It Is Finished: Recent Episodes
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Judas, and the Rich young ruler, both went away from Christ. What is the end of going away?
John 9:1-41 How can God say he sent not his son into the world to condemn it, and Jesus say for judgment I am come into the world?
Luke 19:12-27 What has the Godhead gained from all his blessings toward humanity. There is an expectation of gain from the nobleman.
Luke 17:11-19 Ten were cleansed from leprosy, only one returned to give thanks, praise, and glorify the son of God. Praise is the result of true salvation, not the reason.
Matthew 22:42 Have you thought on Christ, His externality, His earthly beginning, His purpose, His death, His resurrection, His being the judge……what think ye?????
John 17:17 Sanctify, to set apart, the believers from all the rest of the world. This is the prayer of Christ for His people.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 The promise of God is in our weakness, He will clothe us with His Presence & Power.
John 11:44 What is a person released from when called from the dead, regenerated, resurrected, born again, quickened?
1 Peter 1:1-C Peter writing to the church reveals, God's work in salvation, and the inheritance reserved for His people.
Mark 12:35-C The manifestation of the Kingdom of God is completely opposite to thinking of the natural world.
Mark 12:34 One of the most knowledgeable persons in Jewish history, was close, but not in the Kingdom of God.
Many are deceived today, why? The Devil, the heart of man, and sin, all work together to deceive,( delude, fraud, trick, to snare) man of the truth of his true condition.
Mark 4:30-32 Though small in its beginning, genuine salvation will completely take over the life of the believer. Every facet of life!
Mark 4:26-29 The kingdom of God in the life of a believer is an ongoing process of spiritual growth.
James 1:1-5 HOW do we have joy when trials come? What is God’s purpose in the trials He brings to our lives? We need Wisdom!
John 20:22 christ breathed upon the disciples and they received the Holy Ghost. As Adam in the garden had form only, so we need the breath of God, to live spiritually.
2 Chronicles 35 Josiah is making sure everyone, and everything, is in its place that God may be worshiped for His great deliverance.
Hebrews 4:11-16 If you will hear His voice today. The God of the Bible, and our faith, is for today. His word is always applicable Today!
Revelation 20:1-6 Favored of God and set apart, is that person who has a share in the first resurrection.
Hebrews 4:1-11 There is a Spiritual, and an Eternal rest for the people of God. We are admonished to labor to enter that rest. Lest we also die in unbelief.
Hebrews 4:1 Looking back at the example of the children of Israel, coming out of Egypt crossing the Red Sea, and yet dying in unbelief. We are addressed to fear , lest we come short of the promise of God.
Matthew 6:24-34 Priorities of what is first in our lives certainly has an effect on our spiritual growth.
2 Peter 2:1-5 We have been given great and precious promises that we might be partakes of the Divine nature. For this cause, give diligence and be disciplined that we might add to our faith.
Matthew 21:33-C The householder let out the Vineyard to Husbandmen. This was for his advantage or profit. Is it unreasonable for God to expect fruit from all His labor and investment?
Revelation 12:10-11 The blood of the lamb, our foundation, our testimony, and loving the Lord enough to die out to self. This is the prescription to overcome the accuser.
Luke:16:19-31 There will be many torments in Hell, just a few thoughts from the scripture.
Psalm 130:3 If the Lord keeps a record, an accurate record, who can stand? The Psalmist seems to imply that there is iniquity, guilt, and sin in his life. But, there is forgiveness with the Lord!
Mark 5:22-41 Can Jesus do more than cure the sick, and diseased. He’s the resurrection. By the quickening power of the Holy Spirit and the word of God, fallen, dead, putrefying man, is brought to eternal life.
Mark 5:25-34 The woman with the issue of blood had this condition for 12 years. Man in his sin , can be traced all the way back to Adam. Only Christ can cure our disease.
1 Corinthians 15:3 and Selected Scriptures. Christ died for our sins, He was made sin for us, He gave himself for our sins, He bare our sins in His own body, what do these statements of scripture mean?
2 Corinthians 5:17 if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, a new creation of God.
The trumpet is first mentioned in Exodus 19:16 bringing darkness, fear&trembling. The Lord Jesus at the beginning of his ministry, sounded the trumpet, with good news. Luke 4:18-19
Ephesians 3:1-8 Preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ: Boundless, infinite, eternal, and overflowing to sinners.
Luke 16:11 Without faith, repentance, confession, a broken heart and broken and contrite spirit, you’ll never receive the true riches.
Matthew 19:16-30 How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God. It is impossible!!
John 12:20-C Jesus was going to be glorified, but not before going to the cross. In the context, we also must die before being declared saved, forgiven, glorified with the presence of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:12-31 The members of the body have different functions, and no member any less, or any more important than another. The Individual members of the body should have no separate interest, but a common interest for the whole body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:1-12 He the Holy Ghost has been given to EVERY believer, To profit the whole body.
1 Corinthians 10:1-C What was God’s purpose in delivering Israel from Egypt. What is God‘s purpose for your life?
Hebrews 2:16-18 Jesus took on him the nature of man, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest. He can sympathize with any suffering or temptation, and provide help for His people.
Hebrews 2:9-16 Jesus was given a body for the suffering of death. To deliver us from sin, the devil, fear and bondage. He took on him the seed of Abraham to aid fallen man.
Brother Charles, in his mid eighties, preaching on the first chapter of the book of Ephesians.
Selected Scriptures: The opening of the heart, eyes, ears, mind, understanding, all are under the control of God. Im speaking from a spiritual perspective. We should be praying earnestly that the Godhead would be at work in our needs.
2 Corinthians 1:1-11 Paul’s own experiences helped him to relay to the Corinthian church, God’s faithfulness. So also, as we encounter tribulation and suffering, we can encourage others to trust God.
Mark 5:1-10 Fetter and Chains will not constrain man. The Lord Jesus came to take up residence in the heart of man; therefore, no longer a need for man made restraints.
1 John 4:18 Thank God for fear, that drives us to the perfect love of God, which casts-out fear.
Matthew 12:41 Christ was greater than Jonah in so many ways, yet the people of Nineveh responded with repentance to the message of Jonah.
Matthew 10:28-C Is your faith genuine, biblical, transforming, sanctifying, could the life be a contradiction to what the mouth is saying?
Romans 4:16-25 Turn away from the distractions and those things that cause doubt, and believe God. Abraham was fully persuaded, What God promised, He was able to perform.
Matthew 5:20 The most knowledgeable and the strictest in religion did not meet the standard to enter the kingdom of heaven. We need a righteousness that exceeds the religious elite, righteousness of a different kind, nature, and origin.
1 Corinthians 1:20 All the promises of God are in him yea, Those who are saved, should be saying amen to the promises. Let the life say amen to the glory of God.
Genesis 16:13 Hagar in pride and rebellion is headed back to Egypt. But the God, who sees all, found her, instructed her, and gave her promise.
Psalm 50:14-23 As men go through ritual and formalism God is not pleased. Man thinks that God is like him, but God is going to arraign fallen man, and he is going to face the charges. Praise and Thanksgiving to God, is true worship.
Isaiah 66:23-24 If there’s no true spiritual worship from the heart of men and women today, they will, at the end, lift their eyes in hell. An absolutely terrible terrible thought. But, the day is coming, That the redeemed will rejoice over those tormented in hell.
Genesis 3:16-17 The tree that Adam and Eve partook of, brought death and separation. There’s another tree, that brings life and reconciliation.
1 Samuel 22:1-2 The Beloved of God is in the cave of Adullam. Though he has been appointed and anointed by God to be the King. Why?
Isaiah 66:19-22 The gospel is going out to the gentile world, and they are coming into the church. They are not second class, lower class, or beneath the Jews. New offering, new people, new tabernacle, the worship is in spirit and truth, in the New Jerusalem which He created.
Ephesians 5:18 What a difference in our churches, in our own life, if we were filled with the Holy Spirit. Under his control, moving as he would move, speaking as he would speak with power and glory to the Godhead. It’s a Command.
Isaiah 66:15-20 By the gospel and the Holy Spirit, all flesh is tried. The Gospel spread to the gentile nations, and they were brought into the New Jerusalem.
1 Samuel, Isaiah, 1 Kings, Who has believed God’s Report? If you come…. the half of what you’ve heard has been told!
Genesis, Numbers, what are the results of believing or disbelieving the report from God?
Luke11:1-13 Resolution: A firm decision to do, or not do, determined, a promise to oneself. Can we pray each day, and ask the Father for the gift of the Holy Spirit?
Jeremiah 8:19-20 Is the opportunity past, and we’re not saved? While He’s helping, it’s the only time we can be saved.
2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift. Cannot be declared; the value, the cost, the benefits, the satisfaction, of God’s Gift to the World.
Luke 2:7 When Christ came into the world there was no room for him. The most important event, person, purpose in all of history and mankind has no room for him.
Isaiah 66:12-14 God is giving peace and comforting his people through his New Testament church. The source, the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God. The place, Jerusalem, New Jerusalem, the church, the called out.
2 Corinthians 3:3 The Corinthians were written, or engraved, on Paul’s heart. Christ was engraved into the hearts of the Corinthians, declared to be the epistle of Christ, known and read of all men.
Isaiah 66:9-12 On the day of Pentecost, God sent the Holy Spirit to enable the church to satisfy the needs of his Children.
Isaiah 66:9-11 The Lord laid the chief cornerstone in the church. Thank God, he hasn’t left the rest of the building to man. But He the Holy Ghost will finish the work of the Godhead.
2 Corinthians 5:17 An unmistakable change has taken place in the person who is now in Christ Jesus. The Creator, who brought the world into existence by his Word and his Spirit, is the Creator of the Christian.
Isaiah 66:5-9 God, through the person of the Holy Ghost, is going to plant and reap in the same day.
Romans 3:1-19 God makes his case through his apostle Paul. Guilty, all of mankind. Every mouth should be stopped and agree with God‘s verdict.
Selected Scriptures, Jesus Christ fulfilled all the type and shadows we see in Leviticus 16. He had no sin that needed to be atoned for, He entered in, not behind the veil on earth, but into heaven itself, with his own blood, all our sins were laid on him, he was the appointed one, yet did it all voluntarily. Our high priest, offered himself for our sins, and intercedes for us today.
Leviticus 16 There was much work, bloodshed, and fear on the day of atonement. The judgment for sin was pushed out for one year through this ritual. All of it, only type and shadows of what the Lord Jesus Christ would do for His people in 33 A.D.
Isaiah 66:1-4 God considers heartless, mindless worship an abomination. He will not regard it. But, if man is needy, broken in heart and spirit, God will look To that man.
Hebrews 8:8-13 Man was found faulty in the first covenant, he had not the ability, nor the desire to keep the law of God. The Lord made a new covenant with man, writing the law in the heart and in the mind. Taught by the Holy Spirit, an inward work of the Godhead.
Hebrews 8:1-9 We have a high priest who has entered into heaven, Jesus. He offered His blood on the altar in heaven. He is also the mediator of the new covenant.
Isaiah 66:1 The creator of all, isn’t depending on fallen man to build Him a house. Through the work of the Godhead, He built a house in which He would dwell.
Acts 4:29 The servants of the Lord desired the enabling of God to proclaim his word. Not only did God grant their request, but added unity, power, and great grace. Be filled with the Spirit.
John 18:37 The birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, bear witness to the truth about man, and of the Godhead.
Acts 3:19 After crucifying the Lord Jesus Christ, this same group of people are offered refreshing, through repentance.
Matthew 6:33-34 Is God And his kingdom, first in priority, time, value, affection? Are we seeking to find, to fellowship, to commune with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost?
John 2:13-22 Jesus said the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. He was consumed, devoured, crucified for the house of God.
2 Kings 10:16 Jehu, though not a perfect man, had a word and an anointing from God, a great zeal to carry out God’s command. There is a great need for zeal, passion, enthusiasm, in the house of God today. A zeal that can be seen!
