The world is filled with unbelievers who will go to hell when they die. But sadly, even within our churches, there are some who are not truly saved. So how can we know that our salvation is real?
The world is filled with unbelievers who will go to hell when they die. But sadly, even within our churches, there are some who are not truly saved. So how can we know that our salvation is real?
As a father, it is not enough to tell your children the truth of God’s Word. Fathers must believe this truth for themselves and diligently live it out in practical obedience to God’s Word.
Yes, God uses suffering to sanctify us. Christians are even commanded to be thankful in all circumstances, including suffering. However, there is a difference between thanking God for suffering and asking God for suffering. We are never to petition God for pain
False teaching builds a ministry with poison; the people subjected to it are DECEIVED and DESTROYED. But “watered-down” teaching seeks to build a ministry with nothing at all, neither poison nor nourishment. The people subjected to this kind of ministry are eventually STARVED.
Our God, who is Spirit, profoundly loves his physical creation. But sadly, many Christians are too “spiritual” to actually love what God loves and hate what God hates.
The fact that this circumcision was performed under Joshua, rather than Moses, points forward to the new and better circumcision of the heart that comes by grace under the administration of Jesus, and not the law under the administration of Moses.