I'll Be Honest

There are two very important questions we all should be asking: 1. Why are things the way they are in this world? 2. How do we fix it? The world is wearing themselves out trying to figure out the second question, but they don't care too much to ask themselves the first question. But we'll never know the answer to the second question until we can find the answer to the first question.

Every person needs a covering for their sin. The only covering available for sinners is the obedience of Jesus Christ. And once God has put away our sins, He won't bring them back to haunt or torment us. Glorious reality and freedom.

Most of us will be not be remembered after we die. We'll be forgotten by the world and only a fading memory to those who knew us. But we can't let this cause us to think that we're not needed in Christ's Church. Almost all of the advancement of His kingdom has been done by little, unknown Christians.

Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting. 15 As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” 16 But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. 17 And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”

So much of the Christian life consists of the mind being renewed and working properly. We must not settle for mere outward imitation and external conformity; we must be renewed in the spirit of our minds.

A major theme in the Bible is the battle between Christ and the Devil. We see this promised from the very beginning in Genesis 3. Because of the Fall, everyone is born as a child of the devil with his seed in them. And our only hope is the seed of the woman (Christ) bruising his head and setting us free.

D.E. Hoste (1861-1946) succeeded Hudson Taylor as the General Director of the China Inland Mission. He lived as a devoted soldier of the Lord Jesus and had a passion to win souls for Christ. In this video, we consider his humility and prayer life, which both have aspects for believers to imitate.

It may be easy to not allow our body to go to sinful places. But what are we to do when we find our mind being bombarded by wicked things? The mental battles are often far more difficult than the physical ones. What should we do when we're in a mental war and our mind is being attacked?

Christian, do you believe you can have true joy from Jesus Christ even in the worst of circumstances? Or do you believe you can only have joy at the removal of difficult circumstances?

Why don’t we see the dead raised today as we read about in Jesus’ day? In fact, why did Jesus Himself raise the dead at all when He walked this earth?