I’ve Heard It All
by Joe La Bianca

I’ve heard it all. I’ve heard of Christians who live in sin and think they’re saved. I’ve heard of Christians that work for salvation and make Jesus something other than a Savior. I’ve heard of false religions that change Jesus to suit their wrong ideas about God. I’ve heard of people who think they are just fine without Jesus. I’ve heard of people who accept any kind of weird and unfounded notion about science, just as long as it says, “ No God.” Yes, I’ve heard it all.
A Christian who lives in sin wants God without wanting God’s likeness in their lives. They want God at a distance. They say they love God, but in practice they hate the way God is. They desire God and sins, Christ and the Devil.
Why does God want us to be like Him? Because ungodliness is always harmful to body, soul and spirit. Look at any sin described as such in the Bible. They always hurt the person, the society, and the world.
To live in sin is to...

The Expression of God by Joe La Bianca

1 CORINTHIANS 12:1-7


We have seen from the last chapter that God does not kill his children to train them. Once a person is dead, the training is over. So this proves that those Christians who were sick and dying in chapter eleven were that way because the Christians that could have helped the poor around them did not discern the body. They were ignorant of the poor Christians at the fellowship and at communion, so Paul rebuked them for it.
Never believe that God trains his children by making them sick and by killing them. Today’s teaching which believes that blames God for the sad results of the sins of those selfish Christians at Corinth.
Now Paul will change the subject in chapter twelve to things of the spirit, which is another greatly misunderstood and abused teaching in the church today.
The things Paul will talk about in chapter twelve are of a non-carnal nature. They are ethereal, celestial, and...

The Arrogance of Atheism by Joe La Bianca


There are many contemptible things about atheism. One is the arrogance that some atheists display. They say that they do not need God, that all they need is themselves. They think they are self-sufficient. Let me show you that humans are not self-sufficient.
I saw a show where the host fell into freezing water to test hypothermia. The capillaries in his hands and feet closed down. The body was giving up on the extremities in order to warm the vital areas of the body. The body took control of the situation. Then he started shivering. Every muscle was in spasm in order to produce heat. The body took control again, and was acting independently of the mind. If someone thinks he doesn’t need God, he should realize that he cannot survive two minutes without the involuntary processes of the body that were programmed by God to function independently of the human will.
Behind the scenes there was someone who knew there would be...

The Hypothesis of Evolution by Joe La Bianca

I went to a blog site and looked up the word science. I noticed that evolution was everywhere. Evolution is not even called a science, it is admitted to be only a theory. But that’s not even true. In truth, evolution is only a hypothesis. A hypothesis is just an assumption. Someone makes an assumption, and then goes out to either prove or disprove the assumption. Science, which is a word that means observable evidence, has disproved the assumption of evolution.
Just look at the direction that nature is going. The stars die out. We’ve never seen one star turning on or being born. Why? Because they don’t come into being, they just die out. This is the opposite of the assumption of evolution.
Our planet is slowing down in it’s rotation. After time it will stop and, if left to itself, will die. Why? Because God, the Prime Mover, started the rotation of the Earth, and the laws of science are taking their downward course. We...

The Religious Mind by Joe La Bianca

I met a religious friend and tried to tell him the gospel. He didn’t understand. There was a sort of spiritual blindness that was keeping him from understanding something that my 5 year old daughter understands.
I don’t say this to be mean. It’s just true. Maybe I am a poor communicator but I got nowhere with this person. He has so much other stuff in his mind that is robbing him by way of distraction. He had different, religious definitions to practically everything I said. It was like I was speaking another language.
If I say a word, and if your definition of that word is different than mine, then you will not understand me. For instance, I say grace and you think it means something other than what I think it means. We can’t understand each other because our foundations are not the same. We must build on the same basement to have a house of reason and oneness. If our foundations are different, everything I say after that will be...

Our Need by Joe La Bianca

Hebrews 7:26
Such a high priest meets our need - one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

Jesus meets our needs. We have needs, you know. If you don’t know this, you are deceived. If you do, there is real hope for you.
What needs of ours are met by Jesus? Well first, Jesus is holy. How is the holiness of Jesus a need of ours? Don’t we need our own holiness? We have no holiness, people. All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. All, that is, except Jesus. Jesus is willing to give us His holiness when we believe in His sacrificial death. Without faith in Christ’s cross, we have no holiness and our need for holiness goes unmet. How else can one understand this verse? We require holiness to go to Heaven, but we have none. So Jesus meets that need for the believers. If you think you are holy enough for Heaven, this means that you deny Jesus and must do everything in the law of...

Hidden Thoughts by Joe La Bianca

My daughter came in from the snow. She said it was unusually dark inside the house. What does this mean? Can you see God in this? Yes. Her eyes, while outside in the blinding snow were protecting themselves automatically without her knowledge. The lenses closed somewhat to protect the inner eye. God had to program that to happen.
This shows that Someone knew there would be a sun, bright snow, a cursed creation, blindness and a myriad of other things. This shows that real thoughts of real things are behind involuntary, everyday activities. A thought presupposes a mind. What kind of mind could do all this? A divine One.
You can look everywhere and see proof of God, unless having eyes, you fail to see. If there is a thoughtful God, separate from creation, then we should want to get to know this God. But something about us stops us from wanting to get close to God. It’s our sin that stops us.
We know, deep inside , that we are...

The Suffering of Christ by Joe La Bianca

Hebrews 2:10
In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
God brought many sons to glory. People from every tribe, language and nation appear as saved souls in heaven in the Revelation. Still, many more will sadly reject the kind offer of absolute restoration found in the gospel. Jesus became the perfect Savior through suffering. Of course, Jesus was always perfect. That is precisely why He is the Savior. The perfect gave His life for the sinful to bring us to God. But Jesus was made perfect in that He completed salvation when He suffered and died. Salvation was incomplete until Jesus said, “It is finished.”
The ancient Jews, as well as the Jews of today, expected a triumphant Messiah who would never know defeat. When the rabbis considered the profile of Messiah, they observed a contradiction. The...