The Essentials of Life
Overview
The Essentials of Life gives an exposition of the essentials of the Christian faith. W. H. Griffith Thomas covers topics such as the need for and meaning of the blood of Christ, the concept of righteousness through faith, the fullness of the Godhead, and much more.
Top Highlights
“God’s perfect justice demands a punishment. That punishment, God’s law says, is death. ‘In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die’ (Gen. 2:17). ‘The soul that sinneth, it shall die’ (Ezek. 18:4). ‘The wages of sin is death’ (Rom. 6:23).” (Page 8)
“What are the results of sin upon us? The effects of sin are, briefly, three in number. (1) It brings guilt, and so causes unrest. (2) It brings bondage, and so causes weakness of our powers. (3) It brings enmity, and so places a barrier between God and us. These are three personal effects of sin, and each must be removed,—the guilt forgiven, the bondage lifted, the enmity abolished.” (Page 9)
“‘The Cross was the dividing line between two eternities, the past and the future.’ It marked the close of the Old Dispensation; it ushered in the commencement of the New Dispensation. It is, moreover, the central truth of the Bible, being seen in the Old Testament in type and figure and realised in the New Testament in antitype and reality. The Gospel narrative is comparatively meagre until the time of the Cross, when great fulness of detail is seen. The Epistles tell the same story, the keynote of Paul, Peter, and John being the death of Christ, the Blood of Christ, Christ and Him crucified. And when we gaze into the visions of the future in the Revelation, one great fact stands out most vividly, ‘the Blood of the Lamb.’” (Page 7)
“Death is threefold: (1) Natural death, or the separation of the spirit from the body. (2) Spiritual death, or the separation of the spirit from God. (3) Eternal death, or the separation of spirit and body from God for ever. Here, then, is the result of sin: natural, spiritual, and eternal death, and this has ‘passed upon all men, for that all have sinned’ (Rom. 5:13).” (Pages 8–9)
- Title: The Essentials of Life
- Author: W. H. Griffith Thomas
- Publisher: Pickering & Inglis
- Print Publication Date: n.d.
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian life; Salvation
- Resource ID: LLS:WRKSTHOMAS17
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-01-19T22:41:12Z