by Adoring God | Mar 17, 2022 | Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Salvation
“And such were some of you. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6:11) Converted sinners are those who have answered the call of Christ by the power of the Spirit...
by Adoring God | Mar 3, 2022 | Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Salvation
“While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.” (John 17:12) Union with Christ is the crown of all spiritual...
by Adoring God | Feb 17, 2022 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature
“Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.” (Romans 8:33) To be counted among God’s elect is a privilege that cannot be measured, a mercy no man can deserve, and a title no man can earn. It is bestowed by God alone, freely,...
by Adoring God | Feb 10, 2022 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13) No Christian can produce such spiritual graces as faith, love, or godliness in their own power. Every godly virtue derives solely from God’s Spirit dwelling within the...
by Adoring God | Feb 3, 2022 | Man's Nature
“It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the spoil with the proud.” (Proverbs 16:19) Scripture abounds with examples of divine paradoxes, where God’s ways turn human expectations on their heads. On such paradox is Matthew 20:16, “So the last...
by Adoring God | Jan 27, 2022 | Jesus Christ, Man's Nature
“To the end he may stablish Your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.” (1 Thessalonians 3:13) The writer of Hebrews describes Christ as being “the brightness of God’s glory” (Heb. 1:3),...
