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Each week a new verse-by-verse Bible study podcast given in expository style. Join us and see the Bible come alive as we study the truths that God‘s Word has for us.
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Friday Nov 07, 2014
Friday Nov 07, 2014
We live in a society where everything changes, where nothing is permanent. A majority of people in our state can define marriage as being between one man and one woman, and yet a set of activist judges, with no regard for the constitution of the U.S., can overrule the will of the people.
We can live in this nation for hundreds of years with clearly defined morals about what is right and wrong based on the absolute truths established by God, and then suddenly anything that God says must be disregarded. Where man is involved, everything changes, nothing is secure.
So it is easy to understand why people have a hard time accepting God’s gift of salvation as permanent. Surely there must be things that we can do to take that salvation away, or perhaps God will change His mind as He looks at the depravity of man in our current world.
This is the way man acts, right? Our love towards others is generally dictated by how that other person treats us. It is easy to love someone who loves us back. It is much harder to love someone who intentionally harms us. So this is man’s concept of love, do unto others as they have done unto me.
However, God’s concept of love is very different from ours. In our lesson today, Paul will tell us that God loves even the ungodly. He loves us even if we have rejected Him. He loves us even if we have done things that He has established as evil and wrong. God loves us in spite of what we do, say, or even if we do not love Him back. Paul will go on to say that it is because God’s love for us does not change that our salvation, once accepted, is unchangeable. Once we have become a reborn, sanctified, justified, and adopted child of God, we cannot be unborn, nor can our adoption to the family of God be revoked. Once we are in the hand of our Lord, nothing can remove us. Our salvation is secure, because God’s love for us is secure.
It is the love of God that guarantees our eternal security. That same love that planned our redemption at the foundation of the universe, that sent His own beloved Son to die on a cross, will be the same love that will fling wide open the gates of glory to welcome us home.
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
We live in a world where the predominant thought in a person’s mind when confronted with a decision is What’s in it for me? Quite naturally, if they are going to buy something, they want to know the benefits of owning that item. For instance, owning a home provides shelter and security, stability in that your lease won’t run out and you have to move. The down side is ownership. Anything that goes wrong you own the problem.
This is the same way that most people approach a decision about accepting Jesus as their Savior. They think they know all of the benefits and downsides, but do they really?
They look at what most people think of when they consider the benefits of knowing God, which is eternal life in heaven, and then they look at the perceived downside of having to change their lifestyles.
They ask themselves, is a life in an eternity that they cannot see right now, worth giving up whatever they are doing today that they know is not right under the rules of God. They are asking what is in this for me right now, not later, but right now?
This is the problem that we face as we try to explain the benefits of knowing God. They see the persecution of Christians in today’s society, so it can easily appear as if all of the benefits are out in some unknown future. So the task that we face as Christians is what can we tell them about the benefits of knowing God right now, in our lives today?
Listen to this podcast as we learn that it is because we know Christ as our Savior that we have peace with God, we have access to the constant presence of God, we have the patience and endurance to face trials and tribulations in our lives through the power of God, and most of all we have hope.
Do you have hope in your life today? For the believer, God is our hope, our hope is in God. That is the benefit of knowing God.
Wednesday Jul 23, 2014
Wednesday Jul 23, 2014
As a believer, the fact that there is a God, that He is my Creator, and that He alone determines the absolute truths about right and wrong, are so clear and so obvious to me that I have a hard time understanding how someone could not see the same thing. Forget about all of the theology, the religious ordinances, I am just talking about the fact that God exists and that I have an obligation to recognize that.
The simple fact that we exist screams out to me that there is a Creator. To believe otherwise requires so much faith in the feeble knowledge of man that it becomes a religion of its own. It is a religion born out of the desire to feel good about living a life that you know is against the will of God. There can be no other reason for rejecting what is so obvious. It certainly is not based on objective science.
So how did man fall so far from worshiping God and what are the consequences of that rejection? That is the topic of our lesson today.
Saturday Jul 19, 2014
Saturday Jul 19, 2014
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
I don’t know how anyone could look at the rings of Saturn, or the moons of Jupiter, and not feel in awe of the power of God to create these things for us. The idea that all of these stars, all of these individual galaxies, black holes, quasars, and the sheer unfathomable distances of space, could be in existence just by happenstance, is the epitome of man’s ideological arrogance.
It takes an incredible amount of assumptions based on theories that are derived from the miniscule amount of knowledge that man has about the universe and how it works for us to deny the existence of an all powerful Creator. Yet, man makes these assumptions, calls them facts, and then proudly proclaims that there is no God.
Romans 1:20 declares For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Listen to this podcast to learn how God continuously reveals Himself to man, and how man has intentionally, with forethought and deliberate effort, walked away from that revelation and began to worship pagan idols and his own greatness.
We will discuss that man is lost in sin, that he needs a Savior, and that God has revealed Himself to man so that there can be no excuse for man to turn away from God.
Monday Jan 20, 2014
Monday Jan 20, 2014
What are the events that have made a dramatic change in the direction of your life?
The loss of a loved one? A new job? Becoming married? Becoming a parent?
All of these things are significant agents of change in our lives, but there is one other thing that can have the greatest impact on our lives, and that is a personal, soul cleansing, spirit regenerating, relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and His Word that we call the Bible.
Listen to this podcast to learn how God’s Word changes us.
The Bible is the tool that God has provided for believers to understand the mind of God. It teaches us how to live our lives. It gives us the answers to almost all of our questions about the important things in our lives.
Where do we come from. Where are we going, both in the short term, and for eternity.
How we are to treat others. How we are to worship God. It gives us the absolute truths about right and wrong. It gives us the penalties of doing wrong, and the rewards for doing what God wants.
The Word of God explains how much God loves you and what God has done for you.
Monday Jan 13, 2014
Monday Jan 13, 2014
Have you ever considered how important it is that God does not change in any way? This truth is the foundation our faith is based on.
God’s love does not change.
God’s holiness does not change.
God’s judgment against sin does not change.
God’s promises found in His Word do not change.
God’s plan for eternity will not change. The question is where are you going to spend it? With the almighty, unchangeable God, or separated forever from Him in the fires of Hell.
God will never entice you to do evil. He does not say that something is sin in the Old Testament and then say that it is not a sin in the New Testament.
God does not change with the social values of man. The Bible does not change to suit the changing morals and ethics of the world.
What was sin when the world was created, was sin when Abraham was called to the Promised Land.
What was sin in Noah’s day before the flood, was sin on the day the Babylonians took the Jews away into captivity.
What was sin in the days that Jesus walked on the earth, is sin today before He returns to gather His church and establish His Kingdom.
Rejecting God to worship the things of this earth, has always been a sin, and it still is. Listen to this podcast to learn the value of God’s sureness.