by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Law of God
“God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.” (2 Peter 2:4) God created a multitude of celestial beings, known as angels or “messengers” in Scripture, to serve His...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Church, Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature, Repentance, Salvation, Son of God
“Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.” (Colossians 2:14) In this passage in Colossians, Paul presents our guilt of sin using the image of a written...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Covenant, Faith, Godly Meditation, Law of God, Quiet Time, Salvation, Spiritual Warfare
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of...
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, Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature, Salvation, Sanctification
“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” (2 Peter 1:4) Through the exceeding great and precious promises of...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Godly Meditation, Law of God, Man's Nature, Quiet Time
“I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.” (Song 1:9) Believers tend to judge themselves more by their present struggles than by Christ’s gracious work in them, forgetting that every grace they possess has...
