Transformed By Grace

This lesson shows how the “Son of Man” is the glorified Lord Jesus Christ, as John sees Him on Patmos in Revelation 1—as the eternal High Priest and coming Judge. His appearance reveals divine majesty and authority: head and hair white like wool, eyes like flaming fire, feet like burning brass, voice like many waters, seven stars in His right hand, a sharp two-edged sword (representing the Word of...

The series on the Apostle Paul’s storm tossed voyage in Acts 27 concludes with a portrayal of the Church living in the turbulent “present evil age.” As the ship’s crew lost hope, Paul stood up with God given assurance, and his faith, gratitude, and leadership brought courage to all on board, demonstrating how Paul’s teachings nourish, steady, and strengthen believers in this dispensation of grace....

Our study of the Apostle Paul’s windswept journey continues here. The narrative illustrates how demonic forces oppose the progress of God’s truth today, especially when believers reject Paul’s counsel in favor of human wisdom or the majority opinion. The crew’s decision to ignore Paul led them into danger, symbolizing how the Church has departed from Paul’s teachings, embraced unsound doctrine, an...

The first of a three-part series of the Apostle Paul’s stormy voyage to Rome in Acts 27 presents the journey as a picture of the dispensation of grace, showing that the Church is sailing through a stormy age marked by satanic opposition, worldly turmoil, and resistance to the gospel. The “contrary winds” symbolize the powers of darkness pushing back against Paul’s message and hindering the spread...

This study shows that Christ’s death bridges the infinite chasm between sinful humanity and a holy God, accomplishing reconciliation through His unconditional love. The Apostle Paul describes us as ungodly, and even enemies, yet God moved toward us in love and sent His Son to die in our place. Through Christ’s blood we are justified, saved from God’s coming wrath, and restored to peace and fellows...

The Apostle Paul tells us that Christ made known the mystery to him, and then he made this good news known to others. Understanding the mystery, or previously hidden truth, is the key to understanding your Bible. We learn in this lesson that the mystery includes the gospel of grace, the formation of the Body of Christ, and Christ’s heavenly ministry as Head of the Church. Understanding this revela...

Faith, the Apostle Paul explains, is simply taking God at His Word—trusting that what He promises, He performs. We are reminded in this teaching that Abraham was justified not by works but by believing God, and in the same way our faith in Christ’s death and resurrection is counted for righteousness apart from any human effort. True faith rests in God’s power to give life to the dead and to save t...

Redemption, as this episode shows, means that Christ entered the slave market of sin, paid the full ransom with His own blood, and set us free forever. Scripture demonstrates through several terms that He not only bought us but removed us from bondage entirely, carrying us far away from our former slavery. Just as Israel was redeemed from Egypt by blood and God’s power, believers today are redeeme...

Glorification is the goal of God’s salvation and is about our eternal hope in Christ. We learn in this message that glorification is the final stage of salvation, when believers are freed from the very presence of sin and receive resurrected, glorified bodies that perfectly reflect Christ’s glory. The Apostle Paul teaches that present sufferings are insignificant compared to the glory to be reveal...

This study explores the Apostle Paul’s teaching in Romans 6, where he talks about change for the believer, and the different path we can take for our lives so that we no longer walk in sin. Sanctification is the lifelong process in which believers, already united with Christ in His death and resurrection, learn to live out the freedom from sin that God has already given them. Paul instructs that t...

Justification, we learn in this lesson, means that God declares guilty sinners righteous the moment they believe in Christ, not because of anything they earn, but entirely by His grace. The Apostle Paul explains that all people have sinned and fall short of God’s glory, yet God has revealed a new way of righteousness, made possible through Christ’s sacrificial death. When we trust that Jesus died...

Jesus casts out a mute demon in Luke 11:14-26, enabling the man to speak and causing the crowd to marvel, yet some accuse Him of working by Beelzebub while others demand a heavenly sign. Jesus refutes the charge by showing that a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand and that He operates by the finger of God—proving the kingdom of God has come and that He is the stronger One who overpowers S...

