The Christian Faith Podcast

The book of Exodus begins with God’s people in slavery in Egypt, but it ends with the glory of God appearing among His people in the tabernacle in the wilderness; what a wonderful picture is this! It shows us that the purpose of Christ’s redemptive work is not merely to save us from our sin, but even more, to deliver us from the world, today’s “Egypt” (Acts 2:40, Gal. 1:4), so God can gain His kin...

And it came to be in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in the prayer of God. — Luke 6:12, SV We need a greatly uplifted view of prayer in these days, as we see the poor condition of the church and the desperate situation of this country as a whole. To pray “the prayer of God” means that we do not simply ask God for so many things, or to help us with...

In his letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul tells us: Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. — Romans 10:13; cf. Acts 2:21 In the Gospel of Matthew, however, the Lord Himself says: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of My Father who is in the heavens.” — Matthew 7:21 Yet, the Lord here is not contradi...

Since its very beginning, America has always been a refuge for God’s persecuted people. Today, however, with lawlessness so much on the rise in this country, it may seem that its days of serving as such place may be coming to an end. However, there is a verse in the Bible that gives us reason to hope that even during the Great Tribulation, America will still be a place to which God’s people may fl...

There is a key statement in Daniel 7:25 regarding the coming Antichrist: He...shall intend to change times and law. If we want to understand the times we live in, we need to understand what this means. In brief, as G.H. Pember says, the Antichrist... ...will aim at an entire reconstruction of human society, upon principles which have long been working beneath the surface in a mystery of lawlessnes...

When we look at the three different types of crowns for the believers mentioned in the New Testament, we see that they are the expression of the divine nature we received when we were born anew in Christ (John 1:12-13, 2 Pet. 1:4). They are the crown of righteousness (1 Tim. 4:8), the crown of life (James 1:12, Rev. 2:10), and the crown of glory (1 Pet. 5:4). So, in a very real sense, we should ex...

Program Description There is a key statement in Daniel 7:25 regarding the coming Antichrist: He...shall intend to change times and law. If we want to understand the times we live in, we need to understand what this means. In brief, as G.H. Pember says, the Antichrist... ...will aim at an entire reconstruction of human society, upon principles which have long been working beneath the surface in a m...

Program Description The New Testament speaks of the believers receiving crowns a total of six times. (In another two instances crowns are referred to in a mostly metaphorical way.) In each of these instances, the crown is a reward earned as a result of faithfully following and serving Christ (e.g., 2 Tim. 4:7-8). In the New Testament, crowns are never given simply as a free gift of grace. So in th...

Program Description As the believers in Christ, our eternal destiny is already secured; thank the Lord for that! But, where will we be during the 1,000 year reign of Christ on the earth, the millennium? (Rev. 20:1-10). Will that be a time of enjoyment and blessing for us? Or a time of suffering and shame? That is not yet determined; rather, it depends, not on whether we believe in Christ, but on w...

As the believers in Christ, we need to have a basic grounding in what the Bible shows us regarding the Antichrist and human government. While this is a very negative topic, it is nonetheless a part of the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27). And even the Apostle Paul made sure the young believers he was caring for in Thessalonica knew this evil ruler was coming (2 Thess. 2:5). Moreover, if we ha...

In his vision in Revelation 20, the Apostle John records how Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss for the 1,000 years of the Millennium, while at the same time the saints will be reigning over this present earth. Hallelujah! But, is this something that is actually going to happen? Or, is this chapter just speaking in a symbolic way, as some Bible teachers claim? In this edition of the Radio...

As the believers in Christ, we need to see that God wants to have a building as His eternal dwelling place. For this purpose He is transforming us all into stones for His building. This was Peter’s experience; after the Father showed him the vision of who Jesus was, and Peter confessed Him as the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Lord showed Peter a vision who he, Peter, now was: a stone for...

God created mankind to rule the earth on His behalf. Since the Fall, however, we have demonstrated over and over again that we are not capable of ruling as the Lord originally intended. Instead, as we know all too well, the world today is in a state of tremendous chaos. And this chaos will eventually culminate in the rise of the Antichrist. At the time of the end, however, the Lord will come to de...

