Part 7 God Makes Our Trials
His Achievement Are We IT IS CERTAINLY CORRECT to say that God makes our trials, not merely permits them. For, “No trial has taken you except what is human” (1 Cor. 10:13a). And, “A man [a “human”] cannot get anything if it should not be given him out of heaven” (John 3: 27). “Now,…
Read MorePart 6 Judgment And Indignation
His Achievement Are We MUCH OF OUR THINKING is distorted by pride. Even if we have been graced to come to Christ as our Lord and Saviour, that is no indication at all that we are particularly inclined to repudiate our trust in the flesh as to our daily affairs. Indeed many seem to become…
Read MorePart 5 Human Love And Freedom
His Achievement Are We ALL is to God’s glory (Rom. 11:36). “Now to Him Who is able to do superexcessively above all that we are requesting or apprehending, according to the power that is operating in us, to Him be the glory in the ecclesia and in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 3:20,21). We do not at…
Read MorePart 4 Foreknown And Chosen Of God
His Achievement Are We THE MEMBERS of Christ’s body were “foreknown” by God (cp Rom. 8:29). God’s holy nation, the people of Israel, are also among those “whom He foreknew” (Rom. 11:2). Thus “the purpose of God may be remaining as a choice, not out of acts, but of Him Who is calling” (cf Rom.…
Read MorePart 3 Faith Accords With Grace
His Achievement Are We IN THIS ERA of great withdrawal from the faith, it is nearly always claimed that salvation in Christ is conditional. Those who express interest in meeting God’s supposed requirements are considered “candidates” for salvation. Of course in such an environment words like “free” and “grace” will almost surely be present as…
Read MorePart 2 Believing The Evangel
His Achievement Are We THE MESSAGE of Christ crucified was a snare to the Jews (1 Cor. 1: 23). It by no means met their approval that God’s Anointed should fail to remove the Roman yoke of bondage which lay so heavily upon the people. And that He should suffer and die, stumbled them altogether…
Read MorePart 1 Our Saviour God
His Achievement Are We GOD ALONE is our Saviour. Through Isaiah, He declares, “I, I, Yahweh am El [God]! And there is no Saviour apart from Me” (Isa. 43:11). He is the Subjector and the Saviour: “An El, just, and a Saviour. And none is there except Me” (Isa. 45:21). Our need for God is…
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