If you are a Christian, God loves you. Christ loves you. In John 16:27 Jesus said, "the Father Himself loves you." The grand proof of the Father's love for you is Christ's death for you. Rom.5:8 says, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." If you personalize this, which you can rightfully do, it will read, "But...

In Matt.7:24-27 Jesus described for us two groups of people the wise and the foolish. Jesus said concerning the wise, "everyone who hears these words of Mine and do (obey) them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against (prospipto) that house; and yet it did not fall, for i...

Isa.43:25, I, even I, am the One who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins. Note the following. "I, even I" is repetition for intensity and emphasis. "Wipes" sin blots you. God wipes clean sin's blots. "For My own sake" the reason for God forgiving you is not in you. The reason is in God and for His glory. "Not remember" ...

2Tim.4:7, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith." The Lord's general promise is seventy years of life. Whether you live for seventy like David, more than seventy or less than seventy, those years are lived out one day at a time. The same is true of the Christian life it is lived out one day at a time. Whether you serve God five ...

Paul,an apostle (notsentfrom men nor through the agency of man, butthrough Jesus Christ and God the Father, whoraised Him from the dead), 2and allthe brethren who are with me, Tothe churches of Galatia: 3Grace to you and peace fromGod our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,4whogave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us fromthis present evilage, according to the wil...

The Word of God says in Matt.28:18-20: 18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying,"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19Go therefore andmake disciples ofall the nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo,I am with youalways, even tothe end of the...

Prov.3:5-7 says, 5Trust in theLordwith all your heart Anddo not lean on your own understanding. 6In all your waysacknowledge Him, And He willmake your paths straight. 7Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear theLordand turn away from evil. The verses before us have parallels and contrasts. Firstly, the contrasts. In vs.5 we have two contrasts. Firstly, "Trust in the LORD"...

The Roman Catholic Church has recently given permission to its clergy to bless individuals who they know are involved in same sex relationships. To bless someone is to ask God's favor on that person. However, homosexuality is a sin that is condemned throughout the Bible as an abomination before God (Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27). And despite the Vatican's mild descripti...

This article is the second in a three-part series on Psalm 1. In this Psalm, the word of God contrasts the righteous man, who is called "blessed" or "happy," with the unrighteous, who are called "the wicked," "sinners," and "scoffers" (v. 1). In the first article, we focused on verse one. And we concluded that the blessed man, that is, the man who receives God's grace and ...

Genesis 2:7 says, "the LORD God formed man (adam) of dust (adama) from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (nepes)." Let it be clear that the dust was real, the ground was real, the breath of life was real, and the man who was created was real. The Bible clearly affirms the historicity of Adam by including him in the...