This is what was to be impressed upon the children, to be talked about day and night, in all opportunities. When Christ was asked which was the greatest commandment, this is what he quoted. This is the beginning of any understanding of love. We begin with a love of God which we seek to increase. [...]

Pride and self-exaltation led to Satan’s downfall, and for these there is no justification or adequate excuse. “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Prov 16:18). Hence, while we may know of the origin, cause, character, and results of evil, no good or sufficient reason or excuse can be given for [...]

Many people believe they understand the scriptures yet are simply blinded by their own preconceived notions. (“the veil remains”). Their own prejudices controlled their thinking.

To see God is to stand in the highest point of created being. Not until we see God–no partial and passing embodiment of Him, but the abiding Presence–do we stand upon our own mountain top, the height of existence which God has given us, and up to which He is leading us. That there we [...]

God did not address the call to Isaiah; Isaiah overheard God saying “who will go for us?” The call of God is not for the special few, it is for everyone. The chosen ones are those who have come into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ and they hear the still small voice questioning [...]

Repentance is not a matter of words: it means a turning around, a change of direction, in the whole life of a man. It is not a matter of words but of life. Forgiveness comes when satisfaction, restitution, is made and the Biblical penalty for adultery as death. To reduce God’s repentance to a muttering [...]

We must know what we are praying and talking about. hope=desire. I dare say this is actually something that most “christianese” languages and cliches dont handle very well. The question is not focusing on our hope, but only the reason for it. Simple pat answers like “cuz the Bible says so” or ” my pastor [...]

Rahab, in citing the terror of the Canaanites over the power of Israel, does more than the Canaanites. She attributes this power to the total power of the Lord. The Canaanites were in terror, because they recognized what Israel had done to all its enemies. The history of Israel from the Red Sea crossing to [...]

Who can understand our heart? Indeed, the one who knows what to search for. On this verse, I like the KJV: “I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” It suggests to me that the Lord is checking to see if we [...]

Christ shows that the defilement they ought to fear, was not from what entered their mouths as food, but from what came out of their mouths, which showed the wickedness of their hearts. Nothing will last in the soul but the regenerating graces of the Holy Spirit; and nothing should be admitted into the church [...]

Daniel was not prideful about his insight.

When we undergo God’s discipline, it is a sign of our legitimacy. Discipline is what happens when our loving Father steps in to lift us away from our own destructive and unfruitful pursuits. All of us are fallen. We sin from time to time. Gods discipline starts because of a major sin problem-and unconfronted behavior [...]

Make each day count and be fruitful…..there’s really not that many of them. Man’s life is, “like the grass which growth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and growth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth” (v.5-6). Or as that of the leaf: “we all do fade as a leaf; and our [...]

I will write bluntly on this subject as I do not even for a minute think that I can interpret this verse as meaning anything different than what it says. For here we are also told that these fools are corrupt, and “there is none that doeth good.” The fool is, in essence, a somewhat [...]

How does he comfort them? Not by commonplace ethics of moralizings, but by drawing aside the veil that conceals the spiritual world, and revealing to them entirely new conceptions concerning the father Himself, the future life, and their own relations to it. We are not to believe in God as an abstract object, and in [...]

The people’s confidence and trust in God and their obedience to Him are alike rooted in truth that is historical and observable. Therefore, the historical records are subject to factual study; the historical records are not only open to verification but to falsification as well. The relationship between God and His people was not based [...]