Ephesians 3:13-21 Paul is praying that the Ephesians might be rooted and grounded on the love of Christ. How great is His Love?
John 13:31-32 The cross, and Christ’ death on the cross, was to Glorify the Father and the Son.
Psalm 103:1-5 Thank the Lord, for what has been done for the Eternal Soul of the believer. Forgiven, Healed, Redeemed, Crowned, and Renewed!
John 17:4-C For whom does Christ pray? He prays for his church, the called out, the believers, and not the world.
Joshua. 1:5-9 What is the key, or the prescription for prosperity and success in the inheritance of God?
Joshua 1:1-9 Joshua is commanded to lead the people into the promises of God. As he was with Moses, so He will be with Joshua, so He will be with you.
John 11:47-C What will you do with Jesus, are you afraid of losing your place and position?
Matthew 7:13 Luke 13:24 There is much wrestling, and agonizing to enter into the kingdom of God.
John 11-1-10 Time and light are essential for man to come to God. While it is day, while the light is with you, Come to Jesus. The night cometh!
Psalm 116 You love the Lord, why? You call upon Him, you praise Him, why? Look at what He has done for you!
Acts 2:40 After Peter’s message, the work of the Holy Ghost pricking the heart, men asked what shall we do? Repent, be immersed into Christ, save yourselves. You must respond!
John 7:37-39 Through the in dwelling of the Holy Spirit the believer with never be separated from the source of life.
Selected Scriptures. Though all the evidence points to a working God, man is going to deny it, lest he lose his place.
Matthew 13:54-58 Though the Wisdom,Words, and Works all point to the power of God, because of familiarity we don’t believe.
Psalm 78:41 Lust, unbelief, distortion of the character of God, forgetfulness of God‘s provision and deliverance, All these things limit God’s spiritual blessings In our lives.
John 6:1-9 & other selected scriptures. We are often placed in humanly impossible situations to try, test, or grow our trust and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth and sell it not. Biblical salvation will never be on sale, or acquired at a discounted price.
Proverbs 21:1 He who is in great authority, great power, confidence, wealth, and admiration, is still in the hand of the Lord. He turns the heart whither so ever he will.
Psalm 69:1-9 Jesus took our place that we would escape the wrath of God. He even prayed that we wouldn’t be ashamed, or confounded because of Him.
2 Chronicles 29 The house of God was sanctified, cleansed, and prepared that worship could take place. There must be preparation for worship.
John 3:14, 12:32 Not only was Christ raised up on the cross, but by the operation of God, he was raised from the dead. After ascending to heaven, he sent the Holy Ghost, by which men are drawn to Christ.
Luke 15. The Pharisees were angry and annoyed that Christ was a friend to Sinners. The attitude is still much the same in 2024.
Philippians 3:3-9 Paul’s conclusion, all that matters. The surpassing, superior, knowledge of Jesus Christ. Everything else is dung.
Mark 9:49-50 All of God’s family will go through fiery trials, don’t think it strange. But God giveth grace to the humble. Have salt in yourself.
Luke 14:35-36 Ye are the salt of the earth. Is your life having an effect on the world, and in the church?
Judges 13-16 What was the source of Samson’s great strength? How easily we can offend, and extinguish, the power of the Holy Ghost.
Selected Scriptures: If a man is born again, can that be seen? Are there results from God in dwelling the heart of an individual?
John 3:1-8 Jesus told Nicodemus, you must be born again, of the water and the Spirit. Through the preaching of the word of God, and the working of the Holy Ghost in the individual, is a man Brought to life, regeneration, salvation, into the kingdom of God.
John 3:1-8 Why does Jesus say “ye must be born again?” Man is in a dead state spiritually, completely, absolutely, unwilling, and unable to respond to God. He must have life imparted, a beginning, he must be born, birthed by God!
John 3:1-8 Except you’re born again you cannot see the kingdom of God! What does this mean?
Hebrews 2:3 What were the first words that Jesus himself had to say about this, (So great Salvation)?
Hebrews 2:1-4 Without salvation, how shall we escape the wrath of God? Matthew 3:7 Wrath to come!
Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, from what does man need to escape? The law has just been mentioned in verse two, With all of it recompense. Without coming to Christ, man will face the judgement.
Hebrews 2:1-4 If the word spoken by angels was steadfast, sure, unalterable, And every disobedience received a just recompense of reward, what will happen to those who neglect the Word of God?
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore, (because of who is speaking), we should give a greater attention, and adhere to what is being said. How Dangerous to hear and not heed.
Hebrews 1:1-3 God has spoken in many ways, but, has in these last days spoken to us by His son.
Philippians 2:12-18 As Christ came down and became a servant to sinners, so we are called to be like minded.
Romans 2:28-29 and selected Scripture. Abraham had a circumcision In the flesh that was unseen. Christ came to do a circumcision of the heart, (without hands and unseen) that is manifest, by a new life.
2 Samuel 9:1-13 David sought to do kindness to the seed of Jonathan. Mephibosheth, whose name means shame, was of the family that hated David. Crippled, with no desire, and no means to come, was fetched, and given a place at the Kings table. Thank God for grace.
Mark 2:1-12 What is being said about the church, and about you as an individual? Is it noised, the Lord in the house?
Song of Solomon 2:8-13 The bride heard the voice of her Beloved. As she looks, He is leaping over the mountains and skipping over the hills. There’s no obstacle to stop His coming.
Ephesians 2:8-9 All of Humanity has experiential faith, but biblical faith is a gift from God, brought about by the work of the Holy Ghost.
Romans 8:1-9 If He, the Holy Ghost, is not living, dwelling, abiding, controlling, and directing your life, you are Not saved. He will Not father a child, and Orphan it.
1 Corinthians 15:20-C Christ is risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept. All will rise one day, some to everlasting life, some to everlasting damnation.
Mark 7:24 Can a person be saved, Jesus Christ live in the heart, and Christ be unseen in the life?
Luke 22:31-33 Believers will be tried, sifted, Satan desires to have you. How will you survive the test?
