In order for the church to display the multifarious wisdom of God to the enemy and to the whole universe, Christ Himself became wisdom from God to us as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. We were sinners, lost and even dead in sin, but Christ came and died for us to redeem us and bring us […]
Receive the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit by Means of All Prayer
In exhorting us to take up the whole armor of God in Eph. 6, Paul puts the offensive weapon, the sword of the Spirit, at the very end. First, he encourages us to be girded with the truth (living Christ as the reality), put on the breastplate of righteousness (apply the blood of Christ to […]
The word of the Lord that we hear becomes the vision that we see, and the vision becomes the burden we receive and bear
Reading through the book of Isaiah we will notice that there are these three words that are relatively interchangeable yet with a specific distinct meaning: Isaiah received the word of the Lord; Isaiah received the vision of the Lord; and Isaiah received the burden of the Lord. Recently I enjoyed the fact that the word […]