As we search to grasp the methods of God and dive deeper into the pages of Scripture, there is likely to be some phrases that you simply hear or see that you could be not know.
I do know once I first began, it appeared like there have been so many phrases I didn’t perceive and I simply nodded alongside as if I did, too embarrassed to confess I didn’t. I felt like everybody else knew what they meant however me and it made me really feel dangerous.
The reality is, many different individuals are nodding alongside too, pretending to grasp what they imply. 😆
So as a substitute of nodding like we perceive once we don’t and defrauding these round us, let’s get to know them effectively and write these 15+ phrases chances are you’ll not know as a believer upon our hearts, collectively. ❤️
20 Phrases You Could Not Know As a Believer
I totally admit to you that a few of these will take some actual thought-provoking meditation and prayer to grasp them and that’s OKAY!!! 💯
Don’t really feel embarrassed or ashamed that you simply don’t know them or that it’d take you some time to be taught them. A number of the theologies are actually onerous to know at first and everybody learns at a special tempo.
For the more durable phrases, take one every week. Use this as a guidelines to begin studying a brand new phrase every week and actually diving deep and understanding the doctrine behind it.
The extra we research out God’s Phrase and His precepts, the extra according to Him we will likely be! So it’s all about carving out that particular time for Him and studying about Him, spending time with Him, and studying key phrases like it is a nice use of that particular bonding time with our Lord and Savior. 🥰
I really feel like studying these phrases can also be an effective way to honor our Pastor. He works SO onerous to convey us the reality of the gospel every week, working and finding out numerous hours that we don’t see, nor do we all know, however the fruit of his lips make it evident, he’s taking his function God has positioned upon him so very critically.
To honor and revere him, to respect him as our shepherd and chief, it’s a good suggestion to review out phrases like this in order that we perceive when he speaks to us. If we’re studying and rising as a believer in Christ, then HE is doing his job effectively. He’s accountable to God for a way he brings us all up (1 Peter 5:1-4), so we should be doing a very good job on our personal (1 Peter 5:5), honoring him AND God in our day by day research of the Bible.
Once more, take one phrase at a time and be taught it effectively…
1) Revelation
There’s a ebook within the Bible known as Revelation, however there’s a that means behind the phrase; The ebook within the Bible isn’t what we’re referring to right here. This sort of revelation refers back to the normal revelation of God to man. That is how God reveals Himself to us.
All through the Bible, we see verses that make it clear to us that God expresses Himself (His nature, traits, attributes, qualities, traits, legal guidelines, and instructions) to us.
We expertise the revelation of God by way of His creation (Psalm 19:1, Psalm 97:6), His redemptive work in our lives (see: sanctification), and likewise as we hear and skim His Phrase. Romans 1:19-20.
If you turned a Christian, you skilled the Spirit of God revealing Himself (His grace and free reward of salvation – Ephesians 2:8) on to you.
As we stay our lives and line our hearts as much as His, He’ll reveal Himself to us by way of His Phrase.
2) Salvation
Salvation means to be saved or delivered from sin and its everlasting penalties. Typically chances are you’ll hear somebody say they had been saved from the penalty of sin.
The penalty (or penalties) of sin embody endlessly having to expertise the wrath of God and His condemnation in Hell, being separated from Christ endlessly. God’s holy and righteous normal was damaged by our sin and His condemnation is the judgment and punishment for that sin.
On the cross, Jesus suffered an excruciating demise to be able to pay the penalty for our sins – all of them, previous, current, and future. It’s necessary to remind ourselves that God the Father despatched His Son Jesus Christ to the cross as an act of affection in the direction of us as sinners (John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8-9).
Salvation occurs once we hear the gospel (additionally known as the excellent news) and by religion we consider. We then repent of our sins, flip from them, and make God Lord of our life. God is the one who grants a sinner repentance or the power to repent (Acts 11:18, 2 Timothy 2:25).
It’s in His mercy that God permits us to really feel excessive regret, guilt, and/or conviction for our sins that it could result in salvation.
At our salvation, we start to see all the pieces in another way. We begin to see ourselves as God sees us, not because the world or now we have seen ourselves. We now not worry God’s wrath and judgment and now see Him as our merciful and loving heavenly Father that we wish to dedicate our lives to loving, serving, and obeying. John 14:15.
Real salvation can by no means be misplaced (Romans 11:29, Romans 8:38-39, Jude 1:24-25). As soon as a sinner is saved, they’re protected and safe of their Father’s arms. They’re redeemed (1 Peter 1:18-19), justified (Romans 5:1), turn out to be a brand new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), and set aside for Christ for the glory of God (1 Peter 2:9), the testimony of Christ (Romans 12:1-2), and for good works (Ephesians 2:10, 2 Timothy 2:21).
