A Sound Heart

What did the Church cost God?  What did God sacrifice in order to redeem us?  God so loved the world (people) that He gave is only begotten Son.  The Church is the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He is the Head of the Body that He purchased with His own Blood.  The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is the central theme of the Bible.  Biblical History points to the pivotal event of the death of Jesus...

We are living in the Eschaton or Last Days of this age.  Knowledge has been increased as foretold by Daniel.  Invasive technologies have redefined what it means to be human.  The classical idea of man as man has vanished along with classical moral norms.  Moral relativism is the order of the day as espoused by the social controllers.  They themselves operate according to norms that contain no beli...

Predestination and Foreknowledge are very profound and poignant theological doctrines. All constantly believing ones must know that God has determined the end of history because history is HIS-STORY! Men have tried to fathom the reality of history without God and therefore have missed the real meaning of history.  The language of the New Testament leads one to confidently conclude that God has pre...

Jesu laid out the ultimate antithesis for all of us.  Jesus laid before each of us the ultimate demand.  The demand to take up the cross and follow Jesus is not for the religious or the faint of heart.  It take extraordinary courage to follow Jesusand mean it. He brooks no rivals. He will never accept any rivals!  He and He alone must beour ultimate concern. Those who take up the cross to follow H...

Those who have tried to disavow the claims of the Scriptures concerning the person of Jesus over the centuries have failed.  Many have tried to say that Jesus is not who He claims to be have found themselves personally victimized by their own claims.  Others, who are less honest have completely ignored the Scriptures and have sought to echo the failed claims of so-called scholars, and have come sh...

Have you even thought about why children are attacked through sexual abuse? Have you ever talked to an adult who was sexually abused as a child? Do you realize the thousands upon thousands of victims of childhood sexual abuse that live among us?  The devil has sought to destroy the lives of children because they are beautiful creations of God.  The devil and other evil spirit beings want only ruin...

God speaks extensively in His Word about the ruin that false prophets bring into the lives of His people.  False (lying) prophets are extremely selfish and arrogant.  They will use words in a carefully contrived manner in order to deceive and control people. They do not care that their lies are against the people of God.  However, God will havoc the lives of those who havoc His people.

Our Lord Jesus Christ warned us about false prophets who come only to deceive and lead the faithful astray.  John warns us about deceiving spirits.  Peter warns us about false prophets who will be manifest in the last days.  Throughout the Word of God we are warned not to listen to the putrid words of those who lie in wait to deceive, and overthrow the faith of some.     

The dark forces of this world know the value of the Word of God.  The powers of darkness know that the only Light in this world is Jesus.  Therefore they seek to extinguish the Light (Phos) of Jesus.  The powers of darkness cannot overcome the Light of the Cosmos.  If you want a real life and a not a life of illusion come to Jesus.  This world is filled with those who believe that violence will gi...

The Word of God teaches the necessity of the finished work of Jesus in order to redeem (purchase) us out from sin.  Sin is lack or want of conformity the character of God. Jesus died for all of mankind.  It is only through the death of Jesus that we can receive eternal life.  Jesus offers the only way (road) to freedom in this world (cosmos).

Faith is a noun of action.  Faith is never a mere intellectual idea in the Word of God.  It is for many people but not those who follow Jesus.  To follow Jesus means that one forsakes his own existence and take up the cross with the idea of never putting it down.  We follow Jesus by faith (Gk. pisticism).  When we follow Jesus we walk by faith not by sight (empiricism). Today our country needs tho...

Very few cosmic psychology books address the malignant spiritual pathology of pride. Pride is inherent in the human heart and its institutions.  Pride is more that morbid self-interent.  Pride is more that pathology.  It is an ontological way of being for humanity dead in trespasses and sins.  It is only through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus that we can be freed from the morbid ontol...

Noah believed that Yahweh was going to bring a global flood upon the earth.  Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness.  Joseph believed God and he became prime minister of Egypt.  Moses believed God and he delivered God's people for Egyptian bondage.  The powerful theme of the Scriptures is unshakeable belief in the character of God.  By the instrumentality you/we can move...

Habakkuk was a prophet who carried a heavy burden.  He carefully observed the behavior of the wicked and he wanted to know why Yahweh had not judged their terrible behavior.  He observed that the wicked surrounded the righteous in order to strangle and curtail justice. The wicked proved themselves incredibly selfish and determined to do everything in their power to hinder the Word of God.  

In old days some theologues spoke glowing words about the universal salvation of all men.  Rarely does one read such things today. In the recent old days "christian" counselors spoke about the unity of biblical doctrines with human psychology. I have such books in my library. Such people took the proverbial bait.  They were deceived by the cosmos into believing that their biblical footnotes were a...

The question about eternal life posed by the rich young ruler manifests the essence of human self-interest.  The rich young ruler assumed that he only needed to complete a formulaic religious ritual in order to receive eternal life.  The encounter with Jesus arrested the hidden arrogance of his self-interest and confronted him with deepest assumption, and reality-his riches!  His question to Jesus...

Will you be there when the glorified church will meet the Lord Jesus in the air?  Have you believed into the person of Jesus?  I dont mean do you go to "church."  I mean have you believed into the person of Jesus for eternal salvation?  You, and only you can answer this vitally important question.  Now is the accepted time, now is the Day of Salvation.  You see what the world really is today.  You...

This age(aeon) will end with the Tribulation Period.  The Tribulation Period marks the end of the so-called Church Age.  Peter even writes that judgement will begin at the House of God.  This is remarkable because he cogently comtemplates the destiny of the ungodly who know not God.  The Tribulation Period will begin with the falling away first of the professed church.  The confessed church will b...

The Book of Revelation is the Book of Beginning too.  What had been lost through the deceitfulness of sin has been overthrown by the Almighty God.  The enemy (hater) of humanity will meet his eternal defeat by Almighty God whom he sought to supplant, and later mimic by claiming the perogatives of Deity for himself-a created being. All of creation is dependent upon God a fact that the mathematical...

The distraction of trouble is upon us.  It seeks to create fear in our hearts.  Fear seeks to isolate us.  Fear wants you to be intimidated.  If fears wins your heart will be unsettled and ill at peace.  If fear wins it will seize your profession of faith and imprison you in candid spiritual defeat.  The Savior wants us to concentrate upon Him so that we will have peace during the storm.  Beloved,...

God has told us in His Word that the end of this age (aeon) will be characterized by terrible and terrifying events.  The Holy Spirit is now restraining the full manifestation of intra-and inter-human evil events.  This world (cosmos) is controlled by evil beings that know their destiny is the Lake of Fire and yet are fully determined to do evil.  These eveil beings know that the Lake of Fire is r...

Jesus said: "And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:27)."  There are those who believe that the Words of Jesus can be ignored or dismissed without penalty.  That belief is false, and will reap ruin to those who believe it.  The Words of Jesus are Words of eternal truth and destiny.  We ignore His Words to our individual and collective peril. Hear t...

The Book of Genesis (Beginnings) opens with the creative activity of Yahweh Elohim through the immediate agency of His Word.  There is the unity of speech/act in the original document.  Note that Yahweh creates new being through His very Word.  The God who speaks gives life through His Word.  He is before creation, He is independent of creation , and yet creation is dependent upon His gracious wil...

People today are the victims of endless distractions.  The enemy has used powerful brainwashing techniques, effective gaslighting tools, and political doublespeak to keep people off balance.  'Life' offers nothing to people today except debt, worry, angst, trivial excitement over shiny and deceptive objects so that they will not realise that "Waiting for Godot" will not bring them salvation.  Godo...

Where is the fire of the Faith today?  Where is the dynamic witness of fervent Faith?  Why has understanding the Faith through the agency of abstract discursive replaced the refreshing fire of the Spirit?  Why is it that few teach on the resurrection power of Jesus?