When any question is asked like this, there are some important things to remember. First, we can only know that God does or does not do something based on what Scripture tells us and not on human conjecture. Second, acceptance of a Bible truth does not force the acceptance of a falsely devised premise based on that truth (example: it is true…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 241)
Reading the Psalms is an enriching and encouraging experience. The attentive reader never resolves to do less for the Lord after ingesting one of these tasty morsels. Quite the contrary! The motivating force of these inspired writings always urges the reader to do more, to reach farther, to dig deeper, to extend oneself more and more for the Lord. Look at the…
As one reads Mark 12, he will come across this series of paragraphs: “Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in His words” (12:13). “Then some Sadducees…came to Him; and they asked Him…” (12:18). “Then one of the scribes came, and…asked Him…” (12:28). Jesus’ attackers, deniers, second-guessers kept coming and coming. Then, there is…
The Lord had great things to say to and about the church in Philadelphia in Revelation 3:7-13. Because of their faithfulness in keeping His commandments, Jesus revealed unto them, “See, I have set before you an open door…” (Rev. 3:8). It is first interesting to note that their diligent service did not lead the Lord to say, “That’s enough for now. Go…
Imagine encountering some of the people that Jesus encountered during His lifetime. Would you respond like Jesus did? Imagine coming face-to-face with a leper, a woman with a blood malady of 12 years, a woman caught in adultery, beggars, ingrates, disfigured and unsightly invalids, numerous diseased, tricksters, spoiled rich brats, a traitor, hateful and violent soldiers, a cowardly king, a spineless governor,…
The central and vitally essential part of God’s eternal plan was for Deity to take on flesh and live among men as a man on this earth and to ultimately die as a man for all other men. Why was it vitally essential for Deity to be “made in the likeness of men” (Phil. 2:7)? “In all things He had to be…
The New Testament book of Hebrews was written to a group of Christians who were perilously close to “departing from the living God” by developing in themselves “an evil heart of unbelief” (Heb. 3:12). The inspired writer was trying mightily to draw them back from the precipice of “destruction/perdition/ ruin” (10:39). Chapter six contains one of the serious warnings he gives. For our…
There was something very wrong with the Israelites who were delivered by the miracle-enriched hand of the Almighty from the distressed slavery of Pharaoh to the bountiful plenty of Jehovah, for Scripture tells us they did not enter the Promised Land “because of unbelief” (Heb. 3:19). In the same passage, God equates “unbelief” with “disobedience” (3:16-19; 4:1-11). In God’s eyes, not obeying…