Tag: Holy Spirit

Psalms

Psalm 145:8

KSean

Despite many people’s perception, God isn’t up in heaven just waiting for you to screw up so He can punish you by causing you to get into a traffic accident or by giving you some disease. In fact, just the opposite is true. He’s looking for opportunities to be gracious and merciful to you. Grace is defined as giving something beneficial to someone who doesn’t deserve it. Mercy is defined as the withholding of punishment that is deserved such as when a judge releases a criminal who should go to jail. None of us deserve anything good from God. We’re … Continue reading Psalm 145:8

Romans

Romans 1:28-31

KSean

When people refuse to acknowledge God, thinking there isn’t any benefit in doing so, He gives them what they want. He leaves them. He does this so that they – hopefully – come to realize that He is the only source of good as their lives fall apart without Him. When God leaves people they are then free to think what and how they want. Despite what your friends, lobbying groups, and political parties have been telling you, this is not a good thing. Our minds are naturally filled with immorality. And since our actions are controlled by our thoughts, … Continue reading Romans 1:28-31

Joshua

Joshua 24:15

KSean

Most of the country, including seemingly all of our leaders, have rejected God. As such, for decades they have been behaving – and are currently behaving – in ways that completely disregard Him and His commands. This, as is clearly evidenced, has not created progress. Despite what many people have brainwashed themselves to believe, no one has benefited from this approach. Instead, it has lead to the degradation of our culture. The problems we face as a country have only increased by our decision to make our own decisions. When we act, speak, and think contrary to God’s commands we are … Continue reading Joshua 24:15

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 9:2-3

KSean

There’s been a lot of protests and chaos taking place in cities all over the United States for the past 2 months in response to injustices that have taken place recently and, in fact, over many decades. There’s no question that there are things that happen all over this planet, including in the United States, that should not. The reason for this is, as God has told us, is the human heart is full of evil. We do bad things. Sometimes, really bad things. God commands us to seek and do what is right. To that end, we should do … Continue reading Ecclesiastes 9:2-3

Colossians

Colossians 1:13-14

KSean

Many people who live in countries with a Christian background think that all people are God’s children. Likely they got that idea from religious teaching they received as a child or from their parents. But that is not correct. God makes it clear in the Bible that all people are born separated from Him because of our sinful natures. By default, God is not our father. He is our creator. But He is not our father. Jesus – who was God on Earth – taught that rather than being born into God’s family, each human being is born into Satan’s … Continue reading Colossians 1:13-14

Revelation

Revelation 4:11

KSean

Lots of people wonder why they exist. Many chalk it up to happenstance. A single living cell (that was somehow created from non-living matter) began (for some reason) mutating and combining with other single cells (that also somehow came into existence from non-living matter) and 3.5 billion years later… voila! You were born! If that’s the case then no one’s life has any meaning. If that’s the case then No Lives Matter. We’re all just random chance events with no claim to the right to life. Thankfully, this is not the case. Despite the humanistic brainwashing you received in school … Continue reading Revelation 4:11

Matthew

Matthew 7:13-14

KSean

If you had a hundred apples and were going to give me a “few” of them, how many would you give me? In His famous Sermon on the Mount, as recorded by gospel-writer Matthew, Jesus gives the crowd of people who are listening to Him advice on preparing to enter eternity after they die. He uses a metaphor of two gates that lead to two very different, yet real, destinations. Jesus described the first gate as being “wide”, implying that it is easy to find and can be approached from different directions. He also said the path on the other side … Continue reading Matthew 7:13-14

Romans

Romans 8:1

KSean

There are a lot of great promises from God in the Bible. But probably the most comforting is God’s promise to not condemn anyone who “belongs to Christ Jesus”.   Everyone who is a sinner – that is all of us, by the way – deserves to be condemned to an eternity without God. This state of being is referred to as “hell”. Hell will be horrifically awful because God – the only source of good in the universe – will not be there. Only sinful people and sinful angels will be in hell where they will continue to sin … Continue reading Romans 8:1

Ephesians

Psalm 145:9

KSean

Every one of the 7.5 billion people on the planet is a creation of God. He made each and every one of us because He wanted someone just like each of us to be with Him in heaven forever. That isn’t guaranteed to happen, however, as each of us has sinned (a lot), which disqualifies us from heaven and sentences us to an eternity in hell. But God came from heaven to live on Earth as Jesus where He lived a sinless life (being God, He could do that) then died on a cross where He experienced hell – the … Continue reading Psalm 145:9

