Sep 30, 2025
It is much more painful to be badly treated by somebody you love than by a stranger, and the Holy Spirit of God is very close to us, given to us by God to abide in our hearts. God continues to give second chances, forgiving all sin against the Son, but we are warned that sin against the Spirit is unpardonable. If we...
Sep 29, 2025
Zechariah's visions have a New Testament application for our understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. The imagery of the candlestick shows how God's Spirit illuminates what we are to do in our human responsibility, while He supplies the power that keeps flowing to let us take that light out into a darkened world....
Sep 26, 2025
Job seemed to be a very righteous man, but he still had a thousand layers of self that God wanted to remove. God used a young man named Elihu to deliver His message of chastening, not punishment to Job. Elihu characterizes the Spirit-filled person: he was his own character, not a copycat; humble, but firm; answering...
Sep 25, 2025
This message lays the foundation for understanding the dimensions of the Holy Spirit's personality. Part of His work is to enlighten our minds about spiritual things, conforming us to the image and likeness of Christ. There is a danger of grieving, extinguishing, or quenching what God is doing by willingly ignoring the...
Sep 24, 2025
Paul makes four categories of mankind: the natural man, babes in Christ, carnal believers, and spiritual Christians. The natural man cannot hear the message; the babe in Christ grows, feeding on the sincere milk of the Word; carnal believers are never confronted with facing themselves, leaving them in a state of...