Proverbs 1:20-33 Will man reject, dismiss, and trample Wisdom, (The Word of God) and God sit by with no response? God will laugh at the ruin of the Simple.
1 Samuel 17:10 What are some of the character traits of a man that can fight against Goliath?
Matthew 17:14-21 This situation is different but the Lord says there is a solution. “This kind” requires prayer and fasting.
Matthew 12:33-37 By the spontaneous words coming out of the mouth, the heart is revealed. Whether good, or evil.
Ephesians 2:8-10 If you’re saved, it’s not of yourself, not of your works, it is only by the gift of God. God gave His Son, gave us grace and, the faith to believe.
Galatians 4:21-31 As Isaac was, we are, the children of promise. The promise of God. No work of man can be associated with true God given salvation.
Luke 7:1-10 The Centurion was a link in the chain of command and authority. Jesus Christ, has all authority in heaven and earth. Who are you, are you in Him, is He in you?
Leviticus 13:1-13 14:1-7 Leprosy, a type of sin, was diagnosed by the priesthood. An internal corruption, uncleanliness, which was revealed outwardly, But only cleansed by sacrifice.
Ezekiel 47:1-11 The miraculous waters flowing out of the tabernacle of God, are able to bring life to places that are without question, dead. But, the miry and marshes are given to salt.
Isaiah 57:10-21 Man is on a continual quest and has wearied himself to find peace and contentment. Yet, he never seems to realize, there is no hope outside of the Lord.
Luke 4:36 Amazed at His authority and power they said, “What a word is this?” Thank God for His Word.
Isaiah 42 Who is as blind as the informed, privileged, the people God has given the greatest revelation. The people of Israel, had a greater opportunity than anyone else. Yet, the Lord says they had greater blindness and deafness.
Genesis 3:1-13 Where art Thou, God’s question to man, not that He doesn’t know. But, would there be an admission an acknowledgement of where we are, and our spiritual condition when God calls to us?
Luke 10:25-35 Man comes into the world half dead because of the inherent sin of Adam. If not for the Lord Jesus’ sacrifice, we would die completely and eternally.
Micah 6:6-8 How can a man come before God? Is it in formalism, rituals, ceremony? No , we must come with a desire to commune with God, realizing who He is and who we are.
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine that men might see your work, and glorify God. Unless our works, or actions are supernatural, or out of character for the natural man, there is no glory to God.
Hebrews 11:8-10 The city had a foundation of God, an Architect who was God, and maker (worker for the public) or creator was God. God’s body, building , and bride.
Ephesians 2:10-12 What was man’s true condition before the work of God? Dead, separated, alienated, shutout, a foreigner, no hope and without God.
Isaiah 51:1-2 To give Israel hope, and remind them where they came from, God said, ”Look to the rock, the hole of the pit that you came from. I called Abraham alone, and I blessed and increased him.”
Joshua 4:1-24 There were two memorials, one, in the midst of Jordan, the other, in the promised land. They both speak, one of death, the other of God’s deliverance.
Joshua 3:1-17 There’s always an obstacle to the promises of God. Follow the Word of God!
Judges 6:11-16 One man with the Conformation and calling of God on his life made a difference.
There’s a spiritual, and natural death, this present world, and the world to come, and there’s a first and second resurrection.
1 Corinthians 11:24-25 What should we remember about the Lord Jesus Christ? Let us remember the the whole of His person, and purpose.
Romans 12:1-2 After all that has been done through the work of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Paul calls the believer to offer himself as a living sacrifice.
Psalm 61:1-2 With his heart covered with with clouds, darkness, billows rolling over him, he cries: Lord, lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Numbers 17:1-10 God is going to confirm his choice of Aaron, in spite of the rejection and rebellion of Israel.
Numbers 16 Rebels have risen against Moses and Aaron two consecutive days. God’s wrath, the plague, has begun. Only the high priest can stay the plague.
Ruth 4:1-10 There are only two Kinsman, and only one who has the desire and ability to redeem.
Man is continually looking for a way to get to heaven. This maybe by works, establishing his own righteousness, or comparing himself with someone else. None of these are according to God‘s righteousness.
Jesus came in the world to save that which is lost, to save sinners, to call to repentance.
Isaiah 5:13-14 No knowledge of sin, the payment for sin, or who has sinned? The word of God answers these questions.
Isaiah 5:1-8 Israel and Judah are going into captivity because they have no knowledge. God has invested immensely in a vineyard, and it is bringing forth and desirable grapes.
Selected Scriptures. The Angel of the Lord seems to always appear at a point when the individual is in crisis, anguish, hopelessness. All the Glory goes to God when deliverance comes.
Act1&2 The believers were praying in complete harmony for the enduing power of the Holy Spirit. All of the work of God is accomplished by the Holy Spirit working through the church.
Psalm 139:16-18 Every day of our life is written in God’s book. How precious are his thoughts, will, aim and intention toward us.
Psalm 3:1-5 David is going through one of the greatest trials of his entire life. All the voices say, God is finished with you. The keeper of Israel never sleeps, nor slumbers, therefore we can sleep.
Matthew 14:22-31 The very direction the Lord told His disciples to go was a pathway with much opposition. In the will of God, on the way of God, yet contrary to man, to nature, to human thinking, many be the time.
Psalm 139:23-24 David desires for God to search and reveal what is really in his heart. You cannot trust your heart!
Jonah3:1-10 The message God sent to Nineveh had Mercy and Grace mixed with it. God could have destroyed Nineveh without a message at all. What a response, what a change, what repentance was exhibited by the Ninevites.
Jonah 1:17-2:9 The great fish, prepared by God, was to bring about his purpose in the life of Jonah.
2 Kings 22 A time of restoration and revival brought about by the effects of the Word of God, on one man.
Ephesians 2:4-6 Because of the great love He had for them, the God of heaven had mercy, pity, compassion, on the believers at Ephesus. Raising them, from their dead state, when Christ arose.
Proverbs 27:8 As a bird wandereth from her nest, so a man that is not in his place. Great danger and destruction awaits this man.
