Discipleship Tape Ministries

To unlock the story of the sun, we simply have to scan the Scripture to see the miracles it performs physically, and then focus in on the spiritual meaning of those miracles. We will also consider the glory of the sun, for perhaps its greatest purpose of all is the portrait it paints of the Glory of God, and of the glory that we, as His saints, will one day share in eternity. The Lord is both our...

Word pictures about rain pour from every corner of the Bible. In this lesson, we will look at eight truths we can learn from rain. We will also take an in-depth look at Isaiah 55 to get a glimpse of the Sovereign God who always keeps His promises. He has said, “My Word will never return unto Me void..” and He has added, “it will always accomplish what I sent it to do..” Read lesson: 1124A

The word “cloud” appears in virtually every book of the Bible, both to speak of its physical value to man, and to speak of its spiritual significance to God. As we make the “spiritual switch” in this lesson, we will see how the clouds represent God’s presence, His leading, and His coming one day to take us home to be with Him forever. We will never see clouds in quite the same way again. Read less...

The Rock is Jesus. His works are perfect. If we want to see in the physical realm something that depicts, at least in part, the nature of God, a good place to begin is by looking at a rock. This lesson will take a look at the perfection, provision, and protection of “The Rock”. He does not make a mistake. He is firmly planted. He is totally faithful and totally fair. He is our provision for our ne...

As we have the opportunity to study the wind, we have the responsibility to constantly be making “the spiritual switch”. God gives us the wind as a reminder of many things. It gives us the evidence of God’s residence in our lives. It reminds us of the judgment of God. It reminds us of the guidance of the Holy Spirit and how He moves us along with the winds of life. Our job is not to fight the wind...

Every time we feel the wind, every time we see the tops of the trees begin to bend beneath its force, every time we see the awesomeness of a hurricane, or sense the gentle cooling of a summer breeze, God is saying to us: “Learn of Me, Beloved, I am showing you how My Spirit works, every time the wind blows.” What are some of the characteristics of the wind that speak so eloquently of the work of G...

After man had eaten of the forbidden fruit, a new problem was created. His eyes had been opened, and he had chosen to be his own god. Should man now eat from the tree of life, he would impose upon mankind an eternal state of death in which his choice to be his own god would be final. In God’s remarkable mercy and love, He not only erected the world’s first security system and locked man out of par...

What happens when you have been told that you cannot have something? Forbidden fruit captivates the mind; it tantalizes you, disturbs you, angers you. It is the issue of forbidden fruit that we will be dealing with in this lesson. Our study takes us back to the book of beginnings, back to the first “tree crisis” recorded in Scripture. We will be looking at why God made one tree different from all...

It appears that although trees speak a thousand sermons, one is repeated over and over. It is the message of slow, deliberate, long-term growth. It is the picture that God engraved in Scripture of the difference between the quick-planted, heavily fertilized miracle vine, and the slow, painful, patient, nurturing of the tree that is properly planted, painfully pruned, and quietly left to grow and g...

This lesson is the first in a series of lessons on “making the spiritual switch”. “Making the spiritual switch” is the Christian’s responsibility to take that which exists in the physical realm and use it to teach and to learn the things of the Spirit. Few elements of nature play a larger part in Scripture than do trees. Over 300 times in the Bible, God speaks of trees or the product of trees or t...

It will be the moment for which all mankind has waited for on tiptoe all these years. It will be the crowning conclusion to the conflict of the ages between darkness and light. It will be the grand finale to the story of stories. Satan and his evil entourage will have been put away. Kings and princes and presidents who dared to shake their fist in the face of God will be long since forgotten. The...

We were created by God to be wholly His. We were re-created in Christ to be wholly His as well. Until and unless we daily renew that transfer of the reins of our lives to the living God, we are fools. Every day we must die to life as we know it, and live unto life in the spirit realm. Every day we must die to material possessions and live for eternal rewards. Every day we must give up our claim to...

This study is about blessings. Blessings are the things God does, the things God gives, and things God takes away that bring about the mind of Christ in the Christian.

Spiritual warfare is what this life is all about. We are engaged in battle as Satan hurls temptation after temptation in our path. What should our response be to temptation? How do we become overcomers in battle, instead of trying to justify our wrong responses? The key is the immediacy of our response. Read lesson: 1315A

The Scripture has a lot to say about when to obey. It is always the same, and it can be summarized with one word: immediately. When it comes to obedience, there’s no tomorrow. The Scripture is plain, and human experience confirms it. The longer you wait to obey the known will of God, the less likely you are to do so. We will be looking in this lesson and the next at five areas where obedience simp...

The powers that be are ordained of God. Obedience to them is often God’s most abrasive, but effective test of our character and our love for Him. If we love Him, we will obey. That obedience may well come in the test tube of responding to a cruel, unjust, or inconsiderate boss, husband, parent, or government. We must remember that the powers that be are ordained of God, and that we are where we ar...

The process of obedience involves much more than the militaristic process of finding a rule and grudgingly, if need be, complying with it. Obedience is the way we demonstrate that Christ’s character is controlling us. In this study, we are going to proceed up the first rung of the ladder of obedience. We are going to ask the question: “What does it mean to obey?” Read lesson: 1313B

Why would a person who has everything leave everything to go to a place where he is unappreciated, not accepted, and certain to be murdered? There is only one reason. Love. With that, the most influential Man in all the world walks to His death with a song in His heart because by dying, someone He loves can be saved. He knows the cost. To Him it is worth it. Read lesson: 1313A

We are eternally secure! We will never perish if we have accepted the gift of God’s Son, and entered the door of the sheepfold through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. It is not because of what we have done, but because of what Jesus has done. He has saved us. The assurance that we are eternally “in Christ” ought not to be our license to sin, but our motivation to praise. It ought not to be our tem...

This study begins by looking at one of those word pictures that Jesus drew on the sands of the human mind in order to develop an image that, when processed, would allow His hearers to actually visualize the nature of God and the purpose of His coming to Earth. It is found in John, chapter ten. It was especially vivid to His hearers, the Jews, because the image He was drawing was so familiar to the...

We live in a world where there are only two kinds of people. The first are those that are sinners and know it, and have accepted Christ’s death on the Cross as penalty for their sins. The second are also those who are sinners, but will not admit it, or they will not admit there is only one way to salvation. Which of these two categories will we be in? Read lesson: 1311B

This study is a story that touches the very fiber of God’s mercy, yet it deals with such a delicate issue, that the early church avoided reading it for fear it would be misinterpreted. It deals with the woman caught in adultery. How should we deal with those caught up in sin? Jesus in His love and mercy show us how. Read lesson: 1311A

“My time has not yet come, My children, My time has not yet come.” Rest assured that when it does, nothing will be able to thwart or stop or even slow down the hand of God’s eternal timepiece. With fierce determination, it will move until the moment when the alarm sounds as God’s power sweeps into your life. But until His time has come, nothing you do will hurry His precious hand. Why? Because He...

The Pharisees logical question was “who taught this guy?” How could a simple carpenter who had never been to their rabbinical school have an understanding of the Scriptures that literally tore away the shield of religiosity from their hearts as they listened, and confronted them with the Living God? Where did He get His learning? Where indeed. The answer is in this study. Read lesson: 1310A

Does this offend you? I wonder how many times He has wanted to ask that of us? We claim to want the truth at any cost. But when we hear it, so often the flesh cannot tolerate the unbelievable nature of what we have heard. God’s precepts go so against the grain of the world’s concepts that we recoil in disbelief or try to pretend we didn’t hear it. In our spirits, if not with our lips, we can be he...