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The Incarnation

The incarnation of Christ is not only the genesis of the Christmas story but the revelation from God on how we're to live the Christian life in community with one another.

God, in copious ways through his Word, reminds us that we are not at home in this world. He's prepared an ultimate eternal home, a city, a kingdom, for us to enjoy with him in His presence because of what Christ has accomplished on the cross! This blazing reality transforms, influences, and informs how we're to live here as exiles, strangers, and pilgrims.

Our future in Christ is secure and sure due to the sovereign love & justice of God the Father! In eternity to come, the Lord has promised that we will rise as Christ did and to receive rewards for our lives, as believers, lived in efforts to glorify his name. He has also promised that the wicked, those who've rejected the gift of salvation in Christ, will also rise to eternal life to receive shame and contempt. Our lives today count towards the future God has planned!

God has a great and glorious plan for the future of all who've believed in Christ! This plan, while it includes great suffering due to sin and wickedness of humanity, it culminates in the holistic and complete redemption in and through Christ of all of that God has created.

She Who is in Babylon

God's word through the prophet Daniel tells us of an enemy of God's people in Daniel's day and also a day to come! But in all of the enemies' plans and plots, the Lord will prevail, and rescue his people.

She Who is in Babylon

God displays his sovereignty and direct involvement the worlds geopolitics both in Daniels day, in our current day, and in our very lives. His sovereignty calls us to be filled with hope, peace, and joy knowing that he intends good for us as his children.

She Who is in Babylon

Those who belong to Christ and want to live for and serve him must know that before that day when we share in the glory of Christ we must fight the good fight of faith on the battlefield of the cosmic spiritual war between good and evil. But we can face those battles through the power of the gospel. The gospel enables us to approach God in prayer despite our sin, to open our hearts and confess our inadequacy and to receive God’s love, overcome fear and experience peace in the midst of battles of life.

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Jesus not only lays down his life for the lost sheep of Israel he has done so for "other sheep"; every tribe tongue and nation so they too may enjoy The Lord as their salvation. One global flock under One Great Shepherd.

She Who is in Babylon

The Unseen Battle

Lesson 14 Daniel 10.1-11:1

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Daniel 10 contains the first vision given to Daniel and it not only reveals the future of the kingdoms that impacted Israel and the world ruler that will emerge from them, it also is one of the few places in the Old Testament that reveals the special relationship between God the Father (the Ancient of Days) and God the Son (the Son of Man). Daniel’s Son of Man is the ultimate man who comes into the presence of the Ancient of Day to be crowned with all authority, is worshipped by all nations and rules a kingdom that will never end.