Disobedience to this commandment has set in motion a cause and effect sequence of consequences that have resulted in the desolation of the American Churches. Church after church is closing it's doors, while new Baalistic worship centers are built in their place, and false teachers fill the platforms across our land. May God grant us repentance and obedience to this simple command, and restore our churches, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Welcome back to Bible time! God's ways are not our ways! While we often consider ourselves the center of church life, expecting the "staff" to cater to us, counsel us, serve us, and comfort us, God has other plans! Today we will look at church leadership in the Bible, and our responsibility to those leaders. May God give us submissive hearts to follow his Word, and his ways, in Jesus Christ's name that is above all names! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

How can these three things go together? Only when the scriptures are rightly divided, can comfort, edification, and end times harmonize! May God give you faith to see and believe the clear truths of scripture regarding the the end times, that you might be comforted and edified, in Jesus name, and for his gospel's sake, amen! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

All Praise to Christ, who died for us! What greater subject can their be to captivate or minds? What greater purpose can their be than to live for him who died for me? May God turn our hearts toward himself, and open our eyes to see Christ more clearly: May He grant us the fullness of his Holy Spirit to follow Christ, and subdue our bodies to his glorious purpose, in Jesus Christ's precious and holy name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

This passage is the climax of God's teaching on end times through his holy apostle Paul in the book of 1st Thessalonians. This incredible statement of the sovereign grace of God by which he has decreed for his children life, instead of death, is too great to grasp! May God grant understanding and comfort for his children through his word, and may the truth of God's great wrath strike fear in the hearts of those that despise him, in Jesus name, and for his own sake, amen! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God through the apostle Paul continues to set a contrast between the children of wrath and the children of the day. Here the seemingly insignificant charge to be sober comes to the forefront... seemingly insignificant because perhaps we don't understand the Biblical use of the word sober... May God grant us the understanding, desire, and power to obey this scripture in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Are you asleep or drunk? These two conditions are ascribed to the children of the night, as a direct contrast to the actions and conditions of the children of the light and of the day. Will you let God judge your heart and your spiritually condition through his word? May God grant us repentance in this day of dead religion, in Jesus name. © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

How does sleep effect my spiritual life? What does it mean to not sleep? God knows we need sleep! Jesus slept as a man... In this message we will look at the Biblical principal of godly sleep, and the great battle over your sleep. May God wake up his church to the need to watch and pray, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Are you a child of the light? Or of the darkness? What is the difference? How can you tell them apart? May God allow the glorious light of his gospel to shine through this simple attempt to preach his word, in Jesus holy, and precious name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

How do the 3 parables of Matthew 23 illustrate the contrast between children of the light and of the darkness? How do these parables play into understanding the end times? May God open our understanding as we pick up where we left off in "Not In Darkness, Not Overtaken". Help us Lord, to be humble, and to understand, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions