10/24 Bible Briefs

I'm going to start something new on the blog called "Bible briefs." I will do it with some frequency--short comments on various Bible verses. Many people, to their own disadvantage, won't read or listen to longer articles, but they will read shorter ones. And there is some benefit to that as well. So hopefully these briefs will provide some thought-provoking lessons and truths. I'll put the date in the subject line so the reader will know a new set of "briefs" is available.

I John 2:25--"And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life." This is what it's all about. It is our soul, not our flesh, that will spend eternity somewhere--heaven or hell. Life's joys and sorrows are fleeting. We must never take our eyes off the prize. We have "the promised that he hath promised us, even eternal life." The promise of God to the faithful: "be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life" (Rev. 2:10). Eternal life.

I John 2:15--"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world." Based upon the verse above, this thought is wholesome and good advice, indeed. Don't fall in love with this world because you aren't going to be here very long. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). "The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up" (II Peter 3:10). The Lord's going to burn it all up. Wise we are if we don't get attached to it.

Acts 1:3--"To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs." This is how we know the two verses above are true. The Greed word for "infallible" is an ancient one, used as early as Aeschylus and Herodotus (5th century B.C.), and means “that from which something is surely and plainly known; an indubitable evidence, a proof” (Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon). Luke did his homework, his research, his investigations. He was as good an historian as any living today, and the evidence of Jesus's resurrection derives from "indisputable evidence," "many infallible proofs." Hence, don't tie yourself to this world. Prepare for the eternal life which God has promised to us.