Living Theology

Opens with the account of the origin and meaning of human life. Then, shows how humanity willfully sinned, Genesis sets out the Lord’s plan for the reconciliation and salvation of fallen humanity. Under this plan, God would gradually reveal himself and, through a chosen people, progressively prepare mankind for Christ, His Gospel, and the Church, which are prefigured in this history. #brendonnaick...

We often struggle to believe God is good when we are suffering. We only know how to look at our own circumstances and determine that something must have gone away either with God’s plan or with his promises. Reading the Genesis narrative reminds us that God keeps all of his promises to us, even though we may walk some through some rocky ground before we get there. #londoncitychurch #brendonnaicker...

Very little is known about Melchizedek other than the fact he was the priest-king of Salem (Jerusalem). Some have claimed that he was a theophany, others believe, a literal human being, an angel, or the pre-incarnate Christ and in rabbinical literature said to be from the lineage of Shem. #brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool #joburgchurch #melchizedek

The Bible portrays Jesus Christ as both God and man. Jesus Christ was different to man as in that He had a supernatural conception as affirmed in Luke 1:35. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He was the sinless Son of God. Jesus assumed an impersonal human nature. His personality was His divine and eternal personality, His two natures being united in one undivided and in...

It is only Jesus Christ who is sinless and was manifested to take away sins. Therefore “Jesus knew no sin” - He did no sin, and in Him there was no sin. #brendonnaicker #Theologyschool #sinlessness #londoncitychurch #joburgchurch

The Jews were so close to God yet so far from knowing Him, they worshipped the right God but sadly in their minds and hearts they were devoted to another. Many today are in similar predicaments, some have all Word and claim to know God but knowledge can’t replace relationship. #brendonnaicker #theologyschool #joburgchurch #londoncitychurch #joburgchurch

Jesus did not raise himself from the dead but the Scriptures are clear it was the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus because the aim of this testimony is to get over to us the fact that the Father has accepted the work of the Son. #Brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool #joburgchurch

Jesus’ make up would be that He is not God in dwelling, nor man raised to the power of deity but the God-man. “For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.” Christ is not two but one, that not by conversion of the God-head into flesh but by taking of the manhood into God. #Brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool #joburgchurch

The stone was not removed to let Jesus Christ out of the tomb, but it was to let others in to see into the tomb that He had been raised. The apostle John in seeing the clothes and believing came to a spiritual perception to Him that Jesus Christ had been raised from the dead. #Brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #joburgchurch #theologyschool

The doctrine of election is humanly speaking, an offence to the natural human tendency to believe that we play a part in our own salvation. #brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool #joburgchurch #salvation

It’s only Jesus who says to His followers to deny themselves, take up their cross and follow Him. The biggest difference is that Christ is still alive and He embodies His teachings. All the other founders of religions do not require a relationship with its leaders however this is not the case with Jesus Christ. #brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool #joburgchurch

The term flesh in “He became flesh” is referring to human nature. The immutability of the Son as well as His deity are not compromised by this term, for the being of the Word does not have a new existence. However He does, with the assumption of a human nature in addition to His divine nature, thus entering into a new form of existence. #brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #joburgchurch #theologyscho...

Scripture affirms that we do not worship that which is not the LORD God. We also witness instances when men are requested not to bow down to angels. However we see that Jesus received and accepted the worship of people. It would be inconceivable that Jesus should accept such worship if He were not in reality worthy of it. #londoncitychurch #brendonnaicker #joburgchurch #theologyschool

The forgiveness of sins is the prerogative of God and God alone. We see through the Scriptures that Jesus has the authority to forgive sins which rested in His own person because He is God. #Brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #joburgchurch #theologyschool

Words spoken by Jesus Christ set Him apart as the supreme and unique revealer of truth for no one else spoke like He did. The greatest of the Prophets of the Old Testament would usually begin a prophecy by stating, “Thus sayeth the Lord” but Jesus Christ characteristically prefaced His with, “Verily I say unto you.” The use of verily shows a finality and authority in His message. #brendonnaicker #...

Therefore the witnesses of Jesus Christ’s works of the supernatural were indeed out of this World. Hence in John 15:24, “If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.” #londoncitychurch #brendonnaicker #theologyschool #joburgchurch

Jesus was also saying I am something for these “I Am’s” that being; the Bread of Life; the Good Shepherd; the Resurrection and the Life; the Way, the Truth and the Life; and the True Vine through whom life flows – how could anyone be such things without being the ultimate giver and sustainer of life? In other words, how could Jesus be such things without being God Himself? He made this known about...

Christ made it clear that dead people cannot choose anything, that the flesh profits nothing and that a person must be born of the Spirit BEFORE he can even see the kingdom of God, let alone enter it.

Jesus Christ is the revealer of God in John 1:18, it states that, “No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father s side, he has made him known.” Jesus is the Messiah, He is the knowledge of God manifested to mankind, He is the only unique Son, eternally resting upon the side of the Father, in communion. #Brendonnaicker #theologyschool #londoncitychurch #joburgchurch

Titus 2:13-14 states, “waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” There is no mincing of words here for it is clearly written that our Saviour Jesus Christ is God. So in “waiting for that blesse...

Philippians 2:6 states, “(Jesus,) who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.” The theological term referring to the union of the two natures in one person as the “hypostatic union”. Thereby the Apostle Paul notes that Jesus was in the form of God - this term, form - in the Greek original, refers to the unchangeable essential nature of a thing. #Br...

The Apostle John affirming the deity of Jesus Christ in John 1:18, “No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known”. Thus showing oneness of essence between Father and Son. In addition, Apostle John mentions in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one.” #brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool

People are still answering the question by conveniently “packaging” the Messiah so to conceal their true heart’s condition - trying to bind-up the revelation of the Messiah just like those religious leaders of Jesus’ day. For to acknowledge the Messiah as Jesus - would result in revealing who they are! As in the words of Jesus stated in Matthew 23:33, “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are yo...

Colossians 1:16 states, “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things were created through him and for him”; and in Hebrews 13:8 it mentions that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever”. Therefore, there are no impossibilities of time and space for what Jesus Christ was He is...

The loss of theological thinking in the pew, as well as in the pulpit, could best be explained, by the way in which: #modernity refocuses our interest, #displacing the moral by the therapeutic, #divine by the human, #truth by intuition, and #conviction by technique. As a result, we have not only *secular humanism in our society but also secular evangelicalism.*