“To live is Christ, and to die is gain”Philippians 1:21
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Today I just want to say a few words about the starkest reality of this life. My favorite book in the Bible is Ecclesiastes, and the reason is because it focuses so intently on the fact that we are all going to die. Plea…
Read messageI just want to say a couple of things today about one of the most profound statements of truth that has ever been spoken in this world. Not surprisingly it was spoken by Jesus, and it goes like this: "But seek ye first t…
Read messageI have just a few words today on the inseparable sign of the new birth. When the believing Pharisee Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, Jesus told him something about being born again that is just totally overlooked by alm…
Read messageWell, I think that's a first. I put up a post on how water baptism is no longer in effect, and nobody gave me a scathing rebuke for it. I'm beginning to feel too well accepted. Actually I had another short message in min…
Read messageI'm going back today to Peter, Cornelius, and water baptism, to point out something that a lot of folks need to seriously consider. I'm not going to re-write other posts that have been done on the subject, but in short o…
Read messageIt seems that the only thing that surrounds the word 'doctrine' these days is fear or stubborn sectarian pride. Yet the apostle Paul esteemed doctrine higher than any other aspect of the gospel, in so much that he made t…
Read messageGod sent the apostle Peter and a few Jewish brethren to the house of Cornelius the Roman centurion to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to these people, who were the first Gentiles to have the gospel preached unto them.…
Read message"Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding" (Prov. 23:23). It costs something to learn the real truth of God, and most people simply do not want to pay that price. What it costs is l…
Read messageI have just a short post today to debunk one of the commonly held Christian traditions that is erroneous. Many believe that Saul of Tarsus, who became the apostle Paul, was born again on the road to Damascus in Acts chap…
Read messageI tend to feel a little bit uneasy whenever I hear someone talking about their big plans and where they are going to be with their worldly state in time to come, especially when it is a child of God doing the talking. Fi…
Read message"Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what i…
Read messageEvery time God has made a covenant with man, he has provided a sign or token of his own choosing to mark evidence of that covenant. In the case of his covenant with the earth that he would never again destroy it with a f…
Read messageI only have time for a short post today, and first of all I would like to quote something very serious and sobering that Jesus said: "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;…
Read message"Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled" (Tit. 1:15). A lot of religious folks today really need to think about th…
Read message"For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Mat. 5:20). I remember many years ago when I was jus…
Read messageJust a few words today about how to gauge where someone is really at with their faith, or their supposed faith in Christ. You can get some people to engage you on a lot of things from the Bible, and occasionally you will…
Read messageIn light of our post yesterday, regarding the fear of God and the sobering reality of hell, I would like to expand that understanding just a bit here today. First of all, let me be perfectly clear that experiencing the n…
Read messageThere is an overwhelming epidemic of no fear of God today, both among God's people, as well as with those who are not born again. I have no question that the fear of the Lord is the most crossed out element of the true g…
Read messageJesus gave us a commandment that a whole lot of folks seem to have forgotten, and that to their own hurt. It goes like this: "Judge not, that ye be not judged" (Mat. 7:1). Now let's understand that "judging" in the conte…
Read messageThe Lord revealed to me powerfully in a dream in 1988 what he was going to do in the end time before the second coming of Jesus back to this world. I'm not getting into the details of it here, as I did devote a post to t…
Read message"Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?" (Gal. 4:21). Just what was it that the apostle Paul wanted the Galatians to understand about the law, and what it meant to be under it? First let's u…
Read messageMany people are going about to judge God without realizing that they are doing so, and it is a very unwise and unprofitable practice to take up with. Just because we do not understand everything, doesn't mean that God is…
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