, and I paraphrase, "the Incarnation of Deity into human flesh is so much incomparably more than if a star should become a clod!"
12/19/2018 Bearing in our bodies the dying or or Lord Jesus Christ, from 2 Cor. 4:10 A new post in "In the Son of His Love" blog. Been thinking of this theme as I face open heart surgery. "That I may know Him and the Power of His Resurrection (Ephesians 1:19-20)' & the fellowship of His suffering, being made conformable to His death"'
12/16/2018 For your Christmas meditation, please consider "Beholding the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ." This was provoked by 2 Corinthians 3:18 and I pray that it is an antidote to the infection of materialism that engulfs this season. Yeah, I know, A.W. Pink didn't believe in celebrating Christmas, but don't lose the Blessing of the Glory of God in someone elses theological opinion. Romans 14:1-8
"The key that unlocks the door of the understanding of the great purposes of God concerning humanity is to be found in Eden's Garden, the threshold of all human history. The Key is the Seed, the Messiah Christ, promised by God at the fall of man. Using this key, human history becomes a beautiful pattern revealing the Will of God being unfolded in ever increasing grandeur, and not a jumbled maze of unrelated incidents. This key unlocks the mystery of His Will concerning Time and Eternity. TIME IS ONLY A FLEETING INCIDENT OF ETERNITY,"
From A New Heaven and a New Earth by Archibald Hughes published in 1958, sadly long out of print.
9/22/2018 I believe that we spend way too much time trying to figure out what God wants us to do and not nearly enough time prayerfully considering what He Has Already Done!!! While the Gospel preached to Abraham is summarized in, "in you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed", the the "Visitations of the Lord" to Abraham prefigure what God will Do to fulfill His Promise. And that is the Gospel! And that Gospel is His Display of His Glorious Son for our redemption. We could say that HE, GOD'S BELOVED SON, IS WHAT GOD HAS DONE!!!
Part 2, "The Emblems of the Covenant".
5/15/2018 Galatians 1:6-9 Paul's Gospel of the Grace of God Alone!
5/13/2018 We begin a new study on Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. It seems like the contemporary church is about everything except the One Whom the Father has sent! (John 6:27) We have added so many "things" to Jesus that we don't even know the MAN God sent, His Eternal Son come in our flesh, that we might have Life in His Name. If we add ANYTHING to Christ, we un-Christ Him. That is Paul's warning in this needful book!
I have included a brief study on "Thoughts on the Kingdom of God". Huge systems of theology have been built upon view of the Kingdom of God. This brief treatment does not espouse any "system", but is merely a consideration of themes in our Lord and His Apostles teaching. Prayerfully consider them and search the Scriptures to see if they are so.
We have spent so much time and effort trying to bring our humanity as a sacrifice worthy of God’s acceptance that we have failed to see that the only Humanity that God will accept, is our God/Man Jesus! (Hebrews 10, John 6:29)
1/6/2018 There is a new post in The son of his love blog. "Making bricks without straw". I'm sure it is controversial, but that is not my purpose. The church doesn't seem to be about knowing the Father through the Son as John says in John 17:3 & I John 5:20, and yet that is the very essence of Eternal Life! The church seems to be about itself, defined by the here and now. That is an eternally deadly mistake!
2/9/19 Please consider two installments in the Galatians study. They are part of a bit of a rabbit trail centered upon Galatians 3:8, the Gospel preached beforehand to Abraham. First of all, Melchizedek! This "digression" is central to Paul's argument against the Judaizers that were seducing the Galatians. His premise is that the Gospel of the Grace of God predates the giving of the Law just as faith predates circumcision. It's all part of a "package"! The Law & it's circumcision & observances was a parenthesis between God's Covenant of Promise given to Abraham and the coming of the Seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:15-18) Who is the Christ!
1/29/2019 A new post in "In the Son of His Love" blog. Heart Surgery!
12/25/2018 Whether "Christmas" is your thing or not never forget the historical event that it purports to celebrate. Consider "Merry Humiliation Day" (blog post) and bask in the Peace & Righteousness of the Son of God's Love who was made like sinful human flesh for us. An old saint said, and I paraphrase, "the Incarnation of Deity into human flesh is so much incomparably more than if a star should become a clod!"
