by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Prayer, Quiet Time, Salvation
“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number.” (Job. 5:8-9) People spend their lives pursuing a lot of things – at the top of the list are wealth, power, health, and...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Salvation, Total Depravity
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” (Hosea 4:6) God’s warning to His people...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Bible Reading, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Salvation, Word of God
“Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.” (Romans 3:2) In his letter to the Romans, Paul raises a poignant question: What truly sets the Jew apart from the Gentile? Amidst the debates and the pride of the Jewish community in...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Jesus Christ, Salvation, Total Depravity
“But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.” (Psalm 22:6) In ancient Hebrew texts, the idea of “bearing iniquities” is not about assuming the guilt for sin intrinsically but rather bearing the burden of its external debt and due...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Covenant, Faith, Salvation
“For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.” (Acts 8:23) The only key that can unlock the chains of iniquity (that bond of iniquity in Acts 8:23)—freeing us from the bondage and bitterness of sin—is God’s liberating grace...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Salvation
“Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness.”(Titus 1:1) Of all the doctrines Christians struggle with, there may be none more misunderstood than the...
