Bible Studies

The Kingdom of God is awesome! The opportunity to be born as a very son of God in the soon—coming resurrection from the dead is so much more important than all the other things in this world—all the other things in your life—that there is absolutely…

So many Sunday school teachers tell people, as mine did, "You don't need to understand everything. But Jesus certainly opened peoples' minds through the parables, because He spoke in agricultural terms and symbols so they could understand." But that…

Last time, we reached Chapter 12 verse 37. Here, Jesus said: "By your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." We have to be very careful what we say when we judge, evaluate or condemn others. We had better be very…

The Bible talks about the Lord's Day, and people like to say that was Sunday. But the Lord's Day spoken of in Revelation is the time when God will intervene in human affairs and SHAKE the nations and SHAKE every mountain and every island out of its…

Many scholars have not been sure what this means. Was John, cut off in prison, unsure about Jesus, or was he in fact doing this primarily for the good of His disciples? I think it is probably the latter; though it might have been both, in part. The…

"Brought before governors and kings"—not some nice courtesy call or tea party, but brought before them. In most cases, we find that the Apostles were brought before the authorities in chains. They were prisoners, as the Apostle Paul was when he was…

Back then, people knew how to fast. People today don't talk much about fasting. It is not a very popular subject in our affluent society. When people these days do fast, they often have a "water fast" or a "juice fast." Back then, a religious fast…

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." We need to realize this basic principle. He does not change. He is always willing to heal. He may not heal as much today as He did back then, because we are not living in an age of faith.…

Christ goes on to explain that whatever you want men to do to you, you should do also to them. God is very good to us, and we also must be very good to one another. You want to learn to love your neighbor as yourself. This is called the "golden rule…

A number of translations translate this as "condemn not, that you be not condemned" because Jesus is not just talking using the word "judge" to indicate "discerning." God tells us, all the way through the Bible, to be very discerning.