In this final article I want to turn your attention to Romans chapter 13. But before I do, I am aware that the argument has been made that the laws against murder and for capital punishment belong in the Old Testament and do not apply to today. That argument is nonsense. God gave the law against murder when He made His covenant with Noah. This was a new beginning after the...

In the first article we looked at Gen.9:5-6. In the second article we looked at Cain's murder of Abel. In this article I want to set before you a series of verses with minor comments here and there. Exod.20:13, "You shall not commit murder." This is the sixth commandment, and its primary emphasis is on premeditated murder. Exod.21:12, "He who strikes a man so that he die...

From 2010 to 2024, 5,074 murders were committed in Trinidad Tobago. This country has a population of 1.4 million. TT's murder rate has placed it among the highest in the Caribbean and, by extension, the world. In 2022 2024, the murder rate exceeded 600. An article in the Trinidad Guardian in April, 2023, stated that TT is ranked as the 6th most criminal country in the wo...

In this final article I will answer the question : How to escape the devilish claws of false teachers? Firstly, Col.3:16, "Letthe word of Christ richly dwell within you." Paul pictures you as a large house with many rooms. The word of Christ is a treasure. "Richly" is literally extravagantly rich. The verb "dwell" is a command that means continually (increasingly) dwell. ...

In the first article we looked at how false teachers are described in the New Testament. In the second article we looked at how they teach. In the third article we looked at what they teach. Today, we will look at how they were dealt with. Firstly, from the verses already shared, you would have seen that false teachers are labelled as savage and ravenous wolves, false pr...

In the first article we looked at how false teachers are described in the New Testament. In this second article we looked at how they teach. In this third article we will look at what they teach. Let us be reminded that false teachers are ravenous wolves dressed in sheep clothing. They are savage wolves who pretend to be shepherds. They are Satanic apostles disguising them...

"In the beginning wasthe Word, and the Word waswith God, andthe Word was God. Andthe Wordbecame flesh, anddwelt among us, andwe saw His glory, glory as ofthe only begotten from the Father, full ofgrace andtruth." (Jn.1:1, 14). The Word, Jesus, is the eternal Son of God. The eternal Son of God entered time, born of a woman as a real flesh and blood human being. Jesus is th...

John 1:1-18 has been described as the Prologue of the gospel. In vs.1 John established for his reader the deity of the Logos (Jesus). Then he gave one important added proof about Jesus' deity. He told us in vs.3 that Jesus is the Creator of the heavens and the earth. The apostle Paul made it clear also in Col.1:16 that Jesus is the Creator. And in vs.17 he told us that Jes...

As we have seen in the preceding articles, John has made it very plain in Jn,1:1-2 that the Word, Jesus, is God, the second member of the Triune Godhead. Now in vs.3, John turned our attention to Jesus' relationship to creation. He wrote, "All things (or "everything") came into being through Him [Jesus], and apart from Him nothing (lit. not one thing) came into being that ...

John wrote, "In the beginning wasthe Word, and the Word waswith God, andthe Word was God.2He was in the beginning with God.3All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." (Jn.1:1-3). Let us review. The gospel of John is evangelistic in its purpose. John wrote so that his readers would believe that the Christ, ...