Wow................ this is what everyone has done that is gone.......... you just happen to be able to fess up to it. Running from loves obligation, not caring about God's will, thinking we can escape. The Lord showed me if I didn't deal with my own heart, I would be a Judizer.......... and when you don't deal with your own problems ALL YOU CAN DO, is blame others. We are either FOR the right cause OR AGAINST it! We either examine ourselves, and see if we are in the REAL FAITH and love spirit, or slay our brother Able. I was tempted also........... I knew I couldn't live with myself if I did it, I would do what Judas did to himself. I knew too much, to not face my own fears and my own unbeleif. Do you mind if I share these 2 letters you sent????? Love, Ceci
Subject: RE: just read this one, and delete others...... FW: Thanks for your thoughts Linda....RE: Are you bearing a grudge against your OWN HUSBAND?
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:22:38 +0000
Hi Ceci, The letter starts out with.. Thou shalt not bear a grudge against the children of my people. That is why I would go to Joe with my complaints in the first place. I was already holding a grudge against someone. I didn't have enough love to go to that person, so I went to Joe to complain. This happened about twice before he caught on to what I was doing. It came back to bite me in the butt also.
Joe, not being one to sit on things would try and take care of the problem, assuming that I had already talked to the person. When he found out that I hadn't he then came back to me. So, I stopped doing that, and handled things my own loveless way. I stopped talking to anyone and just held on to my opinions about people. It is very shameful, but that is what I did.
So, Satan always had a "door" into my thoughts because of these offenses. The end of the story is this...I started believing that I was the victim and the lies that I heard from Satan became my truths, and, well, we all know the rest of the story. It seemed easier to be offended than face my fears and talk to someone. Boy, was that a lie!! it was not easier. It was hell on earth. Love, Debbie
Hi Gene, THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! I just watched the TBN video with my grandma. It may be the only thing that she will ever watch of Jesus. She has wanted nothing to do with anything that I have tried to give her. But, she watched this and payed attention. She always works a puzzle book while watching anything on TV. But, she actually stopped working her book and paid attention. You don't know what a miracle that is!!!
So, I just wanted to send you a thank you and this little song that came to my mind as I was watching the TBN video. The simplicity and sincerity (and sanity) that you showed forth in the video is SO moving. I pray something in it will stick with Grandma. As for me, I have been crying since I watched it. Oh, that I might have such a heart as you. Thank you again, and my love to you. Debbie
You talked to me so many times about integrity. When I think back to how I lived with Joe and who I let myself become it turns my stomach. I feel really ashamed that Joe had to see me that way. The begging for attention through despair and self pity that I did is really shameful. Joe thought he was marrying a woman of integrity. But, I was a thief and I would take on any spirit to try and get what I needed from him. IT NEVER WORKED!!!
I remember Lincoln telling me once after he had grown up that when he would beg me for something until I gave in he never enjoyed the thing that he begged for after he go it because he knew that he got it through begging. That is how begging for attention feels. Even when I had Joes' attention I wasn't fulfilled because I knew that I was a beggar. I knew that I didn't have Joes' best because of being a beggar. It left me feeling even more lonely. We spent time together but we couldn't really enjoy each other because we were not of the same spirit. Oil and vinegar do not mix. They can be shaken up and come together, but it doesn't last, they sepearte again. They are not made of the same substance.
Yesterday when I talked to Joe on the phone I didn't hang up feeling like I had just sold myslef by begging. I kept my integrity. In fact, when I went to bed I was thinking about how I would have responded back when we were first dating. Had we talked on the phone for the first time in a long time back then I would be floating in the clouds. Yesterday, I was still grounded, even after a long conversation with him. I realized that the Lord had helped me to change some. I don't have to beg anymore. Because I have chosen to believe that my times are in His hands. It may not always be easy to stand back and let Him have His way. In fact, it has been very hard for me here. But, one thing I have learned to do is look to the Lord everyday. Somehow He has helped me through this tme. JESUS has!!! No man has been there to help me for the first time in my life!!
