Teachings

One Law for All: Strangers, Gentiles, and God's Commands

God calls his covenant people to one just standard, compassionate care for the vulnerable, freedom from oppression, faithful vows, and separation from uncleanness.

How God Speaks Through His Word | Philippians 4:8-9

God renews and separates His people through His Word, grants spiritual understanding, calls them to bear fruit, and reserves the final separation of the righteous and wicked for Christ.

Trusting God's Word: Share Your Secrets With Him | Proverbs 30:5

Trusting God means seeking refuge in His pure Word, honestly bringing Him every private struggle, and obeying Him rather than relying on self or pursuing personal vengeance.

The Word, Separation, and Walking by Faith | 1 John 1

God sanctifies his people through his Word, separates them from sinful influence, and teaches them to endure pressure by faith with holy and obedient conduct.

Leviticus 20: Do Not Give Your Children to Molech | Bible Teaching

God calls his people to reject idolatry, protect and instruct their children, remain faithful in marriage, uphold communal holiness, and live obediently in light of Christ’s forgiveness.

Romans 3: No One Is Righteous—Salvation by Grace

All people are under sin, so salvation and true righteousness come only through Christ, while believers must repent, follow Scripture, pursue holiness, and give God all glory.

Trusting God Through Fear and Suffering | Psalm 55–56

Believers should cast providential burdens on God, trust his pure Word, and endure fatherly discipline by faith because he uses suffering to produce holiness, righteousness, and perseverance.

None Righteous: We Can Do Nothing Without Christ | Romans 3

Because no one is inherently righteous or good, believers must depend wholly on Christ, live as new creations, obey Scripture, pursue holiness, and give God all glory.

Trust in the Lord: Every Word of God Is Pure | Proverbs 30:5

Because every word of God is pure and trustworthy, genuine faith must appear in daily obedience, generosity, prayer, courage, and dependence on God.

James 1 Bible Study: Faith, Trials, Temptation, and the Tongue

Believers must submit their destructive speech to Scripture and the Holy Spirit, replacing corrupt words with gracious, truthful, edifying speech grounded in God’s forgiveness in Christ.

The Rich, the Poor, and True Faith | James 1–5 Bible Study

Living faith rejects favoritism and self-serving wealth, receives every good gift from God, and fulfills the law of liberty through generous, obedient love for one’s neighbor.

The Tongue, Temptation, and Being Doers of the Word | James 1

Living faith obeys and produces good works, yet both faith and acceptable obedience arise from God’s gracious work in believers through Jesus Christ.

Examine Yourself: Are You Walking in the Faith? | Bible Study

Believers must examine whether their profession of Christ is confirmed by obedient works, disciplined speech, impartial love, and holy separation from the world.

He Who Speaks Is to Be Trusted | Psalms 2, 4, 11 & 16

Because God and his word are trustworthy, genuine faith must unite hearing, speech, merciful action, impartial love, and obedience under the law of liberty.

How Can We Know God? Revelation, Scripture, and the Spiritual Mind

God is knowable through his revelation, and believers must continually obey his pure Word, which exposes sin, defeats self-deception, and directs them to humble dependence on Christ.

Examine Yourself: Faith, Trials, and the Power of the Tongue

Believers must reject gossip and every enticement to idolatry, correct sin openly, receive and obey God’s Word, and give exclusive worship to the one God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Serve the Lord with Gladness | Psalm 100 and the Power of the Tongue

Jesus’ wise response in Luke 20 and the church’s prayer show the need for disciplined speech, confession, Spirit-guided understanding, endurance in trials, and mutual care.

1 John 4: Love One Another and Know God

Christ alone saves and purifies sinners through his cross, so believers must abandon confidence in personal merit and cling to him in life and death.

Wait for God's Revelation | Proverbs 30:5 & Habakkuk 2:3

God is known through his sovereign revelation in creation, Scripture, conscience, and his Son, requiring believers to trust his timing, receive Scripture as unified, and reject worldly understanding.

1 John 2:15-17: Rejecting the Boastful Pride of Life

The pride of life boasts in self-made wisdom, power, and possessions, but believers must acknowledge dependence on God, glory in Christ alone, and use their resources in sincere love.

