1 Corinthians 9:27 but I chastise my body, and bring 'it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved. (See NAS)
2 Corinthians 6:9 as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death, and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline, and yet we are not deprived of life; (WEY DBY)
Ephesians 6:4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (WEB DBY NAS RSV)
Colossians 2:5 For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ. (WEY NAS)
1 Timothy 1:20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme. (DBY)
1 Timothy 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness. (See NAS)
1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come. (See NAS)
2 Timothy 1:7 For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline. (ASV NAS NIV)
Hebrews 12:5 and you have quite forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as sons, and which say, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, and do not faint when He corrects you; (WEY NAS RSV NIV)
Hebrews 12:7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? (WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)
Hebrews 12:8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. (WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)
Hebrews 12:9 Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live? (WEY NAS RSV NIV)
Revelation 3:19 I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent. (DBY NAS NIV)
Leviticus 26:23 And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me, (Root in DBY RSV)
Deuteronomy 4:36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 11:2 Know this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, (See NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; (See NIV)
1 Kings 12:11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'" (See NAS)
1 Kings 12:14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." (See NAS)
2 Chronicles 10:11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. (See NAS)
2 Chronicles 10:14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. (See NAS)
Job 5:17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. (See NAS NIV)
Job 36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. (KJV JPS DBY WBS)
Psalms 6:1 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath. (WEB NIV)
Psalms 38:1 A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. (See NIV)
Psalms 39:11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah. (See NIV)
Psalms 50:17 seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? (See NAS RSV)
Psalms 94:12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law; (WEB NIV)
Psalms 105:22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom. (WEB)
Proverbs 1:2 To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: (See NIV)
Proverbs 1:3 To receive the discipline of wisdom, justice, and right, and equity; (JPS NIV)
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and discipline. (JPS NIV)
Proverbs 3:11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: (WEB NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 5:12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; (See RSV NIV)
Proverbs 5:23 He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. (DBY RSV NIV)
Proverbs 6:23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 7:22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; (See NAS)
Proverbs 10:17 He who takes note of teaching is a way of life, but he who gives up training is a cause of error. (See NIV)
Proverbs 12:1 Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish. (DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 13:1 A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words. (See NAS)
Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored. (WEB NAS NIV)
Proverbs 13:24 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him. (WEB NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 15:5 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense. (See NAS NIV)
Proverbs 15:10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die. (WEB RSV NIV)
Proverbs 15:32 He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom. (See NAS NIV)
Proverbs 15:33 The fear of Jehovah is the discipline of wisdom, and before honour goeth humility. (DBY)
Proverbs 16:22 Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour. (See NAS)
Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death. (WEB NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 19:20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise. (See NAS)
Proverbs 19:27 A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge. (See NAS)
Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him. (WEB NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 23:12 Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge. (See NAS)
Proverbs 23:13 Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. (WEB NIV)
Proverbs 29:17 Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul. (See RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 7:28 And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths. (See RSV)
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 17:23 But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 32:33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 46:28 Don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished. (See NIV)
Hosea 5:2 The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them. (WEB NIV)
Habakkuk 3:9 Thy bow was made naked, The rods of discipline sworn according to thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. (DBY)
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Corinthians 11:32 But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. (DBY NAS NIV)
2 Corinthians 6:9 as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as disciplined, and not put to death; (DBY)
Titus 1:8 but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled; (See NIV)
Hebrews 12:7 The sufferings that you are enduring are for your discipline. God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? (See NIV)
Hebrews 12:8 And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons. (See NIV)
Hebrews 12:9 Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live? (See NIV)
Hebrews 12:10 It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character. (WEY NAS RSV NIV)
Leviticus 26:23 And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me, (DBY)
Judges 8:16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. (See NAS)
1 Kings 12:11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'" (See NAS)
1 Kings 12:14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." (See NAS)
2 Chronicles 10:11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. (See NAS)
2 Chronicles 10:14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. (See NAS)
Psalms 118:18 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death. (See NAS)
Proverbs 1:3 To receive the discipline of wisdom, justice, and right, and equity; (See NIV)
Proverbs 29:19 A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention. (See RSV)
Isaiah 26:16 O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement 'is' on them. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke : turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. (See NIV)
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Liar, Liar.......... the group of people God can't help
"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15).
1 JOHN 2:21
Lying is a wicked sin full of pride. It is evil and rebellious against God. It is a non-profit action that will bring shame to whomever commits this abomination. It is abhorred, hated, and loathed by an Almighty God.
I. ORIGIN
A. Devil (John 8:44 - murderer and father of lies), (Acts 5:3 - Peter asked Ananias why Satan filled his heart to lie.)
B. Not God (Titus 1:2 - God cannot lie), (Heb 6:18 - It is impossible for God to lie.)
C. The Spirit within a Christian is the Spirit of Truth, a person who habitually lies
Does not know the Spirit of God. Col 3:9 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; (10) And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
II. OUTCOME
A. Rev 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death
B. Rev 21:27 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lambs book of life.
C. Rev 22:14-15 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they many have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates in to the city. (15) For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
D. You will get caught up with. (illustration) Prov 19:5&9 - A false witness shall not be un-punished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape. (9) - A false witness shall not be un-punished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
III. OWNER - Those who.
A. Deny the Savior (1 John 2:22, 5:10)
B. Delight in Sin (1 John 1:6, 2:4, 4:20) - Lasciviousness (Jude 4)
Ez 13:6-7 - Lying is compared with witchcraft. Dan 2:9 - Lying is corrupt.
Hos 4:2 - Lying is compared to swearing, killing, stealing, and committing adultery.
C. Destroy the Scripture (Pr 30:6 - Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Rom 1:25 - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worship-ped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Revelation 22:18-19
IV. OVERCOME- conclusion
A. Ps 31:18 - Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievious things prudly and contemptuously against the righteous. 119:29 - Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Eph 4:25 - Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. James 3:14 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in you hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
B. Stay away from liars. Ps 120:2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from deceitful tongue.
C. Just don't do it. Col 3:9 - Lie not one to another...
TEXT VERSES:
Ps 31:6 - I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
Ps 52:3 - Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness.
Ps 59:12 - For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Ps 109:2 - For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Ps 119:163 - I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Pr 6:16-17 - These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: (17) A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pr 12:22 - Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Pr 13:5 - A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Pr 17:4 - A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to naughty tongue.
Pr 19:22 - The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
Pr 26:28 - A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Is 30:9 - That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord.
Is 59:13 - In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Jer 7:4 - Trust ye not in lying words,..
Jer 7:8 - Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit
1 JOHN 2:21
Lying is a wicked sin full of pride. It is evil and rebellious against God. It is a non-profit action that will bring shame to whomever commits this abomination. It is abhorred, hated, and loathed by an Almighty God.
I. ORIGIN
A. Devil (John 8:44 - murderer and father of lies), (Acts 5:3 - Peter asked Ananias why Satan filled his heart to lie.)
B. Not God (Titus 1:2 - God cannot lie), (Heb 6:18 - It is impossible for God to lie.)
C. The Spirit within a Christian is the Spirit of Truth, a person who habitually lies
Does not know the Spirit of God. Col 3:9 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; (10) And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
II. OUTCOME
A. Rev 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death
B. Rev 21:27 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lambs book of life.
C. Rev 22:14-15 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they many have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates in to the city. (15) For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
D. You will get caught up with. (illustration) Prov 19:5&9 - A false witness shall not be un-punished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape. (9) - A false witness shall not be un-punished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
III. OWNER - Those who.
A. Deny the Savior (1 John 2:22, 5:10)
B. Delight in Sin (1 John 1:6, 2:4, 4:20) - Lasciviousness (Jude 4)
Ez 13:6-7 - Lying is compared with witchcraft. Dan 2:9 - Lying is corrupt.
Hos 4:2 - Lying is compared to swearing, killing, stealing, and committing adultery.
C. Destroy the Scripture (Pr 30:6 - Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Rom 1:25 - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worship-ped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Revelation 22:18-19
IV. OVERCOME- conclusion
A. Ps 31:18 - Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievious things prudly and contemptuously against the righteous. 119:29 - Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Eph 4:25 - Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. James 3:14 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in you hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
B. Stay away from liars. Ps 120:2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from deceitful tongue.
C. Just don't do it. Col 3:9 - Lie not one to another...
TEXT VERSES:
Ps 31:6 - I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
Ps 52:3 - Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness.
Ps 59:12 - For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Ps 109:2 - For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Ps 119:163 - I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Pr 6:16-17 - These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: (17) A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pr 12:22 - Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Pr 13:5 - A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Pr 17:4 - A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to naughty tongue.
Pr 19:22 - The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
Pr 26:28 - A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Is 30:9 - That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord.
Is 59:13 - In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Jer 7:4 - Trust ye not in lying words,..
Jer 7:8 - Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit
covenant of conscience
"The covenant of conscience".
I was also thinking about how children are born into the world. They are totally self seeking. Toddlers pretty much just care about getting their own needs met. But older people if they press on to know the Lord, in the last years, months, weeks of their life, their only concern is that those they love have their needs met.
I was thinking about the job a parent has to carve their children's conscience. The truth is children know when they are doing wrong. But if the parent is checked out in his or her conscience, they will deal with their children in a way that does not prosper their children. Getting their children to read their own mail, discern their own conscience is what parenting is
all about. If you are brutish in your own conscience, you won't even see where your children are at to help them. And if you don't wake up your children's conscience to God's voice inside
them you have failed as a parent, and passed on all your familiars to them.
When I was 5 years old, my older brother took me into a store and taught me how to steal. (The adrenaline rush from that is similar to the feeling you get when you are about to wreck your
car.) I'm sure it's similar to heroine too.) So here I am as a 5 year old, totally vexed my soul,
having a demon, evil energy come on me, and no one to read my mail. No one to help me wake up to the kingdom of God in my own soul. They didn't hear God's voice and do it so they could not take me somewhere they did not go. "the would not enter in and kept those who would from entering in." I needed someone to help me know my own soul. The difference between God's voice and the devil and someone to help me count the cost. But the adults, grieved, denied, resisted the Holy Ghost and were brutish.
We are conduit's for familiar spirits, when we don't understand the kingdom of God in our conscience, vs the kingdom of Satan. When we are conscience vexers we CANNOT HELP OUR
CHILDREN, HUSBAND, ANYONE, enter in. For we are not entering in.
1 Timothy 3:9 (Whole Chapter)
They must possess the mysterious secret of the faith [Christian truth as hidden from ungodly men] with a clear conscience.
Keeping our conscience clean, clear has everything to do with GUARDING YOUR HEART........ GUARD YOUR CONSCIENCE WITH ALL DILIGENCE FOR OUT OF IT ARE THE ISSUES
OF LIFE!
1 Timothy 4:2 (Whole Chapter)
Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared (cauterized), when we go against our God conscience, we become hypocrites.
2 Timothy 1:3 (Whole Chapter)
I thank God Whom I worship with a pure conscience, WE CAN ONLY REALLY WORSHIP GOD WITH A CLEAN CONSCIENCE, having a defiled conscience keeps us from real worship
Titus 1:15 (Whole Chapter)
To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted.
Hebrews 9:9 (Whole Chapter)
Seeing that that first [outer portion of the] tabernacle was a parable (a visible symbol or type or picture of the present age). In it gifts and sacrifices are offered, and yet are incapable of perfecting the conscience or of cleansing and renewing the inner man of the worshiper. We need Jesus' forgiveness when we vex our conscience.....
Hebrews 9:14 (Whole Chapter)
How much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own preexistent [Henry Alford, cited by Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies.] divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the [ever] living God?
Hebrews 10:22 (Whole Chapter)
Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.
Hebrews 13:18 (Whole Chapter)
Keep praying for us, for we are convinced that we have a good (clear) conscience, that we want to walk uprightly and live a noble life, acting honorably and in complete honesty in all things.
1 Peter 3:16 (Whole Chapter)
[And see to it that] your conscience is entirely clear unimpaired), so that, when you are falsely accused as evildoers, those who threaten you abusively and revile your right behavior in Christ may come to be ashamed [of slandering your good lives].
1 Peter 3:21 (Whole Chapter)
And baptism, which is a figure [of their deliverance], does now also save you [from inward questionings and fears], not by the removing of outward body filth [bathing], but by [providing you with] the answer of a good and clear conscience (inward cleanness and peace) before God [because you are demonstrating what you believe to be yours] through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:20 (Whole Chapter)
Whenever our hearts in [ [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] we are in God's hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him]. We need to be personal, abiding in Jesus vine, listening for The Holy Spirit's voice in our conscience, to lead us and guide us. If we don't keep our conscience clear, it pollutes everything we do
1 John 3:21 (Whole Chapter)
And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God, There is no confidence before God when we stand guilty with unconfused sin. Grieving, denying, resisting the Holy Ghost, leads to no confidence in God
Proverbs 7:21 (Whole Chapter)
With much justifying and enticing argument she persuades him, with the allurements of her lips she leads him [to overcome his conscience and his fears] and forces him along. The devil is always trying to get us to overthrow the voice of God in our conscience. Just like he did with Eve in the beginning
Matthew 6:23 (Whole Chapter)
But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness!
Luke 11:34 (Whole Chapter)
Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye your conscience) is sound and fulfilling its office, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound and is not fulfilling its office, your body is full of darkness.
John 8:9 (Whole Chapter)
They listened to Him, and then they began going out, conscience-stricken, one by one, from the oldest down to the last one of them, till Jesus was left alone, with the woman standing there before Him in the center of the court.
Acts 23:1 (Whole Chapter)
THEN PAUL, gazing earnestly at the council (Sanhedrin), said, Brethren, I have lived before God, doing my duty with a perfectly good conscience until this very day [ [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] as a citizen, a true and loyal Jew].
Acts 24:16 (Whole Chapter)
Therefore I always exercise and discipline myself [mortifying my body, deadening my carnal affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires, endeavoring in all respects] to have a clear (unshaken, blameless) conscience, void of offense toward God and toward men.
Romans 1:31 (Whole Chapter)
[They were] without understanding, conscienceless and faithless, heartless and loveless [and] merciless.
Romans 2:15 (Whole Chapter)
They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts and are operating there, with which their consciences (sense of right and wrong) also bear witness; and their [moral] decisions (their arguments of reason, their condemning or approving thoughts) will accuse or perhaps defend and excuse [them]
Romans 9:1 (Whole Chapter)
I AM speaking the truth in Christ. I am not lying; my conscience [enlightened and prompted] by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with me
Romans 13:5 (Whole Chapter)
Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath and escape punishment, but also as a matter of principle and for the sake of conscience.
Romans 14:20 (Whole Chapter)
You must not, for the sake of food, undo and break down and destroy the work of God! Everything is indeed [ceremonially] clean and pure, but it is wrong for anyone to hurt the conscience of others or to make them fall by what he eats.
Romans 14:21 (Whole Chapter)
The right thing is to eat no meat or drink no wine [at all], or [do anything else] if it makes your brother stumble or hurts his conscience or offends or weakens him.
Romans 14:23 (Whole Chapter)
But the man who has doubts (misgivings, an uneasy conscience) about eating, and then eats [perhaps because of you], stands condemned [before God], because he is not true to his convictions and he does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate and proceed from faith is sin [whatever is done without a conviction of its approval by God is sinful].
1 Corinthians 8:7 (Whole Chapter)
Nevertheless, not all [believers] possess this knowledge. But some, through being all their lives until now accustomed to [thinking of] idols [as real and living], still consider the food [offered to an idol] as that sacrificed to an [actual] god; and their weak consciences become defiled and injured if they eat [it].
1 Corinthians 8:12 (Whole Chapter)
And when you sin against your brethren in this way, wounding and damaging their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:28 (Whole Chapter)
But if someone tells you, This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol, do not eat it, out of consideration for the person who informed you, and for conscience's sake--
1 Corinthians 10:29 (Whole Chapter)
I mean for the sake of his conscience, not yours, [do not eat it]. For why should another man's scruples apply to me and my liberty of action be determined by his conscience?
2 Corinthians 1:12 (Whole Chapter)
It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and [Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.] merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues).
2 Corinthians 4:2 (Whole Chapter)
We have renounced disgraceful ways (secret thoughts, feelings, desires and underhandedness, the methods and arts that men hide through shame); we refuse to deal craftily (to practice trickery and cunning) or to adulterate or handle dishonestly the Word of God, but we state the truth openly (clearly and candidly). And so we commend ourselves in the sight and presence of God to every man's conscience.
2 Corinthians 5:11 (Whole Chapter)
Therefore, being conscious of fearing the Lord with respect and reverence, we seek to win people over [to persuade them]. But what sort of persons we are is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood by God, and I hope that it is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood also by your consciences (your inborn discernment).
Philippians 2:12 (Whole Chapter)
Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).
1 Timothy 1:5 (Whole Chapter)
Whereas the object and purpose of our instruction and charge is love, which springs from a pure heart and a good (clear) conscience and sincere (unfeigned) faith.
1 Timothy 1:19 (Whole Chapter)
Holding fast to faith ( [Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.] that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence) and having a good (clear) conscience. By rejecting and thrusting from them [their conscience], some individuals have made shipwreck of their faith.
I was also thinking about how children are born into the world. They are totally self seeking. Toddlers pretty much just care about getting their own needs met. But older people if they press on to know the Lord, in the last years, months, weeks of their life, their only concern is that those they love have their needs met.
I was thinking about the job a parent has to carve their children's conscience. The truth is children know when they are doing wrong. But if the parent is checked out in his or her conscience, they will deal with their children in a way that does not prosper their children. Getting their children to read their own mail, discern their own conscience is what parenting is
all about. If you are brutish in your own conscience, you won't even see where your children are at to help them. And if you don't wake up your children's conscience to God's voice inside
them you have failed as a parent, and passed on all your familiars to them.
When I was 5 years old, my older brother took me into a store and taught me how to steal. (The adrenaline rush from that is similar to the feeling you get when you are about to wreck your
car.) I'm sure it's similar to heroine too.) So here I am as a 5 year old, totally vexed my soul,
having a demon, evil energy come on me, and no one to read my mail. No one to help me wake up to the kingdom of God in my own soul. They didn't hear God's voice and do it so they could not take me somewhere they did not go. "the would not enter in and kept those who would from entering in." I needed someone to help me know my own soul. The difference between God's voice and the devil and someone to help me count the cost. But the adults, grieved, denied, resisted the Holy Ghost and were brutish.
We are conduit's for familiar spirits, when we don't understand the kingdom of God in our conscience, vs the kingdom of Satan. When we are conscience vexers we CANNOT HELP OUR
CHILDREN, HUSBAND, ANYONE, enter in. For we are not entering in.
1 Timothy 3:9 (Whole Chapter)
They must possess the mysterious secret of the faith [Christian truth as hidden from ungodly men] with a clear conscience.
Keeping our conscience clean, clear has everything to do with GUARDING YOUR HEART........ GUARD YOUR CONSCIENCE WITH ALL DILIGENCE FOR OUT OF IT ARE THE ISSUES
OF LIFE!
