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Commentary

What Happens When Someone Is Saved?

A beautiful and manifold transformation takes place in the life of believers when they are saved, when they believe God's testimony of His Son and confess Yahweh Jesus. This article mentions some of those changes.

Heb 11:1 Faith

We are not of those who second guess our faith, or turn away from the One who saved us in the face of opposition or trials. But we press on continuing to grow in the faith, knowing the Lord more with each trial and experience.

Jesus' Seven Words On The Cross

The four Gospels record seven statements spoken by Jesus Christ while being crucified. These seven statements from the cross signify His completion of His Father's will. "But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me" (John 5:36).

John 3:1-21 Born From Above

by Gregg Allen Trickett, written 07/01/2008 updated 06/16/2025, read time 150-240 min

This text is unique in its revelation of Jesus Christ to a Jewish contemporary of the stature of Nicodemus. His conversation with Nicodemus follows His turning water into wine at a Jewish wedding (Jn 2:1-10). It precedes Jesus revealing Himself as I AM [Yahweh] to a Samaritan woman (Jn 4:1). These three narratives demonstrate that the Son of God came bringing water [God's testimony], the Holy Spirit, and His own blood so that man may know the love of God. Jesus brings to the forefront the One whom Moses and Elijah wrote about, Immanuel, the LORD to whom Nicodemus stood before.

Colossians 1:1-29 Jesus ChristAnd Our Place In Him

by Gregg Allen Trickett, written 07/12/2014 updated 10/06/2025, read time 140-230 min

Paul wrote this letter while imprisoned in Rome. The Church at Colossae in Asia Minor faced a myriad of secular beliefs challenging the work of God, the Person of Jesus Christ and our place in Him. The letter addresses Gnosticism, mysticism and other heretical teachings.

Chiasms and Various Texts Pointing to Jesus Christ

The following excerpt is an example of a chiasm beginning in Romans 8:2.


1    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
2      liberated me away-from the law of sin and of death.
3        For the powerless [nature] of the Law,
4          in that it-was-without-strength through the flesh,
5            God,
6              having sent His-own Son
7                in likeness of a flesh of sin
8                  and concerning sin,
9  >                 judged-against the sin in the flesh,
8                  in order that the just-judgement of the Law
7                might-be-made-replete in us,
6              in those not walking-about according to the flesh,
5            but-instead according-to Spirit.
4          For those being according-to flesh think-about that of the flesh;
3        but those according-to spirit that of the Spirit.
2      For the thought of the flesh [is] death.
1    But the thought from the Spirit [is] life and peace.