Gird Your Loins With Truth Eph 6:14 says, “Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth”. If you think about the armor of God, each piece has a very obvious function in our protection. But the loins girt about with truth is not so easy to grasp. What is...
Hard Preaching 2 Tim. 4: 2-4 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Back in the old days, preachers preached with hard preaching. They fulfilled Paul’s charge and admonition to Timothy, “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” They didn’t hesitate to get...
Purging Iniquity Prov 16:6 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO How To Purge Iniquity We Purge Iniquity Through: Salvation Ps 79:9 – when you receive Jesus, God will purge your soul of all sins for eternity. Our records are clean, forever. See Heb 1:3. And salvation can also purge some folks by an...
Things You Must Acknowledge 1 Jn 2:23 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Acknowledge means to admit to be true, to confess; to recognize the authority of. There are things in our lives that we must acknowledge if we are going to accomplish what God wants us to do as Christians. Acknowledge...
We are to believe the word of God. That’s what God expects us to do. He wants us to believe what he said. What the Bible says about sin we are to believe. What the Bible says about righteousness and salvation, we are to believe. Believe the word. Believe what...
There are several ways that the truth of the words of God has been declared. The declaration of truth has been verbal, visible, written, and testified. Verbal declaration – someone heard the Lord speak. See Jn 1:18, 1 Jn 1:1-5, and 2 Pet 1:16-21. At Mt Sinai, the Jew’s heard...
Truth is Fallen Is 59:14 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Is 59:14 says, And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. We have seen this verse fulfilled in our own country. Except for places like a Bible believing preacher’s pulpit, you will...
One great way to have favor with God is through mercy and truth. God has extended his mercy to us, and he intends for us to extend his mercy to others, as well. God has sanctified us through his truth, Jn 17:17. And he intends for us to be true...
Joshua commanded Israel to “fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth”, Jos 24:14. Not just in sincerity. Not just in truth. But in the combination of sincerity and truth. Sincerity is honesty of mind; freedom from hypocrisy. Sincere means: without deceit, pretense [a false profession]; free...
In Mic 2:7, the Lord asks, “do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?” Indeed, they do. For us who desire to walk uprightly, God’s words are very good. The key is that you must be walking uprightly. These words are not good to anyone who...
