Q: How do we distinguish the difference between talents, natural abilities, and Spiritual Gifts? And what is the difference between Spiritual Gifts and Spiritual Fruit?
A:The bottom line is that all we have is from God, so in that sense, they are all gifts from God. However, Scripture appears to set apart spiritual gifts as something different from talents and natural abilities. Perhaps we could say that talents are natural abilities, which seem to be hereditary, and they seem to run in family genes. Unbelievers, as well as Believers, have talents. Perhaps we could say that natural abilities are either talents or gifts that have
Q: You’ve taught us how to study the Bible “SYSTEMATICALLY.” What system do YOU have in place, for quoting Scripture the way you do?
A:Now, that’s a good question! Some friends say, they don’t feel that they can memorize their way off a one-story building, much less remember Bible verses and/or where they are located in the Word of God. Due to the hectic pace of our day-to-day lives, it’s becoming increasingly hard for people to truly focus on what’s really important. In actually, all of us memorize do’s and don’tsevery day of our human lives…as well as important numbers we must store in the
Q: You explained the ‘Great Falling Away’ in 2 Thessalonians 2, during your Book of Revelation Seminar: Can you explain what it means to ‘Drift Away From Christ?
A:"Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;" (Hebrews 2:1-3) This verse, like