Ephesians 2:4 Ephesians verse one through three reveals the condition of mankind, hopeless, helpless, dead, under the control of his own desires, and the devil. But God, intervened.
Psalm 13:1-6 If our spiritual eyes are not enlighten by the Lord, surely we shall lift our eyes in eternal death.
Psalm 126:1-6 Can the people of God be brought into captivity, of course. The Lord can turn the captivity of Zion. The heart of man can be so overwhelmed, and overcome with the things of this world that it leaves us dry and empty.
2Kings 6:13-17 Elisha‘s servant doesn’t see what he sees. Elisha prays Lord open his eyes.
Genesis 2 God brought forth the woman for Adam. John 19, God brought forth the bride for Jesus.
Psalm27:8 As the voice of God reaches the heart , the heart, that is in tune, begins to move, respond, resound, reverberate.
Luke 2:25-35 Jesus was set in the world by the determinate counsel of God, for the fall and rising again of many. What will you do with this Jesus?
Genesis 21:12-21 Death is looming over Ishmael and Hagar, but God opened the eyes of Hagar and she saw a well of water, in the wilderness.
Exodus 15:22-27 From praise and glorifying God, to murmuring, to bitterness, to sweet, to Elim. The trials of life.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 As we look today , we don’t see the whole picture, only a portion of the whole. The end will reveal the whole, the conclusion, of the matter.
Luke 14:25-36 We should consider the cost of genuine salvation. It will be much more costly than mere words of profession.
Luke 7:36-50 Simon the Pharisee, showed no love at all for Jesus. The woman, who was a sinner, gave great evidence of forgiveness, by her love and worship.
2 Corinthians 1:3-9 Paul is revealing to the Corinthians the source and purpose of God’s Comforting.
Colossians 1:12-14 Thanks be to the God head for our salvation. Man is absolutely hopeless, helpless, and without any desire to be saved without the work of God, both outwardly and inwardly.
Ephesians 2:3 We were All, by nature, children of wrath, the wrath of God was awaiting us. Thank God for His Grace!
Genesis 41:46-57 God caused Joseph to be fruitful in the midst of trouble, sorrow, being forsaken, forgotten, and afflicted.
Luke 5 The call of God brings dramatic changes in the life of the responders, a new Creation from God.
Ephesians 2:1-3 Paul has addressed man’s condition as dead, following the world, under the control of the devil. He now deals with the lust of the flesh, desires in the sensual flesh of man, and the mind.
Romans 10:1-5 Paul’s desire it that his own brethren in the flesh, might be saved. Though much learned, they were ignorant of God’s righteousness, Paul himself was once in the same condition.
Matthew 18:1-5 The disciples were disputing about who would be the greatest. Jesus said, except ye be converted and become as a little child, You cannot enter the kingdom of God. To have one’s nature and character changed is a work of God.
Ephesians 2:2 Man is dead in trespasses and sins, yet walking as the rest of the unregenerate world does, under the control and power of Satan.
Hosea 13:9 Man in his natural condition will destroy himself, but in the Lord is our help
Psalm 123:1-4 Looking past this world to the God who dwells in the heavens, in a world that hates, despises, and scorns Christians.
Nehemiah 1:1-4 When Nehemiah heard of the condition of Jerusalem, and it’s people it brought great sorrow. After four months of praying, weeping, and fasting, God opened the door for him to be used in His great work of deliverance.
Psalm 73:13-22 The rich, the prosperous, the unsaved, may draw our attention, and our admiration, but they shall come down by the hand of God.
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath He quickened who were dead. The spiritually dead cannot respond spiritually to the call of God. There must be a quickening, of the Dead.
Jeremiah 8 Is there balm in Gilead, any physician there. The slight healing of religion is going to bring final destruction to the unregenerate heart.
Proverbs 6:6-11 Man gives great diligence to many frivolous things, yet sadly, the call and election of God are not very high on the priority list.
Ephesians 1:20-23 The Church is the Fulness (Completeness) of Christ, and Christ is He who fills all in His Church.
Matthew 25:1-11 A great distinction is made between the wise and foolish by what’s in their vessel’s.
Matthew 21:23-46 When the Lord speaks, we should perceive (understand, put together, know, be aware,) He’s talking about me.
Ephesians 1:19-20 The power that works in the believer is according to the power that raised Christ from the dead. As Christ was raised from the dead, so we who were dead in trespasses and sins, were raised with Him, by that same power of God.
Romans 6:23 By one man, and one sin, death has come upon all men. Mankind is in need of a Savior.
Matthew 6:19-34 We are not worried or anxious about food or clothing today, yet the pursuit of earthly riches has taken precedent over God.
Acts3:14 There is no logical reason for a man to reject Jesus Christ, and choose a rebeller and murderer. The problem is in the heart, a moral problem.
Psalm 59:11 Why do we have trials, temptations, opposition? That we might not forget we are in a war, and we need the presence and power of the Lord continually.
Ephesians 1:17-20 The comprehension and realization of the glory of his inheritance, and the power of God, is the reason for Paul’s praying. Both blessings are in the saints, the believers.
Luke 14:15-24 The announcement and call has been going out for centuries. Man continues to make light of, and make excuses for, his failure to come to the invitation of God.
Mark 5:1-20 Man will never be tamed or brought under control by man, morality, or laws.
Ephesians 1:17-18 Paul is desiring that the Ephesians could comprehend and realize the Hope (expectation) of God’s calling.
Acts24:24-27 Will there ever be a Convenient Season to acknowledge sin, and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ?
1 Corinthians 12:4-7 The Holy Ghost is given to the individual believer, to be profitable to the whole church, the body of Christ.
Mark 8 and selected Scriptures. The Lord Jesus gave the requirements to be a genuine follower.
Matthew 7:13-19 is there a difference between professors, and possessors, the works of man versus the planting of the Lord?
1 Corinthians 1:4-9 Grace through our union with Jesus Christ, will result in Utterance that glorifies the Son of God.
Matthew 22:36-40 The great command was to love God, the next, to love our neighbor as ourselves. Jesus Christ hanging on the cross, exceeded the commands of God.