1 Timothy 4:2 (Whole Chapter)
Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared (cauterized), when we go against our God conscience, we become hypocrites.
2 Timothy 1:3 (Whole Chapter)
I thank God Whom I worship with a pure conscience, WE CAN ONLY REALLY WORSHIP GOD WITH A CLEAN CONSCIENCE, having a defiled conscience keeps us from real worship
Titus 1:15 (Whole Chapter)
To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted.
Hebrews 9:9 (Whole Chapter)
Seeing that that first [outer portion of the] tabernacle was a parable (a visible symbol or type or picture of the present age). In it gifts and sacrifices are offered, and yet are incapable of perfecting the conscience or of cleansing and renewing the inner man of the worshiper. We need Jesus' forgiveness when we vex our conscience.....
Hebrews 9:14 (Whole Chapter)
How much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own preexistent [Henry Alford, cited by Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies.] divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the [ever] living God?
Hebrews 10:22 (Whole Chapter)
Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.
Hebrews 13:18 (Whole Chapter)
Keep praying for us, for we are convinced that we have a good (clear) conscience, that we want to walk uprightly and live a noble life, acting honorably and in complete honesty in all things.
1 Peter 3:16 (Whole Chapter)
[And see to it that] your conscience is entirely clear unimpaired), so that, when you are falsely accused as evildoers, those who threaten you abusively and revile your right behavior in Christ may come to be ashamed [of slandering your good lives].
1 Peter 3:21 (Whole Chapter)
And baptism, which is a figure [of their deliverance], does now also save you [from inward questionings and fears], not by the removing of outward body filth [bathing], but by [providing you with] the answer of a good and clear conscience (inward cleanness and peace) before God [because you are demonstrating what you believe to be yours] through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:20 (Whole Chapter)
Whenever our hearts in [ [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] we are in God's hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him]. We need to be personal, abiding in Jesus vine, listening for The Holy Spirit's voice in our conscience, to lead us and guide us. If we don't keep our conscience clear, it pollutes everything we do
1 John 3:21 (Whole Chapter)
And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God, There is no confidence before God when we stand guilty with unconfused sin. Grieving, denying, resisting the Holy Ghost, leads to no confidence in God
Proverbs 7:21 (Whole Chapter)
With much justifying and enticing argument she persuades him, with the allurements of her lips she leads him [to overcome his conscience and his fears] and forces him along. The devil is always trying to get us to overthrow the voice of God in our conscience. Just like he did with Eve in the beginning
Matthew 6:23 (Whole Chapter)
But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness!
Luke 11:34 (Whole Chapter)
Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye your conscience) is sound and fulfilling its office, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound and is not fulfilling its office, your body is full of darkness.
John 8:9 (Whole Chapter)
They listened to Him, and then they began going out, conscience-stricken, one by one, from the oldest down to the last one of them, till Jesus was left alone, with the woman standing there before Him in the center of the court.
Acts 23:1 (Whole Chapter)
THEN PAUL, gazing earnestly at the council (Sanhedrin), said, Brethren, I have lived before God, doing my duty with a perfectly good conscience until this very day [ [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] as a citizen, a true and loyal Jew].
Acts 24:16 (Whole Chapter)
Therefore I always exercise and discipline myself [mortifying my body, deadening my carnal affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires, endeavoring in all respects] to have a clear (unshaken, blameless) conscience, void of offense toward God and toward men.
Romans 1:31 (Whole Chapter)
[They were] without understanding, conscienceless and faithless, heartless and loveless [and] merciless.
Romans 2:15 (Whole Chapter)
They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts and are operating there, with which their consciences (sense of right and wrong) also bear witness; and their [moral] decisions (their arguments of reason, their condemning or approving thoughts) will accuse or perhaps defend and excuse [them]
Romans 9:1 (Whole Chapter)
I AM speaking the truth in Christ. I am not lying; my conscience [enlightened and prompted] by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with me
Romans 13:5 (Whole Chapter)
Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath and escape punishment, but also as a matter of principle and for the sake of conscience.
Romans 14:20 (Whole Chapter)
You must not, for the sake of food, undo and break down and destroy the work of God! Everything is indeed [ceremonially] clean and pure, but it is wrong for anyone to hurt the conscience of others or to make them fall by what he eats.
Romans 14:21 (Whole Chapter)
The right thing is to eat no meat or drink no wine [at all], or [do anything else] if it makes your brother stumble or hurts his conscience or offends or weakens him.
Romans 14:23 (Whole Chapter)
But the man who has doubts (misgivings, an uneasy conscience) about eating, and then eats [perhaps because of you], stands condemned [before God], because he is not true to his convictions and he does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate and proceed from faith is sin [whatever is done without a conviction of its approval by God is sinful].
1 Corinthians 8:7 (Whole Chapter)
Nevertheless, not all [believers] possess this knowledge. But some, through being all their lives until now accustomed to [thinking of] idols [as real and living], still consider the food [offered to an idol] as that sacrificed to an [actual] god; and their weak consciences become defiled and injured if they eat [it].
1 Corinthians 8:12 (Whole Chapter)
And when you sin against your brethren in this way, wounding and damaging their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:28 (Whole Chapter)
But if someone tells you, This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol, do not eat it, out of consideration for the person who informed you, and for conscience's sake--
1 Corinthians 10:29 (Whole Chapter)
I mean for the sake of his conscience, not yours, [do not eat it]. For why should another man's scruples apply to me and my liberty of action be determined by his conscience?
2 Corinthians 1:12 (Whole Chapter)
It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and [Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.] merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues).
2 Corinthians 4:2 (Whole Chapter)
We have renounced disgraceful ways (secret thoughts, feelings, desires and underhandedness, the methods and arts that men hide through shame); we refuse to deal craftily (to practice trickery and cunning) or to adulterate or handle dishonestly the Word of God, but we state the truth openly (clearly and candidly). And so we commend ourselves in the sight and presence of God to every man's conscience.
2 Corinthians 5:11 (Whole Chapter)
Therefore, being conscious of fearing the Lord with respect and reverence, we seek to win people over [to persuade them]. But what sort of persons we are is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood by God, and I hope that it is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood also by your consciences (your inborn discernment).
Philippians 2:12 (Whole Chapter)
Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, [Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.] with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).
1 Timothy 1:5 (Whole Chapter)
Whereas the object and purpose of our instruction and charge is love, which springs from a pure heart and a good (clear) conscience and sincere (unfeigned) faith.
1 Timothy 1:19 (Whole Chapter)
Holding fast to faith ( [Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.] that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence) and having a good (clear) conscience. By rejecting and thrusting from them [their conscience], some individuals have made shipwreck of their faith.
Monday, October 6, 2008
SELF EXAMINATION
Subject: SELF EXAMINATION Gene Sullivan
THE "HOW TO’S" OF EXAMINING YOURSELF TO SEE IS YOU ARE CURRENTLY WALKING IN
FAITH!
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Ingratitude.....is a symtom of the times God has answered prayer that I have
not recognized or remembered as having asked for, many times. Loving God- (Mt
22:40, Jn 3:20-21) Is your heart divided toward your heavenly father? How
many times do you make plans without asking or clearing them through him? How
much of your free time is given to his service? How much of your thought life
is on Him, or do you think of other things, people, self recreation, you want
to enjoy? Would you make plans apart from your family- Your Wife- Your
Husband- Your Parents? Is your thought life, your inner man life "Private"?
If you honestly have to say yes to any of these, YOU SHOW A DIVIDED HEART-AND
IMPURE LOVE- in some cases, AN ADULTEROUS HEART- A HEART LOVING AND SERVING
THE SPIRIT OF SELF AND THE WORLD. (One who loves God-delights in his
commandments. Ps 119:35 If you loved God you would do his commandments. Jn
14:15 & 14:21- By thinking the law is unjust, hard & an unfair requirement
for many to do, from God- proves a heart with little or no love. Agreeing
with God against self proves love!)
NEGLECT OF THE WORD '- How much of your day to day life keeps you in the word
for understanding, direction, and conformation? Do you only read when you are
asking God for something or in need or is his word your daily food? If not,
it's because your not walking in the Spirit. The Spirit and the Word are one.
If there's not any Spiritual activity going on in you, you won't be in the
word :
UNBELIEF- As Christians, we are called Believers, and called to believe- yet,
truthfully, we are in unbelief as much, if not more than in Faith- we are
surrounded by doubt on every side. Our biggest doubt is always in our own
experience and life with God. Will He see me through this thing, does He have
a plan? Or am I making something up? The Prophecy that was spoken to me, was
it truly from God? The things that are happening to me now, are they from
God? Are they for my good or as a result from Disobedience somewhere? Is my
Lord pleased with me when He looks upon my heart? Or is He grieved? Have I
done what He's shown me to do- whether it regards a duty, action of
performance, change of mind or attitude, prayer and love?
Have I obeyed? Am I actively in Faith for His attention, for his favor? Do I
know? Am I convinced, that what-He has promised, what is in His word, what he
has called me to ...... HE WILL PERFORM!? If not- I'm in doubt, unbelief!
NEGLECT OF PRAYER- Neglecting to talk to our Father. How much less of a child
could be said, than of a blatant disregard of Love, then not to communicate
to the ones who love Him- To arise in the morning- eat food prepared by a
loving parent- leave the house to come home later that night, eat dinner, go
on to bed- never saying a word- No Gratitude- no sharing of experience, no
asking of any questions. One in this state would be considered an infidel.
