The Christian paradigm includes humility, ministry, and doxology. This was the very attitude in Christ (Phil. 2:6–7) and the very attitude Christians seek to obtain.
This psalm of praise not only expresses David’s own personal worship of the LORD but the global propagation of that worship, which begins personal, then generational then finally universal.
This book was written for our sakes to urge us to heed its warnings and be ready for the Lord. Jesus adds urgency with the echoes of “I am coming quickly.”
Christians conduct themselves to make Christ known and for Christianity to be reputable. Their conduct requires humility. Humility leads to unity and unity affirms the transformative power of Christ.
The centerpiece of heaven will be the fullness of God’s radiant glory. His purpose to dwell among His people, expressed throughout Scripture, will reach its crescendo in the New Jerusalem.
The insurrection at the end of the Millennium shows what a tremendous gift saving faith is. Moreover, the salvation God has wrought in Christ leaves us speechless as it shows us the overwhelming justice of God we have escaped through the Lamb’s substitutionary death on the cross.
The Millennium is the conclusion to the history of this age that marks the culmination of this age and the foretaste of eternity in the New Jerusalem to come.
The hope of being with Christ compels Christians to yield our whole selves to Him. This yielding takes on a practical form in our lives, in our character, and in our complete following of Jesus.
John’s Gospel is a testimony. We believe this testimony of God, even as the saints of old believed by the word of God preached, trusting in Christ without ever having seen Him.
