We are not commanded to love one another to earn or become worthy of God’s love. We love one another because we are loved by God, and have received that love, and live in light of it.By Pastor Eric Bentz

A lack of love for the children of God is evidence of spiritual death. Everyone who hates, whether an active display of hostility or a passive withholding of affection, is likened to a murderer who cannot have eternal life abiding in him.By Pastor Eric Bentz

There is more in the death of Christ on the cross than simply our salvation from judgment, as wonderful as that is. Through His death, Christ broke the power of the sin principle in our lives. Christ not only died for me, but I died with Christ! Now I...By Pastor Eric Bentz

God’s love for us is unique. First John 3:1 may be translated, “Behold, what peculiar, out-of-this-world kind of love the Father has bestowed on us.” While we were His enemies God loved us and sent His Son to die for us! The whole wonderful plan of...By Pastor Eric Bentz

When we abide in the Christian doctrine, we give proof of the reality of our faith. And the promise of that faith is eternal life. When we accept the Lord Jesus, we receive His own life, namely, eternal life, and this life enables us to test all new...By Pastor Eric Bentz

Just as coming events cast their shadow before them, so prior to the rise of the Antichrist, many antichrists appear.By Pastor Eric Bentz

The world here is not the planet on which we live, or the natural creation about us. Rather, it is the system that man has built up in an effort to make himself happy without Christ.By Pastor Eric Bentz

If an individual professes to be right with God, yet lives in consistent disobedience, denies the reality of sin, is repulsed by believers, and does not believe in the incarnation, all these factors together indicate that one has not embraced the...By Pastor Eric Bentz

Eternal life is fully guaranteed to those who have trusted Jesus for it. However, the consequences of a believer’s failure, his restoration, and future usefulness are all urgent matters that Jesus takes up with God when sin occurs.By Pastor Eric Bentz

John’s First Epistle is like a family photograph album. It describes those who are members of the family of God. Just as children resemble their parents, so God’s children have His likeness too.By Pastor Eric Bentz

I am glad that my knowledge of eternal life is not built on the speculations of philosophers or even theologians but on the unimpeachable testimony of those who heard, saw, gazed at, and handled Him in whom it was incarnate. It is not merely a...By Pastor Eric Bentz

Jesus clearly tells us that each individual has a choice, and that choice will either lead to standing or falling. Notice that it is the foundation of everything. There are only two choices.By Pastor Eric Bentz

The Lord Jesus next warns against people who falsely profess to acknowledge Him as Savior, but have never been converted. Not everyone who calls Jesus, “Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of heaven. Only those who do the will of God enter the kingdom.By Pastor Eric Bentz

Wherever the stern demands of true discipleship are taught, there are false prophets who advocate the wide gate and easy way. They water down the truth until, as C. H.Spurgeon said, “There is not enough left to make soup for a sick grasshopper.”These...By Pastor Eric Bentz

Jesus says that following Him would require faith, discipline, and endurance. But this difficult life is the only life worth living. If you choose the easy way, you will have plenty of company but miss God’s best for you.By Pastor Eric Bentz

“Therefore” is the most crucial word in the Golden Rule. It relates the Golden Rule to that which precedes it. That is, it postulates it on prayer. It all comes together in one package.By Pastor Eric Bentz

If we think that we can live out the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount by our own strength, we have failed to realize the supernatural character of the life to which the Savior calls us. The wisdom or power for such a life must be given to us from...By Pastor Eric Bentz

How often have we all heard these words to deflect one who would come to correct another or to disregard a correction towards ourselves? Or frankly, whenever sin is brought up in one’s life. This verse is often used.By Pastor Eric Bentz

Worrying about tomorrow does not help either tomorrow or today. If anything, it robs us of our effectiveness today—which means we will be even less effective tomorrow.By Pastor Eric Bentz

What does it mean to lay up treasures in heaven? It means to use all that we have for the glory of God. It means to “hang loose” when it comes to the material things of life. It also means measuring life by the true riches of the kingdom and not by...By Pastor Eric Bentz

There’s real power in fasting. If you need direction, if you hunger for liberation, skip lunch, and seek the Lord.By Pastor Eric Bentz

The prayer begins by invoking God: “Our Father in heaven.” The term for “Father” is “Abba,” a name used by children for their earthly fathers that denotes warmth and intimacy in the security of a loving father’s care.By Pastor Eric Bentz

Next Jesus warns His disciples against hypocrisy when they pray. They should not purposely position themselves in public areas so that others will see them praying and be impressed by their piety. If the love for prominence is the only motive in...By Pastor Eric Bentz

the Lord said that in giving one should not even let his left hand know what his right hand is doing, that is, it should be so secret that the giver readily forgets what he gave. In this way he demonstrates true righteousness before God and not before...By Pastor Eric Bentz

It is not my goal to tell you who to vote for but to ask you to consider what you are voting for? Are you voting biblically?By Pastor Eric Bentz