I have always been afraid to let the Lord have my life fully. But, I threw my life in the trash and I know that He can ressurect anything He wants to. I have learned that to have any kind of minnistry I have to be able to lay down my life and my constant schemeing and begging to get my needs met. I look over my life and I see a big selfish wasteland. Sad to say I can only count one year of my life that I was trying somewhat to look to the Lord and that was the year that I lived in your house, and for a short time after I married Joe. The rest of my life I have only cared about begging, lying and stealing to get what I want from men. That is one year out of 50. That is not a very good ratio.
I have come to realize that the reason that I was such a beggar was because I had never really thrown my life in the trash and looked to the Lord to build it. Well, my life ended up in the trash anyway by ME trying to build it. It would probably have been much easier to let it go in the first place. It was a slow, painful death doing it my way.
Gene told me one time not too long ago in Jackson Hole that I needed to get saved. What is salvation? But, to know Him and the power of His resurection. I have trusted in the power of my own hand and and its ability to resurect my life and I have done nothing but hurt people and shipwreck my own faith.
I was given a husband by God in the VERY SHORT time that I was trusting in Him and I single handedly destroyed my relationship with him through my own POWER of hopelessness, no vision, no unction to read the bible, no purpose. Just like the woman on the phone. But, I was making deals with the devil to try and resurect my life. Please ask her for me to stop now before she loses what she has. Linda warned me many times that I could lose what I had. Now I am warning her.
Her husband may still stay with her. But, what a miserable existence to live knowing that your husbands heart is far from you. The REALLY SCARY thing is that I became blind to the fact that my husbands responses to me were because of me. It was SO easy to excuse myself and to blame him. This gave me another reason to pity myself and satan saw to it that I found reasons to blame. It really doesn't take long to become blind. I could've turned things around sooner if only I would've had a desire for salvation, which is, again, to know Him and the power of His resurection. But, I had a desire for me and the furtherence of my kingdom. So, please tell her to get off that viscous ride now before it costs her more than she wants to pay. My love to you, Debbie
No, I do not mind if you share them. You want to know something crazy? Sometimes when I write stuff down I think that for sure it sounds dumb and will not be recieved very well. I get shocked when I get a WOW! back. This was one of those letters. Anyway, feel free to share them.
I am thanking God every day that I am able to take a look at these things. I am thanking HIm every day that it all still means something to me. I am thanking Him every day that I didn't come here and get lost in building a life. I thank Him every day that minnistry still meant something to me. I wasn't sure what I was going to find in my own heart when I got here. I wasn't sure myself if I was twice dead. The scripture rings true...,train a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Thanks for the training.
When I first got here Linda gave me the scripture in Deuteronomy about the Lord leading us through the wilderness to try us and to see what is in our hearts. I am SO thankful to find that there is love for Him in there. I was a little afraid of what I was going to find when I got here, but I knew that I had to take a look. So, every day I am thanking Him. I feel like I missed the boat to hell by the skin of my teeth. I have become thankful. What a miracle, huh?
Subject: thinking about familiars today............
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:03:08 -0700
There is a woman who has been coming to our meetings who last week interrupted several people with questions, and I'm sure she didn't intend to have an anti Christ spirit, that is truly what it is. A spirit that goes against the anointing.
I was talking to some of the girls about divining, and how it relates to pity. The woman who cried out when Paul was preaching, really drew attention to herself. That's what pity is. I'll bow down at your thrown and stroke you, so you need me, and I become the divine one in your life, and I expect you to pity me back and I'll make you the divine one. Rebellion, Control, witchcraft.............. putting a spell on others, diving. All the spirits at work in the sons of disobedience.
Then another woman on the phone called and talked about being hopeless, no vision, no unction to read the bible, no purpose. What came to me is she is giving voice to a diving spirit, that is dying to have it's way.
I told her we have to shut up the voice of Satan, that little girl voice, that comes to steal, kill and destroy. The devils all about stealing God's glory, getting us to look to the hill of man for our help, wanting others to put us on a pedestal. "My sheep hear My voice, the voice a stranger they won't follow." It's all a strange voice. And we can listen to God the still small voice of integrity, or the voice that comes to steal life, God's Glory and keep us demanding little babies. Our choice who we will give honor and glory to.
