The law was never given as God’s plan of salvation. It was never designed to save anybody. In fact, the amazing thing is this: Israel requested it. Moses didn’t want to give it, and God didn’t want to give it, but the people insisted, “Give us Your law—we can keep it.” So God gave them the law, not to redeem them, but to reveal something to them. And when we use the word law, it can refer generally to the whole Old Testament, but more specifically it refers to that period of time from Moses to the cross when the Mosaic Law was in effect. The law was never the cure for sin—it was the spotlight. It didn’t fix sin; it exposed sin, proving man needed a Savior, not more rules.
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What God lost in this earth through the fall of Adam was not His power. When Adam fell, God did not become weaker. He was as powerful as He ever was. What God lost in the fall was a channel of authority (man), through whom He could release His power in the earth
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Prayer is one of the most widely discussed subjects in the Body of Christ, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. Many believers enter into prayer without knowing what the Word of God actually teaches about it. Instead of praying according to Scripture, they often pray according to personal desire, emotion, or tradition. Prayer was never designed to manipulate people, circumstances, or even God. Prayer was designed to operate in harmony with God’s will, God’s Word, and God’s authority.
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Heaven is filled with angels, so many they cannot be numbered. All of them—every rank, every class, every single one—were created by God. Angels are not former people. They are a separate created race of beings.
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The Hebrew word translated “angels” here is “Elohim.” People sometimes argue, “Well, it says we were made a little lower than God.” And that’s true in a sense, but the New Testament settles the issue for us. In Hebrews, when this verse is quoted, the Holy Spirit uses the Greek word “angelos”—angel. Not God. Angel.
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There were times when Jesus healed and it caused a quiet rejoicing, and there were other times when it caused a public explosion.
When He healed the man at the pool of Bethesda, it stirred up a huge commotion. People were used to that man being lame. His condition had become part of the scenery. He was “the lame man by the pool,” and everybody knew him that way. When Jesus healed him, people didn’t know what to do with it.
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There is nothing in all of creation more valuable than salvation, and nothing more expensive than forgiveness. Yet the most priceless thing God ever offered is also the one thing man can never pay for. That is why salvation is free. And that is why forgiveness—both to the sinner and to the saint—can never be purchased with natural currency.
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Proverbs 3:5, exhorts us to, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding…” If I substituted spirit here, this would indicate that I could trust the Lord with only part of my spirit and that doesn’t seem reasonable. However, reading it with the idea that we must trust the Lord with our spirits and our souls does make sense. We need to line up our minds with our spirits and we can do this by heeding Romans 12:2, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (See also, 2 Corinthians 10:4) Philippians 4:8, admonishes us to “think only things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report.” Isaiah 26:3 promises us that, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You.”
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The world comes against us with psychology, psychiatry, human reasoning, and self-help philosophies. They come armed with what they call “knowledge.” But our response isn’t to fight them with their own tools. We come back with the divine viewpoint of life—the Word of God. God’s Word provides a defense that no natural argument can withstand. The Bible is our solid ground, our final authority. When we stand on it, there’s no weapon formed against us that can prosper.
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Today we’re digging into one of the most important foundational truths in all of Scripture—the fall of man. We're going to see how Adam’s decision to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought the nature of sin into every one of us, and how Jesus came to reverse that curse through the new birth. It's not just about history—this truth affects every part of your life today.
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There’s an important question that often lingers in the hearts of believers—especially when sickness or tragedy strikes. The question is this: Is sickness a gift from God? Some have even said, “God gave me this sickness to teach me something,” as if it were a token of His affection, a loving gesture wrapped in pain. But is that really the character of the God we serve? We can see through the Word of God that this notion is not only incorrect—it completely contradicts the nature of our loving Heavenly Father.
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The same pattern for revival holds true today. The difference between the healing movement of the 1940s and 1950s and the Charismatic movement of the 1960s and early 1970s is the revival in the 40s and 50s took place primarily outside of mainstream America, in the rural areas of the country, small communities and small churches.
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Jealousy is really a manifestation of self-centeredness, and self-centeredness is the root of sin. Sin starts with self: it’s all about you—not about God, and not about others. The Bible says to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Then it’s okay to love yourself, but from there, love your neighbor as much as you love yourself. Don’t put yourself above God or between God and others. Philippians 2:3 tells us there is an even higher level of love—considering others better than yourself.
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Jesus said in Matthew 6:25, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” That verse is such a simple truth but carries profound power. What was Jesus doing here? He was turning our eyes away from the temporary and pointing them toward the eternal. And how did He do it? By pointing to something right in front of them—birds flying overhead and lilies blooming at their feet.
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There is a very strong teaching today in the body of Christ on the sovereignty of God, and much of it has gotten out of balance. The idea floating around is that God does everything and man does nothing. But just as dangerous is the opposite extreme—God does nothing, and man does everything. The truth lies in the balance between the two. For every truth of the Word, there is a ditch on both sides of the road. And it is our job to stay out of the ditches and walk the center line of biblical truth.
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Today we’re digging into one of the most important foundational truths in all of Scripture—the fall of man. We're going to see how Adam’s decision to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought the nature of sin into every one of us, and how Jesus came to reverse that curse through the new birth. It's not just about history—this truth affects every part of your life today.
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One of the areas the Holy Spirit offers us is the spirit of counsel. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths” (Proverbs 3:5).
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We make a big deal about Christmas—and that’s fine. But Easter is where the power is. You see, it wasn’t Jesus’ birth that saved us. It wasn’t even the crucifixion that saved us. It was His resurrection. That’s why He came. He came to die, yes—but also to rise again, so that we who were born spiritually dead could be raised into newness of life and ultimately receive resurrection bodies of our own.
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Jesus’ blood cleanses sinners for eternal life and Christians for daily fellowship and productions. The old hymns and choruses were correct, “What can wash away my sins, nothing but the blood of Jesus.” “There is a fountain filled with blood, and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.” “Oh the blood of Jesus, it washes white as snow.”
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Don’t let anybody tell you that God doesn’t want you healed. That’s not what the Word says, and it’s not what nature says either. If healing wasn’t God’s will, why would your body and nature constantly be fighting to keep you well?
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