Line Upon Line

Teaching through 1 Thessalonians 5:1, Pastor Miles argues that the "day of the Lord" coming as a thief in the night refers not to the rapture but to a day of judgment and wrath that falls upon the unwatchful world, while the church—appointed not to wrath but to salvation through Christ—is called to wait, watch, and work until His return.

Pastor Miles teaches Isaiah 21, the burden against Babylon (the "desert of the sea"), connecting its literal fulfillment in the 539/586 B.C. Medo-Persian conquest to the coming judgment on Babylon the Great in Revelation. He emphasizes that the day of the Lord comes suddenly upon those at false ease, and calls believers to be faithful, watchful witnesses who urge the world to flee for refuge in Ch...

Paul corrects the Thessalonians' grief over believers who had died, assuring them that the dead in Christ have not missed the Lord's return but will rise first and be caught up with the living to meet Christ in the air. The teaching surveys the doctrine of the rapture, the four major views of its timing, and calls believers to live watchful, working, and ready for Christ's imminent return.

Studying Isaiah 18-20, Pastor Miles examines God's refusal to let Judah make an unholy alliance with Ethiopia and Egypt against the coming Assyrian army, teaching that God's people must trust Him alone. He then traces the "indicators of God's judgment" upon Egypt and applies them as warnings to modern nations whose idols God shakes when He removes His hand of protection.

A verse-by-verse study of Isaiah 15–17, tracing God's burden of judgment upon Moab, Syria (Damascus), and the northern ten tribes of Ephraim. Pastor Miles examines Moab's origin, the reasons for their judgment (pride, idleness, idolatry), the completeness and speed of God's judgment, and the prophetic foreshadowing of the day of the Lord and the coming Messiah.

Pastor Miles teaches from 1 Thessalonians 4:1-10 that God's revealed will for every believer is sanctification—worked out as purification, consecration, and concretely as sexual purity. He argues that living in sexual immorality contradicts our calling and that God will judge such practice, while urging believers to please God and abound more and more in holiness.

Opening Isaiah's series of judgments against the nations, this teaching examines the burden of Babylon as both a literal judgment fulfilled by the Medo-Persians in 539 BC and a foreshadowing of the global day of the Lord and the judgment of Lucifer. It stresses that God is unchanging and just, judging His own people first before turning to the nations, while always providing refuge in Christ.

Paul, unable to bear his concern for the persecuted Thessalonian church, sent Timothy to establish and comfort them in their faith—teaching that God appoints believers not only to salvation but to suffering, which He uses as a refining fire to sanctify us until the coming of Christ.

In 1 Thessalonians 2:1-20, Paul defends his character against the slander of the enemies of the gospel in Thessalonica, demonstrating that he ministered with pure motives, boldness, and self-sacrifice. Pastor Miles shows how the same enemy slanders Christian messengers today, and how believers, entrusted with the gospel, are called to validate it by living worthy of God's calling.

A verse-by-verse study of Isaiah 11–12, showing how the "rod out of the stem of Jesse" is a messianic prophecy fulfilled in Jesus, who bears the sevenfold Spirit of the Lord, judges in perfect righteousness, and brings about a glorious restoration in which His gathered people draw water from the wells of salvation.

Paul arrives in Corinth, a wealthy, immoral commercial center, where he meets Aquila and Priscilla, works as a tentmaker, reasons in the synagogue, and is encouraged by the Lord to keep preaching boldly. The teaching then turns to 1 Thessalonians, written from Corinth, examining the young Thessalonian church's work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope amid tribulation.

Drawing from Isaiah 9:8–10:34, Pastor Miles examines God's fourfold judgment against the northern ten tribes of Israel, showing how God used wicked nations like Assyria as the rod in His hand to discipline His people for the purpose of purification. He argues that the same unchanging God still works through devastating events today, calling nations to repentance.