Yet, one might say, "I think of God continually. He's always on my mind. I
don't do anything, but what I don I t wonder about how he f eels. 11 But we
never take time out to pray or talk to Him personally about anything. "HE
KNOWS MY HEART" we say, confidently- fact is, WE ARE REBELLIOUS, SELF
ASSERTING, INDEPENDENT CHILDREN! The holy Word says- "His thoughts are
continually towards the Righteous".
"THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE RIGHTEOUS- HIS EARS OPEN TO THEIR CRY".
Our relationship to our Father should be continual- we should include Him in
everything we do- not just for His permission, but for His pleasure. How can
we say we believe in God, if with God we have no relationship? Prayer is our
relationship with Him. How many times when you are talking to God, if He
would interrupt you in the middle of a sentence, and say, "would you mind
repeating your last statement, I missed it." Would it shock you to realize
that He really is listening to you? How many times in the course of your
praying, have you either been interrupted, by an impulse or someone, or a
thought of a duty, and just left off what you were saying, and got involved
with something else? Do you see that what you have done is left Gods
presence, left the throne room in the middle of a sentence, left God without
excusing yourself, showing an absolute disregard for is person- His holiness,
His Authority, and His Relationship- I dare say, if you did this to your
employer or your family or friends- they would avoid you like the plague. How
much more should we esteem our Heavenly Father, than our carnal
relationships- yet we respect Man more than the blessed creator.
PRAYER- Above all things, IS A RELATIONSHIP. A true Man of prayer will be a
man of relationships- How can a man say He loves, (worships), (knows) , God-
and doesn’t walk in love- or even have care, and show concern, relationships
with his brothers? If a man truly loves God, He will love Gods people. This
means more than just "Lip Service" "I love you brother- you've got 15
minutes"!The man who preaches an hour and a half at Gods people who won't
give equal time or more if needed to minister to them', or just be there to
encourage them by a handshake or a "God BLESS"- is NO MAN OF GOD!- This is a
selfish, egotistical, Pharisee, who thinks he's Gods gift to the body. 01
that mens hearts would be filled with Gods encouraging love, longsuffering,
and patience for His weaker Saints- a man of prayer, is a man 7who has been
imparted to by God, His character, His love, compassion, mercy, His
sternness, discipline, and truth. LACK OF PRAYER CREATES A HIDDEN HEART-
People who won't open up to people. Darkness in our hearts closes us to God
in prayer! Every devil in Hell is against you opening up .... and telling The
Father of Light, the hidden secret's of your heart and thoughts!! Once they
are exposed to the light in prayer, God's grace comes to enlighten you, and
encourages you to be open always, as a way of life!! Prayer opens the door of
your heart to receive God's manifold Wisdom and Under- standing!! HOW GREATLY
WE NEED THIS!. RESOLVE IN YOUR HEART NOW --- THAT YOU WILL NOT GO ONE DAY
WITHOUT THROWING EVERY THOUGHT, EVERY MOTIVE, EVERY DESIRE, INTO GOD-S
GLORIOUS LIGHT FOR HIS APPROVAL, CORRECTION REPROOF, DIRECTION ...
FORGIVENESS AND HEALING, WISDOM, AND HIS DIVINE UNDERSTANDING. DO THIS AND
HIS GLORY AND GRACE WILL REMAIN WITH YOU!! SYMPATHY AND DISHONORING GOD- in
relation to fallen Christians and sinners alike, this is an area of extreme
importance, that we have the Godly perspective of this subject, because of
what WE REFLECT TO OTHERS AS BEING GOD'S ATTITUDES! SHOULD OUR ATTITUDES BE
HIS ATTITUDES?? God's love and mercy is wrapped up in the gift of His Son for
mankind- Jn 3:16 Gods anger, wrath, and displeasure, is toward ALL THOSE
DENYING HIS LOVE AND MERCY! Ps 7:9-11. WE SHOULD NEVER SIDE WITH THE SINNER
OR THE FALLEN SAINT IN SYMPATHY FOR HIS ACTIONS OF OVERT DISREGARD AND
DISOBEDIENCE of Gods manifest love for him. To do this is to take the sinners
position of "it wasn't my fault!
Gods position of "you have walked away from my love!" TO REFLECT A FALSE
ATTITUDE FROM GOD, IS TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF GUILT AWAY FROM THE
SINNER!! THEREBY, ROBBING HIM OF TRUE REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE,
AND CORRESPONDING GRACE FROM GOD TO STAY IN VICTORY! THE FALLEN SAINT AND
SINNER ALIKE, MUST BE MADE TO SEE WHAT GOD'S ATTITUDE IS TOWARD SIN. That is
not something we fall into, it is what we choose, by an act of our own will!
Even the sinner has been given God's truth in His heart, that he must
intelligently disregard truth to remain in his darkened state! Ro 2:14-15, Ro
1:18-20 We can have sympathy upon ones condition, or circumstances, but never
upon the active position of disregard for God, and choice of disobedience, in
their heart! There's a great difference between ones CIRCUMSTANCE, and ones
HEART POSITION!! For them to receive forgiveness and Grace from GOD, THEY
MUST BE MADE TO SEE THEIR OWN HEARTS CONDITION!!!
THEY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEE THIS IF WE REFLECT SYMPATHY to THEIR FALLEN
STATE! THIS IS A FALSE REFLECTION!! IT WILL NEVER BRING CONVICTION WHICH
LEADS TO REPENTANCE!!
GRIEVING THE SPIRIT-THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CONSTANTLY GRIEVED IN MOST CHRISTIANS
LIVES DAILY! Probably the best example of this can be found in Song of S
5:2-6 The Lord says "OPEN TO ME ... MY LOVE" speaking to us His bride, We
are indifferent to Him! We don't want to get up and go to the door. Finally
we are moved we go to the door to open it, HE IS GONE! THERE IS NOTHING THAT
GRIEVES GOD MORE THAN OUR INDIFFERENCE TO HIM- HIS WORD- HIS MESSENGERS, HIS
HANDMAIDENS AND SERVANTS- HIS HOLY SPIRIT! HARD HEARTED, SPIRITUALLY DULL,
ADULTEROUS PEOPLE ARE INDIFFERENT TO ALMIGHTY GODS GENEROUS LOVE. WE WONDER
WHY, IN OUR CHURCHES, THE HOLY SPIRIT BEGINS TO MOVE, BUT IN A SHORT TIME HE
IS GONE! THERE IS NO BROKENESS IN THE CONGREGATION- THEY FEEL HIS PRESENCE
AND REACT CARNALLY AND RUN HIM OFF ... EVERY TIME! They will not allow Him to
do a deeper work in them! Their hearts are set on
"mirth, joy and laughter, not on being broken, mourning and groaning because
of sinful practices and divided hearts in need of MAJOR OVERHAULS. The truth
is, "God is near to those poor in spirit, a broken and contrite heart He will
not despise. 11 Ps 50:17 69:33, Is 57:15, "God will dwell (remain with) the
contrite and humble spirit" vs. 16-17 "God will not contend with the froward
forever." He will hide HIMSELF FROM SUCH AND LET HIM GO ON HIS WAY!'
WHO WILL BRING CONVICTION TO YOU, AFTER_ YOU HAVE GRIEVED THE SPIRIT OF LIFE
AWAY?? HOW WILL THE TRUTH EVER COME TO YOU AGAIN?? SEEK THE HOUSE OF
MOURNING, LOOK FOR THOSE OF A SOLEMN SPIRIT IN CHRIST, POUR OUT YOUR HEART
BEFORE OUR MERCIFUL CREATOR, IF POSSIBLE YOU MAY FIND GRACE AND HE ONCE AGAIN
BREAK YOUR HEART! With out a heart of flesh that's soft and open to His
prompting, WE WILL CONTINUE TO GRIEVE HIM, ALWAYS! IF THIS DOES NOT DEEPLY
AFFLICT US, WE ARE TRULY WICKED!
ONLY A DIVIDED, WICKED HEART, COULD NOT BE TRULY MOVED BY THIS REALIZATION! I
AM AFRAID, THAT MULTITUDES, THAT CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS, FALL INTO THIS
CATEGORY! SELF INDULGENT, RIOTOUS, SEEKERS OF PLEASURES AND MIRACLES, WHO
CANNOT BE BROKEN! "To this man will I look, sayeth God, to him that is poor
and of a contrite spirit, and that trembles at my Word" Is 66:2 Is 57:15. LET
US HEAR THIS AND FEAR! LET US EXAMINE OUR HEARTS BEFORE GOD IN ALL SINCERITY
AND TRUTH, LET US BE FOUND BROKEN-IN LOVE- SOFT- HUMBLE BEFORE OUR REDEEMER,
THAT_HIS KINGDOM MAY COME, HIS WILL WOULD BE DONE, THAT WE MIGHT SHOW HIS
POWER AND GLORY TO A LOST WORLD!!
THE "HOW TO’S" OF EXAMINING YOURSELF TO SEE IS YOU ARE CURRENTLY WALKING IN
FAITH!
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~~~~~~~
Ingratitude.....is a symtom of the times God has answered prayer that I have
not recognized or remembered as having asked for, many times. Loving God- (Mt
22:40, Jn 3:20-21) Is your heart divided toward your heavenly father? How
many times do you make plans without asking or clearing them through him? How
much of your free time is given to his service? How much of your thought life
is on Him, or do you think of other things, people, self recreation, you want
to enjoy? Would you make plans apart from your family- Your Wife- Your
Husband- Your Parents? Is your thought life, your inner man life "Private"?
If you honestly have to say yes to any of these, YOU SHOW A DIVIDED HEART-AND
IMPURE LOVE- in some cases, AN ADULTEROUS HEART- A HEART LOVING AND SERVING
THE SPIRIT OF SELF AND THE WORLD. (One who loves God-delights in his
commandments. Ps 119:35 If you loved God you would do his commandments. Jn
14:15 & 14:21- By thinking the law is unjust, hard & an unfair requirement
for many to do, from God- proves a heart with little or no love. Agreeing
with God against self proves love!)