Love, Ceci
Friday, October 9, 2009
another good one on Lying
The Sin of Lying
L. R. Shelton, Jr.
THERE is a sin that has brought our nation to the brink of judgment and damnation: The Sin of
Lying. I am deeply impressed to lay before our hearts the words of the 9th commandment: “Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” I know that the sins condemned in this
commandment do not seem as gross or as carnal as the ones forbidden in the 6th commandment:
“Thou shalt not kill,” nor the ones forbidden in the 7th commandment: “Thou shalt not commit
adultery,” nor those forbidden by the 8th commandment: “Thou shalt not steal;” but dear friend, a
man can go to hell for lying just as sure as he can go to hell for murdering, stealing or committing
adultery! In fact, the Word of God tells us in Rev. 21:8 that the one who violates this 9th
commandment shall have his place in the lake of fire—which is the second death—along with the
murderer and the whoremonger. Listen to Rev. 21:8! “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and 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.”
All we have to do is see with whom this sin is associated to know something of how vile and
abominable it is in the sight of God. You see, it is a sin that makes a person more like the devil
seemingly than any other sin. For the devil is a spirit, and therefore gross, carnal sins do not so
much correspond to his nature. His sins are more refined and intellectual, such as pride and malice,
deception and falsehood. Therefore we read in John 8:44: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and
the father of it.” The more malice that enters into the composition of any lie, the more nearly it
resembles the devil: so lying then is associated as never before with the devil.
Lying is a sin most contrary to the nature and character of God, for He is the Lord God of truth
according to Psalm 31:5; therefore we are told that lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord. As
Satan is a liar and the father of lies, and as God is the Lord God of truth; so God’s children
resemble Him therein: “Surely they are my people, children that will not lie” as He tells us in Isa.
63:8.
But according to Isa. 59:l4, “Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” The breaking of this 9th commandment is a sin
that is committed 10,000 times a day from the seat of government to the hovel along the road. It is a
sin that God hates!
I understand that preaching on the commandments is not popular; it never has been and never will
be. But this is God’s Word, and my Bible tells me that it is by the knowledge of the law that a man
comes to acknowledge he is a sinner before God; and unless the law is preached, and the law in the
hands of the Holy Spirit is used as a schoolmaster to bring you to Christ, you will never know Him!
Each one of us has sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) and by the law is the
knowledge of sin (Rom. 3:20). We need to know this!
There is no sin today that is committed so much and thought so little of as this sin of the tongue,
this sin of the heart, this sin of lying, this sin of bearing false witness against our neighbor. Surely
Prov. l8:21 describes fully this little member of our body, the tongue, that brings so much sin, grief
and sorrow into the world. It says: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” What a word!
Death and life are in the power of the tongue! It can kill and make alive! Then our Lord says in
Matt. l2:37: “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
Listen to how it is described in James 3:5-8: “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of
iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the
course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,
and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man
tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
By this little member of our body—the tongue—this commandment, “Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour,” is broken, as this sin proceeds from an evil heart. By it more lives
have been wrecked, more souls damned, more families set at variance against each other, more
friendships have been broken, more churches torn asunder and more discord sown than by any
other sin! This sin of lying is committed by this little member of our body, the tongue, because that
tongue is like a fire which spreads and burns away everything before it. You and I know this to be
true.
Let us bring this matter down to a practical understanding of all its ramifications—its depths, its
cruelty, its damning effect, its hellishness—by laying out before you the sins of the tongue which
cause a man to break this commandment. May the Lord take this home to our hearts!
First, there is the SLANDEROUS TONGUE, and what a tongue this is! A slanderer wounds
another’s name, character and reputation in such a way that no physician can heal them. These
wounds lie deep, and sometimes are never healed in a lifetime. God’s Word says in Prov. 10:18:
“He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool!“ Listen: “Whoso
privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off!“ (Psalm 101:5). O Lord, how we all stand guilty
before Thy face and before Thy throne today of breaking this commandment by slandering friend
and foe! There’s not one of us under the sound of my voice, including your speaker, who is not
guilty of breaking this 9th commandment, especially that aspect of slandering with our tongues.
