How Much Is Enough?
1 Timothy 6:6-8 But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. 7 For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. 8 If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. What does it...
The Destructiveness of Sin
Scripture reading: Matthew 17:14-21 and 1 Peter 5:8 We have here a record of a child, who is suffering from some form of lunacy, being brought to Christ. The suffering was such that the child fell into the water and fire. Water is likely meant here enough water to...
Fruit of the Spirit: Concluding Thoughts
Our study on the Fruit of the Spirit is now concluded. In each of the individual components of the fruit, the emphasis is not what we are capable of, but rather the work of the Holy Spirit. If we could in and of ourselves express all of the components of the fruit,...
Trust
Scripture reading: 1 Samuel 17:32-49 It is easy for us to read a story like David and Goliath and exclaim, "Wow, look at what the Lord did!" It is easy because we are not the ones getting our hands wet selecting stones from the brook. We are not the ones holding the...
Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control
Self-control. We get restraint and temperance from the original word used here translated as self-control. To arrive at a proper understanding and definition of self-control, we first have to understand what control means. In other words, what are we controlling...
Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness
Gentleness. Gentleness is related to “meek” found in Matthew 5:5 from the Beatitudes Jesus gave in the Sermon on the Mount, and the King James Version actually translates this word as meekness. This meekness is rooted in the Old Testament (Numbers 12:3, Psalm 22:26,...
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