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Send us Fan Mail COMMENTARY Titus (KJV 1900) The Epistle of Paul to Titus 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; 3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committe...

Send us Fan Mail COMMENTARY Titus (KJV 1900) The Epistle of Paul to Titus 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; 3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committe...

Send us Fan Mail COMMENTARY Titus (KJV 1900) April 30, 2021 The Epistle of Paul to Titus 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; 3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, wh...

Send us Fan Mail COMMENTARY Titus (KJV 1900) April 21, 2021 The Epistle of Paul to Titus 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; 3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, wh...

Send us Fan Mail THE BIBLE ON CANCEL CULTURE  Romans 3:19–20 (KJV 1900) 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. There is one treatise that transcends them all in terms of a set of laws designed for the governance of man and it is found in the word of God. Exodus 20...

Send us Fan Mail “NAKED”-----TO LET THE REINS  LOOSE TO ANYONE (NAMELY GOD). TO LET GO UNBRIDLED. LAWLESS (WITHOUT GOD’S LAW) AND UNBRIDLED (UNBRIDLED BY GOD) Genesis 2:25 (KJV 1900) 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Genesis 3:7 (KJV 1900) 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together, and mad...

Send us Fan Mail CHOKING IN THE SHALLOW WATER 1 Corinthians 2:9–10 (KJV 1900) 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, t he deep things of God . The Spirit is needed to go deep and goin...

Send us Fan Mail John 5:23–25 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you,...

Send us Fan Mail When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, t...

Send us Fan Mail WORDLY PROGRESS The book of Ecclesiastes strikes a chord in modern people who are studying the meaning of life. All things “under the sun,” lead to meaninglessness and despair, says the Teacher, if you live a life without God. 1 Ecclesiastes contains reflections of an old man, the “Preacher,” as he considered the question of meaning in life. He looked back and saw the futility (“v...

Send us Fan Mail 666: MARK OF THE BEAST Revelation 13:15–18 (KJV 1900) 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads...

Send us Fan Mail Exodus 3:13–14 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Jesus, Joshua...

Send us Fan Mail ON GOING TO CHURCH Hebrews 10:22–25 (KJV 1900) 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 2...

Send us Fan Mail Isaiah 64:6 (KJV 1900) 6 But we are all as an unclean thing , And all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; And we all do fade as a leaf; And our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Romans 3:9–18 (NIV) No One Is Righteous 9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under...

Send us Fan Mail THE TRUTH ABOUT LIVING YOUR “TRUTH” Matthew 4:3–4 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. John 17:13–21   17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou h...

Send us Fan Mail SPIRITUAL SPASMS Definition of a spasm: 1-any sudden, brief spell of great energy, activity, feeling, etc. Hebrews 6:4–6 (NIV) 4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age 6 and who have fallen away, to be brought...

Send us Fan Mail ENTITLEMENTS & THE ENTITLED “You know the reason why you have all of your expensive things? It’s because the the person who had it before you couldn’t take it with him! 1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV 1900) 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil : which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Acts 4:32–37 (NIV)...

Send us Fan Mail THE LORD’S DOG Part VI: Satan’s End Satan is often the subject of many debates, discussions and the source of widespread confusion and chaos on the theological landscape. His nature and operations are grossly misunderstood and his threatenings, trivialized. In our times he has become a caricature of his biblical depiction Revelation 20:2 (KJV 1900) 2 And he laid hold on the dragon...

Send us Fan Mail Part V: Satan Present Workings  Revelation 20:1–3 The Thousand Years20 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiv...

Send us Fan Mail DID JESUS EVER DESCEND INTO HELL? 1 Peter 3:18–20 (KJV 1900) 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days...

Send us Fan Mail Part IV: Satan’s Defeat Revelation 20:1–3 (NIV) The Thousand Years 20 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceivi...

Send us Fan Mail Genesis 3:1–15 (NIV) Names of Satan: Apollyon, Serpent, Dragon, Devil = Adversary The Fall 3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”  2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not...

Send us Fan Mail John 8:42–44 (KJV 1900) 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning , and abode not in...

Send us Fan Mail Job 1:1–2:10 (NIV) Prologue 1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the pe...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians 5 (KJV 1900) 5 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have...