The Simple Gospel Church

We all have a choice. When the Lord created man, He gave him free will. This means that everyone has the choice to do God’s will or not. Pharaoh, Esua, and even Judas had a choice. They chose and suffered the consequences of this. Achan also chose, and he is who we will be talking about in this Bible Study.

God desires that we worship Him in truth and Spirit, and has given us all that we need for His true worship. In this exposition, we learn about what it means to truly worship God and biblical steps to worshipping Him as He wills.

God had promised the Israelites an inheritance and had chosen Joshua to lead His children into this Promised Land. Through the events that occurred before and during the crossing of the Jordan, we take a look at temes such as obedience, faith, sanctification, leadership and the immutable nature of God.

For any believer to receive God's power to excel, certain conditions must be met. Using David as the example, the teacher shows us some requirements that believers must have in order to receive God's anointing to excel, and the effects of being bestowed His anointing as we live everyday.

Rahab is known as one of the heroes of faith. What were her traits, and what can we learn from her story? Listen to this teaching to find out.

What does it mean to love Jesus in Death? In this teaching, we explore what that entails and why at every junction in our lives, we have to lose something for Jesus' sake.

Living a Christian life is not easy, but it is highly rewarding. To truly love Jesus, we cannot ignore the importance of sacrificing for Him. However, before we can truly make sacrifices and reap the rewards, we must first follow Him.

Strength can be defined as the state of being physically strong and capable of withstanding stress or pressure. Meanwhile, courage is the ability to undertake something fearful. In this context, it would seem that Strength and Courage are possessed by humans in some capacity or the other. However, when it comes to the things of God, we must be imbued with another type of Strength and another type...

Rev. Adesola tells us that we cannot be obedient without constant interaction with the Word of God. The world always tries to draw us back hence the dependence on the Word of God. Your disobedience has consequences for you and your descendants. Our reward is directly proportional to our obedience and in obedience to Christ, Jesus commanded us to love God and love our neighbours as we love ourselve...

The casting of lots was a common means of decision-making in ancient times. Nowadays, the idea is that casting of lots denotes luck, randomness and coincidence. However, as we will see, God is not coincidental. In fact, the idea of randomness can be attributed to satan as a random world is one without a ruler and emboldens humans to live as they please.

Pastor Billy speaks about the 2 pillars of escapism (The yearnings of the human spirit & Our relationship with rest). He delves into the fact that our hobbies can be idols because they could be addictive, and they take the place of God in our lives. He teaches us how these things are a corruption of God’s creations and how the devil tries to replicate what the spirit of man is supposed to give...

For the believer who has been adopted into God’s family, the question of will emerges – will he die to self and submit to God daily or follow his old man and walk the path of sin? Although he has the capacity to do God’s will through the Holy Ghost in him, his decision to obey God is a bone of contention and the place where the battle can be won or lost. In this lesson, we take a look at the conne...

Though the Israelites loved God with their souls and strength, they were incapable of loving Him with their hearts because they did not have the Holy Spirit. We do. However, we sometimes struggle to love Him with our minds, soul and strength. In this teaching, we take a look t the blueprint on loving God and our neighbours.

What’s the best way to live a God-purposed life (besides daily exercise, eating healthy and creating “productive habits”)? In other words, how do we fulfil destiny? Find out in this Bible study.

Though all that God created at the beginning was good and undefiled, perversion which came through sin is seen in the world today. In this teaching, our teacher explains perversion as it relates to sex, and suggests ways in which we can refuse the spirit of perversion in our lives as believers.

Perfection has been a subject of debate in Christian circles, with people in several cases, leaning toward two conclusions: It is impossible to be perfect, and only God is perfect I am only human, therefore, I am entitled to  make mistakes Just like everything else that concerns the Christian faith, God has given us the tools to be perfect. In this lesson, we take a look at the subject of per...

There are many idols and the god of money is one of them. In this lesson, we will explore who the god of money is, the dangers of serving the god of money and how abiding in good works helps with the temptation of money and materialism.

The tongue is considered one of the most powerful organs of the human body. This is mostly down to how it operates and the effects that it brings about. The tongue has caused more war and violence than the hands can ever imagine. In our Bible Study today, we find some wisdom sayings all connected by the tongue.

As believers, we cannot have hope if we are not convinced of God's intent for us, regardless of the situation. And we have to seek Him with all our hearts. In the concluding part of the "Christ, Our Hope" series, we take a look at how we can find God.

 "...Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27) What is this hope of glory? And while hope in Jesus can never fail, we can still lose it. How can the believer hold on to the hope of glory? Find out in this teaching.

Waiting is an intrinsic part of our daily lives. We wait in line to pay for our groceries. We wait for transportation.  After writing exams, we wait for the results. We wait for wounds to heal.  We wait at stop signs. In this teaching, we consider a different type of waiting: waiting on the Lord, and we’ll look at Biblical examples of people who waited, why we should wait and what we sho...

What is hope? Is it just an expectation with no basis?  And what is the purpose of hope? If we say our hope in Christ is a living hope with value, what then is this value? Find out in this teaching.

The book of Proverbs is unique within Scripture in that it is a collection of collections; that is, individual discourses and sayings were compiled into collections. In this study, we take a look at the lessons we can learn from ants, and seven (7) things God hates and what our response to those things should be.

In the previous lesson, we examined all the dimensions of resurrection for true believers. This is described by John The Revelator as the first resurrection and captures key events like the rapture, the witnesses and the martyrs. In this lesson, we will explore the final phase of resurrection as well as eternal judgement.

The Christmas season coincides with the close of the year, and many of us are expecting answers from God and anticipating promises He has made to us. Unfortunately, just like the nation of Israel, we also have a tendency to miss out on what God has for us or not recognize it when it comes. Thankfully, we have examples of those who were privileged enough to witness the coming of the Saviour of the...