Pastor Sam Osubor

There are no short or simple answers to your question. Part of the solution lies in realizing that salvation isn’t a matter of instantaneous perfection. Instead, it’s a question of your  relationship  with God. Like all relationships, this one is a  process . It ebbs and flows. It includes periods of growth and advancement as well as times of discouragement and disaffection. That doesn’t mean that the Lord is inconsistent. It simply reflects our own inconstancy. We’re human, and our faith experiences many stops and starts. This relationship is more like a journey than anything else. It has its ups and downs and plenty of seemingly impossible uphill grades. But if Christ has set us upon the road, we can be sure that He will guide us to the final destination. Like Paul, we can be confident “that He who has begun a good work in [us] will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6). “Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass” (1 Thessalo...

The New Testament was written in Koine Greek. The word  Koine  denotes “common,” because this style of Greek was the language of the common man-on-the-street during the time of Christ. Koine Greek came into vogue about 300 years before the birth of Jesus, and it became an obsolete language about three centuries after the Lord’s death. It was the most precise instrument for the conveyance of human thought that the world has ever known. Without doubt, this language was providentially employed by God in giving the world the New Testament revelation of his Son. The “Love” Vocabulary Koine Greek had several words representing different aspects of love.  Eros  generally had to do with  sexual love . From this term derives the English “erotic.” This word, however, is  never  found in the New Testament. Then there was the noun  storge . This term was primarily employed of  family affection . Paul used a negative form of it in describing the base trai...