In this series we are examining God’s Words relative to His commands to be pure and free of sin in all areas of our lives. We are examining His commands relative to the tongue, the body, the heart (mind), the ears and the eyes. When we fail to control these body parts and expect forgiveness […]

The Lord’s command for holiness and righteousness relative to salvation is normally viewed from a general perspective, if viewed at all. In the case of most salvation seekers, God’s demand for godliness is ignored, or in some cases, openly attacked as the ramblings of a religious reprobate. Being one of those outcasts and having a […]

Why do we do what we do? There is a reason for what we think and say and how we act. The Lord, through His ancient prophets and apostles, as well as His present day ministers, focus on what we DO, which reflects what we have in our minds, which tells us what we ARE […]

With true conversion comes a total and permanent reversal of life. Such a change results in a spiritual “about-face, march” mentality on the part of the convert that highlights his transition from darkness to light, from obedience to church doctrine, or no doctrine, to obedience to the Holy Scriptures. Though the world around him continues […]

Everyone “hears voices” that are not their own. Even those who do not believe in a spiritual world “hear” “voices” that “speak” into his/her spiritual “ears.” Man is created with an inner “ear” that enables him to “hear” those spiritual “voices.” After the Serpent had told Eve that she and Adam could defy God and […]

That the Apostle Paul was God’s premier New Covenant writer is obvious. What made Paul unique was that he received his Gospel directly from Jesus Christ by revelation through the Holy Spirit (Gal. 1:12). As Paul said, he did not receive his Gospel from men, but rather from the Lord Himself. The man Jesus, being […]

In His “Sermon on the Mount” (beginning with Matthew 5:1) Jesus is speaking to His disciples while the multitude that has followed Him into the countryside listens in. He commands them (and us) to seek first of all the Kingdom of God AND His righteousness” (6:33). The Word “and” indicates that what we are to […]

Before finishing chapter six of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Rome, let us be reminded of his statement in 7:1: “The Law has dominion over a man as long as he lives.” By way of confession (again) I once destroyed a Bible, ripped much of it to shreds and threw it into […]

The significance of God’s grace in the life of the true saint is superbly described in the sixth chapter of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Rome. The entire chapter is dedicated to the subject of grace as it relates to sin among church people. In my series titled The Message of the […]

In Matthew 16:23,24 we find a statement by Jesus that explains how Satan entices religious man to do his bidding. His formula for drawing man into his web is simple: give man what he wants, which is self-governance. It worked perfectly on Adam and Eve and is still working today. Jesus exposed the devil’s modus […]