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Forgiven People Forgive

The key to forgiveness is found in the phrase “even as God in Christ forgave you” (Ephesians 4: 32 NKJV). We receive forgiveness from God because Jesus Christ bore the punishment for sin in our place. We go free because Jesus paid the cost. This goes to the heart of what forgiveness is. It involves the canceling of a debt owed. The debt does...

Jesus Served His Disciples

Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end. It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had...

Christian Unity is God-Initiated

God is the origin of Christian unity, not man. This must be the case because the terms of entrance into union with one another is the regeneration of the soul through union with Christ, and only God can bring about this supernatural work. Jesus says, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last...

Hope & Unity

Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. – Revelation 21:3 – The glorious outcome of the gospel of Jesus Christ is God dwelling with His people in perfect fellowship for the ages to come. This is a distinctively Christian hope. The sin...

In Deed and Truth

Whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. – 1 John 3:17–18 – Christians confess with their mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in their hearts God raised...