Immanuel means… God is with us. Note carefully, that it doesn't mean God was with us or that God will be with us. It means God is with us and we are with God.
Dr C Baxter Kruger
There is no god named “justice” above Father, Son & Holy Spirit to whom they must report to get permission to love, forgive & accept you as their own.
Jesus is the name above all names & above all our imaginary gods. If you have seen Jesus, you have seen the Father.
We may be conflicted about what happened at the Cross, but, from the beginning, the Trinity agreed together as One to reconcile you to themselves.
“God was in Christ personally reconciling the world to himself—not counting their sins against them—and has commissioned us with the message of reconciliation.”
—2 Cor. 5:19, Phillips
"He included everyone in His death so that everyone could also be included in His life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own."
—II Cor. 5:15, Message
Once you know you’re loved without condition, you stop dancing to the music of other people’s expectations. Their verdicts no longer stick. Their scales no longer matter. Their cages no longer hold.
The ascension of Jesus, and ours in him, is not an afterthought, but the goal of creation. Jesus "in his Father" and "us in him" is not a half-time adjustment, but the dream of the blessed Trinity from before the foundation of the world.
Dr C Baxter Kruger
The union forged in Jesus, the exaltation of humanity in him to the right hand of God, is not a divine afterthought; it is the eternal foreword, the one Word of God from the beginning.
Dr C Baxter Kruger
Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday is more than a comma between Good Friday and Pascha morning. It is an eternal reality which bridges the infinite work of the cross and the unexpected joy of resurrection Sunday. God Himself enters our death, swallowing death for good into the abyss of His own love.
Having defeated all sin and mortality on the cross, the Word Himself becomes Silence. In the tomb, He harrows hell, emptying it of the entirety of its spoils. The unspeaking Lamb buries the noise of our brokenness, confusion and trauma into the earth forever, where nothing may resurface but the new creation lifted divinely from the grave, forged in a participatory unison of God’s own life.
We cannot verbalize the actionless action of Holy Saturday, because the Word lies wordless. Forever shutting the mouth of the grave, which has now become Shabbat and womb.
#HolyWeek
@AudieRoseX@elonmusk Belief in Jesus is saying my sins for His righteousness, Martin Luther called it the greatest exchange. That being said, we live on the other side with grace and gratefulness, to extend it to others, yes Wonderful Counselor!!
No system and no leader can satisfy the human soul. The well from which we drink should not be a captivating preacher or a certain kind of worship experience. Nothing and no one can represent God accurately except by a likeness to Jesus Christ.
Are you forgiven—or still trying to get forgiven?
Hebrews 10:14 doesn’t stutter: “By one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.” That’s not partial. That’s not positional. That’s not “for now, but check back later.” That’s forever.
In this clip, Andrew cuts through the religious fog and exposes the myth of two kinds of forgiveness. One sacrifice. One cleansing. One finished work. You’re not perfectly behaved—but you are perfectly forgiven.
The covenant has been turned into a contract, and God’s grace made conditional on man’s obedience. The God of the Bible, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is a covenant-God, not a contract-god.
JB Torrance