Psalm 78:3-8 The people of God are the portion of humanity who have chosen to submit to his rule. They belong to him, confess his name, and obey his commands. Or so they should. The generation of Israelites who came out of Egypt failed in this task. Although rescued from Egypt, their hearts remained there…
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The Holy Spirit, our God!
At the core of the Christian faith is the conviction that the Holy Spirit is not a mere spiritual being or angelic spirit but God himself. He is fully God, along with the Father and the Son. In the words of the Nicene Creed (around AD 381): “And we believe in the Holy…
Behold, our God!
We are not autonomous; we exist for God. Therefore, it is important that we know what He is like so we can adequately relate to Him and worship Him. In the words of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, a popular seventeenth-century Christian teaching manual, ‘God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power,…
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