Aspects of the Gospel as seen in the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul

The gospel that Paul preached was the gospel of completion: he was entrusted by God with the commission of completing the word of God, and the gospel he received was not from men but given to him by revelation of Jesus Christ. The center of the gospel of Paul is God Himself in His Trinity […]

Having the Spirit of a Slave to Serve and Obey God out of Love as the Lord Jesus did

The Lord Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth not as a King or someone high in the society but as a Slave – He came to serve God and man, and He willingly forsook all His rights so that, out of love for God and man, He would serve God by accomplishing His […]

God prepared a body for Christ to come to do God’s will to be God’s unique sacrifice on the cross

Christ was obedient to God even unto death, and that the death of the cross (Phil. 2:8). Christ did the will of God as prophesied in the Old Testament and as God Himself wanted – He became a man, lived a perfect human life, died an all-inclusive and all-terminating death on the cross, and He resurrected to be the life-giving Spirit. In His death especially Christ terminated the old testament economy of God and established God’s New Testament economy where Christ is everything: He is the sacrifices, He is the offerings, He is the unique way for us to contact and enjoy God!

Christ is the real Slave of God; we are slaves of God because we love Him

Today I enjoyed very much message 68 from the Exodus-Life Study. I would like to share few things that touched me. The first ordinance given by God was concerning slavery. A slave is a person who has no rights and has no self interest but knows only to sacrifice. Jesus is our pattern of being […]