Righteousness, peace and joy are blessings God our Father has blessed us with through and in Messiah Jesus His Son in the Holy Spirit. “13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling. 14 I … [Read more…]
God has called you and me into His kingdom and glory to walk holy, sanctified before Him. He has made you and me holy, sanctified ones, saints. In your walk with the Lord, sanctified before Him, you live as one whose body is a temple of God. You speak the truth in love. You love … [Read more…]
The the most important way we proclaim the gospel of the kingdom is to live a noble life. At the beginning of his inspired word, Peter exhorts his readers, including us, to live a noble life. Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be … [Read more…]
When Paul wrote to Timothy regarding Scripture, He introduced it with a prophetic end time warning and the outcome of two heathens that opposed Moses. In his warning, Paul completely shows the character of end time heathens is depraved and burdened with sins and are to be avoided. They are depraved and never able to … [Read more…]
As partakers of the divine nature, we know God and enjoy more and more of His grace and peace. Peter succinctly tells us how to attain mature adulthood in Messiah as partakers of the divine nature. Grace and peace “Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to the people who by the righteousness of … [Read more…]
Blessing one another in word and deed conveys God’s love and our love, God’s grace and our grace, God’s peace and our peace. Thus, speaking or writing blessings is vital in our relationship with God and one another. They edify. When we verbalize God’s love and our love, we also share the inheritance God has … [Read more…]
Our righteousness is God’s covenant justice in action. Through the act of God’s covenant justice, God declares us to be in the right (Ro 3:25). He also gave us faith to believe it (Eph 2:8-9). The typical translations of Romans 3:19-26 make it hard to understand. N.T. Wright in his contemporary translation, THE KINGDOM NEW … [Read more…]
Run the race laid out before us pictures the coarse of our life in Messiah Jesus as sons and daughters of God our Father. In Hebrews 12, we are exhorted to follow the example of faith exhibited by men and women of long ago in running the race laid out before us.Whoever wrote Hebrews recounted … [Read more…]
Walk in good works God has created you to do. Good works are anything we do that is motivated by God’s love. They are ministry of the first order and each of us is equipped for it (Eph 4:1-17). We, who are part of the body of Christ, do good works and walk in them … [Read more…]
“Let yourselves be built as a spiritual temple” (1 Pe 2:5). Peter leads up to this beginning his letter by blessing God for His work of salvation that culminates with receiving the inheritance stored up for us in heaven (1 Pe 1:4; Mt 25:34). Peter continues with a call to be holy (1 Pe 1:13-21). … [Read more…]