Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane

How do we tell a faithful church from a false one? How does a church know that it needs radical reformation?

The Lord humbled Paul so that Paul could delight in God’s mercy and his own humility. One of the greatest statements in all of Scripture is, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Paul reminds us that the way of the gospel is to boast about “Strength in Weakness”

This is perhaps the least understood of the commandments, so much so that some Christian traditions count it as a part of the First Commandment

Christians need to be discerning about what they are taught. This does not produce an aloof skepticism of pastors and teachers, but it should create in us a desire to know our Bibles so well that we will not be drawn astray by clever, spiritual-sounding words.

One of the great tactics of the enemy of our souls is to counterfeit the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ with a false gospel. Often, this false gospel will have just enough of the elements of the real gospel so that it deceives even true believers.

The first of the Ten Commandments lays the foundation for all the others. It tells us that the Lord alone is God and that we are to worship only Him.

How can we tell which are the true servants of God, and which are false? The Corinthians faced this very question because people in their midst attacked the Apostle Paul as being a weak, corrupt, and false teacher.

The Lord comes down to Mount Sinai and speaks to the Israelites.