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You are eternally is secure, if you believe, you will have eternal life if you believe the gospel, you don’t merit salvation. If you do not believe, by definition you’re not a believer. Conditions are going to be oriented not around behavior, conditions are always going to be fluttering around...

Page one of the Bible and the first person we meet there is God, he’s the one with authority over all creation. He speaks and creation obeys and he defines what is good and not good, he alone is king. But then surprisingly, as the pinnacle of all of God’s creative work, he makes humans and he...

Revelation 1:4, the phrase that we get in verse four and that is, “Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come,” this phrase gets repeated in verse 8, “I am the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord God who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty,” the phrase “him...

Judah was one of Jesus’ four brothers who are named in the gospel accounts, none of the brothers followed Jesus as the Messiah before his death, but afterwards they saw him alive from the dead and then because his disciples. Judah ties Jesus to that ANGEL in the Old Testament!

Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Hear O Israel, the LORD is our God, the Lord is one, and as for you, you shall love the LORD your God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, and with all of your strength. Look at the second day word here, LORD, written in all capital letters, this is the personal name...

Angel of the Lord in Exodus 3:1-3, the question is, who’s in the bush? Now Moses…the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. But look at verse 4, when the Lord saw he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush. Well...

One of the more noticeable functions of the heavenly host is that they serve, at least a number of them, serve as God’s warriors, soldiers. The scripture uses military or army imagery and terminology. The members of the heavenly host get that label in certain passages, these are warriors. The...

In the Bible, reality is made up of two overlapping realms. The heavens and the earth, our space and God’s space. While life here on earth may seem ordinary, sometimes we can encounter heaven right here in our own realm, this happens a number of times in the Bible and when it does, we often...

Hebrews 12:22-24, You have come to Mount Zion, (We got sacred space, we got divine presence where God’s presence is, where his entourage is, plenty of Old Testament passages about the throne room of God.) into the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem and to innumerable angels in festal...

The debate over what is hell, what is the final punishment, is it some sort of everlasting ongoing torment or is it annihilation? They’re both defensible, textually. The debate turns on how to answer the question of the death of death, Revelation 20:14-15. This is the great white throne...

Believing Loyalty

In Luke 4:16-30, this is the scene where Jesus preaches in his hometown in the synagogue. Starting in Luke 4:23, Jesus is harsh with how he responds to these people. Jesus said, You’ve all heard about the things that I have done in Capernaum and other places. Doubtless, somebody here is going to...

Acts 8:9-13, We get a specific episode in Samaria that concerns Simon, Simon the magician. In verse 9, There was a man named Simon who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him from the...

Look at the language use to describe the Name in Isaiah 30:27. Behold, the Name of the Lord comes from afar. Looks like we’re getting language that makes the Name sound like a person. In blazing wrath with a heavy burden, his lips. The Name has lips? This language is speaking about the Name as...

Acts 8:1-3, opens with Saul approving of Stephens execution, and there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria. Saul was ravaging the church and entering house after house. He dragged off men...

The New Covenant has begun and of course what happens at Pentecost is directly tied back to what Jesus did on the cross and his resurrection. In the Old Testament, prior to the New Covenant, the notion of being elect and being a believer in Yahweh, a follower of Yahweh are actually two separable...

What was Paul thinking when he used the phrase “all Israel will be saved?” To answer this question of what Paul was thinking, we have to address three questions. One, how does Paul define “all Israel?” When Paul uses the term Israel or thinks of Israel, he isn’t excluding ethnic Jews, but he’s...

Freedom from God’s condemnation is a reality for every single believer, not because of any new found performance capabilities, but because we are made the righteousness of God in our union with his perfectly righteous son. On top of that, everything necessary to prove to us beyond any shadow of...

We see in 2 Corinthians 4:3 the word hid. Satan’s not a mandy pandy at hiding what Jesus accomplished. It’s one thing to have your sin slate wiped clean. It’s something else entirely different to be in the Savior. Righteousness and sin two different things. If people are asking for forgiveness...

The heart beat of Paul’s new message can be summed up this way. Jesus took care of the sin wall. (Acts 13:38-39) Sins are no longer merely covered, they are now completely paid for, completely forgiven, completely taken out of the way. Jesus removed the alienation sin wall, all inclusive, all...