John 17:22-23, “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you […]
John 17:3, “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” John 17:3 is one of the most paradigmatic verses for me in all of scripture….it overflows with implications for all of life and informs pretty much everything I do and create…So with
John 16:14-15, “He will glorify me, for He will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine…” I was reading through John 16 this morning and was once again struck by the unique role that Jesus tells us the Spirit fulfills. The Spirit glorifies the Son,
Psalm 36:8, “They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.” I think the ultimate fulfillment of this Psalm is hinted at in Jesus’ prayer to the Father in John 17. There we glimpse the inconceivable truth that we will–in some sense–be woven into
John 9:25, “…I was blind, now I see.” 2 Corinthians 4:6, “God…has shone into our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” To see the beauty of God, shining from the face that was marred beyond human semblance for our sin–that is
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John 8:28, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He…” The window into the heart of ‘I AM’ opens widest at the cross. When Jesus says that He’s the Light of the World in John 8:12, I think we are to understand that most
2 Corinthians 4:6, “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” The Spirit-wrought work of regeneration causes us to see the crucified Christ and say, “my Lord and my
Isaiah 26:3-4, “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.” The thing that stands out in this text is that a PERSON–namely, Yahweh God Himself, is the anchor for our peace….and we
Malachi 3:6, “For I YHWH do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.” Because the One True God is eternally who He showed Himself to be in Christ at the cross, His prone-to-wander people have been and will forever be preserved.
Exodus 34:6, “YHWH, YHWH, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness…” Proverbs 16:6, “By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for…” Final atonement comes when the Holy God revealed on Mt. Sinai shows the fullness of His steadfast love and faithfulness toward His sinful people
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Exodus 25:22, “There I will meet with you…above the mercy seat (Hilasterion).” Romans 3:25, “God put [Christ] forward as a propitiation (Hilasterion) by His blood, to be received by faith.”The cherubim around the earthly “throne” of YHWH “watched” in awe as blood was sprinkled on the Hilasterion–the place where YHWH would appear to the His
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Nehemiah 8:2-6 When Ezra ascends the wooden (xulon) platform in the sight of all Israel and proclaims the Law of YHWH, he is foreshadowing the day when God the Son will ascend the cross (xulon, “tree”) in the sight of all Israel and become the enfleshed and climactic declaration of YHWH’s Law (which is
Matthew 1:21, “…and you shall call His name Jesus [which means, “YHWH Saves”], for He will save His people from their sins.”
Acts 26:17-18, “I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.” The crucified and risen Christ is proclaimed…the Spirit
John 16:14, “He will glorify me for He will take what is mine and declare it to you.” The Holy Spirit glorifies the crucified and risen Lord Jesus Christ to the glory of God the Father. The Spirit of God will make NOTHING ELSE the center. Let us filter the teaching we receive through
Psalm 114:7-8, “Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turns the rock into a pool of water…” Matthew 27:51, “And the earth shook, and the rocks were split”
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Matthew 24:9, “…you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.” Christian, the world does not primarily hate our morals, it does not primarily hate our sub-culture, it does not primarily hate our worldview – the world primarily hates our GOD….and that is why it hates–and will increasingly hate–those who love and
Matthew 17:7, “Rise, and have no fear.” Whenever spoken by Holy God to Sinful Man, these are blood-bought words.
Philippians 2:5, “Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus…” By grace, Christian interactions should be informed by and manifestations of the identity of God as revealed in Christ’s incarnation, crucifixion and exaltation.
Isaiah 29:13-14, “Because this people draw near with their mouth…while their hearts are far from me…therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder up wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish.” YHWH’s response to the distant hearts of His people is to do “wonder upon wonder”
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