Transformed By Grace

Simply out of gratitude, we can never forget Christ’s great sacrifice on the Cross in saving us from our sins, so that we might live eternally. In the Old Testament, there are many different prophecies and types of the Cross, like the account in Exodus 15 presented in this episode. After Israel’s miraculous deliverance through the Red Sea, they enter a barren wilderness, endure three days without...

This episode explores Judges 16, which recounts Samson’s tragic downfall and final victory: after falling in love with the ill-intentioned and persistent Delilah, in a moment of weakness, he revealed the secret of his strength—his uncut hair as a Nazarite vow—allowing the Philistines to shave, capture, and blind him. At a great feast honoring their god, Dagon, the Philistines brought the blinded S...

The Passover, we see in this study of Exodus 12, is presented as a powerful prophecy of the Cross, showing how God delivers His people through the death of a spotless substitute. Israel was spared from judgment only when the lamb’s blood was applied to their doorposts, picturing how Christ—the perfect, sinless Lamb of God—must be personally trusted for salvation. Every detail of the Passover lamb...

In this episode, Israel’s thirst and Moses striking the rock foreshadows Christ being smitten at the Cross to provide the “living water” of eternal life. The pre-incarnate Lord stood upon the rock that Moses struck, showing that the blow of judgment fell not on the guilty people but on a Substitute—just as Christ bore God’s wrath for sinners. The Apostle Paul later explains “that Rock was Christ,”...

Isaiah 53, we learn in this message, gives a stunning prophetic portrait of Christ’s substitutionary death, written 700 years before the Cross and fulfilled perfectly in Jesus. Israel would one day recognize that the One they despised and rejected was actually pierced and crushed for their sins. The chapter describes His silent suffering, His violent death, His burial with the rich, and His resurr...

In this teaching, we see that Psalm 22 is a prophetic portrait of Christ’s crucifixion, written 1,000 years before it happened and long before crucifixion even existed. The psalm reveals the many circumstances surrounding the Cross work of Christ—His cry of abandonment, the mockery He endured, His physical agony, and the piercing of His hands and feet—all fulfilled exactly in the Gospels. It shows...

The story of the bronze serpent in Numbers 21 is used to show how Christ’s Cross provides the only remedy for humanity’s deadly “snakebite” of sin. In this study, we learn that Israel’s murmuring brought God’s judgment through fiery serpents, yet God offered instant healing through a bronze serpent lifted on a pole—anyone who looked at it lived. Jesus explained to Nicodemus that this foreshadowed...

In this lesson, the tabernacle is presented as a rich prophetic picture of Christ. Its single entrance symbolizes Christ as the only way to God, while the brazen altar at the gate shows that no one can approach God without a blood sacrifice, foreshadowing the Cross. The laver, the Holy Place furniture, and the Ark of the Covenant each point to Christ, and even the layout of the tabernacle forms th...

Abraham’s offering of Isaac is presented here as a profound foreshadowing of the Cross, revealing the depth of the Father’s love in giving His only Son. This episode highlights Abraham’s unwavering faith, Isaac’s willing submission, and the symbolism of the wood, fire, and location—each pointing to Christ’s sacrificial death at Calvary. God ultimately provides a substitute, the ram, portraying Chr...

The outcome of the fight between David and Goliath was certainly unexpected to all who were present that day. In this episode, we continue our walk through this well-known account and then see how it all points forward to the Seed of David, the Lord Jesus Christ. In the face of discouragement, David refuses to be deterred and declares that the Lord will deliver him from this uncircumcised Philisti...

The most famous battle in the Old Testament was not fought between two armies, but instead between two men. In this teaching on 1 Samuel 17, the Philistines set up a nearby camp opposite Israel, where their champion giant Goliath emerges twice daily to taunt the Israelite army with a one-on-one representative challenge, as he defies “the armies of the living God.” David, a young shepherd who is se...

Here in Revelation 22, we understand more about Israel’s eternal home and her place of glory on the new earth in the new Jerusalem, from where the Lord Jesus Christ will rule and reign. This lesson looks into the vision of the new Jerusalem as a living city where “a pure river of [the] water of life” flows from “the throne of God and of the Lamb” and “the tree of life” yields monthly fruit, symbol...

