by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Covenant, Faith, Worship
“Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.” (Psalm 2:11) While the believer has much to rejoice about in God, that rejoicing must be holy and reverential, “with trembling.” For we must also fear God, though never in terror. The right frame of the Christian...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Covenant, Faith, Law of God, Man's Nature, Total Depravity
“The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.” (Psalm 37:13) The prosperity of the wicked has long troubled the hearts of God’s people. When we see those who oppose Him appear secure, successful, and unshaken, it can seem as though righteousness...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Church, Covenant, Faith, Law of God, Man's Nature, Total Depravity
“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.” (1 Corinthians 10:14) In his first letter to the believers at Corinth, Paul urges them to flee idolatry because it is a direct affront to the living God, as it transfers the honor due Him alone to something created....
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Providence, Salvation
“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:13-14) The birth of Christ was first announced to a group of shepherds by a multitude of...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature
“And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?” (Numbers 14:11) God’s people witnessed with their own eyes the hand of judgment on Egypt with every...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Church, Covenant, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Salvation
“But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 13:18) When God brought His people out of Egypt, He did not lead them by way of the most direct route to...
