Of God and Mankind

Hebrews 8:6-7 (AMPC)  “ But as it now is, He [Christ] has acquired a [priestly] ministry which is as much superior  and more excellent [than the old] as the covenant (the agreement) of which He is the Mediator (the Arbiter, Agent) is superior  and more excellent, [because] it is enacted  and rests upon more important (sublimer, higher, and nobler) promises.   7 For if that first covenant had been without defect, there would have been no room for another one  or an attempt to institute another one.” Dear friend, in the first part of this post, we saw a number of major differences between the Old Testament and New Testament.   We saw that the Old Testament was given by God as a law for the Jews practising Judaism whilst the New Testament is given by God as a law for Christians and indeed the entire world.   God expects that all human beings would believe His Word in the Holy Bible, repent of sin, confess sins to Him for forgiveness, forsake sin...

1 Timothy 5:24-25 (AMPC)  “ 24 The sins of some men are conspicuous (openly evident to all eyes), going before them to the judgment [seat]  and proclaiming their sentence in advance; but the sins of others appear later [following the offender to the bar of judgment and coming into view there].   25 So also, good deeds are evident  and conspicuous, and even when they are not, they cannot remain hidden [indefinitely].”   Dear people of God, today’s lead Holy Bible text confirms to us that nothing can be hidden indefinitely.   Some people murder others, some commit adultery with another person’s husband or wife, some steal company funds, some steal church funds, some pastors sleep with their female members, some fathers sleep with their daughters, some guardians mess up their wards they should care for, some hide to watch pornography, some tell lies to cover up their deeds.   All these people believe no one sees them.   On the other hand, s...

John 16:28 (AMPC)  “ 28  I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”   Dear people of God, there is a group of Christians who say Jesus Christ is the Son of God but not God.   In today’s lead Holy Bible text, the Lord Jesus says He came out from the Father and came into the world. What does this mean? It simply means He was within the Father before He came out into the world.   This, of course, is why Jesus is called the Word of God as stated in John 1:1.   As a man here on earth, see what the Lord Jesus said in His prayer to God in John 17:5, “And now, Father, glorify Me along with Yourself  and restore Me to such majesty  and honor in Your presence as I had with You before the world existed.”   Here we see clearly that Jesus refers to His Divinity because He made reference to the fact that He had majesty and honor in God’s presence before the world existed.   Even tho...