Spiritual Deadness & the Power of the Resurrection
Eph. 2:1, 5 – And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) The amounts and kinds of sin you have committed in your life have no relationship to the how spiritually dead you are ...
One Gospel?
Many times, zealous Christians will make statements such as “There is only one gospel in the Bible” or “The prophets, apostles and true Christians today all preach the same thing.” Thankfully, many of these individuals do rightly understand that the shed blood of Christ is the only means by which sinners can be justified before God today, and we ...
Walk Charitably
Romans 14:15 – But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. In this section of the book of Romans, the apostle is addressing those that are strong in the faith. Among other things, the strong are characterized as those ...
Tasty Words
Ps. 119:103 – How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! The book of Psalms is a book of wonderful doctrine when understood in its proper prophetic context. Truly the wisdom of God set to poetic verse is the best poetry that has ever been produced, and its ...
Jesus Christ, Raised from the Dead
2 Timothy 2:8 – Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel: The resurrection of Christ is a truth that is based both upon faith and history. The historical events that led to the crucifixion of Jesus, His subsequent entombment and bodily resurrection the third ...
Saul of Tarsus
When we come to Paul in the word of God, we are well into the narrative of God’s work with man in time, for it is not until the seventh chapter of the book of Acts that we encounter this individual that, at the time, was known as Saul (Acts 7:58). From the record of ...
Angry Bishops
Titus 1:7 – For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre… One of the qualifications for a bishop is the trait of being “not soon angry” (Tit. 1:7). This trait is given the same weight and importance ...
Mob Mentality
Exodus 23:2-3 – Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. Have you ever heard of “mob mentality”? It describes the peculiar affinity of human beings to get caught up ...
God Forbid
Romans 3:4 – God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. The expression “God forbid” appears fourteen times in Paul’s epistles. Of those fourteen times, ten of them are found in Romans ...
