The Healing River

The Christian life is an ever-expanding life moving from life into deeper life. One translation for this expanding power is "dunamis," which means power reproducing itself within itself. The power of God causes the Christian life to be a journey of growth that continues to broaden outward and become a blessing to all it touches. It is like light that goes out of one spot and moves in every direction.

Just as light expands, we as Christians are continually expanding. We go from life to doubled life and then from doubled life to quadrupled life. As the power of God touches life, it keeps expanding within the heart until it reaches abundant life, and from there it still continues to grow and expand until eventually it becomes life eternal.

Passover and The Miracle of Salvation

The English translation of Exodus 12:6 is given this way: “And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.” The literal Hebrew translation for “evening” is “between two evenings.”

Now, isn’t it amazing, when you dig deeply into the treasures of the Bible, you find that the Lamb of God died between two evenings?

Look in Mark 15:33, which illuminates our understanding of what happened: “And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.” He was nailed to Calvary’s tree at nine in the morning. At twelve noon, which the Jews referred to as the sixth hour, something strange happened. Darkness came over the land and it lasted until three in the afternoon, or the ninth hour, the hour our Master died.

He literally fulfilled the prophecy in Exodus 12:5 and died between the first and second evening, or darkness, for after His death, the sun rose again, and then the sun set again at the regular hour.