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As I stated in the last post, laziness can destroy a Christian's life.  Laziness will rob you of joy.  Laziness will make your heart turn cold to the things of the Lord.  So we have to guard our hearts against laziness.  We need to learn from the ant and not be lazy (Proverbs 6:6-11). I have already wrote on how to battle laziness when it comes to Bible reading and study.  Now lets turn to prayer.  We all know that w...

Laziness can destroy a Christian life.  Laziness can creep in when we least expect it and it can destroy a prayer life or an evangelistic life.  Laziness has destroyed many who claimed to love God and want to follow Him in all that they say or do.  And the sad reality is that none of us are not prone to be lazy.  It’s in our DNA to be lazy.  Some of us are better at it than others but all of us can be lazy especially wh...

Anyone who has spent time reading my posts know that I am a man who longs to be holy.  1 Peter 1:15-16 are scriptures that I have memorized and often quote to myself.  I want to be holy as God is holy.  I don't want to be a man of sin nor do I want to compromise the gospel of the Lord Jesus.  I firmly believe with all that is in me that God not only saves us from sin by cleansing us from our sins through the blood of Jesus (Ma...

Our faith in God should rest in what He has said in His Word.  Sadly, too many people rely on experience to try to carry them.  I have seen so many people fall away from the faith who based their faith on a subjective experience they had with God.  Like those in Matthew 13:20-21, they fall away from the faith when times get tough.  Because they have not taken root in Jesus through His Word (Colossians 2:6-7).  Because the...

From Genesis to Revelation, Jesus is the focus.  Not humans.  Not creation.  Not Israel.  Not the Church.  Jesus is the focus.  The Lamb of God is the One who is praised and exalted far above all others.  It is His name that all will bow down to and declare that He alone is Lord (Philippians 2:5-11).  Jesus is the worthy one (Revelation 5:5, 9-10). The question then is does your theology truly exalt Jesus a...

In Leviticus 10:1-3 we read the tragic story of Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron.  These two men were offering what the Bible calls "strange fire" before the Lord.  We are not told exactly what Nadab and Abihu did but Leviticus 10:8-9 suggest that these two men were trying to offer incense before Yahweh (Exodus 30:9, 34-38) while drunk.  Their act show their carelessness and disregard for how holy and mighty God truly is especial...

From time to time I get attacked for holding to personal apostasy from the faith.  I am chided for teaching that a person can turn away from the Lord, return to living in sin, and will become apostate (2 Peter 2:20-22).  Those who criticize me often say that I am teaching "works salvation" or that I am teaching fear and not assurance of our salvation.  I, of course, would completely disagree.Yet I want to issue this call to you eve...

I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.- Psalm 40:1The toughest part of prayer is waiting.  We live in an instant world where we expect everything at our fingertips.  We are very impatient.  But when it comes to God, He moves when He wants to move and His timing is always perfect.  But it can seem so slow to us.  We pray, we fast, we look for a move of God and still we wait.  We wait. &nb...

And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart has turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods.  But he did not keep what the LORD commanded.- 1 Kings 11:9-10In my Bible reading I am now in 1 Kings reading about the life of Solomon.  Solomon started out so well and it seemed he was going to follow in the footsteps ...

In Hebrews 2:1 the author uses the phrase, "lest we drift away from it."  This is an interesting phrase.  I think it captures the essence of what it means to turn away from Jesus.  I have never known a person to just wake up one day and say, "Today is the day that I will turn away from Jesus, live in sin, and serve the devil and my flesh."  Most people drift away from Jesus. How do they begin to drift?  I believe it begin...