Category Archives: Ezines

What is the number one issue in the world today? Is it abortion, safe sex, homosexuality, or AIDS? Is it terrorism, ISIS or war? I submit the number one issue in the world is what we are going to do with the Lord Jesus Christ. On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off an aluminum ladder and planted his feet on the lunar surface of the moon. The President of the United States then addressed the nation and said, “The greatest event in human history occurred when man first put his foot on the moon.” I contend, however, that the greatest event in human history was when God put…

All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. If you’re not suffering any, it’s just a plain fact that you are not living godly in Christ Jesus. If you are a child of God, you’re living in hostile territory. We’re twice-born people in a world of once-born people and we’re going against the tide most of the time. What we believe and how we live starts at a different source and is headed toward a different conclusion. Yet, this is not the first time that has ever happened. It happened in the first-century Church. In 1 Peter 3:13-16, we read “Who is there to harm you if…

You hold in your hands the guidebook to Glory and the pathway to purity in a world of worldliness. I do not claim to have all the answers; but I do believe that while we live in an era of high apostasy, we are approaching the ultimate apocalypse. America has produced the highest level of the good life for the majority to enjoy over the longest period of time than any other nation. Christians have participated in this good life to its fullness. In the sixties, we were bathed in the ocean of love in Christian circles. In the seventies, we were drowned in the syrup of make-believe religion. In…

At the time that Jude was written in the early history of the church, apostates were already on the scene. In verse 4 he says, “For there are certain men.” They are already present. They are present today. Apostates exist today in Christendom. Apostates are in churches. Some are occupying pulpits; others are teaching in various ministries of the church. Some are in Christian institutions of learning, occupying professorships and chairs of religion. Some are in denominations. The apostates were on the scene in the New Testament era, and they are on the scene in the 21st century. At times, it is hard sometimes to detect apostates. Jude says in verse…

The Lord wants us to be able to distinguish false doctrine when we hear it or read it. It’s very important to be able to tell the difference. God has given us this little book in the Bible to help us understand the difference between that which is true and that which is false. It is a book that has to do with the subject of apostasy. In the first four verses Jude tells us why he has given us this book. He started to write on the subject of the common salvation, and yet the Holy Spirit impressed him deep within his heart that he was to write them…

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities (Jude 8). We now come to Jude 8, where the kind dreams never come true. General William Booth was the founder of the Salvation Army. He was a great and a godly man, but he had good insight. General Booth said that the great danger of the future would be “religion without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.” He was describing the apostasy that was going to come. It was the same apostasy that Jude warned us about when he said here in verse 4, “For there…

Just as tides roll in and out on the shore, generations come and go across the sea of time. Without a God-given supernatural interruption, the generational tide that comes in will also disappear in the blink of an eye. When we observe previous generations, we witness the cycle of movements. The first generation, generates. The second generation motivates. The third generation speculates. The fourth generation usually dissipates. With each new movement of people, it is generally believed that their tide of enthusiasm and expertise will continually rise but over time it goes down. Over time, movements become the opposite of what they started out to be. History is replete with…

As we continue our study of the Book of Jude, without question, one of the strangest verses in the Bible is Jude 9: But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” Jude verse 9 refers to an event which is found nowhere else in Scripture. Michael had to struggle or dispute with Satan about the body of Moses, but what that entailed is not described. Another angelic struggle is related by Daniel, who describes an angel coming to him in a vision. This angel, named Gabriel in Daniel…

We are living in the days of apostasy. Any person who knows anything about the Bible and has any understanding of current, contemporary events is certainly aware of the fact that we are living in times of gross apostasy. Apostasy is a time when people will depart from the faith. The Bible predicts that at the end of the age, before the return of the Lord, there will be apostasy in the Church. In this culture, in general, there will be anarchy. There will be lawlessness and immorality. In the professing church, there will be apostasy and apostate teachers—those who depart from the clear teachings of the Bible and will…

The Book of Jude teaches us how to prepare for the coming of a group of teachers on the earth known as the Apostates. Apostates are false teachers who teach doctrines of apostasy. Doctrines of apostasy are doctrines that depart from the faith and once and for all are delivered to the saints. Jude started to write about a more pleasant subject—the common salvation. Yet, he says to us in verse 3 that there came this impression on his heart that rather than write about the common salvation, he should write a word to encourage us to contend for the faith and be delivered to the saints. The reason for…