12/19/2018 Bearing in our bodies the dying or or Lord Jesus Christ, from 2 Cor. 4:10 A new post in "In the Son of His Love" blog. Been thinking of this theme as I face open heart surgery. "That I may know Him and the Power of His Resurrection (Ephesians 1:19-20)' & the fellowship of His suffering, being made conformable to His death"'
12/16/2018 For your Christmas meditation, please consider "Beholding the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ." This was provoked by 2 Corinthians 3:18 and I pray that it is an antidote to the infection of materialism that engulfs this season. Yeah, I know, A.W. Pink didn't believe in celebrating Christmas, but don't lose the Blessing of the Glory of God in someone elses theological opinion. Romans 14:1-8
"The key that unlocks the door of the understanding of the great purposes of God concerning humanity is to be found in Eden's Garden, the threshold of all human history. The Key is the Seed, the Messiah Christ, promised by God at the fall of man. Using this key, human history becomes a beautiful pattern revealing the Will of God being unfolded in ever increasing grandeur, and not a jumbled maze of unrelated incidents. This key unlocks the mystery of His Will concerning Time and Eternity. TIME IS ONLY A FLEETING INCIDENT OF ETERNITY,"
From A New Heaven and a New Earth by Archibald Hughes published in 1958, sadly long out of print.
9/22/2018 I believe that we spend way too much time trying to figure out what God wants us to do and not nearly enough time prayerfully considering what He Has Already Done!!! While the Gospel preached to Abraham is summarized in, "in you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed", the the "Visitations of the Lord" to Abraham prefigure what God will Do to fulfill His Promise. And that is the Gospel! And that Gospel is His Display of His Glorious Son for our redemption. We could say that HE, GOD'S BELOVED SON, IS WHAT GOD HAS DONE!!!
Part 2, "The Emblems of the Covenant".
5/15/2018 Galatians 1:6-9 Paul's Gospel of the Grace of God Alone!
5/13/2018 We begin a new study on Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. It seems like the contemporary church is about everything except the One Whom the Father has sent! (John 6:27) We have added so many "things" to Jesus that we don't even know the MAN God sent, His Eternal Son come in our flesh, that we might have Life in His Name. If we add ANYTHING to Christ, we un-Christ Him. That is Paul's warning in this needful book!
I have included a brief study on "Thoughts on the Kingdom of God". Huge systems of theology have been built upon view of the Kingdom of God. This brief treatment does not espouse any "system", but is merely a consideration of themes in our Lord and His Apostles teaching. Prayerfully consider them and search the Scriptures to see if they are so.
We have spent so much time and effort trying to bring our humanity as a sacrifice worthy of God’s acceptance that we have failed to see that the only Humanity that God will accept, is our God/Man Jesus! (Hebrews 10, John 6:29)
1/6/2018 There is a new post in The son of his love blog. "Making bricks without straw". I'm sure it is controversial, but that is not my purpose. The church doesn't seem to be about knowing the Father through the Son as John says in John 17:3 & I John 5:20, and yet that is the very essence of Eternal Life! The church seems to be about itself, defined by the here and now. That is an eternally deadly mistake!
12/19/2017 Perhaps it is fitting that I offer you the last of The Application of the body of Christ/The Book of Revelation just a few short days before Christmas, the celebration of the Incarnation. For it seems that the Incarnation finds its complete fulfillment, in the Fathers' Purpose and Will, in the application of the Ascended Victorious Head of the Body in His Body left on the earth through the Indwelling of His Promise, His Holy Spirit. It is by this ministry that Christ, the True Image of God in man (Hebrews 1:2-3) is "fleshed out" in His Body left on this earth. This is an embarrassingly brief overview of Revelation, but my purpose is to provoke individual pondering and meditation on this glorious book of comfort. We have been content with the "expositions" of other way too long!
12/4/2017 Part 9 The Application of the Body of Christ. Ephesians 4:9-32 "That He might fill all things" The church is Christ's body! He has not left His body on the earth to a bunch of humans, redeemed though they be, to try to figure how best to do His "work" for Him! This underlying mindset has plagued the church for centuries and is rampant today/ No, Christ is the Fullness of the Godhead and we are complete only in Him! (Col. 2:9-10) He is the Fullness, and He does the filling! This is the Father's Will.
11/28/17 Part 8 The Application of the Body of Christ. I Cor. 12:12-31 "So also The Christ". We see in this study, the incredible union of Christ with His people. Scripture never sees Christ Jesus separate from His people. He hasn't gone to the Right Hand of the Father and left the church here to be His "hands and feet". No, no! The church is His Body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. (Ephesians 1:23) He is the Head, and as in the physical body, all movement and function depends upon the "signals" that the brain sends to the members! The Body of Christ only functions as the Body of Christ when the Mind of Christ is the source of all "movement" and behavior!!! (Phil. 2:1-11) "Let this mind be in you" is not a mere suggestion!! It is the criterion by which we measure the Holy Spirit's practical setting apart His people from the futility of mind they once operated out of. (Eph. 4:17-19) Notice the "mind" message of Romans 12:3-21.
