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08/15/2025

Is Water Baptism Necessary for Salvation?

God made everything, the whole world and everything in it (Psa 146:6; Isa 42:5 (refs2)). This is at odds with the Greek ...
05/09/2022

God made everything, the whole world and everything in it (Psa 146:6; Isa 42:5 (refs2)). This is at odds with the Greek thinking that assumes that matter is eternal. God made the world, the world came into being out of Him. He has called things that are not as if they were (Rom 4:17; Heb 11:3 (refs2)). That means that everything that is, came forth from that one God. God is not part of creation or united with creation. He is there and is above creation.

Although He is above His creation, He is concerned with it. He is not a God at a distance, separated from His creation. He is also not a prisoner of His creation, as if He were locked in it. He is too big to live in something that made human hands, but not too big to deal with people’s needs. People have to carry, nurture and even take their gods into captivity (Isa 46:1-2), but the true God Himself serves man and carries His own (Isa 46:3-4).

God needs nothing from man, but man depends on Him for everything he needs. The temples don’t contain God, but the service in those temples doesn’t add anything to God either. God cannot be limited spatially, He is omnipresent. Solomon, who built a temple for God, was aware of this (1Kgs 8:27). Gentiles have only local gods.

He dwells in temples that are not made with hands, as in the temple of Christ's human nature, in which the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily, and in the hearts of his people, who are the temples of the Holy Ghost (1 Cor.3:16)





Jesus speaks of people being discouraged in their attempts to obey all the laws as if those laws were heavy burdens and ...
05/07/2022

Jesus speaks of people being discouraged in their attempts to obey all the laws as if those laws were heavy burdens and the people were laboring to carry them. They are the people who are discouraged from trying so hard to be right with God through good works.

He also addresses the poor, lost, ruined sinner: the man “burdened” with a consciousness of his transgressions, trembling at his danger, and seeking deliverance.

Jesus is inviting those who see and fell their helpless state to come to him in repentance and faith and he will satisfy their deepest needs.

For such there is relief. Christ tells them to come to him, to believe in him, and to trust him, and him only, for salvation. Doing this, he will give them rest - rest from their sins, from the alarms of conscience, from the terrors of the law, and from the fears of eternal death

Through Jesus came into a new relationship with God. You can find true refreshment in learning from Jesus and obeying his teachings. In submitting to his lordship you can find true life.








An idol is a god that people make. It is not a true god. Often people make it from wood. But it cannot speak or see. It ...
05/06/2022

An idol is a god that people make. It is not a true god. Often people make it from wood. But it cannot speak or see. It cannot hear or smell. It cannot walk or make any sound. People make it from gold and silver. Silver is like gold, very valuable. People that have idols will become like them. Those who make and worship idols become lifeless and powerless, just like those idols.







The name of Yaweh is the Revelation of God, and the God of Revelation Himself, the creative and historical Revelation, a...
05/03/2022

The name of Yaweh is the Revelation of God, and the God of Revelation Himself, the creative and historical Revelation, and who is always continually revealing Himself; His name is His nature representing itself, and therefore capable of being described and named, before all the Tetragramm, as the Anagramm of the overruling and inworking historical being of God, as the Chiffre of His free and all-powerful government in grace and truth, as the self-naming of God the Saviour.

. The righteous man’s refuge, then, is a Living Personality—a Self-existent and Eternal King and Father, infinite in power, in wisdom, and in tenderness. It is therefore 1 An ever-present refuge. “God is not far from every one of us” (Acts 17:27), and being ever near, is always accessible.





Christ is the greatest doctor; many are the diseases of his people; he heals them all by his blood, stripes, wounds; and...
04/30/2022

Christ is the greatest doctor; many are the diseases of his people; he heals them all by his blood, stripes, wounds; and among the rest their broken hearts, which none can cure but himself; hearts broken by the word, as a hammer, accompanied with a divine power; which have a true sense of sin, and godly sorrow for it; are truly contrite, such as the Lord has a respect unto, dwells with, and accepts of; and these he heals, and only he, by pouring in oil and wine, as the good Samaritan; or by applying pardoning grace and mercy to them, streaming through his blood;

God is jealous of his own honour and glory, and will not give it to another; even to graven images, nor suffer it to be ...
04/29/2022

God is jealous of his own honour and glory, and will not give it to another; even to graven images, nor suffer it to be given to them without resenting it; and jealousy is fierce and cruel, and breaks forth into great wrath, and issues in dreadful scenes oftentimes among men; as a man that has reason to be jealous of his wife, and especially if he takes her and the adulterer in the fact, it often costs them both their lives, being so enraged at such an insult upon him, and such a violation of the marriage bed; and thus the great Jehovah, the God of Israel, their head and husband, is represented, in order to deter from idolatry, or spiritual adultery, than which nothing could be more provoking to him.

Jesus used the definite article to distinguish Himself as “the only way.” A way is a path or route, and the disciples ha...
04/29/2022

Jesus used the definite article to distinguish Himself as “the only way.” A way is a path or route, and the disciples had expressed their confusion about where He was going and how they could follow. As He had told them from the beginning, Jesus was again telling them (and us) “follow me.” There is no other path to heaven, no other way to the Father. Peter reiterated this same truth years later to the rulers in Jerusalem, saying about Jesus, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The exclusive nature of the only path to salvation is expressed in the words “I am the way.”





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