How can I love Christ more? - Grace to You
网页Meditate on Christ - Direction 1: "Be much in contemplation of Christ." Your first priority is to meditate on Christ. Make time each day to dwell on Him. Consider who He is, what He has done, and what He is doing for you. Vincent suggests, Spend time in secret retirement, and there think and think again of the superlative excellencies and ...
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part 1 - Grace to You
网页In Matthew 22 in verse 11 we have a picture of a marriage feast that God is giving for His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. People are invited to come to the marriage feast. And the King comes in to see the guests who are there and He sees a man, verse 11, who doesn't have on a wedding garment. He is not properly clothed.
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit - Grace to You
网页In context, Jesus is speaking to His eleven disciples, but the scope of His promises is broader than that. In verse 15 He says, "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." That implies the promises that follow apply to all who love Jesus Christ. Thus they apply to all believers in Christ, whose love for Christ is characterized by their ...
The Surpassing Value of Knowing Christ - Grace to You
网页First of all, the knowledge of Jesus Christ, look at verse 8. "More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ."
Declaring and Defending the Deity of Christ - Grace to You
网页Matthew, Mark, and Luke tell the story of His life; John focuses on His nature, who He is. If you’re believing in a false Jesus, you’re damned. You preach any other Christ than the true Christ, you’re damned, that’s Galatians 1. If you fail to love the true Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 16, you’re cursed.
The Humble Love of Christ - Grace to You
网页Thursday night we pick up the scene in verse 1. “Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.”. That sets up this whole scene. It is an expression of that love.
Rekindling Your Love for Christ - Grace to You
网页It is to love Christ, to love Him as the one who first loved us and gave Himself for us. Listen to the language of the New Testament. Here are the words of Jesus in Matthew 10:37, “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. He who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.”.
Preaching the Unfathomable Riches of Christ - Grace to You
网页2021年12月5日 · The riches of Christ are beyond our ability to trace. In fact in Romans 10:12 it says, “The same Lord is Lord of all”—Jew and Gentile—“abounding in riches for all who call on Him.”. The riches are unfathomable, incomprehensible, boundless—and they’re in Christ. “Riches” is the ploutos, wealth, abundance.
Coming Alive in Christ - Grace to You
网页Coming Alive in Christ. Play Audio. Look with me, would you, at the second chapter of the letter to the Ephesians, Ephesians chapter 2. And we’re gonna discuss what it means to come alive in Christ, what it really means to be saved, what it is to be a Christian. This is one of the great sections of the Bible about salvation, and much of this ...
John: The Apostle of Love - Grace to You
网页The apostle John is known to us because of his proximity to Jesus Christ in the gospel accounts; he’s one of the inner circle of three - Peter, James, and John - the brother of James, as you well know. John is a familiar figure in most of the scenes with Jesus and the disciples. We have sort of an image in our minds of what John is like.