3) Atonement
Atonement is what Jesus did on the cross for us. It’s principally summed up in a single phrase: reconciliation. It’s the act of constructing amends for one thing achieved flawed (like wiping a chalkboard clear). Psalms 103:12.
We’re sinners by way of and thru. The Bible says that there’s not ONE with out sin (Romans 3:10) and anybody who says they don’t sin, they deceive themselves and the reality will not be in them (1 John 1:8).
So we, as believers, perceive we sin and sin is such a serious deal too. God takes it completely critically and if we sin and don’t care about it, it grieves His coronary heart. Sin separates us from God (Isaiah 59:1-2). Take into consideration Jesus on the cross, proper earlier than He died He stated, “Why do you forsake Me?” God was turning His again on His personal Son as a result of Jesus was taking the sin on Himself for us. Our sin turned His sin and God couldn’t bear to have a look at His personal Son whereas that was taking place as God can’t look upon sin (Habakkuk 1:13).
It grieves our Father. Take into consideration one other time within the Bible when God was so grieved by our sin. In Genesis 6:6, it says, “And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his coronary heart.” That’s when He known as Noah to construct the ark.
Not solely does sin grieve our Father and separate us from Him, nevertheless it evokes His righteous wrath (Romans 1:18).
Sin is an enormous downside and we will’t save ourselves so God despatched His Son, Jesus Christ, to tackle our sin as an alternative choice to us. HE paid the penalty of sin, which is demise (Romans 6:23). Jesus dying on the cross was His atoning work (1 John 2:2). It was the act that made us reconciled (a transparent slate) with God.
4) Evangelism
Once we evangelize, it implies that we’re sharing the gospel with others. We’re proclaiming the precise info to them, which is completely different than simply sharing our life experiences as a Christian.
See extra posts about Evangelism right here.
5) Sanctification
Sanctification is an ongoing means of turning into extra Christ-like, turning into increasingly holy every day. It’s the method of religious development and growth leading to maturity.
In contrast to justification, that is an ongoing occasion and is rarely full this facet of heaven as a result of we can’t attain perfection till heaven. We’re perfected in heaven, partly as a result of God can’t look upon sin (Habakkuk 1:13) and that’s the place He lives.
6) Second Coming
The second coming of Jesus Christ refers to His closing return to earth (earlier than the brand new heavens and earth – Revelation 21:1) the place He’ll choose the depraved and collect up His remaining elect (Christians). Solely God the Father is aware of the day or time when this may happen (Matthew 24:36).
7) Exalt
Exalt means to carry up. To carry one thing up. Once we exalt God, we carry Him as much as a glorified place, His true and correct place.
Glorifying God needs to be the objective of all the pieces we do in life and the measure by which we make selections.
We’re additionally known as to exalt and constructed one another up (1 Thessalonians 5:11, Hebrews 10:24).
8) Righteousness
God is completely righteous – we’re not. Righteousness refers to God’s holy perfection. He’s utterly separated and set aside from sin. And with out the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, now we have no hope of accomplishing or measuring as much as meet God’s excessive, holy, and excellent requirements.
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, in order that in him we’d turn out to be the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21
9) Justification
Justification is a one-time occasion or act that happens the second we turn out to be Christians. We instantly stand justified earlier than God. Which means that we’re declared righteous and simply in God’s eyes due to Christ’s righteousness that’s been imputed to us.
Think about a courtroom scene. Devil is the lawyer attacking us and hurling insults towards us, charging us with sin. He’s not flawed, as a result of now we have sinned (Romans 3:23). God the Father is the choose and Jesus is OUR lawyer. Jesus comes alongside and says, “Sure, this individual has sinned, however I paid their debt on the cross. Now not are they responsible, however reasonably, justified earlier than the Lord our choose and maker.”
That is justification.
10) Imputation
Once we turn out to be Christians, Christ’s righteousness is imputed to us. For the time being of our conversion, His righteousness turns into attributed or credited to us. We now stand innocent (positionally) earlier than God due to this superb act of Jesus for us.
11) Substitutionary
Christ died a substitutionary demise, that means that He died in our place. God imputed all of our sins to Christ on the cross.
When Jesus Christ bore or took upon Himself all of our sins (1 Peter 2:24), He skilled the complete brunt of the wrath of God so that we is likely to be saved.
In dying a substitutionary demise, Jesus Christ happy the wrath of God. The fee required for sin is demise (Romans 6:23). That’s why they provided animal sacrifices to God earlier than Christ’s demise. As soon as Jesus died, animal sacrifices had been now not wanted ever once more. Jesus paid the penalty as soon as for all. Hebrews 10:1-12.
12) Rebuke
To rebuke somebody is to criticize or reprimand them as a method of declaring their error(s). Biblical error or false instructing ought to all the time be rebuked as a result of the reality of God is at stake.
