In Matthew 10:5-8 we find Jesus preparing His disciples to minister in His name and in the power of the Holy Spirit.  It is illuminating to note exactly what He told them to do because 99.99% of the modern preachers fail to do even one of those things.  He told them to go to the […]

In the Old Testament we are told that the most magnificent angel God ever created was Lucifer, meaning “son of the morning.”  God placed him in charge of the most beautiful planet in the universe–earth.  He then assigned one-third of His angels to assist Lucifer in caring for the earth.  Then, at some point in […]

When asked to define “life,” one of my teaching associates of years past replied, “Life is just one d–n thing after another.”  A famous actress, when deciding on a title for the book she was writing about herself, settled on It’s Always Something, meaning that something was always going wrong in her life.  She died […]

For years prior to the beginning of World War II Communism had been slowly, quietly “adopting” parts of Asia with its eye on Europe.  During the war the Soviet Union played a vital part in defeating Germany, thereby saving the Western world from the ravages of Nazism.  During the war the Soviets, along with other […]

The Almighty created man with certain needs which must be met if he is to live happily, as the Lord meant for him to live.  Everything our first parents needed for their spiritual, physical and material life was provided in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:16,17).  But something happened.  They lost it all by way […]

When the Biblical God is pushed out of an individual, group or nation’s life, Satan steps in to fill the vacuum created by the Lord’s exit.  When the devil enters into one’s life and assumes control of it he is rarely recognized for who he is or what he is there to do.  He arrives […]

From early on in life we are told that “Nature hates a vacuum and demands that it be filled.”  Which is true.  When a vacuum is created in the natural world it is immediately filled when that which maintains the vacuum is removed.  For example, in a science laboratory, when a test tube has all […]

As joint-heirs with Jesus Christ, God’s Very Elect is guaranteed joint-rulership with Him over the entire universe in the eternity to come.  Who are His Very Elect?  They are the few (Mat. 7:13,14; 20:16) who, during their lifetimes, answered His call to live in obedience to His Word from their conversion until the end of […]

Jesus of Nazareth declared to Simon Barjona, whom He nicknamed “petro,” meaning a small pebble, that He, Jesus, would build His church on “this Rock,” (Petra) meaning a mountain.  This mountain, as Daniel explained to King Nebuchadnezzar concerning his vision, would smash to nothingness the world-ruling political/military beast that will be ruling the world in […]

Why did Jesus build a church?  Why was there a need for an ecclesia–a congregation, an assemblage?  If His true saints (holy ones) are each indeed His temple (residence of His Holy Spirit), and if His temples are indeed holy as He declares them to be (1 Cor. 3:16,17/ 2 Cor. 6:16), then why did […]