Jesus is going around and doing good. He heals the man at the pool of Bethesda and the religious people of the day respond in John 5:10 “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick…
Author: Eric Ross
If You Had Known The Gift of God
We all have developed ideas about who God is and how we are to please him, but many of these ideas are based on historic social experience as Jesus said in Mark 7:7 “And they worship me in vain, teaching…
All Are Coming to Him!
Most have heard that Jesus came to bring the message that God loves us, and he does. Jesus also came to bring righteousness and justice as he demonstrated when he drove the money changers out of the temple in Mark…
You Are the King of Israel
The gospel of John opens in John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” and in John 1:3 “All things came into being through him”. It is God acting…
The One Who Does Good is of God
Our relationship with God begins the moment we accept that Jesus Christ came in the flesh and gave his life for our sin. From that moment, we begin walking on the earth as the sons and daughters of God. Sadly,…
By this You Know the Spirit of God
Every person is born into the world in a state of innocence. We then become aware of the natural world and learn to recognize sin. But God has not left us, in Ephesians 2:12 “not having hope, and without God…
The Blood of Jesus His Son Cleanses Us
Jesus came to bring salvation to man. He came to make the way for us to be free from sin and death, as it says in Romans 8:22 “For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony…
You May Become Sharers of the Divine Nature
Peter tells us that God, in 2 Peter 1:3 “has bestowed on us all things that are necessary for life and godliness” and then says in 2 Peter 1:4 “he has bestowed on us his precious and very great promises,…
Equip Yourselves With the Same Way of Thinking
How does God think? What is important in His mind? Peter says of women, 1 Peter 3:3–4 “Let your adornment not be the external kind, braiding hair and putting on gold jewelry or putting on fine clothing, 4 but the hidden…
The Prayer of Faith Will Save the Sick
What are we doing on this earth? How is it that we have the great beauty of creation around us and yet some suffer? God has given himself to us as an example, He came and walked among us in…
The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above
Do we really understand the way God thinks? James challenges us to understand “the wisdom that comes down from above”. He uses this description in James 3:15, but it is defined in James 3:17–18 “But the wisdom from above is…
That the Fellowship of Your Faith May Become Effective
We are often content in our personal relationship with the Lord, and it is good for us to experience his presence with us and in our lives. Paul, though is praying for Philemon, in Philemon 6 “I pray that the…
Renewal by the Holy Spirit
The Lord Helped Me and Strengthened Me 2 Timothy 4:9–22 In the Hope of Eternal Life Titus 1:1–4 Exhort With Sound Instruction Titus 1:5–16 The Grace of God Has Appeared, Bringing Salvation Titus 2:1–15 Renewal by the Holy Spirit…
Preach the Word Be Ready in Season and Out
I Know in Whom I Have Believed 2 Timothy 1:8–18 Be Strong in the Grace That is in Christ Jesus 2 Timothy 2:1–7 That They Also May Obtain Salvation Which is in Christ Jesus 2 Timothy 2:8–13 Present Yourself Approved…