If we want to know what the true gospel is and what we should preach: we can do no better than to follow the example of our Lord! The primary teaching of both John Baptist and Jesus Christ [the true Gospel] was to repent of living according to our own natural inclinations, and to change […]
Category: Exhortation For The Ekklesia
Needed: A Spiritual Revival in the Assemblies
As of now president Trump plans to present his peace plan by end February, in response Netanyahu plans to call an election to establish a new mandate to deal with the plan, and the general Middle East War seems likely in Spring / Summer 2019 followed by serious peace talks. There is a strong probability […]
Reprint: The Elijah Work
This is a reprint of “The Elijah Work” posts from January 2012. The Elijah Work If someone is doing an “Elijah” work; they must be doing God’s work in the spirit and power of Elijah; and they must be doing what Elijah did which is to declare that the Eternal is God and beside Him […]
Pentecost Message
Just in time for Pentecost! The very popular Biblical Sabbath and Calendar book has now been expanded so much that it has been divided into two books! The first book is “Personal Salvation,” but don’t be confused by that title; the book is about much more than repentance and baptism. This book includes studies in […]
The Corporate COG Struggle with Law and Grace
Historically from the days of the first century many false teachers have crept into the Ekklesia, not understanding the scriptures and attempting to use God’s forgiveness of repented sin as a license to justify minimizing the law and Word of God. Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of […]
What is The True Gospel?
The Mosaic Covenant was an agreement between the people of Israel and their Creator that the Eternal [YHVH] would be their God and king and that they would be his people, his nation. The people promised to live by every Word of God and God promised that if they did so they would be physically […]
The Letter and Spirit of the Law
Beware of false teachers who claim that the “spirit” of the Word of God does away with the letter of the law of God! There are those who claim that it is Pharisaic to be zealous for keeping the law of God in its physical letter, such men try to substitute what they regard as […]
Biblical Philadelphian Love
There is enormous talk about brotherly love and the “Philadelphian Christian” in the assemblies. It is important to have a good understanding of the subject of love and the meaning of Philadelphian love as we examine ourselves before Passover. Regardless of all the hair splitting over the meaning of words like Agape Love, if we […]
Behold the Bridegroom Cometh!
It is long past time for the bride to prepare herself to meet her LORD! The looming Middle East regional war is now close at hand, it will be followed by a genuine peace deal which will almost immediately collapse into the great tribulation! At the Rabbinic Passover and before Easter – when hundreds of […]
Godly Leadership
This is intended to cover the basics of proper godly leadership in this life, in preparation to become the kings and priests, the leadership of the kingdom of God. The job of the priests and Levites was primarily to TEACH the people, set an example of godliness and to effect a reconciliation between the people […]
Hunger and Thirst for the Righteousness of God
In Psalm 42 David painted the picture of a thirsty deer lapping up the refreshing waters from a bubbling brook; and Peter admonishes us to crave God’s Word and His righteousness just as a hungry newborn infant seeks to be filled with its mother’s milk. Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst […]
Persevere to Remove Every Trace of Sin
Israel embarked on their journey out of Egypt as the sun set ending the 14th and beginning the 15 day of the first month. They left with great joy just as a man called out of bondage to sin by the Father accepts that calling to truth with great joy. Now Pharaoh was most angry […]
Repentance and Overcoming
Whenever Israel followed God, they were victorious; and whenever they tried to fight the enemy their own way, while not being faithful to God, they were defeated. This is also true in the spiritual sense, concerning our fight against sin. Satan is far smarter and stronger than we are; and whenever we try to fight […]
The Flat Earth
Is The Earth Flat? Today we begin the new studies through Genesis and Exodus at The School of Biblical Studies site. I have recently received some inquires as to my position on the flat earth idea and since Genesis 1 begins the book of Genesis with the Creation Week, I thought that this was a […]
Today’s Great Falling Away and the Keys to the Kingdom
In 1 Thessalonians 2 Paul provides this warning for the people of God and for all humanity. 1 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, […]
Laodicea: The People Will be Judged and Punished
People are so very comfortable in their ruts that they want the present conditions to continue on without change. We humans are mostly creatures of habit and it is very true that the more an action is repeated, the more entrenched the habit becomes. That is how we learn, as repeated actions or thoughts create […]
Jezebel and the Elijah Work
1 Kings 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat [the idolatry of the golden calves of Egypt], that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served […]
God is Shaking and Sifting the Brethren
LCG’s new YouTube live program Tomorrow’s World Now is not getting anywhere with weekly visits reaching a peak on week three with the Weston announcement and then steadily declining: Week 1. 1166; 2. 1092; 3. 2078; 4. 1973; 5. 1452; 6. 1263; 7. 1179; 8. 1167. A variety of circumstances are bringing UCG brethren […]
The Plain Truth About Sowing Division
I think that most of us realize that God is the ultimate head of all things and that Christ is the head of the Ekklesia Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. […]
Laodicea and the Nicolaitanes
The post contains extensive quotes from: Beloved, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.” by J.H. Allen Laodicea and the Nicolaitanes When our Lord Jesus Christ walked among men, He taught His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, whom He denounced as hypocrites. With them He classed the chief priests and officials of […]