Since Christian love is an act of the will, and not simply an emotion, He has the right to command us to love our enemies. After all, He loved us when we were His enemies.By Pastor Eric Bentz

Jesus’s disciples are not to think first about retribution. Even when they are being abused, they must think of ways to advance the kingdom of heaven and its influence on this earth. Jesus himself lived out this radical principle and became a vivid...By Pastor Eric Bentz

His desire was that His people be individuals of their word. It was our Lords desire that anyone who claims to follow Him would be known for their personal verbal integrity.By Pastor Eric Bentz

The subject of divorce and remarriage is one of the most complicated topics in the Bible. It is virtually impossible to answer all the questions that arise, but it may be helpful to survey and summarize what we believe the Scriptures teach.By Pastor Eric Bentz

This passage serves as a powerful reminder for all Christians to take proactive steps in guarding their hearts and minds against temptation, especially in the area of sexual sin. By practicing discipline and accountability, believers can overcome the...By Pastor Eric Bentz

There is no mistaking the severity of the Savior’s words. He teaches that anger contains the seeds of murder, that abusive language contains the spirit of murder, and that cursing language implies the very desire to murder.By Pastor Eric Bentz

At this point in His Sermon, He knew that a question was beginning to rise in the minds of those listening to Him that He needed to address. This question arose due to His comments concerning righteousness and entering into the “Kingdom of Heaven”.By Pastor Eric Bentz

There are two pictures of the Christian in closing: salt and the light. Salt speaks of inward character that influences a decaying world; light speaks of the outward testimony of good works that points to God. Our task is to keep our lives pure that...By Pastor Eric Bentz

These are the attitudes that will lead to happiness and fulfillment: poverty of spirit, mourning over sin, meekness that no longer struts, but submits, hungering and thirsting for righteousness, mercy, purity of heart, peacemaking, persecution—this is...By Pastor Eric Bentz

The sermon showed how a person who is in right relationship with God should conduct his life. While the passage must be understood in the light of the offer of the messianic kingdom, the sermon applies to Jesus’ followers today for it demonstrates the...By Pastor Eric Bentz

The God of hope is the God who inspires hope in, and provides hope for, His redeemed ones.By Pastor Eric Bentz

This hope is not a desperate holding-on to a faded dream, a dead hope, but a living one, founded on reality, for it is grounded in “the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”By Pastor Eric Bentz

What is Christian Nationalism? Why are Evangelical Christians being labeled or branded Christian Nationalist by the mainstream media? Why do they claim that we are a threat to democracy? These are the question we will seek to answer and more.By Pastor Eric Bentz

The Big picture perspective helps us wee the world as it is and shows us our purpose and leads us to hope. The return of Jesus will confirm our belief and worldview but today we hold on to it by faith. The only hope we truly have is in Jesus Christ.By Pastor Eric Bentz

Believers can enjoy the peace with God that has been achieved and the glorious future in God’s presence that awaits them. But how should they react to the experiences of life that are often adverse and difficult? How can we be hopeful in a hopeless world?By Pastor Eric Bentz

God’s presence was not in wind or earthquake or fire. His voice came in the gentle breeze. Those sweet zephyrs were like windswept, invisible magnets, drawing Elijah out of the cave.By Pastor Eric Bentz

For several years Elijah had stood firm amidst and against almost insurmountable odds and circumstances. But now, after a great victory, he dropped into the throes of discouragement and total despair.By Pastor Eric Bentz

No wonder Elijah is the kind of man we admire. Isn’t it exciting to know we serve the same God he served? Isn’t it thrilling to think we can trust the same God he trusted? And what kind of God is that? He’s the God who makes promises and keeps them.By Pastor Eric Bentz

The contrast is stunning. And the response was immediate: It was a consuming fire . . . and it was convincing.By Pastor Eric Bentz

It is amazing to me how people will break God’s commandments over and over again. They will resist His loving warnings that He issues to them and then when hardship or calamity hits, usually of their own making, they get mad at God. They bring the...By Pastor Eric Bentz

Is He able? Get serious! I’m referring to “the God of impossibilities,” the One who has limitless power, who has never—and will never—meet an intimidating obstacle He cannot overcome, an aggressive enemy He cannot overwhelm, a final decision He cannot...By Pastor Eric Bentz

Anyone who would be used of God as mightily as Elijah would be in the years ahead must first face the advanced training course. For Elijah, this was Zarephath.By Pastor Eric Bentz

The Lord usually leads His faithful people a step at a time as they tune their hearts to His Word. God didn’t give Elijah a three-year schedule to follow. Instead, He directed his servant at each critical juncture in his journey, and Elijah obeyed by...By Pastor Eric Bentz

You need to know that God will always raise up someone to speak the truth when things are dark. The Bible says, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against Him.” That man was going to be Elijah.By Pastor Eric Bentz

They did not understand it; even John himself did not until then. The rest of the disciples had never put that interpretation upon our Lord’s words which was the clear and simple meaning of them, namely, that he would rise from the dead. I should not...By Pastor Eric Bentz