A Wonderful Day in the Lord

We are starting a new year! The last two years have been hard years for many of us, and probably for most of the world. We don’t know where 2022 will take us, but we hope it is a little easier for all of us, but it may not be. We have talked about a lot of things over the last two years on these broadcasts. Many of you have followed along and we very much appreciate that and trust it has been help...

This is our final broadcast for the incarnation series as well as for the 2021 year.  We are completing our look at the five implications of the incarnation:  1. Jesus came to reveal God to us.  2. Jesus came to defeat death and take the fear of death away from us because He has also defeated the devil.  3. Jesus came to be our sympathetic High Priest.  4. Jesus came to sh...

We have been looking at the implications of the incarnation. So far, we have looked at the first three:  1. Jesus came to reveal God to us.  2. Jesus came to defeat death and take the fear of death away from us because He has also defeated the devil.  3. Jesus came to be our sympathetic High Priest.  The fourth implication is humility. Christ came to give us the perfect example...

We have been looking at the implications of the incarnation. So far, we have looked at the first two:  1. Jesus came to reveal God to us.  2. Jesus came to defeat death and take the fear of death away from us because He has also defeated the devil.  The third implication is that Jesus came to be our great sympathetic High Priest. We are looking at Hebrews 4 that talks about this in...

We are looking at some implications of the incarnation. What specifically does the New Testament tell us concerning why Jesus Christ came in human form? We found the first reason last time:  1. Jesus came to explain God. By coming to the earth as a man the Lord lived among us and revealed to us the nature and person of God in ways that even the Old Testament and nature couldn’t do. It’s a ful...

This is our last series production for A Wonderful Day in the Lord for this year, 2021. It has been a long year. It has been a tough year in many ways, but in other ways it has gone very quickly. What I would like to do to finish out 2021 is to stay with the issue of the incarnation. Last week we looked at the incarnation itself, the coming of Jesus Christ as the great Godman. I’d like to spend th...

This is our last of five broadcasts that we are looking at together coming up to Christmas. We are looking at five components of the incarnation:  1. It was prophesied in the Old Testament.  2. It was anticipated by the saints in the gospels prior to the incarnation.  3. It was announced by the angels.  4. It was received and pondered by the shepherds who rejoiced and Mary who...

So far, we have uncovered the following facts from Scripture regarding the incarnation of Jesus Christ:  1. Prophecy. The incarnation was prophesied in the book of Isaiah as well as other places in the Old Testament.  2. Anticipation. Prior to the incarnation in the gospels, the saints at that time, many who knew the Old Testament prophecies, had anticipated His coming with great excitem...

We continue our series looking at the incarnation. We have looked at a couple aspects already:  1. Prophecy. The incarnation was prophesied in the book of Isaiah as well as other places in the Old Testament.  2. Anticipation. Prior to the incarnation, the saints at that time, many who knew the Old Testament prophecies had anticipated His coming with great excitement and Zacharias was one...

As we record these broadcasts, we are building up to Christmas and so this is Christmas week, and we are talking about the incarnation. Yesterday we looked at the Old Testament prophecy of the incarnation. It was no accident. God had planned this from all of eternity and it is revealed in the Old Testament. Isaiah 9 is perhaps one of the key passages in the Old Testament in the prediction of the i...

We are leading up to Christmas right now, so after finishing our last series, I felt we should talk about the incarnation of Jesus Christ. We are going to spend the next five days on this and look at various aspects of the incarnation. More specifically we will look at five important components of the incarnation. The first one is the fact that the incarnation, God becoming man when Jesus Christ t...

We close out our series on biblical worldview today. We are looking at the end times and how our present life and how we live now is shaped by how we see the future. Do we have a biblical worldview of the future? We are looking today at the future for the believer. What is in front of us as followers of Christ? What does God have planned for us? In 1 Thessalonians 4, there has been some division o...

As we bring this series on biblical worldview to a close, we are spending the last couple broadcasts looking at our worldview on end times. We have already seen how the view we take regarding the future and things concluding in this life and beginning a new life determines everything about how we live now. No more important issue could possibly be faced in the eternal destiny of humanity. In the S...

If we see the end of time as God portrays it in Scripture, it shapes the way we think and the way we live now. We have looked at some of that. Last time we looked at the creation itself and how that is going to be changed. Today, I want to shift direction and look at ourselves and how we are facing the end times. What is God’s plan? He plans for a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness...

We continue today discussing the end times. The biblical worldview about how this world ends and how we come to death and what follows determines how we live right now. This biblical worldview of the end times as God has portrayed in His Scriptures is extremely important for living life now. We are looking today at the issue of the creation itself. We live in a planet, a universe created by Almigh...

We are now looking at the end times. This will be the final topic in our biblical worldview study. The way we live presently, our view life now, and how we live is determined to a large degree on what we believe will happen in the future. What does the future look like? The Scripture talks about that a great deal. We are going to spend these next five sessions looking at the end times and what it...

We are looking one last time at the spirit world as we think about a biblical worldview. There are spirits. However, there are two extremes we want to avoid when it comes to spirits and the spirit world:  1. Spirits do not exist. Throughout the world, most people would not question the concept that spirits exist. They believe in spirits, they fear spirits, they do no understand spirits, but t...

We are continuing our study of the spirit world as we focus on our biblical worldview. The fact is there are spirits that are demonic and want to inflict harm on people and want to blind them to the truth of the gospel. They want to tempt us into sin to cause us to be devoured and destroyed. All of these things are part of the demonic spirit world, and we must be aware of that. We are going to swi...

We continue our look at the demonic, evil spirit world. Satan, of course, is the king of those spirits, but he has many demons who follow him and do his bidding. What do they actually do? What is their primary goal? What are they after? As I said yesterday, they primarily are not trying to inhabit bodies. They can do that, at least in the gospels they did that, and we assume they can do that now....

As we continue looking at the issue of spirit beings, we are spending the first few sessions discussing the evil spirits, which are often called demons or demonic beings. Then we will spend a couple sessions focusing on the good spirit beings that we call angels. We are so glad the Lord has transferred us, as believers, out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of His Son. So, in some se...

Once we have completed this study on biblical worldview in a few weeks, we will not have exhausted the subject, but we will have made some great progress. I’d like to turn our focus to the spirit world. I am amazed at how much interest the secular world has in the spirit world. It is virtually everywhere you turn. Harry Potter books are some of the most popular, Lord of the Rings, and Chronicles o...

Today we are finishing our discussion about the church. The church is God’s idea. It is not something created by human beings, but it is a plan of God for His purposes. I am reminded of 1 Timothy 3:15 that says, “but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the trut...

If we are going to have a view of the world that is Scriptural and in line with what God thinks of it, we must understand His church. He invented and created the church, Christ is the head of His own body, He has formed us the way He wanted to form us. It is God’s design and God’s will that the local body of Christians functions underneath His headship, so we have to see what the church does. We h...

We are looking at how God views the church, the importance of the church, the role we play in the church and so forth because this is how God has designed this time, this age, in which the church is vitally important in the work of God. We must understand that to understand how God thinks and for us to have a biblical worldview. We saw a little bit as to who and what the church is last time. Howev...

We are going to look at the church for the next few days. Somebody might ask: What does the church have to do with a biblical worldview? It has a lot of things to do with the biblical worldview because a biblical worldview is simply thinking as God thinks. How does God think? When we come to the New Testament, the Lord puts a lot of premium on the church. The church is a vital part of the Christia...