Paul, stirred by the idolatry of Athens, adapts his method—but never his message—to reach a pluralistic, philosophical culture, building a bridge through their own altar to the unknown god and their own poets before preaching the creator God, the call to repent, and Christ's resurrection. Pastor Miles argues that modern America is an Athenian, Hellenistic culture, and the church must change its me...

Paul's team arrives in Philippi, the chief city of Macedonia, where God transforms three very different people—Lydia, a demon-possessed slave girl, and the Philippian jailer—demonstrating that evangelism begins with God opening hearts. The teaching emphasizes that the open heart, the enslaved heart, and the hard heart all yield immediate fruit when God's word and power break through.

Continuing through Isaiah 7–9, this teaching shows how the prophecy of Maher-shalal-hash-baz gave a near-term fulfillment to the virgin-birth sign promised to King Ahaz, and how Judah's refusal to trust the Lord ("the fountain") brought the flood of Assyrian judgment. It calls believers to make God their fear, sanctuary, and governor, pointing finally to the great light of Christ, the child born a...

Continuing in Acts 16, Pastor Miles teaches how God leads His followers through several means—an apostolic request, a spiritual check, a supernatural vision, a prophetic call, and an open door—as Paul takes Timothy along, is redirected by the Spirit away from Asia and Bithynia, and is called into Macedonia to bring the gospel into Europe. Along the way he emphasizes discipleship, willingly laying...

A year-end teaching that surveys current events in Israel and the Middle East against unfulfilled biblical prophecy, arguing that the worldwide call to divide Jerusalem and the threats against Israel align with Scripture's end-times warnings and signal the nearness of Christ's return.

Teaching on Isaiah 7 in its historical setting, this message follows the prophet's word to wicked King Ahaz during the Syro-Ephraimite crisis, the central charge "if you will not believe, you will not be established," and the dual fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy in both Isaiah's son and the virgin birth of Christ.

A Christmas-season teaching showing that Jesus, unlike every other historical figure, was foretold in striking detail by dozens of prophets centuries before His birth. Pastor Miles traces the messianic prophecies from Genesis through Isaiah, demonstrates that the name "Jesus" (Yeshua/salvation) appears 77 times in the Old Testament, and unfolds the titles and characters given to the coming Messiah...

Working through Isaiah 6:1, Pastor Miles sets the throne-room vision against the historical backdrop of King Uzziah's death, identifies the One on the throne as Jesus, and traces Isaiah's encounter with God's holiness through conviction, confession, cleansing, call, and commission. He warns that, like Judah, a nation richly given God's revelation that disregards it stands under God's judgment, whi...

Pastor Miles teaches the "song of the vineyard" in Isaiah 5, showing how God planted, protected, and provided for Israel yet found wild grapes—injustice instead of righteousness—and walks through the six woes that follow. He applies these warnings to our own day, urging believers to learn from Israel's history and boldly share the truth in love.

A verse-by-verse teaching on Galatians 6 that moves from sound doctrine (orthodoxy) to right practice (orthopraxy), showing how Spirit-filled believers are to restore the fallen, bear one another's burdens, examine their own work, and sow generously into the kingdom of God.

Working through Galatians 5:14-26, Pastor Miles teaches that the entire law is fulfilled in the command to love your neighbor as yourself, modeled on Christ's self-giving servanthood, and that this love only grows as believers walk in the Spirit rather than sowing to the flesh.

Pastor Miles teaches Isaiah 3, where God removes from Judah and Jerusalem every competent leader and provision as a judgment for their sin, leaving inexperienced and delusional rulers, social oppression, and the stripping away of the proud women's finery. He draws sustained parallels to America, then shows how God's punishment is always for the purpose of purification, culminating in the promised...

Teaching from Galatians 5:1-13, Pastor Miles explains that Christ has set believers free from slavery to sin, warning the Galatians against being re-entangled in the yoke of bondage by adding circumcision, law-keeping, or any religious work to the finished work of Christ. He concludes that true liberty in Christ is not license to sin but freedom to serve one another in love.