Also under this heading comes backbiting—speaking evil of another behind his back, defaming
one’s good name by absolute or implied censure. Secret whisperings and all other ways by which
the tongue wounds and injures the name and reputation of another are included. As surely as the
devil is the father of lies, everyone who gives his tongue to slander and belies his neighbor or utters
words of falsehood comes under the group of false accusers, and stands guilty before God of
breaking this 9th commandment. And if we have broken this one, surely we know that according to
James 2, we have broken them all!
Second, there is the CENSORIOUS TONGUE. This is a cruel tongue which, as a fire, destroys
everyone and everything that comes under its lashings. It is a sin of which we are all guilty. How
my heart has been smitten as I have studied and prepared for this message! I have been made to cry:
“O Lord, I stand guilty; I am guilty, O Lord, of breaking this commandment. Will you have mercy
upon my soul?” I don’t know about you, but I have had to cry out over this sin more than any
other— the censuring or judging of other people before I have all the facts in the case. Listen to
what Rom. 14:4 says: “Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he
standeth or falleth.” And dear friend, I ask the question: “Do we keep ourselves from the things for
which we judge others?”
Listen to Rom. 2:1-3: “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for
wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
things...And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same,
that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?” No! We shall not, unless there is repentance and a
broken heart! Then listen! “Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou
that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit
adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?” (v.
21,22). Here in Rom. 2 God is speaking to every witness, every teacher and every preacher, asking
us: “Do we do the same things that we preach against or condemn in others?” “Guilty Lord,” we
must cry, “have mercy upon us!” And my friend, this censorious tongue which breaks this 9th
commandment is an abomination in the sight of God!
Third , there is the LYING TONGUE. We are told in Prov. 6:16: “These six things doth the LORD
hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed
innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to
mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” Because
God hates lying, He will show it by punishing every liar in hell unless this sin is repented of and
washed in the blood of Christ. Dear friend, there is nothing that is more contrary to God than a lie,
for you see, God is truth; all lying is of the devil and flows from a wicked heart.
To me, there is no sin as prominent today as lying. A man’s word is no longer his bond. Honesty is
a blessed virtue that has been trampled in the streets. There is lying among nations; treaties mean
nothing! There is lying among our elected officials: the truth seems to be something hard to come
by because the natural heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. All my life I’ve
said that a man would rather climb a pine tree and tell a lie than to stand on the ground and tell the
truth. And you and I know how hard it is to climb a pine tree!
Men are liars by nature; they lie everyday and think it a light thing, but God hates it! Listen to what
Psa. 58:3 says: “The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born,
speaking lies.” You and I both know that we don’t have to teach a child to lie. It is in his nature to
lie. But God hates this sin because it is against His law and His holy nature; unless it is repented of
and washed by faith in the blood of Christ, it will be punished in hell as Rev. 21:8 declares: “All
liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second
death.”
Fourth, there is the SWEARING TONGUE that breaks this 9th commandment. Some think it the
way of life to swear and curse, seemingly with every breath, but God thinks differently. If they only
knew that every idle word shall be brought into judgment (Matt.12:36), and how much more
punishment awaits them for the sin of sinful oaths! Oh, the judgment that awaits the swearing,
cursing tongue! “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned” (v.37).
Fifth, there is the CRUEL TONGUE. This tongue speaks to the wounding of the hearts of others.
Healing words are the best for a broken heart, but the cruel tongue unmercifully speaks such words
to the afflicted as to cut them to the heart. The Bible says that a soft answer turns away wrath, but
grievous words stir up anger (Prov. 15:1). You see, dear friend, one with a cruel tongue must give
forth all his venom and hatred; he must get it off his chest; he must pour it all out unto friend and
foe. He must tell it all, no matter who it hurts. He knows nothing about II Timothy 2:25 which says,
“In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” A vicious-tongued individual doesn’t possess the
Balm of Gilead to pour into wounded hearts and spirits. All he knows is cruelty, beating down his
helpless victim a little further. This cruel tongue breaks the 9th commandment and comes under the
judgment of God unless it is repented of, confessed and turned from. May God give you a new
heart to love instead of hate!
