Darkness – Grace Evangelical Society

Spiraling Down in Spiritual Blindness

June 21, 2024 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Darkness, Luke 5:17–6:11, Pharisees

In Luke 5:17–6:11, the Lord has five consecutive encounters with Jewish religious leaders. They clearly see Him as a threat. He does not accept their rigid, legalistic, man-made rules. His teaching is a threat to everything they hold dear. Will they be able to see the error of their ways and realize that He is

The Man in the Shadows

April 30, 2024 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Darkness, Judgment Seat of Christ, Luke 12:2-3, Sin

The tragedy of the WWII Holocaust defies imagination. Many people were responsible for that level of death and destruction. But if we had to pick the one person most responsible for the deaths of millions, many would pick Adolf Eichmann. At first, this seems illogical. At the close of WWII, when the Allies hunted down

The Tragedy of Blind Teachers (Luke 6:39-40)

March 1, 2023 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - blind, Darkness, doctrine, Luke 6:39-40

I recently sat in on a class on the book of James at a Bible college. The teacher was an older man who had been teaching the Bible for years. It just so happened that he was teaching on James 2. With the great amount of confusion over this chapter in the Bible, it didn’t

A Ray of Light in the Selective Service? (Romans 1:21)

November 1, 2022 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Creation, Darkness, depravity, hypocrisy, Romans 1

In Romans 1, Paul discusses the spiritual darkness that descends upon people when they reject what is right before their eyes. Much of the discussion deals with Creation and the created order. Creation itself shouts out that there is a Creator and that there are established sexual boundaries. Throughout history, however, mankind has denied these

Do Not Abide in the Darkness

September 15, 2022 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - 1 John, abide, Darkness, Death, Fellowship, Romans 7

In 1875, a beautiful, young woman named Blanche Monnier from Poitiers, France, was engaged to be married. She was from a wealthy family, but her fiancé was not. Her mother did not approve of the man she chose to be her future husband. All of a sudden, she went missing. Her fiancé did not know

The Darkness at the Cross: Part 2 (Mark 15:33)

August 18, 2022 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Creation, Darkness, Judgment, Sin

In part 1, I argued that the centurion at the foot of the cross wisely considered the darkness at the time of Christ’s death and came to some surprisingly good conclusions about who Jesus is. We should ask the significance of that darkness as well. First of all, however, I would like to consider some

The Darkness at the Cross: Part 1 (Mark 15:33)

August 17, 2022 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - centurion, cross, Darkness

Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. Apocalypto is truly a guy movie. The hero is about to be sacrificed by a Mayan priest at a temple. The people believe their crops are failing because the gods are angry with them. Just as the

The Growth of Sin in Peter’s Three Denials of Christ (Mark 14:66-71)

June 28, 2022 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Darkness, progression, Sin

We have all been told that in one sense, sin is sin. All sin is a falling short of the glory of God. If we break one of the commandments, we have broken all of them because we have violated the law of God (Jas 2:10). However, we also recognize that the consequences of certain

March 3, 2022

The Ten Plagues – Part 10 – The 9th Plague, Darkness

Darkness, Egyptian Gods, Ex 10, Ninth Plague

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. We are currently going through a series on the 10 plagues with David Renfro. Today, the guys will be discussing the 9th plague, when the skies darkened. As we have seen with the other plagues, the 9th plague is significant in light of one of the Egyptian gods, called

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