11/19/2017 Part 7 The Application of the Body of Christ. I Corinthians 12 The Manifestation of the Holy Spirit
11/19/2017 Part 7 The Application of the Body of Christ. I Corinthians 12 The Manifestation of the Holy Spirit
11/9/2017 Part 6 The Application of the Body of Christ. Ephesians 4:7-8/Psalm 68:17-18 God's Purpose must determine our purpose, God's Will must be our will. The validity of our "gift and giftedness" is only determined by one manifestation: is that gift bringing about the "unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect (mature) man, to the MEASUREMENT OF THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST." (Eph 4:14) No other measurement is allowed in the Kingdom of the Son of His Love!
I feel led to emphasize a portion of the Relational Theology study. I needed it desperately this morning. Perhaps you do too! click on this: The Spirit's Work in the Inner Man
I feel led to emphasize a portion of the Relational Theology study. I needed it desperately this morning. Perhaps you do too! click on this: The Spirit's Work in the Inner Man
10/30/2017 Part 5 The Application of the Body of Christ. Ephesians 4:1-6
10/22/17 Part 4 The Application of the Body of Christ. Ephesians 4/Romans 8:28-30
10/15/17 Part 3 The Application of the Body of Christ. The "mathematics" of our Spiritual growth.
10/10/17 Part 2 The Application of the Body of Christ. A beginning look at the "means" the Holy Spirit uses in bringing His people into the "stature of the fullness of Christ."
10/22/17 Part 4 The Application of the Body of Christ. Ephesians 4/Romans 8:28-30
10/15/17 Part 3 The Application of the Body of Christ. The "mathematics" of our Spiritual growth.
10/10/17 Part 2 The Application of the Body of Christ. A beginning look at the "means" the Holy Spirit uses in bringing His people into the "stature of the fullness of Christ."
10/3/2017 "The Role of the Holy Spirit" in the application of the Body of Christ. This is the beginning point of the application of the Body of Christ, the guarantee that He Who began a Good Work in us will perform it until the day of Christ! (Philippians 1:6)
10/2/2017 A new addition to the Body of Christ study. This is a most important, or maybe I should say, the most important part of this study, The Perfection of the Body of Christ. Apart from this Truth, there is no salvation for sinners!
8/13/17 We begin a new series of studies on the Body of Christ. I know the first thought that comes to mind with the use of that phrase is the church. But the Biblical meaning is far broader, or maybe I should say, more specific. I am speaking of the Body of the God Man. Eventually, we will look at the church, the Body of Christ, but there is a lot to cover regarding the Word Made Flesh before we get to that truth.
8/8/17 There is a new post in the blog, "in the son of his love". I've been away from this site for a while as the LORD drills into my heart more of His Grace and Mercy. As the hymn says, "O to Grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be."
3/10/17 "Remember that Jesus Christ, of the Seed of David, was raised from the dead, ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL." II Timothy 2:18 The final study in our consideration of the Power of the Gospel is now complete. Part 11 "From Faith to Faith."
3/5/17 Part 9: The Gospel is the Power of God to Everyone Who Believes. Part 10: In It the Righteousness of God is Revealed.
2/14/17 Part 8 of the Gospel study is available. Part 8: Time is but a fleeting incident in Eternity.
1/29/2017 Part 7 of the studies on the Gospel: Present Tense Salvation--This is a test. We explore the reason and needfulness of trial and tribulation for the people of God.
1/22/17 Two more studies on the Gospel: The Gospel is unto salvation/in the Present Tense; and The Gospel in the Present Tense/Who is your Keeper
God's so called "delays", that is when He doesn't answer prayer or act on our time table, are God's Divine "poultice" laid on the lacerations of our souls. They are perfectly prepared and applied to "draw out" the infections of our fallenness, that earthly "pus" that borders on gangrene, that would destroy the Eternal Focus of the New Man in Christ Jesus--if that were possible. Peter says we, "are kept by the Power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." (I Peter 1:5) "Delays" are part of that "Keeping Power".
Happy New Year! Start your new year by considering Present Tense Salvation, a new addition to the study of the Power of the Gospel, Romans 1:16-17. When I start a study, I never know where it might lead. Scripture is so interwoven that its many "rabbit trails" are filled with insights to the Glory of God. That is true here as this study looks at I Peter chapter 1.
Merry Christmas to all! As many celebrate the "trappings" of Christ's birth and forget the Christ of the Birth, take a moment to contemplate the Reason for the Season, the Real Design of God for this Magnificent Birth and the Glories that Eternally follow it. Click on "God's Glorious Hybrid".
12/11/16 The Gospel--It is unto Salvation, and it is from Eternity!
12/5/2016 The Gospel--It is the Power of God!!!
