About sheep and pigs. The Bible plainly says one who willfully practices known sin does not know God. Why? Because God’s Seed remains in the believer. The new nature of one born again hates sin and loves holiness (1John. 3:8-9). When I was a young man, I lived on a ranch in north-western Nebraska. There was a beautiful green meadow, Paramount Valley Ranch, where my grandfather and my father lived and ranched: cattle, horses and sheep. Hogs, a few, were…..
God’s Temple Some of the most beautiful buildings in the world are its temples and cathedrals. But none of them can begin to come up to the human body, which is created to be God’s temple; believer, “your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God” (1Cor.6:19). An awesome truth! This enables you and me to have direct and immediate communication with the Lord Jesus Christ; to have direction from Him;…..
SALVATION, THEN AND NOW. How were the Jews, under the Law of Moses, saved? Jesus said “no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”(John 14:6). They were saved by believing the Gospel: Christ to come; we are saved by believing the Gospel: Christ who has come. The Law had the same purpose then as now, to show us sin and our need of a Savior, ” That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty…..
Living the Christian life is an adventure as my grandfather “Pap” Dillon, at sixteen years of age, left a safe home in Indiana and went to the Dakota territory with a Civil war General to make his way in Land ruled by the Sioux Indian. No written direction , a few old maps and witnesses of a life of fulfillment and adventure that called him on. But he made a successful life as a rancher with his wife and children…..
How many Commandments do Christians have? Jesus gave one, “…I command you that ye love one another” (John 15:17). Love fulfills the law. We don’t covet, steal from, or seduce one we love. The apostle John gives the second, which is to believe, “And this is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us commandment” (I John 3:27). Christians are not lawless. We are committed to…..
Riding out the Storm. While I write, we in Florida face a heavy rain storm from a hurricane; but not such a storm that covered the earth many years ago. All of us have heard of Noah, his family, and the animals that found safety in a large ship (called an ark). Noah built it by God’s instructions (Gen. 7). This ark is a picture of our protection in the judgement of God which is coming on the whole earth……
Two major requirements to get what you ask for in prayer are: 1 . Ask; 2. Be in fellowship with the Lord. The Scriptures tell us, “…Ye have not because ye ask not” (James 4:2). The weapons of our warfare are mighty to the pulling down of strongholds. One cannot overestimate the power of prayer. When we walk with the Lord, “whatsoever we we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are…..
Assuming that we have our spititual eyes open, we know this life is a battle: warfare between between good and evil. One who does not know this will find it out or perhaps is already down and out. The battle is spiritual and the battlefield is the mind. Eph.6:12. From the Bible and from my own experience I write the following: When in a place of temptation leave immediately. Do as Joseph did when Potiphar’s wife tried to seduce him……
You, Christian believer, are shown in the Bible to be in a war with Satan (Eph. 6:10-18). At issue is your very life. The battle field is your mind. The enemy is Satan. His weapons are fiery darts that can destroy right thinking and right attitude of faith. Anyone not aware of the battle that comes and perhaps is going on this very moment is most likely already down and out. The road way Satan uses to get at us…..
Love , Permanent Love For The One Whose Sacrifice Helped. I know from experience. Two powerful Judges in Atlanta helped me at cost to themselves in a time when I was a young lawyer and needed help. I will never forget. Love for them and desire to justify their actions for me has never left. They have passed from this life, but even if a member of their family needed help I could give, I would respond immediately. The apostle…..