Our Lord’s experience of temptation prepared Him to be our sympathetic High Priest. It is important to note that Jesus faced the enemy as man, not as the Son of God. He said, “Man shall not live by bread alone” (Matthew 4:4). We must not think that Jesus used His...
Many believers have such a comfortable situation here on earth that they rarely think about going to heaven and meeting the Lord. They forget that they must one day stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ. It helps to hold us up and builds us up when we recall that...
If you were God, how would you go about revealing yourself to earth’s people? How could you tell them about and give them the kind of life you wanted them to enjoy? God has revealed Himself in creation, but creation alone could never tell us the story of God’s love....
When Verdi produced his first opera in Florence, the composer stood by himself in the shadows and kept his eye on the face of one man in the audience—the great Rossini. It mattered not to Verdi whether the people in the hall were cheering him or jeering him; all he...
The word castaway is a technical word familiar to those who knew the Greek Olympic games. Paul used the term to say he did not want to be “disapproved” or “disqualified” as a servant of God. At the Greek games, there was a herald who announced the rules of the...
Why did Peter refer to God as a “faithful Creator” (1 Peter 4: 19) rather than a “faithful Judge” or even a “faithful Saviour”. Because God the Creator meets the needs of His people. It is the Creator who provides food and clothing to persecuted Christians. and who protects them...
The same resurrection power that saved you and took you out of the graveyard of sin can daily help you live for Christ and glorify Him. At great expense to Himself, God worked for us on the Cross. Today, on the basis of that price paid at Calvary, He is...
Paul saw himself as a priest at the altar, offering up to God the Gentiles he had won to Christ. They were a “spiritual sacrifice" to the glory of God. Even his preaching of the Gospel was a “priestly duty.” This insight into ministry certainly adds dignity and responsibility to...
Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is still transforming people, just as it transformed Martin Luther and John Wesley. The one Scripture above all others that brought Luther out of mere religion into the joy of salvation by grace, through faith, was Romans 1:17: “The just shall live by faith.” The...
Obedience to God’s will is the test of true faith in Christ. The test is not words—saying “Lord, Lord,” and failing to obey His commands. How easy it is to learn a religious vocabulary, even memorize Bible verses and religious songs, yet not obey God’s will. When a person is...