I promise this study will not be as intense as the sermon that I gave to you. Actually I prefer in this kind of setting to just talk, and it will not be so much preaching. But the subject is important. It is actually an outgrowth of the …
Are there varying degrees of sin? Is it worse to commit adultery than steal? Or to murder than lie? Or to commit idolatry than break the Sabbath? Does God make distinctions between different types of sin? Romans 6:23 tells us plainly …
At a previous church of God fellowship, while standing around after services, eating cookies, and drinking coffee, I told a joke. One man listening to my joke later cautioned me that we should not tell jokes "because they are not the …

(1) Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, ahaving the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. (2) He laid hold of athe dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; (3) and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and aset a seal on him, bso that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
Identifying Satan as the fulfillment of the azazel goat (often translated as "scapegoat") in Leviticus 16 originates with extra-biblical sources, overlooks Scripture's consistent statements about the responsibility for sin, …
As part of His message in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus encourages His disciples to understand the relationship between them and God the Father as an intimate, familial one. He begins the passage by saying in Matthew 7:7: "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." The translators of The Amplified Bible correctly understand the intent of Christ's comments in Matthew 7:7. Like a son beseeching his father, we are to be persistent, to keep on: "Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [r
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