"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
In Isaiah Chapter 2, we have the prophecy of the “Day of the Lord”, which typically refers to the time of God’s final judgement on a prideful, rebellious mankind (Isaiah 2:12). The horrors of that time are presented most clearly in Zephaniah 1:2-18, wherein Zephaniah 1:15 reveals that it “is a day of wrath…” From the time […]
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“Many are called, but few are chosen” (Matthew 22:14) The above statement was spoken by Jesus at the conclusion to His parable of the wedding feast (Matthew 22:1-14), in which He is illustrating how His gracious offer of entrance into the Kingdom of God/Heaven through faith in Him, has and will be made to many,
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Being the self-appointed source of all true biblical knowledge in my marriage, I proudly challenged my wife the other day to recite for me the first commandment ever issued by God and offered her $10.00 if she could do so on the first try. After some stuttering, she blurts out, LET THERE BE LIGHT, and
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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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