Have you ever meditated on what it exactly means for God to be holy? A simple study of the word "holy" would see that it means 'set apart" or "sacred". What does this mean for God to be set apart? Or what does it means for us to view God as not so holy?
When we live and act out in sin, do we glance over the fact that God is holy is sees all sin and hates all sin? Or do we view Him as a small "g" god, who doesn't need to route out all evil or who lets violations pass? When we ignore God or forget about Him, do we repent because we know that God is necessary and ever present? Or do we forge our own god like the Greeks and Romans who aren't always there and aren't always powerful?
Would this outlook on God's holiness affect the way we take the charge in Leviticus 11:44 and 1 Peter 1:16, "I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy."
Christ's offer of forgiveness has a tremendous power to affect the world. God knew it, Luke knew it, and this morning we need to know it. The Holy Spirit knew that all men and women needed to know it, and that’s why the Gospel by Luke was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
There are the two themes of the Book of Acts: first, Christians in the 1st Century were tuned in to Christ. Secondly, all they needed was the power to come on and out came the message! Isn't that what we need to ask ourselves as we study this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
From creation to culmination. THE NEW TESTAMENT begins and ends with Christ. It opens with His arrival, moves to His ministry of three years, His death, His glorious resurrection, His ministering for 40 days. (We know this because it says in Acts...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I would like to share with you the secret of mining for gold in the Gospels. Open with me to Mark 1. Gold was found at the head of Six-Mile Canyon in the territory of Nevada in 1859 by two miners named Pat McLaughlin and Peter O’Reilly. A...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In the Books of Prophecy we see God's servants:·Seeing Christ (Major prophets) as Ruler, Prince of Peace and so on.·Trusting Christ (Pre-exilic prophets) as the Judge, One from Everlasting and so on.· Hoping in Christ...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Finding Christ in the books of Poetry.UNDERSTANDING THIS BOOK OF BOOKS IS FOUNDATIONAL TO OUR SPIRITUAL MATURITY. May I impress upon your heart that the book you hold in your hands is unlike any other in the Universe? And with that truth deeply...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Books of History are foundational to the Bible, may I impress upon your heart that the book you hold in your hands is unlike any other in the Universe? And with that truth deeply upon our hearts, in the days ahead, shouldn't we treat it...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
SEVEN SIGNS FROM THE GOSPEL OF JOHNJohn's whole Gospel is a building to a climax in chapter 20: BELIEVE.John built his whole Gospel as bridge with seven successive signs that transport you to the ultimate sign of chapter 20 - resurrection of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LUKE “Christ the perfect man: Savior”. (19:10)Luke 19:10 'for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.' (NKJV) This verse outlines the book: Jesus “has come” (1-4:13 – birth to temptation);...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
