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About Jesus Christ

  • Despite man's best efforts to exalt himself, there is only one God above all. And regardless of His preeminence, He humbled Himself to come to earth as a helpless baby.
  • The greatest motivating force in the world is God's love, and there is nothing else in the world like it.
  • I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. (Revelation 1:8)
  • You see, Abraham believed God, and he went far enough to let you and me know — God already knew — and to let the created universe know that he was willing to give his son. And so God counted it to him that he had done it.
  • They had the same problem in Egypt in that day as we had in the western part of the United States.
  • Have you ever felt like maybe God has washed His hands of us? Have you wondered if He's really involved in the happenings of the world?
  • Jeremiah mourned the destruction of Jerusalem alone. He stood among the ashes weeping. Why had the city been destroyed?
  • For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. (Ezekiel 34:11)
  • Q: If Jesus Could Not Sin, Why Was He Put in the Wilderness and Tested?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Q: If Jesus Was Never Ill, How Could He Free Me from Sickness and Disease at the Cross?

  • Q: If God Knows Beforehand Who Will Believe, Do We Truly Have Free Will?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • Why Did Jesus Curse the Fig Tree?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. (Matthew 1:23)
  • And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. (Matthew 14:22-24)

  • Can One Get Too Familiar With Jesus?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. (Luke 1:26-28)
  • There are several things that need to be interpreted in 1 Peter 3:18-20.
  • If you will recall, He was made “sin for us, who knew no sin” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Apologetics

  • Despite man's best efforts to exalt himself, there is only one God above all. And regardless of His preeminence, He humbled Himself to come to earth as a helpless baby.
  • We should exhibit caution and discernment in listening to the teaching of others, as they might be false teachers. The only authority is the Word of God and what it says.
  • Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? (Malachi 2:10)
  • Evolution has never answered the question of how nothing becomes something. It always starts with a little amoeba or a garbage can or a little piece of seaweed or an animal up in a tree. Our minds must have something to start with, but the Bible starts with nothing. God created!
  • Q: We're Commanded Not to Kill, So Why Did God Instruct His People to Do So?
  • Q: What Does it Mean that Man is Made in God's Image?
  • Q: How Can a Just God Condemn the Millions Who Have Not Heard the Gospel?
  • Q: Do the Sacrifices Outlined in Leviticus Apply to Us Today?

  • Q: If God Knows Beforehand Who Will Believe, Do We Truly Have Free Will?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • In the Book of Judges a great principle of government is presented, a principle which is also stated very clearly in the prophecy of Isaiah.
  • Q: What is the Difference Between Premillennialism, Amillennialism, and Postmillennialism?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Q: What Are the Marks of a False Teacher?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • How Does One “Try the Spirits”?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

Bible Prophecy

  • And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. (1 John 2:28)
  • Q: What is the Difference Between Premillennialism, Amillennialism, and Postmillennialism?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain. (Zechariah 8:3)
  • Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest. (Revelation 15:4)

Christmas

  • The Scripture does not say when He was born; the important thing is that He was born. The Scripture does not say when He was crucified; the important thing is that He died for our sins.
  • The music of Christmas is filling the air, and multiplied church programs honor Christ's birth.
  • Q: Does Jeremiah 10:2-4 Describe the First Christmas Tree?
  • The music of Christmas is filling the air, and multiplied church programs honor Christ’s birth. [I witnessed] a most touching presentation involving a deaf choir “singing” with others.
  • Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. (Matthew 1:23)
  • And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. (Luke 1:26-28)

Church & Worship

  • It's been degraded to the level of a bumper sticker which says, "Honk if you love Jesus!" If you love Jesus, you don't run around honking your horn. If you love Jesus you're going to live a life of obedience to Him.
  • Very few people actually worship God.
  • "Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ" should be "Hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Culture & Worldview

  • The Epistle of James gives a very clear definition of what God sees as worldliness — and it's probably not what you'd expect.

Disasters

  • The Word of God is contrary to what we hear so much of today about if become a Christian you’ll have joy in your life and everything’s going to be rosy and everything’s going to be so nice.

