Beginning in the Garden of Eden, human beings have been given two choices relative to how they live their lives. From food choices to god choices, man is a decision-making entity whose will determines which choices he makes. Some things we do lead to life; some lead to death. What jacket one wears today is […]

In Matthew 6:33 we find the Lord Jesus giving us a command that constitutes the first step on the road to eternal life. Here He tells us to SEEK, when to seek and what to seek: “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness ….” He goes on to promise that if we will […]

Webster’s Concise Dictionary of the English Language describes “seeking” by using such synonyms as searching, striving, trying, endeavoring, inquiring and requesting. “Loving” is associated with such words as affection, devotion, passion and enamored. A “loving marriage” is one in which each spouse strives to please the other in every way possible. In His Holy Bible, […]

A revealing passage of Scripture relative to the production and accumulation of both negative and positive “receipts” (proofs of obedience or disobedience) is found in the Old Testament where God is speaking to His chosen people–the House of Israel–concerning His dealings with them in the future. In this instance He is speaking to King Solomon […]

Disciple: One whose life reflects that of another. Spiritual discipleship involves patterning one’s life after one of two spiritual deities: the Biblical God or the god of this world. Every human being is a disciple of one or the other deity. In the eyes of the Biblical God–the only eyes that count–there is no mixing […]

Baptism by immersion followed by true conversion places one on the path to the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit, made available by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the power of God that enables the truly converted Truth seeker to remain on His path in spite of Satan’s relentless attempts to lure […]

Contrary to popular opinion, water baptism does not cleanse one of sin. Nor does it save the soul. Baptism is a physical act of obedience. Emersion in water is SYMBOLIC of a spiritual phenomenon known Biblically as CONVERSION, which is a miraculous, Holy Spirit-performed, all-encompassing transformation that MUST take place in order for the convert […]

In Amos 3:3 the salvation seeker is asked, “Can two walk together unless they agree?” According to the Holy Scriptures, the answer is “No.” Isaiah 59:2 tells us that sin separates us from God. It is impossible to walk with someone while separated from that someone. This Truth is proven in no uncertain terms in […]

AS GOES THE CHURCH–SO GOES AMERICA There is a deity in the life of every individual that has ever existed, that now exists, or that will ever exist. One of two deities is in control of each living person on earth at all times. The question is, which deity is in control of which person? […]

Man is guided in his thoughts, words and actions by his will. The key to walking in (living) the holy life is to submit one’s will to the rule of God through the Holy Spirit. The “spirit that is in man” is man’s spirit which God places in each and every person ever born. Man […]