Johan Malan has released the English version for free on DTW to download. The Afrikaans version will be published by Lux Verbi next year (2012).
Contents
1. God Incarnate
2. The Sonship and Deity of the Lord Jesus
3. The Atoning Death of the Lamb of God
4. The Centre of our Existence
5. Love as a Principle of Life
6. Commands and Promises
7. Our Life in Christ
8. The King who Comes Again
9. Marriage of the Lamb
10. Excellence of the Messiah
Extract:
7. “It is finished” (John 19:30). The original Greek version of the dying word of Jesus is
tetelestai. To fully comprehend the significance of the word tetelestai that was uttered by
Jesus at the moment of His death, we should briefly investigate its applications during the first
century. This word was more meaningful to those people than to us today, and we will do well
to retrieve its original meaning.… (p.40)
Download: —> Jesus Christ and our Life in Him (913 kb)
Thanks Deb’s and Prof Malan !!!
I have read this book and can’t wait for it to be released in Afrikaans. I am going to buy a few copies of this book for my Parents, family members and friends who are still “stuck” and “lost” in the Dutch Reformed Circus… i mean church. They only listen to “learned” people and I pray that just maybe they will listen to a Professor of Theology. They disregard and “look down” on the words of “fishermen” and “servants of Jesus” who have left their “establishment”. This principle of “persecution” is nicely explained in this book of Prof Malan on Page 32:
“Special spiritual significance is attached to the fact that the rejected Lord Jesus suffered
outside the city walls of Jerusalem to sanctify us (Heb. 13:12). In the next verse, His true
disciples are thus challenged: “Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His
reproach.” Are you prepared to go to Him outside the camp of your man-made religious
dogma or organization to bear His reproach? These “camps” could be churches based on
perverted creeds, aimed to offer false spiritual security and a convenient comfort zone to their
deceived supporters.
Zane Hodges (1983:812) says the following about this verse: “Jesus also suffered outside the
city gate … to make the people holy. … The readers … should not hesitate to share in the
disgrace He bore (cf. 12:2) by abandoning the camp of Judaism and identifying with Him. If
the readers actually were acquainted with sectarian encampments in their region this
exhortation would have had special force. The readers’ home was no camp or city that then
existed, but the city that is to come (cf. 11:10, 16; 12:22).”
This is just SO true ! ! !
Followers of Christ, take heart when you are persecuted for the TRUTH by family members and friends. You are not the “trouble maker” or the “guilty” one. It is to be expected ! If you are not “persecuted” check your salvation again to see if you are in the faith.
“2Cor 13:5 Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ’s?”
AMEN !
Hugs to you Smuggler!!!
Hi Debs: I am in the process of reading Prof. Malan’s book. It is extremely good and the expositions are very clear. I have been particularly blessed by his explanation of our Lord’s last words on the cross “It is finished”: Purchased and paid for, sentence served and totally victorious. I hope other visitors to your blog take up the offer and download this gem. Its a quality Bible study with a proper emphasis.Have a great day.
John
PS I now remember that the biplane’s name was “Evermore”!
Samuel1953
Thanks for that info, I am half way through the book myself and it’s excellent. And yes, the explanation of “It is Finished” struck a cord. I too hope that people download it because it’s just marvelous!
I want to go read up on that story of the plane!
Hi Debs It was just a folk song sung by Des and Dawn Lindberg in the early 1970s about a little old biplane that had been retired to the hanger as being obsolete. A big, modern jet had replaced him. The jetplane(songs word) proudly took to the sky, but ran into a storm. Only the biplane was available because it could cope with the freezing conditions. So “Evermore” was sent to solve the problem and saved the day, proving that “bye bye biplane, no more a sky plane” was,shall we say, presumptive.
Regards. John
Samuel
Ahhh ok, I doth understandeth. I am but young and still a spring chicken ;) sometimes takes time for me to catch onto these things eeehehe. It might also have to do with the blond factor ;P
And mine the grey factor…