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"Even acceptable pleasures become sinful if you pursue them to the neglect of what is commanded in the Bible."
The world is falling apart while many in the church are choosing pleasure above God. Take some time to talk to the Lord this week about how you are using your time. Consider if hedonism has crept into your life, the false idea that pleasure is the highest form of good.
Read MoreThe fact is, the Bible says a lot of things and some of those things seem to contradict each other. You want to do the right thing. You want to trust God, but you have a nagging feeling that you should do something besides pray, so you say to yourself, “The Lord will take care of it,” and saunter along chewing on a blade of grass. Are you exercising faith or being presumptuous? Are you trusting in the Lord or being lazy?
Rest assured, the Bible does not contradict itself. You should trust God, pray, and do something. But how do your needs, God’s sovereignty, His promises, and your responsibility to obey the Lord work together in the predetermined plan of God’s eternal, sovereign, and unchanging decree?
Read More"If we will not give Him glory in our prosperity and ease, God often puts us into impossible situations so that we will be forced to look to Him, pray to Him, and trust Him for deliverance."
Read MoreWhen people fail us, and they will, just as we will fail others, we must keep things in biblical perspective. Sin-cursed mankind is only partially reliable and trustworthy. We don’t want those we trust the most to sin against us, but if they do we only need to look at our own sin-cursed hearts to understand why. This is why the Bible condemns putting an absolute or complete trust in human beings. It is folly to do so for sooner or later they may let us down and sin against us, even in horrible ways.
Read MoreThe purpose of www.drivennails.com is to help train expository preachers in sermon construction and delivery, to train inductive Bible study writers and teachers, and to edify the saints with the Word of God.
Two questions stand out: 1) Did Jesus actually descend into hell? 2) If Jesus did descend into hell, why? Get your Bible. You are going to need it as we search the Scriptures to answer these two questions. In the process, we will also find an answer to a third question, “Who are the sons of God in Gen. 6?” If you like solving mysteries, you will love this