The Elect–The Key to Understanding Christian Growth

These words I write, though now published and available to all everywhere, are really intended for a certain few.  Those are the few who are able to perceive the things of the Spirit, for not all can.  The Master spoke “to him that has ears to hear, let him hear…”  He was speaking to those…

Born Of God

We are all born of the flesh including Jesus who was the word that was made flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus was born with the Holy Spirit already being present with Him, we on the other hand must through repentance put off the sinful nature and be born of God. The unrighteous acts no longer…

Awakened Hearts and the City of God: A Call to Deeper Truth

Is hunger for more truth driving us? Or have we grown content with merely receiving the salvation He has provided? Only those who hunger for deeper truth—who refuse to remain spiritual children—will press through earthly endurance to enter the heavenly reward God has prepared: citizenship in New Jerusalem, the city built by God for His…

Shining in Wisdom

  “And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.” Daniel 12:3 (ESV)                                 Shining in Wisdom The wisdom given by God…

The Joy of the Whole Earth: Psalm 48 and the New Jerusalem

The Mountain of God and the End Declared from the Beginning Psalm 48 stands as one of Scripture’s luminous windows into the destiny of God’s children. It is a psalm where the earthly Zion becomes translucent, revealing the heavenly Zion behind it—the New Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven. The psalmist sings of a…

Come Out of Babylon

A Stairway to Heaven? “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.…

When God Forgets: Living Without the Memory of Sin

No More Remembrance: Entering the Mind of Christ The mind of Christ does not remember our sins and faults. But Satan does—and he casts them before us in a relentless barrage of scenes and images from our former life. He remembers, and he hurls these memories at our minds until we finally awaken to what…