Bible Time

A difficult topic, not because it's difficult to understand, but because we are so very in danger across this land of committing this great sin - Individually, locally in the churches, and nationally. May God open our eyes to the danger at hand, and help us to take warning, and repent, before God moves his presence off of us, and turns us over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in Jesus ho...

When God blesses, we are too busy to stop and say thank you. When God maintains our everyday existence, we overlook it, and fail to say thank you. When God send evil occurrence, and bad things happen, we fuss and fight, and the last thing we would consider doing is to thank God. May God open our understanding, convict our hearts, and give us power to be transformed by the renewing of our minds thr...

This command from God IS possible, IS powerful, and IS productive! Prayer is the vital connection between the believer and God! As important to the new man, as breathing air is to the old man, prayer is the life breath of the Born again Christian! May God grant us power and desire to obey this command, and be a people of PRAYER, in Jesus Christ's precious and holy name, AMEN! © Copyright 2023 Josh...

REJOICING IS NOT CONTINGENT UPON CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT RATHER UPON WHO GOD IS! This simple command, so often overlooked, is a powerful reality of the victorious life of the born again believer. May God rejoice your heart as we preach this message, and may God grant you power to rejoice evermore, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permi...

As simple and straightforward as this command is in our text, we as depraved human beings have made it quite complicated to understand. The Bible means what it says, but what does it really say about dealing with evil? With God's help we will consider this command in the light of scripture today. May God bless you with understanding and an obedient heart to the word of God, in Jesus name! © Copyri...

To be unruly means to be un-governed, disobedient, and without rule. It means to be unwilling to be brought under the rule of another, and to submit to authority. In this message we will look at 3 great laws that govern all "Christianity", and which we must submit too, or fall into error. May God use this message to warn them that are unruly, and establish the hearts of his people in faith, in Jes...

Sounds like a pastoral message doesn't it? But it's not... this commandment is given to the brethren! How different would church be if just obeyed the Bible we say we believe? May God grant us repentant and obedient hearts, and the power and desire to obey his word in this are, in Jesus Christ's precious name, amen! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details...

Disobedience to this commandment has set in motion a cause and effect sequence of consequences that have resulted in the desolation of the American Churches. Church after church is closing it's doors, while new Baalistic worship centers are built in their place, and false teachers fill the platforms across our land. May God grant us repentance and obedience to this simple command, and restore our...

Welcome back to Bible time! God's ways are not our ways! While we often consider ourselves the center of church life, expecting the "staff" to cater to us, counsel us, serve us, and comfort us, God has other plans! Today we will look at church leadership in the Bible, and our responsibility to those leaders. May God give us submissive hearts to follow his Word, and his ways, in Jesus Christ's name...

How can these three things go together? Only when the scriptures are rightly divided, can comfort, edification, and end times harmonize! May God give you faith to see and believe the clear truths of scripture regarding the the end times, that you might be comforted and edified, in Jesus name, and for his gospel's sake, amen! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more...

All Praise to Christ, who died for us! What greater subject can their be to captivate or minds? What greater purpose can their be than to live for him who died for me? May God turn our hearts toward himself, and open our eyes to see Christ more clearly: May He grant us the fullness of his Holy Spirit to follow Christ, and subdue our bodies to his glorious purpose, in Jesus Christ's precious and ho...

This passage is the climax of God's teaching on end times through his holy apostle Paul in the book of 1st Thessalonians. This incredible statement of the sovereign grace of God by which he has decreed for his children life, instead of death, is too great to grasp! May God grant understanding and comfort for his children through his word, and may the truth of God's great wrath strike fear in the h...

God through the apostle Paul continues to set a contrast between the children of wrath and the children of the day. Here the seemingly insignificant charge to be sober comes to the forefront... seemingly insignificant because perhaps we don't understand the Biblical use of the word sober... May God grant us the understanding, desire, and power to obey this scripture in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023...

Are you asleep or drunk? These two conditions are ascribed to the children of the night, as a direct contrast to the actions and conditions of the children of the light and of the day. Will you let God judge your heart and your spiritually condition through his word? May God grant us repentance in this day of dead religion, in Jesus name. © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About...

How does sleep effect my spiritual life? What does it mean to not sleep? God knows we need sleep! Jesus slept as a man... In this message we will look at the Biblical principal of godly sleep, and the great battle over your sleep. May God wake up his church to the need to watch and pray, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permission...

Are you a child of the light? Or of the darkness? What is the difference? How can you tell them apart? May God allow the glorious light of his gospel to shine through this simple attempt to preach his word, in Jesus holy, and precious name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

How do the 3 parables of Matthew 23 illustrate the contrast between children of the light and of the darkness? How do these parables play into understanding the end times? May God open our understanding as we pick up where we left off in "Not In Darkness, Not Overtaken". Help us Lord, to be humble, and to understand, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page f...

Ye are not in darkness... IF you have the Light! The Light of the world is Jesus, and if you have the Light, that day will not overtake you as a thief! Hallelujah! May God open our understanding through the study of his word, and power of his Holy Spirit, in Jesus precious and holy name, AMEN! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God gives us a blessed contrast in this verse: A contrast of hope and despair; of truth and lies; of wrath and salvation. May God bless your heart wit comfort through this message... if you are truly his! For you rebels against God, may God grant you repentance before it's too late, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God wants you to know what is going to happen! You can trust your AV King James Bible! Just read it and believe it! In this message we are exploring the day of the Lord in the word of God, but there is not enough time to hardly scratch the surface of the subject! May God encourage your heart, and fill you with a desire to know read and know your Bible,in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks A...

God wants you to understand the times and seasons! God didn't make it complicated... the devil has done that! God wants you to know! May God use this message to dissolve doubts and give understanding through his word, and for the glory of his Son, and the edification of his church, in Jesus name! Mixed Up References Broken Down: 1. License II Timothy 3:1...12,13 2. Legalism I Tim 4:1-3 3. Lusts II...

How can end times prophecies bring comfort? Only if they are considered biblically! As strange as it may seem, this verse is the key to understanding end times prophecies, the book of Revelation, the coming of the Lord, and all other matters we might lump under the man made word of "Eschatology". May God bless you with understanding... and comfort through these words, in Jesus name! © Copyright 20...

Hallelujah to the Lamb of God whose Bride awaits the joyous consummation of his covenant, made with his blood! In this message we will look at the catching away, sometimes called the "Rapture" of the church. May God bless you with comfort, and hope, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

The blessed hope of the believer, the coming of Christ is set forth in plain speech by the Holy Ghost, and it is his will for you to understand, believe, and take comfort in this great truth! May God open our understanding and shed light on this passage as we compare scripture with scripture, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permi...

What does the coming of Christ mean to you? Is eschatology an excercise in intellectual reasoning to you? Is it an interpretive dance through the allegorical mysts of dreams of spiritual men? Or, is the study of the end times, just part of your walk of faith - trusting God who said what he said, to do what he said? May God establish your heart in his word, and strengthen your faith through this me...