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Christians Response to Biblical Instruction

August 26, 2021 6 Mins Read

Christian’s Response to Biblical InstructionJeremiah 17:21-25IntroductionThe problems we have in our society today are not something that has not ever happened before in the history of the world. Many people are despisers of instruction to their doom.Instruction can be in form of chastisement, warning, reproof, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.Reproof is used sometimes interchangeably with instruction, and it is Biblical to say that instruction is a reproof.God has much to say about instruction, and how…

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NOT AS PLEASING MEN

August 13, 2021 7 Mins Read

“But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; NOT AS PLEASING MEN, but God, which trieth our hearts” (I Thessalonians 2:4). We are all accountable to God on WHAT, WHY, WHEN, WHERE & HOW we handle the SCRIPTURE that GOD entrusted into our hands, especially PREACHERS *for unto whomsoever much is given, OF HIM SHALL BE MUCH REQUIRED: and to whom men have committed…

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What You Need to Know About New King James Version

July 2, 2021 5 Mins Read

Facts About the NKJV Many people use the New King James Version today. It is admittedly not as bad as those versions that completely depart from the Masoretic and Received Texts of the Hebrew and Greek Testaments. However, it still has the modern liberal approach to translation. This approach is as much the problem with new bibles as is the text they use for translation. Even versions that claim not to use the modernistic approach…

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Eternal Life is a Present Possession for Believers

July 2, 2021 3 Mins Read

Eternal Life is a Present PossessionIntroductionWe have many theologians who have denied immediate possession of eternal life the moment a person trusted Christ.But when you carefully study the Scripture, you will come to realize that eternal life is a present possession, and not in the future. What does it mean to have eternal life? Christ himself is the Life, and that is why it is very wrong to say, “I give my life to Christ”.…

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How Christians Ought to Walk

June 4, 2021 6 Mins Read

How Christians Ought to Walk1 Kings 3:1-10IntroductionWe see the world influencing Christians instead of Christians influencing the world. It is good for the ship to be in the ocean, but not good for the ocean to be in the ship because there will be catastrophic damages to lives.Who determines how you ought to work is God. It is not another Christian brothers or sisters, but God himself who decided the way we ought to walk.What…

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What is Conviction?

April 27, 2021 5 Mins Read

Convictions What is a conviction? One person says that it is no more than a personal opinion. Others define it as those things for which you would be willing to die; all else is a preference. Some teach that convictions are based on direct scriptural teaching. Others teach that convictions are not even scriptural. Why all the confusion? What is a good biblical approach to the concept of convictions? Let us see if we can…

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The Devil Called Preachers

March 25, 2021 5 Mins Read

Devil Called Preachers II Corinthians 11:13-15 makes it clear that the devil has his preachers and since he does, he is the one who calls them. Oliver B. Green said years ago, “For every one preacher God calls, the devil calls two.” It will not be easy to detect the devil called preacher. So, you must be careful. A devil called preacher is the most dangerous, damnable, and deadly thing there is. A lot of…

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What is a Missionary

March 23, 2021 2 Mins Read

WHAT IS A MISSIONARY? Somewhere between saintliness and foolishness, we find a curious creature called a missionary. Missionaries come in assorted sizes, weights, and colors, but all are sent by the one Lord who commanded His people to evangelize.Missionaries are found everywhere: going to, lifting up, launching out, coming from, staying with, bringing around, bearing with, and standing for. FIVE THINGS YOU DON’T NEED IN ORDER TO BE AN EFFECTIVE MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST Christians…

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Like Unto Me: Moses as a Type of Christ

February 23, 2021 3 Mins Read

There can be no doubt that Moses is a picture of Jesus Christ. Deuteronomy 18:15 says, “The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, LIKE UNTO ME; unto him ye shall hearken;” (emphasis added). The following is a list of some of the ways in which Moses is a type or picture of Jesus Christ. Although this is not an exhaustive list, it does include 40…

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Casting The Children’s Bread To Dogs

January 11, 2021 3 Mins Read

Casting The Children’s Bread To DogsWhat did Jesus mean when He said don’t give children’s food to dogs?One of the verses to which you refer is Matthew 15:26- “But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.” In this story (Matthew 15:21-28), a woman of Canaan came to Jesus to ask Him to deliver her daughter from a devil. Initially, He refused with the…