Why does the world hate the true Christian so much? I guess that would depend on what person or people group you were talking to at the time. But we know that the hatred of Christians is to be expected (John 15:18-25). The truth is that everyone who desires to live a holy, separated, and dedicated life for Jesus Christ is going to face persecution (2 Timothy 3:12). This is true of every generation that has come along. What is not known by some is that the mere …
(Hebrews 13:15 NASB)…..Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.
As Christians, it is our obligation to praise God. However, do we understand what it means to praise God? Do we know what we are doing when we offer “the sacrifice of praise” from our lips? Do we think about what we are saying when we do praise our God? Praising God is an important part of the faithful Christian’s life. In the Old Testament, there are different Hebrew …
When we come before our Lord to worship Him we might be filled with any number of thoughts and emotions, things like thankfulness, gratitude, appreciation, unworthiness, excitement, etc. Now worship is defined as giving reverent honor, giving homage, to adore or to regard someone or something. But worship is more than that, at least it should be for the Christian. It is to have extreme love for someone or something. For the purpose of our devotion today let’s address singing praises to God, and in doing so having an extreme love for Him that comes through our …
(1 Corinthians 13:9)…..For we know in part and we prophesy in part. The apostle Paul, who was caught up into Heaven, given divine revelation (2 Corinthians 12:1-4) and wrote down most of the New Testament, said we only know in part. If Paul would include himself in that statement, how much more it must be true for us. One problem we have is too many people think they know more than they really do. One thing we know is that God is bigger than us, bigger in knowledge, bigger in wisdom, and He certainly knows more than …
I am confident that most of you, if asked, believe that the Bible is God’s infallible word, and that it contains the most important, and powerful words that have ever been given to man. But let me give you some statistics about the role of the Bible in American households from the Barna Research Group. It is reported that 92% of the households in America have a Bible, among those having bibles the average household has three. And less than half the people in the United States can name the first book of the Old Testament. In …
(1 Corinthians 11:22-34)…..22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you. 23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this …
(Hebrews 8:13)…..In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. The Old Covenant was an agreement between God and the children of Israel. We have the record of it in the Old Testament. The New Covenant is an agreement between God and Jesus Christ. Therefore it includes all who are united with Jesus Christ, or as the Bible says, all those who are “in Christ.” The name we give to the 27 books …
The first four verses of Hebrews is one of the most informative sentences relating to Jesus saying: “God, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself …
(2 Timothy 3:14-17)…..14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.…
(1 Corinthians 1:18-25)…..18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom …
