Spiritual Answers For The Real World
The greatest roadblock to taking our thought life captive and making it obedient to God is that sinful thoughts are frequently quite delicious and we find pleasure in thinking them. It is hard to judge and condemn something we enjoy. When I am driving my car and someone cuts me off and races away cursing [...]
If we are to take thoughts captive that are not pleasing to God we have to be capable of identifying and judging them. This judgment is enabled and made possible by conviction of the Holy Spirit coupled with the truth of scripture. Consider this:
God’s purpose for all Christians is that we be conformed to the image of Christ. We are to do as Jesus does. We are to think as Jesus thinks. The Apostle Paul called this process, putting on the mind of Christ. Clearly, this places our thought life front and center in the process of being [...]
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought [...]
The final step in the crucifixion of Christ was piercing His side with a spear. This use of a spear was a bit unusual in Roman crucifixion. Typically, when the executioners grew tired of waiting on the deaths of those being crucified they would break the legs of the victim. This removed any ability to [...]
During crucifixion, as gravity pulled the body down, the natural response of the victim would be to push the body up and produce respiratory relief. To prevent that, the feet were also nailed to the cross and the legs of the victim were broken at some point. Pushing up to relieve the respiratory distress became [...]
The third step in the crucifixion of Christ was the fixing of Jesus’ hands to cross with spikes. Everything up to this point had been done to prepare Jesus for death. The fixing of the hands began the actual execution. The hands were rendered powerless and left the body suspended in a way that [...]
The Crown of Thorns Following his scourging, Jesus was presented to the crowd. Upon his head a crown of thorns had been fixed. The crown of thorns was symbolic of the offense charged to Him by the Jews of claiming to be the “King of the Jews”. It was clear to the Jewish leaders who [...]
The Beating The crucifixion of Jesus began with a beating – a scourging of unbelievable intensity. The purpose of scourging was to weaken the body in preparation for actual crucifixion. The intensity of the beating was dependent on the particular mood and disposition of those charged with performing it. In the beating and scourging of [...]
Jesus’ crucifixion was an event, but it was also a process. Crucifixion was a long ordeal and Jesus moved through five stages or steps in the process of being executed. I believe spiritual truth can be seen in each step of His crucifixion and we can use that truth to better understand how to crucify [...]
The crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus are the foundation of the Christian faith and the theology of God living in us. If there was no resurrection, then Jesus was simply a man who lived and died just like every other man. If Jesus does not live today, there is no resurrected life to indwell [...]
The Bible only offers one prescription for the problems presented in the seven deadly sins of self and that prescription is the death of self! The Apostle Paul presents the issue clearly in his letter to the Galatians:
Self enhancement involves the things we do to telegraph our importance. Self enhancement comes in many forms and most of them are obvious and irritating to the people we are trying to impress. A polished self enhancer dominates conversations with tales of their travels, the important people they know, their accomplishments and overall wonderfulness. They [...]
We humans are performance based creatures in the way we think and walk in our flesh. We evaluate how well things are going based on whether we think we are doing good and performing well. Most businesses have annual performance reviews for their employees to measure how well everyone is doing and if they are [...]
Far too many churches are producing external Christians trying to live a Christian life based on what they think Christians are supposed to do. They are not producing internal Christians filled with the Holy Spirit submitting to the crucifixion of self. My personal opinion is that external Christians are external because their understanding of sin [...]
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