In Acts 16 we find the Apostles Paul and Silas in jail for preaching the Word of God. We are all familiar with the story of the earthquake that opened the cell doors, as well as the jailer’s reaction. Upon being counseled by the apostles, he asked what he must do in order to be […]

The third step in the Lord’s salvation program is sanctification. To sanctify means to set apart. To sanctify an entity is to  separate/segregate it from all that is different. In the spiritual realm, to be sanctified, which all must be, means to be set apart from those who are not of God’s family–His church. As […]

To be justified means that all of one’s past sins–transgressions of the Law (1 Jn. 3:4). One who has “nailed the Law to the cross” has rejected God’s definition of sin and has therefore not been forgiven for breaking it. Having retained (stored up) all of his past sins (Rom. 2:5), he is unable to […]

If a friend promises you a gift and tells you how to receive it, and an enemy promises you the same gift and tells you a different, much easier way to receive it, whose voice–friend or enemy–would you believe and obey? I am the voice of your Friend; the Institutional Church proclaims the voice of […]

No. Each of these aspects of the Biblically-defined Christian life is different from the other three. They are entered into at four different times and have four different meanings and requirements. They are all equally essential to the saint’s rebirth and entrance into the Kingdom of God. The salvation seeker must understand the process that, […]

This instant-in-time chronological period we commonly call “life” is in reality a means to an end. However, that “means” is of utmost importance in that while making our way through it we are in fact determining how and where we will spend the timeless period known as “eternity.” The period in which we now live […]

Gentiles (Heb.-goiim–heathen) have no part in the true Church of God and are not participants in the joint-heirship with Jesus Christ that God promises His true saints (Rom. 8:17). Those Gentiles who believe and obey Him have become spiritual Israelites who have a part in both His church and in the promises He made to […]

The God of the Old Testament (the Word who came to earth as Jesus of Nazareth) created two laws. The first Law was the “one (moral) Law” given from Mt. Sinai (Horeb) which His people, both Israelite and Gentile, must obey in order to receive the promised inheritance of the saints. The second law was […]

When Moses led the nation (“house”) of Israel out of Egypt she had been there over 400 years, many of those years as slaves. During this time the people had lost their distinctive characteristics and had, for all practical purposes, become Egyptians to the point of accepting the Egyptian religion and its gods–bull calves. They […]

Jesus Christ–the Word/God of the Old Testament (Jn. 1:1-4,14)–had preached the gospel of the Kingdom of God to Abraham (Gal. 3:8), telling him that his descendants would one day be scattered throughout the earth and be a blessing to all nations (Gen. 12:3). But first they would be slaves for 400 years. They would then […]