Jude 11-13 What are the signature markers in the attitudes, actions and fruit (outcomes for them and those who follow) of apostate teachers? Can you see them coming, and if so, why should you stay away? What are their temporal impacts and their eternal destinies?How are they religious and yet cursed of God? V8, Woe […]
Jude 8-10 Jude has just laid out three lessons from three groups in history. 1) Israel, 2) certain fallen angels, and 3) Sodom and Gomorrah. Each followed their own desires, rebelled against the good authority of God in a key way, abandoned their assigned positions, and each experienced severe and pointed divine judgment. With that […]
Jude – the half-brother of Jesus has just told his readers to beware of certain licentious/sensual teachers who are creeping in among believers. In their teaching and acts, they effectively deny the inherent right of the risen Jesus to command them (and believers), and they deny his deity. The Lord is holy and sovereign and […]
Jude 1-4 If a book of the Bible were a boxer, then Jude is a small, but muscular fighter that punches far above his weight! Pithy and full of sharp jabs, it gets right to work protecting sound doctrine and godly practice. It shows us how to fight the good fight of the faith, and […]
Genesis 15:1-6, Romans 3:19-30 Early in WWII a group of American soldiers on an island in the South Pacific were captured by an overwhelming Japanese force. They were held prisoner along with many British soldiers for many months. To pass the time they organized classes and lectures. One class was on American History, taught by […]
Romans 3:21-26 Anyone who’s had a sibling, or has when they were a child, interacted on a school playground with other children, has either done this, or had it done to them: Kid A hurts Kid B, the one they’re playing with, either physically, or emotionally with nasty and forbidden language. As the hurt and […]
The meaning and blessings of Salvation! #1 An introduction: Substitution and Redemption 1 Peter 3:18 The doctrine of our salvation by God is both simple and complex. The gnawing problem of one’s sin before our holy God, God’s just wrath toward one’s sin and oneself, and the love of God expressed to us in sending […]
Today’s teaching from the Word is simple: Who is Jesus? What does He claim to be and to do? What is His relationship to His sheep, and theirs to Him? And because of Who He is, His sheep, being secure in Him, have true and knowable moral duties and prohibitions.
Do you have a favorite food? In our passage Jesus, the Good Shepherd, who wants his blessed lambs to be well fed and to grow, presents Himself as the most essential staple for life. For real spiritual life that goes on, never dies, and into eternity. Only the Living God gives eternal life. Jesus is […]
Which Jesus brings eternal life, and forgiveness of sins? Verses 1, 5 and 12 beg the question, “Do you have the right Jesus, the only one, who brings the new birth and eternal life?” Why does John belabor this point? Why does he urge his readers to make sure they place their faith in so […]