Not every church that calls itself a church is worthy of the name. What is the church? According to the Belgic Confession, the church is “a holy congregation of true Christian believers, all expecting their salvation in Jesus Christ, being washed by His blood, sanctified and sealed by the Holy Ghost” (art. 27). But drive […]

The believing child of God has always been called to be distinctly different from the world in their attitudes and actions. But as the end of the world draws closer and closer, and man becomes more and more wicked, the radical differences between the church and the world will become even more apparent. This increase […]

“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”—Romans 13:11   HIGH TIME! to awake out of sleep. Literally, “the hour is already for us to awake out of sleep,” which means that we have already overslept. What […]

Iniquity shall abound. A falling away. The man of sin. Deceivableness. Evil men growing worse and worse. Pleasure in unrighteousness. The Bible is full of warnings about the dangers of the end of the world, including the dangers of the increasing sinfulness of the last times. This can cause us to worry and fear. One […]

“Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you?”  Matthew 17:17   What does a perverse generation look like? If I were to have answered this question in the past, I would have pointed out to you the perversions of other […]

The end times are described in scripture as perilous times (2 Tim. 3:1). These perilous times will be characterized by men and women who reject God and his sovereignty and who are “lovers of their own selves” (v. 2). Rejecting God, man will live a self-centered life, believing himself to be worthy of all the […]

If a king knew his glass was poisoned, would he ever dare drink it? No, the king would turn it away to protect his life because he knows the glass is deadly. He would not even dare to sip from the cup. The poison would not only be rejected, but the king would execute whomever […]

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; – Prov. 30:18-19   The ship bobs on the ocean, seemingly weightless as it slices through the waves. By the power of its sails, it plows up a […]