Commandment #4: Because Jesus taught the people contrary to what the Scribes and Pharisees taught, He was continually confronted by them in an effort to keep the people’s attention on themselves and to discredit the carpenter from the lowly city of Nazareth. Recall that in John 1:46, when Nathanael learned where Jesus was from, replied: […]

Commandment number three: In the social world each of us has what is called a “master status.” This social identification is the status that those who know us or know about us mentally download when our name is mentioned. For example, the name Rockefeller is automatically associated with wealth. A great athlete’s name is automatically […]

In the first commandment the Holy Father declared that there is only one true God. Later He would, through the Apostle Paul, declare that there were many gods and many lords (1 Cor. 8:5). These were counterfeit deities created by those who would try to replace Him (God) as THE one and only God. The […]

In part one of this series we focused on the fact that the God of the Old Testament (Covenant) made it clear that God is the true Christian’s ONLY GOD. The other God (the Word–Jn. 1:1-4,14) came to earth as a man named Jesus of Nazareth Who lived, taught and died for mankind. When Jesus […]

Since the moment the Old Testament God (the Word Who later came to earth as Jesus of Nazareth) presented the Ten Commandment Law to the Israelites from atop Mt. Sinai, they, and those who have followed in their religious footsteps, have failed to obey them. However, their rebellion against Him began a few days earlier […]

In the social realm, to “put on” is to pretend to be something one is not. For example, several years ago a young man, pretending to be the member of a famous family by flashing money and living the high life, fooled many people in into buying into his investment plan. Everything was a sham. […]

When God created man He made him totally different from the animals He created. This difference was not only on the physical level, but also on the mental and spiritual levels. And for evolutionists out there, notice that He made no mention of the animals evolving into human beings. On the spiritual level, animals have […]

A valuable part of the Kingdom Gospel deals with a particular bit of information that the early disciples and their modern-day counterparts were and are expected to preach. We must understand and apply the Biblically dictated Bible study process in order to learn what God has in store for us and what we must do […]

The first written account of Jesus’ ministerial proclamations is found in Mark 1:14,15: “… Jesus came into Galilee preaching THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, saying: ‘The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand; REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL (good news about the kingdom).’” Notice that upon announcing that the […]

Why does the Almighty require circumcision of the heart/mind in order to receive salvation? No one will be saved who has not answered that question and has not then fulfilled God’s requirement. The book of Ephesians delves deeply into the question as well as the answer. The Apostle Paul wrote that epistle (letter) to a […]