?EXPOSITION Verse 27. God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light, or God is Jehovah, the only living and true God. There is none other God but he. Th...
Elect, Election The term elect means essentially to choose. It involves discriminatory evaluation of individuals, means, ends, or objects with a view ...
He is coming The OT Scriptures predicted a ?coming one? (Deu. Deu. 18:15-18; Ps. Ps. 2:1; Ps. 22:1; Ps. 118:26; Isa. Isa. 9:6; Isa. 48:16; Isa. 53:1;...
Mercy [N] [T] [E]Mercy is a concept integral to an understanding of God's dealings with humankind. In English translations of the Bible, it comes to e...
Old Testament in the New Testament, the The New Testament proclaims its indebtedness to the Old Testament on the very first page. Matthew begins with ...
Wealth [N]The most basic English definitions of wealth are the condition of being happy and prosperous and spiritual well-being (OED). But the most co...
Zechariah, Theology of Introduction. Authorship. The book of Zechariah falls naturally into two parts: chapters 1-8 and 9-14. In the first part we fin...
Kingdom of God The heart of Jesus' teachings centers around the theme of the kingdom of God. Thisexpression is found in sixty-one separate sayings in ...
Word [N](Heb. dabar [r'b'D]; Gk. logos [lovgo] and rhema [rJh'ma]). The theological meaning of word within Scripture spans a wide theological spectrum...
Demon [E] [S]Spirit being who is unclean and immoral in nature and activities. When demons were created, how they came to be demonic, and their organi...
God, Names of Names are more than labels. In Old Testament times a name expressed identification, but also identity. Significant meaning often attache...
Mission Basic Definition. Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether supernatural or human, to speak or do God's will so that h...
Philippians, Theology of Paul's letter to the Philippians is not a treatise on theology. Rather, it is a personal letter dealing primarily with person...
Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
Testimony [N] [E]The biblical concept of testimony or witness is closely allied with the conventional Old Testament legal sense of testimony given in ...
Eternal Life, Eternality, Everlasting Life The divinely bestowed gift of blessedness in God's presence that endures without end. This relates especial...
Ethics The ancient world did not consider religion to be morally inspiring, creative, or corrective; the reputed behavior of gods and goddesses repell...
Holy Spirit, Gifts of Four New Testament passages delineate specific gifts that God's Spirit gives to his people ( Rom 12:3-8 ; 1 Cor 12-14; Eph 4:7-...
Suffering [N]The experience of physical pain and/or mental distress. The words and phrases in the Bible expressing this concept are too numerous to li...
Leadership [N]The Old Testament. In the earliest days of the Old Testament, leadership of the people of God was by the family head or patriarch, to wh...