Every time we share in the Lord’s Supper, we do not only look back and remember our past redemption. It is also a testimony to future realities.
As we kneel, praying prayers of imprecation, we find that through God’s grace, a new prayer stumbling forth from our lips, asking God to awaken the wicked to the depth of God’s love for them.
Life is not a random sequence of days determined simply by chance or even by the feeble choices we make. Ultimately, our lives are in God’s hands.
God does not merely send us a message of comfort or pull some cosmic levers in the heavens that change our circumstances. God rescues us in our suffering by personally entering into the world of suffering.
In the book of Revelation, Babylon has become an iconic symbol of the embodiment of wickedness and evil. There it describes not just a punishment of judgment, but an eschatological destruction of evil, finally and totally.
Biblical love is not like the wavering flood of emotion that overtakes humans in some romantic surge; the love that God defines is a resolute disposition that acts on behalf of another, and does so relentlessly and redemptively.
Through repentance and faith, the people of God now abide with Jesus Christ, the very embodiment of the presence of God, since all the fullness of the deity dwelled in him in bodily form.
There is a holy solemnity that needs to be recaptured as we prepare to enter God’s presence with his people.
Sometimes a distorted view of God Himself can become an idol, if we replace the true and living God with a god more in keeping with our own imaginations.
The world stands (and has always stood) opposed to God’s ways. Thus, to walk in God’s ways means that we will be at odds with the world.
Whether it is our covenant-keeping with God, or our covenant-keeping in family relationships, the blessing of God rests upon those who fear him and walk in his ways.
Christians are not simply baptized by faith, we are baptized into a faith, i.e., into the blessed fellowship of all the redeemed. Learn more about the meaning of baptism in this blog post.