Sixth , there is the MURMURING TONGUE. This is a tongue that breaks the 9th commandment,
for when we murmur and complain about our lot in life, we are definitely bearing false witness
against God! We are in effect saying that God is not treating us right by allowing these things to
come into our lives.
Dear friend, God does not look lightly upon this sin; He leaves us many examples of His dealings
with men in judgment who brought railing accusations against Him. We read in 1 Cor. 10:10 these
words: “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer.”
You see, the children of Israel had murmured and complained over and over again about their lot in
the wilderness, and finally God brought judgment down upon them. Therefore the apostle used this
to warn us in I Cor. 10:11—“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” We had better look well
to our souls before we accuse God of dealing unjustly with us!
Murmuring is discontent: the breaking out at the lips that which comes from a rebellious heart
against God. Why should anyone murmur or be discontented with his condition? Does God owe us
anything? Do we deserve anything at the hands of God? No! A thousand times No We deserve only
justice in hell! Dear friend, do you not know that all we receive from God is out of free and pure
grace? Therefore, let us give thanks in all things, and having food and clothing, let us be content (I
Tim. 6:8).
Oh how sinful it is to murmur and complain at God’s providence! This indeed is a breaking of this
9th commandment, which brings those guilty of it under God’s wrath and judgment. Are you
listening? I cannot speak too hard against this sin of murmuring which is breaking out everywhere
you turn today! Seemingly it is in every heart, and therefore is a sin that we need to fight against,
cry out against and turn from with all of our might because it is such a vile sin against God’s
goodness, God’s mercy and God’s grace.
My dear friend, don’t you know that God has been good to us as a nation? He has been good to us
as individuals. His mercies are new every morning, great is His faithfulness! (Lam. 3:23). How we
need to repent of this sin that charges God with cruelty, harshness, unkindness, and a lack of love
and understanding! This sin that’s laid at God’s door should be laid at our door! This is a grave sin.
It is our prayerlessness, our unbelief, our laziness, our selfishness, our lack of compassion, our
discontent that is to blame for our state of things today! For you see, we have taken God’s money
and used it on ourselves; we have taken God’s day and spent it as we pleased; we have taken God’s
Word and used only its promises, having nothing to do with its precepts and commandments. We
have turned the truth of God into a lie and have worshipped the creature more than the Creator. We
have worshipped the gods of pleasure, of sports, of science, of education; we have worshipped the
gods of gold and silver, yea, the god of self more than the true and living God as He is revealed
unto us in the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a nation we have bowed down to the gods of meat and drink, and have made our bellies our
gods. And on top of that, we have made our government our god by appealing to Washington to
take care of all our needs; instead of depending upon the true and living God, and pouring out our
hearts before Him. We get mad at our little god in Washington, don’t we? We whip him, we curse
him, we get mad at him, we write articles against him in the newspapers and magazines, we call
him all kinds of names. But then we want him to bail us out of all our difficulties—after every
disaster, after every crop failure—don’t we?
Isn’t this nation guilty of this today? Of course we are! But God tells us that these things have been
brought on us because of our sins. And yet we go on in our blind unbelief, murmuring against the
living God and saying, “A loving God would not treat us like this!” And all the time the blame lies
at our door because we have turned from the River of Living Water, God Himself, and have put our
faith in broken cisterns, in the little god in Washington!
It is amazing to me that God has not already dumped us all into hell. And dear friend, it is only
because of His great grace and longsuffering that He still bears with us today. “It is of the LORD’s
mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not” (Lam. 3:22). And because He
is still holding out the sceptre of grace and mercy, I call upon each one of us to fall at His feet
saying: “Lord, I have sinned against Thee and against Thy throne; I have broken this 9th
commandment. I come in repentance, I come in confession, and I cry unto Thee for mercy on the
basis of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“HE FRANKLY FORGAVE THEM BOTH”
Mercy is welcome news indeed
To those that guilty stand;
Wretches that feel what help they need
Will bless the helping hand.
Who rightly would his alms dispose
Must give them to the poor.
None but the wounded patient knows
The comforts of his cure.
We all have sinned against our God;
Exception none can boast;
But he that feels the heaviest load
Will prize forgiveness most.
