Bad Music Ezek. 28:13 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Is there really bad music in the Bible?  Yes. In the Bible, you find two different “lines” of music, throughout.  One line comes from the Lord even before creation and it continues all the way out into eternity.  The other line comes...

In Ps 27:1-3 David asks, Whom shall I fear?  Of whom shall I be afraid?  The context of these questions is a fight.  Notice the references to the wicked, mine enemies, my foes, an host, and war.  We are in a fight.  Paul told Timothy to fight the good fight...

Fearful Rev.21:1-8 Many times we bring lost people to this passage to show them where “unbelieving” people go at the final judgment. But, “fearful” people are listed first. I realize this passage does not affect a saved child of God, but we all stand before the same God (Heb.13:5-8), and...

Before we were saved, we were dead in trespasses and sins. According to Rom 5:12, death came as a result of Adam’s transgression against Gen 2:17.  When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, everything about them was affected by death.  And so,...

Elymas Acts 13:6-12 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Elymas was the sorcerer who withstood Paul and Barnabas when they came to preach the word of God to Sergius Paulus.  He was “seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith,” [Acts 13:8].  Paul knew what Elymas was up to and he stopped...

When you search for the word “resist” in the Bible, you find some references that give us great instruction.  To resist is to withstand the force or the effect of; to be able to repel; to exert oneself to counteract or strive against.  Notice what we are to resist and...

1 Tim 1:15 says, “Christ Jesus came into the world…”  This is the season when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, presumably.  Why did Christ come into the world? Christ came to fulfill the promises to Israel – Rom 9:3-5 – he was born King of the Jews [Matt...

We have been studying each piece of the whole armor of God from Eph 6:10-18.  Thus far, we have studied the helmet of salvation, which gives us a saved, spiritual, sound, servant’s mind with which to fight in our spiritual warfare.  Then we studied the breastplate of righteousness, which defends...

Peter’s exhortation in 1 Pet 5:8-11 deals, primarily, with three different subjects: the devil, afflictions, and suffering.  The final three verse of the chapter are Silvanus’ closing remarks. The devil – 1 Pet 5:8-9 – the devil is our adversary.  Therefore, he is our enemy.  He opposes God and he...

In Is 10:13 we read that the devil has “removed the bounds of the people.”  You might remember from our prior broadcast that the Lord is the one who set the bounds, in order to keep the nations separate [Deut 32:8; Acts 17:26].  So, the devil is a unifier, whereas...