Situations are necessary to show us that Jesus Christ is beautiful and to reveal our personal experience with Him through truth. We need to experience a variety of circumstances in order to grow in grace. God needs us in the situation so He can take over and produce life in...

The Word of God is everything to a Christian. It is spirit and life (2), it cleanses (3), heals (4), and causes us to be settled with Christ (5). There are no gray areas in it. Though it contains all knowledge, its message is portrayed in great simplicity. So simple...

It is very comforting to know that, although we are in a worthless condition, God’s love blots out our sin. “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow” (Isaiah 1:18). It is not possible to function in a daily walk of victory with Christ without...

What is the grace that is to be brought to us when Jesus appears? It is that we will appear with Him in glory (2), and will be glorified (3), while He is admired in us by all (4). We can see clearly that hope is never a maybe prospect...

Every born again believer has a chance to go through progressive sanctification. Though limited to time and space, the Christian has an opportunity to glorify Christ in his body (2). This is a stage between the initial act of faith and the believer’s death or translation (3), (4). Though we...

True wisdom carries out what it believes. It starts as an attitude, and then is shown in action just as love is. Wisdom introduces Calvary’s love. “It is because of Him that you are in Jesus Christ, who has become for us wisdom from God” (I Corinthians 1:30a, NIV). Because...

The Bible says, “Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others” (I Corinthians 10:24, NIV). This type of love in our society has been lost. People choose to gain power, influence people, and fulfill selfish needs. The world constantly teaches this concept, especially through television, which portrays...

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29). Our natural disposition is incapable of producing anything but corrupt communication; however, the believer who saturates himself in grace-orientation and grace-thinking...

God cannot deny Himself, but remains faithful “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself” (II Timothy 2:13). Did Abraham’s unbelief make the Word of God of none effect? “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That...

In the light of God’s holiness, as revealed by his Word, sin’s ugliness is manifested. But without the objective conviction of truth, sin is rationalized away.The resulting guilt subconsciously causes an aversion to the light. Phobias, obsessions, bondages, and syndromes are the inevitable consequences of an unpurged conscience. The subjective...