HONOR AUTHORITY

1 Peter 2:13-14 – Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do right. The Lord set us free from the dominion...

GOD’S VIEW OF INDEPENDENCE

Galatians 5:1 – It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Freedom and independence are very closely related. The independence that the Lord has purchased for all mankind through the Lord...

BAPTIZED INTO PEOPLE

1 Corinthians 12:13 – For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. For every time the Bible speaks of Jesus as “Savior,” it speaks twenty-nine times as “Lord.” With much of the preaching we hear today through television and other forms of media, it sounds...

RULING OVER SELF

Ephesians 4:22-24 – In reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has...

THE GOSPEL

1 Corinthians 15:1 – Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved. The Corinthians had received the gospel by the revelation of the apostle Paul. In his letter,...