Messiah Jesus reigns over God’s people through blessings, grace and truth.”14 The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born† Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 Yochanan testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after … [Read more…]
Peter gives eternal perspective “to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Yeshua the Messiah.” 2 Peter 1:1 He starts with a blessing of grace and peace, then shows us God’s divine power “has granted to us all things that pertain to life and … [Read more…]
God’s wrath comes on unbelievers, for they are hostile toward God. “For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s Torah, neither indeed can it be. Those who are … [Read more…]
Pandemic panic is caused by lies spread to people. The word pandemic comes from two Greek words meaning “all + people.” A pandemic is the communication of disease from one person to another by close contact causing mass panic, mass hysteria and mass thought and emotions impaired by unreasonable fear. Pan in pandemic also has … [Read more…]
God the Father has chosen us to be to the praise of His glory. Peter tells us what God has done and is doing for us in Christ, by the Spirit. We are a people chosen according to the foreknowledge (Acts 2:23) of God our Father in heaven, in sanctification (Jn 3:6; 1 Jn 5:4) … [Read more…]
“Finally, let the Lord and His mighty power make you strong.” Paul has urged the Ephesians and us to stand worthy of the calling we have been called to and shown us how. Christ—the Head– fits us together in his body to work in His service (Eph 4:1-13). In that view, Paul exhorts us not … [Read more…]
Celebrate living in spiritual light. “Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Messiah has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1) As Paul remarked, there’s no law against it. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. … [Read more…]
“Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.” Colossians 4:5-6 Those who are outside “having no hope and without God in the world” (Eph 2:12) are outside of the kingdom of … [Read more…]
God’s spiritual light shines in us by His Holy Spirit. God has shone His spiritual light in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of His glory in the face of Jesus the Messiah. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But … [Read more…]
“…we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ. Eph 4:15 NASB Paul’s exhortation is a call to action in our shared lives in the body of Christ. Our walk is relational. Paul begins with how to walk in one another relationships, then shows the relational oneness God … [Read more…]