Parousia and the Everlasting Gospel: What Took Place On and Because of Calvary
Parousia and the Everlasting Gospel: What Took Place On and Because of Calvary https://www.buzzsprout.com/2192965/13685857 “And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him.” “That He might sanctify the people with His own blood,” Christ “suffered without the gate.” Hebrews 13:12. For transgression of the law of God, Adam […]
The Final Events. Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Have No Fear. Part Sixty-eight in a Series.
The Final Events. Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Have No Fear. Part Sixty-eight in a Series. It is a familiar sentence, but with growing significance, that “we have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.”–“Life Sketches,” p. 196. Travelers […]
The Final Events. Satan Personates Christ. Part Fifteen in a Series.
The Final Events. Satan Personates Christ. Part Fifteen in a Series. https://www.secondcoming.org/blog/ As his crowning act of deception, Satan will appear on earth claiming to be Christ. He will manifest himself in supernatural form, unlike any spectacle humans have ever witnessed. He will perform “miracles” and speak eloquently of peace, making the delusion almost overmastering. […]
The Final Events. God Vindicated. Part Fourteen in a Series.
The Final Events. God Vindicated. Part Fourteen in a Series. https://www.secondcoming.org/blog/ Jesus came to our world to magnify, glorify, and vindicate the character of God. By His life, death, and resurrection He demonstrated that “God is love”, in the most beautiful sense imaginable, ruling out fear and force as motivations for worshipping God. Jesus proves […]
The Final Events. The Latter Rain. Part Ten in a Series.
The Final Events. The Latter Rain. Part Ten in a Series. Throughout Scripture, rain is employed as a metaphor to depict the outpouring of special blessings from God. “I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, […]
The Final Events. The Loud Cry. Part Nine in a Series.
The Final Events. The Loud Cry. Part Nine in a Series. The true beauty of God’s character will go global. John saw “an angel coming down from heaven having great authority and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen”. […]
Understanding the Gospel: 9 – The Supreme Sacrifice
In the back of my Bible, I have two quotations that I read very often to remind me of the direction of my preaching. The first one is: Gospel Workers, [Ellen G. White], p. 315: “The sacrifice of Christ as an atonement for sin is the great truth around which all other truths cluster. In […]
Understanding the Gospel: 8 – The ‘In Christ’ Motif
When Christ came to this world 2,000 years ago, He came primarily to be the gospel, not just to explain the gospel. It is Paul who God set aside to explain the gospel. Paul tells us about himself and his ministry: Ephesians 3:8: Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given […]
Understanding the Gospel: 7 – The Love of God
There is no book in the whole of the Bible that so clearly and so masterfully explains the wonderful gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ than Paul’s epistle to the Romans. In this letter Paul expounds the full counsel of God pertaining to our salvation. He has told us that we are desperately sinful. He […]
Understanding the Gospel: 6 – Life in the Spirit
In our study of the Book of Romans, we have discovered two main facts and have had the opportunity of being totally convinced of them and of accepting them. The first is the fact of our total depravity, that we are sinners, not eighty percent but one hundred percent. From head to foot, there is […]
