Forgiven and forgiving

Psalm 32 is a psalm of David. It’s called a Maschil which means that it is a Psalm of instruction. It is a Psalm that instructs us about the right way and wrong way to deal with sin. The right way is to bring it into the light, the wrong way is to seek to justify it,...

Servanthood – Your Claim To Greatness

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ; James, a servant of God; Simon Peter, a servant of Jesus Christ; Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ. In each instance, these “heavyweights” of the church prefaced their calling in the Body of Christ with their title – a bondslave of...

Walking In The Forgiveness Of God

Our next section of the Sermon on the Mount deals with the very important subject of forgiveness. The subject of forgiveness includes a Godward, vertical aspect as well as a  human, horizontal aspect. In the Godward sense, we read that it is “in (Jesus Christ) we have...

Jesus Christ, The Rock On Which We Stand

Isaiah prophesied that Christ would be “a foundation, a stone”. Paul called Jesus the foundation in 1 Corinthians 3:11. Christ, without controversy, is The Chief Cornerstone2 and Head of His Church. If there is to be any assurance of salvation and subsequent...

Victory in Jesus

1 Cor 15.57,58 But thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. We...