11/27/2016 We begin a new study, The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the first two studies are found under "Romans 1:16-17 at the top of this page. You will also note that "Mystery of Godliness I Timothy 3:16" has also been moved to the top of the page. The study of Ephesians and of Hebrews may be found under "more". If you haven't explored "Mystery of Godliness", I encourage you to do so as it was the "inspiration" for the "Gospel" study.
10/4/2016 A new blog post: Unbelief, the measure of our futility and fear.
8/29/2016 A new blog post: God Is His Word!
8/13/2016 A new blog post: The Ultimate Evil!
7/11/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 14 Worshiping God in the Spirit Part 2
7/8/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 13 The Behavior of Belief, Worship God in the Spirit.
6/27/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 12 The Behavior of Belief! Believing is Seeing!!!
6/22/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 11 Received up to Glory Part 2 Our Victorious King/Priest Ruling and Reigning right now in the midst of His enemies!!!
6/13/2016 "A Father's Hand"--On adversity. Beautiful comfort for the afflicted. Author unknown.
6/12/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 10 Received up to Glory. Here is the anchor of our Eternal Hope!
6/5/2016 Part 9 in the Mystery of Godliness. The Apostolic commission and the Great Commandment!
5/29/2016 A most crucial study has been added to the Mystery of Godliness series. Part 8: Preached among the Gentiles; the Preachers, the Apostles. There is much ignorance in the church about the pivotal role of these Chosen Witnesses. Their part in the plan of God was unique, foundational, and never to be repeated!
5/22/2016 Two more studies in The Mystery of Godliness are now up: Seen of Angels-Part 2; and Preached among the Gentiles.
5/8/2016 The Mystery of Godliness part 5: Seen by Angels--The Cherubim. God's will, purpose, and plan is far broader than "just" the salvation of sinful man. I am not minimizing that truth of course, but I think it needs to be placed in the context of the Father's Will as stated in Ephesians 1:10, "That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth--in Him!!!
5/1/2016 The Mystery of Godliness part 4: Justified in the Spirit. God's verification that Jesus is God come in the flesh. The operation of the Holy Spirit in the Son of Man.
4/24/2016 The Mystery of Godliness: part 3 God Come in the Flesh. Without this Truth, there is no Christianity. Please consider carefully and prayerfully.
4/19/2016 A new post in the blog, "The Heir of all things."
4/17/2016 The first two studies of, The Mystery of Godliness--I Timothy 3:16, is under the "more" section. How can a human, dead in trespasses in sin, one who does not seek after God, ever be godly? It is a wonderful, Divine Mystery, revealed in our Glorious Jesus.
4/5/2016 In this “temporary life”, we spend most of our “temporary time” concerned with “temporary” issues. Many are necessary because of our “temporariness”. Satan’s lie, however, is to lead us to believe that the temporary is lasting and thereby he traps us into the pursuit and maintenance of the temporary with little thought of the Eternal.
3/5/2016 We have spent so much time and effort, trying to bring our humanity as a sacrifice worthy of God's acceptance (whether our great victory over sin, or our great service for Jesus, or our "utmost for His highest"), that we have failed to see that the Only Humanity that God will accept is our God/Man, Jesus. This is the message of Hebrews 10 and the message well nigh forgotten in this age of the humanistic church. In Him dwells All the Fullness of the Godhead bodily and we are complete Only In Him!!! (Colossians 2:9-10)
2/9/2016 "God is not our God but in and through Jesus Christ. God will not show mercy to thousands, nor unto one of all the thousands of His saints, but as they are in Jesus Christ. God will not give us long life here, or Eternal Life hereafter, but in, for, and through the Lord Jesus Christ." Isaac Ambrose
1/25/2016 A new/old post in the blog, Worship is Life, Revisited
1/5/2016 There is a new post in the blog and an accompanying study, The Resurrection, the Power of the Gospel. Note: This isn't an Easter meditation. This isn't about Easter, it is about our Jesus and our salvation. Without it, we are dead in our sins. The study is for the most part, merely the Apostles words in the book of Acts. The contemporary church needs to seriously consider this. It's gospel has lost it's power, or perhaps, never had much!
1/4/2016 The master of evil is pulling out the stops of his desperation--his days are short. This will be evidenced by his continual onslaught against the foundational human covenant the Creator God gave to man--the marriage of one man to one woman! In the midst of the fallen confusion, consider A Wedding Meditation. This is a new one and coupled with a previous "wedding meditation", I trust it will make plain why God Ordained marriage is indespensible to God's design and purpose for His Creation. (click on the titles)
12/15/2015 The Ephesians study is complete--that is until I study Ephesians again! The Word of God is so incredible that each time I revisit a passage, it's almost like a new book! Also, there is a new post in the blog, "Why Christ Came."
