Every Believer has a certain sin or sins that they seem to be “bent” towards committing. And, all Believers do want to have victory over that area of their life. What I have found in my experience and research is that one pastor may tell you to
Read more →To some, redemption is just a matter of getting saved and then practicing good morals, spiritual disciplines and regular attendance to a church building. As long as these things are adhered to, they believe everything will work out. Let me first say, there is nothing wrong with
Read more →The first Believers on the day of pentecost were all Jewish, or proselytes to Judaism (Acts 2:8-11,36-47). Not all of these, but most of these individuals had been indoctrinated with false teachings most of their lives. They had heard and known what the Old Covenant Scriptures said,
Read more →Now we have established what Peter and the other disciples (apostles) knew about redemption. Paul had not received the information of how to be redeemed, or how to live in redemption from them. Paul tells the Galatian believers that he had not received the gospel he preached
Read more →God’s Solution, and only Solution, for mankind’s sin problem was Jesus Christ and Him crucified (1 Cor. 2:1-8). In the Old Testament, the altar, the tabernacle and the sacrifices are all “types” and “shadows” (examples) of what Jesus was going to do for humanity when He offered
Read more →Although the penalty of sin was broken by God’s Son becoming a man, being the perfect sin sacrifice and our Redeemer, how would men and women receive such redemption? And how would Believers access power to no longer live under the control of sin? God made a Way
Read more →The first glimpse of God’s Way of redemption was shown to the first family, on the first pages of human history (Gen. 3:21, 4:1-7). Although the full plan of redemption would progressively be revealed little by little, His foundational plan has been known since the fall of
Read more →We all, since Adam, have been corrupted with a propensity to live according to our own view of what is right (righteousness), and not submit to God’s standard of righteousness (Rom. 5:15,17). We see some areas of our lives that are good. We readily deceive ourselves into thinking that because of
Read more →We can deceive ourselves into thinking that He won’t judge our works according to His standard, the Law. But, who we create God to be in our minds, doesn’t alter who He really is. This is humanity’s way of “manufacturing” a god according to our own liking.
Read more →In His life, Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the Law. He was sinless, and had to be in order to qualify as our substitutionary sacrifice (2 Cor. 5:21). In His death on The Cross, Jesus blotted “out the ordinances that was against us” and that condemned us
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