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Christ, Our Fellowship, Part 16
We were made to fellowship with God (1 Corinthians 1:9). That is our primary purpose. God wants us to come to Him, to talk with Him, to rely on Him, to understand that apart from Him, we can do nothing. He knows our frame. Sometimes, the best way to ensure that we come to Him on a daily basis is to give us less than quality health so that we are forced to trust and rely on Him. Too many do not do this. Too many simply complain about their “lot” in life, but continue to eat the foods and practice the things that contributed to their ill-health in the first place. In at least some cases, poor health is totally caused by what we ingest and how we live. God wants better for us and that can often be a process.
Continue Reading January 3, 2016 at 12:09 PM Leave a comment
Jesus as Creator
The problem with trying to understand Jesus as God has to do with the fact that He was also a Man. There was a duality within Jesus that no other man has ever or will ever experience.
Jesus was fully God and after incarnating as Man, was also fully Man. He is the GodMan. Because of that, confusion arises as to the reality of Jesus.
We see passages of Scripture like that of John 5:30 which states, “I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.” This makes us think, “See? Jesus really doesn’t have the power in and of Himself. He can’t be God.” This is a misnomer because at times like these, Jesus was simply responding to life’s circumstances as a Man would do.
Continue Reading January 19, 2012 at 8:03 AM Leave a comment
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