First, God walked with man (Gen. 5:24; 6:9); then He desired to dwell with him (Exod. 25:8). His glory came to the tabernacle (Exod. 40:34), but when Israel sinned, the glory departed (1 Sam. 4:21–22). The glory dwelt in the temple (1 Kings 8:10–11), but then departed again because of the sins of the people […]

JOHN 1: 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would […]

John 1;1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. 4 In him was life; and the life was […]

Ephesians 5:17, “Be not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is.”  20, “Giving thanks always.” It’s the same idea; God’s will is that we be thankful. Different Positions of Thanksgiving Number one, this is the easy part; there are those who are thankful after the blessing.  After God has just blessed you […]

This abandonment leads to a weak conscience, which in turn, paves the way for us to conform our lives to the worlds ideas and beliefs. Eerdmans not long ago published a book, The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures. The hope and prayer that guided the project were that this volume of essays would be […]

Romans 12;2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 2 Cor. 10:5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought […]

An educated, sensitive conscience is God’s monitor. It alerts us to the moral quality of what we do or plan to do, forbids lawlessness and irresponsibility, and makes us feel guilt, shame, and fear of the future retribution that it tells us we deserve, when we have allowed ourselves to defy its restraints. Satan’s strategy […]

In 1973 psychiatrist Karl Menninger wrote a landmark book titled Whatever Became of Sin? Menninger, who is no evangelical, nevertheless saw clearly the folly of treating social and behavioral problems as if their causes were all utterly non-moral. He pointed out that modern psychology’s approach, making guilt an aberration and treating self-blame as a fallacy, […]

It is important to realize what a difference a people’s world view makes in their strength as they are exposed to the pressure of life. There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind, what they are […]

The bride’s preparation is explained in v 8: she clothes herself with “bright, pure, fine linen,” which symbolizes “the righteous deeds of the saints”. These “righteous deeds” may best be explained in part from v 10, “holding to the testimony of Jesus. Testimony  occurs seven other times in the Apocalypse, usually in the expression “testimony […]