Archive for October, 2025
Cooperating in Sanctification
The opposite of being disciplined is being lazy. There’s too much of that going around, even among Christians today. Paul could have just coasted. After all, he was saved, right? Why did he work so hard to bring about the change in his life that God wanted? By that I mean why did he make the strong effort to cooperate with God the Holy Spirit in order to become the person God wanted him to become? The answer is much more simple than the process itself. Paul did this because he wanted to bring glory to God and he understood that whatever he was going through, it was because God ordained it and in every situation, he wanted to respond in a way that pleased God. Because of that, he literally disciplined himself – his thoughts, his actions and his words – so that he relied heavily on the power of the Holy Spirit to create in him (Paul), what was good for edifying others and glorifying God. This meant constant growth and change for Paul.
Judgment is Sure
The warning signs for the people of Judah are signs for us as well. They continually failed to obey God. Instead they embraced the lies of the false prophets. The people of Judah fell away because they embraced lies that pulled them away from God and they had no interest in repentance and returning to God since they convinced themselves they were doing nothing wrong. They didn’t care how often God gave them chances.
Continue Reading October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM Leave a comment
God Has No Choice
Ultimately, God looks upon individual believers through the eyes of pity or compassion. He certainly understands our frame and remembers we are simply dust. At the same time, He will do what is needed in our life to bring us back to the narrow road that leads to life eternal when we fail to stay on that road. This is the difference between Israel and the Church. With Israel, God often dealt with those people as one nation. If the leaders were corrupt, He would bring judgment eventually onto the entire nation. Though some within that nation might be spared from the true harshness of His judgment because of their individual loyalty to God, ultimately, He was judging that nation. Where the Church is concerned, God deals with individual Christians within the Church who go astray or require judgment for sins undealt with that keep them from fellowship with God.
Continue Reading October 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM Leave a comment
Digital Dominion
Within Scripture, we see a constantly escalating global situation where life becomes more and more digitally controlled as the end times looms in front of us. The ultimate end of this is found in Revelation 13. It is there that we see global society has, with finality, come under the complete control of the coming man of sin (2 Thessalonians 2), or the Antichrist through the use of digitization.
Continue Reading October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM Leave a comment
Hosea: Punishment and Promise
In spite of how bad things looked for Israel during Hosea’s time as a prophet to that nation, God continued to hold out hope. He always pointed them to the day when Israel, as a nation, would return to Him, embrace Him wholly and live for Him as well as they had lived apart from Him prior.
Continue Reading October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM Leave a comment
Seven Mountain Mandate
Christians have every right to be involved in every aspect of society, whether it’s education, government, entertainment, family or the others. No one should be able to stop a Christian from running for office. However, I have a concern when Christians try to change the flavor and tone of society through the imposition of rules or the Mosaic Law (or Noahide Laws[5]). Jesus changes the heart in those who come to Him in faith for salvation. The Law has never saved anyone and while we need laws in order to create a safe/better society, laws alone do not provide what people actually need. Laws are external while authentic salvation is internal.
Disobedience Brings God’s Judgment
In Jeremiah 9-10, we learn that God is not at all pleased with how low the Judahites had sunk. They had learned a great deal from Gentile nations and none of it was good. If they weren’t trying to depend upon help from these nations in fighting their enemies, they adopted many of the standards and protocols of those neighboring nations and empires.
The biggest problem Judah had was it’s tendency to worship idols. The prophet Jeremiah loved his people so much, he wished he had more tears to shed (v1) for them. His tears is what earned him the nickname “the weeping prophet.”
Continue Reading October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM Leave a comment
October 7th…
Several things are important about today’s date, October 7, 2025. First, it is the two-year anniversary for the horrible Hamas terrorist invasion of Israel and massacre of innocent Jewish people enjoying the music at a music festival, who were completely unarmed. Second, today is the revised day that the Rapture is supposed to occur, after the first date setting came and went without incident.
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