Union with Christ VI: The Objective Result, pt 2
Justification is too substantial a topic for one episode, so Dr. John Snyder and Acey Floyd continue focusing on the objective reality of the Christian’s union with Jesus Christ in this week’s episode. But the duo shifts the perspective for this episode from last week’s focus on how sinful man can be made right with God, to how God can be just and make man right with Him The answer, as made clear throughout all Scripture, is the imputation of our sin upon Christ and God’s imputing our sin to Christ.
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The Value of Spiritual Mindedness
Spiritual things are lovely and of great value because they flow from the infinite fountain of divine goodness and so they alone can fully and eternally satisfy the deepest desires of our hearts.
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Union with Christ V: The Objective Result, pt 1
God reveals Himself to be perfectly just, perfectly holy, and perfectly wise. So how could this perfect Being unite His perfect Son to fallen humanity? How can man, who has rebelled against God's sovereignty since our first parents, ever have a right standing before this Supreme Judge?
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Everlasting Service
Rest is sweet, but service (in proportion to our love) is sweeter still. Those who have served much here cannot but anticipate the fuller and more perfect service above.
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Union with Christ IV: United in Death
What does it mean to be united or baptized into Jesus's death? As Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones articulates in his commentary on Romans 6, it means that we are dead to the power of sin. The death of Christ empowers every Christian to overcome sin. While we will never be perfectly sinless, we will ultimately conquer sin to the glorify of God.
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What is Prayer?
Christ is the way through whom the soul hath admittance to God, and without whom it is impossible that so much as one desire should come into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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Union with Christ III: The Origin of Our Union
All of humanity is born being united to Adam. With that union has come the unwelcomed companion of death. But the Christian has a new representative: Jesus Christ. Our union with Him provides life and life eternal. How it is that a human being is united to the eternal God contains much mystery, but it is a beautiful reality worthy of much reflection and meditation. This week Dr. John Snyder and Acey Floyd continue examining theme by looking at the metaphors God gives us throughout the New Testament.
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How to Turn from Sin
Even if sin did not bear such bitter fruit, even if death did not grow on this tree, a gracious soul would forsake it out of love for God.
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Union with Christ II: The Nature of Our Union
Union with Christ doesn’t begin after we have reached a certain point of spiritual maturity. Jesus doesn’t wait until we know Him “well enough” to unite Himself with us. Our union with Him was decreed by the Father in eternity past and is experienced by every Christian from the moment of conversion, through every scene of life, upon death, and into our eternal rest.
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The Treasure of Christianity
Knowing God is the great jewel of Christianity. Though we are thankful for the many other gifts that have come from the cross of Christ, those gifts all lead back to this great source—the knowledge of Christ Himself.
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Union with Christ I: The Most Important Word
John Snyder and Acey Floyd start a new series about the Christian’s union with Christ. If Jesus is not God, as some have claimed, our union with Him would be worthless. If He is not human, as others have claimed, our union with Him would be impossible.
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The Trinity and Our Redemption
Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the trinity.
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