By One Spirit

Message archive

Browse the ministry’s messages by their original posting date.

December 2014

28 messages · Dates and times shown in UTC

Let Pride Go

"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 message

The Full Spectrum

It is very sad, and it is very hurtful, but most people just refuse to give themselves the opportunity to understand the full spectrum of the love of God. If we fail to do so it is certain that we will end up falling sho…

Read message

The Heart and Healing

"The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?" (Prov. 18:14). I can't really think of a truer saying than this one from the book of Proverbs. A person can endure and bear a lot of th…

Read message

Water Baptism Idolatry

Well, 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 I put up a post on how water baptism is no longer in effect, and nobody gave me a scathing rebuke for it.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 message

Of Low Estate

Are you on a journey today my friend? Well, once a long, long time ago, a lot of folks were on a journey as well. Many were coming from throughout Israel to come to Bethlehem to pay their taxes (Lk. 2:1-5). It so happens…

Read message

Boast Not of the Morrow

I 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

Judged By Our Works

I 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

Where is Your Faith?

Just a few words today about how to gauge where someone is really at with their faith in Christ and his Gospel. You can get some people to engage you on a lot of things from the Bible, and occasionally you will even run…

Read message

The Pharisees and the Test of Obedience

Jesus gave us some simplistic insight into the hypocrisy of the Pharisees that we should all give heed to: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe an…

Read message

More Than the Pharisees

"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 message

The Reality of Hell

There 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 message

Discernment and Truth

If you want to have a better understanding and appreciation for the things that are indeed truth about the Gospel, one sure way is to always look at the flip side of things. Here is a really good for instance: "And we kn…

Read message

Side With God

The 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

Walk Softly

Jesus 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 message

Repentance and Faith

I believe that if anyone could want to know the answer to one question in their life for absolute certainty, it would be this: "Whose heart is really with me?" Of course if we are children of God by faith in Jesus Christ…

Read message

Of the Law, or of Grace?

"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 message

Salvation and the Holy Spirit

It seems I haven't written much against the mindset and spirit of 'eternal security' of late, though I've probably been led to preach on that subject as much or more than anything in the past thirty plus years. Someone g…

Read message

Don’t Judge God

Many 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…

Read message

The Water and the Spirit

Today I would like to address something that is commonly misunderstood about the new birth experience. I had a few responses from someone a couple of days ago about a post that I put up about the holy Ghost baptism, and…

Read message

Just a few words today about being desolate

Just a few words today about being desolate. First of all it isn't good. To be 'desolate' means to "be solitary, left alone, or forsaken." There is only one scripture in the Bible that hints at anything good coming from…

Read message

Condemn Sin in the Flesh

Okay, let me get straight to the point here today. What point would that be? The point of the Gospel. The point of why God sent his Son from heaven to suffer, die, and raise from the dead for us. Romans 6:23 tells us why…

Read message

Paul Wasn’t a Sinner

It really baffles me as to how many people who are in Christ, meaning they have been baptized with the holy Ghost with the accompanying sign of speaking in tongues; think that the apostle Paul was a sinner. It’s obvious…

Read message

Of God or of the World?

Anyone who has good experience in following continually after the Spirit of God will seek with top priority to edify the faith and love of Christ in others (Rom. 8:14; Mat. 6:33). On the other hand, those who name the na…

Read message

Nothing But the Love

I have a relatively short post today, and it is as to the point as it gets. When it’s all said and done, the entire calling, purpose and effect of the Gospel is to possess and demonstrate the love of God in our lives. Je…

Read message

One Baptism

Well, I’ve decided that I’m not quite done with the water baptism issue yet. The Lord has really moved me to deal with this subject recently, and there is more truth to be manifested on the topic. Today I just want to ma…

Read message