Posts from January 2024

God has in the scriptures warned man about deception. The ultimate deceiver is Satan, (Rev. 12:9) but his ministers are going about sowing falsehoods daily. Consider the various forms of the term: Deceive – to make (a person) believe what is not true; mislead. Deceptive – deceiving or intended to deceive. Then is self-deception; Webster defines “self-deception” as “the act or an instance of deceiving oneself or the state of being deceived by oneself especially concerning one’s true nature, feelings,…

There are some people who are still interested in the pure gospel of Jesus Christ. We are trying to give you something each week that will provoke your most serious deliberation throughout the week. If it helps you through the week then my time is considered well spent. The world needs the gospel of Christ. The world has had too much philosophy and not enough gospel. The fundamental duty of the Church is to preach the truth of Christ. The…

Philippians 2:12-16 teaches us to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling and allow God to work in us. We must do all things without murmuring and disputing, and be children of God without fault, by being blameless and harmless. Now, fundamental to our ability to do all these things is that we “hold fast the word of life” (Phil. 2:16). How can we accomplish this? Ezra 7:10 provides three ways. First, seek the law of the Lord…

The Bible teaches that God “desires all men to be saved” (1 Tim. 2:4). A diligent reader will learn that not only does God want the reader to be saved, but God wants the reader to want others to be saved also. Salvation is the message of the Bible and we are the messengers who have been sent. We have been sent to save the lost. Millions of accountable people are living who have never obeyed the gospel. In God’s…