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“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.” —Psalm 139:13 I believe the most important issue facing America today is the value and the worth of every human life… the value of the immortal, eternal soul created by God! A biblical worldview, looking at this question through the lens of God’s Word will really settle the abortion question and the issue of when life begins. Now the debate rages, of course. Perhaps you’ve had discussions with your friends regarding when life begins. You’ve listened to politicians talk about it and we’ve watched the media as they engage in this debate. So some say life begins at birth when the baby is out of the womb. A well-known preacher of another generation believed that just as Adam was created by God and God breathed into him life, that life comes with breath, and therefore, the false deduction was made with breath, out of the womb comes life. Others say life begins when the fetus has grown and developed enough to live outside the womb. This is called viability. Ultimately what matters most is God’s opinion. And the Bible teaches us that life in the womb is formed and framed by God and is therefore sacred to Him! Both born and unborn!   LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION! THIS IS EXPLICIT IN THE BIBLE.

Friday, November 9, 2018

Who Jesus Is

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Matthew 16:13–16

When Dr. Alexander McKenzie was teaching at Andover Seminary, in the late 1800s, he wanted a way to help his students grasp the nature of Christ. He gave them this assignment: “I [told] them to get a sheet of paper and divide it into three columns. In the first column, they were to write every passage where Christ is spoken of as God-man; in the second column, all the passages where Christ is spoken of as God alone; and in the third, all the passages where He is spoken of as man alone. The first column and the second column filled right up, but as to the third column, I never found a passage speaking of Christ as man alone.”

Misunderstandings about Jesus abound in our day. Most people do not see Him as both completely God and completely man, and the only Saviour and hope of Heaven. Some Christians have been influenced by the opinions and doctrines of the world and fail to understand the true nature and character of the Lord. Jesus is perfect, high and holy and the Messiah whose coming was promised for centuries before He appeared. God’s plan for us is that we become like His Son. “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren”(Romans 8:29). If our vision of who Jesus is becomes clouded, we will not be shaped into His image.

Today’s Growth Principle: 

Recognizing Jesus for who He really is must precede our growing to become more like Him.