Does God love the saint and the sinner equally?  Does God have degrees of love?  Are there moral conditions that prompt God to love one person more, or in a different way, than another person?  These questions have been asked by church people for generations.  Answers to those questions are as varied as the questions […]

Before delving into this series let us be reminded of the definitions of two words that are often confused when spiritual matters are being discussed.  Those words are “world” and “earth.”  The word “earth” means the suspended ball of dirt, rock, water, etc. suspended in space by the power of God.  “World,” on the other […]

In Matthew 13 we find Jesus proclaiming the “mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven” (vs 11) to “great multitudes” of people who have followed Him out of Capernaum and down to the Sea of Galilee where He had gotten into a boat and pushed out a short distance from the shore.  The people had gathered […]

The Kingdom of Heaven is the Church of God, which is the name God gave His true church.  The title is proclaimed by His writers 8 times in the New Testament.  His church system is also referred to a the “churches of Christ” so as to show that Christ is the Head of His Father’s […]

A parable is a fantasy used to describe a fact.  Jesus used worldly parables to describe spiritual Truths when He did not want His audience to understand those Truths.  He applied this technique for a reason, which He explains in Matthew 13:10-15.  Here we find him, as was often the case, being followed by “great […]

That no one, including God’s Very Elect, is beyond losing his soul until the instant of death is brought out in a variety of Scriptures by several of Christ’s hand-picked apostles, Paul being foremost among them.  In Ephesians he was writing to God’s “dear children” who were undoubtedly sealed by Him.  These would have been […]

The most popular verse used by those who “know” that God’s seal placed on His saints cannot be broken and that salvation (their promised crowns) cannot be denied them is Matthew 24:24.  In this passage Jesus is warning His apostles, who would in turn warn those who followed them, to beware of those who would […]

Relative to the sealing of one who has converted to the Biblical God, His seal declares His ownership of the convert and His control over the convert’s “walk” (thoughts, words and deeds) throughout the remainder of this life.  Such a seal guarantees the convert’s salvation, rebirth and entrance into the Kingdom of God upon Christ’s […]

At times over the years I have been “corrected” relative to the Lord’s “sealing” of converts with His Holy Spirit.   The passages that promise this spiritual sealing constitute the “headlines” relative to the act.  These “headlines” are firm and non-varying–GOD SEALS HIS PEOPLE WITH HIS HOLY SPIRIT WITHOUT FAIL.  However, as is always the […]

“The first to speak is believed to be right, until another states his case” (Proverbs 18:17). Human beings have been listening to and believing false prophets proclaiming false religion since the god of false religion deceived Adam and Eve in the Garden of Even.  Since then the “angel of light” has used his “ministers of […]