Real Life Basics – Part 2

Published on Mar 31, 2017 This week Jack Hibbs takes us through more “Real Life Basics.” What about confession? Church? The Bible? Money? My freedoms? As you mature in Christ what will be true of you?   Watch this video on YouTube

No Mind Can Conceive It

In pardoning the sin, and in justifying the sinner, the penalty incurred and the obedience demanded must be met. The law must be honored, justice satisfied, holiness secured, and the righteousness, dignity, and glory of the moral Government of God displayed and magnified in the eyes of the whole universe. Let an ingenuous and thoughtful mind pause and enquire how could God exhibit His infinite abhorrence of sin, and vindicate the holiness of the law; how exact the stern penalty incurred by the one, and meet the unbending requirements of the other- by saving the sinner on the sole basis …

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Ignorance vs. Unbelief

Reflections Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (Heb 3:12) True ignorance is an inability to believe because I have not been given light. I cannot see because I was born blind. For this I am NOT to blame. Unbelief, on the other hand, is not the inability to believe. It is the refusal to believe. Unbelief is the result of having received light, but of loving darkness rather than light – because it satisfies something in my heart. We might say that unbelief happens once …

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“With his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5

Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so that every time the lash came down these pieces of bone inflicted fearful laceration, and tore off the flesh from the bone. The Saviour was, no doubt, bound to the column, and thus beaten. He had been beaten before; but this of the Roman lictors was probably the most severe of his flagellations. My soul, stand here and weep …

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God’s Kingdom Overview

The Announcement of the Kingdom Mark 1:14-15 14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel (KJV). Simeon’s Moment by Ron dicianni Kingdom Overview God had an earthly Kingdom in mind before the creation of the universe (Matthew 25:34;; John 17:24; Ephesians 1:4; Hebrews 4:3; I Peter 1:20; Revelation 13:18). The Kingdom is what God has been trying to set up in a visible manner on the earth since …

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