Of God and Mankind

Matthew 13:18-23 (AMPC) “ 18 Listen then to the [meaning of the] parable of the sower:   19 While anyone is hearing the Word of the kingdom and does not grasp and comprehend it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the roadside.   20 As for what was sown on thin (rocky) soil, this is he who hears the Word and at once welcomes and accepts it with joy;   21 Yet it has no real root in him, but is temporary (inconstant, lasts but a little while); and when affliction or trouble or persecution comes on account of the Word, at once he is caused to stumble [he is repelled and begins to distrust and desert Him Whom he ought to trust and obey] and he falls away.   22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Wor...

Matthew 13:18-23 (AMPC)    “ 18 Listen then to the [meaning of the] parable of the sower:   19 While anyone is hearing the Word of the kingdom and does not grasp and comprehend it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the roadside.   20 As for what was sown on thin (rocky) soil, this is he who hears the Word and at once welcomes and accepts it with joy;   21 Yet it has no real root in him, but is temporary (inconstant, lasts but a little while); and when affliction or trouble or persecution comes on account of the Word, at once he is caused to stumble [he is repelled and begins to distrust and desert Him Whom he ought to trust and obey] and he falls away.   22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suff...

Ephesians 6:11-12 (AMPC)   “11 Put on God's whole armo u r [the armo u r of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil.   12 For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.”     Dear people of God, I have sometimes heard some people claim that the devil does not exist and that there is nothing like a demonic spirit.   Well, today’s lead Holy Bible text talks about the devil and also about evil or demonic spirits.   When the Lord Jesus Christ appeared in a vision to the late charismatic pastor Kenneth E. Hagin in 1952, Jesus told him that the spirit that operates in the lives of unsaved people and ...

Deuteronomy 15:4-5 (AMPC)    “But there will be no poor among you, for the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess,   5 If only you carefully listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to do watchfully all these commandments which I command you this day.     Dear people of God, there are very many people who believe it is their hard work that can make them rich.   However, the Holy Bible, the infallible Word of God says it is the Lord that gives people the power to create wealth – Deuteronomy 8:18.   We are also told that it is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and hard work would not make you any richer – Proverbs 10:22   However, this covenant from God is for His children. Who are God’s children? The Christians, the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ in word and deed.   Are other people not God’s children? No, they are not even though they are created by God. The righ...

1 Corinthians 1:18-21 (AMPC)    18 For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition, but to us who are being saved it is the [manifestation of] the power of God.   19 For it is written, I will baffle and render useless and destroy the learning of the learned and the philosophy of the philosophers and the cleverness of the clever and the discernment of the discerning; I will frustrate and nullify [them] and bring [them] to nothing. [Isa. 29:14.]   20 Where is the wise man (the philosopher)? Where is the scribe (the scholar)? Where is the investigator (the logician, the debater) of this present time and age? Has not God shown up the nonsense and the folly of this world's wisdom?   21 For when the world with all its earthly wisdom failed to perceive and recognize and know God by means of its own philosophy,...