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…..
The mystery of the resurrection of a decayed body. Jesus said, “I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending.” ( Rev. 1:8)-not ” I will be”, but ” I am”. He is present in time and outside time. The past can be as the present to Him. Einstein is famous for, among other things, defining the fourth dimension: where something is in time. Jesus is Lord of the fourth dimension. He is the great I AM. William Tyndale…..
How where people saved when under the law, before Christ came? One often hears this question: “How were the Jews under the law saved before Christ came? The Bible gives the answer: ” for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified”(Gal.2:16). They were saved just like we are. In fact, there has only been one way of salvation from sin and the gift of eternal life from the beginning of mankind on earth until the last…..
Sign of His Coming: The Fig Tree (Israel) putting forth leaves Our Lord has created in nature pictures of spiritual truth . We are familiar with some and they have found their way into our language as “storms of life’ and “winds of adversity”. The fig tree is, in Bibles usage, given as a picture of the nation Israel. When asked about His coming and the end of the age Jesus said, “Now learn a parable of the fig tree;…..
The Second coming of Christ: The Sound of the Trumpet The next thing on the Lord’s agenda: THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE INCORRUPTIBLE AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED- 1Cor. 15:52. We get a word picture of this event from the trumpet signalling Israel as they moved across the desert from slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land many years ago .Num.10:1-6. There was no notice beforehand as to when the trumpet was sounded by…..
TESTIMONY: RECEIVING CHRIST Remembering, “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures”, preached by Pastor Paul VanGorder in the church we attended, conviction of sin struck me literally like a knife in the center of my body and I lay down on the floor. I saw for the first time my spiritual problem. It was not simply wrong doing. I was a…..
WAR IN THE HEAVENS Jesus defeated Satan (the Devil) once for all , dying on the cross and the third day rising from the dead. But Satan would bluff his way out of it and deny us the fruit of victory in our daily lives if he can. History gives an example. On October 17, 1781, Great Britain under Gen. Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. Washington securing the independence of our nation, The United States. On the high seas and in…..
Some of the most meaningful words ever spoken show the grounds for our rest of faith in Christ. In the gospel of Mark, concerning the death of Christ on the cross, we read, “And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.” In the gospel of John, (John 19:30), we find out what Jesus said when He cried with a loud voice; this no doubt for public record and notice to all- believers, doubters, demons, and angels……