Proverbs 2:18

Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. In these words two things may be observed: First, Wherein the work and office of John the Baptist consisted, viz. in preaching the kingdom of God, to prepare the way f... Read More

On Fear by Audrey Vander Heide We know the word of God but we don't do the word of God Psalm 103 Proverbs 2 The word fear has been mentioned 385 times in the Word of God. We need to fear God. We grew up in wartime and we knew what fear was. Bombings were all around us. If the doorbell rang the soldi... Read More

There is a great need in the body of Christ for consistent reading of the Holy Scriptures in their entirety, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. In this case we are encouraging a chronological reading of the Scriptures. Most of the confusion is created when certain teachers, groups, or... Read More

Hades (86) (hades) is the transliteration of the Greek word Hades (from a = negative + eido = to see) literally means "not seen" or "unseen". In Homer hades is spelled Haides and means obscure, dark, invisible. As discussed below from Luke 16:23 we discover that Hades is the region of departed spiri... Read More

IT IS IMPERATIVE that a believer know he has a spirit, since, as we shall soon learn, every communication of God with man occurs there. If the believer does not discern his own spirit he invariably is ignorant of how to commune with God in the spirit. He easily substitutes the thoughts or emotions o... Read More

1. Conception of Sin and Death: According to Genesis 2:17, God gave to man, created in His own image, the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and added thereto the warning, "in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." Though not exclusively, reference is ce... Read More

God was in the process of judging the old order in preparation for the new. He had dealt with the priesthood. God always deals with the priesthood before He deals with the kingdom. What about the kingdom? Israel, as we have mentioned, had become like the heathen nations which they were to subdue. Th... Read More

The Mystical Temple by Thomas Watson "The temple of God is holy, and you are that temple." 1 Corinthians 3:17 It is admirable to observe how the Holy Spirit delights to set forth the spiritual union between Christ and believers by several metaphors. Sometimes this union is shadowed out by the natura... Read More

It is our great privilege this morning to return in the study of God's Word to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. We are fast coming to the end of this great epistle. We find ourselves in verses 21 and 22 in a special three-part series entitled "A Call to Discernment." Let me read the text of 1 Thessalonian... Read More

As you know, we're doing a little series on studying the Bible, how to get the most out of God's Word. And I'm happy to say to you that in August a book will be released entitled How to Get the Most Out of God's Word which will have some of what I'm saying to you and a whole lot more. It will be a s... Read More