by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature
“Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” (1 John 3:4) The third chapter of this first letter of John to the church is characterized by antitheses: the sinfulness of the Christian versus the sinlessness of Christ...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Son of God
“This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.” (1 John 5:6) The apostle John presents one of the most comforting and glorious testimonies...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Jesus Christ
“When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, ‘Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.'” (Acts 11:18) Acts 11:18 marks a major turning point in the life of the early church—the realization...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Covenant
“If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.” (2 Timothy 2:13) The faithfulness of God rests entirely in His own unchanging nature. He is faithful because faithfulness is His very being. He cannot cease to be what He eternally is....
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Son of God
“Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.” (1 Peter 2:23) The patience of Christ in the wake of the onslaught of His accusers is one of the clearest displays of...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Providence
“For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be...
