Bible Time

IF we believe! What a statement! What a foundation for our faith! The gospel is here held forth as the corner stone of all spiritual comfort, all hope in affliction, all joyful assurance in the midst of grief and loss! May God bless your heart with fullness of assurance and faith in believing the gospel of Jesus Christ as we consider his death and resurrection today, in Jesus name! © Copyright 202...

God wills us to have understanding and wisdom concerning the End Times. Here in verse 13 we begin a group of about 17 verses that deal with different aspects of the End Times. This first deals with the end of an individual believers time, and shows us the Biblical and blessed hope that we have in Christ Jesus! May God comfort your hearts, and establish you in the faith to stand in the coming affli...

Are you available for God's use? Not just with your lipservice... are you truly available and fit for the masters use? This message deals with one of the most practical aspects of the Christian life, and the baseline for Christian ministry. May God use this message to rebuke, reprove, and exhort the brethren to prepare for unhindered service, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights...

Do you want to be used by the Lord? Here Paul gives simple instructions, that when followed will not only bring the blessing of God, but will also put you in position to be used by God! May God edify, sanctify, and equip his church for greater usefulness, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Who should I love? Who should I love most? How can I love more and more? Sometimes it seems like I run out of love in a given day, or week, and I don't have room for more ministry! I need me time! Really? May God use this text, and the message that accompanies it, to open our understanding to the subject of Infinite love, the only hope you or I have of increasing more and more in love. Do it Lord,...

What does it mean to love as brethren? Who is my brother? This powerful verse is the pivot point of 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, bringing into perspective all the reproofs and warnings of the first 8 verses. May God use this message to increase your love for the brethren, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Who wants to be that guy? Despise God? Only the most hardened of sinners, mockers, scoffers, scorners, and fools would knowingly despise God! But here we find again that God's ways are not our ways, and that all you have to do to despise God.... is despise his people! May God open our eyes to this truth from his word, and grant us power to walk worthy of his holy name, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2...

Or - How to be filled with the Holy Ghost... May God send revival - Just the old time outpouring of his own Holy Spirit on his church! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

What is the greatest danger to the New Testament church that is operating in the power and leading of the Holy Spirit of God? A study of this text reveals this great sin, as we compare scripture with scripture. May God open our eyes, and give us holy fear of his own name, and keep us from this evil, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details an...

Glory Hallelujah! What? You don't know why this subject is so wonderful!? Because God has something better for you than a smoldering, burning, soul slavery to sin! Hallelujah to the Lamb for his BETTER promises, BETTER testament, BETTER priesthood, and altogether BETTER way! May God grant you the power to LIVE FREE FROM SIN, in JESUS CHRIST'S PRECIOUS HOLY NAME! Glory to the LAMB! © Copyright 2022...

How does God's will for your life work itself out... or does it? Do you have a part in God's plan and work? What does it mean to "Possess your vessel in sanctification and honor"? May God open our understanding, and give us both the desire, and the power to be doers of this wonderful, powerful Word, in Jesus Christ's holy, and precious name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See Ab...

Why did God set these two subjects in contrast with one another here? Sanctification and fornication? As we study these two subjects in contrast, God will show us and teach us - If we ask for him for the wisdom! May God bless y with joy and victory through these truths, in Jesus name. © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

What are the commands of Christ? How do I keep them? Do I have to keep them? What about grace? Did Christ do away with the law? All these, and many more questions will be answered through the word of God in this message! May God shed forth his grace upon you through this message, in Jesus name! Hallelujah to the Lamb! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more detail...

Furthermore means in addition to. In this chapter God takes the burden of the apostle Paul for the discipleship of this fledgling church on fire, and uses it as a springboard to give practical instruction to his church. May God use this message to encourage your heart, and strengthen your resolve to do God's work God's way, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About...

God has a purpose in Discipleship, and that purpose - end - is for you to be stablished. God wants us to grow up in Christ, until we can take the trials and testings that come our way without wavering, and still minister to others! Discipleship is about thriving, not surviving! May God use this message to increase your desire to grow in faith, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All right...

True discipleship produces Biblical results. This is what we mean by Produce of discipleship, and the pun is intended. Jesus said Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. This is the true evidence of true discipleship. May God open his word to our hearts and use this message for His glory, in Jesus Christ's blessed, holy name. © Copyright 2022 Joshua Bur...

Providence, the benevolent act of Almighty God on behalf of man. What does that have to do with discipleship? Join us as we dive into the depths of God's wondrous word and may God fill your heart with knowledge of his will, in Jesus Christ's name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

A true Christian doesn't need discipleship. True or False? True and False! In our lesson today we will look at the need for Biblical discipleship. Why you need it, and why you don't! May God open his word to our hearts today, in Jesus name!

True worship comes from true love! As we continue our study through 1 Thessalonians Paul reaches a high point of praise and worship to our God for what he had done in the little church at Thessalonica. In doing so, we are giving a living example of true worship, it's source, it's direction, and it's results. May God bless you with power to worship God in true Christian love and joy, in Jesus name!...

What does it take to make you feel like you're "living"? What makes you go, and satisfies your heart at the end of the day, or week? Here we find a simple, but powerful expression of true Christlike love from the lips of Paul and his evangelistic band. "Now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord. May God use this message to revive his church, and open the eyes of the lost, in Jesus name! © Copyright...

God has given us many examples of believers who had to stand alone, and God was enough. Indeed, it would be worth it all to go to heaven and see Jesus all alone! But what a blessing Christian fellowship is! And we aren't talking about watching a ball game together - True Christian fellowship involves serving and suffering for Christ together, and in that there is power! May God encourage your hear...

The little group of believers Paul's evangelistic band had left in Thessalonica could hardly be hoped to be called a church. Had they survived the persecution? Timothy was sent to find out what had happened to them, and to establish and comfort them concerning their faith, but would he find faith when he returned? Here in our text, God gives us Paul's account of Timothy's report on the fledgling c...

Are you going through the Tribulation? Are you a real Christian? Debate over end times prophecy has muddied the water on the topic of Great Tribulation. By God's grace we will look at those who go through great tribulation, and purpose in our hearts to suffer for Christ! May this message be a blessing to you, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more...

In the midst of this letter of love and approval to the fledgling church of Thessalonica, God (Through Paul) calls the church to be unmovable in the face of affliction. What a thought, called thereunto? Salvation in the Bible is more than fire-insurance, it's fire assurance in this life! May God use this message to help you count the cost of your faith, and that ye be not moved, in Jesus name!

Who is this man Timothy, that Paul trusted with such an enormous task as going back into hostile territory to establish the fledgling church at Thessalonica? As we study the man behind the mission, the methods, means, and Master of the man come to light. May God grant that many more men will stand up like Timothy, for Christ's sake, and in his name!