The Pride of Life and What It Means to Truly Give

Because life and worldly goods are passing away, believers must reject pride, submit to God, and give themselves, their compassion, time, knowledge, and resources in active love.

The Word, Love, and Walking in Obedience | 1 John 2

Faithful Christian life joins trust in Christ's advocacy with repentance, obedience to God's word, brotherly love, rejection of worldliness, and holiness that begins in the home.

How God Reveals Himself | Proverbs 30:5 Bible Teaching

Genuine faith in Christ comes to the light and is evidenced by obedience, receptiveness to correction, and practical love for fellow believers.

When Hatred Blinds the Heart | 1 John 2:9-11 Bible Teaching

True faith in Christ is evidenced by brotherly love and deeds of truth, while persistent hatred exposes spiritual darkness, blindness, and a profession contradicted by conduct.

Giving by Grace: 2 Corinthians 8 and a Willing Heart

Christian generosity must flow from God’s grace, wholehearted devotion, and mutual care rather than pride, covetousness, outward habit, or favorable circumstances.

When the Holy Spirit Convicts: Confessing Sin and Finding Freedom

God's word and Spirit awaken the conscience to expose sin, calling the sinner to truthful confession, forgiveness, cleansing, and worship in spirit and truth.

The Pride of Life: Rejecting the World | 1 John 2:15-17

The pride of life trusts possessions and self-directed plans, whereas disciples must reject worldly covetousness, depend on God’s providence, pursue his kingdom, and practice contented generosity.

The Power of Personal Revelation | John 4:14-29

Personal revelation exposes sin, reveals Christ, enables Spirit-and-truth worship, and moves those who encounter the gospel to bear personal witness to the Redeemer.

The Tongue and the World: A Study in James 3

Because words reveal the heart, direct conduct, affect others, and face divine judgment, believers must reject worldly values and discipline their speech through repentance and dependence on God.

The Narrow Way: Repentance, Obedience, and Denying Self

Salvation rests entirely on Christ’s completed work and God’s grace through faith, while repentance, obedience, endurance, and good works necessarily flow from belonging to Christ.

John 4: The Woman at the Well and True Worship

Christ personally reveals truth, exposes the heart, and gives spiritual life through his words, leading receptive hearers to recognize his heavenly identity and submit to God’s authority.

Mount Horeb, Moses' Rod, and Christ Lifted Up | Exodus 3

Horeb’s history of revelation and rebellion points to Christ lifted up and teaches that true worship depends not on holy places or rituals but on worshiping God in spirit, truth, and obedience.

Remember Lot's Wife: The Danger of Looking Back | Luke 17

Remember Lot’s wife: do not romanticize former sin, but rely on God’s mercy, place loyalty to Christ above every competing attachment, and remain vigilant against falling.

John 4:48: The Word Is Right, but Unbelief Wants Signs

This Bible study calls believers to trust Christ’s word before signs, confess unbelief, study Scripture carefully, and see Jesus’ cross as the fulfillment of God’s written purpose.

The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Him | Luke 4:16-21

Luke 4 reveals Jesus as the uniquely Spirit-anointed Messiah through whom salvation, gospel proclamation, and all authentic Christian ministry must occur.

Living Water and True Worship | John 4 Bible Teaching

Belonging to God requires obedient, holy, and loving conduct expressed through honor within the family, submission to legitimate authority, and refusal to harm one’s neighbor.

Psalm 51: Taking Sin Seriously and Living in Repentance

Psalm 51 teaches that true repentance personally confesses and mourns sin, seeks God’s cleansing and restoration, and produces humble worship and a credible witness.

Jesus in Galilee: Luke 4, Temptation, Healing, and Mission

Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, proclaims God’s kingdom, calls sinners to repent and trust divine mercy, justifies by faith, and gives resurrection life.

Is Sin Behind You? Forgiveness, Repentance, and Pressing Forward

God removes the guilt of forgiven sin, yet believers must still confess their sins, accept personal responsibility, resist temptation, and press toward holiness in Christ.

