Christ is the Bridegroom coming to gain His bride, and we are being prepared as the bride of Christ going to meet the Bridegroom; on the one hand, He is the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, and on the other hand, He is the Bridegroom who came to gain […]
Christ is our Redeeming Husband and we’re made the Continuation of Christ’s Incarnation
Ruth gaining Boaz to be her redeeming husband shows us that we believers in Christ have gained Christ as our redeeming Husband; Ruth becoming part of the genealogy of Christ shows that we today should be part of the continuation of the incarnation of Christ. Amen! First, Ruth chose for her goal – she chose […]
Crystallization Study of Psalms(1) – God’s system of grace and God’s system of government(message 2)
The second message from the Crystallization Study of the Psalms(1) is entitled the Revelation concerning Christ in God’s economy – and I was very much impressed with the two systems of God. There are two systems of God in the universe – two ways God relates to man and to His creation – which are […]
The Crucial Elements of the Bible – Christ, the Spirit, Life, and the Church!
What are the most crucial elements of the Bible? The Bible must have some crucial elements – some important elements without which the Bible can be “an empty shell”. Just like a nut has a shell, the meat, and the kernel, so the Bible has a kernel which needs to be discovered and known in […]
Christ died a vicarious death on the cross, He died on our behalf; He is our Redeemer!
Praise the Lord for Christ’s all-inclusive death on the cross! Usually when someone dies, nobody talks about it and no one wants to remember it, since death is such a terrible thing… But with the Lord Jesus, His death was an all-inclusive accomplishment, and we believers treasure it and love it! To us His death […]
Christ as a man lived a lowly and sorrowful human life – this fully qualified Him to be our Redeemer!
Most Christians have heard of or read a specific chapter in the Bible which gives a view of Christ found nowhere else – Isaiah chapter 53. Here we see that Christ as a perfect man lived a lowly and sorrowful human life. He didn’t “look nice” nor was he famous and charismatic – rather, He […]