In this episode, we learn that in the new Jerusalem, gold will be so plentiful it will be the pavement on which people will walk! The closing verses of Revelation 21 portray the new Jerusalem as a radiant, gold paved holy city that needs no sun or moon because “the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” The passage emphasizes the city’s interior splendor—streets of pure g...

This message examines the new Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal, divinely prepared capital—a vast, cube-shaped city descending from heaven, radiant with God’s glory and built of precious stones and pure gold. It emphasizes the city’s perfect, orderly design and its symbolic features of twelve gates and twelve foundations. The city is presented as the fulfillment of God’s covenant promises to Israel an...

When you read all the fine details about the new Jerusalem in Revelation 21 and 22, and the glory, beauty, and intricacy of it, you see how much God loves the redeemed saints from His prophetic program. In this teaching, we learn of the city’s majestic features: great walls with twelve gates named for Israel’s tribes, twelve foundations bearing the apostles’ names, and brilliance that needs no sun...

We can’t always trust people’s words. But we can always trust God’s words, which will be fulfilled exactly as He has said in His Word. This episode opens with Revelations 21:5, where the Lord Jesus Christ says to the Apostle John that His promises about the new heaven, new earth, and new Jerusalem are certain and must be recorded “for these words are true and faithful.” Later, Christ identifies Hi...

Revelation 21 describes the eternal state in which God creates a new heaven and new earth, with the new Jerusalem descending from heaven to the earth as a holy, radiant city where God will dwell with His people. It emphasizes that the first heaven and earth will pass away, the curse of sin will be removed, and the new creation will be free from death, sorrow, and suffering. The new Jerusalem is pi...

In this episode, we learn that when unbelievers stand before Christ at the Great White Throne Judgment, they will not be judged by the code of morality they have written for themselves, but by God's perfect standard. And because they died in their sins and unrighteousness, all who appear at this judgment will be eternally condemned to a place of eternal torment in the lake of fire. May these sober...

This teaching explains that during the Millennial Kingdom, many people born into its perfect conditions will still reject Christ—not believing He is the Messiah and the Son of God—and that after 1,000 years, Satan will be released to deceive those unbelievers and gather them for a final rebellion. That revolt will instantly be destroyed when God sends fire from heaven, and Satan is then cast into...

This message focuses on Revelation 20:4-6, which explains that Tribulation martyrs who refuse the beast’s mark will be resurrected in the “first resurrection,” given thrones and priestly authority, and will live and reign with Christ for 1,000 years. The “rest of the dead” (unbelievers) will not be raised until after the Millennium and will face final judgment. Although this passage emphasizes Isr...

We begin a series that examines the events that the Apostle John saw leading up to and then into the eternal state, as recorded in the last three chapters of the Book of Revelation. As we’re bombarded with chaos, temptation, deception, broken families, corrupt governments, and opposition against God—much of which is the result of Satan’s work—it is very comforting to know that the devil’s days are...

After being “delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,” the Apostle Paul arranges a meeting with the Jewish rulers of the synagogues in Rome to explain why he was a prisoner there and, chiefly, to share the truth with them of Christ’s resurrection and the gospel of grace. We learn in this episode that the response of the Jews to Paul’s teaching in Rome was mixed, but a famili...

On the return leg of his third apostolic journey, with his destination being Jerusalem, the Apostle Paul makes a stopover in Miletus to meet with the elders of the Ephesian church to give them instruction, warning and encouragement. This episode reveals Paul’s three-point discourse to the church’s leadership. He reviews his past three-year ministry in Ephesus, informs the men of his present situat...

Paul’s second apostolic journey brings him to Athens, the intellectual center of the Greek world at that time. While there, he engages in dialogue in the synagogue with Jews and Gentiles about Christ, and also in the marketplace, where he interacts with everyday Athenians and also two groups of philosophers, who bring the apostle to Mars’ Hill to explain his “strange” teaching of Christ and the re...

As the Apostle Paul continues his talk in the synagogue at Antioch of Pisidia to both Jews and some Gentiles, he turns to the heart of his message—the resurrection of Christ—and how it was the fulfillment of prophetic promises in the Old Testament. In this episode we see that while his first teaching there was warmly received, his following week’s sermon stirred up opposition among antagonistic, n...