Title: God so loved the world
God’s love for the world is the strongest evidence that there is life only on earth. Where there is no life, God’s love would have no significance.
Material things have never warranted God’s affection, and must not ours.
Title: More harm than good
When the factions, the delineation between the rich and the poor, become shamefully marked in the economy of a congregation, the body writhes under the stigma of divisions and strife.
In this atmosphere, no one benefits from the flow of spiritual nourishment that is aimed at promoting growth and unity, which, to the Lord, are like the dew of Hermon falling, falling even on the mountains of
Title: The whole duty of man
Consider not a man happy until you’ve heard his last words.
Don’t conclude a man to be contented after winning a boxing championship, the lottery, or after being administered a Botox shot.
If he can afford not to serve God, he doesn’t know what happiness is. The full meaning of man’s existence is in the wholeness in his life of who God is (to be feared) and what he requires (to be obeyed).
Title: According to his purpose
As the showbread was kept continually before God’s presence in the tabernacle, so our agreement to the image of the Lord Jesus is more important than our quest for our daily sustenance.
We have to be aware that even suffering or persecution is essential in exhibiting the hand of God in uniting all the elements of life till Jesus is formed in us.
Title: Not by works
The perception that salvation can be gained by good works (i.e. observance of the law), is not represented in the Scriptures. Clearly, the problem is sin, and it had to be taken away before man can receive eternal life. The Bible reveals the solution to sin:
1] The Perfect Sacrifice (the life of Jesus)
(Leviticus 5:18; 2 Corinthians 5:21)
2] The death of the Perfect Sacrifice
(the death of Jesus)
(Hebrews 9:22; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4; 1 Peter1:18,19;
1 Peter 2:24)
3] The Perfect Sacrifice must resurrect Himself
(the resurrection of Jesus)
(1 Corinthians 15:14-17; John 2:19)
Title: This is how you should pray
Rather than view prayer as an act of communication with God to ask his favor, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to immerse ourselves in conversation with the Creator in order to know him more and more? In fact, prayer involves us in the character of the Lord Jesus. If our attitude were right in seeking Him, we shall come out of prayer with a touch of holiness, a sense of humility, an awareness of service and responsibility toward the needs of others, a determination to run away from sin, and an unflinching dependence of God.
Title: The nail marks in his hands
How would we like to be remembered? For sure not for the sins we’ve committed, our weaknesses, our failures in life. How about being remembered and identified for the marks and the scars of sacrifice and service? A Christian has to have a record of selfless servanthood so people would be persuaded of the authenticity of our faith, our testimony, our God.