The Church According to Jesus, Part 2
Believers must faithfully use their spiritual gifts for the edification of other brothers and sisters in Christ. In doing so, Christ is honored and God is glorified.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 3
Christ’s plan for the church consists of unity amongst brothers and sisters who walk in the truth and conduct themselves according to Scripture.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 4
Christ has called the leaders of the local church to equip the members of the church in order to serve the entire body of Christ.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 5
Christ’s goal for His church is that they would be unified in the fundamental doctrines of the faith.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 6
Christ desires that the people of His church become more and more like Him.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 7
The New Testament makes it clear that when people come to faith in Christ they now become spiritual newborns. In other words, they are spiritual infants that must continue to grow.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 8
New believers are susceptible to being carried away by false doctrine so the church must be on guard against any error entering the church.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 9
Christ declares that the means by which His church grows is the truth of the Word of God.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 10
God has gifted certain men in the local church to teach and train their congregations from the truth of God’s Word.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 11
The apostle Paul clearly states that the Lord Jesus Christ is the head of His church.
The Church According to Jesus, Part 12
Christians must be committed to the local church. Christ designed the church to function the best when its members are fully committed.
The Keynote of Romans, Part 1
Paul recognized that the gospel, by its very nature, is something that Christians are constantly tempted to be ashamed of. How do we combat that temptation?
The Keynote of Romans, Part 2
Paul teaches that Christians can’t be ashamed of the very instrument that God uses—the gospel— to bring spiritual life to dead souls.
The Keynote of Romans, Part 3
Christians cannot be ashamed of the gospel of Christ because it requires no human work or merit. In other words, believers don’t earn salvation, they simply repent and believe and receive it.
The Keynote of Romans, Part 4
Is any sinner beyond the reach of God’s saving grace? According to the apostle Paul, the gospel message is appropriate for every person—it is God’s universal message to all mankind.
The Keynote of Romans, Part 5
What is the righteousness that the gospel promises? It is the righteousness of God through Christ that justifies the repentant sinner.
The Keynote of Romans, Part 6
Christians must not be ashamed of the gospel because it is the only way of salvation. Apart from God’s gospel, there is no salvation under heaven.
When Life’s Not Fair, Part 1
Although justice may not be served immediately, Christians must be patient for the justice that Christ will bring at His second coming.
When Life’s Not Fair, Part 2
The book of James calls for Christians to exercise godly patience during extreme difficulties or trials.
When Life’s Not Fair, Part 3
Christians must continuously show an attitude and posture of grace towards other brothers and sisters in Christ during difficult circumstances.
When Life’s Not Fair, Part 4
The Scriptures give dozens of examples of godly men and women that face hardships. Christians must look to those examples for encouragement during difficult times.
The Disciple’s Greatest Danger – Part 1
Believers must be constantly on guard against potentially causing others to sin. Ultimately, causing others to sin is to sin against Christ.
The Disciple’s Greatest Danger – Part 2
The true Christian who harms another believer by causing him to sin invites the severe discipline of God into his life.
The Disciple’s Greatest Danger – Part 3
Believers must never tolerate personal sin. Instead, they should seek to mortify it on a daily basis by following biblical principles.
The Disciple’s Greatest Danger – Part 4
Christians must not merely mortify sin in terms of the external realm, although that is absolutely necessary. Christians must deal with sins of the heart, which is the root of external sins.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 1
No Christian lives in a continuing, lifelong pattern of sin. In other words, Christians will never treat sin flippantly.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 2
The apostle Paul teaches that slavery to sin leads to physical death and slavery to righteousness leads to eternal life.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 3
Christians are not only to fight sin for the pursuit of personal holiness, but they must also do so because they are Christ’s representatives.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 4
Christians have a unique freedom that can only be found in the Lord Jesus Christ. However, that freedom isn’t meant to be used as a license for sin.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 5
Because as Christians we are slaves of righteousness, obeying the law of God must be the joy of our heart.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 6
Christians are not merely slaves of righteousness, we are also sons and daughters in the family of God.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 7
The apostle Paul explains how slavery to sin never produces any benefits. Instead, it only leads to eternal death.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 8
For Christians, eternal life is a present reality that won’t be fully consummated until this life ends or Christ returns.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 9
The moment your body stops functioning you will awaken in one of two eternal destinations: heaven or hell. It is absolutely critical to know which of those destinations will be a reality for you.
Whose Slave Are You? – Part 10
The consequence of your sin is eternal punishment, but the free gift of God in Jesus Christ is eternal life. If you repent of your sins and believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ you will be saved from eternal punishment.
