Posts from September 2025

There are several words used to describe our relationship to God and all that happened the day we were saved. Words like salvation, redemption, forgiveness, sanctification, and perhaps others which the Bible uses to indicate all that changed on that day. Each of these emphasize what transpired at the time when we were washed in His blood. Another word that is used is atonement, and it emphasizes that which those other words do not express. As you will see in…

There are words we use which in a sense describe the title of these thoughts. They are simple words we all understand, and the feeling we have as we use them often describes individuals who have deceived us and sometimes hurt us in the past. No one has any joy dealing with one who is phony, one who is a fake, one who is a fraud, one who scams. The Greeks had a word to describe this kind of individual,…

When you first read the words of Paul in Galatians 3:11 you may not immediately understand the impact of what He said. “But that no one is justified by the law is evident…” This truth forces you to deal with how men were saved during the times of the Old Testament if no one is justified by the law. How could anyone be saved from Adam to the coming of Jesus? When God revealed His covenant at Mount Sinai, He…

God could have provided salvation to mankind in any way that He chose. As all of us have separated ourselves from the Lord through sin, all of us are dying— dying to drink of the water of life. Thus, when the water of life is offered to our thirsty, drought-stricken souls, who are we to reject it? God could have provided salvation unconditionally and not required that man do anything to obtain it, but He didn’t. God chose to provide…