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A persistent teaching of the New Testament is that every human being is a servant of someone or something, that we all have a “master”. So the question arises as to just what form this master takes, and it is here where we find the answer to this question. Our verse at hand begins as
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As we begin our examination of Hebrews 4, we must first consider the primary assertion of the Epistle to the Hebrews. The primary assertion of this Epistle is that the New Covenant in Jesus Christ is superior in every way to the Old Covenant in its various aspects. It begins in the first two chapters
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Our previous post demonstrated the universality of “possession”, that human beings by nature are taken captive by an ideology or worldview. These ideologies are described as hollow and deceptive, lies of the devil rather than the truth of God. The “source” of these ideologies is the world rather than the Word of God, and the
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Colossians 3:3 tells us that our “life is now hidden with Christ in God”. This rather mysterious verse at first seems very difficult to ascertain the meaning of. What could it be telling us that our life is “hidden”? This post will examine the verse in some detail, and will demonstrate its connection to verse
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In verse one of chapter three, Paul tells us to “set your hearts on things above”, which ultimately means to choose to make that which we value and desire above all else to be the things of heaven, the things of God. Here in verse 2, Paul then tells us also to “set your minds
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Paul begins here with the Greek ei, normally translated as “if” (as in NIV), but the Greek syntax here communicates a more definite idea. He begins here with what is known as a first class conditional statement here, or what is also known as a condition of fact. Paul here is making a factual statement,
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