Pleasing God, 1 Thes 4:1
1 Thes 4:1 says, “Ye ought to walk and to please God.” This lesson is about pleasing God. And not just about pleasing God once but abounding more and more in pleasing God. You cannot please God and be a: Self-pleaser – Rom 15:3 – as in “do as you please.” Christ pleased not himself. […]
Walk in the Spirit
In Gal 5:16 Paul told us to walk in the Spirit. Let’s see what this entails. When you are saved, the Spirit is in you This is a fairly simple lesson when you think about it. When you were saved, you went through a spiritual circumcision that separated your flesh from your soul [Col 2:10-11]. […]
Where is Your Confidence? Ps 118:8-9
Where is your confidence? Is it in men, princes, gold and silver, your flesh, or the Lord? Is your confidence in men – Ps 118:8 – during perilous times not only can men fail you, they can turn on you. Study the Bible and history and you will see repeated instances of this. Joab turned […]
Limit Your Liberty In Christ, Gal 5:13
2 Cor 3:17 says, “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”. But we are not at liberty to do anything we want. There are limits to our liberty in Christ. Therefore, limit your liberty in Christ. Limit your liberty used as an occasion to the flesh, Gal 5:13. This occasion to the […]
They Provoked God, Ps 78:40
Ps 78 is a Psalm about the history of Israel’s relationship to God. It is instructive to the generations to come so they might set their hope in God, Ps 78:2-8. The future generations must learn from the mistakes of the prior generations. They provoked God with: They Provoked God With Their Forgetfulness Ps 78:7, […]
Will Worship, Col 2:18-23
In Col 2:18-23, Paul warns against will worship. He warned us against being spoiled by philosophy and vain deceit in Col 2:8, against being judged by the law in Col 2:16, and against being beguiled by will worship in Col 2:18-23. Will worship is the worship of your own self-will. You can be beguiled into […]
Fearful
Fearful Rev.21:1-8 Many times we bring lost people to this passage to show them where “unbelieving” people go at the final judgment. But, “fearful” people are listed first. I realize this passage does not affect a saved child of God, but we all stand before the same God (Heb.13:5-8), and He does not change. So […]
Our Spiritual Death, Eph 2:1-3
Before we were saved, we were dead in trespasses and sins. According to Rom 5:12, death came as a result of Adam’s transgression against Gen 2:17. When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, everything about them was affected by death. And so, everything about us was also […]
Our Warfare, 2 Cor 10:3-6
From the moment we get saved, we are in a war. We have the Spirit of God in us, but we are still in this earthly body. And it’s wicked. It’s our warfare and we must fight it. Like men are trained to know their enemy, to use their weapons and to meet certain objectives […]
Deal With Your Sin
Deal With Your Sin [Rom.3:23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [Rom.3:10] As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: Jesus Christ dealt with our sin, on the cross, as it pertains to eternal life and the penalty of death [Rom.5:12] We are born condemned because […]