Discipleship & Evangelism

  • We are not worth loving, but God loves us all. The important thing is that He tells believers to take the gospel to the world. That is the way that you and I can show our concern and love.
  • God has a surplus of grace; He dispenses it as it's needed, and there's always more to follow. All we have to do is lay hold of it.
  • Here is a remarkable miracle of our Lord. Surely there is no medicinal value in saliva, but the Lord uses this to increase the faith of this man. Why did He use this method? Couldn’t He have opened the eyes of this man as He did in other instances? Of course, He could have. He could have made this man see clearly at the very beginning. But there is a lesson for the man and a lesson here for us.
  • My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. (John 10:27-29)
  • As in the days of the judges, God still uses ordinary men who want to be used to accomplish His great purposes. God can use you if you want to be used, friends.
  • Are you tired of feeling alone in your struggles and like you're carrying all of the responsibilities on your own? You don't have to feel that way, because you have a partner who never stumbles or falls.
  • One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. (Psalm 27:4)
  • Q: What Does "Having Done All, To Stand" Mean?
  • Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. (Proverbs 3:5,6)
  • Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
  • Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail. (Amos 8:4)
  • What is the Mark of a Mature Christian?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Luke 5 tells of a time when the Lord Jesus climbed into Simon Peter’s boat and asked him to push it out a little from the land.
  • And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (Deuteronomy 6:5)

Easter Week

  • The gospel has not been preached until the meaning and significance of the blood of Christ Jesus has been explained, because the fact of salvation is that His blood was shed to gain it for you.

Family & Parenting

  • The parents of many young people may be lovely Christian people but they did not really train their children in Christian precepts and values. They were so anxious and ambitious for them to get on in the world that they lost them.

Fear & Peace

  • The discipline of God is a way for Him to express His love for His own. Therefore, we are taught to endure suffering, not to escape it.
  • In the peace offering, the emphasis is not upon the peace that He made by the blood of the cross, but upon the peace He is because of the blood of the cross.
  • Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. And David's two wives were taken captives.... And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
  • The Bible mentions several kinds of peace.
  • Have you ever gone through a trail or tragedy and wondered if it was actually God's discipline? Or even wondered if He's washed His hands of you entirely?
  • That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. (1 Thessalonians 3:3,4)
  • Q: What Did Jesus Mean When He Said He Would Not Leave Us Comfortless?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • How Can We Have Peace of Mind?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • The Word of God is contrary to what we hear so much of today about if become a Christian you’ll have joy in your life and everything’s going to be rosy and everything’s going to be so nice.

Heaven & Hell

Leadership

Marriage & Divorce

Missions

  • In this age of grace, it is not the believer's responsibility to harvest but to be sowers of seed — going out into the world and sowing the Word of God.
  • So often we are rather brisk and even crude in our witnessing. Because we find it difficult, generally when we do it we are very amateurish. We do it so abruptly and in such a way that often it offends people. We need to be led by the Spirit of God.

New Years

  • Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13,14)

Personal Finances & Stewardship

  • Q: A single mom of three who is in debt asks: What Should Be My First Priority — Tithing or Paying Off Debts?

Politics & Current Events

  • Q: Is the United States Mentioned in Prophecy? Selected from our Questions and Answers program

Prayer & Spiritual Life

  • We can have great encounters with God when we put away distractions and are simply alone with Him and His Word.
  • Not only can men have fellowship with God, the Creator of the universe, but it can be sweet and full of joy.
  • He opens two alternatives to any man who is living in difficult days. You and I will have to do one of the two. You will have to make up your mind which you are going to do. Men in difficult days will either faint or they will pray. Either there will be days of fear or days of faith.
  • We hear a lot about the need for revival, but have you ever wondered why it hasn't happened? Or why you don't see a spiritual revival in your own life?
  • When the first delegation of Jews returned to the [Promised Land], they met discouragement. It is at times like this that you let down. It has happened to many Christians.
  • As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? (Psalm 42:1,2)
  • God has never asked anyone to believe anything that does not rest upon a foundation.
  • Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? (Isaiah 58:4,5)
  • And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. (Hosea 2:16)
  • Q: What Did Jesus Mean When He Said He Would Not Leave Us Comfortless?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • Q: Does God Answer All Prayers or Just Those in His Will?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:15,16)
  • Is the Holy Spirit a Person or an Impersonal Force?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. (Genesis 32:24)
  • You’ll remember that the Lord Jesus told His apostles, “Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you” (John 16:23).

Salvation

  • No prophet emphasizes the glory and the holiness of God more than Ezekiel. He saw the glory of God — that was the great vision he had at the beginning of his book. He never forgot it. And we should not forget it either.
  • Scripture makes it clear that true salvation is assured and cannot be lost.
  • The gospel has not been preached until the meaning and significance of the blood of Christ Jesus has been explained, because the fact of salvation is that His blood was shed to gain it for you.
  • The question is: Do you have Christ? Is He your Savior? Are you trusting Him in such a way that no one on earth or in heaven can shake your confidence in Him? To be saved means you trust Christ and have Him as your Savior. He's our lifeboat. He's our lifeline. He's our only hope. We are lost without Him, but if we have Him, we have life.
  • This betrayal of Christ in the name of Christianity is one reason for the moral and spiritual malaise with which this country is afflicted. The melancholy fact is that the churches no longer influence the development of national character.
  • You can trifle with God too long. The nation Israel did, and the day came when God said, "I will no longer have mercy on you."
  • There is a suffering that is connected with the cross of Christ that you and I cannot comprehend. He didn’t suffer at the hands of men only. That was bad enough, but He suffered beyond that. Our sins were put upon Him. “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows” (Isaiah 53:4).
  • If we really knew how much God is moving in judgment, I am of the opinion that it would bring America to her knees before Almighty God.
  • And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. (Acts 24:24,25)
  • But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. (Proverbs 4:18,19)
  • Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel. (Colossians 1:4,5)
  • Q: How Can a Just God Condemn the Millions Who Have Not Heard the Gospel?
  • Q: Should Christians Be Looking for the Coming of Jesus as King?
  • Q: If Christ Died for All, Why Are Only Some Saved?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • The word "turn" means "repent."
  • Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. (2 John 3)
  • Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. (Jude 1)

Sin

  • Unbelief is sin. I am willing to make this confession: I wish that I believed Him more. He is worthy to be believed; I ought to believe Him fully, but the problem is with me. And I suspect that the problem is with you, also.
  • The story of twin brothers Esau and Jacob illustrates a great truth for believers about our old and new natures: the flesh is always at war against the spirit.
  • Your business is not to try to get someone else's office or job. We have too much insane vanity among Christians wanting to be chairman of a board or to do something publicly.
  • And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook.... And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. (1 Kings 17:2-4,7)
  • What should be our response when a brother or sister in Christ stumbles and strays into sin?
  • The word "turn" means "repent."
  • A great many saints today have pride of race, pride of face, and pride of grace — they are even proud they have been saved by grace!
  • What is the Sin Unto Death?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. (Leviticus 8:6)

  • Where Did Satan Get His Power For Evil?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • Paul says, “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:1).

Study The Bible

  • "Poor Paul, it's too bad these Romans put you in jail."
    "They didn't put me in jail."
    "Oh, we know what you mean. Those hateful religious rulers brought a charge against you."
  • In chapter 12 of Ezekiel, the prophet proclaims that judgment is imminent, but the people will not believe. The important thing to note is the proclamation of the Word of God; Ezekiel is giving the Word of God.
  • God's love is actually expressed in law. The great principle of law is love. Therefore the principle of the gospel itself is expressed in Deuteronomy.
  • The Lord Jesus Christ speaks to this church in the midst of crass materialism, degraded animalism, base paganism, and dark heathenism. Note this carefully, because I consider this message to be one of the most important of all.
  • What do you think would happen if churches across the nation started really reading the Word of God aloud in their services? Would it bring revival?
  • If the structure of the Book of Revelation is followed, it will prevent you from going off into fanaticism and sensationalism. It ought not to terrify you. Actually, it ought to be a comfort to you.
  • Q: We're Commanded Not to Kill, So Why Did God Instruct His People to Do So?
  • Q: How Should We Respond to David's Relationship With Abishag?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Q: Will Our Children Still Be Ours in Heaven?
  • Q: What's the Significance of the Number 40 in the Bible?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Q: What Does it Mean that Man is Made in God's Image?
  • Q: Who are the Modern Representatives of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes?
  • Q: Are the "Book of Life" and the "Lamb's Book of Life" the Same Thing?
  • Timothy was not the son of Paul in a physical way.
  • Q: Is the United States Mentioned in Prophecy? Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Q: Do the Sacrifices Outlined in Leviticus Apply to Us Today?
  • Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (1 John 4:11)

  • Q: If God Knows Beforehand Who Will Believe, Do We Truly Have Free Will?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • In the Book of Judges a great principle of government is presented, a principle which is also stated very clearly in the prophecy of Isaiah.
  • Q: What is the Difference Between Premillennialism, Amillennialism, and Postmillennialism?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program
  • Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain. (Zechariah 8:3)

  • Q: How Did God Speak to Moses?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
  • Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest. (Revelation 15:4)
  • The Bible is probably the most maligned Book that ever has been written.
  • The Bible bus is set to embark on journey number nine through the whole Word of God!

  • What is the Age of Accountability?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

  • Was Pharaoh Predestined to Have a Hard Heart?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • What’s the Difference Between the Gospel of the Kingdom and the Gospel of Christ?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. (Exodus 17:5, 6)

  • What is the Meaning of the Parable of the Unjust Steward in Luke 16?
    Selected from our Questions and Answers program

  • The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; as it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. (Mark 1:1-3)
  • And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. (Leviticus 8:6)
  • The children of Israel left Mount Sinai and marched to Kadesh. When problems arose, the people fell to murmuring.
  • My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. (John 10:27-29)
  • A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. (John 13:34,35)
  • You’ll remember that the Lord Jesus told His apostles, “Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you” (John 16:23).

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