Tag: John
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The central figure of prophecy
Yesterday only scratched the surface of the best of sources prophesying of Christ.
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King of Kings
All things and all people are subject unto Christ and eventually all will acknowledge that to be true.
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Celestial apprenticeship
It occurs to me that one of the reasons that Christ was so central to the creation and everything else that His Father did was so that he would have an intimate knowledge of everything to assist Him in His mission on Earth as well as in eternity.
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Mission of Christ
Christ came that he might glorify His Father and liberate the captive and reign over the people, especially the covenant people. Through His death he overcame death and liberated all mankind.
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Jesus the Messiah
I love the verse that Christ used to announce himself as the Messiah – that he was sent to preach glad things and deliverance to the captive.
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The messenger of the covenant
The message of the gospel is centered on the Savior – I never considered the Savior as the messenger of the covenant that He represents.
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The mediator of the new covenant
The first covenant (as early Jews turned Christian might have called it) didn’t include a mediator because it was simply the humanly impossible conditions of loving perfectly to return to God. The “new” covenant (the one that Heavenly father planned for from the start because He knew that any other path was too narrow for…
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Christ as Lord
I’m surprised at how few references there are too Christ as Lord. I would have expected many more.
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The light of the world
Christ is the light of the world and those who follow His light need never walk in darkness.
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The Lamb and the Shepherd
It is interesting and people that Christ is both the lamb of God and the Good Shepherd to the children of God.