“Are we living in the last days?” is a question that is gaining in popularity as we watch the world in general and the United States in particular decay from within.  Even the unreligious are wondering what is going on when the truth accidentally slips out into the public domain.  The answer to the question […]

The subject of Christ’s statement in Matthew 5:6 is RIGHTEOUSNESS (aka holiness, godliness, purity, maturity, perfection).  Notice that He did not say that hungering and thirsting for righteousness automatically makes one righteous.  To the contrary, He said that hungering and thirsting would result in one being “FILLED WITH righteousness.”  Two key concepts are in play […]

When we become physically hungry and thirsty there is only one way to satisfy those naturally occurring needs–by eating and drinking.  When hungry and thirsty one will eat and drink whatever is available, even if one does not particularly like what is available.  “Any port in a storm” is the mariner’s motto when he finds […]

I once heard an assistant pastor of a mainline church say that Jesus did not feel the lashes delivered to His body with the “cat of nine tales,” that He did not feel the nails being hammered through His wrists and feet, and that He did not feel the spear that ripped open His heart, […]

The focal verse for this series is 2 Corinthians 2:2 where the Apostle Paul tells the saints in the church at Colosse: “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”  This was (and still is) “THE TESTIMONY OF GOD” (vs 1).  Simply put, God’s singular testimony (declaration of […]

In His first epistle to the Church of God at Corinth the Apostle Paul was writing to God’s “saints” (holy ones) who were “sanctified (set aside) in Christ Jesus” (1:2).  God’s people are holy people, meaning that they believe and obey Him.  Christ Jesus is the Holy One after Whom His saints pattern their lives/”walk”–what […]

At this point he Jews were on the run from the Babylonians.  The people and their leaders have arrived at a place near Bethlehem where they are preparing to enter Egypt where they believe they will be safe from the Babylonians who would be after them for having killed Gedeliah whom Nebuchadnezzer had placed over […]

This series will serve as an extension to the previous series. By his own admission, Jeremiah had been called to become who he became and to do what he did even before his conception.  In 1:4,5 he writes: “Then the Word of the Lord came to me, saying: ‘Before I formed you in the belly […]

In Jeremiah 36:4 we find the prophet, following the Lord’s command, telling his scribe, Baruch, to record “all the words of the Lord which He has spoken to him” (Jeremiah).  He was to write them on a scroll.  We are not told at this point what Baruch was to write, but we know that the […]

It has been burned, buried, ripped apart, cursed, twisted, interpreted and vilified like no other book, but in spite of Satan’s efforts, God’s Holy Scriptures live on.  Satan has done everything he is capable of doing to destroy it, even nailing it to a cross in the form of the Word Himself (Jn. 1:1-4,14).  The […]