BEWARE OF ‘CHRISTIAN’ FALSE TEACHERS – Romans 16

Pretending to serve Christ, they serve themselves alone, “belly” as used here being a reference to all of the carnal and fleshly desires.

THE BOOK OF LIFE – Hebrews 12

Regarding the subject of when the names of the saved are inscribed in the book of life, it would appear to be at the time of their entry into the kingdom of God, that is, when they confess Christ and are baptized into him.

THE ONE BODY – 1 Corinthians 12

God saves people, not by injecting righteousness into them (on the grounds of their faith and/or obedience), but by transferring them “into Christ,” identifying them “as Christ,” and making them, in fact, to be Christ.

PROHIBITIONS REGARDING WORSHIP – John 4

Part 2 in “Worship” Blog Series

WHAT IS WORSHIP? – John 4

Part 1 in “Worship” Blog Series

WE REJOICE IN HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD – Romans 5

This marvelous peace is exactly the blessing which troubled man most needs and so incessantly seeks, even if his seeking is but an unfulfilled subconscious longing after it.

THE NEW BIRTH IN CHRIST – John 3

When a person is truly baptized (and only believing, penitent, confessing persons can be TRULY baptized), as Christ commanded, God sends the Holy Spirit into his heart (the second element of the new birth); and, when viewed in connection with this divine fulfillment of the promise of the Holy Spirit, baptism is the new birth; but it is not a birth of water only, but a birth of “water and of the Spirit” as Jesus said.