This is a compilation of teachings explaining what I believe the Scriptures teach is the gospel and the narrative that has been spun over time to distort its message and make it more palatable to those on the broad road to destruction.
When we slander, criticize, gossip, or falsely accuse others based on our own perceptions before the Lord has brought to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclosed the motives of men’s hearts, whose name does Scripture say we clearly bear?
Our Christian faith rests upon the historical fact that Jesus rose from the dead. But have you ever wondered about the seemingly different resurrection accounts found in the gospels? This study will help you to understand some of the factors for why they are different.
Jesus died about the ninth hour or 3 pm on Thursday of Passion Week. He and His disciples had celebrated the Passover the night before, based upon an earlier sighting of the new moon at the beginning of the “moonth”, which is not uncommon with a lunar calendar. But for the religious leaders who had…
By a turn of events that the religious leaders who crucified Jesus had not counted upon, His grave was not assigned with wicked men as they had planned but with a rich man of their own number (Isa 53:9). In this way the stigma as an evildoer with which they had hoped to seal His…
All of the religion of the religious leaders who put Jesus to death was of the flesh and political, and not real and of the heart. They had imagined that they would be able to deal with any repercussions politically as they had always done before. For just an instant though, they realized that all the rest of their religion to which they had only given lip-service was really true and had now come upon them. It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Heb 10:31).
The religious leaders who sought their will against Jesus had now fully obtained it; He was dead. But as C.S. Lewis notes, although everyone ultimately gets what they want, not everyone likes what they get. For even from the moment that Pilate surrendered Jesus to their will they immediately began to sense that perhaps they…
Around 3 pm on Thursday of Passion Week Jesus died upon the cross. The religious leaders of Israel had sought their will against Him and had now obtained it. He came as light into the world but they would not receive it, for they loved darkness rather than the light and wanted to extinguish His…
Jesus’ followers believed He was the Messiah, but couldn’t understand His many warnings that He would be crucified, and never expected Him to be so; cf. Luk 9:44-45. When it happened, they no doubt hoped that God would somehow rescue Him. For in spite of His teaching that God would also raise Him from the…
Although God had ordained centuries before that the Messiah would be with a rich man in His death (Isa 53:9), there was much for the particular rich man whom He had set apart, Joseph of Arimathea, to overcome in order that it might come to pass. Jesus had been assigned a grave with the wicked…