The Work of Christ Part 1 On the Cross When Jesus had spoken these things, He raised His eyes to heaven [in prayer] and said,  “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify You.     Just as You have given Him power and authority over all mankind,  so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given.     Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true   [supreme and sovereign]   God, Jesus   Christ whom You have sent.     I have glorified You  [down here]  on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do. John 17:1-4 The work of Christ on the cross is in a single word, Salvation. Because of the love of God toward the world Christ had to die on the cross. The scripture says “ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son..” (John 3:16) However Before we go any further on the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, let...

The Doctrine of God's Aseity and Self-Suffificenty   “To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relation to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can bring to Him who is complete in himself.” ―  A.W. Tozer,  The Knowledge of the Holy Today we will address two additional attributes of God, His Aseity and His Self-Sufficiency. Because these two are so closely related. I will address them together. Both Aseity and Self-Sufficiency are attributes of God that express is perfection within Himself, and by Himself and even for Himself. The Un-Caused One The notion of Aseity is the highest concept of God that can be imagined by man....

Calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” Luke 7:19 Doubt is not Unbelief Many times when we are down trodden, beaten, worn out, and confused, doubt seeps into our thoughts. Just like any other sin, we don’t want to doubt, yet we find ourselves doubting over and over again. Doubt is part of the law at work in us, waging war against the confidence and trust that we have in God, bringing us into captivity by the law of sin which is at work within us.   Romans 7:23       Yes, we know doubt is a sin, but how do we identify this sin which seems to have full dominion over us?   From a biblical perspective we must be careful in defining doubt, Doubt is not unbelief, unbelief is a lack of faith, the mindset of someone that does not want to trust God. So unbelief is an unwillingness to trust God while doubt is a weakness in trusting God. The two a...

“   You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials   so that the genuineness of your faith more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ . ” 1 Peter. 1:6-7 Have you ever noticed that many so called Christian have the ability to point at your failure toward God, at the very time when you need them to lift you up? This is especially true when you are struggling through something in your walk with God. Rather than exhort you and strengthen you to continue in your walk with God they. Accuse you for failing in your walk with God, because you are struggling. It is as if they believe that because you are going through some problem in life you are in more sin then they are! They sit up on their high horse and look down on you because of your problems. This is a natural reaction of those that truly do not know God. Their lack of knowle...