The horrible flash floods in Texas have claimed almost 300 lives missing or dead. There was no warning, and the shallow rivers in the region are quickly filled to overflowing, roaring down stream and carrying trees and buildings and vehicles with it, as well as animal and human victims. Some will say, that God didn't want this to happen. He was standing by and watching, and couldn't do anything to stop the flooding. But the Bible refutes such nonsense! God works ALL THINGS after the council of H...
Jul 13, 2025•38 min
When Jesus spoke with His friend Martha after the death of her brother Lazarus, she inquired tentatively whether Jesus might ask His Father for Lazarus' life to be restored. Jesus quickly corrected her: I AM the resurrection and the life! Christ is not just powerful enough to raise His people from the grave. He is, rather, resurrection and life itself! His identity itself is resurrection and life. By His almighty power, as God Himself, He raises up all His people who trust in Him. This is becaus...
Jul 06, 2025•39 min
In Ephesians 3, Paul describes the mystery of the Gospel, only then revealed in full. That God would save Gentiles as well as Jews, and unite them all together in Christ's church, was a veiled truth until after the Resurrection. But all of this was the eternal purpose, proposed in Christ Jesus as Lord. So by faith in Christ, we all have boldness, and access in confidence to our God. That faith was itself given to us by God through the Holy Ghost. By Christ's blood shed and presented in the holie...
Jun 29, 2025•38 min
In Philippians 1, Paul describes how his persecution advances the Gospel! In his bondage, he displays the Gospel message even in the palace, and its spread is thereby furthered. Notice that this is the opposite of what false teachers preach. The Gospel is not preached by violence by believers, but rather by violence AGAINST believers! Further, Paul's boldness induces boldness in other Gospel preachers! Paul exclaimed that "many waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word w...
Jun 22, 2025•43 min
Godly boldness is not of ourselves, or inherent in our ethnic lineage, neither is it a character quality backed by force or violence, but rather is in and through Jesus Christ. Paul exhorts us to prayer. Our prayer is to be continuous, in the Holy Ghost, and with watchfulness and perseverance. It is to be prayer for all the saints, and will include our petitions and supplications, which are supporting, upholding, and asking the Lord for help for all the brethren. Then Paul adds, "and for me." Pa...
Jun 15, 2025•47 min
At Iconium, bold Gospel preaching brought about the conversion of many Jews and Gentiles together. This preaching was done by Jewish believers to both Jews and Gentiles. But then, unbelieving Jews tried to shut down Paul's Gospel preaching! They poisoned the minds of some unbelieving Gentiles against Christ. Paul and the brethren didn't stop. For a long time, they continued to preach boldly the Gospel to all the people of Iconium. God honored their faithfulness by giving signs and wonders, to te...
Jun 08, 2025•38 min
Paul's boldness is explicitly credited to the work of the Holy Ghost. An example of Paul's boldness in Gospel preaching is seen in his powerful and provocative sermon at the synagogue in Antioch of Psidia. Paul points out that Jesus was the fulfillment of the promises to the house of David, and that Christ is the long-desired Savior. Not only that, but right here, right now, word of this salvation is preached to you! Paul forcefully asserts that the rulers of Israel falsely condemned the innocen...
Jun 01, 2025•48 min
Regardless of what certain false teachers claim, as we have mentioned before, the Holy Ghost is powerful to sanctify every sort of believer, and suppress our character flaws for God's glory and our good, regardless of race. Paul's boldness is explicitly credited to the work of the Holy Ghost. He was bold in proclaiming the Gospel even when dangerous, followed by persecution, followed by Paul going elsewhere to preach. When Paul and Barnabas went to Paphos, the local minor ruler, Sergius Paulus, ...
May 18, 2025•32 min
Godly boldness is not inherited, nor comes from some so-called noble or superior lineage. God can and does embolden His people, no matter how lowly or poor or disadvantaged they may be. We were all lost in sin and degradation and humiliation, until Christ cleansed us with His Own precious blood. He has saved us, and placed upon us His nobility and honor, and a portion of His boldness, by the Holy Ghost, for God's glory, and for our great benefit! The apostle Paul is a key example. He was very bo...
May 11, 2025•39 min
The Holy Ghost is powerful to sanctify every sort of believer, and suppress our character flaws for God's glory and our good, regardless of race. The Lord makes us brave by His providential care and through His Word to us, and by being with us always. God instructed Joshua to be strong and courageous, because God Himself would never leave Joshua nor forsake him. Paul quotes that same text in calling for the saints to exclaim, that the Lord is our helper, and we shall not fear what man can do to ...
May 04, 2025•41 min
The church is being polluted by a form of "our blood, our soil" extreme nationalism, that teaches that God gave America to Anglo Saxon Protestants, but all sorts of other people are invading our country and "ruining our heritage." These false teachers hold even Italians, Greeks, Jews, Hispanics, and Blacks as aliens, who should be excluded as far as possible from America. Often, they advocate discrimination and suppression, claiming a "spiritual basis" for these wicked notions. In the case at ha...
