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Does Being Spiritually Dead Make a Person Incapable of Repentance?
Genesis 2:16-17: “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Moving aheadRead More
Real Repentance Submits to God’s Law; Faith in Christ is Vain When Isolated From That
Many who call Jesus Lord will go to hell for practicing lawlessness. If God’s true grace were not lawful and it was wrong to insist on subjection to His commandments in order to cooperate with the grace which He offers, then a professing Christian could never even really be aRead More
Aspects of Real Repentance Which Many Overlook (The Thief on the Cross- Luke 23:39-43)
Luke 23:39-43: “And one of the malefactors (criminals) which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive theRead More
Lessons in Inadequate Repentance from King Saul
1 Samuel 15:1-3: “Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel,Read More
Lessons About True Repentance and Righteous Living from Proverbs
Since true repentance is turning from sin to do what is right and pleasing in God’s sight, then every point about righteous living in Scripture is a lesson related to true repentance. And along the same lines, every contrast in the Bible between the righteous and the wicked is inRead More
Repentance: Central to Jesus’ Message
(1) Mar 1:14-15 “Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” (2) Mat 4:17 “From that time JesusRead More
Does God Administer the Death Penalty Too Often in the Bible?
God’s wrath is against those that do evil, His death penalty. He sometimes expresses that wrath in this life and cuts off evildoers by going out of His way to kill them. There is no need to hide or downplay this reality. The true God is a just Judge whoRead More
Would God Have Left Israel in the Wilderness More Than 40 Years if it Continued to Rebel?
Would the Israelites have ever been brought into Canaan if they continued to rebel against God in the wilderness? The answer is based upon principles that give answers to questions which are heavily debated today. Canaan is the land which God promised to Israel. This land was promised conditionally ratherRead More
Why Exactly Were Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed?
Moral depravity involves a progressive decline. The most severe sins which people commit are arrived at by sins that were precursors to those. The Lord judging a society for a particular sin would not necessitate that the judgment was also not against other sins which prevail in that society. DirectlyRead More
What Can Be Learned From the Message to the Laodiceans? (Rev 3:14-22)
The messages to the seven churches in Asia which are found in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 do not represent seven periods in church history like some claim. They are rather messages given to actual churches in the late first century AD demonstrating the Risen Jesus’ estimate of their spiritualRead More