Psalm 46:1-7 With all the calamities and convulsions the earth and sea produce, the child of God has a Refuge, and a River flowing through the center of their tabernacle.
Proverbs 27:1 God is in control, man has no control, nor knowledge of what tomorrow may bring. What should be attended to today?
2 Thessalonians 2:4-12 Mans nature is to oppose God and His authority, when God reveals mans true condition what will he do? If there’s no love of the truth, God will withdraw from man, he will believe a lie and be damned.
Luke 13:1-9 We see things around us every day that notify us of up coming events, why can’t man see that judgement is coming , and we need to be different than we are today.
Ezekiel 47:1-12 Water of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost bring life, an increasing, and abundant life. Not to the righteous, or religious but to the dead. A river that brings man to the tree of Eternal life.
Genesis 18:20-21 There was a cry made from Egypt that brought deliverance, there was a cry made from Sodom that brought destruction.
Romans 5 and selected Scriptures. Who shall we believe about the spiritual condition of mankind? Shall I believe God, His Prophets, and Apostles, or shall I believe the logic and traditions of men?
Isaiah 43:16-20 Forget the old things, and your deliverance from Egypt. Behold, I will do a new thing
Hebrews 6:1-8 Jesus said repent and believe the gospel. There is no salvation without repentance, but salvation is not by repentance.
Luke 11:17-22 Mankind is unable to escape from the devil unless the Lord Jesus Christ delivers us.
Ruth 2 By the grace and providence of God Ruth was found in the field of Boaz. Beginning at the bottom, as a gleaner, she’s found in the lineage of Jesus.
Acts 2:13-38 The day of Pentecost brought conviction, power, and life to those who had crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank God for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
John 3:1-8 As man has a natural birth, there must be a spiritual birth if man is going to see the kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit is the means for man to be born again.
Isaiah 46:8-11 The Almighty, Sovereign God is in control, and His word is fixed, settled, and will be accomplished.
Selected Scriptures Does every man have the same opportunity, call, favor of God, and faith to be saved?
Titus 1:1-3 The plan of God is revealed through preaching, to bring to manifestation and fruition the Promise made before the foundation of the world.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 Don’t be discouraged by what you see, God has made promises, and given commandment. There is much uncertainty, but there is, the Word of God!
Hosea 8:12 I (God) have written unto him the great things, but they are foreign to man. How can this be?
Philippians 2:12-16 When children of the Lord follow Him as He works in us, without grumbling, and debating with God, He causes us to be luminaries to this world.
Philippians 2:12-16 Though beloved children of God, there is still a working out of the salvation that is within. A bringing to completion, to carry out the will, purpose, delight of God.
Joshua 7:8 When Israel turned and ran, and were defeated in the battle, what was the problem? God said look within!
Psalm 68:18 Christ ascended on high, leading captivity captive he received gifts, that he might give gifts, to man, even to the rebellious. Thank God for deliverance, through the victory of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:3-9 All of Paul’s gain had to be done away with before he could win Christ. Christ will not share his glory with another!
Colossians 4:5-6 Paul is directing the people to walk in a manner of wisdom toward those that are unbelievers, buying the opportunity as it presents its self.
1Timothy 1:13-16 Paul see’s himself as a pattern of the reaches of God’s Love, Grace,Mercy,Long suffering, Power, and Purposes.
Jeremiah 13:15-17 while we have light let us walk in the light, and become children of the light
Colossians 4:2-4 Paul desires the church to persevere, be constant in prayer, give themselves to prayer. We need the Lords intervention, without Him we can do nothing.
Matthew 13:47-58 The gospel is presently calling man to Jesus. There will come a time, that same gospel that hasn’t been responded to, will draw man to death and judgment, overcoming all resistance.
Leviticus 24:1-4 The tabernacle was dark, oil was needed for there to be light. Through the Lord Jesus there is oil for the lamps.
Matthew 13:44-46 There’s nothing of greater value or greater joy than having the Kingdom of God within you. This can only happen through a transaction.
Matthew 13:31-33 The Word of God and the Holy Ghost, will take over every facet of the life in which it is planted, or hidden.
Matthew 13:24-30, 37-43 The planting of the Lord brings forth good grain, the devil also plants, but his planting is poisonous and detrimental to mankind.
Matthew 13:1-23 Will the Word of God find a lodging place in the heart of man, bringing forth fruit?
Luke12:54-59. Man is continually analyzing and making decisions by that which is revealed to him each day, yet is unwilling to see his eternal end.
Deuteronomy 8:2 God has a purpose and design for the course of our life. Lord help us to remember and not forget.
2 Peter 2:20-22 Man realizes his need for reform, but Christ Jesus came to change our Nature
Luke 10:25-36 Thank God, when there was no hope for man, who was dead in his sin. Jesus came to fallen man, poured into man from his on self, carried us by the Spirit to the Father and paid in full our sin debt, that we might have eternal life.
1 Peter 1:18-25 What a work of God, what a price given, that man could be raised from the dead, and be begotten by God.
Matthew 13:10-17 There must be a revelation by God, man is responsible to move to the light given, Before there is spiritual revelation given to the inner man
Colossians 3:18-19 What are the biblical responsibilities of the wife, and of the husband?
Judges 12:1-6 We are all coming to the place of finality, our true identity revealed, judged, and sentenced, according to who we really are.
2 Corinthians 5:7 We walk by faith, not by sight. When we trust in what we see, instead of what God says, it’s always ends with sin, disappointment, and death.
2 Samuel 14-C The judge is condemned if the guilty are acquitted. David is both the king, and the father of Absalom. What a dilemma.
Colossians 3:11-17 Love, peace, dwelling in the word of God, and the word of God dwelling in Man, is certainly evidence of Christ authored Salvation.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 God was, and is the initiator of reconciliation. Jesus Christ is the means for man to be reconciled to God.
Matthew 14:22-31 Though we may be doing the will of God, in the very place that He has sent us, we may encounter severe storms. Thank God, he sees us in our toil, and sends His Word, to comfort us, all for his glory.
