Ten Virgins: A Warning for Spiritual and Carnal Church Members
What does Jesus’ parable of the ten virgins show us in respect to the signs of Parousia and the spiritual and carnal church members?
All ten were virgins
All had pure biblical beliefs
All had lamps
All have the Bible
All of them went to meet the bridegroom
All of them looked forward to the second coming
All of them went to […]
Laodicea: Accepting Christ’s Evaluation and Call to Change
In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived.
When Christ calls Himself the beginning of the creation of God, He isn’t saying that He was the first being God created and that He hadn’t existed before that time. The word beginning here simply means the source or the origin or the chief cause. Christ is saying I am the source of all creation.
This is what […]
Walking by Faith: Living Daily by the Spirit’s Power
When we walk by faith, the Holy Spirit who lives in us will produce in our lives the works of Christ, works of faith. Works of faith always have their origin in the Holy Spirit. Faith says “I am making myself available to you Lord Jesus because there is nothing good in me.”
“Works of faith” are the result of […]
Coming to Jesus: Don’t Wait to Give Him Your Heart
In like manner you are a sinner. You cannot atone for your past sins; you cannot change your heart and make yourself holy. But God promises to do all this for you through Christ. You believe that promise. You confess your sins and give yourself to God. You will to serve Him. Just as surely as you do this, God […]
Price of Redemption: God’s Sacrifice and the Cost of Grace
God suffered with His Son. In the agony of Gethsemane, the death of Calvary, the heart of Infinite Love paid the price of our redemption…. Nothing less than the Infinite Sacrifice made by Christ in behalf of fallen man could express the Father’s love to lost humanity….
It is from the Father’s heart that the streams of divine compassion, […]
God’s Love: Our Father Cares and Gives the Greatest Gift
Jesus pointed His hearers to the Ruler of the universe, under the new name, “Our Father.” He would have them understand how tenderly the heart of God yearned over them. He teaches that God cares for every lost soul; that “like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him.” Psalm 103:13.
Such […]
