I’m driving down the freeway and I notice a bumper sticker. It says: “In case of the Rapture, this car will be unmanned!” Then I look at Facebook and there’s three memes that tell people to be ready for the Rapture. I’ve been studying about this all of my Christian life. In 2001 a friend …
The ABC’s of Repentance – by Pastor Joseph Cortes Read 2 Corinthians 7:8-10 – “For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye …
Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle [circle the word wrestle] not against flesh and blood [or the original blood and flesh], but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness [or wicked spirits] in high places.” We’re wrestling against powerful evil forces. They have one goal, and that is to destroy any child of God that has been …
Matthew 14:3 reads, “And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little Faith. In Strong’s Concordance, every time we see the word Faith, the Greek word Pistis is used as the original reference. But what does Faith mean? When the people of the first century received the letters from …
Surrendering yourself to Christ’s lordship is not a requirement to be saved. Yes, you are going to become His possession, and that is the journey you will take after salvation, but it is not a requirement for salvation. There is a clear distinction. You can forsake the world all you want, and, you might have …
Open your Bibles to Hebrews 6:1. “Therefore leaving the principles…” A better translation would be the word of the beginning of Christ. “Therefore leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us go on unto perfection [or completion]; not laying again the foundation of repentance [a change of mind] from dead works, and of faith toward God,” If you read various …
Genesis 30:13 reads, “And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.” Literally in the Hebrew this verse says, “And Leah said, In my happiness, the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.” Some translators will translate blessed as happy, but it is the …
Open your Bibles to Matthew 16:27. “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.” So, what is the basis of these rewards? “he shall reward every man according to his works.” Matthew is the first book in …
Genesis 1:20-23 reads, “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl …
Get the Table of The Lord elements ready and open your Bible to Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10:14, “For by one offering [Christ] he hath perfected…” [perfected is okay for a translation here but it is also meant to include completed] “…for ever them that are sanctified [holy].” How do you become sanctified? It is a setting apart. How do you become sanctified or set apart? …