The Spoken Word

Trusting in God and being found blameless, even in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation that God is going to judge, can lead to God's favor and His salvation. Therefore, trust in the Lord and do good, commit your way to Him and He will see you through.

The Bible says in Matthew 24:37-39, “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the day that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be also the coming of the Son of man be.” These are the last day...

Knowing the name of something, especially the true name, gives you the ability to influence, command or control it. For example knowing the name can enable one to banish spirits and demons. Also, the name of something represents the fundamental nature of a thing and can give us deep insight into its character, history and vulnerabilities. The power to name someone allows us to prophecy their desti...

Sin came into the world by one man and death came through sin. The soul that sin dies because the wage of sin is death. What was due us (humanity) was death, but God is His mercy didn’t discard us, instead He extends mercy to us and grace. In faithfulness to His compassionate nature, He preserved humanity so that He could get out of us what He originally purposed for us. By walking close to God an...

Sin came into the world by one man, Adam, it progressed through his generations, wreaking havoc, leading to unacceptable worship of God, anger, jealousy and murder. The result being alienation from God, the ground and a life of wandering. Still, God in His mercy demonstrates lovingkindness and grace toward man and seeks to restore him to His original intentions for him.

The Bible tells us to guard our hearts with all diligence because out of it flows the issues of life. The way a man thinks (in his heart) reveals who and what the man actually is, it’s not the things that go into his mouth that defiles but what comes out of the heart. Man’s heart, apart from the influence of the Divine, is desperately wicked, depraved, that’s why God gives us a new heart. That dep...

Where do wars and fighting come from among us? James says they come desires for pleasure that war in our own members. He says that we lust and do not have, we murder and covet and cannot obtain. We become jealous and envious of what others have, are doing, and their success. The Bible says that a man cannot lawfully or legally take anything to himself as his own except that which is given him by G...

The wages of sin is death, it separates us from God, Who is the source of life. It denies us the privilege of coming into the presence of God and the life of God, but God in His mercy, His great love for us, His wisdom and grace has made provision to remedy the sin problem. We can gain access into His presence, the throne room to obtain mercy and grace to help, through the new and living way, whic...

Rather than flee the tempter Eve has a full conversation with him leading to her deception. She then offers Adam that which God had forbidden to them, and He takes it willfully disobeying God and bringing sin into the world and with sin comes death. God visits them and deals with them, not according to their sin but according to His love, mercy, and grace; but even still He has to be just.

Adam’s willful disobedience of God’s commandment marks the turning point in the creation story. At this point man’s relationship with God will lead to his expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the entrance of sin in the world and death. Just as the serpent craftily deceived Eve to start this process he is still deceiving the world, the whole world was altered and so was humanity’s place in it, but Go...

God puts Adam in a place of ample provision, sets borders and boundaries for him, gives him stewardship over it and provides one like him that corresponds to him to surround him with aid and assistance.

On the 7th day God finished His work of creating, He blessed the 7th day and sanctified it, setting it apart and setting the precedence of the Sabbath. This rest for the Christian is a time to cease from self-effort and trust in the finished work of Jesus for salvation and spiritual fulfillment.

Join us as we conclude our journey through chapter one of Genesis and the six days of creation where we discover God’s powerful performance of shaping the universe, creating and establishing Himself as the ultimate Creator, sovereign over all of creation, its diverse life forms, time, light and darkness and His creation of the crowning of all creation mankind, who His is to give dominion over all...

God is the One Who created all things, He created everything with "Let there be," with the exception of the crown jewel of His creation, man. He formed man from the "dust of the earth." Everything He created He did it purposefully, intentionally and specific to the need of man. Join us in today's episode of "The Spoken Word," as we explore the 8 days in creation.

The Spoken Word January 1, 2025

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There were two trees in the garden of Eden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. Adam forfeited the tree of life by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but because of God’s great mercy He promised to redeem us from Adam’s error. God has given man words and visions of prophecy to hope in. In Adam we all die, but in Jesus Christ we have life and victory....

As believers we are called to and given the discernment to distinguish between heavenly values and the allures of this world. God has set before us life and death, blessing and cursing and He commands us to choose life, but will we. We are called to actively separate ourselves from the world system that promotes sin and rebellion against God and we are warned of the judgements that results if we d...

The Bible is Christocentric, its enter focus is Jesus. The OT speaks of a Savior is coming, it glorifies Jesus in prophecy. The NT speaks of a Savior that has come; the Gospels give us His history on the earth. The Acts shows His active in the Church through the Holy Spirit. The epistles expand on what we are shown in Acts and helps us know its relevance. The Revelation dramatizes graphically Chri...

We, as believers, should live and conduct ourselves in a manner that proclaim the praises of God, influence unbelievers to glorify God, silence foolish people by our good works, win spouses to Christ, shame ungodly critics, and confuse our former associates. Are we or are we succumbing to the influence of the world? Peter tells us how our faith in Christ should be reflective of our hope and what i...

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Sound and Christ like leadership in the church fosters sound doctrine which leads to sound living and abundant life. Good biblical teaching commands us to live submitted, loving and forgiving lives as we are being reconciled to God and He reconciles us to each other.

We are called to be stewards; our stewardship is over God’s creation and His revealed mysteries. It is required of stewards to be found faithful, we must faithful over natural things, small things and another man’s things, then God will entrust things of our own to us. Can you be trusted? Paul teaches us what the requirements are and how we can become qualified and made ready. Join us as we look i...

Paul never had opportunity to visit Colossae, but His impact upon the tri-city area was tremendous. There are places we may never be able to reach, but our prayers, intercessions, and giving thanks, our influence in the heavenlies can make a world of difference. Don’t withhold from any the good you can do because you never know the impact it can make but we do know the impact we were brought into...

The Bible admonishes us to put on Christ and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. What does that mean and how do we do that? We do it by living a new life in Christ by adopting His character and virtues, rather than living by the dictates of our sinful desires, we let the same mind that was in Christ be in us.