The Gospel Of Repentance

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines the word Vision as follows: the ability to think about or plan the future with wisdom. A mental image of what the future will or could be like. An experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition. The Hebrew word for Vision is Châzôwn. It means a sight (mentally), i.e. a dream, revelation or oracle. In proverbs 29:18 we have the verse that reads, where there is no vision, the people perish, but happy is he that keeps the law. Mostly everyone I’ve listened to has regarded this verse to mean a vision, plan or dream God has given them perhaps for their ministry or just a personal goal. While God does give us plans for our lives in service to him as believers, that is not the meaning of this passage. What the writer means here is, where there is no prophetic revelation , that is no word from the Lord, the people cast off restraint, that is the people will rebel, but happy is he that k...

Quite a touchy subject isn’t it? People are always telling us “Don’t judge me!” Or “Only God can judge me!” What I’ve noticed is the people making these statements are usually the ones that are living sinful lifestyles. Notice I didn’t say those that sin on occasion, for we all do, but those that practice sin. Let’s see what the bible has to say about it. The word judge in the Greek is the word Krinō which means to divide, separate, make a distinction, come to decision, to give one’s opinion. WHEN WE SHOULD NOT JUDGE Jesus in Matthew 7:1-5 commands us not to judge if we’re in the following situation, “ Judge not that ye be not judged. For with the same judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with that measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold the mote in your brother’s eye and consider not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me ...

This is a rather strange statement don’t you think? Why would God hate anyone when he commands us not to hate? This statement originates in Malachi 1:2-3 where God affirms his love for Israel, “I have loved you”, says the Lord. In yet you (Israel) say, “In what way have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated, and laid waste his mountains and his heritage for the jackals of the wilderness.” To understand this statement we must go back to the beginning. In Genesis Issac’s wife Rebekah conceives but the children struggled together within her. Concerned about the discomfort in her womb. Rebekah said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” When she inquires of the Lord, he replies, “two nations are in your womb, and two peoples shall be separated from your body; one people will be stronger than the other and the older shall serve the younger.” So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in ...