Memory VerseIf we should say that we have not sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us, 1 John 1:8. Although the sin nature has been rendered ineffective in Christ when we walk by the Spirit (Romans 6:6), there are still times in our lives when we set our minds on the things of the flesh
Memory VerseBut if we should walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Christ keeps on cleansing us from all sin, 1 John 1:7. Those who walk in the light display the character of Christ as the Holy Spirit produces fruit in them, thereby enabling t
Memory Verseand are you not doubting among yourselves and have become judges of malignantly evil reasoning? James 2:4. When we show partiality toward others based on their appearance, we set ourselves up as doubters and judges of malignant, evil reasoning. The NKJV translates the phrase as “shown pa
Memory VerseIf we should say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth, 1 John 1:6. Since there is no darkness in God, a man who walks in darkness while claiming to have fellowship with God is a liar. Light and darkness have no communion with on
Memory VerseAnd this is the message which we heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light and in Him is not any darkness, 1 John 1:5. Darkness is where light does not reside; therefore, it is where unrighteousness and sin dwell, and where demons play. The one true God has no darkness in Him
Stumble conveys the act of tripping or striking against something, causing a person to lose footing.Israel stumbled concerning the righteousness that is in Christ—not that they should fall, as though God had rejected Israel and given her promise to another; rather, through Israel’s stumble, salvatio
Memory VerseThat which was from [a] beginning, which we heard, which we discerned with our eyes, which we watched, and with our hands touched concerning the Word of the life, 1 John 1:1. The apostle John opens his first letter by describing his direct experience with the Word of Life. Together with
Memory VerseThen God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between waters from waters.” Genesis 1:6. As the earth increased in speed while spinning on its axis, the centrifugal force began to pull upon the waters. God then caused the waters to divide, forming t
Memory VerseAnd God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness, Genesis 1:4. Seeing that the light was beneficial, God divided the light from the darkness. The earth began to rotate on its axis as God directed the light around it. Although the sun and the moon had n
Memory VerseThen God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light, Genesis 1:3The Spirit of the Lord was brooding over the earth, protecting it from any access by the spirit beings, especially Lucifer. Now God begins something new: He permits light to once again shine upon the deep. In Genesis 1:
Memory VerseThen the earth was a wasteland and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was brooding over the face of the waters, Genesis 1:2. When God created the universe, He made the stars as a dwelling place for the spirit beings. Eden was not created in a chaotic
The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7) is Jesus’ proclamation as Israel’s promised Messiah of Kingdom law for Israel, not Church doctrine. Treating it as Church instruction collapses crucial biblical distinctions and forces interpretation by allegory rather than by a literal, contextual reading. Scri
Memory VerseAnd because of this, God will send them a working of error for them to believe the lie in order that they should be judged, all who do not believe in the truth but take pleasure in unrighteousness, 2 Thessalonians 2:11–12. After the rapture of the Church, no more believers will be added
Memory VerseWhose coming is according to working of Satan in all inherent ability and signs and wonders belonging to lying, and in all deception of unrighteousness to the ones perishing, on account of which they did not welcome the love of the truth for the purpose of saving them. 2 Thessalonians 2
For the God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but inherent ability, and love, and a saved frame of mind (2 Timothy 1:7).Cowardice is the lack of mental or moral strength. Jesus addressed this concept with His disciples when they feared for their lives during a storm at sea, while He was aslee
Memory VerseIn a beginning God created the heavens and the earth, Genesis 1:1. Although many of our English translations add an article (‘the’) to the word beginning, this does not convey what the Hebrew expresses. Genesis 1:1 is not describing the beginning of all creation; rather, it refers specif
Memory VerseFor the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, only He who restrains will do so until He comes to be out from the midst and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume by the breath of His mouth and will render ineffective by the brightness of His coming, 2 Thes
Memory VerseLet no one deceive you according to any means, because unless the standing away comes first then the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction, will be revealed, the one opposing and exalting himself over all which is called god or worshiped, so that he sits in the holy of holies of God
Memory VerseNow we request of you, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together near Him, you are not to be quickly shaken from the mind, nor to be troubled either through a spirit or through a word or through a letter as through us, as that the day of Christ h
Memory VerseNow may the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Thessalonians 5:23. The human nature consists of three parts: body, soul, and spirit. The spirit is our rational center, the soul r
