A Wonderful Day in the Lord

We are concluding our quick look at the Holy Spirit. We have been discussing how to develop a biblical worldview to understand life from God’s perspective. To do that, we must understand God. We have looked together at the Holy Spirit and who He is and His ministry to us. We are looking at one more thing today and that is what we will call the “filling of the Holy Spirit.” In Ephesians 5:18, it sa...

We are going to look at a few more ministries of the Holy Spirit over the next couple broadcasts. These are going to overlap somewhat with our discussion of salvation because these are salvation issues. These are things the Holy Spirit does for us at the moment of salvation. These are not things that we necessarily feel or experience in that way. These are truths of things that happen in your life...

We continue looking at the way Christians should think as God has allowed us to do so to understand the world from the lens of God’s Word and Truth. We are looking at the Holy Spirit and one of the ministries of the Holy Spirit for us is the inspiration of Scripture. This overlaps with our look earlier at the Bible itself, but it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to give us the revelation of God....

In our biblical worldview we are looking at the Godhead a little bit. Particularly we are looking at the Holy Spirit and what He is, who is He, and what He does? We have seen already that He is God, a person, and a member of the Trinity. We have seen His ministry to the world in general as He convicts the world in sin and righteousness and judgment. We are going to spend the next several times tal...

Today we continue our outlook of biblical worldview as it relates to the Holy Spirit. Yesterday we saw that the Holy Spirit is a member of the Trinity. He is God. He is eternal. He has now come to this earth during this church age to do a particular ministry to this world and to us as believers. We are going to start with His role and ministry to us in the world. John 16:8 says, “And He, when He c...

What does it look like to think like God and think biblically? We continue looking at various fundamental aspects that contribute to a biblical worldview. If we are going to have a biblical worldview, we must understand what is true biblically concerning God. We have looked at the Father, we have looked at the Son, Jesus Christ, we have looked at the Scripture, and we have looked at salvation. Tod...

We want to conclude the study of salvation by looking at the three tenses of salvation. When we come to the New Testament, sometimes salvation is put out there in the text as if it was something that has already taken place, sometimes it is something happening presently, and sometimes it is in the future. I think it confuses people sometimes if they don’t realize that all three tenses are true. Le...

How is it that God is able to take sinful people and make them right before Him? How is it that we who are lost and dead in sin can become the very friends of God and part of the family of God and spend eternity with Him? That is a miraculous thing, isn’t it? What a wonderful gift the Lord has given us! The majority of humanity spurns and ignores and mocks salvation, yet it is the precious conside...

Today we continue our discussion on the biblical worldview of salvation. A biblical worldview of salvation is pivotal. Every other worldview, every other religion, every other philosophy, if it is looking for any form of salvation from this world and our own bondage to self and sin, it looks for it in other places. It might look for it in mythological gods, our own self, or our own merits. Every o...

There is nothing more important than how we can be right with God. Sometimes that is called reconciliation. We are estranged from God as we saw in the last broadcast. We are even the enemies of God. As a result of that, we are not right with God. We are separated from Him. We are not His friends. We are His enemies. How can the enemies of God be made right with Him? How can the enemies of God beco...

We are now talking about salvation. We speak about salvation, or redemption, all the time. If you are around the people of God, or if you read Scripture, or if you come to church, you know this is central to everything we believe and everything we hope in. It is very important that we see salvation from the lens of Scripture as God has revealed. It is the only possible lens because nobody could un...

For a few weeks we have been discussing what a biblical worldview looks like. that might sound intimidating to some people but really all that means is how we process life. Do we see life through the lens of Scripture as God has revealed that to us, or do we see life through the lens of the world around us, our own ideas, educational system, the philosophies of the world? Everybody has a worldview...

We are spending one more day looking at the biblical worldview of Jesus Christ. We will look at what He is doing right now today. We have already looked at what He has done eternally. He has always been God. We saw the incarnation. He came to the earth at a moment in time and took on human flesh and nature and lived among us a perfect life, nevertheless He lived among us. We saw that He went to th...

We have been working through the issue of the biblical worldview of Jesus Christ for the last several days and understanding who Christ is. It is absolutely pivotal to everything that we know and believe and live as Christians in this world. He is the watershed issue. Those who receive Him and trust in Him will have eternal life. Those that reject Him will have eternal judgment, so there is nothin...

We are continuing to examine biblical worldview. Biblical worldview encapsulates many things that are extremely important and it’s important that we understand those things. The most important of all those things in many ways is Jesus Christ Himself. You cannot have a biblical worldview if you do not have a worldview concerning Christ that is accurate to the teachings of the Word of God. We have l...

We are looking at Jesus Christ as we continue looking at biblical worldview because He is central to anything about a biblical worldview. We saw last time that Jesus Christ is God. He has always been, He is eternal, He is holy, He is a member of the Godhead – we often call Him the second person of the Godhead. He is truly God. We now move to the incarnation where Jesus Christ becomes man and comes...

We continue looking at various issues that are integral to thinking biblically. There is nothing more central to the way we think as Christians than how we think about Jesus Christ. Christ is part of everything we do, a part of every aspect of our faith, and it is even in our name “Christian,” meaning Christ-like. We are followers of Jesus Christ. He permeates the Word of God. He permeates our liv...

We are taking one more day looking at the biblical worldview concerning humanity. This is going to be a good one! The last several times we have looked at the fallenness of humanity and the consequences of sin. Now let’s look at the remedy of our sin. That is the good news of the Scriptures of what we call: the gospel. In Ephesians 1:7 it says, “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the for...

We looked yesterday at the fallenness of humanity and how mankind fell. We looked at some of the judgments that came because of that, but there is more to it than that. There is more than simply that women will have increased pain during childbirth, conflict in marriage, and hard labor that will be necessary to provide for just our sustenance in life. There is also a really important spiritual con...

In order to understand a biblical worldview in relation to people, we have to go back to Genesis 3. Everything goes back to Genesis. In Chapters 1 & 2 we found the special creation of humanity. Made in the image of God and specially made by the Lord Himself and given all sorts of privileges including a relationship with God Himself that was wonderful. It was a sweet and perfect fellowship with...

We have been looking at the biblical worldview of humanity. Everything so far has been pretty positive. We are made in the image of God, we are specially created beings by the hand of God, we were created uniquely with a material nature of our physical body as well as an immaterial nature of wonderful components internally. It’s pretty good stuff. Now we are going to get very negative today. What...

We have looked at the creation, the fact that human beings are in the image of God. Today we are going to look at the immaterial nature of humans. We have already talked about the body and that God created us with bodies. We are physical beings. I encourage you to do a study sometime on the body in Scripture. The body is talked about a lot, especially in the New Testament, and how important it is...

We talked about a biblical worldview of humanity in the last broadcast. Who are people? What does the Bible say about us as people? So, we are looking at several different facets over the next several days where Scriptures tell us what a person is like. The first one is that we as people are unique in the creative order of God. We are not like angels. We are not like the beast of the field. We are...

For several weeks now we have been discussing biblical worldview and what that looks like. We are going through the theology of Scripture to see what a biblical worldview is. First, we looked at the biblical worldview related to the Scriptures answering the question: What would a biblical worldview be related to what we believe about the Bible. Secondly, we took a few days to talk about God Himsel...

As we consider a biblical worldview, and we are looking at this time at the worldview of God as found in Scripture. We are going to spend one more day on that, although as I said yesterday, we could spend weeks and months exploring all the things Scripture says about it. That would be a profitable study and I hope you have done that. I would point you to books such as A.W. Tozer – The Knowledge of...