"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
The title to this post is taken from a sermon preached by Jonathan Edwards to his congregation in 1734, that he titled “A Divine and Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God, Shown to be Both Scriptural and Rational Doctrine”. It is both an exposition of and commentary on the […]
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Who is Jesus Christ? The Bible makes it clear that our answer to this question is the determining factor in how we live our lives in this world and in our eternal destiny of either Heaven or Hell in the next (Galatians 2:20) (John 8:23-24) (John 3:36). Jesus, historically, beginning with His three-and-a-half-year ministry on
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I have noted in previous posts that the glory of God, His revelation and display of the infinite perfections of His eternal being, is the central theme of the Bible, the purpose of all of creation, particularly the creation of man (Isaiah 43:7). The Bible reveals that God displays His glory in four ways: In
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In my previous post I included a link to a sermon by Pastor Brian Borgman titled Conformed to His Image, Part 2, in which Pastor Borgman asserts that “all creation exists for the incarnation,” that the glory of God, the outshining, the light of the infinite perfections of His being, would be displayed and proclaimed
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It’s hard to imagine that there could be any greater, more glorious destiny than the one promised by Jesus to the repentant criminal hanging next to Him on a Roman cross in the last hours of both of their lives in this world, wherein Jesus assures him “today you will be with Me in Paradise”.
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We celebrated last week both the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, wherein after living the perfectly righteous and sinless life necessary for a man or woman to enter God’s unmediated presence in Heaven, He died on a Roman cross, taking upon Himself the wrath and judgement, the divine justice of God deserved
I am posting this on the day we celebrate each year as Good Friday. It is called Good Friday, despite the fact that everything that occurred on this day over 2000 years ago can only be described as evil; the betrayal of Jesus by Judas to the religious authorities, the unjust arrest, trial and conviction
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It is the evening prior to the Jewish Passover, approximately 2000 years ago. Jesus has completed His public ministry and has been spending the last few days of His life with His apostles, instructing them of His approaching death and how they are to carry on His work after His death. He enjoys the Passover
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Do you know the love of God? Do you personally, intimately and experientially know the width and length and depth and height of the love of Christ which passes (human) knowledge. The Apostle Paul prays for Christians in Ephesians 3:14-19 that we would. He does so for two essential reasons. One reason is because he
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One of the most unsettling and even terrifying passages in the Bible, at least for me, is found in Matthew 7:21-23, near the conclusion of what is known as The Sermon on the Mount. Here Jesus states, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will
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