Romans 1 can feel dark. What starts us one downward path sometimes gets us lost in Romans 1 when the Apostle Paul announces all the bad impulses that come upon people. It is a sad path. Lets avoid the downward path. But all the ugly things Paul notes have one surprising cause. He first says: 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may …
God uses bad people to do his work and even horrible events to accomplish his purposes. Does this not put him in bad light as he is using apparently bad means to accomplish good things? Habakkuk asked this very question and a look at this recent century does much more. See what Habakkuk says: Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow …
God is not an individualist. In fact, the Trinity is beyond our understanding. God in three persons in perfect unity is our standard. Jesus further said in John 17: 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have …
As an American living in China, I keep an eye on what the ambassador to China and the one for the US say? Why do I do this? The ambassador has no real power. The Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthian 5:18-20 that we are Ambassadors for Christ. See below. What does he mean by this? 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself …
