The fear of the Lord is fear of fleeing out of his fellowship into the way of sin. Therefore the fear of the Lord is full of peace and security and hope. It keeps us near to the merciful heart of God, our fortress, our refuge. Isaiah 8:13“The Lord of Hosts, … let him be your fear, and let him be your dread, and he will become a sanctuary.” A proper fear of the Lord keeps us near him where we need not be afraid.

Being filled with the Spirit means, basically, having great joy in God. Since the Bible teaches that “the joy of the Lord is our strength” (Nehemiah 8:10), it also means there will be power in this joy for overcoming besetting sins and for boldness in witness.

God wants us to see the unwavering purpose of the Holy Spirit. God wants us to see when the Holy Spirit says something, it will be fulfilled, even if it takes a thousand years.

When you are born again and put your faith in Christ, the Spirit of God unites you to Christ so that you are part of his body and a fellow-heir with him of eternal life.

Christ’s work of redemption is completed, and the church’s work of evangelism begins. Acts chronicles the initial stages and features of that unfinished work, and sets the path the church is to follow until the end.

Guilt is a universal experience. Everybody at some time or other has had the bad feeling of not doing what he ought to have done. Even people who deny that there is any such thing as right and wrong are trapped by the law of God written on their hearts.

Why the Cross? Because man is wicked and evil and God is Holy. In order for the two to be reconciled, something serious has to be done.

“For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased, through the foolishness of what was preached, to save those who believed.”

You and I can not just walk into the presence of God on our own, Jesus must escort us there. How often Jesus would say, there is no other way to the Father but by me.

The Passover is about a Lamb, a Lamb that was slain. The Passover was about a lamb back in the time of Moses, and it is still about a Lamb, whether that lamb be Moses’s lamb or Mary’s Lamb. You see, Mary’s Lamb was a fulfillment of the prophecy of Moses’s lamb.