“Pride comes before destruction and a haughty spirit before the fall” (Prov. 16:18). Lucifer’s pride turned him against God. Pride caused Adam and Eve to follow in his spiritual footsteps. Pride–the godship of self–is the foundation upon which all false Christians have built their spiritual house (Mat. 7:26,27). Pride determines whether one accepts or rejects correction. There is no degree of […]

No one enjoys being corrected–about anything, any time, under any circumstance. In the majority of cases, the one being corrected views the act negatively. But in reality, correction is one of the most positive aspects of life. When received and accepted, correction prevents many mistakes. This is true in man’s secular life where the consequences of not being corrected are purely physical, […]

The Apostle Peter wrote to the church about God’s expressed qualifications for receiving and retaining His Holy Spirit: “For the time has come that judgment must begin in the house of God, and if it first begin with us (true saints), what shall be the end of those (false saints) who do not obey the […]

Let us not forget that the prophets spoke and wrote to and about “the church in the physical wilderness”   at whose head was the Rock–the Christ of God Who would later come to earth as Jesus of Nazareth (Acts 7:38). That church was comprised of the 12 tribes of Israel along with a multitude of Gentiles who came out […]

By way of His Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ fulfils the promise of “Christ in you” that God makes to every honest seeker of Truth. But as King David tells us in Psalm 51:1,2,11, having the Holy Spirit reside within does not guarantee that it will continue to reside within, neither does it guarantee that one will […]

In Psalm 139:1,7-11 we find King David marveling at the omnipresence of His God (the Word Who became Jesus of Nazareth): “O Lord …, where shall I go from YOUR SPIRIT? or where shall I flee from YOUR PRESENCE? If I ascend up to heaven, YOU are there; if I make my bed in hell, […]

That Jesus Christ is a permanent fixture within the professing Christian is unquestionably one of the most cherished beliefs found throughout world Christendom. His statement that He will neither leave nor forsake His people has given assurance of salvation and an eternal future with Him in heaven to billions of people throughout the past 2000 years. However, as is the case with every […]

The man Jesus of Nazareth is our model that must be duplicated in order to inherit eternal life, if we can take God at His Word. Recall Jesus telling the rich man who sought salvation that, his having obeyed the Ten Commandments all of his life, “ONE THING THOU LACKEST.” The Savior told him that ONE SIN stood between […]

The fifth step in the “… he who endures unto the end will be saved” (Mat. 10:22) process is conversion, without which one cannot inherit eternal life. In order to be converted, one must understand what is meant by the word. Simply put, conversion in the spiritual sense means to reverse course completely, for until God’s […]

As the honest reader has by this time concluded, salvation is not an instantaneous event, but rather a time-oriented process that lasts from the moment of conviction until the return of Jesus Christ to take control of the earth and what is left of its inhabitants, set up the Kingdom of God and rule it with […]