So I Send You
Oct 13[Translate] “Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you” (John 20:21). For approximately three years the disciples had followed Jesus in His travels, had listened to His teaching, and participated in His ministry. They had forsaken “all, and followed Him” (Luke 5:11). They had seen Him ridiculed, opposed, oppressed, suffer...
Why do "Christians" act and talk so… worldly?
Feb 25
In the Book of Ephesians are included several guidelines for the Christian's speech--how we should talk and what we should talk about. These are not easy rules to follow, but are necessary if we would please our Savior and be effective in our Christian lives and witness. As our text indicates, vulgar talk, idle chatter, and coarse jesting should "not be once named among you, as becometh saints" (5:3). "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers" (4:29). The same applies to bitter, angry, malicious speech. "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice" (4:31). And certainly our communications should be true and trustworthy. "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor" (4:25).
How to know the will of God…
Sep 22
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:5, 6) The key to knowing God's will is willingness and determination to follow it before knowing it. "If any man will |literally 'wills to'| do his will, he shall know" (John 7:17). The best indicator as to whether one is really willing to follow God's will, of course, is whether or not he is now following that part of His will which is already known, as revealed in His Word. This requires first knowing and believing, and then obeying the Word, especially those portions dealing with God's general will for all Christians. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (Psalm 119:105). Then, if one indeed is following the revealed will of God, he may ask in confidence (1 John 5:14, 15) for the Lord to indicate His will in a specific matter on which there is no explicit biblical teaching (see also James 1:5, 6).
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