Ezekiel 36: Remembering Sin, Repenting, and Receiving a New Heart

The Holy Spirit causes renewed believers to remember and recognize their own evil ways so that they remain repentant, humble, obedient, and dependent upon God’s mercy.

Your Sin, Darkness, and Unbelief: An Individual Walk

The teaching urges believers to confront their own sin, darkness, and unbelief, remember their personal accountability before Christ, receive God’s forgiveness, and die to sin in light of Christ’s death and resurrection.

Repentance, Wisdom, and a Clean Heart | Psalm 51 & Ezekiel 36

God uses Scripture, wise rebuke, and inward renewal to lead his people into continual repentance, humble dependence, and conduct that glorifies his name.

Love Not the World: James 4 and 1 John 2 Bible Teaching

Believers must reject the world’s sinful desires, pride, and unjust conduct, humbly submit to God, repent personally, and do his enduring will.

Christ Our Wisdom: Spiritual Mindedness and Grace

Christ is God’s wisdom, and only God’s grace, Word, and Spirit can transform sinful hearts, produce obedient lives, and direct all glory to God.

Romans 8: Wisdom, Sanctification, and Separation from the World

Regeneration produces spiritual-mindedness, life, and peace, while wisdom-guided sanctification calls believers to guard their thoughts, sight, conduct, and fellowship from corrupting influences.

Love Not the World: 1 John 2 Bible Teaching

Believers must reject love of the passing world, remember Lot’s wife, walk in God’s light, and live personally and wholeheartedly for Christ.

The Lord’s Doing Is Marvelous | Psalm 118:23

God’s sovereign work in revelation, Christ’s rejection and exaltation, salvation by grace, and Christian suffering is marvelous precisely because it surpasses human power and understanding.

Draw Near to God: The Power of Preaching | James 4

God uses the preaching of the cross to humble human wisdom, expose spiritual blindness, call sinners to repentance, and draw the humble near to Himself.

You Are Not Independent From God | Ephesians 2 Bible Study

Believers must reject spiritual independence and idle speculation, humbly depending on God’s sovereign grace while attending to his revealed word, bearing the cross, and following Christ.

Love Not the World: 1 John 2 Bible Teaching

Believers must reject the fallen world’s lusts, pride, corruption, and injustice, submit to scriptural purification, pursue righteousness, and trust God to preserve them.

God’s Sovereignty and the Mystery of Hearing the Word

Believers must examine themselves, depend on God for spiritual understanding, reject idolatry, submit to Scripture, and reflect Christ’s covenant faithfulness in marriage.

Stop Being Inquisitive: Seeking God, False Doctrine, and Romans 3

Natural curiosity does not equal seeking God; sinners need God’s prior grace and must answer his mercy with repentance, obedient worship, and rejection of idolatry and false doctrine.

Stop Loving the World | 1 John 2:15-17 Bible Teaching

Believers must reject the world's corrupting desires, guard and obey God's word, avoid idolatry, and serve God sincerely because the world passes away but those who do God's will abide forever.

Predestination, Faith, and the Sin of Inquisitiveness | Genesis 3

God sovereignly chooses and preserves his people, who must answer his election with faith, gratitude, obedience, and humility rather than unbelieving demands for exhaustive explanations.

The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh | Ezekiel 39 and Acts 2

God pours out his Spirit to cleanse, renew, and empower his people, while sovereignly judging evil and calling all who seek salvation to call upon the Lord.

Christ, the Wisdom of God: Living as a New Creature

Because Christ is God’s wisdom, new-creation life must be governed by him in heart, speech, choices, service, humility, and ongoing sanctification.

Stop Loving the World | 1 John 2:15-17 Bible Teaching

Believers must reject the passing desires of the world, receive God’s revealed wisdom, and live according to their identity as morally responsible persons created in God’s image.

Chosen Through Sanctification: 2 Thessalonians 2:13

God sovereignly chooses and calls his people, sanctifies them by the Spirit through truth, and establishes them in faithful obedience, perseverance, and enduring fruit.

Love Not the World: 1 John 2 and Matthew 16

Believers must not love worldly systems or civic glories, because the world passes away, the soul is worth more than all worldly gain, and God’s people must walk in divine wisdom.

