Faithfulness – Grace Evangelical Society

The Faithfulness of God (1 Kgs 15:1-8)

May 12, 2023 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - 1 Kings 15, discipline, Faithfulness, Grace, kings

The books of 1 and 2 Kings give an instructive account of how obeying God results in blessings for His people, while disobedience brings discipline and wrath. About forty kings are discussed in these books. Most of them “do evil in the sight of the Lord,” and this brings great destruction upon they themselves as

John, Meet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 37–38)

October 4, 2022 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Faithfulness, Herod Antipas, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Zedekiah

Jeremiah is widely recognized as a type of Christ. So many things in his life paralleled the life of Christ. But recently, I realized that Jeremiah also foreshadowed another important person in the New Testament. That person would be John the Baptist (JTB). There are also many parallels between JTB and the Lord Jesus. So,

Don’t Overlook the Power of Little Things We Do

May 30, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Faithfulness, Luke 19:17

At the national conference I met a young man we will call Steve who came to the Free Grace position from a strong Lordship Salvation (LS) background. He was in a strong LS church. Steve decided that if he were going to serve the Lord, he was going to do so with gusto. For him

The Parable of the Laborers (Matt 20:1-16)

March 15, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Eternal Rewards, Faithfulness, Parable of the Laborers

Recently I received a question about the parable found in Matt 20:1-16. The person asking the question wanted to know the meaning of the parable. It seems to argue against the doctrine of rewards. In the parable the Lord speaks of a landowner that hires laborers to work in his vineyard. The landowner hires five

The Judgment Seat of Christ and Early Childhood Trauma

January 7, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 Corinthians 4:1-5, Faithfulness, Hebrews 13:7, Luke 12:48, The Judgment Seat of Christ

I wrote a blog on 1 Cor 4:1-5 and praise at the Bema for the faithful (see here). I was moved by this question in response to my blog: Bob, I have a question related to faithfulness. I have quite a bit of resentment toward God due to my childhood environment and the actions of