The Christian Faith Podcast

As the believers in Christ, we should always grow and be enlarged in our experience of Christ as our life, and in our realization and enjoyment of Christ as everything to us. This is just like the Children of Israel in the Old Testament, in their journey from Egypt to the Good Land: In each stage of their journey, their experience of God’s provision for them, and of His purpose for them, became ri...

God created the universe for the sake of His purpose (Rev. 4:11), but as the believers in Christ, do we really understand what that purpose is? We should not think it is just to save us from eternal damnation, or that we would go to heaven. Rather, it is so much higher than that: God has predestined us to be conformed to the image of Christ so we would be His many brothers (Rom. 8:29, Eph. 1:5), a...

One of great truths of the Christian life is that, as the believers in Christ, we are now “in Christ” (1 Cor. 1:30, Eph. 1:3, etc.). Even our redemption, as we can see from the type of the Passover, is in Christ; we are not redeemed apart from Christ (Eph. 1:7). In contrast, if we feel that, because we are under the blood, we can now live the Christian life apart from Christ, we are actually livin...

In the entire Bible the fullest, most complete picture of the redemptive work of Christ in is the Passover, through which God rescued the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt. In the New Testament we have the plain words concerning redemption, which give us the proper teachings about this matter, but our understanding of redemption, and how it is applied to us, will become much richer as we co...

In the entire Bible, the fullest, most complete picture of the redemptive work of Christ in is the Passover, through which God rescued the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt. In the New Testament we have the plain words concerning redemption, which give us the proper teachings about this matter, but our understanding of redemption, and how it is applied to us, will become much richer as we c...

Of all the books of the Bible, Exodus gives us the fullest picture of God’s redemptive work. This book begins with God’s people in slavery in Egypt, but ends with the glory of God appearing among His people in the tabernacle in the wilderness; what a wonderful picture of redemption is this! From this we see that the purpose of Christ’s redemptive work in the New Testament is not merely to save us...

Today so many feel we cannot trust that the Bible really is the word of God. This may be especially true among certain kinds of scholars; they claim the text of the Scripture has been corrupted, and anyway, that so many of the stories in the Bible are merely historical myths and symbolism, so we should not take it too seriously in any event. There is, however, one witness more than any other who r...

As the believers in Christ, we can and should have the assurance that, because our sins are forgiven, we will be with the Lord for eternity; praise the Lord for that! (John 5:24). Nonetheless, we cannot have the assurance of where we will spend the Millennium, the 1,000 year reign of Christ upon this present earth. As the New Testament makes clear, that will be based, not upon the blood of Christ,...

If we want to understand what salvation is, we must see the central matter in the entire Bible, what it shows us from the very beginning to the very end: that God’s ultimate desire is to be one with man, and to make man one with Him. So, He created us in such a way that we could receive His divine life. And today, when we believe in Christ, this life begins to work in us, through regeneration in o...

To understand what salvation is in the New Testament, we need to be clear about what the Apostle Peter calls “the salvation of the soul” (1 Peter 1:9). Our Christian life begins with the new birth, which takes place in our spirit the very moment believe in Christ (John 3:6); it will end with the transfiguration of our bodies at the Lord’s return; this will also take place in a moment, “in the twin...

As Christians we often speak of “the assurance of salvation.” And it is truly wonderful to know that our sins are forgiven because Christ shed His blood for us on the cross; Hallelujah! But we can, and should, have a much greater assurance even than that: we should have the assurance of overcoming (Rev. 21:7). That is, one day, whether in the Millennium or in eternity, we will not merely be forgiv...

As the believers in Christ, we can and should have the assurance that, because our sins are forgiven, we will be with the Lord for eternity; praise the Lord! (John 5:24). Nonetheless, we cannot have the assurance of where we will spend the Millennium, the 1,000 year reign of Christ upon this present earth. As the New Testament makes clear, that will be based, not upon the blood of Christ, but upon...

How many Christians today have a proper view of salvation? Most, it seems, think that once we believe in Christ and our sins are forgiven, God’s work in us is basically over; now we are just waiting to go to heaven. That was not the view of the Apostle Paul. He knew that, even though his eternal destiny was secure, he still had a race to run to win the prize of reigning with Christ during His 1,00...

