Mercy!
Matthew 5:7 states, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” The Greek word translated merciful, literally means “actively compassionate.” True or false: God expects us to show mercy to every offender, More →
Category: Sinners
Good Grief
Blessed, Blog, Chastened, Children, Christians, Cleanse, Comfort, Comforted, Condemned, Confess, Confessed, Dead, Disobedience, Double-Minded, Draw, Erik Garthe, Exhorting, Faithful, Fallow Ground, Forgiveness, Gloom, Good, Good Grief, Grief, Grieve, Ground, Hands, Hard, Hearts, Holy Spirit’s, Humble, Humbling, Joy, Judge, Judged, Lament, Land, Laughter, Lord, Loved One, Ministry, mourn, Mourning, No Longer Conformed, Offense, Planting, Plowed, Prophet, Purify, Repentance, Resistant, Responsive, Righteousness, Seed, Self-examination, Sin, Sinful, Sinners, Sins, Sorrow, Sowing, Spiritually, Uncategorized, Unplowed, Unrighteousness, Weep, world
0 Comment
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4) The word translated “mourn” is pentheo which means to grieve for the dead. Spiritually, it implies to grieve for the spiritually dead—mourning over sin; More →
Jesus’ Death
Believer, Blog, Bodies, Burial, Calvary, Cross, Death, Debt, Deceiver, Demands, Diligence, Disciple, Earth, Earthly Ministry, Erik Garthe, Eternal, Faith, Fallen Asleep, God’s Holy Law, Graves, Jesus Christ, Jesus’ Death, Jesus’ Enemies, Joseph of Arimathea, Just, Justice, Mankind, No Longer Conformed, Opened, Owe, Paid, Pilate, Power, Quaked, Raised, Redemption, Religious Leaders, Risen, Rocks, Sacrifice, Saints, salvation, Satisfied, Secure, Sinner, Sinners, Split, Steal, Temple, Tomb, Torn, Veil, Way to Life
0 Comment
Consider three facts regarding the death of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary from Matthew 27:50-66. First, see the power of His death—“The veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, More →
The Judgment
Affirm, Afraid, Annihilation, Believers, Blessing, Blog, Brethren, Choice, Choose, Christ, Comes, Comforted, Condemned, Conscience, Curse, Death, Deserve, Determines, Erik Garthe, Eternal, Eternal Life, Eternal State, Everlasting, Everlasting Punishment, Evil, Glory, God, Good, Gospel, Hell, Holy, Household of Faith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Judged, Judgment, Judgment Seat, Life, Ministered, No Longer Conformed, Opportunity, Path, Perfect, Punishment, Rejected, Returns, Reward, Righteous, Saints, Savior, Scripture, Service, Sin, Sinners, Son of Man, State, The Judgment, Throne, Unbelievers, Unholy, Wicked
0 Comment
A.W. Tozer wrote, “Before the Judgment Seat of Christ my service will be judged not by how much I have done, but by how much I could have done.” Matthew 25:31-46 describes the judgment when Jesus returns More →
Rejection of Love
Benefit, Blessing, Blog, Character, Children, City, Compassion, Crucify, Deliver, Desolate, Destruction, Divine, Embankment, Enemies, Erik Garthe, Eternal Life, Evil, Generation, Glory of God, God, God’s Messengers, House, Icabod, Jerusalem, Jesus, Judgment, Just, Kill, Message, Need, No Longer Conformed, Old Testament, People, Persecute, Pride, Prophesied, Prophets, Rejection of Love, Revealing, Rome, Savior, Scourge, Scribes, Servants, Sinners, Stones, Suffering, Synagogues, Temple, Unrepentant, Unwillingness, Wicked Hearts, Wickedness, Wise Men, Woes
0 Comment
After He declared the “woes”, revealing the wicked hearts of the people and their need for judgment, Jesus then proclaimed in Matthew 23:34-39 the suffering they were about to bring upon More →
Party of Five—Thousand
Blog, Compassion, Disciples, Erik Garthe, Fed, Five Loaves, Five Thousands, Healed, Hell, Helpless, Hopeless, Impossible, Jesus, Jesus’ Divinity, Jesus’ Salvation, John the Baptist, King Herod, Loaves and Fish, Miracle, Multitude, No Longer Conformed, Party, Party of Five--Thousand, Sinners, Sufficient, Supernatural, Teaching, Twelve Baskets, Two Fish
0 Comment
Matthew 14:13-21 records one of Jesus’ greatest miracles, feeding thousands with a few loaves and fish. The passage begins, ‘When Jesus heard this …” that John the Baptist was dead. King Herod murdered him More →
Pridesick
Blog, Erik Garthe, Faith, Forgive, Grace, Heal, Healing, Hindrance, Kingdom of Heaven, Mercy, No Longer Conformed, Poor in Spirit, Pride, Pridesick, Proud, Righteous, Sacrifice, Self-Righteous, Sinners, Sins, Spiritual Healing, Tax Collectors, unbelief
0 Comment
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5) Pride can be a hindrance to healing, both physically and spiritually. It manifests itself in various ways. In Matthew 9:1-13, Jesus dealt with two expressions of More →