Examining JOHN 16
INTRODUCTION: In the previous chapter, the LORD told His disciples (that includes all of His disciples, including us): “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.”
Even moderate Christians who aren’t very active in sharing the Gospel or witnessing to the truth – because the darkness in society is getting deeper and broader, what little light they do shine will be glaring, and offensive to the children of darkness.
Persecution hasn’t struck the USA the way it has in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, the Congo, North Korea and China – but as our society navigates further and deeper into spiritual darkness, it will surely arrive in this nation once founded upon Christ and the Bible. To what measure, who can say?
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CONSIDERING ISLAM – An Apologetic: Part Three
INTRODUCTION: Part One and Part Two of this series, in addition to being published here on The TRUTH Under FIRE (TTUF), was also recorded on audio (Pt. 1) and (Pt.2) at SHINE BRIGHT Church on their YouTube Channel. We’ll continue now with this series, exclusively on TTUF for the remainder of the series! And be sure to watch the accompanying YouTube videos by ONCE LOST ministries. I linked many of them in Parts One and Two in this series, with more in Part Three here and the upcoming Part Four!
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Going Through Paul’s epistles to Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, and Colossae
NOTE to TTUF Readers:
Anne Kisly is attending to many needful matters, including some well-deserved R & R as a result of some intense ministry to her family these last several years (finally completed!), leaving me to hold the fort, which I’ve been glad to do. Only, these days while my serious health issues involving cancer continue – things are not quite so intense. I have YOU saints to thank for petitioning our LORD, for He has heard! I am supremely thankful to Him for leading me and accompanying me in these fiery trials!
Your continued prayers are appreciated as the LORD faithfully leads me through these “troublesome waters”! Thank you and GOD bless you way too much!
INTRODUCTION: We often find ourselves worried, frustrated, perplexed regarding the issues of life, particularly when things go wrong, provisions aren’t forthcoming, when obstacles don’t budge and in it all we wonder, “Where are you GOD?”
Apostle Paul had all of that going on throughout his ministry, and yet as he learned to trust GOD, minute by minute, day by day, in the face of intense opposition and contention by those who abhorred the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he found himself contented and at peace. Does that sound attractive to you?
In this second half of Chapter Four, we continue in this vein of thought as apostle Paul wrote on such matters. May we follow his example, even as he follows Christ!
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Things As They Are – October 2026 – by Gregory Reid
Dear Friends,
I’m writing this a few days before our national religious holiday, Halloween. This year they began to display Halloween merchandise before summer was even ended. We are becoming a culture of death, and it is not surprising that we are investing more and more in purchasing things to lay on the altar of darkness.
As I’ve said before, Halloween usually is for me what Christmas is for retailers. I get more calls and requests to speak about this subject than at any time of the year. I am ok with that, because that is the world I was delivered from, and I prefer speaking about it, so I can reach out to others for Jesus and bring them into the light of truth and deliverance from evil. (Nobody’s Angel link; Greg Reid's autobiography)
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This article will touch on the following:
EXODUS 14, 15: Parting of the Red Sea: Deliverance from persecutors
EXODUS 14 Check out Sonny Islas’ teaching on this chapter as presented at SHINE BRIGHT Church!
EXODUS 14:1-4
1 ¶ Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea. 3 "For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.' 4 "Then I will harden Pharaoh's heart, so that he will pursue them; and I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD." And they did so.
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