11/1/2015 Consider "The Shield of Faith", a new installment in the Armor of God, Ephesians study.
10/13/2015 The Ephesians study is now through Eph. 6:15, Our feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Romans 5:1 "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have Peace With God through our Lord Jesus Christ. The Justifying Righteousness of our Christ is the only solid foundation for peace. Without this grand work our Savior, without this Divine Peace Foundation, all attempts at peace, inward and outward, are doomed to failure.
Also, enjoy the beauty and richness of the old KJV word "loins" in the study of the "Girdle of Truth. I am not "King James Only", but loins just does a better job of reflecting the Scriptural witness and meaning than the contemporary "waist" or "hips".
8/5/2015 Do consider, "What is the Fear of God?" A. W. Tozer wrote a book called, "Worship, the Missing Jewel of the Church." I don't believe he would be pleased with what passes for "worship" in the contemporary professed church. I think a more serious thing is missing, however. It is more like the church is missing a key "chromosome". The Body of Christ was created to function in the context of the Biblical Fear of God. This study is one poor creature's inadequate attempt to understand the Scripture's teaching on The Fear of God. I pray it might be a stimuli toward a continual bowing in humble worship of the Most High God in all that we are and in all that we do.
8/5/2015 In light of the outrage and denial of the "planned parenthood" fiasco, consider the article, "Satan's Hatred of Women."
5/3/2015 Wedding season (June) is nearly upon us. " A Wedding Meditation" points us to the truth that marriage is God's covenantal object lesson of the Great Mystery of Christ and His Bride, the church. Just click on the title.
\2/26/2015 There is a new post on the blog--"Processed Food". This could be the cause of the spiritual "diseases" that infect the visible body of Christ! 2/28/2015 A "follow up" post to "Processed Food".
12/31/2014 There is a new post on the blog--may it stir a "Spirit inspired" new years resolution to "Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh." Galatians 5:16
12/04/2014 James Bourne (1773-1853) "If we make the law our rule of life, we shall feel its demands most infinite; and we shall never be able to fulfill them. Nothing remains for us that will reach our case but to have the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in the conscience with all His saving benefits; and this forgiveness of God is most wonderful. (Hebrews 10:1-14) Nothing we can do will please the law, whose demands are infinite; and there is no remedy but coming to that sweet liberty that is in Christ Jesus. What are God's children to do? Why, not to mend themselves, or hide their sin, or patch it up, but to come to the Lord Jesus Christ with an honest confession, that He may undertake for them." (Hebrews 7:24-25)
11/23/2014 John Newton (Amazing Grace) on the Trinity, the Deity of Christ. (click here)
11/16/2014 Our God is too small. We have lost the truth that He IS the Lord of Heaven and earth, that He Does His Will in all the affairs of men. Hence, the beginning of a new study, "Learning to Live in the Context of the Lord of Heaven and Earth!" (Click here) Now complete 12/30/2014
09/21/14 Discouraged? Satan's assaults got you down? Does your flesh seem to have you down for the count? Read "Prevailing Intercession" by Henry Law, a new page under "more" on the header. It may be a bit long for the contemporary reader, but it will stir your faith to clearer apprehensions of your great High Priest and Intercessor, Christ Jesus, and that will encourage your soul.
"Men show themselves strangely forgetful, or hypocritical, in professing original sin in their prayers, catechisms, and confessions of faith; and yet urging upon themselves and others the practice of the law, without the consideration of any strengthening, enlivening means; as if there were no lack of ability, but only a lack of activity!"
Henry Marshall 1628-1680
Thomas Adam on conscience and the sufficiency of Jesus (1701-1784)
If it was not for Christ, conscience would tear me in pieces. Conscience is the most positive, teasing, tormenting thing in the world; and nothing can silence it but faith. Conscience is the viper on Paul's hand; and its nature is to sting, inflame, and kill. Why then do I not swell, or fall down dead? I know!
Lessons from the holocaust: Corrie Ten Boom--"When we pray, we enter God's domain from the domain of our inability. We saw then that even though everything was terrible, we could rely on the fact that God didn't have any problems--only plans. There is never panic in heaven!!!
Waiting on God isn't a time thing, it's a trust thing!!!
Nuggets of Gold from Adam--Thomas Adam (1701-1784) that is:
"I know so much of Christ as not to be afraid to look my sins in the face!"
"Humility is knowing that we are not humble."
"Christ comes with a blessing in each hand; forgiveness in one, and holiness in the other, and never gives either to any who will not receive both."
