God’s Righteous Judgment This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets.. – Romans 2:16 What we do (good or evil) will define what we will receive when God judges us: an award or wrath and anger. This might sound like a contradiction to the message of justification by faith (man [...]
Romans 1:7 – We are called to be saints To all … called to be saints We are called to be saints (set apart, consecrated). This may put some pressure on believers, but the truth is that we have a responsibility as followers of Christ. We have to decide to set ourselves apart for God. [...]
The letter of Paul to the Romans is my favorite book of the bible. It contains basic principles about christian faith. The following lessons are not intended to be a thorough study of the the book of Romans, but a guide to help you in your daily search of a greater relationship with God. Romans [...]
In the first Part of this teaching we talked about how many times we fail to experience something despite being present at the site of the event, and how this also happens in our spiritual lives. In this part we will start by considering some cases of biblical characters who knew how to seize the [...]
Most of us have experienced in one way or another being present at the site of a major event and still missing it. Being in a baseball game and missing the most impressive play of the game while buying soft drinks. Missing when our kids said their first words or took their first steps. Today’s [...]
It is easy to receive the teachings of the Kingdom when it is about blessings. But what about the verses that teaches about sacrifice? We would have certainly preferred they were not in the bible, but they are. Some definitions for sacrifice are: The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage [...]
Obedience is required to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and [...]
How to get rich? This is a question a lot of people ask. In fact, a google search on “how to get rich” (using the exact phrase search option) returns 1,440,000 results. Why do people want to get rich? Duh! Isn’t it obvious? Well, it might be obvious that if you get rich you will [...]
The Kingdom of Heaven is based on forgiveness. The truth is that without forgiveness the Kingdom of Heaven would have no citizens. Our access to the Kingdom of Heaven was obtained through forgiveness. We did not do anything to deserve forgiveness. In fact we were worthy of condemnation. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, [...]
Service matters. We are called to serve. But everything we need to do has been prepared in advance by God. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. – Ephesians 2:10 If we are in Jesus we are expected to produce [...]