After Jesus ascended into heaven, two angels appeared and asked the apostles, “Why do you stand gazing up into heaven?” (Acts 1:11). So many Christians are like this today, “standing around, gazing into heaven.” This is because they’ve taken the “heaven drug,” the profoundly false teaching that, as the believers in Christ, our destiny is to go to heaven. What the Bible actually shows us is that ou...

The unspeakably evil attack on Israel this past weekend should cause us as Christians to wake up to the real situation of the world today. First of all, it shows us there is no moral equivalence between the religion of Islam and the Christian faith. The former has from its inception used violence as a means to spread itself; the latter was founded through the sacrifice of its founder, and, in the...

The most basic, foundational truth of the New Testament, and of the Bible as a whole, is that God desires to be one with man; that is why He became a man in the person of Jesus Christ (John 1:1, 14). In doing so, He necessarily took on the human nature. Now, to complete the process of making us one with Himself, He is working to uplift our human nature with His divine nature. He does this by givin...

The fact that the Bible speaks of “the only begotten” Son of God (John 1:14, 18, etc.), has troubled some Christians. This is because such a statement could be taken to mean that the Son was begotten at a certain point, rather than being the eternal God who has always existed. However, when we look at this statement in the context of John 1, the meaning is clear: He never needed to come into exist...

To study the Scriptures in a profitable way we need to come to them with a proper mindset. This is especially true when it comes to the matter of the reward and discipline of the believers in the coming age, the Millennium, because it is so easy for us to be biased in this regard for one reason or another. So, in the first segment of this episode, we begin by considering why it’s so important to s...

Revelation 20 shows us that there will be a 1,000 year reign of Christ upon the earth after this age. However, the teaching of Amillennialism denies this, and in doing so deprives God’s children of so much of His word, and of so much of our hope of the Lord’s return; this is something truly evil. Nonetheless, it seems that today this evil teaching is gaining in popularity among Bible-believing Chr...

Each of the letters to the seven churches Revelation 2-3 concludes with a distinct reward the Lord promises “to him who overcomes.” Then in Revelation 20:4-6 we see the fulfillment of these promises in “the first resurrection” (Rev. 20:5), during the 1,000 year reign of Christ on the earth. So, to have a good understanding of the overcomers’ reward, we need to look closely at these verses in Revel...

The Passover in Exodus 12 is a remarkable picture of the death of Christ. Before we can fully appreciate it, however, we need to see how it is connected to the Lord’s Table. The Passover is the Old Testament memorial feast pointing forward to the death of Christ;  the Lord’s Table is the memorial feast of the New Testament. On the one hand it points us back to the death of Christ, and on the other...

In the book of Revelation we see the church that fulfills God’s desire in this age, that is, the church in Philadelphia (Rev. 3:8-10). However, in First Corinthians, the Apostle Paul shows us the way to deal with the problems that may arise in the practical church life, so that we can become the church the Lord desires. In brief, his solution is always the same: to point the saints back to the Lor...

The Parable of the Sower is perhaps the clearest depiction in the entire Bible of how we need to deal with our heart so that it can become the good ground for the Lord to grow within us. In particular, those of us who have been in the Lord for a number of years need to be careful of the “thorns” that may grow up within us to choke the word and so prevent us from bringing forth any fruit to maturit...

It is very common for Bible teachers to refer to the “atonement” when speaking of the death of Christ on the cross. However, this is to demean what Christ actually accomplished by His death. In the Bible the word “atonement” is only used in the Old Testament, in relation to the animal sacrifices of the Old Covenant which only covered sins; they could never take them away (Heb. 10:1-4). In contrast...

The book of Exodus shows us, using the picture of the Children of Israel leaving Egypt, that the purpose of Christ’s redemptive work is not merely to save us from our sin, but to deliver us from the world, today’s “Egypt” (Acts 2:40, Gal. 1:4). This is so God can gain His kingdom on the earth and build up the church as His dwelling place, just as the Children of Israel built up the tabernacle in t...