The Father has "thought of everything"! He saved us by the Blood and Righteousness of His Son, the Perfect God/Man. To assure that He lose none of His purchased people, (John 6:39) He has placed this Glorious God/Man at His Right Hand as their Eternal Sufficiency(Acts 2:30-33, 7:55-56; Hebrews 7:24-26), as the Anchor of their Eternal Hope. But an anchor without a connecting cable will not keep the vessel from drifting away! So He sent His Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, to dwell in His purchased people. The Spirit and His groaning intercession is the Divine Anticipation in our hearts of that glorious day when we shall be complete, when we will be like the Perfect God/Man for we shall see Him as He Is. The Spirit is the connecting cable, encouraging and assuring our hope unto that coming day!
That , beloved, is the Inseparable, Insurmountable Love of our Heavenly Father! Bask in His Goodness! Glory to His Grace and Mercy!
(From "Intercession-Connecting Redeemed "Earthlings to Heavens' Glories by Christ Jesus" from A Practical Study of Hebrews)
10/2/2017 A new addition to the Body of Christ study. This is a most important, or maybe I should say, the most important part of this study, The Perfection of the Body of Christ. Apart from this Truth, there is no salvation for sinners!
8/13/17 We begin a new series of studies on the Body of Christ. I know the first thought that comes to mind with the use of that phrase is the church. But the Biblical meaning is far broader, or maybe I should say, more specific. I am speaking of the Body of the God Man. Eventually, we will look at the church, the Body of Christ, but there is a lot to cover regarding the Word Made Flesh before we get to that truth.
8/8/17 There is a new post in the blog, "in the son of his love". I've been away from this site for a while as the LORD drills into my heart more of His Grace and Mercy. As the hymn says, "O to Grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be."
3/10/17 "Remember that Jesus Christ, of the Seed of David, was raised from the dead, ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL." II Timothy 2:18 The final study in our consideration of the Power of the Gospel is now complete. Part 11 "From Faith to Faith."
3/5/17 Part 9: The Gospel is the Power of God to Everyone Who Believes. Part 10: In It the Righteousness of God is Revealed.
2/14/17 Part 8 of the Gospel study is available. Part 8: Time is but a fleeting incident in Eternity.
1/29/2017 Part 7 of the studies on the Gospel: Present Tense Salvation--This is a test. We explore the reason and needfulness of trial and tribulation for the people of God.
1/22/17 Two more studies on the Gospel: The Gospel is unto salvation/in the Present Tense; and The Gospel in the Present Tense/Who is your Keeper
God's so called "delays", that is when He doesn't answer prayer or act on our time table, are God's Divine "poultice" laid on the lacerations of our souls. They are perfectly prepared and applied to "draw out" the infections of our fallenness, that earthly "pus" that borders on gangrene, that would destroy the Eternal Focus of the New Man in Christ Jesus--if that were possible. Peter says we, "are kept by the Power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." (I Peter 1:5) "Delays" are part of that "Keeping Power".
Happy New Year! Start your new year by considering Present Tense Salvation, a new addition to the study of the Power of the Gospel, Romans 1:16-17. When I start a study, I never know where it might lead. Scripture is so interwoven that its many "rabbit trails" are filled with insights to the Glory of God. That is true here as this study looks at I Peter chapter 1.
Merry Christmas to all! As many celebrate the "trappings" of Christ's birth and forget the Christ of the Birth, take a moment to contemplate the Reason for the Season, the Real Design of God for this Magnificent Birth and the Glories that Eternally follow it. Click on "God's Glorious Hybrid".
12/11/16 The Gospel--It is unto Salvation, and it is from Eternity!
12/5/2016 The Gospel--It is the Power of God!!!
11/27/2016 We begin a new study, The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the first two studies are found under "Romans 1:16-17 at the top of this page. You will also note that "Mystery of Godliness I Timothy 3:16" has also been moved to the top of the page. The study of Ephesians and of Hebrews may be found under "more". If you haven't explored "Mystery of Godliness", I encourage you to do so as it was the "inspiration" for the "Gospel" study.
10/4/2016 A new blog post: Unbelief, the measure of our futility and fear.
8/29/2016 A new blog post: God Is His Word!
8/13/2016 A new blog post: The Ultimate Evil!
7/11/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 14 Worshiping God in the Spirit Part 2
7/8/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 13 The Behavior of Belief, Worship God in the Spirit.
6/27/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 12 The Behavior of Belief! Believing is Seeing!!!
6/22/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 11 Received up to Glory Part 2 Our Victorious King/Priest Ruling and Reigning right now in the midst of His enemies!!!
6/13/2016 "A Father's Hand"--On adversity. Beautiful comfort for the afflicted. Author unknown.
6/12/2016 Mystery of Godliness--Part 10 Received up to Glory. Here is the anchor of our Eternal Hope!
6/5/2016 Part 9 in the Mystery of Godliness. The Apostolic commission and the Great Commandment!
