Whenever a person is not standing on God’s word and speaking in alignment with God’s will, he or she is not speaking with authority. If a person tells you to do something that is immoral, illegal, or unbiblical you have no responsibility to obey that individual. In fact, to obey an immoral command is to disobey your Heavenly Father. This is why the scribes did not teach with authority. They were not teaching God’s word but instead their own novel ideas.
We do not know when we will face the trials of life so we need to daily be applying God’s word in our lives so we are prepared and stable when the trials of life do come.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ […]
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good […]
Everyone who comes to Christ receives forgiveness and begins a relationship with God that lasts forever. However, because of sin we find that many people prefer the broad way that ultimately leads to destruction.
God did good for us in providing Jesus when we didn’t deserve it and could not have earned it. In a similar way, we do good to others, not because they earned it or deserve it, but because this demonstrates the same grace we have received.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or […]
“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.” Matthew 7:6 If the title didn’t get your attention, I am sure reading the verse did! This is one of those verses that you might struggle with because it seems difficult to understand or apply. […]
“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own […]
“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.” Matthew 7:1-2 The title might give away where I am going with this weekly article but bear with me nonetheless. I heard one pastor call these verses, “The most quoted verses in […]
