A Knight's Blog

The Bible doesn’t use the word Trinity which Tertulliian coined, but the Trinity does exist in the Bible: Matthew 28:19   Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, John 10:30   I and the Father are one.” John 1:1   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1 John 5:7    For there are three that testify: John 14:26   But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. John 15:26   “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. John 1:14   And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth....

Salavation is by Faith (belief and trust) and Confession (works):  “ They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with everyone in your household,” (Acts 16:31) ”All who confess that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.” (1 John 4:15) ”9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” (Romans 10:9-10). Salavation is by grace of God in Christ (Ephesians 2:8-11, Acts 15:1-11) and not by works of penance or merit (doing good) to get to heaven. The only works is receiving God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ and confessing this belief (the work, often baptism by water is the most obvious public confession). Misunderstanding this has split the...

Most churches avoid letting generations mingle together. Seniors go to one service, the youth are divided and placed in their groups and etc. The Bible actually speaks against this compartmentalizing of Christ’s body, “ You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2  Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4  Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5  to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. 6  Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. 7  In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8  and soundness of speech...

We all loath when people misread us. When we communicate our hearts and thoughts and the translation has a break down because either we did not articulate it well or the person has wounds that interpret our words in the wrong light. The result is frustration and even depression. Our greatest desire in life is to be loved but in this prism of amore we want to be known, understood, and for someone to get a glimpse at the real us of even for a moment. I concede that there are those who do not want to be known for they fear being exposed, but this knowing includes unconditional love and acceptance of the genuine one-hundred percent you. One of life’s greatest pains is being marginalized and not being fully understood, not displaying our full potential, and not showing someone who we really are. This frustration is shared by Jesus Christ our God and Savior. He was marginalized and misunderstood to the zenith, “You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. 6  Though he wa...

When our Lord and God Jesus Christ first came in a body and as a baby, the times were tough. The Roman Empire has ruthlessly put the world under its iron fist, making Palestine into a footstool, salting fields, and crucifying dissenters by nailing them to wooden stakes. The world Jesus came into was dark with paganism, and every ungodliness. Our Savior came at the worst of empires, one that fed on the blood of its conquered people and to quote Ben-Hur, “they will take everything you have, they will make you suffer and make you forget what you have lost by watching others suffer.” (Ben-Hur 2016) The Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ will be equally brutal, actual it will surpass all known ages of tribulation, “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.” (Matthew 24:21). The world will be crushed again, not by Rome, but The Beast who will subject all to his wrath, “And the beast was allow...

The Lord God is a passionate God. He loves us with a fervor that cannot be estimated. In the Old Testament the Hebrews celebrated in Egypt Passover, a feast that commemorated their deliverance from the bondage of Egypt. During this First Passover, the angel of death cake and killed every first born of Egypt (Exodus 12:23) and only exempted those who had lamb’s blood on the doorpost (Exodus 12:7). The result of this plague of death was Pharaoh not only letting the Israelites go but also the spoils of Egypt (Exodus 12:35-36). Passover was a celebration that death passed over the people of the Lord and has New Testament fulfillment.  Everything that happens in the Old Testament physically happens eternally and spiritually in the New Testament. In the Old death passed over God’s chosen ones and they got the spoils of gold and treasures of Egypt while in the New Testament the Second death passes over us Christians and the Lamb if God, Jesus Christ’s blood covers us and gives us...

There are hymns and songs that convey the essence of Christian faith. One of them is a powerful old hymn about the blood of Jesus,, how only He can wash us clean if our sin, unrighteousness, and disobedience. Only Christ and His blood can rescue  us from our folly and failings, In Him alone is the solace and salavation of our souls: There is nothing that can make us right with God, reconcile us to Him or save us from eternal doom than Jesus and His blood. Our spiritual pride can make us believe from time to time that we are Holy by right living but sooner or later we crumble by the secret failings that like a spear knock us off the golden horse of hubris. We find freedom as Christians when we finally embrace the fact that only Jesus Christ can save us and only His blood makes us clean. Often we must stay soaked in this fundamental truth of the faith because our flesh wants to deceive us into believing we can achieve holiness and freedom from our sinful nature by ...

There is often a prevalent self abasing attitude in churches. A sort of pseudo-humility where people give God the credit and take none out of a fear that they will become proud. While it is noble to acknowledge the Lord who made us and our gifts, we are not idle spectators. Each of us is given talents from God The Trinity, but we must choose daily to use them and hone them to greater effect.  We are in a partnership with Christ. He has accomplished all, saving us by His grace and offering us eternal life. The gospel is the Lord’s, however, we are called to be stewards and courtiers of the gospel. Jesus is the Master and we live for Him and have our being (Acts 17:28), still He did entrust us with a duty, “Go forth and make disciples of all nations, baptizing then in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19). The message is Jesus, we go to make disciples of Jesus, we preach the gospel of Jesus, but we are partaking in the work. If we do nothin...