The Gospel

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the GOSPEL which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

[Paul, writing to Christians @ Corinth, 1 Cor. 15:1-4]

Friday, September 21, 2012

John 3:16

Title:  Eternal life

This assurance overshadows all other promises and rightly so because for this very reason the Lord Jesus came to world, linking it directly to his life, death, and resurrection.

The gospel doesn’t guarantee blessed health or healing or economic prosperity, but it does assure an ageless eternity in the service of and in fellowship with God, when there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain.

In this life death must have its way, diseases and hardships must run their due course because we live in a cursed world and we are just reaping what our sins deserve.

Eternal life was never a safeguard against the ills of life on earth, although incorporated in it are an imperishable body and an unimaginable inheritance, but all looking forward to the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesus at the end of the age.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Ezekiel 38:11

Title:  Without walls

A city/nation with a high security of military protection is utterly defenseless unless God himself is the wall of fire around it and its glory within.

To deny the absolute rule of God in the family, in government, in education, in accordance to the Bible, is to reject his protection also from natural calamities and from hordes of invading armies.

Arrogant governments rely on what they see rather than on the power of God’s Spirit which is invisible but is mighty to the destruction of strongholds, whether spiritual or physical.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

1 Peter 3:17

Title:  To suffer for being good

If we knew we were suffering for being good, would that stop us from doing what is upright and proper and moral in the sight of God and of man?

Of course not!  Never!

Quite the opposite, we must welcome suffering if it is God’s will because it identifies us with our Savior and it has a purifying and maturing effect on the Christian, and so he yearns nothing more in this life and deems himself lacking nothing but to dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Mark 10:43


Title:  Whoever wants to become great

We must aim to be exceedingly great in the service of and obedience to God by having a servant attitude even among the lowliest part of the body of the Lord Jesus, but obscurity when it comes to prominence or fame.

If we are determined to bring the gospel, the word of truth, to the unbelieving world and to fruition among the brethren, even at the risk of losing all, including our very lives, we shall attain to a most subservient ministry and yet inherit the fullness of eminence in the age to come, eternal life.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Mark 4:39

Title:  Quiet!  Be still!

The Lord Jesus might as well have rebuked the disciples for their unfounded fear in the middle of the furious squall they dreaded was threatening their lives.

Did they really think their Master would allow them to perish, he who could heal all manner of diseases, cast out evil spirits, even raise the dead?

Many times it is the same way with us whenever it escapes our thoughts who is was that promised, “he would never leave nor forsake us”.

The Lord is in us, be still; he is with us in all the storms of life, to see us through victorious whether we live of die.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Romans 8:26


Title:  The Spirit

The Holy Spirit compels and helps us to pray, much in the same way atmospheric pressure forces us to breathe.

We have to admit that prayer is a weak spot in the Christian’s walk, and much is to be desired in this area where there is so much room to grow.  This must not be so.  In our weakness we have to ask God for strength to be sensitive to the call to prayer, so our petitions would produce results in accordance to his will.

Know that the Spirit of God in us is that prayer that awaits utterance in the soul, in groaning that cannot be spoken by the lips or expressed in human language.