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Tag: Greg Beale

  • 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…

  • Christ’s Righteousness is transferred to believers “in Christ”!

    When you really muse, and ponder, and contemplate upon the truth of our union with Christ by His grace through faith, and that in union with Him, His righteousness is transferred to us, or “credited” to us, it is mind-blowing! To have Christ’s righteousness as my own righteousness is astounding. 2 Cor 5:21 puts it…

  • Metaphorical-Spiritual and United with Christ

    My studies and meditation upon God and His word took a surprising turn this morning. It began with the thought that the WORD of GOD has power through the SPIRIT of GOD at God’s prerogative, or in His sovereignty, that is, according to His timing and manner, to inspire faith in the hearts of His…

  • How one’s union with Christ crushes low self-concept.

    30th December 2024. My reading at the edge end of 2024 brought me to Martin Luther’s, “The Freedom of the Christian“, and Greg Beale’s “Union with the Resurrected Christ” this morning. I experienced in my study and meditation this morning of what Luther wrote about how the soul with a firm faith is not only…

  • Eschatology of the Kingdom begins in the Garden

    This morning’s reading of Greg Beale’s Union with the Resurrected Christ (I like to add Ascended Christ as well!) was highly rewarding. I was once again renewed by gospel indicatives galore by Beale’s work in demonstrating that the eschatology of the kingdom began in the Old Testament, with its origins in the garden. Beale is…