The original question: Hello dear brother Aaron, someone very close to me just asked a very good question after reading your Roman Catholic tract. The question is, she made an example of her grandparents, of course long dead, but she said ‘they were born into Catholicism and that’s all theyRead More

2 Timothy 2:1: Paul had been talking in chapter one about the holy calling of Christ’s Gospel and how affliction is inevitable as one walks according to its terms in obedience to Christ.  In Timothy’s case, he should press forward in his duties as a Gospel minister undeterred.  Paul isRead More

2 Timothy 1:1: Paul was sent to proclaim the true grace of God in Jesus Christ along with its terms and conditions. 1:2-3: Paul served God in line with how He has made Himself known in the Jewish Scriptures.  The Jewish Scriptures promised and foreshadowed the Messiah’s first coming toRead More

1 Timothy 1:1-3: Paul had rather recently left Timothy to oversee the Christian fellowship which he had planted at Ephesus.  1:4: This would include what is known as the Apocryphal Books.  Paul may have especially had these in mind here.  They were rejected by the Jewish nation as inspired Scripture. Read More

(See our coming study on 1 Timothy for the text) The word translated as first in 1 Timothy 1:16 is also “protos” in the original Greek. 1 Timothy 1:16: “Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a patternRead More

John 15:14 “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” Matthew 12:30“He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” – Amos 3:3 “Be ye not unequally yoked together withRead More

Like the Book of 2 John, the Book of 3rd John is also one relatively short chapter. 3 John 1:1: Gaius was a faithful Christian brother whom the Apostle John must have known well and already had quality fellowship with. 3:2: Or, I pray that in all things. This isRead More

2 John 1:1: There is an objective Christian faith which we must be submitted to.  There is true spiritual compatibility, and hence righteous spiritual fellowship in line with the real Jesus, among those who know Jesus Christ because they are indeed submitted to the truth of His Word. 1:2: God’sRead More

Philippians 1:1-5: Referring to the day when people in Philippi first believed in Jesus Christ.  We read about Paul’s initial mission trip to Philippi in Acts chapter 16. 1:6: Or, complete it.  This is not teaching that their perseverance in the Christian faith is guaranteed.  This was said based uponRead More

Malachi is the final book of the Hebrew Scriptures in terms of chronology (and in terms of arrangement as well when it comes to how the Christian Bible arranges the books of the Old Testament).  It is the Lord’s final prophetic word to the nation of Israel until the forerunnerRead More