The Devil
We have a hard enough time believing God in our flesh. It makes it even harder with an enemy hell bent on our destruction.

We have a hard enough time believing God in our flesh. It makes it even harder with an enemy hell bent on our destruction.
Jesus comes to be who we could never be by glorifying God like we could glorify Him. Before we try to make application of this text let us first consider the glory of what Christ has accomplished in our stead.
As the heavens are torn open at Jesus' baptism, we witness the love of the Father for the Son he sent away for us. What a picture of Jesus' humanity, which Luke highlights in his genealogy.
We finally see the core of John’s message in this text revolving around the greatness of the coming Messiah. Repentance ultimate leads to a true and right belief in who He is and what He has come to do.
Repentance will always lead to a changed life. Repentance leads us into a life of further trust and dependance upon God and not less.
Why is repentance something we struggle with so much?
The very presence of Jesus will always expose our true affections.
Intrinsic to the reality of our redemption is the desire to live a life devoted to the redeemer.
How would our lives look different if we realized that we lived in competing cities? The City of Man and the City of God are both after our hearts and demand ultimate allegiance. We must be aware of the things that grip our hearts, for better or worse, as we seek to take the Gospel wherever the Lord may lead us.
One of the ways the mission of Christ is described is as spreading the “good news”. This also becomes a great assessment for where we are in our life. Is Jesus ACTUALLY good news for us? The writer gives some reasons why this may not be the case in our lives.
We will look at two huge barriers to believing Jesus: traditions and expectations of men (and women). We will come to see that the only real solution to these barriers is, in fact, belief in Jesus. Zechariah speaks a word that we all need to hear!
Mary is called blessed from generation to generation for being the mother of Jesus, as she should. Let us not overlook what Elizabeth saw in her: that she was blessed because she believed God.
We take for granted the reality that belief is a part of our lives. Luke is going to tell two very similar stories to help us see what belief really looks like and how we can pursue it.
From start to finish we have been given all that we could ever need in order to be all that were meant to be to the honor and glory of God our Father through Jesus by the Spirit.
We will consider what our heavenly Father would teach us in this life in order that we might be great in His Kingdom.
We will consider what our heavenly Father would teach us in this life in order that we might be great in His Kingdom.
The writer is going to use “kingdom” terminology to motivate and strengthen the faith of the people of God and provide clarity for those who may not be. To whose Kingdom to you belong?
How faith, holiness, and grace come together in our waiting.
God’s discipline falls into the category of love.
How faith gets us to the end.
Faith is more precious than gold.
Faith understands that everything we see was at one point unseen. And it's why the men and women of Hebrews 11 were able to believe God in the midst of the impossible.
We see God’s absolute pleasure in the faith of His people. In section we glory in the fact that this gift of faith sustained men through to the end.
Faith is the God ordained weapon, tool, resource equipping fallen men and women to flourish and glorify Him in a fallen and broken world.
How do we confidently grab hold of what Christ has accomplished in His life, death, and resurrection? God has mapped out for His people what it would look like to live by faith.
It is crucially important that we understand the relationship between grace and works. The work of Christ as the once and for all sacrifice for sins helps us to understand the rightful place of our works as it pertains to salvation. From this text we will see that grace has never been more amazing!
Old King David was given an assignment by God shortly before he died to write a song to be sung by Israel on the occasion of the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem, built by David’s son Solomon. And it was sung at that grand opening, calling the people of God to remember who gets the glory...not David...not Solomon, but to the God of their salvation and Him alone!
The purpose of our existence is to glorify God.
The wisdom literature can be difficult to understand for many reasons. One of the reasons that we find it difficult is because it unapologetically defies our preconceived notions about life and love and faith and on and on. In this case the reader is forced to consider their preconceptions of what faith looks like and sounds like. What does your faith-filled day look like?
We learn a great deal about ourselves in the way we pray. For the Psalmist it is no different. The battleground of the heart is played out in our cries to the Father.