Building on the Foundation

“Noblest of goals, brightest of coals, though righteousness is our aim, we have only ourselves to blame.” These words stir something in me, a longing for something, a desire for a purpose higher than myself, and yet also a sense of failure as I sin again and again. No matter how hard I try, I always seem to make the same old mistakes over and over again which prompts the question, how hard am I really trying?  Do I love God with my whole heart and my whole might?  It’s a fair question and it necessitates a deep soul searching to find the answer. It also requires learning what righteousness actually is, and thankfully, there is no better resource for that than the Bible. Serving God is not easy, and it's made that much harder by trying to live with one foot in the world. We want to have our cake and eat it too.  Practically, we cannot serve two masters, for they both require our full devotion. God demands our full loyalty if we set out to serve Him. It turns out, we cannot...

  In our previous study of covenants , we discussed the blood covenant. We saw that Almighty God takes covenants very, very seriously — especially our covenant with Him. And we also saw that God deems covenant-breakers worthy of death! To that study could be added the following passage in Romans 1, where the apostle Paul listed many of the abominations of the heathen. Here are verses 29-32 in the KJV: 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 32 Without understanding, covenantbreakers , without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death , not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. “Covenantbreakers” is Strong’s # G802, asynthetos in Greek. It can be tra...