Wisdom, Holiness, and the Priestly Garments | Exodus 28

Exodus 28 teaches that holy service requires consecration, God-given wisdom, willing provision, modesty, and exact obedience to God’s revealed pattern.

Romans 5:12: Sin, Wisdom & the Developing Mind

Human beings are not born with godly wisdom; because sin and death entered through Adam, all must be taught wisdom and find true wisdom in Christ crucified.

Carnal Mind vs. Spiritual Mind | Romans 8:6 Bible Teaching

Romans 8:6 reveals that fallen desires produce death, while the Holy Spirit regenerates and directs the heart toward God, Christ, obedience, life, and peace.

Predestined, Ordained, and Doing the Will of God | Romans 8

God ordains all things, but predestinates His people unto Himself; therefore believers must do the Father’s will, heed wisdom, reject sinful enticement, and remember judgment.

Run the Race with Patience | Hebrews 12:1-2 Bible Teaching

God’s people must hear His word attentively and obediently, keeping His commandments as He sanctifies them into a holy and peculiar people.

Christian Discipline: Doctrine, Purity of Life, and Fellowship

Christian discipline requires steadfast adherence to Christ’s doctrine, growth through Scripture, holy conduct, discerning separation from error, and obedient love within the fellowship of believers.

Stop Loving the World | 1 John 2:15-17 Bible Teaching

Believers must reject governing love for the world, value the soul above temporal customs and gains, practice self-denial, and devote their minds, homes, and lives to God’s enduring will.

Stop Loving the World — 1 John 2:15 Sermon | Narrow Hodos

Love for the passing world places a person in opposition to God, while repentance, self-denial, obedience, and cross-bearing demonstrate love for the Father and preserve what is eternally valuable.

Preparing the Heart for Bible Study | Repentance, Truth & Faith

Faithful church discipline requires repentance, sustained biblical instruction, and separation from persistent error, especially error that denies God's sovereign grace in regeneration and justification.

Biblical Church Discipline and the Warning Against Seduction

The church must confront persistent sin under Christ’s authority through a patient, biblical process aimed at repentance, restoration, holiness, and peace.

Church Discipline, Predestination & Luke 12:49–53 | Bible Teaching

Church discipline is necessary for the church’s order and faithfulness and must be exercised biblically through appointed leaders, even when obedience to Christ produces division.

Stop Loving the World: Idolatry and the Christian Life | 1 John 2

Love for the world is inward idolatry that enslaves the heart, draws people gradually from God and Christ, and makes it impossible to serve God and worldly treasure together.

Luke 17:1-6 | Faith Obeys and Forgiveness

Disciples must avoid causing others to stumble, rebuke sin, forgive repeated repentance, and exercise a faith that actively obeys Christ.

Opening Prayers for Bible Study: Repentance, Holiness & Endurance

The church must preserve biblical doctrine and pursue holiness because tolerated error and sin spread destructively, while Christ’s grace enables repentance, faithful teaching, and endurance.

Stop Loving the World: A Higher Calling | 1 John 2:15-17

Believers must reject the world’s passing desires and deceptive promises, living instead as God’s holy people who seek his kingdom, obey his will, and await eternal glory with Christ.

Morning Prayers for Repentance, Holiness, and Obedience

True faith is inseparable from humble obedience, repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing reliance on Christ and his Word.

2 Thessalonians 1–2: End Times, Perseverance, and the Man of Sin

Paul’s warning about apostasy and the lawless power calls believers to love the truth, endure persecution, resist deception, and trust Christ’s final victory.

The Temple Repair: Restoring Preaching to Christ’s Churches

Christ's churches are strengthened through trained ministers, faithful biblical preaching, authentic faith, and Spirit-witnessed fellowship with the Father, Son, and one another.

Opening Prayers for Bible Study: Repentance, Truth, and Obedience

Believers must repent sincerely, trust Scripture above feelings, obey without delay, endure faithfully, and live transparently in light of Christ's death and resurrection.

