The New Life in Christ Jesus
C. I. Scofield · Pastoral sermons · 1915
…thoughtful rereading. New life in Christ Christ in us Holy Spirit Consecration Cleansing Christian joy Spiritual growth
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Clear searchWork Is Not a Curse
Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…escribes that ability as God's gift. This corrects pride without producing false modesty. Christians need not pretend that competence does not matter. We may learn, practise, improve and take satisfaction in a task done well. But we should remember that intelligence, opportunity,…
Read article →The Earth's Great Sabbath
Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
The Earth's Great Sabbath Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ The Christian hope for creation rests neither in human effort nor in escape from the material world. The creation groans for the return of its rightful King, the revelation of the sons of God, a…
Read article →The Hope of the Resurrection
Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…of the Resurrection Not escape from the body, but its redemption Many people imagine the Christian hope as an endless disembodied existence: the soul released from the body, leaving the physical world behind and becoming something more like a ghost than a human being. Christians…
Read article →Judas and Peter: A Tale of Two Sorrows
Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…ring examples in Judas Iscariot and Simon Peter. Both men were disciples of Jesus. Both enjoyed extraordinary privileges. Both failed the Lord during the darkest hours surrounding His crucifixion. Both experienced intense sorrow afterward—and yet their stories moved in very diffe…
Read article →Eternal Love Before Creation
What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…ion to love and freely express it when He creates. That answer should be taken seriously. Christianity does not need to prove the Trinity by defining love in a way which makes every alternative logically impossible. The biblical case is stronger than that. Jesus does not leave us…
Read article →Is the Beatific Vision the Whole Christian Hope?
Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
Is the Beatific Vision the Whole Christian Hope? Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation The beatific vision is the Christian teaching that the redeemed will see God and find their perfect happines…
Read article →Not as the World Giveth
The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…brance and bear witness to Christ. The peace remains Christ's gift, but it is known and enjoyed through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit does not draw attention away from Christ. He makes Christ and His words precious to His people. This means that Christian peace is p…
Read article →No Holy Land? Covenant Discipline, Gentile Blessing, and Israel's Future
A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…annulled promises whose ultimate fulfilment rests upon God's faithfulness. Interrupted enjoyment is not cancellation The Mosaic covenant made Israel's continued enjoyment of the land conditional. Deuteronomy 28 warned that covenant rebellion would bring defeat, dispersion, and e…
Read article →If Any Man Thirst
Jesus and the fountain of living water
…charged with the imagery of water and salvation. Scripture had promised: "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." —Isaiah 12:3 Then, on the last day, Jesus stood. Teachers ordinarily sat. Jesus made Himself conspicuous, and He cried so that the cro…
Read article →The Word Did Not Fall into Flesh
The glory philosophy could not contain
…r an objection. It should enlarge our worship. The Incarnation is not merely a difficulty Christianity can survive; it is glory Christianity alone can proclaim. The Maker entered His creation. The eternal Son made our nature His own. The One whom the heaven of heavens cannot cont…
Read article →What Really Happened at Nicaea?
Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…The Council of Nicaea has become a screen upon which almost every conspiracy about early Christianity is projected. Constantine invented the Trinity. Jesus was voted into deity. Paganism defeated biblical Christianity. The emperor chose the books of the Bible. Reincarnation was…
Read article →Daniel's Seventieth Week and the New Testament Tribulation
Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…e brings the addressed people and city through judgement and repentance into the public enjoyment of what His finished work alone has made possible. This avoids two opposite errors. Futurists must not speak as though Daniel leaves atonement unfinished. Fulfilled readings must not…
Read article →Do All God's Promises Transfer to the Church?
What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…ise is certain in the divine purpose fulfilled through Christ, but it does not make every Christian Noah or give every believer the sign and historical commission given to him. God promised that Sarah would bear Isaac, that David would have an enduring royal house, that Mary woul…
Read article →Does the New Testament Reaffirm Israel's Promises?
Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…promised covenant includes national Israel transformed by an inward work of God. Present Christian participation demonstrates the power and inauguration of the covenant; it does not prove that its named national recipients have been permanently excluded from its complete fulfilm…
Read article →God's Unfailing Faithfulness
Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…ted day and night has spoken it. Christ confirms rather than dissolves the promises Every Christian interpretation must be centred upon Jesus Christ. He is Abraham's Seed, David's Son, the mediator of the new covenant, and the only Saviour of Israel and the nations. No promise re…
Read article →Has God Abandoned Israel? What Do the Covenants Say?
Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…s or places the same obligations upon its recipients. The Mosaic covenant made Israel's enjoyment of blessing in the land conditional upon obedience. The promises to Abraham and David, however, were grounded in God's oath and carried forwards even through national judgement. The…
Read article →Is the Pretribulation Rapture Without Biblical Basis?
A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation In an article published by the Christian Research Institute, Hank Hanegraaff argues that the pretribulation rapture has no biblical basis. He presents it as a system in which God has two unrelated peoples and destinies, C…
Read article →Test the Spirits
Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…many false prophets are gone out into the world.” —1 John 4:1 Ecstasy is not exclusively Christian Certain features appear repeatedly in accounts of spiritual ecstasy: a diminished awareness of the body, the weakening of the distinction between self and world, extraordinary ligh…
Read article →Who Are the Elect of Matthew 24?
A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…aders assume the answer is obvious. The New Testament applies the language of election to Christians, so the elect in Matthew 24 must be the Church. If they are gathered after the Tribulation, the passage appears to place the rapture there as well. The first premise is possible.…
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