You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory. / Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that ...
God is love. Love requires true, authentic, actual choice. Just like God “can’t” create a round triangle, God “can’t” create a person with a choice and also not give them choice. You can try to say that God can do that, but you aren’t really saying anything at all about ...
but I never expose to embarrass anyone. I have convicted many people and given many chances for repentance before I ever expose anyone. If they refuse to yield to My conviction, I will expose them. My heart is never to expose for the ...
In his commentary onLuke 19:13,And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, “Occupy till I come”, Benson insightfully brings out the perfect tense structure of the passage covering past, present and future application: And said unto them, occupy till...
They grow by learning the Bible and learning to obey the Bible. They grow by learning what their spiritual gifts are and finding ways to put them into practice so that they become who God made them to be. Church growth, therefore, is about building up one another to Christlike maturity ...
1) Jesus referred to the church in Sardis as “DEAD” and called them to “wake up” (Rev 3). Given Christ’s use of the idiomatic term “DEAD” in reference to this church, should we presume that his hearers cannot respond positively to Christ’s appeal in this passage as well? 2...
4“You shall not make for yourself a carved image of any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visi...
Paul’s advice to the Romans was to avoid both camps. He wasn’t telling them to enforce doctrinal purity nor even to quash every disagreement. Rather, he was advising them to focus on the principles of love and humility that lay behind every commandment, to place the needs of each other...
in Daniel 2:20-22, ҦDaniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know unde...
Daniel’s angelic guide tells us plainly: “16So he told me and gave me the interpretation of these things:17The four great beasts are four kings that will rise from the earth.18But the holy people of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever—yes, for ever ...