Whole Gospel Ministries

Friday Morning Manna                        

September 13, 2019

Nathaniel Fajardo                              

email: natfajardo777@yahoo.com

The Purpose and Source of Grace in the Gospel and the Two Adams

My King James Version Bible mentions grace 38 times in the Old Testament and 128 times in the New, a total of 166 times.  The untranslated Hebrew is chen, meaning, “graciousness, i.e., subj., kindness, favor or obj., pleasant, precious.” In the New Testament grace is the untranslated Greek charis, meaning, “the divine influence upon the heart, and its manifestation in the life.” Strong’s Greek Lexicon. 

Take note of the latter fuller meaning of grace that is so strangely missing in the still continuing contentious debates over the phrase, “By grace are you saved, not by works.” I’ve experienced a few in the past (as some of you have), and come away dismayed by those unpleasant encounters. There was no edification because the Spirit of grace wasn’t guiding the discussions. Rather, it was/is one another’s long-held traditional points of view and opinions, often self-serving, thus myopic, that sadly continues to drive such discussions.  

Friday Morning Manna                        

September 6, 2019

Nathaniel Fajardo                                  email:natfajardo777@yahoo.com

From Whom Did the Second Adam Obtain His Humanity? His Divinity?

      “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” John 1: 1. 4, N.K.J.V. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” v 14.

      “He is the [visible] image of the invisible God, He is the firstborn over all creation.  For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through [by, KJV] Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.” Col.  1: 16. 

Friday Morning Manna                                                          

August 30, 2019

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                             email:natfajardo777@yahoo.com

The First and Second Adam Compared and Contrasted

The first Adam and the “second or last Adam” share certain specific similarities and dissimilarities, beginning with Name: The first one was literally named; the “second” or “last” one was a spiritual application to God incarnate. 

On the meaning and significance of names in the Bible we quote from the SDA Bible Dictionary, Vol. 8 Commentary Reference Series, art., “Name”: