by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
“WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM!” (EPHESIANS 1:4). HOW DOES SOMEONE MISS THE MEANING OF THOSE SIMPLE WORDS? A BELIEVER FRUSTRATES THE GRACE OF GOD EVERY TIME THAT BELIEVER SINS! “A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP,” AND A...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
“NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING (GREEK, APTAISTOS, ap-TAH’-ee-stos, “without sin”), AND TO PRESENT YOU FAULTLESS (WITHOUT SIN) BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF HIS GLORY WITH EXCEEDING JOY, TO THE ONLY WISE GOD OUR SAVIOR, BE GLORY...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
What happened to modesty among God’s people? Immediately after stating forthrightly that he was an apostle, speaking the truth in Christ, Paul urges that the women in the assembly dress modestly. (See I Timothy 2:7-10). In chapter 3 of I Timothy, Paul tells...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Approximately six years before writing the Roman letter, Paul had written the believers at Thessalonica: “You are witnesses, and God also (notice now Paul says God will attest to what he is about to say), how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
“When my soul fainted within me (or, when I lost almost all hope that I could live any longer), I remembered the Lord. (Jonah says he no longer considered his dire circumstances. He remembered with whom he had a vital, tangible, real connection and...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
The account of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11 teaches us several things, chief among them perhaps is that the Lord judges sin in His people. This account answers several questions for us. Does God take note of a believer’s sins? Yes, indeed, He does. Does...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Some of the wisest counsel the apostle Paul ever gave the church was when he wrote “we do not dare to classify ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
When Jesus spoke those words to the money-loving, murderous Pharisees He was telling them that through the many prophets that had preceded Him, He had provided His people, and especially His elect, an excellent foundation of truth upon which to build their...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
No, I am not talking about a musical group. I am talking about that dimension that is beyond the scope and comprehension of physics. The world of the spirit. One of the prices Adam paid for following Satan’s way and the way of the flesh was to lose contact with...
by Don Wiley | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” (Romans 5:20). Those words should be carved into the headstone above my grave or written on the bronze plaque if that is the marker used for my grave. I am a prime example of God’s grace toward sinful...