The One Anothers, Part 1
A recurring theme throughout Scripture is that the people of God are commanded to love one another.
The One Anothers, Part 2
Truly loving one another means there is no service that is too low or menial to do for one another.
The One Anothers, Part 3
The Scripture teaches that believers are to be an encouragement to other believers. In particular, Christians are supposed to edify and build one another up for the glory of God.
The One Anothers, Part 4
The people of the church are to be characterized by loving and caring for one another on a daily basis, and by looking to Jesus as the perfect example of such behavior.
The One Anothers, Part 5
Christians must cultivate a biblical mindset and Christ-like attitude towards one another.
The One Anothers, Part 6
Christians must allow the Word of God to be the rock on which we build our attitude towards and interaction with other believers.
The One Anothers, Part 7
According to James 3, Christians must be extremely careful in how they speak to one another. Words can be uplifting and edifying, but at the same time they have the power to destroy.
The One Anothers, Part 8
Believers are supposed to be instruments in God’s hands that promote each other’s spiritual growth by the words we speak.
The One Anothers, Part 9
Christians must speak the truth of God’s Word into the lives of other brothers and sisters in Christ. Believers are commanded to encourage one another in this way.
The One Anothers, Part 10
A believer’s first and foremost concern should be about their own personal sin. However, Christians must also help others confront and deal with their own sins as well.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 1
Christians must understand that there is a particular order and purpose that is woven throughout the narrative of the Old Testament.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 2
Both Genesis and Exodus lay the framework for what transpires throughout the remainder of the Old Testament.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 3
God gave the nation of Israel the sacrificial system in order to highlight their sin and their need to atone for their transgressions against Him.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 4
There were two tragic sins that characterized the time period of the judges: intermarriage and idolatry.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 5
The book of 1 Samuel records the establishment of Israel’s monarchy and the rise of the prophetic office.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 6
The united monarchy exposes that mankind needs a centralized ruler who is righteous and who will reign with justice. Someday that will come because God has made a promise to David that his dynasty will be an eternal dynasty, because his greatest Son will rule forever.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 7
God had determined that the nation of Israel would be divided. How did He accomplish that? He did it through the sin of Solomon’s son, Rehoboam.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 8
The people that God had promised to make His own treasured possession are now in exile, out of their land, under the rule of pagan leaders.
An Aerial View of the Old Testament, Part 9
During the period of the 70-year exile there were two prophets who ministered to God’s people in Babylon: Daniel and Ezekiel.
The True and Better Adam, Part 1
In Genesis chapter 3 God sovereignly appointed Adam to be all of mankind’s representative.
The True and Better Adam, Part 2
There was no death prior to Adam’s sin in Genesis 3. However, after he sinned death, entered the world.
The True and Better Adam, Part 3
Adam ate a piece of fruit from the one tree God said he couldn’t eat from, and because of that one act of rebellion God sentenced every human being to death.
The True and Better Adam, Part 4
It is completely just of God to appoint Adam as our representative. And it is by God’s grace that He has appointed Christ as a representative for all those would believe in Him.
The True and Better Adam, Part 5
Jesus and His redeeming work as our representative far exceeds Adam and his condemning act as our representative.
The True and Better Adam, Part 6
Christ is the true and better Adam because He brought us life instead of death.
The True and Better Adam, Part 7
In Christ’s active obedience, He perfectly obeyed God and His law at all points of His life.
The True and Better Adam, Part 8
In Christ’s passive obedience, He bore the full penalty that God demands of every sin and every sinner.
Part 4
Satan’s method for leading humanity away from the worship of the true God is to manufacture the construction of all kinds of false gods and idols.
Part 5
The first commandment deals with the “object” of our worship: there is only one God and He and He alone is to be the object of our worship.
Part 6
The most current breach of the first commandment in nominally Christian communities is the sin of inordinate affections.
Part 7
The first biblical response to idolatry is to get rid of everything connected to your idolatry. You must rid your life of everything that feeds idolatry.
Part 8
Christians must seek to daily find all their pleasure and delight in God.
Part 9
Our culture has rejected the objective biblical declaration that God created humanity in His image as male and female, and has embraced in its place a subjective, unproven secular philosophy called gender theory.Our culture has rejected the objective biblical declaration that God created humanity in His image as male and female, and has embraced in its place a subjective, unproven secular philosophy called gender theory.
Part 10
Christians should embrace the teaching of Scripture when confronted with difficult questions about sexuality and gender.Christians should embrace the teaching of Scripture when confronted with difficult questions about sexuality and gender.
Part 11
The Bible is not silent about sexuality and gender. Rather, it speaks clearly and authoritatively on these issues.
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