Meeting With Christ
Practical and Exegetical Studies on the Words of Christ
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April 29, 2025 • 29 mins
The Lord Jesus said that one day He will come back. And He also described how He will come back. It is going to be a sudden and unexpected return. Let’s read His teaching in Mark 13:33-37.
Mark 13:33. Take heed, watch; for you do not know when the time will come.
34 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.
35 Watch t...
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April 29, 2025 • 25 mins
The Lord Jesus taught that His second coming will be sudden and unexpected. But although it will be sudden and unexpected, there will be signs pointing to His coming. All sorts of events will take place leading up to His coming. We saw what these events will be in previous lessons. Then Jesus goes on to say this puzzling sentence in Matthew 24:34.
Matthew 24:34. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these...
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April 29, 2025 • 28 mins
The theme of separating the good from the bad is a frequent theme of the parables. Remember the Parable of the Tares where there is mention of the ‘good’ wheat and the ‘bad’ tares. In the Parable of the Dragnet, Jesus spoke about sorting out the ‘good’ fish from the ‘bad’ fish. Today we are going to talk about ‘good girls’ and ‘bad girls,’ or more exactly about ‘wise virgins’ and ‘foolish virgins’ in the Parable of the Ten Virgins....
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April 29, 2025 • 28 mins
The topics of judgment, reward and punishment are rather unpopular in Christian circles, and not often preached from the pulpit. But they are important in Jesus’ teaching. In the Parable of the Talents, Jesus taught that while He is away, the believer must do the work of the kingdom faithfully and diligently, knowing that at the return of his Lord, his work will be greatly rewarded or severely judged. Let us read this parable, the ...
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April 29, 2025 • 27 mins
In the last two lessons, we studied the Parable of the Talents and the Parable of Ten Virgins. These two parables are found in Matthew 25, from v. 1 to v. 30, and they share the common theme of the Second Coming of Christ. At the end of Matthew 24, we find another parable which is also concerned with the Second Coming of Christ. It is the Parable of the Faithful and Unfaithful Servants in Matthew 24:45-51. So these three parables, ...
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April 29, 2025 • 29 mins
In the NT, the theme of separation is often linked with the topic of judgment. In the language of the Bible, separation means judgment. Look at these examples. In Matthew 3:12, the wheat is separated from the chaff. John the Baptist says that the wheat is gathered into the barn while the chaff is burned up with unquenchable fire, a reference to the last judgment. Similarly, in Matthew 13:30, the tares are separated from the wheat. ...
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April 29, 2025 • 25 mins
This is the second lesson on the teaching of Jesus concerning the separation of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25:31-46. In the first lesson, we discussed mostly the meaning of the goats. What do the goats represent in Matthew 25? We saw that the goats, just like the sheep, represent Christians. Today we will concentrate on the topic of separation, which in biblical language means judgment. What did Jesus say about the judgment of ...
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April 29, 2025 • 22 mins
In discussing the existence of God with non-believers, there are typical questions that can be expected. ‘Prove to me that God exists. Where is God now? Show me that He is real. How can I believe in someone that I don’t see?’ These are certainly fair questions but as we know, they are not necessarily easy to answer. It is not like showing a building to a person. We can understand a nonbeliever when he asks this type of questions. B...
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April 29, 2025 • 25 mins
This lesson is the second part of a study on the words of Jesus in John 14:21 where the Lord said, I will manifest myself. We saw the last time that when Jesus said, I will manifest myself, He was referring to His resurrection. I will manifest myself means ‘You will see me in my resurrected body, three days after my death.’ We also saw that the resurrection is the central point of Jesus’ teaching. Everything depends on it. Without ...
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April 29, 2025 • 25 mins
When a person makes the decision to follow Jesus in baptism, something totally new happens at the spiritual level. He becomes united with Christ. This spiritual and somewhat mystical union brings that person into the realities of the spiritual world. And part of the spiritual realities that a disciple will have to face is the destructive power of Satan, the devil’s desire to destroy whoever he can get. The apostle Peter gives us th...
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April 29, 2025 • 25 mins
This is the second lesson on Luke 22:31-34 where Jesus reveals that Peter is the object of satanic attack and He has been praying for him. Let’s read the story.
Luke 22:31. “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,
32 but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren.”
33 And he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to...
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April 25, 2025 • 28 mins
We are approaching the end of our study on the words of Christ and I realize that we never really talked about the biblical concept of the flesh. The Bible teaches that within the immaterial part of man, we find the soul, the spirit, the heart, the conscience, the mind, the will, and … the flesh. The flesh, sarx in Greek, is a complex word, with multiple facets. In this lesson, we will study it from the ethical point of view. We wi...
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April 22, 2025 • 26 mins
When someone important to us departs, we pay special attention to the last things he or she said. These words become very precious because we know that we will not see that person anymore.
Here are the last words of Jesus to his disciples in the gospel of Matthew. Matthew 28:18-20.
Matthew 28:18. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been
given to me.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all na...
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April 19, 2025 • 25 mins
Today, I would like to begin a series of lessons on the meaning of baptism. I am often distressed to see that there are Christians who have been baptized without really knowing what it is that they were doing. And some of these people thought that this was some way of joining a club, a sort of ceremonial rite into a club.
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April 9, 2025 • 28 mins
We will continue today our study of the meaning of baptism. We saw the last time that baptism is a sacrament of union. Baptism is the symbol of the union that takes place between the believer and Christ. In our lesson today, I will show you another aspect of baptism. And it is that baptism is a pledge to God. It is a commitment to follow God.
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April 9, 2025 • 27 mins
In our last lesson, we saw that baptism is a pledge, a pledge to God by which you make Him King of your life. You are saying to God, that by His grace, you are going to remain faithful to Him, faithful unto death. This is the exhortation that we find in Revelation 2:10 where Jesus says, …be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life.
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April 8, 2025 • 25 mins
Today, I would like us to look at another aspect of the meaning of baptism. We have seen in this series on baptism that baptism is a union, union with the Lord Jesus. In this union with Christ, we identify ourselves to Him in His death on the cross. But it doesn’t stop there. This union applies also to His resurrection. Colossians 2:12 says, and you were buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through fai...
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April 8, 2025 • 30 mins
The topic of baptism is closely linked with the question of the Holy Spirit. Just a superficial reading of the NT gives us already the impression that there seems to be something between ‘baptism’ and the ‘Holy Spirit.’
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