Add “to Knowledge Temperance” 2 Peter 1:6 A good synonym for Temperance is moderation. To “temper” something means to bring it to a moderate state. In [Exodus 30:35] the Lord describes a mixture for a perfume to be used in the tabernacle and says “And thou shalt make it...
Add to Virtue Knowledge 2 Pet. 1:5 In the last lesson we studied about adding virtue to your faith. Virtue is a power to produce something manifested by voluntary obedience to truth. God wants us to get saved and then summit to be obedient to the truth. In this...
Things God Hates Zec.8:16-17 Zechariah was told by the Lord in this passage that there are some things God hates. If we really want to please God we need to take heed to the things God hates. Some times we don’t realize that what we consider a small fib or...
Don’t Sell Out Prov. 23 :23 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO This verse shows you two things about the truth – it’s going to cost you something to get it and once you get it you do not want to sell it – other investments are often bought and held for a...
The Requirements of Truth Acts 17 22-34 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In this passage Paul finds himself in Athens, a place described as “having more gods than people”. The Athenians were very careful not to leave out even one god in their statues and monuments. Therefore Paul found the altar with...
Mercy & Truth CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO This lesson is on the topic of mercy and truth. People want mercy when the time for mercy comes but many don’t want it with the truth. These two are linked like the hot and ground wires in a current, like the positive and...
The Truth John 14:6 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO We preached last week on Col 2:8, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Today, in an effort to show you how to avoid...
Don’t Fail of Grace CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In this text we are encouraged not to fail of grace. One way to be sure that you don’t fail of grace is to avail yourself of grace. To avail yourself of grace requires: The Lord – Ps 84:11 – it seems that...
Forget Not My Law Prov. 3:1-4 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO This proverb has to do with a son receiving the law given to him by his father who shows him the benefit of keeping it. If a child receives no instruction or has a father and mother who do not exercise...
If You Love Me John 14:15-24 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO The whole blessing of salvation in Jesus Christ begins with loving Jesus Christ because salvation is a matter of the heart and not a matter of the action. This is a very confusing point that people trip on because our first...
