Christology
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Submitted by F W Grant on Wed, 11/02/2005 - 06:00
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It is the first epistle to the Corinthians alone, and in the same
passage, which gives us the two important terms, so closely related as
they are to one another, of "The Second Man" and “Last Adam” (15:45, 47). The one looks backward; the other forward.
The “Second Man” implies that before Him we have only the first man,
repeated and multiplied, in his descendents; now a new type has
appeared; and that this, which is the full and final thought of man,
may become the true heir of t...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Wed, 11/02/2005 - 06:00
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The integrity of our Saviour’s
manhood is marked by one title which the Lord claimed for Himself with
special emphasis, and which prophecy also had in a most distinct way
applied to Him,—“the Son of man.” Here “man,” in the Hebrew texts, is “Adam,” man generically; and it really settles conclusively the question (if any entertain it) as to His being personally Man.
A son of man is just a man in the broadest sense, one by descent and
inheritance a man. In Ps. 49 a “the low...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Wed, 11/02/2005 - 06:00
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For one who is in possession of the New Testament, it scarcely needs to quote
a text to prove the deity of Christ.
It is only will that can fail to find it there; though it would be
another thing entirely to say that there are no difficulties in the comprehension
of it. Of course there are difficulties. That a babe born in Bethlehem,
growing in wisdom and stature in the carpenter’s house in Nazareth,
should be at the same time the God of all men, this is a difficulty which n...
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Submitted by F W Grant on Wed, 11/02/2005 - 06:00
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That Christ is Son of God no one who believes in Scripture can for a moment
deny or question. But the moment we come to consider how and in what sense
He is the Son of God, we begin not merely to encounter the strife of tongues
with which unbelief has ever assailed His glorious Person, but to experience
also the mystery of it, which faith itself most thoroughly confesses. Nor only
this, but we find from Scripture this title of His as Son of God to be twofold—His
title in Dei...
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…and they sewed fig leaves together, and
made themselves aprons. Gen. 3:7
There is a great debate raging today over what
is called “Lordship Salvation.” The debate centers around the question, “Does a
person need to accept Jesus Christ as Lord when he accepts Him as Savior, or is
that a subsequent decision dealing more with sanctification than salvation?”
We might begin by asking the question, “Is it
pos...
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He was Homeless. It is hard for most of us to
imagine being homeless. The idea of being homeless never crosses our minds,
until we see that person living in a cardboard box, or that family living in a
station wagon, or those people under an overpass warming themselves by a fire.
When we see them we might have pity or we might think of them “losers.” Rather
than a “loser,” I believe Jesus would rather we see them as “lost....
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What a strange question! but it refers to the Son of God, our Lord
Jesus Christ, and is a prophecy concerning His birth and death. The prophet Zechariah
foretold His coming with this name and title, chapter 10 and verse 4 of his prophecy:
"Out of him (the tribe of Judah) shall come forth . . . The Nail!"
Numerous titles are given the Son of God in the Bible but this may be one of the strangest
yet filled with great significance.
In Old Testament times a nail was used as a tent pin, ...
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“Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that
the prophets have spoken: … And beginning at Moses and all the
prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things
concerning himself.” Luke 24:25–27
Apparently the disciples were selective in their focus on the
Scriptures. They, like most in Israel, had focused only on those
Scriptures which spoke of the Messiah coming in great glory and power
to establish His kingdom. Thus wh...
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1 Peter
The fourth general division of the New Testament refers to the pilgrim
character of the people of God, rather than to their heavenly position.
But here too we find abundant testimony to the glories of Him of whom
we speak. Peter tells us of the unblemished Lamb, “foreordained before
the foundation of the world” (1 Pet. 1:19,20), and of the One who, in
the days before the flood, before His incarnation, went by His Spirit
and preached to the disobedient, through Noah, ...
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We come now to the second general division of the New Testament, the
book of Acts. The scene is changed; our Lord has ascended into heaven,
and according to His promise has sent down the Holy Spirit. The main
testimony as to Himself, therefore, is that He has risen, has given the
Holy Spirit, and is Lord of all. In his discourse at Pentecost,
Peter ascribes the divine and manifest power of the Spirit to the
ascended Lord. “He hath shed forth this which ye now see and hearR...
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