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There are very important things to know about God's Nature. Three of those things are: There is one God, He exists in three persons, and each person in the Trinity is truly God.
The word "baptize" means to dip or drench. So the Christian life is all about being drenched in the Father, plunged into the Son, and soaked in the Spirit.
Though we are not what we once were before we knew Christ, we are also not yet what we will be when we see Him face to face. In that day, we will be perfected!
Jesus finished His work of salvation on the cross. But now He continues to work making intercession for His people.
One of our greatest needs is an Advocate with God the Father in Heaven. That is what Jesus is for all who belong to Him.
When the trumpet sounds, the dead in Christ will rise and be changed, in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, and we who trust in Him shall be like Him.
Our bodies matter to God. And He will not allow them to stay in the grave forever. Soon, everyone will rise on Judgment Day.
Because Christ died and rose again, we who are united to Him by faith will also rise from the grave to be in the presence of God.
The cross of Christ is the proof of God's love toward sinners. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
We are forgiven by Christ's death on the cross because the punishment for sin fell on Him instead of us. Therefore, at the cross, God's forgiveness is released toward us.
On the cross, Jesus bore the sins of the world. The cross shows us both the heinousness of sin and the love of God.
We cannot separate Christ's Lordship from His salvation of us. It is a fundamental misunderstanding of the gospel to think that you can receive what Jesus offers and at the same time resist what He commands.
In Adam, we all die. But if we are joined to Christ by faith, we shall be made alive!
The multiple theophanies that occurred in the Old Testament were pointing forward to a time when the Lord himself would come in human flesh.
God took the initiative in sending Christ to be born of the virgin Mary. He did not wait for a Deliverer to arise from us, He came to us in the person of Jesus.
Being faithful to God does not necessarily mean that we must sacrifice success in this world.
As Christians, we are in the world, but our citizenship is in Heaven. What does it mean to be a part of two kingdoms?
In the Bible, there are many examples of bad shepherds of God's People. But Jesus is the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for the sheep.
If God moves you to do something for Him, you can know that He will be with you in it!
The prophet Ezekiel was a man who had many hopes and dreams just like us. But his dreams were shattered. Where do we turn when that happens to us?
Jesus suffered, and he is called a “man of sorrows.” What a comfort it is to know that the Lord himself understands what it means to feel sadness and pain, and that He is with us in our sorrow.
Your difficulties break your heart, and they cause you to cry out to God. It is good to know that the tears of God's people are precious to Him.
The Book of Lamentations is a book of sorrow. Thank God that the Bible speaks to us in our pain.
When Nicodemus came to Jesus, Jesus told him that he needed to be born again. What does that mean?
After King David sinned, he asked God to create in him a “clean heart.” This should be our prayer as well.
Salvation in Christ is not something we must work to attain. It is a free gift, given by the Lord himself to unworthy sinners.
Jesus calls everyone who is thirsty for eternal life to come to Him!
The Lord calls His servants to be humble and serve others. We are not to trample on the weak but to help them.
God's servants do not serve themselves, but rather Him. They are not called to fame or fortune, but to do their Master's will.
The holiness of God humbles us in every way. When we come to understand it, even in small measure, it causes us to have humility.
God is holy. It is an essential element of His nature. In order to see God rightly, we must see Him as holy.
In Isaiah's day, the people had started to treat the worship of God in a very casual way. But God does not want rote “worship,” rather, He wants our whole heart.
It is amazing to think that when a sinner repents, heaven rejoices. Oh, how that should cause us to rejoice here on earth as well!
What does the Word of God do? It both convicts us and strengthens us to follow the Lord with joy.
One of the greatest problems with the natural man is that his heart is like a stone toward God. But, thankfully, Jesus is able to take out our hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh through the Holy Spirit!
The Scriptures need to be in our hands and in our hearts continuously. If they aren't, it doesn't take long for us to fall off the path.
King Josiah sought the LORD from a young age. He is an example for us and for our children.
Where should we start when we want to evangelize someone? Jesus began with the knowledge of God.
There are many attributes of God which are revealed to us in the Bible. The Bible says “God is love” but it does not say “God is anger.” Anger does not come naturally to Him. It must be provoked.
Elijah's prayer brought the fire of God onto the sacrifice and not on the people. This points to the cross where God's judgment was poured out on Jesus, who became the ultimate sacrifice for us.
The claim of the Bible is that God's Word is true. We can stand on that claim because Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
The kingdom of Heaven will not be like the earthly tabernacle where the presence of God came and went; instead it will be a place where God and men are together forever.
In the Old Testament, the tabernacle, and then later the temple, was where God met with men. But now, that “meeting place” is a Person—the Lord Jesus Christ.
The stones that built the temple in Jerusalem point to believers who are called “living stones.” And God is building His people up for an eternal inheritance.