5/29/2016 A most crucial study has been added to the Mystery of Godliness series. Part 8: Preached among the Gentiles; the Preachers, the Apostles. There is much ignorance in the church about the pivotal role of these Chosen Witnesses. Their part in the plan of God was unique, foundational, and never to be repeated!
5/22/2016 Two more studies in The Mystery of Godliness are now up: Seen of Angels-Part 2; and Preached among the Gentiles.
5/8/2016 The Mystery of Godliness part 5: Seen by Angels--The Cherubim. God's will, purpose, and plan is far broader than "just" the salvation of sinful man. I am not minimizing that truth of course, but I think it needs to be placed in the context of the Father's Will as stated in Ephesians 1:10, "That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth--in Him!!!
5/1/2016 The Mystery of Godliness part 4: Justified in the Spirit. God's verification that Jesus is God come in the flesh. The operation of the Holy Spirit in the Son of Man.
4/24/2016 The Mystery of Godliness: part 3 God Come in the Flesh. Without this Truth, there is no Christianity. Please consider carefully and prayerfully.
4/19/2016 A new post in the blog, "The Heir of all things."
4/17/2016 The first two studies of, The Mystery of Godliness--I Timothy 3:16, is under the "more" section. How can a human, dead in trespasses in sin, one who does not seek after God, ever be godly? It is a wonderful, Divine Mystery, revealed in our Glorious Jesus.
4/5/2016 In this “temporary life”, we spend most of our “temporary time” concerned with “temporary” issues. Many are necessary because of our “temporariness”. Satan’s lie, however, is to lead us to believe that the temporary is lasting and thereby he traps us into the pursuit and maintenance of the temporary with little thought of the Eternal.
3/5/2016 We have spent so much time and effort, trying to bring our humanity as a sacrifice worthy of God's acceptance (whether our great victory over sin, or our great service for Jesus, or our "utmost for His highest"), that we have failed to see that the Only Humanity that God will accept is our God/Man, Jesus. This is the message of Hebrews 10 and the message well nigh forgotten in this age of the humanistic church. In Him dwells All the Fullness of the Godhead bodily and we are complete Only In Him!!! (Colossians 2:9-10)
2/9/2016 "God is not our God but in and through Jesus Christ. God will not show mercy to thousands, nor unto one of all the thousands of His saints, but as they are in Jesus Christ. God will not give us long life here, or Eternal Life hereafter, but in, for, and through the Lord Jesus Christ." Isaac Ambrose
1/25/2016 A new/old post in the blog, Worship is Life, Revisited
1/5/2016 There is a new post in the blog and an accompanying study, The Resurrection, the Power of the Gospel. Note: This isn't an Easter meditation. This isn't about Easter, it is about our Jesus and our salvation. Without it, we are dead in our sins. The study is for the most part, merely the Apostles words in the book of Acts. The contemporary church needs to seriously consider this. It's gospel has lost it's power, or perhaps, never had much!
1/4/2016 The master of evil is pulling out the stops of his desperation--his days are short. This will be evidenced by his continual onslaught against the foundational human covenant the Creator God gave to man--the marriage of one man to one woman! In the midst of the fallen confusion, consider A Wedding Meditation. This is a new one and coupled with a previous "wedding meditation", I trust it will make plain why God Ordained marriage is indespensible to God's design and purpose for His Creation. (click on the titles)
12/15/2015 The Ephesians study is complete--that is until I study Ephesians again! The Word of God is so incredible that each time I revisit a passage, it's almost like a new book! Also, there is a new post in the blog, "Why Christ Came."
11/1/2015 Consider "The Shield of Faith", a new installment in the Armor of God, Ephesians study.
10/13/2015 The Ephesians study is now through Eph. 6:15, Our feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Romans 5:1 "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have Peace With God through our Lord Jesus Christ. The Justifying Righteousness of our Christ is the only solid foundation for peace. Without this grand work our Savior, without this Divine Peace Foundation, all attempts at peace, inward and outward, are doomed to failure.
Also, enjoy the beauty and richness of the old KJV word "loins" in the study of the "Girdle of Truth. I am not "King James Only", but loins just does a better job of reflecting the Scriptural witness and meaning than the contemporary "waist" or "hips".
8/5/2015 Do consider, "What is the Fear of God?" A. W. Tozer wrote a book called, "Worship, the Missing Jewel of the Church." I don't believe he would be pleased with what passes for "worship" in the contemporary professed church. I think a more serious thing is missing, however. It is more like the church is missing a key "chromosome". The Body of Christ was created to function in the context of the Biblical Fear of God. This study is one poor creature's inadequate attempt to understand the Scripture's teaching on The Fear of God. I pray it might be a stimuli toward a continual bowing in humble worship of the Most High God in all that we are and in all that we do.
