Now meekness does not necessarily mean weakness. Now Moses was considered a meek man, but you remember when he got up and talked to the children of Israel, he didn’t sound like a meek man according to our notion of meekness. He spoke right out. And you remember, the Lord Jesus was “meek and lowly,” but He went in and cleansed the temple. Nobody else speaks along these lines today as far as I know. And the thing that’s hurting our churches; somebody should speak out today and say, “Look, brothers...
Jul 11, 2025•1 min
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” Now very frankly, he makes it very clear that he wants him to prosper, not only financially, not only materially, and this man apparently was a man of means. But he says, “I want you to prosper in your health and that you might prosper also in his soul.” That he might grow spiritually, you see. What health is to the body, holiness is to the spiritual life of the believer. Healthy spirituall...
Jul 10, 2025•1 min
John and Paul are writing to people who lived in the Roman world. And in Paul’s day it was Bloody Nero, and in John’s day—for he saw one emperor after another rise that persecuted Christians, beginning with Titus. And the persecution was severe. And yet here are men and women in that Roman world—a brutal world, a cruel world pagan to the core—and yet here are men and women, and they are doing what? They’re walking after His commandments. They’re translating the gospel into life. That is the thin...
Jul 09, 2025•1 min
God will hear the prayers of His children. “And if we know that he hear us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” Now, that is a wonderful place to come to—to know that you and I have a heavenly Father, we’re in fellowship with Him, that we’re going to pray—not selfishly. Or if we regard sin in our lives or there could be other hindrances to prayer. But when we’re walking in fellowship with Him, we can be sure of one thing—that if we are following Him, that...
Jul 08, 2025•1 min
We need confidence in prayer, and it must be according to the will of God. And if you and I are in fellowship with Him, walking with Him, then our prayer would be along that line, of course. It would be for God’s will in our lives. George Muller put it like this. He says, “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.” That is the important thing. It’s not trying to get God to do something that He’s reluctant to do, but prayer is when you and I are thinking His...
Jul 07, 2025•1 min
Do you believe God? Do you believe the record that He gave? He says if you have the Son you have life. Now do you believe that? He didn’t say if you feel like it or if you’ve joined something, but He says, “If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and if you have Him”—and He says, “That’s the reason I’ve written this epistle to you, that you might know that you have eternal life.” This is made, I think, very clear here: “These are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Ch...
Jul 04, 2025•1 min
The question is do you have Christ? Is He your Savior? Are you trusting Him in such a way that if God would even say to you, “You must have something else,” you’d turn and walk away because you’d say to Him, “I only trusted Christ as my Savior.” My friend, if you haven’t come to that point, you just haven’t come anywhere at all. Because to be saved means you trust Christ, and it means you have Christ as your Savior. “He that hath the Son hath life.” He’s our lifeboat. He’s our lifeline. He’s our...
Jul 03, 2025•1 min
The only miracle cleansing thing that’s in the world today is the Word of God. It can save you—“…born again not by corruptible seed, but by incorruptible, the Word of God that liveth and abideth forever,” for it presents Christ who shed His blood for your sins and my sins. He died for our sins. He was raised for our justification. The Word of God can keep you clean down here. Now you can spray with every kind of a spray deodorant there is; you can rub it on, you can pour it on. And, my friends, ...
Jul 02, 2025•1 min
Joshua’s obeying orders, and we read in the New Testament in Hebrews 11, “By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down.” It was by faith they fell down, you see—it wasn’t by fighting. Now, what’s the lesson for us today? You don’t overcome the world by fighting it. Joshua’s business, though he had the army, his business was not to fight. His business was to believe God, and he believed God and the walls fell down. And, friends, today we’re saved by faith, and if we’re going to overcome this world we...
Jul 01, 2025•1 min
“By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.” The commandments are not referring to the Old Testament Law at all. They’re the commandments the Lord Jesus gave when He was here. “Rejoice evermore.” “Pray without ceasing.” “Be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Now these are the commandments for believers today. And every child of God wants to keep these commandments. In other words, it is a practice of his life. This is something that he desires to do...
Jun 30, 2025•1 min
This expression here, “born of God,” is very, very important. It hasn’t anything to do with the fact that you have joined a church—and I hope you have if you are born of God. And it hasn’t anything to do with a ceremony. And it doesn’t mean that you follow a ritual. But the important thing is: “Are you born of God?” And if you’ve been born again and you’re born again when you trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, and the proof of it is you’re going to love God. You’ll love your Father. He ...
Jun 27, 2025•1 min
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath punishment.” There’s nothing like fear in the human heart, but the child of God doesn’t need to fear any judgment that’s coming since all was settled when Christ died for us. “He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” In other words, you can enjoy your salvation; you see, joy does stem from love. And if you have love for the Lord Jesus, for God, and you have love for your brethren, then fear has been cast out.
Jun 26, 2025•1 min
“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.” That is if you and I love God and love the Lord Jesus and we love one another, then that’s going to give us boldness. We won’t have any fear of the day of judgment at all because as He is, we are in the world. In other words, we’re just like the Lord Jesus. He was raised from the dead we are told here, and He has light. Well, we have that light, too. And He’s up yonder ...
Jun 25, 2025•1 min
“We have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.” And this is the gospel witness, therefore. This is the message that we have to give. This is the purpose of our love. It’s not something that’s sloppy—and again I have to come back and say it again—Christian love is not sentimental; it’s not sexual; it’s not social; it’s not something that you have at the church banquet. It is something, my friend, that reveals it when we take Christ to a lost world—to sinn...
Jun 24, 2025•1 min
