We are lively stones for God, active, quick, sprightly. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:5 KJV We are built up a spiritual house. Peter is contrasting the Old Testament temple made with hands with … [Read more…]
As shown in the first 6 verses of the book, Proverbs build character: wisdom, discernment, wise dealing, prudence, knowledge, discretion, learning, sound counsel, understanding. 1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: 2 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; 3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, … [Read more…]
OUR WALK, LIVING AMONG PAGANS is not easy, so we ask God our Father and Jesus His Son for help and they give it by the Spirit. Thus God helps us walk in the way of the Lord. God sent John the Baptist to prepare the way of the Lord. 1 In those days, Yochanan … [Read more…]
In the following context, Peter urged us to continue to live upright lives among the unbelievers, that “they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.” But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deedsf … [Read more…]
We will inherit the inheritance reserved in heaven for us. That inheritance is salvation, eternal life, God with us in the new heaven and the new earth in the Kingdom of Messiah and God that is to come at the regeneration (Mt 19:28). 1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first … [Read more…]
Let the chords of eternity flow through your soul and spirit. God has set eternity in our hearts. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end. Ecclesiastes … [Read more…]
Jesus gives us the kingdomview. As we adopt and apply it, He establishes us in kingdom relationships that fulfill our deepest longings to be useful and productive in the noble things of eternal importance in our day-to-day lives. I write to inspire and encourage believers by showing how we live as working parts of the … [Read more…]
The weapons the worldly level at us are carnal. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God. God has turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? God has turned the wisdom of the world … [Read more…]
Amoral tactics hurt us every day. We encounter them as we go about our life. By their own definition, amoral people do not believe in the God of the Bible. Rather, they rely on their own fleshly reason to determine what is right in their own eyes and do it without moral restraint. They hatch … [Read more…]
Therefore, since Messiah suffered for us in the flesh (1 Pe 3:18), arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh [is done with sin/pepautai], that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of … [Read more…]