If a tree is known by its fruit then avoid trees with bad fruit. Stay away from people if you know they're going to swear. Don't engage with people if you know that they're going to emit a stream of verbal effluence.
A Tree is Known by its Fruit
A Pure Heart
When we get saved we're indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and that cleanses us of whatever other spiritual problems we may have been facing. That's when we're ready to stand before the Lord because we're in Christ Jesus.
Out of the Heart
Thoughts and intents proceed out of the heart, and we use these as two categories into which we separate the various characteristics of the heart that we find in scripture.
Be Merciful
Some folk just aren't up to speed. Go easy on them.
One Life to Live
Adam and Eve were created to populate the earth with their offspring, until there was a body for each soul that God had created. This is why God is longsuffering: every soul has not been given a body yet.
The Multitude Kept Silence
Open Door Baptist Church Acts # 40 - 15:12-21 12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. 13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14 Simeon …
The Sect of the Pharisees
Open Door Baptist Church Acts # 39 - Acts 15:1-11 1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul …
Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
IF earthly things are patterned after heavenly, AND Christ's sacrifice on the cross is patterned after the sacrifice God made on the 1st day, THEN Christ's cry is patterned after the scream when the water molecules split.
Bound in Heaven
Are relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that govern the relationships between atoms and molecules?
Matty’s Paradigm is New
Matty’s Paradigm is profoundly different from the popular science (SciPop) paradigm. This means that it's also very different from other attempts at a natural theology of the Bible using science.