Spiritual Answers For The Real World
The Bible promises much to Christians. It promises a peace that passes understanding. It promises that God will work all things together for good in our lives. It promises love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self control to those who crucify the fleshly desires of their heart. The Bible promises grace to all [...]
I believe two of the most important words in the Bible are “I Am.” This was God’s own description of Himself as He spoke to Moses from the burning bush. In these two words, God explains the way we are to experience Him and consequently, how we are to live. If we uniquely think of [...]
The things we believe to be true are the engine of our thought life. Our thought life is the ground on which God engages us and He commands that we take every thought captive that is not pleasing to Him. God wants to replace our thought with His thought. He wants to exchange the mind [...]
Self love and self concern drive the thoughts that are not pleasing to God. This is a hard truth for us to accept because it seems right to us to be concerned about our welfare and our security. It seems right to judge others when they have transgressed against us. It seems right to be [...]
The seven deadly sins of self are fueled by self seeking thoughts. If we are serious about allowing God to crucify these self sins our thought life is what must be nailed to the cross of Christ. If we are not approaching our spiritual growth from the perspective of our thought life we are kidding [...]
How does a person go about taking a thought captive and making it obedient to Christ? This was the question I asked myself when I finally understood that God really expected me to do it. I took the matter to the Lord in prayer and asked Him to show me how to do such a [...]
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 [...]
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