The Tulip Driven Life

The ritual shaming of white people is a hatred for how we as white persons have been made in the image of God. When the Apostle Paul had to boast because his authority was being denigrated, he did so, giving the glory to God for his giftings and graces as an Apostle, yet insisting upon His apostolic calling and message as being equal with Peter and all the other Apostles (see the book of Galatians and other places in the New Testament). But Paul even speaks of his being "of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews" (Philippians 3) because others were boasting of their pedigree, though Paul exhorts to not boast in the flesh but have confidence rather in God and His saving grace. Yet he notes, if anyone is going to boast in the flesh, he can do so more than all of them. Paul has an extended discourse on these matters in 2 Corinthians 10-12, of boasting in his accomplishments and equality with the chief Apostles when he has to do so, to defend his m...

  Matthew Henry on the Church/People of God in the state of glory (heaven), from part of his commentary on Revelation 21: "The subject-matter of the vision—the bride, the Lamb’s wife (v. 10); that is, the church of God in her glorious, perfect, triumphant state, under the resemblance of Jerusalem, having the glory of God shining in its lustre, as uxor splendit radiis mariti—the bride comely through the comeliness put on her by her husband; glorious in her relation to Christ, in his image now perfected in her, and in his favour shining upon her. And now we have a large description of the church triumphant under the emblem of a city, far exceeding in riches and splendour all the cities of this world; and this new Jerusalem is here represented to us both in the exterior and the interior part of it. 1. The exterior part of the city—the wall and the gates, the wall for security and the gates for entrance. (1.) The wall for security. Heaven is a safe state; those that are there are encl...