The four crucial elements of the Bible are Christ, the Spirit, life and the church. These are the extracts or the cream found in God’s word. Christ is the first crucial element from which the other three proceed. Christ is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17); the Spirit is life (John 6:63); and life produces the
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The Kernel of the Bible The Bible is like a nut. There is both the shell without and the kernel within. It is this inner kernel that is the nourishing component that gives spirit and life to the reader. What is this kernel of the Bible? It is composed of four crucial elements—Christ, the Spirit,
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“He will drop like rain upon mown grass, / Like abundant showers dripping on the earth.” (Psalm 72:6) “And He will have dominion from sea to sea / And from the River unto the ends of the earth.” (72:8) In this post we’ll consider the delightful matter of how the reigning Christ will recover the earth
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There are four great pillars in the Lord’s recovery today. These four pillars are the truth, life, the church, and the gospel. In my last post, I focused on the progression of these four pillars. First we have the revelation of the divine truth. Then, according to this revelation, we have the genuine experience of
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The four pillars—truth, life, the church, and the gospel Truth, life, the church and the gospel are the four great pillars in the Lord’s recovery today. (Recovery, in this context, refers to a return to God’s original intention from the beginning, by the shining of His light.) Since this blog stresses “holding to truth” you
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Christ—”The Rock of Ages” “Rock of Ages,” the famous hymn by Augustus Toplady (1740-1778), speaks of a “double cure.” This “double cure” saves us for our two-fold problem with God. Have you received such a “double cure”? Before you answer the question, let’s consider this hymn and what it’s referring to. The first stanza of
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“So faith comes out of hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” (Rom. 10:17) A thoughtful reader of my previous post—“How to Have Faith? 12 Action Verbs to Fill You with Faith”—recently asked, “Do these points apply to non-Christians or more so to Christians looking to strengthen their faith? An unbelieving student I met
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I believe that many a new believer in Christ has hesitated to be baptized because of a lack of understanding of what baptism really means and what purpose it serves. You might say, “Since I have already believed in Christ, isn’t that good enough? Why do I also need to be baptized? What useful purpose
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This week I enjoyed in a fresh way how Christ’s shepherding in Psalm 23 completes God’s economy. Our Lord’s shepherding is not merely for our personal comforting in times of trial or sorrow. Rather, it is the vital link between Christ’s first and second coming. Shepherding will bring the Lord back. “God’s economy, ” in brief,
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In my last post I pointed out that holding to truth in love can be likened to photography. I also introduced twelve action verbs that describe how we can apply our “camera of faith” to the “scenery of grace.” This scenery is the divine truth, the reality of “the faith.” It is by practicing these
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