Mat 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. How many of you were taught in your family or in your church, as you grew...
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Creeps Creep in Among us – We must be more Watchful
Jud 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. I was reading from Thomas...
Continue ReadingCreeps Creep in Among us – We must be more WatchfulYour Motives are Always Evil According to the Wicked
1Co 2:11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Wicked people operate from evil motives which proceed...
Continue ReadingYour Motives are Always Evil According to the WickedWe Cannot Handle Vengeance – It Belongs to the Lord
Rom 12:19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” This instruction from the Lord does not neutralize vengeance. It sustains it. What...
Continue ReadingWe Cannot Handle Vengeance – It Belongs to the LordEvil Returns Evil for Kindness
Psa 105:39-41 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night. (40) They asked, and he brought quail, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance. (41) He opened the rock, and water gushed out;...
Continue ReadingEvil Returns Evil for KindnessTrue Christianity is a Fight
Many of you know that I have been reading the books and sermons lately of J.C. Ryle. I highly advise you to do the same. In his book Holiness, chapter 4, he writes this: There are thousands of men and women...
Continue ReadingTrue Christianity is a FightThe Lord Sees it all
Eze 8:12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see...
Continue ReadingThe Lord Sees it allAbuse is not a Matter of “I just don’t know”
1Ki 22:7-8 But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?” (8) And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the...
Continue ReadingAbuse is not a Matter of “I just don’t know”Abusers Are Consistently Inconsistent — A Favorite and Evil Tactic
But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not...
Continue ReadingAbusers Are Consistently Inconsistent — A Favorite and Evil TacticA Fitting Prayer for our Nation
A good friend of mine recently sent me this Scripture and pointed out how it is a prayer for our own nation (and yours too if you don't live in the U.S.). We know that ultimately it speaks of that...
Continue ReadingA Fitting Prayer for our Nation