Questions and answers relating to salvation and justification
Do You Think The Bible Is Hard To Understand? Do you think that the bible is hard to understand? I believe that most people think it is. A man recently commented to me and said; “If God is so omnipotent, then why couldn’t He give us a book that everyone could understand? That’s a good question. Why couldn’t God have given us a book that was…
Your First Day In Heaven If you’re a Christian, there’s not one reason that you shouldn’t sing and be happy, today, and every day! The promise of eternal life in heaven with God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, should override every care and concern that we might have in this life. Just look at the joy, and the emotion, on the face…
Does God Need to be Served? Acts 17, verses 24 & 25 tell us; “The God who made the world, and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all, life and breath and all things.” God…
The Cultivated Tree, and the Wild Tree The apostle Paul was writing to gentile Christians, in the book of Romans. And he said in chapter 11, verse 24; “For if you were cut off from what is by nature, a wild olive tree, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into…
Human Ignorance Abounds Proverbs 1, verse 7 says; “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Some people actually despise God’s instructions. And the majority of the rest, simply don’t feel they have any need for it. It’s not that people don’t want to have knowledge, it’s just that all they want is worldly knowledge. They don’t want…
There’s a Battle Going On! There’s a battle going on, but it’s not a physical battle. It’s a battle between good and evil. Some people think that God is involved in a battle, but He isn’t. There’s no battle, that God Himself is involved in, nor has God ever been involved in a battle of any kind. You believe that God is all-powerful, don’t you? Psalm 115:3 …
Should We be Afraid of God? You’re probably aware, that the old testament has a lot to say about fearing God. As a matter of fact, phrases like “the fear of God” or “the fear of the Lord” appear over 80 times in the old testament. The new testament doesn’t say that nearly as often, but it does say it at least another 10 times. And…
Does God Speak To Us? The first time ever recorded, that God communicated with man, was in Genesis 2, verse 16. It says there; “And the Lord God commanded the man saying; From any tree of the garden you may eat freely..” And the next verse says; “But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in the day that…
Why Does God Allow Bad Things To Happen? We’ve all heard questions like that. And we’ve heard about how suffering can help to make us more like Christ, and how it can bring us closer to God. And there’s truth in those things. In a lot of instances of suffering, there’s no one else to turn to but God! But how would you answer that question? Why does…
The Schoolmaster That Led To Christ. Last week’s lesson ended with Galatians 3:24, which says; “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” The word “schoolmaster”, as it’s used here in this verse, doesn’t specifically mean a teacher, but rather, it refers to one who is in charge of the total oversight of someone, or of a…
The Covenant of the Law of Moses In our previous lesson, we learned that three of the laws which were a part of the law of Moses, and which governed Israel, were all given separately, prior to the ten commandments, and prior to the rest of the old covenant law. But yet, they’re all a part of the old covenant law of Moses. Here’s the three laws that…
God’s Covenants With Man Last week we focused on God’s covenant with Abram, which was a two-fold promise. First there was the physical promise which was specified in Genesis 15:18; “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying; To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates..” Then there was the…
Man Has Always Lived Under A Covenant With God Here’s just a little review of last week’s lesson; God made a covenant with Adam, in the garden. And the covenant also applied to Eve. And that covenant would have lasted throughout Adam and Eve’s entire physical life, if they hadn’t broken the covenant. But they did break the covenant, and thus God removed them from the garden,…
God Has Made Several Covenants With Man Last week I talked about the old covenant and the new covenant. And today I want to talk more about all of God’s covenants with man. There’s a lot of words that are synonymous with the word covenant. Here’s several of them; A covenant is the same as an agreement, or a treaty, or an alliance, or a pact. …
Where He Leads Me I Will Follow 272 years after the great flood, in around 2100 BC, a man named Abram was born. His father’s name was Terah, and they lived in a country called Mesopotamia, in the district of Chaldea, in the city of Ur. And it says in Genesis 11, verse 31; “And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, his grandson, the son of…
Understanding the Subject of Sanctification In previous lessons, I’ve talked about sanctification, and about what that means exactly. But it just seems like things always need to be repeated, so that we truly understand them without any question at all, so that when the word comes up, we know exactly what it means, and so that we know exactly what it doesn’t mean also. And the…
Will you escape? That’s the question. Hebrews 2, verse 3 asks us the question; “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation?” We need to escape the condition, of eternal torment and suffering, that the bible calls hell! But how are we going to escape hell, if we neglect the salvation that God has offered us? You tell me, How are we gonna do…
“As long as everything is exactly the way I want it, I’m totally flexible.” Are you totally flexible? The bible talks about those who aren’t. Do you know what the bible means when it talks about someone having a “hard heart”? In Mathew 19:3, some Pharisees started questioning Jesus, trying to find fault with Him. And so they said; “Is it lawful for a man…
Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine There’s a song that we sing sometimes called “Blessed Assurance”. “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory divine.” Don’t you want the blessed assurance, that if your life ended today, or if Jesus returned today, you’d be with Him eternally? You don’t want to worry about eternity, I know you don’t. We’re told in Philippians 46 &…
What is it Like to be “IN” Christ? Romans 8, verse 1 tells us; “Therefore, there is now, no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Romans chapter 6, verse 23 tells us; “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God, is eternal life, IN Christ Jesus our Lord.” So then, if we are IN Christ, we won’t experience…