King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the Great Image in Daniel 2, and the prophet Daniel’s interpretation of it, is a remarkable forecast of the history of human government upon the earth. It spans all of human history from that time, around 600 B.C., until the coming day when Christ will return to put an end to all other kingdoms and establish His own government upon the earth. Moreover, when we unders...

Daniel was a truly remarkable servant of the Lord. He was a prophet (Matt. 24:15), and yet, for the most part he did not prophesy. Rather, he was one who saw visions, including some of the key visions in the entire Bible, such as the vision of the Great Image, the Four Beasts, and the prophecy of the 70 Weeks. His life, unlike that of many Old Testament prophets, is not so remote or different from...

The study of Biblical prophecy will give us a firm assurance that the word of God in the Bible is fully trustworthy, and also give us a much better view of the Lord’s overall purpose on the earth today. In this program we look at the earliest prophecies in the Bible concerning the Nation of Israel, and how these prophecies have been fulfilled in Israel’s actual history until today. ===============...

Will Christ reign on this present earth for 1,000 years when He returns in glory? That is what the Bible strongly affirms (Rev. 20:1-10), and as Christians, a great part of our hope is that, if we are faithful to follow the Lord in this age, we will reign with Him in that age (Matt. 16:24-27). Unfortunately, in recent years the false teaching of Amillennialism has gained in popularity among evange...

Will Christ reign on this present earth for 1,000 years when He returns in glory? That is what the Bible strongly affirms (Rev. 20:1-10), and as Christians, a great part of our hope is that, if we are faithful to follow the Lord in this age, we will reign with Him in that age (Matt. 16:24-27). Unfortunately, in recent years the false teaching of Amillennialism has gained in popularity among evange...

Will Christ reign on this present earth for 1,000 years when He returns in glory? That is what the Bible strongly affirms (Rev. 20:1-10), and as Christians, a great part of our hope is that, if we are faithful to follow the Lord in this age, we will reign with Him in that age (Matt. 16:24-27). Unfortunately, in recent years the false teaching of Amillennialism has gained in popularity among evange...

Will Christ reign on this present earth for 1,000 years when He returns in glory? That is what the Bible strongly affirms (Rev. 20:1-10), and as Christians, a great part of our hope is that, if we are faithful to follow the Lord in this age, we will reign with Him in that age (Matt. 16:24-27). Unfortunately, in recent years the false teaching of Amillennialism has gained in popularity among evange...

We can see something of God’s eternal purpose by comparing the first two chapters of the Bible, Genesis 1-2, with the last two chapters, Revelation 21-22. This is because these are the only chapters in the Bible that show us God’s work before the curse came in as a result of the fall in Genesis 3 (Gen. 3:17) and after it has been completely removed with God’s final judgments in Revelation 20 (Rev....

Today when we preach the gospel our goal should not merely be to get people to heaven, but rather, to bring the kingdom of the heavens to the earth. It is when God has His kingdom, His ruling among men, that He can carry out His work of building up the church. In this way He will arrive at His ultimate goal, which is to have the holy city, the New Jerusalem, come down from heaven to the earth as H...

God’s desire and intention is to dwell with man on the earth for eternity (Rev.21:2-3), but He cannot yet do that because mankind has joined in Satan’s rebellion against Him. So, as the believers in Christ we should have a deep realization that when we were saved, we were called out of the fallen, rebellious world-system to follow Christ and live in the reality of the kingdom of the heavens on th...

The preaching of the gospel in the New Testament begins with the cry, “Repent for the Kingdom of the Heavens!” (Matt. 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). So, we repent and believe in Jesus not only to have our sins forgiven, but for the kingdom; that is, so God can have His kingdom, His ruling, on the earth today. To really appreciate this, however, we need to have a basic understanding of what the kingdom of the h...

We are called to follow Christ not only by the gospel of the grace (Acts 20:24), but also by the gospel of the kingdom (Matt. 24:14). The gospel of grace causes us to have faith in Jesus Christ and be saved so that we become His believers, which is indeed wonderful. However, we must not only be His believers; we must also become His disciples, His followers, for only then can the Lord have His kin...