Has the law, by faith in Christ, been totally fulfilled in your heart? Are you, like the parents, pleading with God for the guilty–or, like the son, will you come to the date of your execution in rebellion and proud disdain, protesting your innocence?
Will you, this Christmas, receive God's gift to us in Christ, and allow the Holy Spirit to take possession of your soul?
Do you respond like the wise men who put their faces on the ground before the newborn Jesus?
Ignorance refused to be convinced that he would be unable to enter the Celestial City unless he was crucified with Christ and born again.
The Christian life was not intended to be a desert of struggle and despair until death. Just as Bunyan's characters Christian and Hopeful arrived in the Delectable Mountains, you can--and must!--enter into the promised land with Jesus in this life!
The atonement and its benefits are two distinct works that were prefigured by the two goats of the sin offering in Leviticus 16
A close look at the original Greek text overturns a cornerstone of this false gospel: Jesus did not become sin. Instead, "The one not having experienced sin took sin on our behalf in order that we might be made righteous."
Do not by your impenitence or simply your ignorance, force God to leave you!
If you're sold out to Jesus and willing to let Him do whatever He chooses in your heart, this message is for you!
The church, Jesus' bride will overcome and be forever holy. The question is whether you'll be a part of the bride?
Are you conscious of the journey that you are on and where the journey will take you?
Are you determined to be a doulos of Jesus?