However once we rebuke somebody, it ought to all the time be achieved in love with tenderness, compassion, and mercy and solely after prayer and cautious examination of 1’s personal life to weigh any hypocrisy that might be hiding in plain sight.
Likewise, we should always by no means rebuke one other for egocentric motives and it needs to be achieved in personal. A very good sample for that is Matthew 18:15-17.
13) Resurrection
Jesus Christ was resurrected, raised from the lifeless (Mark 16:1-8) by God the Father. The resurrection is what units Christianity aside and permits us to have full religion that our salvation is true and safe as a result of Christ demonstrated His energy over the grave.
Easter Sunday is usually known as Resurrection Day as a result of it’s when Jesus rose from the lifeless and defeated the facility of sin as soon as and for all.
14) Marginalized
The dictionary summarizes marginalized as referring to a bunch of individuals or somebody who experiences issues like exclusion or ousting as a result of they’re being belittled in worth or significance by others. They’re seen as “lower than”.
Christians have been marginalized as a bunch and likewise as people for his or her adherence to biblical truths and authority. The Bible has additionally been marginalized in that its worth and authority have been diminished.
However greater than that, there are individuals in our world which might be marginalized every day with nowhere to show. Isaiah 61:1-3 calls us to have compassion for them and to assist them.
Jesus is our prime instance. In John 9, He heals a blind man. This man He healed had been marginalized by the church earlier than Jesus got here alongside to heal him.
15) Mercy Seat
In Exodus 25:21-22, the mercy seat was the lid to the ark of the covenant. Within the Previous Testomony, God required the shedding of blood from animals to supply a overlaying for the individuals’s sins. That needed to occur earlier than God may meet with His individuals.
The demise of Nadab and Abihu in Leviticus 10:1-3 reveals us how critically God takes His holiness and our sin. We will’t simply strategy Him flippantly. Within the Previous Testomony, sinful individuals had no hope of approaching a holy God with out being destroyed (Exodus 33:20). So the monks would enter the Holy of Holies and sprinkle blood on the mercy seat, which was situated on the highest of the ark of the covenant.
“And also you shall put the mercy seat on the highest of the ark, and within the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall offer you. There I’ll meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the 2 cherubim which might be on the ark of the testimony, I’ll communicate with you about all that I will provide you with in commandment for the individuals of Israel.” Exodus 25:21-22.
There have been many, many guidelines to ensure that a priest to be ceremonially clear, and he should be ceremonially clear earlier than coming into the Holy of Holies. It was achieved every year by the priest and by nobody else. It got here to be a customized, that they’d tie a rope across the priest’s waist in order that if he died within the presence of the ark of the covenant for any purpose, they might drag out his physique with out themselves additionally dying whereas entering into and finishing up the lifeless physique.
Think about the worry that you simply’d should strategy God in such a way. Worrying that one of many rules wasn’t achieved correctly otherwise you missed one thing and also you’d die. Approaching God is a really severe matter.
Moses was informed to take off his sandals when within the presence of God. It was holy floor, the textual content says (Exodus 3:5).
Isaiah noticed God and was totally fearful as effectively, stating he was a person of unclean lips (Isaiah 6:5).
But so typically, we come to God in prayer with out fear, concern, respect, or take care of our nice God. The ark of the covenant is actually one thing fascinating to review out in depth. It’s a wonderful image, one the place you be taught simply how reverent we needs to be when addressing our Lord. Finding out it instills in us a respectful worry of God.
Jesus is extra like our brother and pal, however God the Father, is way, far more severe in character and character, as any father is, and needs to be taken critically as effectively.
16) Propitiation
Pastor Danny Schillero sums it up like this, “Propitiation is the satisfaction of God’s wrath when Jesus absorbed the anger and the wrath that God has towards sin. It was utterly absorbed by His Son. And it’s due to that actuality that we will stay on this freedom that this debt that we owe has been paid.”
Within the Previous Testomony, the mercy seat was the place of propitiation as a result of it’s the place the monks would sprinkle the blood from animals that had been sacrificed to be able to fulfill God’s wrath over our sin.
17) Reconciliation
The one manner for us to have a relationship with God is to be reconciled to Him by way of Jesus Christ. Till we turn out to be Christians, our relationship with God is damaged and strained due to our sin. Reconciliation takes place once we, by religion, place our belief within the atoning sacrifice of Christ.
“For if whereas we had been enemies we had been reconciled to God by the demise of his Son, far more, now that we’re reconciled, we could be saved by his life. Greater than that, we additionally rejoice in God by way of our Lord Jesus Christ, by way of whom now we have now acquired reconciliation.” Romans 5:10-11
Reconciliation is a canceling of our debt, the debt that we incur by our sin.
18) Windfall
Windfall is God’s care and concern for us. It’s His unyielding energy to uphold all the pieces within the universe that He created.
