Your Responsibility In Gen 43:9, Judah said to Jacob, concerning Benjamin’s safety going to and returning from Egypt, “Let me bear the blame”. To bear the blame is to take responsibility. To blame is to hold responsible. Judah took personal responsibility for Benjamin’s safety. Even though Joseph told Judah and...
God Works in You Heb 13:20-21, “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing...
How We Should Live In Titus 2:12 Paul wrote that the grace of God teaches us that “we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world”. The reason is that this present world is evil, Gal 1:4. It influenced Demas to forsake Paul, 2 Tim 4:10. Demas had...
Your Testimony You should have: A God-pleasing testimony – Heb 11:5. Enoch’s testimony before his translation was “that he pleased God”. Enoch is our type in the Old Testament if we are raptured before our death. He never died, and neither will we if we are alive when Jesus returns for...
How to Stand How to Stand In 1 Thes 3:8 Paul wrote, “For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord”. There are a few things in life and in the ministry that compel a man to keep on preaching and ministering the word of God. Of course,...
The Mark for the Prize In Phil 3, Paul described his life religious life before Jesus saved him. He had much to be proud of when compared to other religious Jews. But compared to the righteousness of Jesus Christ, he counted all his own righteousness as dung, Phil 3:8. After...
Rejoice in God I’m convinced that the reason some Christians, particularly young ones, don’t really grow in their relationship with the Lord is that don’t rejoice in that which God has given us as our greatest sources of joy. They find joys that are associated with Christ (like fellowship with...
Spiritual Prepping These days you hear more and more about people being encouraged to stock up on food and other necessities in advance of the anticipated “crash”. It is not uncommon, in a presidential election year, for people to “fear the worst” if the incumbent is not reelected. I’ve heard...
Diversity in the Body 1 Cor 12 is a great encouragement to me, because I often trouble myself about not doing the work of the ministry the way or to the same degree as others I admire in the Lord’s work. Particularly, I get concerned about leading more souls to...
Heart of Unbelief Heb 3:12 says, Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you and evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. It says an evil heart… Jeremiah said, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it”?, Jer 17:9. ...
