The overarching theme of the Bible is the Father/Son relationship. In fact, the entire Bible is a full description of this relationship between Father and Son, as God wants to see it in us. We know this because of the testimony of the best authority in the Bible - Jesus himself, the eternal Son of God. The reason he came was to gather a Family together and make them one with himself, in his image, so that they might become Sons of God.
We first see this relationship of the Father/Son with the creation of man, who was made "in God's image." That means man was made after the pattern...

When the Lord sent Moses into Egypt to confront Pharaoh and bring his people out of slavery, he called Israel "My Firstborn Son."
Hidden in an obscure passage in the book of Numbers lies a minor historical event that later proved to be of tremendous spiritual consequence for the life of Israel.
The direct correlation of the Levites with the firstborn sons of Israel in Numbers 3 meant that their God planned to bring the Heirs of Abraham into such close fellowship with him as only exists between a Father and his Son.
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If we could see ourselves as God does, the problem of sin would suddenly take on the urgency of getting out of a house on fire.
Sin is the one thing separating us from God. It has ruined us, it has ruined our world, and it prevents us from experiencing the joy and perfection of the original Creation design.
It's a spiritual cancer destroying our souls which has no remedy in this world. There is no future hope for a sinner - not unless drastic action is taken. The Bible is plain on this.
But getting people to even admit that they are sinners is a near-impossible task. Unless God...

The Gospel has been changed in modern times.
Our preachers and teachers in the Church are pretty much unanimous on what the Gospel is, and they almost all teach it the same way. What's alarming is that "the modern way of preaching the Gospel doesn't match up with the way the Apostles preached it."
The Good News is that "The LORD has returned to Zion " Our hope is Jesus at the right hand of the Throne of God.
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Something happened to the Church at the turn of the 20th Century.
There have been changes occurring in the Church over the last two centuries, particularly in the last 100 years, that have redefined the life of the Church and its ministry. The difference between our modern changes and those of past ages is that we now no longer care what the historic Church has done, and (what is worse) we no longer care what the Apostles taught.
In our day we have a particularly virulent form of unbelief that has taken over two hundred years to develop, and now it's deeply entrenched in just about...

The Church is surrounded by desperate enemies who want to destroy our peace, undermine our Bible, drain our resources, steal our people away to their side and prevent others from joining us, and generally wreak havoc in our ranks and bring our name into disrepute.
If the Church hopes to win its battles in our modern culture, it's time to turn to the tried-and-true principles of war. In fact, the reason we are doing so badly is because, for the most part, Church leaders and members refuse to go to a war footing and train for battle.
There are ways to stop the enemy in his tracks and...

The Old Testament is critical for the Christian's faith.
Paul (2 Timothy 3:15) sees the Old Testament as a textbook on Christ. Peter and John used the Old Testament as their text when preaching the Gospel of Christ (Acts 2-3). John in his book of Revelation shows us the Christian's eternal hope of Heaven as a fulfillment of Old Testament themes (Revelation 21-22). Jesus used the Old Testament to explain his ministry to his disciples after his Resurrection (Luke 24:25-27). Paul "proved from the Scriptures" that Jesus is the Messiah (Acts 17:2-3). Everywhere we turn, we see Christ and the...

The New Model for Biblical Studies is an attempt to bring the Old and New Testaments together into one book - with one message.
Using a new paradigm that the author calls distributed revelation, this study uses the New Testament's plain interpretive principles to see the groundwork for Christianity in the Old Testament. Once we see that foundation, the New fits into the almost complete picture that the OT gives us of Christ with two new concepts - which lifts the Jewish physical religion to a permanent, spiritual level.
The New Model gives pastors and teachers a powerful new tool for...

This book describes ten critical principles that you should learn in order to fully profit from your Bible studies.
These principles are like keys that open the door to the Bible. Using these Keys will illuminate page after page of the Bible's stories and teachings -- in a way that Sunday School never did for you
Like any tool, you must first master the Keys themselves. Then you can apply the Keys to even familiar passages to start seeing the depth in God's Word, and the grand design of salvation that connects the Old and New Testaments.
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