This week we have been prayerfully considering the coordination among the four living creatures in Ezek. 1; in a practical way, for us to coordinate with others we need to deny our self, live and act by God’s grace, walk by the Spirit and according to the spirit, and be one with the coordinating Triune […]
Living by Grace by Having our Natural Strength Dealt with by God through the Cross
In seeing how Isaac experienced God and how his experience applies to us we need to realize that Isaac was born of Sarah through grace and not through the efforts of the flesh. After Abraham’s natural strength has been dealt with by God and His self-effort ceased, Isaac was born (see Gen. 17:15-19; 18:10-14; 21:1-7). […]
Living by Grace: God Rejects Man’s Fleshly Effort to Please Him According to the Law
God promised Abraham a seed and Abraham believed God; this was counted to him as righteousness. However, since both Abraham and Sarah were getting older and nothing was happening, Abraham listened to Sarah’s suggestion to have a seed with the help of her maidservant, Hagar. It would have been so easy and simple if, based […]