The church of the New Testament was vitally important and incomparably valuable to Jesus!  He had planned for it before the Creation (Eph. 3:10-11).  He came to this earth and promised to build it Himself (Matt. 16:18).  He ensured its coming by purchasing it with His own blood (Acts 20:28).  He sent the Holy Spirit to establish it in Acts 2 (2:32-47). …

When God first created mankind in the Garden of Eden, they enjoyed a perfect relationship with God, dwelling together with Him without any barriers.  Adam and Eve “heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8).  But something happened.  Man did something (called “sin”) that changed that intimate relationship.  And ever since…

You will not find two things that are more polar opposite than “God” and “sin.”  Sin is the most devastating disease on the face of the earth, because of who it afflicts and because of its eternal consequences.  “Sin” separates man from his “God,” because sin is contrary to the holy nature of God (Hab. 1:13).  Yet, even though man sins by…

There is no Bible doctrine more important than salvation, for this concerns one’s spiritual condition, the state of one’s relationship with God and the eternal destiny of one’s soul.  This is not a matter that can be taken lightly, nor should we just assume that what others have told us is Biblically accurate.  There is only one place that we can turn…

From the moment that Adam and Eve sinned in the beginning, God began to reveal His plan to save man from his sins.  His plan centered around the sending of His Son to pay the ultimate price, by sacrificing Himself on the cross in our place and bearing all of our sins upon Himself (John 3:16; Eph. 5:2; 1 Pet. 2:24).  God…

The pursuit of salvation from sins ought to be the most important undertaking in any person’s life.  But salvation does not come by following a strategy devised by a religious leader or some church.  Salvation is only obtained by finding and following the plan designed by the God of heaven.  In order to be saved from sins, one must believe that Jesus…

When one begins to walk down a path, the ultimate goal is to reach the destination.  There will be things to see and do along the way, but the true objective is to take each of the necessary steps in order to reach the goal.  The path that leads to salvation from sin is very similar to that.  The ultimate objective is…

The subject of baptism is one of the most thrilling in all of the Bible, and yet it is one of the most widely disputed in the religious world.  Does baptism have anything to do with our salvation?  Must one be baptized in order to be saved and to go to heaven?  Let us not look to man or a church for…