The BIG Picture (Shorts)

The human mind struggles to grasp a God who exists beyond time. We prefer a God who reacts to our “now,” yet Revelation 1:8 calls us higher—to the absolute self-sufficiency of the Eternal One. When He declares Himself the “beginning and the ending,” He is not marking points on a timeline. He is asserting that He has no origin and no expiration. He does not “become” God as history unfolds; He is the Author who has already finished the book while we are still turning the first page. To honour Him as Alpha and Omega is to stop treating life as a series of accidents God must constantly repair. His purposes are not shaped by our circumstances; our circumstances are allowed by His purposes. As Colossians 1:17 confirms, “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” This is true authority: He is the “was” of heritage, the “is” of present struggle, and the “is to come” of eternal hope. The weight of “The Almighty” must be felt with holy fear. No power exists apart from His ...

Jesus, taught Jews that they had to endure to the end; being His second advent. He instructed them to pick up their cross and follow Him, saying that no one is fit for the kingdom of God if they put their hand to the plough and look back, Lk.9:62. These are conditions for their salvation. In our dispensation, salvation is not dependent on endurance. While Paul encourages us to endure in our service to God and the Body of Christ, our salvation is not based on works or endurance. When we respond in faith to the grace gospel, we are saved and sealed eternally into Christ. The blood of Christ provides the surety of salvation without works or performance. Paul writes in Eph.2:8-9, "by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast." Our salvation is a gift given to us by God's grace. We cannot boast! God saved us through the endurance of Christ, even unto death on the cross. Unlike Israel, it's b...