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  • The Antichrist and Mark of the Beast

    The Antichrist and Mark of the Beast

    In John’s third interlude, he has described a great war between Satan and everything godly. Satan tried to devour Christ and failed. Then, he tried to devour national Israel and failed. Now, he turns to persecute the church. He persecutes the church by building blasphemous nations of his own and influencing people to persecute people…

  • A Kingdom of Power, Not Words

    A Kingdom of Power, Not Words

    Paul has been instructing the congregation about how it should view him and its pastors and how the pastors (elders) of the local church should view the congregation. The pericope in view, here, is transitional. Paul is transitioning from the place of the pastor to the immorality of the local church. Before he begins addressing…

  • The Foolishness of Our Faith

    The Foolishness of Our Faith

    Paul is writing to the believers at Corinth to encourage unity through maturity in the faith (v. 10). He is writing with unity as his goal because there are divisions in the church (v. 11-17). Jesus made Paul an apostle and sent him to preach the Gospel, not in cleverness of speech so that the…

  • The Christian’s Labor

    The Christian’s Labor

    Last week, we saw the Christian’s reward. God promises to return many times what the Christian gives up for Christ’s name’s sake and give the Christian eternal life. Jesus follows His teaching about rewards with a parable—not about people giving anything up, but about laborers in a vineyard seeking to earn wages. Matthew 20:1-16 For…

  • The Roman Eagle Over Jerusalem

    The Roman Eagle Over Jerusalem

    The trumpets represent God’s judgment according to His Law, the Torah. The nations will either be justified or justice will be carried out against them. With each symbolic trumpet blast, the wrath of God is unleashed against the nations. The work is perpetual, and will be finally revealed at the second-coming of Christ. The trumpets…

  • Who Are the 144,000 in Revelation?

    Who Are the 144,000 in Revelation?

    Last week, we started the first interlude in John’s second vision. In verses 1-3, we saw that God does not pour out His wrath until all of His chosen people are sealed, which happens at the moment of individual conversion to Christ as a result of His resurrection. God must know who will be sealed,…

  • Sound Doctrine Without Love

    Sound Doctrine Without Love

    There are two sorts of church groups in our day. One expends love to stand for sound doctrine. The other expends sound doctrine stand for love. In John’s Revelation, he addresses both types of churches. First, he addresses the church that defends sound doctrine at the expense of love. Is it important to stand for…

  • Christ Doesn’t Exist For Us, We Exist For Him

    Christ Doesn’t Exist For Us, We Exist For Him

    I attended a youth leadership camp in Oklahoma after I knew God was calling me into ministry. The man preaching for the group I was in wore a jersey, carried a handheld mic, and charismatically delivered a message each day. When he finished, the whole group applauded him. Since that was my exposure to preaching,…

  • Christ’s Fruitless and Fruitful Word

    Christ’s Fruitless and Fruitful Word

    Why do people reject such a gracious Gospel? Why do people claim to be Christians but add works to grace as the basis for salvation? Why do self-proclaimed Christians hear God’s word and explain it away saying, “The Bible doesn’t really mean that”?  In the previous passage, Jesus told a parable and left the parable…

  • To Him Who Has, More Will Be Given

    To Him Who Has, More Will Be Given

    Did you know that there are stories in the Bible that did not really happen? Christianity’s critics accuse Christians of believing stories that are not literal. They accuse the Bible of being false and unreliable because it contains stories that are not literal or historically accurate. Here, a clarification needs to be made about the…