Features Bible Study Commentaries, Categories, and Lectures. “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
How Do We Know? Morality restricts our choices and morality convicts us. As individual human beings, we basically do not like having to answer to someone—we do not want to acknowledge a superior authority. Every statement of supposed truth requires faith—even the secular views of “make God what you want” and “there is no God,” require faith. Why? Because we…
Atheistic Worldviews and Darwinism To some, Darwinism is morally comfortable because there is no moral accountability, no perceived moral restraints of God. To me, Darwinism provides an intellectually convenient escape from the guilt of immoral behavior and/or rejection of anything or anyone superior to self. Personal desires do not make room for “gods” with differing desires—encroachment by any “god” is…
The Believer and Doubt From man’s viewpoint, God is a friend. From God’s viewpoint, man is cursed, but believers become His born again children, which is much more than simple friendship. Friendship is not an accurate truth of our relationship with God. We are, as believers in Christ, His children. We become spiritual children to a Spiritual Father at the…
God is in Control God directs and controls human history, and He controls each believer’s personal history. Death passed through Christ and Christ passed through death unto life—eternal life. Death has no power; life has no power because everything in life passes through God—what God allows He allows in perfect knowledge. God has a definite predestined plan that cannot fail…
Christian Intellectual Stimulation Lasting Pleasures vs. Temporary Happiness Mankind is in a frantic search for happiness—the pleasures which people seek are physical, and physical pleasures are always short lived, futile, and often have future consequences which are many times more harmful than the enjoyment they brought. Self control and prudence are prerequisites to finding true inner happiness, along with a…
Turn On the Light Moral laws demand respect just as the cross demands faith. Moral laws save society from self destruction. The cross work of Christ saves each believer from God’s wrath. When Christ told his disciples, “you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32), John refers to our intellectual pursuit of truth in…
Israel and the Church Israel (spiritually born-again Jews) and the Church (born-again believers of the Church Age—the body of Christ) are two invisible, spiritual “temples” designed by God in eternity past for worship of God for all eternity-future (Acts 4:10-12; 17:24,25; Matthew 16:18; 1 Peter 2:5; Hebrews 8:1,2,5; Revelation 21:22). These two temples will be complete when all members receive…
It is the power of the Holy Spirit in the believer which empowers and sustains the believer in the devil’s world—the same powerful Holy Spirit that empowered Christ Himself during His earthly ministry (Matthew 4:1; 12:18,25; Luke 4:1,14,15; John 3:34; Romans 1:4; Hebrews 9:14). It is in the power of the Holy Spirit that we learn, then experience, maximum happiness….
Where to Walk, Where to Look We learn to walk with and trust in the Lord by fellowshipping. When we look to the devil’s world for inner happiness, the purpose of our lives slips into the devil’s trap. Fleshly lusts become counterfeits to our love for Christ. Our thinking becomes worldly and lust patterns dominate the soul. “The pleasure we…
Pride Pride is a manifestation of the sin nature, which is full of self and in conflict with God (Proverbs 16:5). A few examples of pride are arrogance, haughtiness, grandeur, pompousness, loftiness, boastfulness, jealousy, and self-righteousness. Satan’s modus operandi of pride resulted in his fall. Thinking independently of God is imposing our will over God’s will, and it resulted in…
You Cannot Lose Your Salvation A Biblical Examination of “Loss of Salvation” and the Doctrine of Eternal Security (This doctrine is critical for the believer to understand. Stay with this study to the end.) “Nearly all believers’ conception of God’s infinite love is based on their limited concept of human love. God’s love is the most critical concept of God…
Divine Moral Standards We somehow have an unchanging standard of right and wrong that we all seem to recognize, and that standard of justice is written on our hearts. We cannot know or define evil unless we know what is good, and vice versa. Without a moral law, there is no standard of truth and no unchanging standard of justice….
Wisdom Personified The Bible is the tree of knowledge springing up to everlasting life. To learn, be submissive. A worthy wife is her husband’s joy and crown; an unworthy wife corrodes his strength and tears down everything he does. For the reverence of God is basic to wisdom. Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding. Wisdom is its…
Our Storm, His Path From chaos and calamity. From panic to peace. From a raging storm to candles burning still. Only God can turn raging waves into an altar. God is there.Journey posts dot our way as we walk the path that has been prepared for us. God lets us struggle so that when He comes close, we can see…
Wrong Heroes, Wrong Priorities In today’s hero-laden world, Americans look for style over substance. They look to celebrities, YouTube stars, social media “influencers,” even video game voice actors as their heroes, instead of the greatest hero of them all — Jesus Christ.Celebrities, of all things, for the past 50 or more years have changed minds and swayed opinions. This is…
The Gospel – The Heritage of Humanity The Gospel is the heritage of the entire human race. There is no village so small or isolated from God’s view that God cannot see — God provides the message of the cross of Christ wherever God sees positive volition toward Himself. God is fair and just to every person regardless of geography,…
The Absolute Character of God After salvation, the Holy Spirit, through God’s Word, leads the human soul and spirit into the marvelous light of God’s plan, converting doctrine from something merely understood into full comprehension for our advance, for our application, and for our increasing faith. The Holy Spirit is imperceptible in His behind-the scenes-work of glorifying our Lord Jesus…
I AM That I AM Our ability to comprehend God — Father, Son, Holy Spirit (The Trinity) — is limited. God is infinite — we are finite. God is immortality — we are mortal. God is absolute — we are relative. God is eternal — we are limited to time. However, there is a major difference between eternal life and…
The Cross and Why It Matters Our Lord was born for the transgressors (Matthew 1:21), lived for the transgressors (Matthew 20:28), and died for the transgressors (Romans 5:18). The two thieves represent the believer and unbeliever, with Christ in the middle as the mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5), but also as the barrier between God and man…
Paradise and the Underworld Before we begin, we need to clarify “Hell” or “Hades” and other terms, because some have been used interchangeably, which resulted in a lot of unnecessary confusion (to the point that some even teach that “Christ went to Hell and was tortured by demons for three days”). The translators of the English Bible from the original…