Born.Again.Christian.

The Picture of the Gospel and the Necessity of Jesus The Position: God is a perfect God who can have no part with sin. This notion is explainable through the Old Testament priestly laws. Haggai 2:12-13 gives the following logic: ““If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?”’ Then the priests answered and said, “No.” 13 And Haggai said, “If one who is unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?” So the priests answered and said, “It shall be unclean.” 14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.”  Something clean cannot come into contact with something unclean lest it becomes unclean itself, for the unclean thing will by its nature defile it. Something clean can never cleanse something that is un...

Imagine a sign on a beach saying ‘Do not Swim, Shark-infested Waters!’ but you go swimming anyway. Whilst you are enjoying yourself in the water you notice a shark fin nearby. As the fin moves closer you catch a glimpse of the shark with its teeth on show ready to attack you as you paddle helplessly. All of a sudden, a man observing from the shore runs into the water and swims into the path of the shark. The man is violently attacked instead of you and you are saved. Would you go go back in the water the next day? Of course you wouldn’t. You owe this man your life for saving you in those shark-infested waters. It would be an insult to the man and the sacrifice he made to you if you were to go back and swim in the same spot. So why as Christians do we continue to go back in the water? There may be times when we fall in and have to get ourselves back out, but we should never willfully dive into the water as many Christians are doing. John 15 describes Christ as the vine and...

I Corinthians 13:4-7 4  Love suffers long  and  is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;  5  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;  6  does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;  7  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. To better comprehend God and the things He has done for us, we must be able to comprehend love; for God is love ( 1 John 4:8 ). The world is sinful and not of God, therefore it is no surprise that the world's perspective on love - God's greatest trait- is warped. This warped perspective that is forced upon us by our own desires and our cultures infects our minds so that we do not know the meaning, nor application, of real God-like love. This can cause us many problems, including very damaging relationships that can leave us hurt, angry, rejected, insecure, unfulfilled and empty (the list goes on...

In Part 1 we looked at the materials that made up the Ark and what they represent. (You can read Part 1   here ). In Part 2 we shall look at what the Ark represents, which in my opinion is exciting, encouraging and shows the coherency of the Word of God and its inspiration by the Holy Spirit. What the Ark Represents: Exodus 25:17 " You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits  shall be  its length and a cubit and a half its width.   Exodus 25:21-22  " You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.  22  And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which  are  on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel." The mercy seat is vital to the ark, because without it the ark would not operate as it did and it would not be a p...