From these three verses we will look at three points Matthew 3 11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in…
If you’ve met the Lord, you will know it. It will have far-reaching consequences. Many people don’t enjoy the faith, because they’ve never met the Lord first-hand. They’ve been in church many-a-time, but never met our Saviour and Redeemer. Mark 5 1 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. 2 When…
John 15 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken…
Matthew 24 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people…
James 1 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. Blessedness – The Greek word, makarios, used in this verse, means to be “supremely blessed”. The Afrikaans translates this word in other…
Luke 7 42 Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more? Jesus was invited to dine at the house of a certain Pharisee, named Simon. While they were eating, a woman entered, who was a known prostitute. She…
Hosea 1 2 The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord. Hosea is the first book of the minor prophets. In the time of…
Isaiah 30 1 “Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the Lord, “to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin; We read here of rebellious, obstinate children, who make schemes to hide their sin, like Ananias and Sapphira. To add sin to sin is like a…
Ecclesiastes 11 9 But know this… There is enormous ignorance about Who’s Who in Africa. When the question was recently asked by a media group as to “Who was the greatest African?”, the answer was “Robert Mugabe”. Of all those who participated in the survey none seem to think back more than a generation or…
Ecclesiastes 11 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. The Bible teaches one…