Jesus Christ gave clear instructions for a saint’s forgiveness of a personal grievance in Luke 17:3: “Take heed to yourself.  If your (spiritual) brother sins against you, rebuke him, and IF HE REPENTS, forgive him.”  Jesus is talking to His disciples about how to handle personal affronts within the Church of God.  I assume that […]

In Mark 1:1-4 it is written: “The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ….”  Take note of the beginning, the foundation of the Lord’s Gospel.  John “preached the baptism of REPENTANCE FOR THE REMISSION (REMOVAL) OF (PAST) SINS.”  Notice John’s words as recorded in Matthew 3:2: “Repent you, for the kingdom of heaven (the […]

How many times have we heard the victim of a grievous act say: “I forgive him/her because God tells us to forgive those who trespass against us.”  That “headline” is correct, as are all Biblical “headlines.”  Because the church’s god–Satan (2 Cor. 4:4)–has done what Jesus warned that his (Satan’s) false prophets would do in […]

Ezekiel’s vision of the spiritual condition of the Jews (Judahites–tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi nicknamed “Jews” by the King James translators) needs some background information in order to fully understand the degree to which God’s chosen people (the 12 tribes of Israel) would all need to hear the prophet’s message and how God arranged […]

In Ezekiel chapter 8 the prophet writes about a vision from the Lord depicting the spiritual condition of God’s Israelite people during the time of Ezekiel’s ministry.  Their spiritual condition has resurfaced today within the Institutional Church (the “Israel of God”–Gal. 6:16).  Now we will study God’s prophesied response to the apostasy of ancient Israel’s […]

With the most heathen of church holidays soon to arrive on the religious scene, I feel the need to remind believers of the origin of and pagan rituals associated with one of Satan’s three most vile and deadly lies Catholicism and Protestantism have embraced.  The soon-coming holiday is known in the Western world as “Easter.”  […]

MAN IS NOT SAVED/BORN AGAIN IN THIS LIFE.  Read Hope and Salvation and Born Again.  Key words–Hope and Born respectively.  Between repentance/justification and death lies decades in which the saint faces a steady stream of Satanic temptation attacks which God calls “fiery darts.”  How the saint reacts to the ups, downs, sunshine, rain, rivers to […]

Repentance, even if it is heart-felt and honest, is meaningless in and of itself.  For repentance following a sin to be of any value in the life of the penitent sinner, a commitment to the eradication of any future commission of the sin must be carried out.  This is true of any and all sins […]

The Apostle Paul reminds us that “All HAVE sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23).  I again emphasize that this Truth was written in PAST tense–“we HAVE sinned.”  This important fact must be factored in when determining how true Christians live their lives in these latter days.  Paul goes on to […]

A PENITENT is one who is sorry.  To be penitent is to be sorry for doing what one should have not done.  It is from that word that we get the word “REPENT,” from whence comes the word “PENANCE” from whence comes the word “REPENTANCE.”  Repentance in the social/ legal sense means to feel a […]