Vedem că întunericul spiritual cuprinde din ce în ce mai mult omenirea, iar lumea noastră seamănă cu o corabie plină de găuri care se scufundă si care nu mai poate fi salvată. Deși este adevărat că haosul care a cuprins oamenii pe pământ nu mai poate fi reparat, tot atât de adevărat este și faptul că cei credincioși Domnului nu sunt fără speranță pentru că ei așteaptă fericita nădejde și arătarea slavei marelui Dumnezeu și Mântuitor, Isus Hristos.

Seven Exhortations for the Disciples of the Lord Jesus

In an act of great humility, Jesus washed the feet of all twelve disciples, including Judas, whom He knew would betray Him.^[1] This is the lowest level of humility.

 Looking to Jesus in Scripture to find out who He is, what He has done, and what He desires; to discover in the Scriptures His character, that He may be our model; to find in His teachings our guide, in His commandments our rule of life, in His promises the support we need, in His Person and work, the fulfillment of all the longings of our soul.

The fall of man into sin filled the heart of God with sorrow. The world of God’s creation was thus ruined by the curse of sin, and inhabited by beings doomed to degradation and death. But the Son of God was moved with pity for the fallen race, and divine love devised a plan by which man might be redeemed. The transgression of God’s law required the life of the sinner, “for the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 2:23).

There is but One in all the universe who could satisfy its demands in man’s behalf. Since the divine law is as holy as God, only one equal with God could make atonement for its transgression. None other than Christ could redeem the human race from the curse of the law. Christ would take upon Himself the guilt and shame of sin, sin that would separate the Lord Jesus from God the Father on the cross. The life of an angel could not pay the debt, for He alone, who created man, had the power to redeem him.

The plan of salvation had been formed before the earth was brought into existence, for Christ is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8). From the beginning it was a struggle for God himself to give His Son to die for fallen man. But, as it is written in God’s book (Psalm 40:7), the Lord Jesus chose to do the will of the Father, who “so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Although it is a love of God that we do not understand and do not share, God was to be incarnate in Christ, “reconciling the world to Himself” (2 Corinthians 5:19).

Because of sin, man became so fallen that it was impossible for him to come into harmony with Him whose nature is goodness and purity. But Christ, having redeemed man from the curse of the Law, has transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love (Colossians 1:13). Thus, through repentance toward God and faith in Christ, the children of Adam, who fell into sin, can again become “children of God” (1 John 3:2).

The Lord Jesus was to stand between the sinner and the penalty of sin, to leave His high position, to come to earth, to humble Himself as a man, and, by His own experience, to know the pain and the account which He must endure. All this was necessary that He might be able to succor those who were tempted (Hebrews 2:18). When His mission as a Teacher should be ended, He was to be delivered into the hands of the lawless, to be subjected to all manner of insults and tortures which Satan should inspire them to bring upon Him. He was to die the most cruel death, to be lifted up into the heavens, and like a guilty sinner, to endure the torment, the hiding of His Father's face, to have the burden of the sins of the whole world laid upon Him.

The first promise of redemption was given to man in the sentence pronounced upon Satan in the garden of Eden. The Lord then declared: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall bruise his head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” (Genesis 3:15) This sentence spoken to our first parents was a promise to them, and foretold a spiritual warfare between man and Satan, but it also declared that the power of this great adversary of man would ultimately be broken by a plan of salvation devised for God.

From ancient times righteous Job knew that his Redeemer lives and that He will ultimately stand upon the earth. (Job 19:25) Do we know Him as Job knew Him? May God enlighten our minds by His Holy Spirit so that we may see the Lord Jesus on every page of Scripture!

The history of mankind is not presented as a history of hope, awaiting the coming of a Redeemer, and this messianic hope will be maintained by messianic professions throughout the Old Testament period. We can see the history of God’s people as a history of the promise of the coming of the Lord Jesus, revealed to us first through His prophets, for “…the Lord God does nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7).

The following are just a few of the messianic professions in the Old Testament that were fulfilled in the person of the Lord Jesus.

Fulfilled Prophecies about the Lineage of Jesus
Old Testament prophecies show that the Messiah is of Adamic descent and will come from the line of David. Thus, he is called “the rod out of the root of Jesse” (Isaiah 11:10), “the shoot out of the root of Jesse” (Isaiah 11:1), “the branch” that God will raise up for David (Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15-17; Zechariah ). Being of royal lineage, the Messiah will be

The Assurance That You Have Been Forgiven

As soon as you repented, asking God for forgiveness for your entire sinful past, He forgave your sin completely. Even in the Old Testament, people who acknowledged their sins and confessed them could know with certainty that they had been forgiven: “Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord!’ And You forgave the guilt of my sin.” (Ps. 32:5).

Prophecy in the Bible

The Bible is a prophetic book, and it expresses that all prophetic content is accurate and inspired by God: "All Scripture is breathed of God, and profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to give wisdom in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, and wholly fit for every good work."  (2 Timothy 3:16-17)