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The key to a successful life is seeing things the way that God sees them and then following his way. Why is it important to see as God sees? There are two reasons. First, the “whole world lieth in the power of the evil one” (I John 5:19). Christ tells us this evil one, Satan,Continue reading “Seeing as God Sees”

We are familiar with the character Job in the Bible. God permitted Satan to persecute Job with the loss of family, possessions, and health in order to move Job to sin against God. Yet Job would not charge God with wrong doing. Even so, God used this trial to teach Job to rest in hisContinue reading “Job’s Example of Suffering”

Early in the week of Jesus’ crucifixion, the gospel writer Luke records an incident that merits our attention today. “And he [Jesus] went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye haveContinue reading “To the Law and to the Testimony”

The Psalmist had this testimony pertaining to God. “He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death” (Psalm 68:20). In this brief statement he addresses a singular distinction about God compared to the false gods of the world. He testifies that our God isContinue reading “This Is Our God”

As Jesus was nearing Jerusalem prior to the week of his crucifixion, our Lord spoke a parable “because they [his disciples] thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear” (Luke 19:11). The disciples eagerly anticipated that Jesus, their Messiah, would deliver them from Rome and establish his kingdom. They did not figure on JesusContinue reading “The Parable of the Pounds”

God sent the prophet Samuel to the house of Jesse to anoint Saul’s replacement when he determined to remove Saul from his kingship over Israel. At the time Samuel did not know who the new king would be. When Samuel saw Eliab, Jesse’s son, he said “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him” (I SamuelContinue reading “God’s Viewpoint”

Have you ever tried to contemplate what can be known of God? An acquaintance of Job, Elihu, while rebuking him made this statement about God: “Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out” (Job 37:23). His point was that God is far beyond our limited human comprehension and no amount of searching on our partContinue reading “To Know Jesus Is To Know God”

Many think that Jesus died as some kind of martyr. Others think that he was the unfortunate victim of a miscarriage of justice. But we can be assured from the Scriptures that Christ was no martyr though he did die purposefully. Nor was his death merely the result of injustice on the part of theContinue reading “Christ Died For Our Sins”

A certain ruler came to Jesus with a question that every thoughtful person has entertained at one time or another. “Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” (Luke 18:18). From his question at least two things are evident. First, he believed unquestionably that eternal life was real and, secondly, he did notContinue reading “There Is None Good”

One of the chief spiritual lies that leads to the damnation of men’s souls is the belief that one can earn his way into heaven by good works. The Bible is plain in its declaration of man’s sin. The Scriptures point out “there is none righteous, no not one” (Romans 3:10). Yet, somehow, we areContinue reading “Pharisee or Publican?”