Fellowship With Jesus, 1 Cor 1:9
As Christians, we are called unto the fellowship of God’s Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, 1 Cor 1:9. We are, therefore, to have fellowship with Jesus, 1 Jn 1:3. But what does fellowship with Jesus entail? Fellowship with him, 1 Cor 1:9. We enjoy fellowship with Jesus when we spend time in his words, time […]
Sin After Salvation, Rom 6:1
In Rom 6:1, Paul wrote, “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” In Rom 6:2, he answered, “God forbid”. John wrote in 1 Jn 2:1 “that ye sin not”. Though we will not be sinless till we are in our glorified bodies, what are to do with sin after salvation? What are we […]
The Millennial Temple, Ezek 40-41:11
In Ezek 41-43, God showed Ezekiel a vision of the millennial temple that will be built during the earthly reign of the Lord Jesus Christ. To facilitate this study, we are using a free Bible animation of Ezekiel’s temple vision, produced by Biblia Prints and available online at https://bibliaprints.com/free-bible-animations/. There is no audio recording of […]
Our Old Man is Crucified, Rom 6:5-13
Rom 6:6 says, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him…”. One of the best ways to deal with those sins that keep coming up is to remember this. Our old man is crucified with Jesus. When you were saved, you became a new creature in Christ, old things are passed away […]
The Right View of Wrong Things, Gen 45:1-8
What Joseph’s brothers did to Joseph was wrong, without a doubt. They envied him and would have killed him if Reuben had not intervened. As it is he suffered slavery and prison when they in turn faked his death to convince his father that he was dead. Joseph suffered for 13 years (Gen 37:2; 41:46). […]
There Is But A Step, 1 Sam 20:3
In 1 Sam 20:3, David told Jonathan, “there is but a step between me and death”. Saul was relentless in his attempts to kill David. And David knew that there was but a step between him and death as long as Saul was determined to kill him. David always had to take a step toward […]
The Destruction of Gog, Ezek 39:1-29
Ezekiel 39 is a prophecy of the overwhelming destruction of Gog and the gathering of Israel into their own land again. A Prophecy Against Gog, Ezek 39:1-7 The Lord said, “I am against thee, O Gog”, v.1. Remember he is the chief prince, and his characteristics in Ezek 38 indicate that he is likely the […]
We Are The Clay, Is 64:8
In our relationship with the Lord and with others, we must remember that we are the clay. That’s all we are. We are made out of a lump of clay, Rom 9:21. We are the clay. The Lord is the potter, we are the clay, Is 64:8. You are his workmanship, Eph 2:10. From the […]
A Teachable Spirit, Jn 8:28
In Jn 7:15-16, when the Jews questioned Jesus’s knowledge by asking, “How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me”. Then in Jn 8:28, Jesus explained how he learned his doctrine. He said, “as my Father hath taught me, I speak […]
Fruitful As A Tree, Jer 17:7-8
Jer 17:7-8 says that a man who trusts the Lord will be fruitful as a tree planted by the waters. When we think of trees planted the waters around here, we think of river bottoms. The San Antonio river bottom was home to many families of freed slaves after emancipation proclamation. They lived out of […]