“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
In the previous two posts we explored how the world in which we live is in its entirety set against us. The world system is intended to destroy our faith and separate us from our God. The controller of this deceptive world system is Satan, and His purposes are dishonest and destructive. John the Apostle …
In the previous post, we discovered that we are to not continue in sin primarily because we have been joined in union with our God. It is His life that is now to be lived in us and not our own life. Because of His life in us, we are to no longer sin. If …
“By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are rebels no more, but are servants; no more servants, but sons!” F. W. Farrar “Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” Galatians 5:24 So how is it that are to live …
“The cross has gathered in the course of the years much of beauty and symbolism, but the cross of which Jesus spoke had nothing of beauty in it. It was an instrument of death.” A.W. Tozer The crucified life is crucial to our living in the kingdom of our God. This is because our new …
Here it is, Good Friday, 2017. A day of solemn joy. Solemn as I think of the tremendous price paid by my God to ransom me from a death I deserve. To release me from a bondage to rebellion against Him. To restore me to fellowship and communion with Himself. And He paid that price …