8/5/2015 In light of the outrage and denial of the "planned parenthood" fiasco, consider the article, "Satan's Hatred of Women."
5/3/2015 Wedding season (June) is nearly upon us. " A Wedding Meditation" points us to the truth that marriage is God's covenantal object lesson of the Great Mystery of Christ and His Bride, the church. Just click on the title.
\2/26/2015 There is a new post on the blog--"Processed Food". This could be the cause of the spiritual "diseases" that infect the visible body of Christ! 2/28/2015 A "follow up" post to "Processed Food".
12/31/2014 There is a new post on the blog--may it stir a "Spirit inspired" new years resolution to "Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh." Galatians 5:16
12/04/2014 James Bourne (1773-1853) "If we make the law our rule of life, we shall feel its demands most infinite; and we shall never be able to fulfill them. Nothing remains for us that will reach our case but to have the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in the conscience with all His saving benefits; and this forgiveness of God is most wonderful. (Hebrews 10:1-14) Nothing we can do will please the law, whose demands are infinite; and there is no remedy but coming to that sweet liberty that is in Christ Jesus. What are God's children to do? Why, not to mend themselves, or hide their sin, or patch it up, but to come to the Lord Jesus Christ with an honest confession, that He may undertake for them." (Hebrews 7:24-25)
11/23/2014 John Newton (Amazing Grace) on the Trinity, the Deity of Christ. (click here)
11/16/2014 Our God is too small. We have lost the truth that He IS the Lord of Heaven and earth, that He Does His Will in all the affairs of men. Hence, the beginning of a new study, "Learning to Live in the Context of the Lord of Heaven and Earth!" (Click here) Now complete 12/30/2014
09/21/14 Discouraged? Satan's assaults got you down? Does your flesh seem to have you down for the count? Read "Prevailing Intercession" by Henry Law, a new page under "more" on the header. It may be a bit long for the contemporary reader, but it will stir your faith to clearer apprehensions of your great High Priest and Intercessor, Christ Jesus, and that will encourage your soul.
"Men show themselves strangely forgetful, or hypocritical, in professing original sin in their prayers, catechisms, and confessions of faith; and yet urging upon themselves and others the practice of the law, without the consideration of any strengthening, enlivening means; as if there were no lack of ability, but only a lack of activity!"
Henry Marshall 1628-1680
Thomas Adam on conscience and the sufficiency of Jesus (1701-1784)
If it was not for Christ, conscience would tear me in pieces. Conscience is the most positive, teasing, tormenting thing in the world; and nothing can silence it but faith. Conscience is the viper on Paul's hand; and its nature is to sting, inflame, and kill. Why then do I not swell, or fall down dead? I know!
Lessons from the holocaust: Corrie Ten Boom--"When we pray, we enter God's domain from the domain of our inability. We saw then that even though everything was terrible, we could rely on the fact that God didn't have any problems--only plans. There is never panic in heaven!!!
Waiting on God isn't a time thing, it's a trust thing!!!
Nuggets of Gold from Adam--Thomas Adam (1701-1784) that is:
"I know so much of Christ as not to be afraid to look my sins in the face!"
"Humility is knowing that we are not humble."
"Christ comes with a blessing in each hand; forgiveness in one, and holiness in the other, and never gives either to any who will not receive both."
The Father has "thought of everything"! He saved us by the Blood and Righteousness of His Son, the Perfect God/Man. To assure that He lose none of His purchased people, (John 6:39) He has placed this Glorious God/Man at His Right Hand as their Eternal Sufficiency(Acts 2:30-33, 7:55-56; Hebrews 7:24-26), as the Anchor of their Eternal Hope. But an anchor without a connecting cable will not keep the vessel from drifting away! So He sent His Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, to dwell in His purchased people. The Spirit and His groaning intercession is the Divine Anticipation in our hearts of that glorious day when we shall be complete, when we will be like the Perfect God/Man for we shall see Him as He Is. The Spirit is the connecting cable, encouraging and assuring our hope unto that coming day!
That , beloved, is the Inseparable, Insurmountable Love of our Heavenly Father! Bask in His Goodness! Glory to His Grace and Mercy!
(From "Intercession-Connecting Redeemed "Earthlings to Heavens' Glories by Christ Jesus" from A Practical Study of Hebrews)
Considering Ephesians 1:11 & 12 and Romans 8:28: If my God supplies my needs according to His Riches in Glory by Christ Jesus, then that supply will be sure to exhibit His Glorious Riches in and by Christ Jesus. Through my needs, an avenue is made to manifest a bit of eternity in my temporality. But to see that Glory, the eyes of my heart must be fixed upon the Source of the supply, not the emptiness of my need!!!