Colossians 3:9-13 Having put on the new man, we are changed into the image of our creator.
Galatians 4:13-20 Paul is in great distress, anguish, pain, labor, that Christ be formed in them. Paul has no feeling of certainty, or conviction concerning them.
Colossians 3:5-10 Paul is exhorting the Colossians to takeoff the old man with his deeds, practices and lifestyle. Since we have put on the new man, the regenerated man, the new creature. The outward, fleshly man is now being renovated into the image of the creator.
Matthew 15:21-28 If a woman who was an outcast, not even worthy for the Lord to acknowledge, if she was able to get the attention of the Lord, who are we, and what is our responsibility?
Leviticus 10 Aaron and his family failed to complete the prescribed means for the congregation to have their sins atoned. Thank God for our high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 3:5-8 If we be risen with Christ? Then Paul admonished the believer to stay away from, put to death sin, in the body and mind.
Jeremiah 3. Oh, that God would be willing to take back such a rebellious and unfaithful people. If only, they would Acknowledge their sin.
Colossians 3:1-4 Since we are risen from the dead, let us desire, long after, set the mind on things that are heavenly and spiritual, not on the things that are earthly and temporary.
Matthew 16:13-21 Jesus died for our sins, thank God he arose for our justification. Through his resurrection we have the victory, even over the grave.
Psalm 118:14-24 Thank God for His opening of the gates of righteousness through the Word of God, both the written , and that which was made flesh and dwelt among us.
Colossians 2:18-23 If Christ is not keep in His rightful place, man begin to create his own means of being righteous. This leads to something that is fake and dishonoring to Christ, the one who paid the price for us.
Colossians 2:16-17 We are complete in Christ, therefore let no man judge you in shadows. Christ is the substance and if you are in Him, you are complete.
James 4:1-10 There’s a war within, a war of good versus evil, the spiritual versus carnal.
Colossians 2:14-15 All of the believers guiltiness, revealed through the law, was nailed to the cross. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, there is complete forgiveness and victory.
Matthew 12:42 In all of his greatness Solomon was only a type and shadow of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 11: 13-16 Abraham and others died in faith, looking for a city built by God, and God has prepared a city, that He and man can dwell together, Forever.
John 10:1-3 Jesus calls His sheep and they follow. There must be a work of God, in the heart of man before man can respond, or even recognize the Lord Jesus. He knows His sheep, and they know Him.
Colossians 2:10-12 Circumcision and baptism are both the work of God in bringing mankind to salvation. Those who are saved, have Complete Salvation, and Complete Forgiveness, in Jesus Christ.
John 16:6-11 What is the work of the Holy Ghost, much in every life. There is no salvation without the reproof of the Spirit.
1 & 2 Corinthians; The Grace of God is infinite in its reaches to the exceeding sinfulness of mankind. Where sin did abound Grace did much more abound, therefore, those who are genuinely saved have become anew creation in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 2:9-12 We are complete in Christ, through circumcision of the heart, changing the nature and behavior of the true believer. A completely new creation!
John 12:23-32 The Lord Jesus is going to die, yet through His death glory is coming to himself, and the believers.
Philippians 2:1-8 To think of my fellow man correctly, I must have a correct view of myself. Jesus was the greatest example of humbling one’s self for the benefit of others.
Colossians 2:8-11 The believer is Complete, in the Lord Jesus Christ, there is nothing to be added to the salvation provided by Him.
Isaiah 61:1-3 The Lord Jesus Christ came to change mans condition, and to free him from bondage.
Ecclesiasties 12:1-7 Lost or saved, the spirit returns to God, but The Holy Spirit distinguishes between those who will be excepted or rejected, by God
Hebrews 9:1-10 Christ was the sacrifice, and the High Priest whose offering gave man access to God, freedom from guilt, and a clean Conscience.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 What kind of person does God choose, and what kind of person does God use?
Colossians 2:2-7 Paul joys as he beholds the order and solidity of faith in Christ Jesus the Lord by the church of the Colossians.
Colossians 2:1-2 Pauli’s desiring the church could enjoy the riches of the mystery Christ
Colossians 1:27-29 Christ’s working within, brought about a working without. Only through a work of God within the heart of man, is there an ongoing, or continuing work of man for the things of God.
1 Peter 1:12-19 Trials are not to ruin but to reveal. Suffering for the name of Christ comes with the promise of His Spirit resting upon us.
Matthew 22:1-14 Many times the Lord has sent out an invitation, but man continues to neglect, the only not only the invitation, but the provision of the king as well.
Isaiah 52:7 Thank God, there’s a messenger publishing the good news, the war has been won.
Hebrews 1:1-3 Since God has spoken to us by His Son we should give our utmost attention, lest we drift away.
Colossians 1:27-29 Christ in you, we are complete in Jesus Christ. If there is no Christ in you there is a great warning to you, Judgment awaits.
Colossians 1:27 The expectation of any honor, glory, exaltation, eternal life, presently or future, is all dependent upon Christ in You “NOW”.
Psalm 130:1-8 When man has the revelation from God of his true spiritual condition, it brings a cry out of the innermost part of man. What a cry, expectation, faith, what hope in the Lord
Hebrews 8 Our high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, pitched the true tabernacle, and made a new Covenant with His Church.
Colossians 1:15-25 Paul was able to rejoice in his suffering, because he had a source from within that was separate from his outward circumstance.
Ephesians 5:15-20 Walk accurately, not as a fool, but as a person who knows God, redeeming the time.
Matthew 22:15-21 If tribute and honor is paid to the Father, it must be with that which is provided by the Father.
Matthew 17:24-27 Temple tax was to be paid by every person, for the ransom of the Soul. Thank God through the offering of Jesus Christ, the children are free!
Colossians 1:18-22 Through the death of Jesus Christ, man can be reconciled to God. Pure, unblemished, without spot, with no accusations or charges by faith in the death of Christ
1 Peter 3:13-C Thank God for the Quickening power of the Holy Ghost. Though the world thinks we should be dead under our trials and afflictions, the power of God makes us alive.
