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Built Upon the Rock
…e, the wicked dead will be judged; the earth will be utterly desolate, without living human inhabitants, but occupied by Satan and his angels. At its close, Christ with His saints and the Holy City will descend from heaven to earth. The u…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 25: The New Earth Fundamental Belief #28On the new earth, in which righteousness dwells, God will provide an eternal home for the redeemed and a perfect environment for everlasting life, love, joy,…
Built Upon the Rock
…nity, the disordering of the created world, and its eventual devastation at the time of the worldwide Flood. Observed by the whole creation, this world became the arena of the universal conflict, out of which the God of love will ultimate…
Built Upon the Rock
…ll, His suffering, death, and resurrection, God provided the only means of atonement for human sin, so that those who by faith accept this atonement may have eternal life, and the whole creation may better understand the infinite and holy…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 8: Growing in Christ Fundamental Belief #11By His death on the cross, Jesus triumphed over the forces of evil. He who subjugated the demonic spirits during His ear…
Built Upon the Rock
…, who is the incarnate Word, and from the Scriptures, which are the written Word. The church is God’s family; adopted by Him as children, its members live on the basis of the new covenant. The church is the body of Christ, a community of…
Built Upon the Rock
…ready clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the br…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
…vity that the gospel of Christ becomes meaningful. The gospel, when accepted and applied to our lives, may be defined by the formula: “Not I, but Christ” [Galatians 2:20]. This formula is expressed in the New Testament in various ways [1…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
…be [the local beer] on your breath?” Taken aback a bit, he answered with amazement, “Don’t you know that we are saved by grace and not by works?” So I asked him to explain what he meant by “saved by grace.” “Christ did it all,” he said. “…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
…rejoice because we have already received the atonement. This means the reconciliation Christ has obtained for all men by His death on the cross (Romans 5:10) has already become effective in the life of all believers. He then goes to expou…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
…is almost silent about the childhood and early manhood years of Christ, undoubtedly many attempts must have been made by Satan to fulfill his evil desire, which will be disclosed in the judgment. Then came the ministry of Christ, and Scri…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
…in our previous study, is our identification or union with Christ crucified, buried, and resurrected (Romans 6:3-5). By faith a believer becomes one with Christ crucified and, consequently, in becoming a Christian, the truth of the cross…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
…ould be: “When he [the Holy Spirit] comes, he will prove the world [the unbelievers] to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment.” This is the first step in man’s salvation. Sinful fallen man has to be convicted of sin, of righteousn…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
…lf, the thoughts, desires, opinions, love, feelings, etc., that originate or proceed from the soul are all controlled by self. This is our natural life, because we inherit it at birth. Consequently, such a life is the life of the flesh, w…
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…troduces himself to the ones to whom he is writing this letter. In verse 1, he says: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God.... What is Paul saying here? First of all, “Paul” was not his original name. His parents gave him th…
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…s, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather ex…
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…ir pastor for approximately three years, what hope is there for them? And so Paul wrote Ephesians to strengthen their faith and to teach them and to show them how the Christian church should walk together in unity, in love, helping each othe…
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…hrist became the God-man. He became the Substitute and the Representative of the human race. Then we discovered that, by His perfect life and His sacrificial death, by His doing and by His dying, He rewrote the history of the human race a…
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…ou and me and we shall see this in more detail as we look at this passage. Keep in mind that this epistle was written by Paul while he was in prison. He is writing to men and women, to believers, who were becoming discouraged because of h…
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…irst three verses of chapter two, he told us that both Jews and Gentiles are dead in trespasses and sins, that we are by nature the children of wrath. This is something that we all need to discover. An unbeliever is not a sick person but…
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…xpounds that love. Romans 5:5-8: And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for…
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…d chapters four, five, and six are dealing with how the gospel transforms our lives. How should Christians, justified by faith in Jesus Christ, how should they live, how should they walk? In chapter four of Ephesians and the first six ver…
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…so that we may function as Christians within the body of Christ. When we become Christians, not only are we justified by faith, not only are we baptized into the body of Christ, but we receive special gifts so that each one of us may func…
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…ife in Christ, it is important that we understand a very important truth brought out in the New Testament, especially by the apostle Paul. The New Testament in its original language uses two words for life. The first word is our natural l…
