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} Of course one thing is to not understand that we are partakers of Israel's spiritual things, but another thing... Continue Reading →
Grace Recovery
Grace Recovery If you keep struggling with life’s troubles, worry, stress, anxiety, anger, drugs, drinking…. The Bible has the answer to your problem. Before we can deal with the issues of life and knowing the doctrine that God gives us to handle these things. First thing we must have settled is where you are going... 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 →
Godly Prayer: What Part Of “Set Your Affections On Things Above” Is So Hard For Us To Understand?
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Oftentimes, when we go... Continue Reading →
In Every Thing Give Thanks
1 Thess. 5:18 - In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. The life of a son/daughter of God should be a life of thanksgiving. Frequently on the pages of scripture we are exhorted to give thanks to the Father and to continue therein without ceasing... Continue Reading →
Problems? Decisions? Do You “Put It In God’s Hands?”
2Th 1:2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2Th 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; 2Th 1:4 So that we... 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 →
Caring for His Wounds
Isa. 53:5 – But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities… In Isa. 53, the prophet is outlaying the means by which the redemption of Jehovah’s nation would be accomplished. Per the terms of the law contract, the nation’s transgressions had yielded the bitter fruit of covenantal chastening, and their... Continue Reading →
The “Things That Are Freely Given To Us Of God”
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.... Continue Reading →
The Gospel: A Revealer, Discriminator & Savior
Romans 1:16-19 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall... Continue Reading →
A Godly Response To Sickness And Death Part 2
2Co 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2Co 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 2Co 5:3 If so be that being... Continue Reading →
The Reconciling of the World unto God
The grace of God given to Paul for the Gentiles is glorious. Its glory is like the radiant colors manifest by a ray of light streaming through a diamond.
The Reorientation of God’s Ambassadors
“Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world” 2Tim 4:10
Many Offences Unto Justification
Romans 5:16 – And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. In Romans 5, Paul the apostle delineates the security of the “hope” that we have in Christ. Having expounded the fundamentals... Continue Reading →
A Godly Response To Sickness And Death Part 1
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that... 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 →
The Offering Up of the Gentiles
God’s work in Christ exercising His unsearchable judgments to reconcile the world unto Himself, usher in the dispensation of His grace, conclude His good news in His Son, and give it to the apostle Paul to give it to the Gentiles would make known His manifold wisdom and reveal the depths of His grace.
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 →
Admonish One Another
Admonishing pursues righteousness. It discerns fault, wrong, and evil. Admonition warns of it, counsels against it, cautions ahead of it, and teaches in accord of righteousness.
