Romans 8:16 and Assurance
I. INTRODUCTION In Rom 8:16, Paul makes the statement that, “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.” Many feel that this verse is saying that we are able to gain assurance of our eternal salvation from the inner testimony of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit tells our […]
A Sad Day of Reckoning (Matthew 24:45-51)
By Ken Yates At the end of Matthew 24, Jesus gives a parable about a servant. The point of the parable is that a servant can either be a good and faithful servant or an evil and unfaithful one. The good servant does what his master tells him by serving his fellow servants. The evil […]
Grace Goes to Zambia
By Ken Yates I just got back from Zambia, Africa and wanted to give an update. The trip was outstanding. My daughter, Kathryn, son-in-law Dewey, and I were gone about two weeks. I taught at a Bible college there. One of the professors is a young man from Zambia that I tutored in Greek while […]
A Wrong View of the Lord — Luke 19:21
Recently, in a Sunday School class I was teaching, we were going through the parable of the minas in Luke 19:11-27. In the parable there are three servants of the Lord that give an account of how they served Him while they waited for His return. It is clear that all three servants are believers. […]
I Can Do Anything for Six Weeks — 2 Corinthians 4:17
Almost all of us have faced something that was unpleasant but needed to be done. For those who have served in the military, an example of that would be basic training. Usually around six weeks long, we knew that it was going to be physically and mentally challenging. For most of us it was the […]
Drums and Cufflinks — Galatians 4:12
Recently, my daughter and I attended a Bible conference. We attended it because they had a high view of the inspiration of the Bible and were premillennialists. Since we those things in common we thought it would be a constructive time. Unfortunately, the conference did not spend a great deal of time on either inerrancy […]
Taking Things for Granted
I think it is human nature to take things for granted. When things are going well, we often don’t think about how fortunate we are. Even when we go through a difficult time, once that difficulty is gone we become complacent and often times forget what it was like when we went through a tough […]
Glorify God with Your Body — 1 Cor 6:20
My daughter and son-in-law are fans of the television show “Sherlock.” As is well known, Sherlock is a very intelligent sleuth, who is able to solve crimes and other mysteries through his intellect. His best friend is a man by the name of Dr. John Watson. Living in England, together they solve the most complicated […]
It Just Makes You Wonder — Revelation 21:1-2
Many years ago there was a late night talks show hosted by Arsenio Hall. Each week he would have guests to interview. He would also do little comedy skits. One of these skits was called, “Things that make you say ‘hmmmmm….’.” In this segment Hall would point out how people contradict themselves. This could be […]
Being Free — John 8:30-32
We just celebrated the Fourth of July. Of course, that is the day the United States celebrates the day when our Founding Fathers declared our independence from Great Britain. I recently saw one of the man in the street interviews where people were asked questions about the 4th of July. One question was, “In what […]