Building on the Foundation

There are many go-to verses that we are quite familiar with in the Church of God; verses for just about every situation you might come across, and to refute all kinds of modern pagan religion. The Bible is a sword, after all, and it is quite powerful in the real sort of warfare we engage in on a daily basis. For instance, people in the world will tell you to “follow your heart,” meaning that whatever desire might cross the screen of your heart should be followed. You should essentially let your desires and emotions rule your life rather than any form of discipline or written code as in the case of the Christian religion. Though the problem with this is obvious, many Christians buy into this false idea that the heart is something to be followed. Jeremiah said something about this when he said, The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9 (AFV) This is similar to the ideas that are echoed in Genesis and in Proverbs, the idea that the he...

  Intro Fascinating studies come in all shapes and sizes, but this one has really been interesting and quite pretzel shaped. In the Churches of God we teach that the law of God still needs to be kept, but then we are accused of cherry picking which laws we keep or do not keep. The clean and unclean laws come up specifically, and I got to thinking about it. Why don't we keep those laws?   All the physical actions and laws are there to teach us something about the spiritual realm and our walk with God. None of us keep the law perfectly and there are always new things to learn, so what's the harm in discovering that we should be keeping these things?  At the very least, I want to know what they picture, why they were given, and what relevance they have in our lives today. They could certainly prove to be inconvenient to keep, but inconvenience is hardly an excuse to not do something God has told us to do. This study delves into the Holy Spirit necessarily because that, ...