In the previous chapter of Ephesians, chapter 4, we read that, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are no longer to live (in conduct) as the ungodly, giving ourselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. That is not the way we should have learned Christ. We...
So Satan’s attacks
Are now his angry whacks
Which he presses on
Those from him been long gone
Thus he testifies
Against those who love God
Now tries to get them
To bow only to him.
He nags and he picks
And he picks up his sticks
He tries convince them
Message is not from him
He wants us...
Teaming, steaming, idols gleaming,
Whirlwind, whirlwind, what’s your thinking?
Soap box! Soap box! All are actors.
Truthing, lying are the factors.
Myst’ry! Myst’ry! All is a ruse.
True objective is to confuse.
Pageant! Pageant! All are on stage,
Hoping we’ll turn the foll’wing page.
Captive...
Now these were God’s instructions to his people of old at a specific time in their history, but much of what is expressed here is repeated for us in the New Testament under the New Covenant which God now has with his people Israel (both Jew and Gentile by genuine faith in Jesus Christ), although...
Hear the whispers. Makes you think.
Mind now wonders, “What’s the stink?”
Is it factual? Makes you doubt.
Hear what’s hidden in the clout.
Preys on people who’re naïve.
Love they to make many scenes.
Who has done it? Do they know?
Or, is all this just for show?
News and Rag Mags much the same...
Originally written and posted on July 4, 2024
Now the Lord had me do a video talk on this passage of Scripture today. And most of the video talks are unscripted, i.e. I don’t know what I am going to say until I am doing the video. I just trust the Lord to give me the words to say. So rarely...
This love, in the Greek, is Agape love, a love which comes from God and is divine love because God is love. It is a love centered in moral preference and it prefers what God prefers, which is what is holy, righteous, godly, upright, morally pure, honest, and faithful. It prefers to leave our...
“Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in...
And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even...
God is the great revealer, Satan is the great concealer
Man gave control over the world to Satan, at the beginning, through disobedience to God,
God created all angels (disembodied spirit beings) and humans (spirits living in a physical body) with a freewill, the ability to choose, a will that...
By Doing Good
1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to...
We live in a time of great deception within our governments, within the church, within our families, and coming from the media. There is so much fakery going on these days that it is often difficult to separate truth from fiction; reality from fantasy. So many people are trapped in sinful...
Thieves and Robbers
John 10:1-6 NIV
“Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep...
By the Holy Spirit
Romans 15:14-16 ESV
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by...
Rock of Our Salvation
Psalm 95:1-2 NIV
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
Jesus Christ, God the Son, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son and...
Strengthen What Remains
Revelation 3:1-2 ESV
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.
“‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about...
Wicked Lips
Proverbs 17:4, 11, 20 ESV
4 An evildoer listens to wicked lips,
and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
11 An evil man seeks only rebellion,
and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
20 A man of crooked heart does not discover good,
and one with a...