“If Joshua gave the Israelites rest, God wouldn’t have spoken about another day later on. So you see that a sabbath rest is left open for God’s people. The one who entered God’s rest also rested from his works, just as God rested from his own. Therefore, let’s make every eff...
Saul answered, “I did it because the people were drifting away from me, and you had not arrived at the established time, and the Philistines were assembled at Michmash. 12 I thought, ‘The Philistines are coming down against me at Gilgal, and I have not yet made entreaty to the ...
Willie A. Alvarenga has been director and instructor for the Brown Trail School of Preaching Spanish Department (20 years). He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies from Heritage Christian University and a Master of Arts in New Testament from Amridge University. Brother Alvarenga has prea...
which hints at his growing dependence on them, due to his increasing incapacity from old age. Subtly, little by little, David was drifting into that old folly of not consulting God, and relying on arms of flesh, and his own wisdom. Knowing that the ...
Yet these must be given faith sometime, else God cannot be the Savior of all mankind. They are given faith and vivified at a time called the consummation. Read about this in 1 Cor. 15:26. In fact, verses 21-28 of this important chapter will acquaint you with the fact that Christ ...
Falling Away from Christ. There is no passage in the whole Bible of which the cruel enemy of souls has taken so much advantage as this. Tertullian tells us, that because of these verses the Church at one time rejected the whole Epistle to the Hebrews, and denied its inspiration so fearfu...
The earth thrown into a state of wild confusion, the mountains hurled into the mighty deep, the sea tossed into a tempest, and the everlasting hills drifting on its foaming billows, are the vivid images by which the divine judgments on wicked and persecuting nations are described in the langu...
He was the rejected stone whom God made the cornerstone of a brand-new temple (verses 22–24). 19 Open wide to me the gates of justice so that I may walk through them and offer praise and worship to the Eternal.20 This is the gate of the Eternal; the righteous children of God ...