With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.
They are not forgiven only—not only have their infinite sins been blotted out, but they are made righteous. They are not only made innocent, as if they had done no sin, but righteous, as if they had fulfilled all righteousness. All that Christ did and suffered is counted theirs.
Though earthly leaders may be limited by their many faults & frailties, our great hope is that we have a perfect priest in heaven.
Jesus is not just a teacher. He is not just a moral example. Jesus is the God of glory, come down in humble human flesh, to save you.
As Christians we face constant temptations and difficulties, but in Jesus Christ we have better things than the world can offer.
Jesus is not just one prophet among many. Jesus is The Great Prophet who can reveal God perfectly to us, because he is God and near to God.
Jesus is acting in the place of his people. He’s obeying on our behalf. He’s standing firm in the same kinds of circumstances where the people of God have historically failed.
Jesus may not look like the king we’d expect to see, or seem like the king we would ask for. And yet, Jesus is precisely the king we need.
We conclude our series on Psalm 16 by considering the Christian's hope as it is laid out in verses 10 and 11. We look forward to our resurrection bodies and the pleasures we will enjoy in the beatific vision – when we gaze upon God in glory.
When the Christian Hope of heaven and the enjoyment of God is our hope, we begin to enjoy the blessings of our future inheritance in the present.
Jesus has died for us, not to make our old sins permissible, but to make our new obedience possible.
Jesus Christ needs to remain at the center of our faith, because it’s all too easy for us to come up with a distorted version of Christianity that fixates on something else.
The fact that God declares us to be righteous with the unshakeable righteousness of Christ, all through faith – it is an incredible gift.
Is anything too hard for the LORD?
Even if we abandoned our houses and bodies and brains and our playthings, and we stooped down to take on the form of pond scum – even then, we would not have humbled ourselves as much as Jesus Christ did.
God doesn’t just preserve us by putting a big, plexiglass dome over the sapling of our faith – but he preserves us by growing our faith into a mature tree, that can withstand windstorms and winters.
What is wisdom? And why should we pursue it?
Being a cabin boy on a luxury cruise liner is much better than being the captain of a sinking rowboat.
It’s by faith in his name that this man was made well. And it’s by faith in his name that you will find wholeness and restoration, as well.
Jesus Christ is the firstborn of all creation, not because he is born or created first in time, but because God has designated Christ as Lord and heir.