Ephesians

Matthew 6:33

KSean

For the past several decades, people in the United States and our country as a whole, have slowly but surely adopted the philosophy that living life on our own without God is the best avenue to better living. We’ve come to believe that we can handle things just fine on our own and when we do we’ll have what we want and need. It’s not surprising that God gives us a different strategy for success. Rather than removing God from our lives as a means to improvement, Jesus tells us to put Him first. In other words, God should be … Continue reading Matthew 6:33

Ephesians

1 Kings 18:18

KSean

The books of 1ˢᵗ and 2ⁿᵈ Kings tell the history of Israel and its kings from the death of King David, Israel’s first king, through Israel’s civil war, and concluding hundreds of years later with the land being conquered by foreign powers. From that point forward, no Jewish nation existed until 1948 (over 2,500 years). But things actually started falling apart early on, shortly after King David, a godly leader, died. His son, King Solomon strayed from God, and his son, Rehoboam, instigated a civil war that resulted in Israel dividing into two nations: Israel and Judah. Things in Israel … Continue reading 1 Kings 18:18

Ephesians

1 Corinthians 13:4-6

KSean

If A=B and C=B then A=C. For example, if A=5 and C=5 then A and C are exactly equal to each other. We live in a world where there is very little love, aside from the love of self, which is pride. What the world calls love is not really love at all as we can see from this verse. Love is not a feeling you feel or a mental state of being. Love is demonstrated. Love is action and attitude towards others. We love others if we are always patient and kind towards them, keeping no record of their … Continue reading 1 Corinthians 13:4-6

Ephesians

Luke 7:47

KSean

Look around the United States and you see a lot of hate. Hate for police. Hate for the President. Hate for people who don’t look or think the way other people do. We live in a society that has little, if any, love for others. But this is not surprising, as God’s word tells us, because love isn’t something that is inherent in the human heart. Nor is it something any human being can manufacture on their own. No, love for others comes from knowing God. Specifically, it comes from receiving the forgiveness He offers through Jesus Christ. When a … Continue reading Luke 7:47

Ephesians

John 8:7

KSean

There are a lot of stones being cast around the United States lately. Many people are acting as if they themselves are the arbiters of what is right and wrong. They’re pointing out the faults of historical figures. They’re going out of their way to intentionally dig up past mistakes of celebrities. All while acting as if they are without fault. The presumed goal of this shade-throwing is to create the unity that is missing in our country. The thought process seems to be “if we tear people down who have done wrong things, we can all be united”. Such … Continue reading John 8:7

Ephesians

2 Chronicles 15:3,5,6

KSean

Chaos is defined as “complete disorder and confusion.”. And that certainly describes the United States right now. We’re confused about the coronavirus and what steps to take regarding it. We’re confused about our history and how to deal with it. Some people are confused about which gender they are. We’re confused about a lot of things and a lot of things, therefore, are in disorder. Why is this? Well, one reason could be that God has caused our nation to be in chaos. Why would He do that? Well, because we’ve not sought Him for a long time. There is … Continue reading 2 Chronicles 15:3,5,6

Ephesians

Psalm 103:13-14

KSean

God is not an ogre. He isn’t callous or cruel. He isn’t a draconian tyrant who revels in being harsh with people. Just the opposite. God is fatherly. He is caring and compassionate. His approach to us is gentle because He knows what we are. God looks down upon us from heaven and sees what we’re going through. The turmoil. The confusion. The fear. The pain. The struggles. And He has pity on us. “Pity” is another one of those words that people misunderstand. Most people think it is has a degrading connotation but a simple lookup in the dictionary … Continue reading Psalm 103:13-14

Ephesians

Ephesians 4:32

KSean

Our nation is facing numerous, simultaneous – not to mention severe – problems and we’ve come up with approaches we think will solve them. ▶︎ Censure people ▶︎ Lambaste leaders ▶︎ Fire people from their jobs ▶︎ Pass legislation ▶︎ Take revenge ▶︎ Remove reminders of the past ▶︎ Create a new holiday While the problems we face in this country are serious and inhibit our quality of life, we aren’t going to alleviate or solve them with any of the aforementioned tactics. The reason why these problems won’t go away is simple: we aren’t following God’s recipe for problem-solving. … Continue reading Ephesians 4:32

Psalms

Psalm 36:2

KSean

No one likes it when people lie to us. We prefer them to be honest. Well, to a point. We’re all for honesty but we draw the line when it comes to receiving feedback from others about our flaws or shortcomings. We’d rather not hear about those. But God isn’t shy, as evidenced by this verse. The language God uses in the Bible to describe the human race does not hold back. God gets right in our faces to tell us exactly how it is. Why does He do that? Why doesn’t he just act like everyone else and ignore … Continue reading Psalm 36:2