NEGLECT OF THE WORD '- How much of your day to day life keeps you in the word
for understanding, direction, and conformation? Do you only read when you are
asking God for something or in need or is his word your daily food? If not,
it's because your not walking in the Spirit. The Spirit and the Word are one.
If there's not any Spiritual activity going on in you, you won't be in the
word :
UNBELIEF- As Christians, we are called Believers, and called to believe- yet,
truthfully, we are in unbelief as much, if not more than in Faith- we are
surrounded by doubt on every side. Our biggest doubt is always in our own
experience and life with God. Will He see me through this thing, does He have
a plan? Or am I making something up? The Prophecy that was spoken to me, was
it truly from God? The things that are happening to me now, are they from
God? Are they for my good or as a result from Disobedience somewhere? Is my
Lord pleased with me when He looks upon my heart? Or is He grieved? Have I
done what He's shown me to do- whether it regards a duty, action of
performance, change of mind or attitude, prayer and love?
Have I obeyed? Am I actively in Faith for His attention, for his favor? Do I
know? Am I convinced, that what-He has promised, what is in His word, what he
has called me to ...... HE WILL PERFORM!? If not- I'm in doubt, unbelief!
NEGLECT OF PRAYER- Neglecting to talk to our Father. How much less of a child
could be said, than of a blatant disregard of Love, then not to communicate
to the ones who love Him- To arise in the morning- eat food prepared by a
loving parent- leave the house to come home later that night, eat dinner, go
on to bed- never saying a word- No Gratitude- no sharing of experience, no
asking of any questions. One in this state would be considered an infidel.
Yet, one might say, "I think of God continually. He's always on my mind. I
don't do anything, but what I don I t wonder about how he f eels. 11 But we
never take time out to pray or talk to Him personally about anything. "HE
KNOWS MY HEART" we say, confidently- fact is, WE ARE REBELLIOUS, SELF
ASSERTING, INDEPENDENT CHILDREN! The holy Word says- "His thoughts are
continually towards the Righteous".
"THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE RIGHTEOUS- HIS EARS OPEN TO THEIR CRY".
Our relationship to our Father should be continual- we should include Him in
everything we do- not just for His permission, but for His pleasure. How can
we say we believe in God, if with God we have no relationship? Prayer is our
relationship with Him. How many times when you are talking to God, if He
would interrupt you in the middle of a sentence, and say, "would you mind
repeating your last statement, I missed it." Would it shock you to realize
that He really is listening to you? How many times in the course of your
praying, have you either been interrupted, by an impulse or someone, or a
thought of a duty, and just left off what you were saying, and got involved
with something else? Do you see that what you have done is left Gods
presence, left the throne room in the middle of a sentence, left God without
excusing yourself, showing an absolute disregard for is person- His holiness,
His Authority, and His Relationship- I dare say, if you did this to your
employer or your family or friends- they would avoid you like the plague. How
much more should we esteem our Heavenly Father, than our carnal
relationships- yet we respect Man more than the blessed creator.
PRAYER- Above all things, IS A RELATIONSHIP. A true Man of prayer will be a
man of relationships- How can a man say He loves, (worships), (knows) , God-
and doesn’t walk in love- or even have care, and show concern, relationships
with his brothers? If a man truly loves God, He will love Gods people. This
means more than just "Lip Service" "I love you brother- you've got 15
minutes"!The man who preaches an hour and a half at Gods people who won't
give equal time or more if needed to minister to them', or just be there to
encourage them by a handshake or a "God BLESS"- is NO MAN OF GOD!- This is a
selfish, egotistical, Pharisee, who thinks he's Gods gift to the body. 01
that mens hearts would be filled with Gods encouraging love, longsuffering,
and patience for His weaker Saints- a man of prayer, is a man 7who has been
imparted to by God, His character, His love, compassion, mercy, His
sternness, discipline, and truth. LACK OF PRAYER CREATES A HIDDEN HEART-
People who won't open up to people. Darkness in our hearts closes us to God
in prayer! Every devil in Hell is against you opening up .... and telling The
Father of Light, the hidden secret's of your heart and thoughts!! Once they
are exposed to the light in prayer, God's grace comes to enlighten you, and
encourages you to be open always, as a way of life!! Prayer opens the door of
your heart to receive God's manifold Wisdom and Under- standing!! HOW GREATLY
WE NEED THIS!. RESOLVE IN YOUR HEART NOW --- THAT YOU WILL NOT GO ONE DAY
WITHOUT THROWING EVERY THOUGHT, EVERY MOTIVE, EVERY DESIRE, INTO GOD-S
GLORIOUS LIGHT FOR HIS APPROVAL, CORRECTION REPROOF, DIRECTION ...
FORGIVENESS AND HEALING, WISDOM, AND HIS DIVINE UNDERSTANDING. DO THIS AND
HIS GLORY AND GRACE WILL REMAIN WITH YOU!! SYMPATHY AND DISHONORING GOD- in
relation to fallen Christians and sinners alike, this is an area of extreme
importance, that we have the Godly perspective of this subject, because of
what WE REFLECT TO OTHERS AS BEING GOD'S ATTITUDES! SHOULD OUR ATTITUDES BE
HIS ATTITUDES?? God's love and mercy is wrapped up in the gift of His Son for
mankind- Jn 3:16 Gods anger, wrath, and displeasure, is toward ALL THOSE
DENYING HIS LOVE AND MERCY! Ps 7:9-11. WE SHOULD NEVER SIDE WITH THE SINNER
OR THE FALLEN SAINT IN SYMPATHY FOR HIS ACTIONS OF OVERT DISREGARD AND
DISOBEDIENCE of Gods manifest love for him. To do this is to take the sinners
position of "it wasn't my fault!
Gods position of "you have walked away from my love!" TO REFLECT A FALSE
ATTITUDE FROM GOD, IS TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF GUILT AWAY FROM THE
SINNER!! THEREBY, ROBBING HIM OF TRUE REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE,
AND CORRESPONDING GRACE FROM GOD TO STAY IN VICTORY! THE FALLEN SAINT AND
SINNER ALIKE, MUST BE MADE TO SEE WHAT GOD'S ATTITUDE IS TOWARD SIN. That is
not something we fall into, it is what we choose, by an act of our own will!
Even the sinner has been given God's truth in His heart, that he must
intelligently disregard truth to remain in his darkened state! Ro 2:14-15, Ro
1:18-20 We can have sympathy upon ones condition, or circumstances, but never
upon the active position of disregard for God, and choice of disobedience, in
their heart! There's a great difference between ones CIRCUMSTANCE, and ones
HEART POSITION!! For them to receive forgiveness and Grace from GOD, THEY
MUST BE MADE TO SEE THEIR OWN HEARTS CONDITION!!!
THEY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEE THIS IF WE REFLECT SYMPATHY to THEIR FALLEN
STATE! THIS IS A FALSE REFLECTION!! IT WILL NEVER BRING CONVICTION WHICH
LEADS TO REPENTANCE!!
GRIEVING THE SPIRIT-THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CONSTANTLY GRIEVED IN MOST CHRISTIANS
LIVES DAILY! Probably the best example of this can be found in Song of S
5:2-6 The Lord says "OPEN TO ME ... MY LOVE" speaking to us His bride, We
are indifferent to Him! We don't want to get up and go to the door. Finally
we are moved we go to the door to open it, HE IS GONE! THERE IS NOTHING THAT
GRIEVES GOD MORE THAN OUR INDIFFERENCE TO HIM- HIS WORD- HIS MESSENGERS, HIS
HANDMAIDENS AND SERVANTS- HIS HOLY SPIRIT! HARD HEARTED, SPIRITUALLY DULL,
ADULTEROUS PEOPLE ARE INDIFFERENT TO ALMIGHTY GODS GENEROUS LOVE. WE WONDER
WHY, IN OUR CHURCHES, THE HOLY SPIRIT BEGINS TO MOVE, BUT IN A SHORT TIME HE
IS GONE! THERE IS NO BROKENESS IN THE CONGREGATION- THEY FEEL HIS PRESENCE
AND REACT CARNALLY AND RUN HIM OFF ... EVERY TIME! They will not allow Him to
do a deeper work in them! Their hearts are set on
"mirth, joy and laughter, not on being broken, mourning and groaning because
of sinful practices and divided hearts in need of MAJOR OVERHAULS. The truth
is, "God is near to those poor in spirit, a broken and contrite heart He will
not despise. 11 Ps 50:17 69:33, Is 57:15, "God will dwell (remain with) the
contrite and humble spirit" vs. 16-17 "God will not contend with the froward
forever." He will hide HIMSELF FROM SUCH AND LET HIM GO ON HIS WAY!'
WHO WILL BRING CONVICTION TO YOU, AFTER_ YOU HAVE GRIEVED THE SPIRIT OF LIFE
AWAY?? HOW WILL THE TRUTH EVER COME TO YOU AGAIN?? SEEK THE HOUSE OF
MOURNING, LOOK FOR THOSE OF A SOLEMN SPIRIT IN CHRIST, POUR OUT YOUR HEART
BEFORE OUR MERCIFUL CREATOR, IF POSSIBLE YOU MAY FIND GRACE AND HE ONCE AGAIN
BREAK YOUR HEART! With out a heart of flesh that's soft and open to His
prompting, WE WILL CONTINUE TO GRIEVE HIM, ALWAYS! IF THIS DOES NOT DEEPLY
AFFLICT US, WE ARE TRULY WICKED!
ONLY A DIVIDED, WICKED HEART, COULD NOT BE TRULY MOVED BY THIS REALIZATION! I
AM AFRAID, THAT MULTITUDES, THAT CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS, FALL INTO THIS
CATEGORY! SELF INDULGENT, RIOTOUS, SEEKERS OF PLEASURES AND MIRACLES, WHO
CANNOT BE BROKEN! "To this man will I look, sayeth God, to him that is poor
and of a contrite spirit, and that trembles at my Word" Is 66:2 Is 57:15. LET
US HEAR THIS AND FEAR! LET US EXAMINE OUR HEARTS BEFORE GOD IN ALL SINCERITY
AND TRUTH, LET US BE FOUND BROKEN-IN LOVE- SOFT- HUMBLE BEFORE OUR REDEEMER,
THAT_HIS KINGDOM MAY COME, HIS WILL WOULD BE DONE, THAT WE MIGHT SHOW HIS
POWER AND GLORY TO A LOST WORLD!!
Friday, October 3, 2008
vengence, pity, treacherous
You won't realize those around you have the same Father in Heaven who is looking after you......and looking after them also. The absence of
Reverence for the Lord produces a liberality to deal treacherously. A son honors his father. A servant honors his master. The treacherous don't honor God as Father, and fail to see God as their master enough to fear Him and stop listening to the wrong voice. The voice that accuses God and His people. And when we blame God for dealing treacherously with us, when we are just suffering due to our own sin, we will be treacherous.
We are called to be a royal priesthood. A holy nation. Just as God's covenant rested on Levi, so it is His will that it rests on us. God gave
Levi life and peace because he trembled and feared and kept reverence for God. He didn't deal treacherously. THE LAW OF TRUTH WAS IN HIS MOUTH, and iniquity was NOT FOUND IN HIS LIPS. He didn't deal with his wife treacherously. He walked with God in peace and righteousness, and did turn many away from iniquity. When we don't turn from our sin of accusing God, we pity others and can't turn them from blaming God for their problems too. Our lips should keep knowledge, so other's can hear the Word of the Lord from our mouth. For we are all called to be messengers
of The Lord of Hosts.
One thing I loved about the movie...."Hurricane", is when Denzel Washington took the devil by force. He finally got mad enough at the spirit of hatred that caused him to lightly esteem white people, to tell it to shut up.....he was sick and tired of hearing the devils voice, and he vowed not to listen to it anymore. He saw that a bad spirit was not only his friend.....which it had cloaked itself to be all his life, BUT IT WAS HIS ENEMY!
So are you ready to tell that treacherous spirit that has diguised itself as being your friend.....that voice that says "THE WAY OF THE LORD IS HARD," TO SHUT UP! When you see yourself as a victim of your circumstances, you are UNBELIEVING AND REFUSING TO TAKE THE CUP OF SALVATION AND CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD. You are REBELLING against believing that "your times are in God's hands. ARE YOU WILLING TO FORSAKE THE SPIRIT THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS YOUR FRIEND?
Even the children of the world have become wise in that, recovering drug addicts know they must forsake their old friends to stay clean. If your
ready to forsake that devilish voice that you thought was the voice of a friend........REPENT, AND BELIEVE! Repent to God and those you have dealt
treacherously with, because you believed the way of the Lord was hard! Have faith in Jesus to save you from this demonic stronghold! Go to those you have offended by being selfish, by always making them bear your burden. Those you have lived with and forced them to bear your wounded spirit, because you were rebelling against being a minister of reconciliation, not caring yourself if you were reconciled to God. If you have been treacherous and vengeful that God doesn't bow to your kingdom, you have made everyone pass through the fire of your selfishness. If you have been a messenger of Satan.... "the way of the Lord is hard"..... cry out to God to forgive you for those you have evangelized, and those who you have made pay due to you having evil imaginations against the Lord and against his people. Make it your food to do God's will and stop demanding your own..... you will be God's messenger instead of satan's.
Reverence for the Lord produces a liberality to deal treacherously. A son honors his father. A servant honors his master. The treacherous don't honor God as Father, and fail to see God as their master enough to fear Him and stop listening to the wrong voice. The voice that accuses God and His people. And when we blame God for dealing treacherously with us, when we are just suffering due to our own sin, we will be treacherous.
We are called to be a royal priesthood. A holy nation. Just as God's covenant rested on Levi, so it is His will that it rests on us. God gave
Levi life and peace because he trembled and feared and kept reverence for God. He didn't deal treacherously. THE LAW OF TRUTH WAS IN HIS MOUTH, and iniquity was NOT FOUND IN HIS LIPS. He didn't deal with his wife treacherously. He walked with God in peace and righteousness, and did turn many away from iniquity. When we don't turn from our sin of accusing God, we pity others and can't turn them from blaming God for their problems too. Our lips should keep knowledge, so other's can hear the Word of the Lord from our mouth. For we are all called to be messengers
of The Lord of Hosts.
One thing I loved about the movie...."Hurricane", is when Denzel Washington took the devil by force. He finally got mad enough at the spirit of hatred that caused him to lightly esteem white people, to tell it to shut up.....he was sick and tired of hearing the devils voice, and he vowed not to listen to it anymore. He saw that a bad spirit was not only his friend.....which it had cloaked itself to be all his life, BUT IT WAS HIS ENEMY!
So are you ready to tell that treacherous spirit that has diguised itself as being your friend.....that voice that says "THE WAY OF THE LORD IS HARD," TO SHUT UP! When you see yourself as a victim of your circumstances, you are UNBELIEVING AND REFUSING TO TAKE THE CUP OF SALVATION AND CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD. You are REBELLING against believing that "your times are in God's hands. ARE YOU WILLING TO FORSAKE THE SPIRIT THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS YOUR FRIEND?
Even the children of the world have become wise in that, recovering drug addicts know they must forsake their old friends to stay clean. If your
ready to forsake that devilish voice that you thought was the voice of a friend........REPENT, AND BELIEVE! Repent to God and those you have dealt
treacherously with, because you believed the way of the Lord was hard! Have faith in Jesus to save you from this demonic stronghold! Go to those you have offended by being selfish, by always making them bear your burden. Those you have lived with and forced them to bear your wounded spirit, because you were rebelling against being a minister of reconciliation, not caring yourself if you were reconciled to God. If you have been treacherous and vengeful that God doesn't bow to your kingdom, you have made everyone pass through the fire of your selfishness. If you have been a messenger of Satan.... "the way of the Lord is hard"..... cry out to God to forgive you for those you have evangelized, and those who you have made pay due to you having evil imaginations against the Lord and against his people. Make it your food to do God's will and stop demanding your own..... you will be God's messenger instead of satan's.
Is.58 the fast that God has chosen
DON'T BE INDIFFERENT TO THE FAST GOD HAS CALLED EACH ONE OF US TO CHOOSE!
I have been thinking about the sin of indifferenceand the FAST God has called us all to choose, in Is.58. Failing to "stir ourselves up" to seek God in our Covenant of Conscience with Him, results in not grabbing what we were "grabbed" by God to do. Being indifferent to how we are "really loving Jesus, and judging the barometer of our "brotherly" love results in a world never seeing Jesus lives by the way WE LOVE! We should be involved in the "washing" of feet, the removing of grave clothes because the way of the slothful IS HARD, it isn't "'EASY." When we know someone's words are the words of death, but we fail to say anything, We fail to pray, we fail to be honest, we fail to be sincere, we are failing in our function as a smaller member of a greater whole. Do you even consider submitting yourselves to God, so you can resist the devil? If we won't admit we are blind, we won't have our eyes open to understand spiritual "demonic" motivation. By our indifference.....we end up consenting with the thief. We let people's dead lifeless words, steal from us and others, because we close our eyes to the dead, lifeless words we speak to others. The devil has to use the lips of "PEOPLE" to accuse God , and he's very sneaky in his presentation. If we listen to fearful, unbelieving words.......the words of those who are influenced by Satan, the words some imp spoke to them to control them, so their words can control us, we will end up in some ditch. Ezekiel says if we fail to show someone in the family of God, who we are in relationship with, their sins, we will experience the same judgment they will for their sin. So if FEAR AND UNBELIEF or strife, is a sin, which it is, it's an indictment against God, it's pointing the finger at Him. Many people are being held captive by the devil at his will. They are "hell" evangelists. And we have to care about what kind of Epistle we are for other's to read, and if we are leading others into a ditch. People who always speak their own thoughts, their own words, end up exalting the wrong spirit. They create breeches instead of restoring them. Fretting, whining, complaining words are on a mission to mouth accusations against God (and most people do it willfully, ignorantly), because they lie about their own words grieving them. God wants us to love someone enough to speak the truth to them, so they will grow up........and quit being used by the accuser of the brethren to point the finger at Jesus, and we are all being led and leading others even if we don't want to believe it.........IT'S STILL THE TRUTH.
