A Wonderful Day in the Lord

We are going to spend another week together going through the riches of Christ. It has been such a joy going through the many ways Christ has gifted and blessed us and we are going to look at five more this week. Romans 8 tells us that we are the heirs of God. We are going to look at that blessing today.  First, when it talks about us being His children, it says in Romans 8:14, “For all who a...

We have been talking about a number of positions we have in Christ, and these great gifts that the Lord has given us. Those positions have included dying to sin, being made alive to Him, being the prisoner of the Lord, and being the slave of the Lord. We are switching directions just a little bit today. We are going to talk about the fact that we have been gifted by the Lord to serve Him. That is...

If you were with us in the last broadcast, you know that we were talking about the fact that we died to sin and now walk in newness of life. Going back to Romans today, we are going to look at that a little more closely and the spiritual life that we now have. One of our great riches and treasures is: we are alive spiritually. Prior to salvation we were dead spiritually. Now we are alive in Christ...

The last two broadcasts we have been looking at some of our positions in Christ that we normally would not gravitate toward: we are the prisoners of the Lord, and we are the slaves of the Lord. Yet, I hope that as we explained those, we saw the glory of being a slave of Christ and a prisoner of Christ and all the benefits that are involved with that.  Today we balance that out with a happier...

If you joined us last broadcast, you might have been surprised as we are talking about the riches and treasures and our position in Christ and how glorious those things are that we went to the issue of being a slave of Christ. The word doulos is the word that should be translated in the Bible as slaves. We are the slaves of Christ. We find the apostles uniformly happy to be called the slaves of Ch...

Welcome again to our Wonderful Day in the Lord broadcast. As we start out another week, we are still on the theme of the riches we have in Christ and all the treasures that are ours in Him. This week we are going to look at several things that you might not realize are great riches, especially the first two. The first one is the fact that you are a slave of Christ. That sounds pejorative in our wo...

We welcome you once again to our broadcast and we are talking about some of the riches we have in Christ. The last couple broadcasts have been kind of overlapping. We looked at the Lord calling us to holiness and making us holy. Not that we live holy in the sense that we are beyond sin, but we are set apart by God for holiness. Then we looked at the word sanctification which is a compatible word w...

As always, we thank you for taking a little time out of your day to join us in looking at the Word of God. Hopefully this is encouraging to your own devotional life and your walk with God. We thank you for letting us be a part of that. Today, we are continuing to look at some of our riches that we have in Christ. Last time we looked at the fact that beyond all belief, it’s hard to imagine, but we...

Today we are looking at our riches in Christ and some of the great blessings and privileges and treasures that the Lord has given us. We looked at a number of them throughout the last several weeks and we are looking at a couple more this week. Today we are looking at the fact that we are holy.  Do you ever think of yourself as holy? I doubt that most of us do because our definition of holine...

Today as we look at the riches we have in Christ and the blessings that are ours, this is going to be a bit different. Looking at Hebrews 11:13 we see a different blessing. This is one you may not think of. Hebrews 11:13-16 says, “All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and...

We continue in our wonderful day in the Lord broadcast and talking about the great riches we have in Christ as Christians. These treasures and blessings are things that are ours because we are Christians. All of us have these whether we are walking with the Lord as we should or not. If you are believer, the things we have been talking about for the last few weeks are privileges and blessings and t...

We are finishing this week looking at Philippians 3:20 today. It says, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” There is a wonderful blessing that is ours. We are citizens of heaven! That is true. All those who know Jesus Christ as their Savior are citizens of heaven. We live on earth, and there is a sense in which we are citizens of...

As we continue looking at our riches in Christ, we are coming to one that many people may not actually grasp at first. That is that we are free from the Law. The book of Romans, Galatians, and other places speak clearly about our freedom from the Law. Romans 6:14 says, “For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” There has been a shift. In the Old Testament, t...

Today we look at another of our great riches in Christ. First, we are going to start with Christ Himself. Here is the treasure we are going to look at today: the fact that we are seated at the right hand of God. To get there, we must do a little bit of putting some pieces together. Starting with Ephesians 1:20, this is a teaching in the New Testament that perhaps some people haven’t gathered or pa...

Looking at the riches we have in Jesus Christ is encouraging and I think it is helpful in helping us realize how much we do have. Last time we looked at the privilege of belonging to God. He is ours and we can proclaim His excellencies. Today we are looking at Ephesians 1 and I’d like to note that we have been blessed in very special ways. We start off with Ephesians 1:3 which says, “Blessed be th...

We have been working through the subject of the riches we have in Christ over the last few weeks. We are going to continue looking at more riches that are ours this week. There is so much in the Word of God that tell of our blessings in Him. It is good to be reminded of that once in a while. A lot of times people tend to gravitate toward the difficult things in life and maybe get despondent over t...

As we conclude this week talking about Our Riches in Christ, and all the treasures that are ours in Him, we are looking at power today. We have been given the empowerment to do several things as a Christian.  Sometimes I am asked what is the difference between living the Christian life under the power of the Holy Spirt, under the power of God, verses self-discipline? The answer to that is tha...

In the last broadcast we looked at one of the great privileges that we have in Christ and that is that we are in the family of God. If we are Christians and have received Jesus Christ as our Savior and believed in Him according to John 1:12, we are the very children of God. In Romans we saw that as Christians we have been adopted into the family of God and therefore, we are His legitimate grown-up...

As we continue looking at our Riches in Christ, one of those immense privileges in Christ is that we are in the family of God. We belong to Him in two ways: we are His children by birth, and we are adopted.  First, we are His children by birth. In John 1:12 it says this, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.”...

In our last broadcast we were looking at one of our riches in Christ and that was that He is with us. He lives in us, and we have His presence in a very localized and different sense than the world does. We know He is everywhere at once, He is omnipresent, but He lives within us, He dwells within us through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. What a privilege that is. Even to contemplate the idea tha...

We are working through the theme right now of “Our Riches in Christ.” These are the treasures that we have in the Lord Jesus, or privileges, if you prefer to call them that. This week, we are looking at five more of these wonderful riches that are ours. These are things we have only because we know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Today we are going to talk about the presence of God. We know t...

As we conclude our first week of the new year on our Wonderful Day in the Lord broadcast, I hope you are enjoying our new series on Our Riches in Christ. We have looked at a number of those already. Today I want to look at the wonderful riches of being forgiven. Most of us look at our own lives, especially after what we saw yesterday concerning the biblical description of our nature and who we are...

If you have your Bible, turn to Romans 3. We are looking at our riches in Christ and the many treasures that are ours and we are going to look today at one of the very foundational riches in Christ. Who are we as believers in Christ? I am looking first at bad news then we will turn to good news. The bad news is found in Romans 3:9. It is very bad news. Just reading these verses can very much depre...

Welcome once again to our Wonderful Day in the Lord broadcast. I trust you are inviting me into your home, car or office and taking just a few minutes to open the Word of God with me. We are looking at the great riches we have in Christ. As I think about some of those riches, we are still looking at the book of Ephesians as it is so full of this subject. I’d like to look at Ephesians 1:4, at one o...

Yesterday we began a new series. We are looking at our riches that we have in Christ, or our position in Christ. We are looking at who we are because we are believers in the Lord Jesus. The New Testament floods us with information along that line. We could outline, to some degree, perhaps a whole New Testament, especially the epistles, around this issue of who we are in Christ and what He has done...