I'll Be Honest

The Bible calls us to draw near to God but we also need to see the danger of drawing near to God. Have you ever truly considered who the God of the Bible is? The God of the Bible is not a soft pushover that we can manage and boss around; He's a dangerous God, and drawing near to Him is dangerous if we don't come the right way.

What is the answer to all of the unfulfilled desires that eat away at mankind? The supreme need for mankind is to draw near to God and to know Him. What need do you have that does not get answered by knowing Christ and partaking of His unsearchable riches?

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”. – Ecclesiastes 12:1

How should someone in a church react when the elders are disagreeing over matters in the church? Are elders able to have different views on issues in the church? What if the pastors are disagreeing over how sin is being dealt with in the church?

Few things will eat up our spiritual life like bitterness will. Few things will grieve the Holy Spirit within us like unforgivness and grudges towards others. As difficult as it can be, we need to truly forgive others from our hearts. And if we find it hard to forgive others, we need to remember how God forgave us by giving His Son for us.

For us to be transformed into the image of Christ, one essential factor is that we don't conform to this world. We can't let the world define terms and morality for us; we have to renew our minds according to how God defines terms. In the end, the world's dictionary of definitions will be burned up and obliterated, but God's standards will endure forever.

In order to go to heaven, you must be as holy as God and have a perfect record in keeping all of God's commandments. Every human being has failed miserably, but praise God that Jesus Christ's righteousness can freely become ours by faith.

If you are a Christian, your life is one of continual transformation into the image of Christ. But if we are to be transformed, we need to know the foundation of that transformation. If we fail to understand the foundation, then we will fail to have a Christ-like transformation.

What does the Bible mean when it talks about the "old man"? Do we still have the old man? Is the old man completely gone? Is there a tension or balance between the two? Whatever the old man is, one thing we know for sure is that we need to put him off.

One of the results of the fall of Adam and Eve is that now all of us feel ashamed to be naked. No matter where you go in this world, everyone knows the shame of being naked and the need to cover themselves. And in a spiritual sense, we all are trying to cover ourselves before God. But our coverings won't cover us, only what God provides can cover us.