. Woe be to the church who is silent and compromises God's standard. They may find themselves in the same spiritual condition as Samson: "He knew not that the Spirit of the Lord had departed from him" (cf. Judges 16:20)
James conveys the idea that only when we submit to God will the devil "flee from you" as we are then committed to God ...
He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables,...
The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father)...