Apr 27, 2025•41 min
The malevolent coverup of the resurrection began, even while the women went to tell the disciples the good news. The guards came into the city and told the chief priest and rulers everything that had happened. Think of it -- the rulers and priests' own employees told them the truth about the resurrection, even though as soldiers, their words put them in potential jeopardy. This is how we know that the chief priests and all the people that were there knew Christ had risen from the grave. They kne...
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We are not to put our trust in princes, or in man generally, since all their plans disappear as soon as they die. Only God's plans survive, and continue to accomplish His purposes! No nation we can build or fight for can accomplish anything lasting for us. Our only hope is found in our Lord Jesus, and what He accomplished for us at the cross. He has saved His people, and one day will raise us up to everlasting life in glory! Early this very morning, the Assad government in Syria collapsed before...
Dec 08, 2024•31 min
Younger people often seem to have few worries, since everything is provided free by others, but as one grows older, responsibilities and concerns loom large more and more, and thereby, we ought to grasp how much we depend on our God's goodness to us. It helps us to do so by considering how little others have compared to us. Many live in mud huts, with no utilities, no doctors. In other places, many are martyred for their faith, or for political reasons. Poverty is rampant, with no shelter, littl...
Dec 01, 2024•33 min
Nobody can see the Lamb until God shows them their need for a sacrifice for their sins. This is done by miraculous work of the Holy Ghost in each individual who then comes to trust in Christ. Scripture many times describes the Lord Jesus as God's Lamb for us! He is our sacrifice to take away our sin, He is our salvation! In Abraham's case, God promised to provide a lamb Himself for a sacrifice, but it was not limited to that one time to save Isaac. Rather, Abraham came to understand God meant He...
Nov 24, 2024•32 min
Abraham laid Isaac on the alter and prepared to slay him, as commanded by God, but the Angel of the Lord stopped him at the last moment. But then Abraham turned and looked, and saw the ram caught in the thicket, provided by God, for the sake of Isaac! No doubt, that look was prompted by the Holy Ghost, so that Abraham might see the lamb that God had provided, just as He said He would! The instant Abraham saw that lamb, he understood everything: God's Lamb is slain in the sinner's place, and His ...
Nov 17, 2024•30 min
Too many good Americans see our country as the "indispensable nation" – raised up by God for great things, and God will surely continue to use us indefinitely, if only Trump succeeds. But America is already awash in innocent blood, both the unborn and many helpless victims around the world. Very few of us seem to care. We are 35 trillion dollars in debt, with no way out. Societal collapse is all around, with corruption and incompetence. The post office, the police, the courts, the public schools...
Nov 10, 2024•32 min
Today in many churches, sermons on who to vote for, or who a Christian can never vote for, will be delivered. But not here. Instead, we will review some warnings about improper ways of thinking about elections. First, democratic representation brings along with it personal moral responsibility onto the voters whose candidate is victorious. In Christ's day, the people were ruled by foreign despots, and had no moral input into government conduct. But with the democratic process, now we do bear mor...
Nov 03, 2024•38 min
God promises a startling change in the condition of the mountains and plants and fields when Messiah comes to reign. There will be a marvelous transformation of this old fallen, broken down world, marred now by sin and corruption. In Isaiah 11, the change in the animal's behavior is underlined: where once there was discord and death and danger, Christ's reign will bring about peace and friendship and docility. The wild beasts will be tame in the hands of a little child! The lion will eat straw l...
Oct 27, 2024•35 min
God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his own most beloved son Isaac. Abraham had trusted in God's promises, and God counted it for righteousness. Abraham would not disobey God's command, even though it seemed that the killing of Isaac would overturn the covenant God had made with Abraham, because according to the Lord, all the promised blessings were to be in and through Isaac his son. Along the way, Isaac asked his father the most important question: where is the lamb for the sacrifice? Isaac was...
Oct 20, 2024•37 min
According to Paul in Romans 8, the comfort of the Holy Ghost for us includes the promise of our resurrection one day. The same spirit that raised up Christ will also raise up all of Christ's people! That power of Christ rising again will be deployed in every single one of the Lord's people! Then glory will be revealed in us, a glory that far exceeds the suffering of this world. But then, Paul inserts an argument about the creation as a startling example of the glory that will one day be revealed...
Oct 13, 2024•42 min
Peter claimed he would die before he would ever deny Jesus. When it came time for Christ's betrayal, Peter demurred. Why was this? The key is Christ's forbidding Peter from fighting to stop His murder. In other words, Christ deprived Peter of a "fair fight" with swords and fists. So long as Peter could strike the enemies of Jesus with weapons of war, his determination was secure. But Christ forbade Peter from using carnal methods in the cause of Christ. It was at this point, that the disciples a...
Oct 09, 2024•43 min
