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Holding Fast the Word of Life
Philippians 2:12-16 teaches us to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling and allow God to work in us. We must do all things without murmuring and disputing, and be children of God without fault, by being blameless and harmless. Now, fundamental to our ability to do all these things is that we “hold fast the word of life” (Phil. 2:16). How can we accomplish this? Ezra 7:10 provides three ways. First, seek the law of the Lord…
Better Days are Coming!
“Should we continue mourning?” seems like a strange question for a Jew to ask, since they had finally returned home after seventy years in captivity. And yet, it is exactly the question found in Zechariah 7:3. Jehovah only commanded one fast (Lev. 23:27) but the Israelites did not observe it. Instead, they observed four fasts of their own making to remember events connected with the destruction of Jerusalem, the Temple, and the carrying away (Zech. 7:4-7). These were not times…
We Submit to Christ Because… (Part 2)
4. He is before all things (Col. 1:17). Since He created all things, it logically follows that Christ preexisted all things. In fact, Christ is eternally existent. In John 8:58 He said, “…before Abraham was, I AM.” There was a point in time when Abraham began to exist. That time has never come for Jesus because He existed before time. There has never been a time when Jesus did not exist, and there will never be a time when He…