Romans 8: Flesh vs. Spirit | No Condemnation in Christ

Romans 8:1–13 contrasts the death and hostility of life in the flesh with the freedom, peace, obedience, and resurrection life given through Christ and the indwelling Spirit.

The Honor That Comes From God: The Narrow Way | John 11:45

God’s honor is found by faith in Christ along the narrow way of obedience, self-denial, suffering, perseverance, and dependence on his saving work.

No Double Life: Walking in Truth, Holiness, and Obedience

True conversion is not proved by profession alone but is evidenced by God-given repentance, obedience, holiness, and an ongoing walk on Christ's narrow way.

Hear Ye Him: Deny Yourself and Follow Jesus | Matthew 16–17

True discipleship means daily denying self, taking up the cross, hearing Christ above all rivals, and following Him despite worldly loss or opposition.

Narrow Hodos Bible Study: Repentance, Obedience, and Truth

Believers must repent, obey Scripture, preserve sound doctrine, and follow Christ above every competing relationship, regardless of suffering or opposition.

Job 23:10 | Trusting God Through Every Trial of Faith

Believers must endure trials under God’s watchful sovereignty, comfort themselves through Scripture, pursue sanctification, and remain steadfast in the sound doctrine of Christ.

The Lord Is Our Rock: Deuteronomy 32 Bible Teaching

True joy is found by returning to the Lord as Rock and refuge, bearing shame in repentance, rejecting creaturely pride, and remembering God’s mercy.

Tribute to Candace Jean Whitfield | Hope in Christ

Believers may grieve, but Christ’s resurrection assures that those who die in him rest in hope, will be bodily raised, and will share his final victory over death.

Count It All Joy in Trials | James 1 Bible Teaching

Believers are called to rejoice in God-ordained trials because tested faith produces patience, endurance, hope, and steadfast Christian faithfulness.

Created to Rejoice: Finding True Joy in God | Genesis 2–3

Humanity was created to rejoice in God, but sin brought sorrow, making true spiritual joy possible only through God’s grace, the Holy Spirit’s work, communion with Christ, and hope of eternal life.

Morning Prayer for Obedience, Repentance, and Faithfulness

True profession of Christ is evidenced by repentance, obedient fruit, and acceptance of costly discipleship under God’s sovereign calling rather than pursuit of human approval.

The True Christian's Warfare | Spiritual Warfare & 1 Timothy 6:12

True Christianity requires a daily, faith-dependent struggle against sin, self, Satan, and the world rather than conflict with fellow believers.

Be Doers of the Word: Repentance & Obedience

True faith rests on Christ and Scripture, rejects human tradition as supreme, and bears fruit through repentance, holiness, and daily obedience to God’s Word.

Joy in the Lord: Identifying the Enemies of the Soul

Believers must resist malice, unbelief, and worldly substitutes for joy by rejoicing continually in God, resting in his sovereignty, and finding strength and comfort in his Word.

Morning Bible Study: Walking in the Narrow Way Through God's Word

Believers must repent, reject pride and human tradition, receive biblical correction, and submit their minds and lives to Christ’s narrow way through the Spirit’s help.

James 4:1-4: Spiritual Warfare and the Enemies of the Soul

James 4 reveals that conflict among believers springs from self-centered desires, while Christ calls his people to resist sin and worldliness by loving, serving, and preferring one another.

Repent, Obey, and Stand for Truth | Bible Teaching & Prayer

God’s mercy and Christ’s redeeming blood call believers to sincere repentance, continual thanksgiving, steadfast faith, and immediate obedience to Scripture.

Spiritual Warfare: Know Your Enemy | Isaiah 14:12-15

Believers must identify sin, self, Satan, and the world as their true enemies, resist temptation through Scripture and prayer, examine their own hearts, and stand together in Christ.

Repentance, Obedience & the Narrow Way | Bible Teaching

True discipleship requires daily repentance, self-denial, immediate obedience to Scripture, trust in God’s sovereignty, and perseverance in the narrow way despite correction and opposition.

A Prayer for Repentance, Obedience, and Walking in God's Word

Justification is freely given through faith in Christ, while genuine discipleship is marked by daily repentance, self-denial, scriptural obedience, generosity, and humble submission to God.

