Faith is faith, right? If one has faith in Jesus Christ one is saved, right? From listening to what is put forth as “the word of the Lord” one would think so. The consensus within professing Christendom is that as long as one believes that Jesus died for one’s sins, takes Him as his Savior, […]

The Biblical Truth that will be presented in the remainder of this faith series will be welcomed by those who hunger and thirst for His Truth. For them, the following statement is a Biblical fact. Every positive thing the true saint has, including faith, was given to him by the Father of Lights from Whom […]

Several important facts are brought out in Paul’s letter to the church of the Thessalonians. 1) Those in the church who did not “love the Truth” (God’s Word–Jn. 17:17) would perish. 2) Their rejection of the Truth was orchestrated by Satan. 3) Their sins having separated them from God (Isa. 59:2), they did not know […]

Concerning belief in “the lie” referred to in the previous posting, note that the Apostle Paul was writing to one of the true churches of God (see 1 Thess. 1:1). This letter was written around 55 A.D., only some 24 years after the founding of the New Testament Church in Jerusalem in 31 A.D. Like […]

Ask the top 100 Christian leaders on earth today the questions found in the title of this series and one will hear a number of answers, not one of which will be God’s answer. Warning to church people (which is the sole purpose for which God called this ministry into being): FAITH IS NOT WHAT […]

Before ending this series by comparing ancient Israel–the “church in the (physical) wilderness” of Sinai (Acts 7:38)–to modern Israel–the church in the spiritual wilderness created by the white horse rider (Rev. 6:2)–let us briefly summarize the previous six postings. After 40 years of desert wanderings the children of Israel have been led by Moses to […]

What was the primary problem with the Israelites of old? Moses tells us: they “… did not believe the Lord.” Nothing has changed. Let us be reminded of the actions of the One in Whom the “church in the (physical) wilderness” (Acts 7:38) then and the church in the spiritual wilderness today had/have no confidence. […]

Israelite Homecoming II is about to begin. Second generation Israel is about to enter the land the Lord had promised to their ancestors who had failed Him and therefore had been denied entrance. But before the second generation of claimants would be allowed to cross the Jordan River, Moses would take the time to remind […]

“Teaching Moments” is a modern term used to describe a situation in which the activities of one group or individual serve as a learning experience for another group or individual. Our spiritual and biological ancestors’ sins and the Lord’s reaction to those sins present prime teaching moments for both modern day Catholicism/Protestantism and His church, […]

The Almighty stresses the importance of the Old Testament through the Apostle Paul’s epistle to the church in Ephesus (2:20) and in his second letter to Timothy the evangelist (3:14-16). Paul told the people of Ephesus that the New Testament Church was founded on the teachings of both the PROPHETS and the APOSTLES. The foundation […]