The Divine Use of Secular Means
Even in our fallen messed-up world we must recognize and respond to God’s sovereign use of governments to accomplish his will for his people.
Even in our fallen messed-up world we must recognize and respond to God’s sovereign use of governments to accomplish his will for his people.
Though God’s plans for our lives will involve some fearful circumstances, we must be unafraid and resolute about fulfilling God’s calling on our lives as we hold on to his promises.
The Christian hope is to be firmly fixed on our participation in Christ’s coming kingdom, which provides us the strength and courage to face all the current challenges in the here and now.
God is at work on us, using a variety of means to bring us into increasing holiness in the Christian life.
God has planned and is always at work in and for his children to move them across the finish line of the Christian life and into the promised kingdom.
We must consider how God has been at work from long before we can imagine, leading us into the path he would have us obediently walk.
Given the various and conflicting views of water baptism, we must seek to digest and rightly understand all the related biblical data on this important ordinance.
God graciously works through a variety of means to bring us to repentance, both at the outset of the Christian life and throughout it, so that we might walk in fellowship with him.
We need to understand God’s amazing grace and sincerely respond to it with our whole hearts in light of the sinfulness of our sin.