Romans

Romans 1:28

KSean

Pretty much everyone recognizes that problems in this country and on this Earth are multiplying, but very few people realize why that is. Not surprisingly, God explains this exact scenario in the Bible. When people – individually or collectively – disregard God He will try to make Himself known to them. But if they insist on living without Him then He will leave them with the hope that they will eventually come to realize that they need Him. It’s no different from a drug addict. Family and friends can try to help that person. They can even stage an intervention. … Continue reading Romans 1:28

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 5:25

KSean

When we are young we envisioned our futures being filled with good times and wonderful experiences. But then we get older and reality fails to line up with our dreams. Most people, if they were honest, would probably say that their lives aren’t as good as they’d like, or as good as they dreamed they’d be when they were younger. There’s a good reason for that. Sin. When God created mankind He placed us in paradise – the exact environment He wanted us to have. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had the perfect situation. There were no … Continue reading Jeremiah 5:25

Zechariah

Zechariah 7:12

KSean

There are many things that make God angry. He tells us about them in the Bible. Primarily, God gets angry at sin. He gets angry at sin because He knows the damage that sin does to our lives. Not only does it cause innumerable problems in our lives here on Earth – problems that cascade down to subsequent generations – but it severely damages our eternity. Sin keeps us from being with God in heaven after we die, as He intended when He created us. So anytime a person sins, God becomes angry because He is jealous over us. He … Continue reading Zechariah 7:12

Proverbs

Proverbs 28:27

KSean

God makes lots of promises in the Bible. Sometimes, He promises to do something unilaterally. In such a case, God obligates Himself to take the promised action at some point in the future. A good example of this is when, in the Garden of Eden immediately after Adam and Eve sinned, He promised to send a savior to the human race to pay for our sins. This is something He did completely on His own without requiring us to do anything ourselves. Sometimes, though, God’s promises are conditional. He will do something if and when we do something first. In … Continue reading Proverbs 28:27

Isaiah

Isaiah 48:9

KSean

Countless people wonder why God allows all the evil that happens in this world to persist. Why does He not deal with it by punishing those who commit evil acts? Well, God tells us why in the Bible. The reason why evil continues in this world is that God is patient with us. All sin makes God angry. God gets angry at sin because He knows what it does to us. He knows how much it hurts us and prevents us from living the content, peaceful lives that He intends for us to have. But all of us sin, including … Continue reading Isaiah 48:9

Judges

Judges 2:18

KSean

God sees everything that happens on this Earth, including all the things we don’t see. He knows our thoughts. He knows our motives – even when it appears that someone is acting selflessly, God knows whether that is true or not. And while God’s omniscience will come into play on Judgment Day when He judges everyone’s lives, the fact that God sees everything is a source of comfort right now to those who are part of His family. Like any good parent, God does not like it when His children are afflicted and oppressed. All over the world believers are … Continue reading Judges 2:18

John

John 1:3

KSean

Speaking of Jesus, the gospel writer John tells us that “all things” were made through Him; there was nothing that was made that was not made by Him. This tells us a couple of things. First, it tells us that Jesus is God. Before Jesus was born God existed in heaven in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It was the Son who came to Earth as Jesus. But long before coming to Earth 2,000 years ago He created the universe and all that is in it. There are plenty of recorded events in the Bible … Continue reading John 1:3

Luke

Luke 2:10-11

KSean

Good news brings great joy. And there is no better news than the news we celebrate on Christmas Day – the birth of Jesus. Jesus is the Christ. The term “Christ” it a titular term derived from the Greek word “Christos” which, along with it’s Hebrew counterpart, “Messiah”, means “the anointed One”. Jesus is the one chosen by God to deliver people from the penalty of their sins. The birth of Jesus – in the town of Bethlehem, the city in which David was born – is the fulfillment of God’s promise to the human race to address our sin … Continue reading Luke 2:10-11

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Acts 4:12

KSean

Humanity is doomed. Because of our sinfulness, we have alienated ourselves from God. The consequence of our sin is eternal separation from God. We all deserve, because of our sin, to be removed from God’s presence forever. This is everyone’s fate unless we are somehow reconciled back to Him. But since we continue to sin every day, there is no way to close this gap. The distance between each of us and God is constantly widening. Yet, God didn’t create us to be separated from Him. He created us to be with Him. So because God loves us so much, … Continue reading Acts 4:12

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Isaiah 7:14

KSean

A lot of people are confused about the virgin birth of Jesus. Atheists and people of other religions dismiss it as a fable. Even some professing Christians don’t quite understand the meaning of it. Of course, if there is a god then supernatural events, such as a virgin conceiving a child, are not impossible. But even more, in God’s salvation plan, the virgin birth of Jesus was a necessity. In order to save the world from the penalty of their sins (that penalty is eternity in hell) God had to provide a savior – someone who could take on that … Continue reading Isaiah 7:14

