God is sovereign over the universe and human affairs. Divine sovereignty and human freedom co-exist. I really like the statement in Daniel 4:35: “All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does what He wants with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can hold back His hand…
Humanity is created in the image of God, and lives in a reality (or world) created by God, therefore humanity is not excused, rather condemned for denying the existence of God (as evidenced through the existence of earth, stars, sun, moon, heavens, intelligent design, the complexity of every biological life-form, etc.), therefore, man is without excuse. The evidence for God…
Law 1: Identity law Law 2: Non-contradiction Law 3: Excluded middle Identity – 1Truth is 2absolute – untruth is absolute. 3Neither can be the other. Therefore, non-contradiction is “neither can be the other.” So, all three are absolutes. Human Logic is based on reality – patterned after reality. “God, our Creator, gave us truth. We added untruth.” The principles of…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Life is fleeting, like the wind and evaporation – short-lived and quickly passing. We search for truth and knowledge, but are never filled – that is what eternity is all about. Time is lived for filling, eternity for fullness. Life should be a humbling experience as we discover and learn truth. Reference Proverbs 30:14. Self-gratification never…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… All the things we cherish cannot be provided by any government, but by the individual citizen, each doing their part by being responsible and productive citizens. Disintegration of American jurisprudence; our liberties are being eroded in increments. Compromise is a sell-out. Philosophical differences can become clarifying – a clarification of principle and truth when truth is…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… God is in control. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a time when the Lord’s will is not done. God’s plan for creation is never-failing. God is never surprised. If the Lord wills, it will. The true believer enters into the tears of Christ; He wept over those who would not come to…
On the appointed day, at the exact moment chosen by Him, the Lord will call me into His glorious kingdom. The Lord will clothe me in white – a robe of my very own, paid for by Christ, my loving Savior. My soul will be housed in a covering prepared by my Lord Himself. My Lord shall knock on the…
Christ’s First Coming (called the First Advent) was rejected by the Jews, and destruction followed in 70 A.D. by Titus. Likewise, when the dispensation of the Gentiles (non-Jews) is completed, Christ will come again (called the Second Coming) and destroy Gentile nations. Christ, at His Second Coming will, by the Word of His mouth – a mere breath, something less…
Death is the enemy of creation. It has no regard for the beauty or the goodness of life. Death sweeps through the gardens of life, destroying the lilies and the roses, the weeds and thistles. Flowers hide their beauty beneath green leaves, blushing unseen. But the sting of death, caring nothing for their fragrance and loveliness, withers them instantly with…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Understand this – human viewpoint supplants divine establishment. Panaceas captivate the ignorant. Religion is anti-Christ. The entire world is being gathered and prepared for dictatorship. It is the sin nature that tempts us to commit sin. This inherent distorter of human life continually opposes God’s plan for blessing humankind (Galatians 5:17). Human nature is unreliable, unstable,…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Equality cancels freedom – think about this. It restricts intellectual growth and financial independence. Equality enforced destroys individual freedom. Individual freedom is what a republic/democracy is all about. Equality seems so right but it neutralizes freedom of the individual and the corporation. God is the power of truth. Truth is powered by God. God is truth….
Formal Equivalence “Word for word” or “literal” translation of Scripture is termed the principle of formal equivalence as it develops and reveals as nearly as possible the structural usage of the original languages. It seeks to represent each word of the original text with an exact equivalent word in our modern English that most closely represents the original intent of…
The Bible (God’s inspired Word) is the true narrative that answers the greatest questions of life. God has provided His truths of reality (His and ours) and His divine solutions. The Bible brings true reality into proper perspective. We cannot hear God as plainly if we’re not reading/studying His Word. Believers must be devoted followers of Christ, living what the…
To truly know and even begin to understand God, our Creator, you must allow God to tell you what He is like. God is so far above us that we can best know Him by studying His own revelations of Himself. The revelations in nature, in life, and in the Bible help us to visualize invisible God, help us to…
The Holy Spirit enlightens mankind regarding sin, righteousness, and judgment. In our walk through life, we either negate the working of the Holy Spirit leading our thinking-life (Romans 8:6,13), or we negate the works of the flesh – the sin nature (Romans 6:6; 8:4; Galatians 5:16; 1 John 4:4). It is always one or the other, back and forth, and…
Distractions of the world – enticements – interfere in our relationship with God. When Christ became incarnate (became human so He could be related to humanity), He did so to go to the cross so we could be “related” to God. Being in Christ, we are made holy because He is holy. We become adopted children because Christ is the…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Ill-defined terms and ambiguous statements are linguistic devices, ones employed by political propagandists in the art of persuasion and suggestion, and usually arouse emotional appeal that directs the people’s attitudes and decisions, usually to their own detriment. Social media has mastered the art of propaganda so that untruth becomes truth, and truth becomes untruth, and many…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The blinding flash of Justice, the thunderous tones of Judgment… … so it was on the cross when Christ died. The ultimate state of salvation is glorification. Then, Christ ascended into Glory. No sacrifice is too great for the soul that has grasped the concept of genuine humility. Sanctification is the reason we are here –…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Singing praises to the Lord about what we have done is not praise! Singing praises about all that God has done through Christ by the Holy Spirit is the only acceptable praise. “The war between Christ and satan, which was waged on Calvary’s hill, involves issues and powers belonging to higher realms than this earth and…
READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Paul welcomed exhaustion, suffering, poverty, dangers, and death because they helped him to grow into the image of Christ. The important task before each of us is to be truthful to ourselves first, so we can be truthful with God. We need to be the person God wants us to be and allow Him to reign…