Enlightener
Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.—Hebrews 1:3 As a personal Being, God has revealed Himself in His Son. […]
Divine Instructor
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.—Psalm 32:8 The last like the first sentence of the Lord’s Prayer, points to our Father as above all power and authority and every name that is named. The Saviour beheld the years that stretched out […]
Living Vine
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”—John 15:4 John’s affection for his Master was not a mere human friendship, but the love of a repentant sinner, who felt that he had been redeemed […]
Galilean Teacher
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.”—John 3:14 After the death of Stephen there arose against the believers in Jerusalem a persecution so relentless that “they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.” Saul “made havoc of the […]
Great Chief Worker
But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”—John 5:17 Men and women make the work of advancing the truth tenfold harder than it really is by seeking to take God’s work out of His hands into their own finite hands. They think that they must be constantly […]
Center of the Sacrificial System
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.—2 Corinthians 5:19 While the Saviour’s death brought to an end the law of types and shadows, it did not in the least detract from the obligation of the moral law. On […]
