Some people believe that everyone will go to heaven at some point in time. They base their thinking on the fact that since God is love, how can He permit anything else? Think about this: He is God, and He is pure and holy; therefore sin is a corruption, a defilement of God”™s love and […]
~Thanksgiving ~ A Day of Rejoicing with Thankfulness (NASB) Psalm 95:1-5 O COME, let us sing for joy to the LORD, Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 3 For the LORD is a great […]
Sovereignty is the ruling power, the supreme power of a king or monarch or a country. Sovereignty is having supremacy of authority or rule. Who or what is sovereign in your life? What occupies most of your thoughts? To whom or what do you give your allegiance? Jesus said: (NASB) John 15:5 “I am the […]
To what or to who are you committed? If your commitment is to yourself and your grand agenda ““ at some point in time it will come to nothing. For whatever your agenda is, it will not be committed to you. If your commitment is to any false gods ““ again, those false gods are […]
(Amplified) John 15:1-2 “I AM the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. 2Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more […]
A gardener tends to the garden, whether it is made up of flowers, plants, trees, or grass. Jesus illustrated what God does (as a gardener) for those who make a commitment to follow Jesus, doing what He says to do. (NASB) John 15:1-2 “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 […]
(NASB) John 15:1 “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.” Jesus boldly declared to His disciples “I am the true vine”¦” He often spoke of Himself from the perspective of deity when He used the phrase “I am”. Why is this important? God has declared that His name is “I Am […]
The Sovereignty of Christ in our lives: (NASB) Isaiah 55:6-8 “Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion on him, And to our […]
From experience, people say that they have 20/20 vision. It is amazing about hindsight”¦we understand things in a different way when we see the results of words, of actions and of decisions made in the past. What was happening in the lives of the disciples and Jesus on their last Passover night together? The disciples […]
What is more powerful than a living example of a truth which is taught? Jesus did just that! He loved His Father and proved it by sacrificial obedience. (NASB) John 14:31 “but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me.” Jesus was concerned for […]