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  • The Lion of the tribe of Judah de-fanged!

    2 Tim 3:5 has a damning indictment against people who hold “to the form of godliness but deny (ing) its power“. In fact, the Holy Spirit even inspired Paul to add, “Avoid these people“. The Spirit is clear that this indictment is for “those who worm their way into households and deceive” (v 6), those…

  • Being united to Christ is not enough, you need to be a member of a local body.

    Yesterday, Easter Sunday, 20th April, 2025, was my final worship service in a “Christ-centered, and Gospel-centered” church (by their own confession over the pulpit and as contained in their statement of beliefs). Yet, in spite of their confessional stand on the “faith once delivered to the fathers’, I was not considered a “member” of this…

  • One with Christ in Definitive Sanctification

    My devotions on being “One with Christ”, a central pillar of the gospel of GOD and of His Christ, brought me to Dr Greg Beale’s Union with the Resurrected Christ (Baker Academic, 2023), page 451. Beale’s exegesis is worth quoting in full. “This is what I mean by “definitive sanctification,” (emphasis mine) which is a…

  • United with Christ but not a “member”?!

    This post will touch on what the gospel teaches about believers of Christ, united with Him, by faith alone, through His grace alone, according to God’s sovereign grace alone, to His glory alone, as taught in Scripture alone, but having to face the requirements of men alone when it comes to the sticky issue of…

  • Spiritual and “babes” in union with Christ

    It all began with my meditation upon 1 Cor 2:12. “We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” (Berean Standard Bible) When we invite the Holy Spirit, the Author of Scripture (2 Tim 3:16), to speak to…

  • Christ the connective glue uniting God and Man against the chasm of sin

    It’s been a busy season! By the grace of God, I have been blessed to commence upon my doctoral studies with HELP University. Blessed to have an opportunity to engage in one of my chief delights; learning and acquiring knowledge and insight. To top it all off, this learning is in how to teach and…

  • Christ alone satisfies our soul hunger and thirst!

    My meditations upon Christ, and in communion with the resurrected and ascended Christ through His Spirit and in His written word yielded such grace to my soul this morning. Having cried out to Him for fresh spiritual manna, He did not disappoint. He is gracious. He hears every heart’s cry to Him for life. For…

  • Union with Christ in His sufferings and in His resurrected and ascended glory.

    God has given His people such glory! First, He gave us Christ. Then He follows up on this glorious Christ with the glorious Holy Spirit. This Christ who is the Spirit (2 Cor 3:17 & 18) is our Shepherd. “The LORD IS my Shepherd, I shall not want” (Psa 23:1). The LORD, YHVH in the…

  • Fasting, Feasting and the Gospel remains the only antidote to the poison of sin.

    I felt led this morning to go back to Richard D Phillips’s commentary on Zechariah (Reformed Expository Commentary, P&R Publishing, 2007). In Zech 8:19, the Holy Spirit through Zechariah connects Fasting to seasons of Joy, Gladness and Cheerful Feasts. And then connects these themes to exhort the people to “love truth and peace”. Phillips continues…

  • Serpent’s sin and the Savior’s salvation in the garden.

    I am grateful to Dr Gregory K Beale and his wonderful work of producing “Union with the Resurrected Christ”, Baker Academic, 2023. I have been receiving amazing revelations and insights of the believer’s union with Christ through Dr Beale’s exposition. It is a quite an experience in “rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim…