HIS SOVEREIGN WILL
/in Steadfast HopeHe “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph 1:11). God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure; for He “worketh […]
CHILDREN OF DARKNESS
/in Steadfast Hope“If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth” (1 John 1:6). Those who deny the reality of their sin affirm the unreality of their salvation. Ours society rejects the concept of individual responsibility. People blame society, their parents, their genes—anything […]
GOD IS LIGHT
/in Steadfast Hope“God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). God’s truthfulness and holiness are powerful motives not to sin. Light and darkness are familiar metaphors in Scripture. Intellectually, light refers to truth, and darkness to error; morally, light refers to holiness, and darkness to evil. Intellectually, the Bible reveals God […]