I had a dream about one of my sisters the other night. I was talking to her about how she presents herself. I was telling her what the scripture means......."present yourself a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service." Rm.12:1 I was telling her to be holy means to be separated, and she always separates herself unto that whiny, unbelieving, fearful, despairing devil, that accuses God. So even when she talks about Jesus, her words have the anointing of death on them. Our words light fires, and "loose" the devils spirit on the earth in those who don't care what they are "feeding the sheep" out of the words of their mouth. Some people have a lot of faith to light forest fires, it's what they prefer to "feed the sheep." "Mischief is conceived in our hearts, by listening to the devil's voice instead of God's, so our mouth ends up being used to give birth to the devil's lies in the hearts of others." Jesus words, God's words are referred to AS FOOD. So our words are like food. Some people are CONTENT AND FEEL JUSTIFIED in poisoning others with words most
Oh how many people are willing to scrub, scrub, scrub the outside of the cup with strife and religious works, but deep in their soul, they are filled with dead men's bones. And their empty chatter is just a reflection of their empty heart. If you talk to them long enough, you can hear the dead bones, those thoughts lodged in their heart that aren't right towards the Lord. And Idolaters (looking to man to deal with their dead bones, instead of looking to Jesus) will always turn to man to heal their wound. (Even though Jesus uses men or women to heal us, when we look to them first, we are out of order, and we come under a curse, and can't even see or receive the ones we put the burden on to save us.) Life and death is in the power of our tongue. Jesus said, "Every idle word a man speaks will be held against him in the day of judgment." What He means is that our words operate, they are either the source of life or death, and it all depends on the motives of the heart of the one speaking the words. He told the wicked and slothful servant......"out of your mouth, you have condemned yourself." The proverbs say that the words of a man's heart are "deep" waters. And some people have a cesspool of demonic thoughts that reside deep in their soul that they don't talk to the Lord about. When the enemy comes in like a flood, THE LORD LIFTS UP A STANDARD. When the devil is speaking to us through someone's mouth we think we love, we shouldn't be indifferent, but look to pray to hear the right voice! And give them "good food," for the bad food they gave us. There have been times I didn't even realize I had "miry places" or cesspools of evil thoughts towards the Lord in my heart, but through fellowship with other saints, the impurities in my own soul jumped out of my mouth. That's the time to JUMP, HUMBLE OURSELVES...... KILL the frog that just leaped out of our mouth!
Some people say spiritual things, even quote scriptures and talk about the things of God, but THE MOTIVE OF their HEART IS SELF SERVING. They speak because they love the praise of men . This is a heart filled with SELF INTEREST! These words are not motivated by any BENEVOLENT LOVE. These are people so selfish, they care little about the arsenic, boric acid, self serving, self seeking words that come out of their mouths because they have no peace with God. Some love the praise of men, they seek the approval of men, they fear man much more than God, and they really couldn't care less about the death they let float out of their mouths regularly and how it's affecting others. They speak spiritual things to gain the praise of men. They don't even judge most of the time if the words they speak are really for the benefit, the well being, the edifying, the building up of others . They speak to build themselves up! They only care about getting their needs met. They care about getting the approval they need from others, they only look for acceptance from man, they don't care if THE WORDS OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE MEDITATION OF THEIR HEARTS ARE ACCEPTABLE IN GOD'S SIGHT. They wouldn't consider being honest, sincere, and helping others judge the spirit of their words, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT ANYONE TO JUDGE THEIR SELF SEEKING WORDS.
I was also thinking about "suffering that woman Jezebel." Suffering meaning.......being indifferent to someone who is controlled by Satan in their thoughts. Controlled because they love their life and they won't loose it for the greater cause. Controlled because of being weak minded because they love their life and their thoughts and don't, Won't take the time to make Gods thoughts their thoughts. They don't really care if their thoughts are coming from hell, their words are coming from hell, because they love themselves and only care about getting what they need from others, not in what they serve to others. Being a servant isn't part of their thoughts most of the time. Laboring in God's Kingdom, and loving the saving and keeping of souls, is not what makes these people tic. They serve God for their own pleasure and happiness. They haven't taken on Jesus' burden, which is easy and light......the loving and keeping of souls. They live under the lie THAT IT IS TOO BIG OF A BURDEN, AND GOD WOULDN'T HELP THEM ANYWAY. So they toss their talent. Getting their own needs met is the meditation of their heart. They don't have the love, to speak the truth in love for we are members of one another. They don't care about really helping others grow up........only in getting their own needs met. They don't even consider that one day it will all be exposed and they will be REWARDED for how they have really been involved in the saving and keeping of souls. (You know the souls they think they will live with through eternity?)
HOW MUCH DO WE CAUSE OTHER'S TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRES OF THE SPIRIT'S WE DON'T JUDGE IN OURSELVES?
The end of self indulgence, and sin IS DEATH. Self serving people filled with lust and addiction don't care about how they affect others, or loving others. This is why they have no victory over their lusts and addictions. One thing I have observed about many women is how they love their husbands gifts. They love the pleasures of the relationship, and what their husbands can give to them and provide for them, but they don't love their husbands souls. They don't think about being honest, sincere, praying, spending time in the word. They are content to have accusations, divisions, evil imaginations, and little foxes live in their relationships with their husbands. They don't even see how their failure to judge how they really love the men in their lives, is how they love Jesus, God, too! OH THEY LOVE THE GIFTS.......just not the Giver. If they loved the giver, they would love the givers children. But they don't, they lie, and are insincere, and insecure with the Givers children. They are too wrapped up in getting what they need from the givers children to love them. Honesty and sincerity are a threat to them, because then they would really have to examine their faith and acknowledge if they really believe they can trust in God. They would rather be controlling, because that's what they really have "faith" in. They suffer the spirit of control in themselves, so they suffer it in others too! They are blind to the fact that they have blood on their hands. They don't care if someone around them is starting a Forrest fire with their mouth, because they are too busy getting their own needs met. They wouldn't think too long about putting the Forrest fires around them out, and they don't consider the fact that God will judge them as much as the one who is using their mouth to start the fire!
IF WE FAIL TO SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE, WE DEPRIVE THOSE AROUND US FROM BEING ABLE TO GROW UP! How will we become the bride of Christ, perfect, complete, without division, if we love our precious life so much? We "default" on our calling through our own indifference, WE CONSENT WITH THE THIEF! Having eyes to see, they see not, having ears to hear, they hear not, lest the glorious light of the gospel should come and heal them. Some people just don't want the glorious light of the gospel to heal them, they want to be sick and TAKEN CARE OF. HOW CAN THEY BELIEVE WHO SEEK THE PRAISE OF MEN, MORE THAN GOD. THEY WILL HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL NOT COMING AND HEALING THEM. The only reason for their lack of healing is because deep in their hearts THEY LOVE THE PRAISE OF MEN, MORE THAN GOD. Are your words self seeking? Do you listen to the self seeking words of others who love the praise of men? How much do you suffer the spirit of Jezebel, control, in your life. Some men's sins go before them, others follow after them. You'll never have peace if you lie to yourself about the content of your own words, and the content of the words of those around you. WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLEEP, ARISE FROM YOUR DEATH, AND God will give you light!
When we love the praise of men, we already have consented with the thief........we are guilty of being a robber. Our spirit becomes like a leech that sucks the life from others. When we don't have our own integrity before God, we will be jealous of those who do. We will have a desperate, taking, greedy, gluttonous, hellish spirit, that's never full, content, or satisfied. We will be like a molester, who is stealing life from others because we are lying to ourselves and we are not SEEKING THE PRAISE THAT COMES FROM GOD ALONE! Our lives will one day show if we have been busy seeking gifts..........OR LOVING AND SEEKING THE GIVER OF LIFE! Jesus came for the sick......if this describes you, repent, and cry out to God, so you won't be ashamed for the bank account you have accumulated of dead words ! We are creators....and we create life and death with our mouth, and one day it will all be tallied up! We will be known by our fruit. Our fruit will "tell" who's voice we have really followed.
We watched a movie about the devil. A man had been seduced by him, and his pitiful, whiny words. The devil was locked up in prison, and he couldn't get out by himself. HE NEEDED SOMEONE TO LET HIM OUT. He had to have a body, and ambassador, to represent his cause. The man in the movie was so sorry when he realized what he had done. AND HE PROVED HOW SORRY HE WAS, by spending his life CAPTURING the devil he loosed. That's how you can tell someone is truly sorry they have been the devil's ambassador. They are God's ambassador's now......speaking His oracles instead of the devils , and they live to TAKE THEIR THOUGHTS CAPTIVE to the obedience of Christ. And they have the wisdom, to CAPTURE the thoughts of those who they love who are being held captive by the devils lying whispers! Like Job "they are eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and the cause they know not, they search out. They have gone on GODS FAST, to loose bands of wickedness, undo heavy burdens, set the oppressed free, and they are breaking yokes! And the promises of Isaiah 58 are being lived out in their lives, to the glory of God the Father!
I have been thinking about the sin of indifferenceand the FAST God has called us all to choose, in Is.58. Failing to "stir ourselves up" to seek God in our Covenant of Conscience with Him, results in not grabbing what we were "grabbed" by God to do. Being indifferent to how we are "really loving Jesus, and judging the barometer of our "brotherly" love results in a world never seeing Jesus lives by the way WE LOVE! We should be involved in the "washing" of feet, the removing of grave clothes because the way of the slothful IS HARD, it isn't "'EASY." When we know someone's words are the words of death, but we fail to say anything, We fail to pray, we fail to be honest, we fail to be sincere, we are failing in our function as a smaller member of a greater whole. Do you even consider submitting yourselves to God, so you can resist the devil? If we won't admit we are blind, we won't have our eyes open to understand spiritual "demonic" motivation. By our indifference.....we end up consenting with the thief. We let people's dead lifeless words, steal from us and others, because we close our eyes to the dead, lifeless words we speak to others. The devil has to use the lips of "PEOPLE" to accuse God , and he's very sneaky in his presentation. If we listen to fearful, unbelieving words.......the words of those who are influenced by Satan, the words some imp spoke to them to control them, so their words can control us, we will end up in some ditch. Ezekiel says if we fail to show someone in the family of God, who we are in relationship with, their sins, we will experience the same judgment they will for their sin. So if FEAR AND UNBELIEF or strife, is a sin, which it is, it's an indictment against God, it's pointing the finger at Him. Many people are being held captive by the devil at his will. They are "hell" evangelists. And we have to care about what kind of Epistle we are for other's to read, and if we are leading others into a ditch. People who always speak their own thoughts, their own words, end up exalting the wrong spirit. They create breeches instead of restoring them. Fretting, whining, complaining words are on a mission to mouth accusations against God (and most people do it willfully, ignorantly), because they lie about their own words grieving them. God wants us to love someone enough to speak the truth to them, so they will grow up........and quit being used by the accuser of the brethren to point the finger at Jesus, and we are all being led and leading others even if we don't want to believe it.........IT'S STILL THE TRUTH.
