Matthew 7:48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
 
How can we follow Jesus’ command?  How can any human be perfect? We can’t.  This is an impossible standard.  The good news is that Jesus has met this standard on our behalf.
 
2 Corinthians 5:21 For God made him who had no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
 

Psalm 51:15-17
Oh Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth your praise.  For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it: you do not delight in burnt offering.  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart – these, Oh God, You will not despise.
 

 
 
 
 
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slakness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
 

Bible Verse of the Week
By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.  Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:13-15

 
 
 
It is very sad for me to see many people inside the church and many people outside the church who don’t know the Bible; also, many that know it don’t believe it to be the Word of God.  How does doctrinal error begin?
 
We see from the Bible that the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection – did not believe in heaven, did not believe in hell.  How did they develop this faulty belief?  Jesus tells them in

 
In this blog, I would like to look with you at the Bible and show you that God cares not only about our external actions, but also about our internal thoughts and motives.
 
Matthew 5:21-22
Jesus said…
“You have heard that is was said to those of old, ‘you shall not murder: and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’  But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council: and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.”
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
For the Bible Verse of the Week, I would like to read one of my favorite passages from the New Testament then quote Pastor John MacArthur...
Matthew 5:20  For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
 
 
 
Unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Many people that I have talked with have said, "I have lived a wicked life, God will never accept me."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
How Can a Sinner Be Saved?
 
Titus 3:4-7 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.