“To live is Christ, and to die is gain”Philippians 1:21
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"To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God" (Rev. 2:7). Today I would like to look at what it means in Bible terminology to 'overcome.' In doing so I woul…
Read messageThere are two sure-fire ways to know where someone's heart is really at, or where our own hearts are at if we're going to be honest [which is a very good idea]. And before we look at these things I would just like to inf…
Read messageThe fact of the matter is we can only prove the truth of God to ourselves. The bottom line is the same bottom line in the parable Jesus told about Lazarus and the rich man: “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neith…
Read messageToday I would like to hit really hard on the subject of the consequences of keeping the wrong kind of company, and of not forsaking former friends and such who are opposed to our faith in Christ. I'm going to show here w…
Read messageWith all of the widespread popularity of the “sinners saved by grace” mindset of the sugary Gospel of Christian ‘grace,’ I just have to ask this one question? Do those who believe in this supposed ‘grace,’ really believe…
Read messageI don’t think so my friends. Why? The Bible doesn’t tell us directly, but I’ll tell you why I believe this, and how what I think about it is in accordance with the scriptures. In my mind, it’s all about God making man in…
Read message“And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him" (Col. 3:17). So how do we do this? Many try to accomplish this by saying "In the name of Jesus” wit…
Read messageI just haven't been able to get my mind off of the idea of 'loyalty' as of late. Loyalty is a huge element in the service of Christ, and I am thankful that it has been a dominant trait in my life since I was very young.…
Read messageJesus said in John 5:26: “For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.” And in John 10:10 he said, “I am come that they might have life , and that they might have it more a…
Read messageHave you noticed that there is relatively no one who knows how to listen anymore? Or are you so caught up in the trend yourself that you haven’t recognized it? The Bible says that “a wise man will hear and will increase…
Read message"Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth" (Prov. 17:24). The word 'before' in this verse means 'right in front of.' So what the verse is saying is that someone wi…
Read messageAnyone who knows anything about business and making money will tell you that if a way to make a lot of money fast sounds too good to be true, it’s because it IS too good to be true. ‘Get rich quick’ schemes are just scam…
Read messageTime is absolutely the most relentless creature in existence. It never shows mercy or forgives. If you have wasted it, you cannot possibly get it back, because it’s gone forever. The Lord spoke to me loud and clear many…
Read messageThere is such an epidemic of a lack of love for righteousness today, and the result is no righteous judgment to be found anywhere. Unfortunately this is no new thing, as the following account of God's word to Jeremiah sh…
Read messageSomeone supporting a ‘take it by faith’ Gospel asked me a few weeks ago if I believed that the blood of Christ was great enough to cover the cost of all of my past, present, and future sins. He was upholding the common C…
Read messageThere’s a good reason that the flesh will not complain about much of anything you want to do, but when it comes to getting into some hardcore serious praying, it wants to balk. Yes you can read, sing, go to services, tal…
Read messageI often have people try to present some fantastic doctrine to me that just is not supported by the scriptures at all. Crazy stuff really, things that don’t have any edifying point to them at all. Whether it be evolution…
Read messageWe're living in the biggest 'don't judge' age of all time. Don't judge homosexuals to not be followers of Christ, or to not be as normal as heterosexuals. After all, who says? Beside the Bible, the documented book of the…
Read messageFriends and brethren, the longer I’m in Christ while living in this world, the more I truly realize that it’s really just about love, and I mean the love of God. When it’s all said and done, the only legacy any of us rea…
Read messageYesterday I left a post on how a lot of folks bring fantastic doctrines my way and expect me to believe them, even though they have no scriptural foundation or confirmation. Today I just want to touch on one that seeming…
Read message“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed”(Prov. 13:20). If you think you can voluntarily keep regular company with people who are not following hard after the Spirit of Go…
Read message"And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead…
Read messageMen esteem those who are like them, or like they wish they could be (Jn. 5:44; Psm. 49:18). God esteems those who fear him and have total reverence for the truth and reality of what he is all about (Isa. 66:1,2). Men exa…
Read messageNot everyone realizes this, but true faith in God goes hand in hand with good common sense in those who possess it. I remember an instance where a brother in the Lord was driving a company car for a good while without wo…
Read message"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Eph. 3:20). There are two very remarkable things that we're told in this verse of scriptur…
Read messageJesus did not receive testimony from men when he was here, and he was not committed to what men said about their faith in him (Jn. 2:23-25; Jn. 5:34). How much less is he committed to people’s confessions of faith in him…
Read messageThe universally held notion that we can be “saved by grace” even with sin remaining in our lives is so contrary to everything in the Bible that it defies comprehension as to why it is so accepted. The apostle Paul summed…
Read message"For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ou…
Read messageJesus said that true new testament worshipers of God “must worship him in spirit and in truth”(Jn. 4:24). The entire point of Jesus saying ‘in spirit,’ is that there is no ceremonial or symbolic worship or service unto G…
Read messageJesus said that he came into the world to give sight to those who were blind, and to take away the sight of those who see (Jn. 9:39). He was talking about spiritual sight, not natural sight, as he went on to explain to t…
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