The New Man in Christ

Is God Stalking You In Genesis God asks a question: (NIV)Genesis 3:9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” Ever since Genesis God has been seeking man. It isn’t that he does not know where we are it is that ever since Genesis 3 man and God have needed reconciling. Jesus Christ reconciled man to God. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: a The old has gone, the new is here! 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 in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin b for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Now the question ...

Luke 2   1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.   2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)    3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. In verse one the  word taxed is the Greek word  apographó. It does not mean taxed it means enrolled they were doing  a census.  It reads that way in most of the modern versions. (ESV) Luke 2:1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered The same holds true in verse 2 where it reads tax One thing to remember that people at that time in Israel as well as rest of the Middle East were tribal in nature. In fact that is still true today in much of the Middle East. They may move around a bit but for an enrollment that meant that Joseph would want to be enrolled in his ancestral home not Nazareth. As I have shown you in the...

Let us start in Luke chapter 1. Luke 1   1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,   2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;   3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,   4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. This is an introduction by Luke about why he decided to write the gospel of Luke. This of course still does not change the truth that “ holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost” that it came not by the will of man “but by the revelation of Jesus Christ .” And all scripture is “God breathed or came by inspiration of God”. In verse 3 the words having had perfect are the Greek word akribōs and...