Revelation 4:11 NASB95 “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” Worthy = due a reward "Our Lord," means, if He is your Lord then you seek to be: Completely Loyal to Him. Completely Obedient to Him. Completely Repentant to Him. Completely Directed by Him. Our God is the only deity. To receive Glory = to receive back the splendor of light and radiance that

Colossians 3:4 NASB95 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. Think about your life. Look back over it and evaluate what your life is wrapped up in. It is quite common for someone who has children (especially today) to say, my life is wrapped up in my children. Everything they do is for their children. Others who are married might say their spouse. Their life is wrapped up in their spouse. They live to please their spouse.

He who believes in Me will live even if he dies." ~ Jesus Throughout the book of Job, we see a man in torment. Satan tries everything he can short of taking Job's life to cause him to turn his back on God and curse Him. Friends come, and in an attempt to make things better, they actually make them worse. His wife encouraged him to give up and die. All the while he is dealing with the death of his children, the loss of his wealth, and the failing of his health. In his misery,

If one side loses 40,000 men and the other side loses 25,000 men who has won the battle? Many would say it is the side that lost ONLY 25,000 men. However, when you know that they only had 26,000 to start with then that doesn't sound like victory. Others would say that the side with the most men left is the one that won the battle. The side that lost 40,000 men started with 400,000. However, when you realize that they went and cried to the Lord because of their losses, and the

Do you consider the outcome of obedience to God? God is good and His ways are full of righteousness. That doesn't mean that people will respond with goodness and righteousness. When following God, our responsibility is obedience not outcome. If we use hindsight in our lives, we will realize that foresight is seldom right. We look to the future and evaluate based on what will yield the best outcome for us. This usually doesn't happen because everyone else is using foresight to

A few years back I was convicted by God to pray for a friend and then call him. I prayed for him, but I did not call. A week later we talked and he told me how he had struggled the week before. I knew him to be having a great time in life. It seemed everything was going just right for him. However, he was in great despair and I wasn't there for him. The beautiful castle on the hill is often occupied by a person caught in despair. He finds himself trapped daily in the dungeon

How far are you willing to travel on faith? We are taught to use our brains and make the right decisions based on knowledge. This is not necessarily a poor teaching it just doesn't go far enough. The knowledge of the finite mind is finite. It cannot give facts beyond what it has proven or seen. Faith on the other hand is the reality of what we have understood from scripture and the evidence of what our mind can't see. The Bible words it this way. Hebrews 11:1 NASB1995 Now fai

2 Peter 1:8 NASB95 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Peter lists qualities of, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love. Then he says our verse text today. "For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." Howe

Philemon 1:8-9 NASB95 Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper, yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus— In this text I see Paul illustrate to all, a picture of Christ in a multitude of ways. Today I would like to reveal a few. Picture in this text, that Christ is speaking instead of Paul. Though I have enough confidence in God the Father, to or

In 2020 a South African man was killed by his pet lioness, which he had raised from a cub. He had taken in the two lionesses, as they were orphaned at just one week old. For 5 years he had taken them for walks and played with them. He would feed them and love on them. At a week old they probably would have died had he not taken them in and raised them. However, five years later they forgot that He was their owner and caretaker. Have we done the same? Hosea 8:14 NASB95 For Isr

Why Church? Paul tells us in Philippians that he has learned to be content in all circumstances. Yet he still needed fellowship. When Paul was headed to Rome under guard he had been shipwrecked on Malta. While there, he conducted a major evangelistic work and then boarded a ship for Rome. It had been a long journey with many perils. Once they finally arrived, they still had a long journey ahead by land. When we get to the text we see some brothers in Christ came to meet him.

Jeremiah 49:13 NASB95 “For I have sworn by Myself,” declares the LORD, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins.” Picture of Bozrah today: Mike Drop! You can trust God's word. Enough said. Love Bro. Scott

Mark 9:12 NASB95 And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt? As Jesus and His disciples descended down the mountain of transfiguration Jesus began to explain to them again that He must die and raise again. Although He had explained this to them before they still struggled to understand. They questioned Him about the scriptures being taught about E

Is that your Final Answer? The phrase gained popularity on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." After the person gave their answer the host Regis Philbin would ask. Is that your final answer? What is your final answer? People have always been intrigued with finality. Last words are often quoted from people who have passed away. When someone is to be executed they are given a chance to say their last words. Words are important yet most people struggle with speaking

Nahum 2:2 NASB95 For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob Like the splendor of Israel, Even though devastators have devastated them And destroyed their vine branches. Nahum prophesied of the destruction of Nineveh and his prophecy was fulfilled years later. However, all Scripture provides a picture that reveals Christ, and we can see it in this verse. It is amazing how God has someone describe the destruction of Nineveh and at the same time point to Jesus as Lord and

The fight between a love for Christ and selfish pride is real! I have a selfish desire to be with Christ. It is selfish because I love Him and want to be in His presence, for me. I desire to be in His presence for my comfort and joy. However, in my love for Him, I desire to please Him. So I live on in an attempt to live for Christ. Paul says in the first chapter of Philippians, verse 21, "for me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." I can say, "to die is gain", for me is an

David, attempted to comfort Hanun the king of the Ammonites when his father died. However, Hanun did not trust that David was doing this in righteousness. Hanun therefore turned against David and defiled his gift of comfort, by mocking David's men and embarrassing them. Our text reveals that this put them in a place they didn't want to be. 2 Samuel 10:6 NASB95 Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of

Do you have Jesus as Lord? Have you believed in the truth of the Gospel? Are you committed to the truth that Jesus is the perfect sinless Son of God wrapped in flesh, fasting from the glories of heaven, for the purpose of taking our place in death? Are you committed to the truth, that He was buried, and that He rose from the dead having defeated death? Are you committed to the truth that He now lives forevermore, and that He has ascended to the Father to make intercession for

James 5:7-8 NASB95 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. Confusion, chaos, attacks, mockery, torture, and death, had filled that Friday. Three crosses on a hill and a guilty man going free. An innocent man carrying a cross to suffer the death of a sinner. A

We recently had a horrible accident not far from where I live. It involved a school bus. Two 13-year-old students lost their lives. Several other students were severely injured. I was told yesterday that there were a lot of discussions going back and forth about seatbelts on school buses. I don't want to get into this debate. What I do want to say, is that accidents will never stop happening. What I want to say, is that death is inevitable. What I want to say, is that just tw