By examining Romans 7:13-25, the Apostle Paul’s brief struggle between his desire to do good, yet doing what he desired not to do, was probably because Paul lied to himself, as we all do, for as soon as Paul “thought” to do good, sin dwelling or living in him, blocked it, so Paul could only […]
When we, like the Apostle Paul, in Romans 7:13-25, cannot “do the things we want to do”, but “do the things we do not want to do”, for the enslaving sin within us, uses our “reasoning” against us, but through our Lord Jesus Christ, whose authority and power (Philippians 4:13), along with our “willingness to […]
Jesus, in John 5:1-47 and 9:1-41, gives contrasting stories to show us how the absolute truth of God’s word is made null and void by our human reasoning, yet even when we read these true stories, we willingly avoid Jesus’ explanation of our daily human reasoning negating the truth of God’s word, for we always […]
The Apostle Paul, in Romans 7, briefly struggled with the law of sin warring inside him against the law of God, until the Holy Spirit showed Christ Jesus ended that war and is now our Peace and Deliverer. Romans 10:1-13 is Paul’s explanation of Crist Jesus, God’s righteousness, or the righteousness of faith, as opposed […]
The Apostle Paul, through Jesus Christ, overcame his struggle with the Law and was delivered from it, as we learn, first from Romans 6:1-27 and then from Romans 7:1-25, because Paul knew he had been crucified with Jesus, the resurrected Christ; thus, he was dead to sin and alive in Christ Jesus, yet the law […]
Habakkuk 3:17-19 assures us God still blesses our faith in Him by providing for us, even when the fig tree does not blossom or have fruit, as we learn from Jesus’ parable of the fruitless fig tree in Matthew 21:18-22 and Luke 13:6-9, for Jesus tells us why the fig tree was fruitless—it was planted […]
Pretribulation and predestination are beautiful and meaningful words: The noun pretribulation shows in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, the Lord Christ coming to midair to call His bride-body-church to come up where He is, to be forever with Him; thus, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, lists the events that will happen before the Lord Christ comes for His body, […]
From Psalm 37:23-24 and Proverbs 16:1-9, we learn God controls every minute detail of everything we think, say, and do, and from these our personality is fashioned, because we either think, say, and do things God’s way or Satan’s way, even though we believe they are done our way. Here is Proverbs 16:1-9 from the […]
In Luke 5:17-26, Jesus reveals the awesomeness of God’s healing power faith in God can do, for the last sentence in verse 17 says, “…And the power of the Lord was present to heal them”. But verse 21 says, after Jesus in verse 20 told the paralytic his sins were forgiven, the Pharisees and teachers […]
Years ago, the Holy Spirit taught me “Walk in your God-given authority or someone will take it from you and use it against you”, so I have tried through the years to obey this and taught it to the family and those I pastored. Now the Holy Spirit has used half the quote to correct […]
Joel 2:25-32 is where the Prophet Joel not only explains what would happen in Acts 2:1-21, but also what will happen during the last days between the second three and a half years of the tribulation, and Christ coming to reign from King David’s throne in Jerusalem, Israel. The adverb “afterword” in Joel 2:28-29, that […]
God, in Genesis 15, promised Abram (Abraham, Genesis 17:5) a son by his wife Sarai (Sarah Genesis 17:15); however, in promising Abraham a son by Sarah, God was also telling Abraham and Sarah the promise would take twenty-five years to experience, because God revealed this to him when in Genesis 15:13, He promised Abraham his […]
