Jesus calls everyone to learn what it means to follow Him. You must deny yourself and take up your cross to follow Him. Jesus Himself has blazed the trail for us to follow in His footsteps.
The Lord’s kingdom will conclude with one final rebellion instigated by the Devil. This reveals the marvelous nature of saving faith which has been gifted to God’s elect. Regeneration and genuine faith is the stupendous present from heaven. Moreover, the gift of salvation means all our sinful deeds are marked as “paid in full” by the Lamb who was slain for His people. The millennial kingdom of our Lord means change in the present life, it will stamp out one final insurrection, and usher His people into the eternal kingdom of God because all their sins are counted as paid by the blood of the Lamb.
Eunice stands out among the women of God found in Scripture as having experienced an inordinate degree of God’s grace. In this study of Eunice, we see the marks of God’s grace in her conversion, her commitment to Scripture, her sincere and living faith, and her impact on her son. May the Lord make all the women of our church a trophy of His grace and may the Holy Spirit evermore teach us to swim daily in the pool of God’s grace.
John testifies of Jesus’ resurrection with three evidences of the empty tomb, His graveclothes, and His post-resurrection appearances. Jesus rose from the dead. The witnesses sealed their testimony with their own lives. What did Jesus convey to His people upon His resurrection? Not disappointment, displeasure, or condemnation for those who failed Him, but grace, pure, undeserved grace. He did this because He paid for their sins and He earned their peace with God through the cross. What’s more? He shares life with those who are one with Him. He invites them into a vital connection with their heavenly Father that they, too, might taste of the kindness of the Lord and their souls be satisfied with God.