That the Lord’s Firstfruits are not in His church simply to “get saved” and “go to heaven” is made clear in the Holy Scriptures. This is brought out in Second Timothy 2:15 where the Apostle Paul tells his fellow minister Timothy that he must continue to study the Holy Scriptures in order to retain God’s […]

Generally speaking, God’s Firstfruits are those who make up His tiny “remnant” who, as Jesus declared in Matthew 7:13,14, have entered His church through Jesus Himself–the Gate/ Door (Jn. 10:7,9) of the church. Though two distinct groups of people comprise His congregation, they are alike in name only. The basic characteristics of the Firstfruits are: […]

In the 11th chapter of the Apostle John’s Gospel we find that Jesus has raised from death to life a man named Lazarus, a friend of His, after being in a tomb for four days. Word of the miracle spread rapidly. That incredible and public miracle, along with the other wonders He had performed, had […]

In the first part of the Spiritual Seed teaching the Lord stressed the importance of quality relative to the seed used in the salvation production process. His Word, and only His Word, is the seed man must use in the harvest of souls that He has called for. Recall in the parable of the tares […]

Having been born in a share croppers shack located in a cotton field, and having gone to work in cotton fields at the age of four, and having grown up preparing the ground, planting the seeds, plowing the fields and harvesting crops such as cotton, corn, hay, soy beans and water melons while helping my […]

If every church person was asked if he/she is saved and born again, the vast majority would answer in the affirmative. If the Bible is to be believed, they would all be doubly wrong. Those who study the Holy Scriptures for God’s “fine print,” believe it and obey it, know that salvation and rebirth (being […]

In the first chapter of the Gospel of John verses 1 through 5 we read what, in my opinion, is the best description of Jesus Christ and His commission from God to be found in the Holy Scriptures. As the Word, He was with God and was also a God–One of two Gods in the […]

In Matthew 7:15-23 Jesus prophesied about a category of people who, when they appeared before Him on Judgment Day, He would declare to them: “I NEVER KNEW YOU.” Notice who will constitute the “you” to whom He was referring. These will be people who will remind Him that they had preached, cast out demons and […]

Some time ago the members of a local church decided to show people how holy they were by walking through the business area of my home town asking those they met: “Do you know Jesus?” It is safe to say that few, if any, of the people they questioned actually knew Him, though I am […]

History repeats itself, we are told. In the spiritual realm, the saying holds true with an iron grip. If every church member who disregards the Old Testament was asked why he/she did so, the vast majority would reply that the Old Testament was the Law and the Law was “nailed to the cross” of Jesus […]