SIN IS NOT TO CONTROL THE FOLLOWER OF JESUS! Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. —Psalm 19:13 Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. —Psalm 119:133 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. —Romans 6:14 Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies. —Psalm 141:4                Here is a prayer…

ACCEPTING OR REJECTING THE GOSPEL SEALS ONE’S ETERNAL DESTINY! The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. —II Thessalonians 2:9-10 To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. —II Thessalonians 2:14             God has called us who follow Jesus to share the gospel, the good news with others (Acts 1:8) — the good news “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he…

I LOVE THE LORD! I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. —Psalm 18:1-2 This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God? —Psalm 18:30-31             Yes, I love You Lord.  You are my strength.  I am frail without You.  You are my constant, my Rock.  You are my safety, my fortress.  You…

OUR LORD JESUS WILL COME! For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. —I Thessalonians 4:16-18             Oh, glorious day!  This will happen sometime in the future and maybe that time is not far off as we look at what is happening in…

BEWARE OF SATAN’S SCHEMES! For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan blocked our way. —I Thessalonians 2:18             I wonder, are we aware of Satan’s schemes?  Paul was— “Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might…

PUT AWAY THE OLD, PUT ON THE NEW! Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. —Colossians 3:5-10  1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no…

DELIVERED, REDEEMED, FORGIVEN AND NOW LEARN FROM HIM! He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. —Colossians 1:13  Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. —Colossians 2:2-3             When you called on Jesus to save you, you were rescued “from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.”  Or, as Paul says in Acts 26:18— “from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among…

FREEDOM WITHOUT FAITH ENDS IN FAILURE President John Adams put it this way— “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” There is no doubt that the founding fathers of this nation were influenced by our Lord Jesus Christ.  The Declaration of Independence starts off with— “WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a…

ONE DAY—- WE WILL HAVE A GLORIOUS BODY LIKE JESUS HAS! But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. —Philippians 3:20-21 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. —Philippians 4:8             Are we living like we are a citizen of heaven?  That is what we are who have…

WORK THE WORK HE DESIRES US TO WORK! And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. —Philippians 1:6 …for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. —Philippians 2:13                God gave us the ability to know who Jesus is (II Corinthians 4:6) and He drew us to Jesus (John 6:44) so we could call on Jesus and be saved (Romans 10:13).  So it is that God begins a good work in all those who have faith in Jesus, following Him.  He not…