I had a dream about one of my sisters the other night. I was talking to her about how she presents herself. I was telling her what the scripture means......."present yourself a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service." Rm.12:1 I was telling her to be holy means to be separated, and she always separates herself unto that whiny, unbelieving, fearful, despairing devil, that accuses God. So even when she talks about Jesus, her words have the anointing of death on them. Our words light fires, and "loose" the devils spirit on the earth in those who don't care what they are "feeding the sheep" out of the words of their mouth. Some people have a lot of faith to light forest fires, it's what they prefer to "feed the sheep." "Mischief is conceived in our hearts, by listening to the devil's voice instead of God's, so our mouth ends up being used to give birth to the devil's lies in the hearts of others." Jesus words, God's words are referred to AS FOOD. So our words are like food. Some people are CONTENT AND FEEL JUSTIFIED in poisoning others with words most
Oh how many people are willing to scrub, scrub, scrub the outside of the cup with strife and religious works, but deep in their soul, they are filled with dead men's bones. And their empty chatter is just a reflection of their empty heart. If you talk to them long enough, you can hear the dead bones, those thoughts lodged in their heart that aren't right towards the Lord. And Idolaters (looking to man to deal with their dead bones, instead of looking to Jesus) will always turn to man to heal their wound. (Even though Jesus uses men or women to heal us, when we look to them first, we are out of order, and we come under a curse, and can't even see or receive the ones we put the burden on to save us.) Life and death is in the power of our tongue. Jesus said, "Every idle word a man speaks will be held against him in the day of judgment." What He means is that our words operate, they are either the source of life or death, and it all depends on the motives of the heart of the one speaking the words. He told the wicked and slothful servant......"out of your mouth, you have condemned yourself." The proverbs say that the words of a man's heart are "deep" waters. And some people have a cesspool of demonic thoughts that reside deep in their soul that they don't talk to the Lord about. When the enemy comes in like a flood, THE LORD LIFTS UP A STANDARD. When the devil is speaking to us through someone's mouth we think we love, we shouldn't be indifferent, but look to pray to hear the right voice! And give them "good food," for the bad food they gave us. There have been times I didn't even realize I had "miry places" or cesspools of evil thoughts towards the Lord in my heart, but through fellowship with other saints, the impurities in my own soul jumped out of my mouth. That's the time to JUMP, HUMBLE OURSELVES...... KILL the frog that just leaped out of our mouth!
Some people say spiritual things, even quote scriptures and talk about the things of God, but THE MOTIVE OF their HEART IS SELF SERVING. They speak because they love the praise of men . This is a heart filled with SELF INTEREST! These words are not motivated by any BENEVOLENT LOVE. These are people so selfish, they care little about the arsenic, boric acid, self serving, self seeking words that come out of their mouths because they have no peace with God. Some love the praise of men, they seek the approval of men, they fear man much more than God, and they really couldn't care less about the death they let float out of their mouths regularly and how it's affecting others. They speak spiritual things to gain the praise of men. They don't even judge most of the time if the words they speak are really for the benefit, the well being, the edifying, the building up of others . They speak to build themselves up! They only care about getting their needs met. They care about getting the approval they need from others, they only look for acceptance from man, they don't care if THE WORDS OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE MEDITATION OF THEIR HEARTS ARE ACCEPTABLE IN GOD'S SIGHT. They wouldn't consider being honest, sincere, and helping others judge the spirit of their words, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT ANYONE TO JUDGE THEIR SELF SEEKING WORDS.
I was also thinking about "suffering that woman Jezebel." Suffering meaning.......being indifferent to someone who is controlled by Satan in their thoughts. Controlled because they love their life and they won't loose it for the greater cause. Controlled because of being weak minded because they love their life and their thoughts and don't, Won't take the time to make Gods thoughts their thoughts. They don't really care if their thoughts are coming from hell, their words are coming from hell, because they love themselves and only care about getting what they need from others, not in what they serve to others. Being a servant isn't part of their thoughts most of the time. Laboring in God's Kingdom, and loving the saving and keeping of souls, is not what makes these people tic. They serve God for their own pleasure and happiness. They haven't taken on Jesus' burden, which is easy and light......the loving and keeping of souls. They live under the lie THAT IT IS TOO BIG OF A BURDEN, AND GOD WOULDN'T HELP THEM ANYWAY. So they toss their talent. Getting their own needs met is the meditation of their heart. They don't have the love, to speak the truth in love for we are members of one another. They don't care about really helping others grow up........only in getting their own needs met. They don't even consider that one day it will all be exposed and they will be REWARDED for how they have really been involved in the saving and keeping of souls. (You know the souls they think they will live with through eternity?)
HOW MUCH DO WE CAUSE OTHER'S TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRES OF THE SPIRIT'S WE DON'T JUDGE IN OURSELVES?
The end of self indulgence, and sin IS DEATH. Self serving people filled with lust and addiction don't care about how they affect others, or loving others. This is why they have no victory over their lusts and addictions. One thing I have observed about many women is how they love their husbands gifts. They love the pleasures of the relationship, and what their husbands can give to them and provide for them, but they don't love their husbands souls. They don't think about being honest, sincere, praying, spending time in the word. They are content to have accusations, divisions, evil imaginations, and little foxes live in their relationships with their husbands. They don't even see how their failure to judge how they really love the men in their lives, is how they love Jesus, God, too! OH THEY LOVE THE GIFTS.......just not the Giver. If they loved the giver, they would love the givers children. But they don't, they lie, and are insincere, and insecure with the Givers children. They are too wrapped up in getting what they need from the givers children to love them. Honesty and sincerity are a threat to them, because then they would really have to examine their faith and acknowledge if they really believe they can trust in God. They would rather be controlling, because that's what they really have "faith" in. They suffer the spirit of control in themselves, so they suffer it in others too! They are blind to the fact that they have blood on their hands. They don't care if someone around them is starting a Forrest fire with their mouth, because they are too busy getting their own needs met. They wouldn't think too long about putting the Forrest fires around them out, and they don't consider the fact that God will judge them as much as the one who is using their mouth to start the fire!
IF WE FAIL TO SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE, WE DEPRIVE THOSE AROUND US FROM BEING ABLE TO GROW UP! How will we become the bride of Christ, perfect, complete, without division, if we love our precious life so much? We "default" on our calling through our own indifference, WE CONSENT WITH THE THIEF! Having eyes to see, they see not, having ears to hear, they hear not, lest the glorious light of the gospel should come and heal them. Some people just don't want the glorious light of the gospel to heal them, they want to be sick and TAKEN CARE OF. HOW CAN THEY BELIEVE WHO SEEK THE PRAISE OF MEN, MORE THAN GOD. THEY WILL HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL NOT COMING AND HEALING THEM. The only reason for their lack of healing is because deep in their hearts THEY LOVE THE PRAISE OF MEN, MORE THAN GOD. Are your words self seeking? Do you listen to the self seeking words of others who love the praise of men? How much do you suffer the spirit of Jezebel, control, in your life. Some men's sins go before them, others follow after them. You'll never have peace if you lie to yourself about the content of your own words, and the content of the words of those around you. WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLEEP, ARISE FROM YOUR DEATH, AND God will give you light!
When we love the praise of men, we already have consented with the thief........we are guilty of being a robber. Our spirit becomes like a leech that sucks the life from others. When we don't have our own integrity before God, we will be jealous of those who do. We will have a desperate, taking, greedy, gluttonous, hellish spirit, that's never full, content, or satisfied. We will be like a molester, who is stealing life from others because we are lying to ourselves and we are not SEEKING THE PRAISE THAT COMES FROM GOD ALONE! Our lives will one day show if we have been busy seeking gifts..........OR LOVING AND SEEKING THE GIVER OF LIFE! Jesus came for the sick......if this describes you, repent, and cry out to God, so you won't be ashamed for the bank account you have accumulated of dead words ! We are creators....and we create life and death with our mouth, and one day it will all be tallied up! We will be known by our fruit. Our fruit will "tell" who's voice we have really followed.
We watched a movie about the devil. A man had been seduced by him, and his pitiful, whiny words. The devil was locked up in prison, and he couldn't get out by himself. HE NEEDED SOMEONE TO LET HIM OUT. He had to have a body, and ambassador, to represent his cause. The man in the movie was so sorry when he realized what he had done. AND HE PROVED HOW SORRY HE WAS, by spending his life CAPTURING the devil he loosed. That's how you can tell someone is truly sorry they have been the devil's ambassador. They are God's ambassador's now......speaking His oracles instead of the devils , and they live to TAKE THEIR THOUGHTS CAPTIVE to the obedience of Christ. And they have the wisdom, to CAPTURE the thoughts of those who they love who are being held captive by the devils lying whispers! Like Job "they are eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and the cause they know not, they search out. They have gone on GODS FAST, to loose bands of wickedness, undo heavy burdens, set the oppressed free, and they are breaking yokes! And the promises of Isaiah 58 are being lived out in their lives, to the glory of God the Father!
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