We need to understand that Romans chapters 6, 7, and 8 should be read together. If you just read one of those chapters and don’t not read the other two, then you will miss truths and get all messed up. As we get into Romans 6, we have laid before us the ideal Christian life—the Christian life as it is intended to be. There is a phrase which occurs there several times: “freed from sin.” In this chapter we learned that as born-again believers we are freed from sin. Not that we cannot sin, but that now as believers the dominion of sin has been broken over us and we…

What is the Christian position concerning war? Where are we going to get the answers? Are we going to get the answer from the pacifists, who believe there should be no war whatsoever? Are we going to get the answer from a conscientious objector? Conscientious he or she may be, but he or she refuses to go to war. Are we going to get the answers from those whose hearts ache when they think of the pain of sending a son, a daughter, into harm’s way? Or are we going to get the answer from those who want war, the warmongers, those who think in a twisted way that perhaps…

In John 10:10 Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” You see there the same picture. “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” Every born-again child of God has life. Romans 6:23 says “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” So every Christian has life. But the Bible says it is possible for a Christian not only to have life, but to have a life that is a full and overflowing life. I write about the overflowing kind of life. In Romans 5:8–13, Paul brings…

Prayer is the greatest Christian privilege and the grandest Christian service. Prayer is greater than singing, preaching, soul winning, testifying, and teaching. Prayer is our greatest success and also our greatest failure. I believe that more than 80 percent of Christians would say, “I am not satisfied with my prayer life.” Is this true for you? What is the answer to this? Praying in the Spirit is the key to a victorious prayer life. It is the answer to our indifference, when God seems far away. It is the answer to our ignorance, when we don’t know what to pray for. It is the answer to our weakness, when we…

Almost 100 percent of the Bible prophecies are related to Israel, the land and the people. Israel is the focal point in today’s world. Israel is in the headlines of every newspaper, not only in America but around the world. The eyes of the world are focused on the little nation of Israel. Israel is the land and the people of destiny. As the Jewish race goes, so goes the world. Israel is God’s yardstick, God’s outline, God’s blueprint, God’s program, and God’s prophecy, for all of the other nations of the world. The apostle Paul has been writing in Romans 11 about God’s plan and how it includes the…

How many victorious Christians do you know? We know that we’re saved by grace, and we thank God for this. There’s absolutely nothing we can do to save ourselves or to help save ourselves. We’re saved by the grace of God. If you come to God as a prince, you’ll go away a beggar, but if you come to God as a beggar, you’ll go away as a prince.  Now we’re not saved by works of any kind. Good deeds cannot save us. Does that mean, however, that it makes no difference how we live? In Romans chapter 6:1 we read, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in…

In the Atlantic Ocean there is a great mass of water bounded on three sides that is called the Bermuda Triangle, and some call it the Devil’s triangle. It is said that airplanes fly into that Bermuda Triangle and disappear. Ships sail into that vast place of water and they disappear. I really do not think there’s anything really to it. Yet, my goal is not write about the Devil’s Triangle, but Divine Triangle. The Divine Triangle is not a myth – it’s a miracle. It doesn’t cause things to disappear – it brings things into being. Where is the Divine Triangle? It is located in Romans 11:36:  “For from…

In the desperate days we are living in, Christians need to have spiritual steel and Christ-center concrete in their lives. We need to have an anchor of faith to grip the solid rock. Many Christians are being blown about by the winds of circumstances and are being scattered by the storms of calamity. They are being swept away in floods of affliction. They seemingly do not have an anchor that will hold them in the storm. God wants us to be strong. God doesn’t want us to fold up and give up. God wants us to look up and stand up. God wants us to have a foundation that is…

If there were ever a time for us to have an earth-shaking, mountain-moving, devil-defying faith in Almighty God, this is the season we need it on the earth.  Whatever we will accomplish in our Christian life, the measurement that will measure what you will accomplish is “according to your faith, be it unto you” (Matthew 9:29). Faith is the medium of exchange in the Kingdom of heaven. Feelings are good. Facts are great. Fortunes are grand. But faith is glorious!  When we go to a store to purchase supplies or purchase items online, the medium of exchange is dollars. However, we receive from God by faith. Faith is the greatest…

There are some truths in the Bible that are big truths. If you are not very careful, they are so big you will miss them. I came to know Jesus when I was a twelve-year old boy. I gave all I knew about me to Jesus Christ. I can say truthfully and without hesitancy that He became the Lord of life. This is one of the biggest truths in all the Bible; I believe it is one of the most neglected truths. Jesus is referred to in the Bible as Savior 24 times. He is referred to as Lord 747 times. But when you understand and surrender your life to…