What Does the Likeness of God Look Like?
Leaving off from our last post about the image and likeness of God, how do we attain to the likeness of God who is so vast and unknowable? God’s likeness looks like Jesus. Jesus told His disciples that if they had seen Him, they had seen the Father. Hebrews 1:3 says, “The Son is the […]
In the Place of Adam
In a sense, when Christ died upon the cross and restored our Sonship, he stepped into the place of Adam. He then became the first-born among the dead, and is able to grant eternal life to others. This is a well-established theme in the Bible. Let’s look at a few passages: Col 1:18-20 [NIV] 18And […]
Christ Restored Sonship Back to Us
In yesterday’s post, we discussed the Sonship in the history of man up until the story of the Israelites. As most of you probably know, God allowed the Israelites to be enslaved in Egypt for over 400 years – until He raised Moses to deliver them. On Mount Sinai, He gave them the Law through […]
The Cross – A Review
Man chose the path of sin, death and distance from God. Adam & Eve were given a wide road to life and a narrow road to death, but they chose to eat of the tree of death. All future generations of men were born eating only of this fruit and knowing only this existence. Yet, […]
The Narrow Road Back Home
Man chose the path of sin, death and distance from God. Adam & Eve were given a wide road to life and a narrow road to death, but they chose to eat of the tree of death. All future generations of men were born eating only of this fruit and knowing only this existence. Yet, […]
Jesus was the First-Fruit Offering
The following is an email our team received on April 11th from our team leader as we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel. We leave in a couple of days for this trip, and I wanted to spend these next days sharing more about the Jewish roots of our […]
His Image and Likeness
Today, we’ll begin a new train of thinking. God created Man to bear His image and likeness and rule the world with Him as His perfect sons. When Man fell from grace, we maintained His image but lost His likeness. The fullness of God’s plan was to send His Son Jesus to bear witness to […]
It’s about the Heart: Pt1 (Mt 15:1-28)
Matthew 15:1-28 Three conversations were carried out by Jesus in Ch.15. The first was with the Pharisees and some teachers of the Law with a crowd listening in. The second with His Disciples, Peter in particular. The final was with a Canaanite woman. In all three, Jesus was looking into the heart condition of those […]
Whose Kingdom is it anyway?
I just stumbled upon an interesting quote from Margaret Sanger, the woman who started Planned Parenthood. In her book first published in 1920, Woman and the New Race, she shared what she believed would be the outcome of legalized birth control and abortion: “[Because of birth control], child slavery, prostitution, feeble mindedness, physical deterioration, hunger, […]
Jesus Challenged: Part 1 (Mt 12)
Matthew 12 Yesterday, we discussed Jesus’ teaching that Kingdom life is actually quite simple and is a life of peace. In this whole chapter, scenarios were presented one after another in which some core values and ways of the Kingdom were challenged by religious, unenlightened minds. These men adhered to the traditions of man and […]