In Luke 13:10-17, while teaching in a synagogue, Jesus sees a woman bent double for eighteen years by a “spirit of infirmity” that had bound her under Satan’s power. He ultimately restores her to an upright posture so that she glorifies God. The synagogue ruler indignantly objects to this healing on the Sabbath, but Jesus exposes his hypocrisy. The critics are put to shame while the people rejoice...

After the Transfiguration, in Mark 9:14-29, Jesus finds a desperate father whose only son is possessed by a demon that violently seizes him, and throws him into fires and bodies of water to destroy him, and which the disciples could not cast out due to their weak faith. When Jesus commands the unclean spirit to leave permanently, the demon departs, leaving the boy appearing dead until Jesus lifts...

In Mark 1:21-28, Jesus teaches with divine authority, when a man possessed by an unclean spirit cries out in fear, recognizing Him as the Holy One of God and asking if He has come to destroy the demons. Jesus rebukes the demon, and commands it to be silent and leave the man. The crowd is amazed at Jesus’ power over evil spirits. This account illustrates Christ’s supreme authority over the demonic...

This episode recounts the story from Mark 5 in which Jesus, while hurrying through a crowd to heal Jairus’ dying daughter, is interrupted by an anonymous woman who had suffered a debilitating hemorrhage that left her ceremonially unclean, socially ostracized, and financially bankrupt after years of failed medical treatments. In desperate faith, she secretly touches the hem of His garment from behi...

In this episode, we examine Luke 5:1-11, which illustrates moving “from shallow to deep water faith.” After teaching the crowd from Peter’s boat on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus instructed the unsuccessful and exhausted fishermen to launch out into the deep and let down their nets in broad daylight—the very opposite of their professional expertise—resulting in a record-breaking haul. Jesus then called...

This teaching from Matthew 14:22-33 chronicles how, after feeding the 5,000, Jesus sends His disciples across the Sea of Galilee by boat while He prays alone on a mountain. When a fierce contrary wind arises in the early morning hours, Jesus comes to them walking on the water. Peter boldly asks to come to Jesus, steps out of the boat in faith, and actually walks on the water toward Him—until he se...

This is a question that many of us believers ponder, and think about more and more as we grow older. The Bible does not go into great detail, but it does give us some peeks into heaven, as in Revelation, chapter 4. In this episode, we learn that there are actually two eternal destinations for believers: the new Jerusalem, which will eventually come down from heaven to the earth for believing Israe...

Expounding on Colossians 1:12-19, this episode urges believers to give thanks to the Father for: qualifying us (by grace, not works) for our heavenly inheritance, delivering us from Satan's power of darkness, and permanently translating us into the kingdom of His beloved Son through redemption and full forgiveness of sins by Christ's blood. It then highlights Christ's supreme preeminence as the im...

What reality do people find beyond the grave? Do they really “rest in peace?” The Bible teaches that to be “saved” means being rescued from the lake of fire, a real place of conscious torment and separation from God, where the lost remain forever under God’s righteous wrath for their sins. Yet God, in love, provided a Substitute, so that anyone who believes that Christ died for their sins and rose...

This episode illustrates the refutation to the claim that “all religions lead to God,” insisting instead that only the gospel declared in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 is the one true path to heaven, forgiveness of sins, and eternal life. It explains this passage verse-by-verse: believers hear the gospel, receive it by faith alone, and thereby gain an unchangeable standing in Christ (v. 1); “saved” in vers...

There is no mystery and no question about the destination for the believer in Christ. This episode explains that we are eternally secure in Him the moment we trust the gospel that Christ died for our sins and rose again. Based on the authority of God’s Word, we know we are headed for heaven—God justifies us forever, seals us with the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption, holds us securely in Hi...

In this lesson on Colossians 2:8-10, believers are warned to beware of being carried away captive by empty philosophies, human traditions, and the basic “rudiments of the world” that diminish or lead away from Christ. In contrast, the Apostle Paul declares that in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, making believers complete in Him—providing full salvation, righteousness, and spi...

This message illustrates that only Christ can lift us out of the pit of sin, death, and condemnation— religion, good works, and self-effort cannot save. Using his own life as an example in Philippians 3, the Apostle Paul lists his impressive religious credentials but declares he counted them all as loss and “dung” for the excellency of knowing Christ, and having no confidence in the flesh. True be...