God is faithful. 1Cor. 1:9 – God is faithful… 1 Cor. 10:13 – There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful… 1 Thess. 5:24 – Faithful is he that calleth you... 2 Thess. 3:3 – But the Lord is faithful… 2 Tim. 2:11 – If we... Continue Reading →
What Are The “Wiles Of The Devil” & The “Fiery Darts Of The Wicked?”
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. The Apostle Paul exhorts the Ephesian saints to "be strong in the Lord, and in the... Continue Reading →
“And The Knowing The Time”
Rom 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Rom 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
The Reproving Of The Corinthians
1Co 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 1Co 1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 1Co 1:6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: Paul begins his... Continue Reading →
The “Proving” And “Reproving” Benefit Of The Word Of God
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Four Gospels
Visit your local Christian bookstore sometime and I am sure you will find several versions of men's attempts to "harmonize" the four gospel accounts of the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many men have gone through great efforts to try to piece together a continuous narrative of the life of the Lord. While... Continue Reading →
Not Ashamed of the Gospel
Romans 1:16a - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ... In this verse, Paul is describing the nature of his readiness "to preach the gospel" (Rom. 1:15). As he says, this readiness involved "as much as in me is" and testifies to the fact that there was something working in Paul that produced the readiness (Rom. 1:11-12). My... Continue Reading →
A Charge for the New Year
The time for edification of Christian's has never been more important than now. The season we are entering demands all the more, a strong, resolute faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, as well as, a profitable faith for all men to see. Now is not the time to cower and evade the call of our... Continue Reading →
A Good Minister of Jesus Christ
1 Timothy 4:6 – If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. The minister of Jesus Christ is only as "good" as the “whereunto [he] has attained” when it... Continue Reading →
The Blessing of God?
Jer. 44:14-18 - Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in... Continue Reading →
A New Commandment
John 13:34 - A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. In John 13, we get a glimpse of the Lord with his disciples in the upper room at the last supper just hours before His arrest and expedited crucifixion. As the... Continue Reading →
Israel’s Spiritual Things Are Yours
“It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.”~ Romans 15:27~ Rightly dividing the word of truth is a precise skill done by the workman that studies God’s Word. Cutting straight... Continue Reading →
Purposed, But Let Hitherto
Romans 1:13 - Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. Romans is the foundation of “the faith” (Rom. 1:5). As Paul declares in Rom. 1:11, the doctrinal design of the epistle is “to... Continue Reading →
A Diet of God’s Ambassadors
Water, milk, bread, butter, barley, beans, lentils, honey, honeycomb, apples, meat, fish. EAT UP!
Godly Edifying
1 Timothy 1:3-4 – As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. The business of the pastor-teacher... Continue Reading →
Zeal Without Knowledge
Romans 10:2 - For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Romans 9-11 sets forth the inspired explanation of the great dispensational change that has occurred in God’s dealings with man in view of Israel being set aside. The subject matter of these chapters is the... Continue Reading →
Renewing our minds for this world or the world at all times?
A few thoughts we should possess not only now, but at all times in the world in which we live - sorry about the writing..... Grace and Peace Beloved, Throughout this season of a pandemic, I have heard much of the same as before the coronavirus about politics, economy, the constitution, rights, theories about the... Continue Reading →