Take into consideration this. When God created the earth, for instance, He made it round and created it to spin on an axis. All the most important mountains on the earth should due to this fact be degree and even.
If He had put all nice and massive mountains weighing the identical measurement on one facet and all tiny, small hills on one other facet, the earth would spin distorted and out of stability. The weights and measurements wouldn’t enable for it to spin correctly. We might spiral uncontrolled.
Now think about man, bulldozing such mountains.
Kinda will get you considering, doesn’t it?!
God upholds the weights and measurements of the mountains so we’re not tossed round like a warped, inflated basketball. It should be completely, completely weighted on acceptable sides.
He holds that in His hand. He upholds all the pieces, from the smallest blade of grass to the larger points just like the mountains.
So once you learn one thing like Psalm 46:2, the place it says don’t worry even when the mountains are moved into the ocean, we shouldn’t. We all know that He has all issues below management. Nothing is a shock to Him, nothing shocks Him. He is aware of the tip from the start and all the pieces in between (Isaiah 46:10). He has it lined.
That is His windfall. It’s not all random. He holds all the pieces in His hand. He alone, sovereignty controls it.
19) Covenant
A covenant is an unbreakable promise, a proper and binding settlement. God by no means adjustments (Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8, James 1:17, Psalm 102:27) so His guarantees to us are for certain, one thing we will rely on.
Once we make a covenant to God, it’s a very severe factor, by no means to be entered into evenly.
Uzziah broke the covenant with the Lord when he touched the ark of the covenant to stabilize it from falling and died (2 Samuel 6:3-8).
Israel and Judah broke their covenant with the Lord and catastrophe was decreed towards them (Jeremiah 11:9-17).
Leviticus 26:14-33 tells us what can occur once we break a covenant with the Lord. God all the time blesses obedience and punishes disobedience. At all times. If you happen to assume you will get away with it, you possibly can’t. The Lord and His Phrase is not going to be mocked (Galatians 6:7).
20) Trinity
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all equal, one essence, one Deity, however all of them maintain very DIFFERENT personalities/characters/spirits (2 Corinthians 13:14).
In accordance with Matthew 28:19, the trinity is:
- God, the Father
- Jesus, the Son
- The Holy Spirit
God, the Father is VERY severe. When you find yourself in HIS presence it’s, take off your sneakers you might be within the presence of THE LORD (Exodus 3:5). It’s extremely respectful and also you bow since you notice His huge energy over all the pieces, together with your very life (Isaiah 6:5).
There’s a seriousness there, a reverential awe and righteous worry of the Lord. You don’t communicate to Him except He asks you to talk. You’re simply speechless in awe of His majesty and undone.
HE…IS…GOD.
Jesus is so much much less severe. Jesus is like your brother. You’ll be able to mess around with Him, make a joke and it’s okay. You’ll be able to hang around with Him, really feel extra snug with Him. He’s your buddy, your pal, your brother. He’s nonetheless God, nonetheless holy, nonetheless respectable on all counts. He’s nonetheless good, however the character is completely different.
Jesus solutions to the Lord, so He’s 100% submissive to God, the Father, identical to we needs to be additionally. Jesus is a superb PICTURE of us, but additionally of God. He serves as an amazing MODEL of how God IS and the way we needs to be. It’s the right mix between God and man…Jesus.
He lowered Himself to be like man, left Heaven (a tremendous place) for US! As a result of God (and Jesus) care about us so immensely, He died for us. Their love and concern for us is really unimaginable.
When spending time with each, God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ, I choose to spend time with God the Father. He’s far more direct, to the purpose (so it’s simpler for me to grasp Him), and He’s my favourite. However attending to spend time with God the Father is VERY tough. Neither can look on sin, so that you should be utterly holy, CONSTANTLY repenting of your sins (identified and unknown) and in a pure coronary heart. You MUST be pure within the moments you spend with both God or Jesus. It’s crucial.
The Holy Spirit lives in us all the time. We’re by no means aside from Him. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit inside us intercedes to God in Heaven on our behalf (Romans 8:26-27). It’s actually cool to consider God praying to God for us, for our good, and for the glory of Himself.
More often than not nonetheless, we spend time with angels, who’re doing the work of God on His behalf. They convey with us (by way of Scripture) and lead us, information us, and assist us.
It’s extra uncommon to have the ability to get to spend time with God the Father or Jesus, so when these occasions come, it’s completely a “Mary and Martha factor”. You set all the pieces down and also you LISTEN. You’re not working, you’re not doing different issues. They’re holy, good, and you might be listening to their each Phrase, blessed to be of their presence.
However once you ARE in God or Jesus’ presence, it’s probably the most unimaginable expertise you’ll ever know, and probably the most joyous moments of your total life!!! 💯
NOTHING, and I say NOTHING, on this world can evaluate to spending time with the Residing God.
