Equipping Christians to become disciples
Everything that God did during the time of the Old Testament was directed towards the coming of His Son to be the Messiah and to establish a Kingdom. This would make all the other kingdoms in this world seem small and insignificant by comparison. In …
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You will note that so far in this chapter we have looked solely at what God was doing for Israel, His chosen people. However, if you are a Gentile (non Jew) like me, then be reassured. This whole plan that God made foresaw you and …
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We saw above how God promised to form a nation (Israel) through Abraham. God told him that that promise would be fulfilled through his adult son Isaac and through no other son. However, when Isaac was about 33 years of age God told Abraham to go to …
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Another important background fact to show the way that God established the nation of Israel to prepare for the coming of His Messiah is that He set up the Temple system of worship and sacrifices. King David had a son called Solomon who built the …
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About 1000 years BC, which is about 1000 years after Abraham’s days, God took a shepherd boy called David and raised him up to be King of Israel. God also promised that one of King David’s descendants would sit on David’s throne forever as King …
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In about the year 2000 BC, God began the process of forming a unique nation called Israel into which His Son, the Second Person of The Trinity, could be born as a human being. This was not done overnight. God spent many centuries developing the …
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It is clear from the chapters above that there is a major problem. Our sin separates us from God and makes it necessary for Him to judge us and punish us. But that creates a dilemma for God because He doesn’t want to condemn us. He actually …
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Should babies be baptised? The answer is no, because baptism is something that each believer must choose to do when they have repented and believed in Jesus for themselves. Baptism is not something that we can do to, or for, our infant children. They must …
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I feel that I ought to add a brief explanation about children, and what happens when they die. Strictly speaking, the Bible does not directly address this question. Nor does it define what a ‘child’ is exactly, i.e. what age childhood goes up to. Presumably …
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There is a difference between ‘Hell’ and the ‘Lake of Fire’. They are not the same place. In most people’s minds these are blended into one, but that is not biblically accurate. We therefore need to distinguish these places from each other and define them …
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