Our Lord gave a very sobering analysis of our commission at the end of John 15: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you” (Jn 15:18). He urges us to expect nothing less. The axiom is uncomfortably clear: “Remember […]
Pruning The word that Jesus uses to describe what the Father does to all who are rightly united and abiding in His Son, is the word kathairō, which means to make clean by taking away an undesirable part of something. Originally the word had the idea […]
In John 15, Jesus says, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that . . . does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” With these words He enters into the subject of divine pruning. […]
Jesus of Nazareth is God; He who was conceived in the womb of the virgin and born in Bethlehem’s manger is now, and always was, God over all, blessed forever. There is no gospel if he be not God. It is no news to me to […]
The subject of the Incarnation is at once initial and fundamental. … The Lord Jesus Christ is a Person infinitely transcending the possibility of perfect human comprehension. Nevertheless the Scripture declares certain facts concerning Him, which account for His glory and His grace, and without which […]