But I am a worm.... Christ discription of Himself from the prophetic scriptures of Psalms 22:6. A wonderful and fitting discription of our Lord's suffering for us.

Christ, the prophetic fulfillment of Psalms 22, His suffering on the cross for sinners.

It is Christ that is made to us wisdom, and he the author and cause of all spiritual wisdom. He is made unto us righteousness, that is he satisfied the righteous law of God and made satisfaction to it that we might be justified from all sin, discharged from all condemnation and brought into the holiness of his nature. Christ's righteousness being reckoned, accounted to us as our justification. He is our sanctification, that by the imputation of the holiness of his nature, the merits of his blood, and the efficacy of his grace in a covenant relationship we are set aside and kept holy and brought to perfection. Christ is our redemption having obtained eternal redemption from sin, Satan, the law, and this present evil world.

This kingdom in which we have been translated is not something future, something to look forward to in the resurrection, No! we are in possession of the Kingdom right now. In fact the Aorist indicative is used, the timeless verb form teaching us that we are now in that Kingdom by a singular event,

When we worship, either privately or publicly or corporately, our worship will not be acceptable while there is unresolved resentment, envy, anger or any malice towards another in our heart, it is an offering blemished by our sin.

We believe that justification was an eternal and immanent act and not a transient act. The act being considered and viewed in Christ from everlasting, before the foundation of the world; and therefore with justification. This justification is a spiritual blessing was given us in Christ Jesus from eternity, because from eternity God loved us in Christ and made us accepted in him.

… having prayed for an increase of spiritual knowledge, and that this might be put into practice, he proceeds to pray for strength for them, that they might be enabled to practice what they had knowledge of; to walk worthily, to please God in all things

These Pharisees and scribes had made the law something that was dishonoring to God making it the works of men and the laws of men. They had reduced this broad commandment to a fine point, keeping the letter of the Law and not understanding the spirit of the Law.

We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace; through the Mediatorial offices of the Son of God; who by the appointment of the Father freely took upon him our nature, yet without sin; honored the divine law by his personal obedience, and by his death made a full atonement for our sins; that having risen from the dead, he is now enthroned in heaven; and uniting in his wonderful person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfections, he is every way qualified to be a suitable, a compassionate, and an all- sufficient Saviour.

1. The desire or petition of Paul: might be filled with the knowledge of his will… "Knowledge" is epignōsis. It is a higher or more advanced kind of knowledge; it is a knowledge that comes by experience and denotes a larger and more thorough knowledge.