Abraham got the promise of God that he would have a son when he was 100 years old and Sarah was old and barren. His response, Paul says, glorified God. He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years [...]
Note: Now we turn to the ministry of John Piper to specify the what we are battling against in the warfare against unbelief. Let’s learn to take up the armor of God!!! 20 yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to [...]
Satan begins with his more pleasant sins so that he may later entangle the victim more hopelessly. But the devil is too clever to lay his net of despair in the bird’s sight. Other sins are only the top cover, and once he flatters his prey into it, he has trapped him for eternity. Despair, [...]
Romans 4:5 (NASB) But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, Faith tells you that the whole virtue and power of Christ’s blood, by which the world was redeemed, is offered to you. And He personally brings it to you. Christ does [...]
Unbelief deserves as high a place among sins as faith has among graces. Unbelief is the Beelzebub, or prince of sins, which makes others sin. God branded Jeroboam as one “who did sin, and who made Israel to sin” (1 Kings 14:16). Unbelief is a sin-making sin. The first poisonous breath which Eve took in from the [...]
Let’s examine four devotions from Gurnall on the topic of unbelief. The devil is a sworn enemy against true faith. He persecutes it in the cradle, as Herod did Christ in the manger; he pours a flood of wrath on it as soon as it announces its own birth by crying after the Lord. If [...]
Hebrews 3:19 (NASB) So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. A generation of people crossed the Red Sea and just a twelve day journey (Kadesh-Barnea) separated them from their destiny. Yet forty years later these cohorts died in the wilderness, frustrating the purpose for their lives. Why? The author of [...]
Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV) For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 (MSG) This is no afternoon athletic contest that we’ll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. [...]
Hebrews 4:15-16 (NASB) 15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to [...]
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. Revelation 12:10 (NASB) This Triad Will [...]