2 Peter 3:5-11 The Importance of knowing G-d

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 3 knowing this first of … Read more

2 Peter 1:1-4 The gifts that G-d gives

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to … Read more

Romans 1:28-2:5

In Romans 1:28-32 we see the third and last stage of divine abandonment. This comes as a  result of ungodliness against others. When men choose to reject the knowledge and ways by the way they live God gives them up to a reprobate mind. When this happens God begins to remove His protection from them. … Read more

Colossians 3:1-19

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who … Read more

Romans 1:21-27

Romans 1:21-23, Paul now itemizes the reason for His judgment. First, man willfully ignores God (Romans 1:21a).  Men can clearly know God both within themselves and outside of themselves: in creation and nature, in the earth and outer space. They can know that God gives them life and cares and provides for them, and that … Read more

Romans 1:7

Romans 1:7 says believers are called to be “saints” – We discussed this briefly last week but since we are so called it would help us to know more of this calling of sainthood.  The Greek work that this word is derived from is the work hagios. Its Hebrew equivalent is kadosh. Its basic meaning is to be … Read more

Colossians 3:22-25

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the … Read more

Romans 1:18-20

Romans 1:18 teaches us that the wrath of God is quite real.  The word wrath means God’s holy aversion to all that is evil.  It is not something sudden but a consistent state of God’s attitude toward unrighteousness.  God is angry with two classes of men the ungodly and the unrighteous. The ungodly are people who … Read more

Colossians 3:12-17

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in … Read more

Colossians 2:1-8

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of … Read more