¨Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a traveling merchant seeking fine pearls.¨ Matthew 13:45 (Reference Bible) Matthew 44 to 46 tells us the words Jesus used to describe a peculiar point about the treasures found in the Spiritual Realm. Jesus uses the analogies of a merchant seeking fine pearls and a man discovering... Continue Reading →
Parables
All this Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and spoke nothing to them without parable, Matthew 13:34 (Byington) Matthew 13 is full of parables Jesus used to instruct the people or us if you will, into the wealth and knowledge of how things are in the spiritual realm. Man, since the fall has been... Continue Reading →
The Choice
A lot is said these days about making a choice. Christianity is being thought of as just that. We are asked if we choose to make Jesus our Savior. Then, after we have agreed that we are sufficiently convinced in our minds and hearts that Jesus is the Son of God, the next step is... Continue Reading →
Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand!
Jesus began His ministry with the cry, ¨Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven Has drawn near¨. (See Matthew 4:17) Have you ever stopped to examine this short message that needed One to come from the Land of the Gods to proclaim it to us? We can consider two important concepts wrapped in this powerful... Continue Reading →
Eternal Life???
The scene described in John 17:1-5 is one of the most beautiful and profound of all the accounts of the history of mankind. Jesus Christ, the very son of God directs Himself towards His Father as was His custom before His disciples. While His words went up towards God their purpose was to benefit and... Continue Reading →
John 11:25-26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth on me, though he die, yet he shall live, and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?
What a power packed text! There is enough good hearty instruction here to set souls free and deliver them again into the hand of the One to whom we belong. Long I have felt the importance and seen the beauty of this text. But today I stopped while reading over it. So many of the... Continue Reading →
John 11:4 ¨This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God is glorified thereby. (American Standard Version)
True to the usual way of Jesus, when He spoke, the words addressed a common situation. As we see continually throughout the Bible, men and women look with earthly eyes at the passing scenes and take always the physical and the common interpretations of those moments. However Jesus was constantly trying to tell us and... Continue Reading →
Then He Looked at Me
Then that Immense Presence who is the Living God, looked right at me! There was God. He was surrounded by His infinitude and almighty power. He began creating universes, solar systems, stars and planets. Then He began to build this amazing plan of our existence. He created an environment for us of such design that... Continue Reading →
