Sin in so sinful because it disobeys God's Word, rejects God's character, surpasses God's truth, squanders God's blessings and forgets God's goodness.
Humanity in sin is well and truly lost but thank God we have a Father who ensures that the lost are well and truly found.
At advent God's promised Comfort is brought to our mind again. Jesus is the Messiah who brings and gives comfort.
Without seeing who Christ is, we cannot see ourselves or our world clearly.
The crucified, risen, exalted Christ turns the world upside down as his Word is proclaimed to the nations.
The exalted Lord Jesus is working amongst the nations to free those willingly enslaved in Satan's grasp, that we might belong to him and so become like him.
The LORD is providentially in control over all things to show mercy to his people.
"There is a fountain filled with blood, that flows from Immanuel's veins. And sinners plunged beneath that flood, loose all their guilty stains." What Christians have become, through the shed…
The LORD's people are to continually to seek his mercy and to constantly see his past mercies to them.
What is a right response to the glorious LORD God so that we might stand before his presence?