As was discussed in the previous posting, pride is one of the weapons Satan uses to prevent those within professing Christendom from believing and obeying the Biblical God. Another powerful hindrance to conversion is fear of the reaction of family, friends and former churchmates should a church member decide to embrace, believe and obey the […]

Jesus Christ told us in Matthew 7:13 that in order to spend eternity with Him we must enter His strait gate. Now He will tell us why. “… for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many go in thereat.” Note the following: Satan’s gate is wide, entrance […]

In the last posting I quoted Isaiah who was being used by God to ask a question and then to provide the answer: “To Whom can God teach knowledge and give understanding?” His answer: the mature, earnest, dedicated seeker of knowledge and understanding. God characterizes such people generations later when speaking through His Son in […]

In the construction world where the product is designed and expected to last indefinitely we find an unchanging rule–a structure is only as good and will last only as long as its foundation. A secondary rule states that the bigger the structure, the bigger will be the resulting mess if it falls. The foundation-quality-longivity rule […]

From early on in her existence God’s faithful saints have been at war against those within professing Christendom who have embraced Satan’s siren call to put forth before the world his more appealing, flesh-satisfying method of getting to heaven. See Life After Death. All the while God’s Word, personified by Jesus Christ, stands like a […]

The Words of the Lord and those of His apostles were not enough to prevent Satan’s followers from perverting the gospel of God. They continued to insist that a message about Jesus Christ Himself was more important than the message He commanded to be put forth. In short order Satan had deceived many in God’s […]

The question concerning which gospel God commanded His ministers to preach was still in question when the Apostle Paul came on the scene. He stated in 1 Corinthians 2:2 that he preached “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” To “preach Jesus Christ” meant to preach His gospel–the good news (gospel) of the Kingdom of God. By […]

Not long after the establishment of the New Covenant Church a heated controversy erupted over the message church ministers should preach and teach. Some in the church wanted the focus of the ministry to be on the person of Jesus Christ. These parishioners wanted the gospel (good news) to be about the Lord Himself. They […]

Few people, even among the “very elect,” realize that God is extremely exacting in every aspect of His Way and Will. A personal experience will highlight this Biblical fact. When I was in my early teens my extremely religious aunt and uncle invited our church pastor and his family to an evening meal in their […]

Satan has used religious man’s laziness, pride and craving for self-governance to deceive him into creating church doctrine–man’s (Satan’s) version of God’s Word, Way and Will. Invariably the “smooth things, lies and deceits” (Isa. 30:10) that comprise much of church doctrine make “the Christian walk” more acceptable, just as those same kinds of words did […]