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2 Corinthians 5:21

KSean

Despite the secular nature of Christmas in our modern culture, this holiday is about one thing: the birth of Jesus the Christ. The birth of Jesus is significant – eternally significant – because it was through Jesus that God was going to create a way for the whole world – everyone who ever lived – to be absolved of their sin so they could reside in heaven forever. God created each person for one reason: He wanted someone like each of us to be with Him. But our sin prevents that as the standard for being in God’s presence is … Continue reading 2 Corinthians 5:21

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Psalms 92:7

KSean

Every day we hear about evil things that have happened in our world. Crazy dictators fire missiles and threaten to destroy entire countries. Powerful people abuse their power to receive sexual favors. Gunmen enter churches, movie theaters, and schools and kill dozens of people, including young children. There is a lot of wickedness on this planet. And it seems to be getting worse, almost by the day. For those people who don’t know God, these news items can be very unsettling. But for those of us who do know God know that while evil is undeniably flourishing, there will come … Continue reading Psalms 92:7

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Proverbs 20:7

KSean

There are certainly a lot of benefits to living “righteously”. That is, according to God’s design and desire for us. For one, we’d reduce the problems that take a toll on our society. Taking just one example, imagine if everyone’s sex life conformed to the rules God gave us and we only had sex with our spouse. If we did just that one thing we’d improve our lives immensely. There’d be no STDs. There’d be no AIDs. There’d be no adultery and therefore fewer divorces. So there’d be fewer single moms struggling to provide for their children. There’d be no … Continue reading Proverbs 20:7

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John 5:44

KSean

The way to heaven is to believe in Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins. The entire Bible makes this clear. Jesus Himself made it crystal clear, especially as recorded in John’s gospel account which was written mainly to demonstrate the necessity of belief. There are, however, many things in life that can cause us not to believe. Jesus mentions one of them in today’s verse. The praise of men – accolades from other human beings – can prevent us from seeking God. And if one does not seek God, one cannot believe. And if one does not believe, one … Continue reading John 5:44

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Acts 20:24

KSean

God is holy. He is absolutely perfect. He is without blemish to such an extent that we human beings cannot possibly comprehend. God is also genuine. His motives towards the people He has created are 100% pure and selfless. He wants only what is best for us and has told us exactly what that is and how to get it. This is why sin is so serious. Whenever we sin – whenever we do (or don’t do) something that God says we should not (or should) do, we are essentially calling God a liar; we are saying that He is … Continue reading Acts 20:24

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Deuteronomy 30:15

KSean

Every one of us has wondered at some point why, if God exists, is there evil in the world. Many will point to the existence of evil as “proof” that God does not exist. This used to be one of my main objections to the existence of God many years ago. Others may believe that God causes evil and therefore is some sort of schizophrenic, capricious deity. Still others may think that the existence of evil in this world proves that God is not all-powerful or all-loving. None of these hypotheses are true. The problem with all of them is … Continue reading Deuteronomy 30:15

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Matthew 6:31-33

KSean

Many people have God in the back of their mind. They know He exists and that they should make time to learn more about Him. But they don’t do so because they are too busy with other things. These people live distracted lives. They’re focused on their needs – what they’ll eat and drink – and their wants – what they’ll wear and how they’ll look. But since there’s always something else they need – or think they need – they never make any time for God as they’re constantly chasing after the things the world has to offer. They’re … Continue reading Matthew 6:31-33

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Romans 5:20-21

KSean

It’s really easy to convince ourselves that we’re not so bad. That while we may not be perfect, our mistakes aren’t terribly unacceptable and when we look at our lives in total, we’re actually pretty good. But when we study the Bible we see that is not a reasonable conclusion. In fact, the very reason for God’s commands – “the law” – is to show us how bad we really are. God never intended for His commands to be a target for us to aim at, as all religions teach. Instead, He gave us His commands so we would see … Continue reading Romans 5:20-21

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2 Timothy 3:15

KSean

There’s only one source of information which contains the instructions we each need to get to heaven. That source is the Bible. God, through His Holy Spirit, inspired human authors to write the Bible. Each word was dictated by God Himself in order that those who read it will gain wisdom on the subject of eternal life. This is important because people don’t get to heaven the way they think they do. Every world religion teaches (in one form or another) that people get to heaven by good works. If they do more “good” than “bad” they’ll go to heaven. … Continue reading 2 Timothy 3:15