In His Sermon on the Mount message to those who want to spend eternity with Him, Jesus warned that false prophets would rise up among them, proclaim Him as the promised Messiah, then lead many into the two-headed, multi-bodied, Scripture-hating beast known as the Catholic/Protestant Church.  As a former minister within that religious quagmire, I […]

“By their fruits you shall know them” (Mat. 7:20), said Jesus of Nazareth while speaking to His disciples during the Sermon on the Mount.  By His language usage during the sermon it is clear that His message was designed for a global audience.  He was telling His ministers, then and now, as well as those […]

In Matthew 7:13-27 Jesus is concluding what is called “the Sermon on the Mount” in which He was teaching His disciples the “fine print” of what would become the foundation of their ministry.  As He taught them (4:25-5:2) the multitudes that had followed Him from the surrounding areas listened to His message, a message we […]

FAITH is defined as knowing that God means every Word He had recorded and preserved for those who choose to be His servants.  LIGHT is His Word/Truth that His servants manifest in their daily lives–lives that are different from the lives lived by those of the world who choose to serve Satan.  WORKS refers to […]

Within the church community, “works” is a dirty word.  Only blaspheming the Holy Spirit is viewed with more contempt than the idea that one needs to do anything more than believe in order to be saved.  Pity the poor soul who even hints that one must qualify for salvation by “doing works.” The seminal problem […]

This series is based on the Gospel of John, the third chapter verses 15-21.  This very important passage involves three words found in the passage: “faith,” “light” and “works” which, together, form the basis for salvation.  In the first posting we studied what God says about FAITH (belief), specifically, how it has been MISUNDERSTOOD and […]

The Bible’s most memorized and most quoted passage of Scripture is John 3:16–the ultimate Scriptural “headline.”  In this verse we find Jesus teaching His disciples an eternal Truth, but only in part.  In order to learn the full Truth surrounding that verse one must study verses 15-21 and unite them with other “fine print” statements […]

As I have written before, “As goes the church, so goes the nation.”  I have also noted another unwavering historical fact–within the world’s “Christian nations” each generation is more liberal than the previous generation in both the spiritual and social realms.  Having lived eight decades, and being a student of history, I have found that […]

Both the Old and the New Testaments contain prophecy.  For example, the book of Daniel is tied to Matthew 24 and Revelation in that all three deal with the end of the age.  After the Lord showed Daniel several visions concerning the future of man’s military power in the future, He told the prophet to […]

Approximately one/third of the Old Testament is prophecy, approximately 90% of which involves the final days of this age–the time in which we are living.  What is called the Old Testament contains prophecy beginning with the establishing of the Nation of Israel with Abraham, whom God chose because he would obey Him in the future.  […]