Matthew 9:9-17 The Lord is revealing the necessity of getting rid of the old garment, and the old bottle.
Acts 2:1-C what effect does the indwelling of the Holy Spirit have on the believer, and the unbeliever?
Luke 1:5-10 A sweet smelling savor has been offered, that man can come into the presence of God with his request.
Colossians 1:13-14 Everything that the church has, has been given by the Lord Jesus Christ
Matthew 13:47-50 The last parable Jesus spoke of was of a Net, that drew of ever kind, with no exclusion. A separation will follow.
Job 14 With out a new birth all of this short life is Vanity. We just have a few days to make our calling and election sure, for Eternity
Colossians 1:11-13 God has made us meet, qualified, enabled us to be partakes of an inheritance.
Matthew 18:1-7 The disciples are wanting to know who is greatest, the Lord answers the question in a way that is contrary to the thinking of most people in the world today.
John 5:24-25 Our guilt and condemnation can be removed by trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ
Colossians:1-6 Grace has been given that produces fruit, by hearing the Gospel of the Truth .
John5:18-29 How can a dead man hear the voice of the Son of God, there must be a quickening first.
2 Corinthians 3:6-12 If the law, is good, holy, and just, and this commandment was glorious, how much more glorious is the gospel of righteousness.
Luke 11:20-26 There are several obstacles that must be over come, before man can be saved. It will take the power of God, the Truth of the gospel, and the Holy Ghost.
Matthew 13:31-33 When an individual is genuinely saved, the salvation of God, and the in dwelling of the Holy Ghost takes over every part of that life.
Hebrews 10:26-29 What do you think the punishment should be for the person who has rejected, trampled underfoot the blood, and despised the Spirit and Grace of God?
2Timothy 2:9-13 if man is faithless, after all the knowledge and revelation through the gospel, God still remains faithful to his character, nature, and his word.
Hebrews 10:26-27 Having knowledge of our sins, and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ; if a man continues in his sin there is a certainty of judgment and fiery indignation.
Hebrews 10:24-25 The place for encouragement, help, growth, instruction, all of this and more is found at the gathering of the Church. The church that has the Word of God being taught and preached is Christ’s body in this world. What a privilege we have, along with duty and commandment to attend Christ’s church.
Hebrews 10:24 We should be continually mindful of those around us, desiring to provoke them to love Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 10:22-23 Promises made to man, by a God who cannot lie. What consolation this should bring to those who have entrusted their everlasting life, to the finished work of Christ.
Hebrews 10:11-22 Jesus made one sacrifice for sins forever. He has perfected forever, those who are Sanctified, by faith in the offering of Himself.
Hebrews 10:1-10 All that man has offered, or ever could hope to offer God, has not been payment for one sin. Jesus Christ, God in a body, was offered once for sin.
1Peter 1:13-25 There’s an on going battle, daily, for the children of God. Much of the warfare is fought in the mind of the believer.
Psalm 132:1-6 David had a desire to build God a house to dwell in, but is man able to build a house for God?
Luke 7:36-50 We certainly can’t see forgiveness, but if forgiveness has taken place through the work of Jesus Christ, there will be evidence.
Job 33:14-17 God speaks, but there is no understanding or perception by man. Even after revelation and discernment, man continues to reject the Call of God.
James 5:13-18 The afflictions of this life can overwhelm us, but James tells us where to go, and what to do.
Galatians 3:17-29 All mankind was shut up in prison, Jesus came that man could go free.
Psalm 116: 1-7, 17 The Lord certainly deserves a Thank You, for all that He has done for the redeemed.
Philemon 19-25 Paul believes that Philemon, by the Grace of God, will not only forgive Onesimus, but will do even more than He asks.
Colossians 2:10-14 Through the work done by the Lord Jesus Christ, the elect of God, have a Complete Salvation.
Romans 13:11-14 What are we making provision for, our Spiritual advancement, or supplying the desires of the flesh.
Joshua 2 Rahab hid the messengers that Joshua sent, and perished not with the unbelievers. How, by the Grace of God!
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection, on such the second death has no power. The second death is eternal, the lake of fire, the wrath of God, Hell. Only through a spiritual resurrection, is there an escape from Hell.
Colossians1:12-18 Through the Lord Jesus Christ we have all things. He is the Beginning!
Galatians 6:11-18 What does God approve, man being better than another? Faith by Grace, in the finished work of Jesus Christ is all that God approves.
Philemon 5-12 Paul could have commanded Philemon to forgive Onesimus, yet for Love’s sake he ask.
Philemon 1-5 There’s No greater likeness of Christ Jesus, in the life of a Christian than when they Forgive.
Mark 9:43-50 What man needs to be accepted with God, has been provided by God himself. Eternity in hell awaits those who have not the Grace and Holy Ghost of God.
Acts 10:34-47 The Holy Ghost was working in the lives of everyone in our text. Making manifest those who heard and believed the Word
Hebrews 6:17-20 We have a God who cannot lie, and an Anchor for the soul, in a very troublesome world. Lay hold!
Ephesians 6:18-24 Paul desired the prayers of the church, that he might be able to make the mystery of the Gospel known in every place. We need boldness, and the power of God.
Ezekiel 9 Before the destruction of the whole, God gives instruction to the man clothed in linen, to mark all that are His. So also in the world today, God has marked all that belong to Him.
Ephesians 6:18-19. Praying for all things, at all times, for all the saints, in the Spirit, with all perseverance, and for me. We need the help of God, let us not fail to ask.
John 3:1-10 Being born again is a work of God, through the washing of the water of the Word, and the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 6:1-9 Knowledge, experiences, and association with religious activities certainly doesn’t mean that one is saved. There is spiritual growth in those people who are genuinely saved and not a falling away.
Ephesians 6:17 Take, receive that which has been provided, the Word of God our great weapon to combat the Devil.
John 12:32 What is the means of drawing men to the Lord Jesus Christ? Could we be a better instrument for God’s use?
Ephesians 6:17 The helmet was for protecting the head. The Devil wants man to doubt God, don’t lose your head!