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Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have givenContinue reading “Slaves to Sin”

For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.                                                                                     Romans 3:20 NLT Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we haveContinue reading “The Law”

In that day you will sing: “I will praise you, O LORD! You were angry with me, but your anger keeps turning away, and instead you encourage me. Isaiah 12:1 (author’s translation) As an Old Testament teacher, I am asked over and over again, it seems, about the wrath of God in the Old Testament.Continue reading “The Anger of God”

The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, theirContinue reading “They Would Not Repent”

It was in the year King Uzziah diedthat I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple.                                                                                                    Isaiah 6:1 NLT Many things could have gotten Isaiah’s attention. He had watched the original “evil empire,” Assyria, fix its borders six miles north ofContinue reading “Seeing God”

People from many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of Jacob’s God. There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the LORD’s teaching will go out from Zion; his word will go out from Jerusalem.”Continue reading “Isaiah’s Missionary Mandate”

Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live. When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. John. 14:19-20 NLT This message was kept secret forContinue reading “God is In Us”

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). Matthew 1:22-23 ESV King Ahaz of Judah was terrified. His two northern neighbors were attacking Judah intending to get ridContinue reading “God is With Us”

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, thatGod is for me. Psalm 56:9 ESV David, worn down by Saul’s dogged pursuit of him, and his own people’s, the Judean’s, persistent betrayal of him to Saul, has finally fled to the Philistines, Judah’s mortal enemies. Now he waits,Continue reading “Gos is For Us”

I will not judge those who hear me but don’t obey me, for I have come to save the world and not to judge it. But all who reject me and my message will be judged on the day of judgment by the truth I have spoken.                                                                                                             John. 12:47-48 NLT Twice Jesus tellsContinue reading “Salvation and Judgment”