Romans 4:15 Because The Law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. There are a few things that I use to understand the Bible. Firstly, whatever I read, I recognize that the Cross of Jesus Christ is the dividing line between the Old and the New covenants, and apply the effects…
“Jesus Christ loved his Body so much he took it Home!” – Brook Potter Let me first remind everyone, I’m not married. So even though this article may have marital implications, I think it best to let people know, that I’m not necessarily talking from personal marriage experience. While I’m not married, I do have…
“Everyone says they are trusting God for their relationships, but then have all of their own reasons why someone is not good enough.” – Brook Potter Do Christians Divorce Over Doctrine? I would like to start out by saying, I’m not married. In the area of dating and marriage, Christians have all but handed themselves…
“Show me the Spiritual Instructions for marriage.” Chase Genre Torn Now it is no secret to my readers and those that follow me, that I’m not married. In fact, there is a running joke within our ministry, of a world-wide search currently underway to correct this supposed imbalance in the “Force”, to take me…
“God particularizes salvation, first in Israel and finally in Jesus, precisely in order to universalize it. He cuts out everybody, just so he can eventually draw in all. He excludes, but only to catholicize (Include all),” — Robert Capon The Bible records the account of only two men who in effect, represented all humanity. Firstly,…
How to Spot the New Covenant, Part 2 Continued from Part 1 Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: In my last post, we examined the pattern of…
Luke 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. Nothing kills a person’s spiritual life, faster than Legalism. Without fail, the moment a person takes their eyes off of what Jesus Christ has already done, and turns…
“Self-righteousness people can think so little of themselves, but think so highly of their ability to get themselves to where we need to be” – Brook Potter, Self-righteousness. Only in the mind of a believer, can we take two contrary truths and try to make both of them apply. It comes basically from a failure…
Matthew 16:12 Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread. Rather, it was against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Understanding the ministry of Jesus is tremendously important if you are not to be confused. Jesus was known as a Rabbi which means a teacher…
Continued from Part 4 Proverbs 31:4-5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. One of the many verses the modern day Pharisee uses to justify their Gnostic…
Continued from Part 3 Here Matthew 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. In my previous part of this study, we examined the verses in both the Old and New Testament concerning the consumption of wine and alcohol. Throughout…
Continued from The Religious War on Wine – Part 2… Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. When I was a young Christian, I used to enjoy the sermons…