John 3:16, Election, and Who Did Christ Die For?

This teaching argues from Ephesians and John that God’s saving love and Christ’s atoning death are for the elect, not every individual universally.

Deny Yourself and Follow Christ | Bible Study on Obedience

God’s covenant people must honor his name through wholehearted obedience, receiving correction and affliction as calls to confess sin, repent, and return to his revealed way.

Children of God or Children of the Devil? | Jude Bible Study

A Bible study arguing that God’s children are sovereignly born again, elected, sanctified, and conformed to Christ, while rejecting free-will salvation claims.

Joy, I was greatly afflicted (Psalms 116:10).

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Genesis, Cush & Egypt: The Black Presence in the Bible (Genesis 2 & 10)

The teaching presents Egypt/Mizraim and Cush as central to biblical history, stressing Genesis 10, African presence in Scripture, and God’s sovereign development of nations.

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Genesis 1:26 - The Image of God & the Soul's Faculties

The teaching calls believers back to the beginning: God’s image, righteous conduct, brotherly love, self-examination, and rejection of Cain-like hatred and sin.

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Stop Loving the World — Matthew 13:36-41 | Scandal of Worldliness

The teaching warns that worldly professing Christians scandalize the faith, cause others to stumble, and reveal a failure to love God and neighbor.

Predestination & Sovereignty of God | Romans 7 Teaching

The teaching warns that depraved nature, carnal reasoning, and satanic suggestion resist God’s Word, while grace teaches believers to submit to Scripture and the Spirit.

Eschatology: Study of the End of Time

A thorough examination of end-times prophecy through careful scriptural analysis.

The Carnal Mind is Appointed Unto Disobedience

The nature of the carnal mind and its opposition to the Spirit.

American Christians are not Biblical Christians

The teaching argues that true Christianity is Christ dwelling and ruling in a person, producing holiness and separation from the world rather than cultural religious identity.

The Enemy of the Soul

A deep exposition on spiritual warfare and the nature of the soul's adversary.

1 Corinthians 6: Who Will Inherit the Kingdom of God?

To live in Jesus’ name is to trust his saving person, submit every word and deed to his authority, and love others concretely through the power of the Spirit of truth.

As You Would (Luke 6:31)

Christ will return bodily, human wickedness marks the last days, and believers must take the first step in love by doing to others as they would have others do to them.

The Cup, Narrow Way, & God's Will

The teaching emphasizes God’s sovereign salvation, human sin, true conviction, justification by Christ’s blood, and Christ bearing sin as the appointed substitute.

Who Is Satan? Biblical Origins & Genesis 3 Teaching

The teaching presents Satan as a created adversary whose fall through pride warns humanity not to boast in God-given wisdom, beauty, wealth, or power.

John 17: Jesus' Prayer — Eternal Life & True Faith

John 17 is presented as Jesus’ prayer revealing eternal life as knowing the Father and Son, Christ’s preexistent glory, and the need to receive God’s word without murmuring.

Conditional Promises, New Covenant Israel & Exodus 19

Exodus 19:5 shows that Israel’s covenant privileges required obedience, while the law exposes sin but cannot justify or give the inward life supplied through the new-covenant Spirit.

Titus 2: False Doctrine, Apostasy, and Sound Doctrine

Sound doctrine must produce holiness, mature discipleship, attentive reception of biblical preaching, and concrete obedience rather than merely nominal Christian identity.

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The teaching urges believers to reject tradition and preacher-idolatry, stand openly for biblical truth, obey Scripture, endure suffering, and live accountable Christianity.

Love from God is not infatuation(Part 2).

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Oaths & Vows the sacrifice of fools.

Believers must avoid rash oaths and vows, let their yes and no be truthful, and fear God by keeping any vow made to Him.

Love can be known only from the actions Love prompts (Jn 14:21).

Biblical love is God-wrought agape in the believer, known not by sentiment but by the obedient and brotherly actions that love itself prompts.

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Using 1 Samuel 7–8, the study warns that bribes, flattery, favoritism, and love of money pervert judgment, while God judges impartially and calls his people to repentance and obedience.