"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His …
Tag: righteousness
Faithfully and Righteously Hearing
"Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness." [Psa 143:1] We know even from Moses that God is faithful. It is one of God’s most longstanding and common attributes. Our God, “The LORD [our] God, He is God, The Faithful God.” [Deut 7:9] One …
Paul & The Body (Audio Sermon)
Our Lord Jesus desires to live through our bodies; in His stead, we are "the light of the world" [Mt 5:14] and are commissioned as ambassadors to carry His presence and represent His character. By God's grace, through The Spirit which lives in us, we can use our bodies to produce the very life of …
Secure in God’s Everlasting Work of Grace
"For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." [Rom 4:2-3] When Jesus became “the propitiation…for the sins of the whole world,” [1 Jn 2:2] to whomsoever should believe in and confess …
Our Perfect Representative
"My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with The Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous [One]." [1 Jn 2:1] The word advocate means a legal assistance, an intercessor, a comforter. Literally this Greek word found in 1 John 2:1 signifies someone …
A Mountain of Love
"Thy righteousness is like the great mountains..." [Psalms 36:6a] Imagine a single mountain towering past the international space station, a mountain whose peak extends over two million feet, over 900,000 meters into the sky into the exosphere of the earth. It would be quite a sight to see, an absolutely massive and powerful presence no …
Decorating in Vain
How real is our individual faiths? Are there any superficial decorations upon our faith? There is a passage in Zephaniah, speaking of the judgment of Nineveh, which speaks of this. It says, "And He will stretch out His hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a …
The Liberty of Christ
2021 Christmas Advent Day 15: The Redeemer visits His people Main Passage: Matthew 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.God has chosen to name His Son Jesus, which means “Salvation.” For Jesus, the angel said, “shall save His people …
Avoiding The Desolator
There is a warning given to Nineveh by God over one hundred years after the city repented at Jonah’s prophetic warning of judgment. It is found in Nahum, and reads as follows, “The Disperser/Desolator is come up before thy face: keep the fortified city/bulwarks, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.” …
Raised Paths
The world which we live in is a very fine proponent of "doing you," that is, of engaging in whatever makes you happy or pleases you. Our world would say that to pursue your dreams, desires, passions, etc., and to pursue them in the context of a world focused on wealth, fame, pleasure, luxury, ease, …