There are many things people place as important, and top priority. Parents today place their children as top priority; sometimes even above the relationship between husband and wife - mother and father - and that many times causes breakup in the home. That is for another article. The top priority for any individual should be …
Category: Salvation
Division
No, we are not dealing with a mathematics problem. We are going to deal with the division that is still present concerning the matter of Jesus. "Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ …
The Power of God
We ought always be amazed by the power of God. We ought always realize that God is working, moving, accomplishing His purposes in the world around us and in our own lives. Previous to the verses we look at today Jesus had been on the Mount called "Transfiguration", and He was speaking with Moses and …
Waiting for Years
There is a lack of patience in me. There is a lack of patience in me toward other people at times; especially when I am driving down the highway; or in the city. I must often correct my mind and thinking as I am driving. Many times; probably all the time; that correction comes from …
The Coming Betrayal
Have you ever felt betrayed? It can be from a friend, family member, work place employee, or even a spouse. Betrayal is not pleasant to experience. Have you ever sensed that it was coming? I am not talking about a paranoia; but rather a reasoning thought that someone is about to leave you with the …
Against Christ
There is something about the gospel of Christ that the worldly man, even some of the spiritual elite who hate it. Some people want, desire people to follow them, their teachings, their philosophies, and when the true gospel of Christ Jesus is presented; the death, burial and resurrection of Christ they stand against it. One …
Mercy, Not Sacrifice
Many religions place importance on doing something to gain God's favor. Let me at the beginning just say; there is nothing you or I can do to gain God's favor. There is no sacrifice, there is no sacrament, there is no good deed to your neighbor or the world which will gain you or me …
The Presence of the Kingdom
The message of John the Baptist was one calling for repentance. You can read a portion of John's message in chapter 3 verses 7 through 12. Repentance. Repentance is a turning around. When one realizes they are going in the wrong direction. I hear people talk of there being many roads to god and heaven. …
The House of Israel
There are so many who are telling us that God is finished with Israel. That they are no longer God's chosen people or nation. However, for someone to say that they are going against both the Old Testament prophecies, and the teachings of the New Testament as well. Look at this prophecy through the prophet …
Why Will You Perish?
I hear people ask, "Why would a loving God send people to hell?" My answer has been, "He does not". Some who hear my answer and ask then, "Do you not preach that sinners go to hell?" or something along that order of thought. Of course I do believe in hell. I believe in hell …
There is No Other
"I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me: that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside Me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form …
The Workers of Iniquity, and the Works of the LORD
"Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Because they regard …
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My Redeemer Lives
"For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed …
How Should We Be Just With God?
"I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with Him, he cannot answer Him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against Him, and hath prospered?" Job 9:2-4 (KJV) Remember Job's three friends …
A Kinsman Nearer
Today's Reading: Ruth 2 - 1 Samuel 1 "And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I." Ruth 3:12 (KJV) Ruth had been faithful to Naomi in returning to the land of Promise and the inheritance of Elimelech. Naomi was poor, needed to sell the …
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