Jesus did only what He saw His Father do, and so He kept His Father’s commandments, thereby abiding in His love. In other words, Jesus never violated the laws of His Father, nor did He ever authorize a believer to transgress His Father’s laws. The laws of God tell us how to love our heavenly Father as well as to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Being a missionary kid, I remember as a teenager resenting the fact that I did not fit into the world. I did not do many of the things that “normal” teenagers did, nor did I think the way they did. I simply did not fit into their way of life, and it was often a lonely road.  When I went to Bible College, where I found many other missionary kids and preacher’s kids, I felt much more at home.

The Greek word translated “service” is latreia, the technical word for an offering. It is used five times in the Septuagint as the equivalent of the Hebrew word aboda, “service, labor, work.” Examples are found in Exodus 12:25, 26 and in Exodus 13:5, where the NASB says, “you shall observe this rite.” Hence, Jesus was telling them that the Jews would justify their murder by thinking of it as a sacred rite, an offering to God. More literally, they would say they were doing God’s work in obedience to Him.

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isaiah 27:1)

Virtually every culture on Earth has some sort of belief in dragons. The dragon of the Far East flies the skies of the Earth in search of his lost wisdom. The gods of the Aztecs and Incas took the form of a flying serpent. Some scaly monsters are even said to live in the waters of our planet. They are often referred to as dragons.

Thousands of years ago, during the time of the placid beauty of Earth’s early days, Adam and Eve enjoyed that peaceful time on Earth, not yet marred by sin. We do not know for how long they relaxed, worked, and played in the middle of God’s completed creative work, but we do know that at first, there was nothing to fear and nothing to run from in God’s Edenic wonder.

It was not long before another being walked into the same Garden of Eden, uninvited, with evil on his mind. Interestingly enough, this entity did not enter Eden showing himself as he was, but as he wanted to be seen, hiding his actual identity under the guise of a reptile. Perhaps his reasoning for appearing to Adam and Eve as a snake (as opposed to his true, physical form) was because of the familiarity they had with that species prior to his arrival. One can only wonder.

Here we are going to make a presentation of Paul’s epistle to Titus, and we are nearing the completion of a commentary on the apostle Paul which we had begun with the epistle to the Romans on March 28th of 2014, nearly three years ago. We have decided to put Titus in order here before Timothy not only because this epistle was written before either of the epistles to Timothy, but also because we find it appropriate to present 2 Timothy last in our presentation of Paul’s epistles.

The term “purity spiraling” began amongst denominational Christians to describe an extreme manifestation of virtue signalling, which we associate with the wayward and hypocritical form of self-righteousness that often affects Christians of all sorts. I am better than you because I don’t do this or say that, etc. etc. But recently the alt-Right has latched onto it and used it to describe the attitudes of racial purists. This evening we are going to take it back for Christians, but we are going to apply it in the way that the alt-Right uses it, to describe a need for the promotion of racial purity amongst Whites everywhere. So to the secularist Jew-lovers of the alt-Right, the term has a negative connotation. But to us it is a positive idea, because as we all know, purity is next to Godliness.

You probably have a computer or two within arm’s reach right now. In fact, it’s those computers — and the exponential advances in computing generally — that are now the subject of some of society’s most high-stakes forecasting. The conventional expectation is that ever-growing computing power will be a boon for humanity. But what if we’re wrong again? Could artificial superintelligence instead cause us great harm? Our extinction? According to a survey of experts, there’s a 50 percent chance “human-level machine intelligence” is reached sometime this decade or next.

With restorative rituals, yoga retreats and psychedelic experiences, Mexico has become a magnet for spiritually minded tourists seeking an alternative vacation far from the troubles of the modern world. While many visitors head straight to the beach, a different type of tourist chooses the village of Tepoztlan, a haven for artists and intellectuals an hour’s drive from the capital. Some of its residents once came for a short stay and found it hard to leave.

We came across three news articles this week regarding Israel that were of interest given that the bible told us that these things would happen at the time of the end. The first article makes the case that the Third Temple can be built right now. Plans are in place, the Temple instruments have been fashioned and crafted and even the Priests that would conduct sacrifices are trained and at the ready. All that is need is permission to begin. No small thing as the Palestinians and Islamic world would go to war before ever allowing such a thing to occur. However, bible prophecy tells us there will be a Third Temple during the Tribulation.

Armageddon is the final battle in which God will defeat His enemies. The battle of Armageddon occurs at the end of the seven-year tribulation when Jesus returns for His Second Coming. At the Lord’s Second Coming, He does not return alone. Rather than returning alone, the Lord brings His faithful followers—all believers from all time. In this article, I will focus specifically on the believer’s role in Armageddon. Revelation 19:13-16 tells us, “He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations.