If you knew that at 11:00 tomorrow morning you were going to be standing before Jesus, and on that occasion He was going to judge you and then sentence you for all eternity, what would you choose to wear tomorrow morning to be ready to stand before Jesus? Would you care? Would it affect your choice of what to wear at all?…

The account of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 provides a number of vital lessons which every Christian needs to learn, including the operation of Satan on a person’s heart. From the first chapter in Job, we learn that Satan cannot operate beyond the realm permitted by God (we see this in 1 Corinthians 10:13 also). From Acts 5, we learn that…

As one reads Mark 12, he will come across this series of paragraphs: “Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in His words” (12:13). “Then some Sadducees…came to Him; and they asked Him…” (12:18). “Then one of the scribes came, and…asked Him…” (12:28). Jesus’ attackers, deniers, second-guessers kept coming and coming. Then, there is…

The Lord had great things to say to and about the church in Philadelphia in Revelation 3:7-13. Because of their faithfulness in keeping His commandments, Jesus revealed unto them, “See, I have set before you an open door…” (Rev. 3:8). It is first interesting to note that their diligent service did not lead the Lord to say, “That’s enough for now. Go…

The central and vitally essential part of God’s eternal plan was for Deity to take on flesh and live among men as a man on this earth and to ultimately die as a man for all other men. Why was it vitally essential for Deity to be “made in the likeness of men” (Phil. 2:7)? “In all things He had to be…

The New Testament book of Hebrews was written to a group of Christians who were perilously close to “departing from the living God” by developing in themselves “an evil heart of unbelief” (Heb. 3:12). The inspired writer was trying mightily to draw them back from the precipice of “destruction/perdition/ ruin” (10:39). Chapter six contains one of the serious warnings he gives. For our…

There was something very wrong with the Israelites who were delivered by the miracle-enriched hand of the Almighty from the distressed slavery of Pharaoh to the bountiful plenty of Jehovah, for Scripture tells us they did not enter the Promised Land “because of unbelief” (Heb. 3:19). In the same passage, God equates “unbelief” with “disobedience” (3:16-19; 4:1-11). In God’s eyes, not obeying…

Scripture uses an interesting expression about God and certain ones of His people. “God remembered Noah…God remembered Abraham…God remembered Rachel…The Lord remembered [Hannah]…” (Gen. 8:1; 19:29; 30:22; 1 Sam. 1:19). This in no way indicates that the Lord had forgotten them or that they had slipped His mind or attention for a period of time. Similar expression is used by Nehemiah repeatedly…