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…

Scripture uses an interesting expression about God and certain ones of His people. “God remembered Noah…God remembered Abraham…God remembered Rachel…The Lord remembered [Hannah]…” (Gen. 8:1; 19:29; 30:22; 1 Sam. 1:19). This in no way indicates that the Lord had forgotten them or that they had slipped His mind or attention for a period of time. Similar expression is used by Nehemiah repeatedly…

After the flood, the descendants of Noah were journeying out and being “divided on the earth” (Gen. 10:32; 11:2). “And it came to pass…they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there” (Gen. 11:2). The fact that they stopped journeying and “dwelt there” is significant. There they said to one another, “Come, let us” (notice the pronoun “us”)…

How does someone become a friend? How does someone move from being a non-friend to being a friend? When do you allow someone to transition from outside to inside your circle of friends? Does any of this really matter? In Proverbs 12:26, the Lord declares, “The righteous should choose his friends carefully.” Think about it. Someone cannot force themselves into our  circle…