No reckoning can we rightly keep,
For who the sum can know?
Some souls are fifty pieces deep,
And some five hundred owe.
But let our debts be what they may,
However great or small,
As soon as we have nought to pay,
Our Lord forgives us all.
‘Tis perfect poverty alone
That sets the soul at large;
While we can call one mite our own
We have no full discharge. —Hart
L. R. Shelton, Jr.
THERE is a sin that has brought our nation to the brink of judgment and damnation: The Sin of
Lying. I am deeply impressed to lay before our hearts the words of the 9th commandment: “Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” I know that the sins condemned in this
commandment do not seem as gross or as carnal as the ones forbidden in the 6th commandment:
“Thou shalt not kill,” nor the ones forbidden in the 7th commandment: “Thou shalt not commit
adultery,” nor those forbidden by the 8th commandment: “Thou shalt not steal;” but dear friend, a
man can go to hell for lying just as sure as he can go to hell for murdering, stealing or committing
adultery! In fact, the Word of God tells us in Rev. 21:8 that the one who violates this 9th
commandment shall have his place in the lake of fire—which is the second death—along with the
murderer and the whoremonger. Listen to Rev. 21:8! “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and 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.”
All we have to do is see with whom this sin is associated to know something of how vile and
abominable it is in the sight of God. You see, it is a sin that makes a person more like the devil
seemingly than any other sin. For the devil is a spirit, and therefore gross, carnal sins do not so
much correspond to his nature. His sins are more refined and intellectual, such as pride and malice,
deception and falsehood. Therefore we read in John 8:44: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and
the father of it.” The more malice that enters into the composition of any lie, the more nearly it
resembles the devil: so lying then is associated as never before with the devil.
Lying is a sin most contrary to the nature and character of God, for He is the Lord God of truth
according to Psalm 31:5; therefore we are told that lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord. As
Satan is a liar and the father of lies, and as God is the Lord God of truth; so God’s children
resemble Him therein: “Surely they are my people, children that will not lie” as He tells us in Isa.
63:8.
But according to Isa. 59:l4, “Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” The breaking of this 9th commandment is a sin
that is committed 10,000 times a day from the seat of government to the hovel along the road. It is a
sin that God hates!
I understand that preaching on the commandments is not popular; it never has been and never will
be. But this is God’s Word, and my Bible tells me that it is by the knowledge of the law that a man
comes to acknowledge he is a sinner before God; and unless the law is preached, and the law in the
hands of the Holy Spirit is used as a schoolmaster to bring you to Christ, you will never know Him!
Each one of us has sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) and by the law is the
knowledge of sin (Rom. 3:20). We need to know this!
There is no sin today that is committed so much and thought so little of as this sin of the tongue,
this sin of the heart, this sin of lying, this sin of bearing false witness against our neighbor. Surely
Prov. l8:21 describes fully this little member of our body, the tongue, that brings so much sin, grief
and sorrow into the world. It says: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” What a word!
Death and life are in the power of the tongue! It can kill and make alive! Then our Lord says in
Matt. l2:37: “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
Listen to how it is described in James 3:5-8: “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of
iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the
course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,
and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man
tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
By this little member of our body—the tongue—this commandment, “Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour,” is broken, as this sin proceeds from an evil heart. By it more lives
have been wrecked, more souls damned, more families set at variance against each other, more
friendships have been broken, more churches torn asunder and more discord sown than by any
other sin! This sin of lying is committed by this little member of our body, the tongue, because that
tongue is like a fire which spreads and burns away everything before it. You and I know this to be
true.
Let us bring this matter down to a practical understanding of all its ramifications—its depths, its
cruelty, its damning effect, its hellishness—by laying out before you the sins of the tongue which
cause a man to break this commandment. May the Lord take this home to our hearts!
First, there is the SLANDEROUS TONGUE, and what a tongue this is! A slanderer wounds
another’s name, character and reputation in such a way that no physician can heal them. These
wounds lie deep, and sometimes are never healed in a lifetime. God’s Word says in Prov. 10:18:
“He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool!“ Listen: “Whoso
privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off!“ (Psalm 101:5). O Lord, how we all stand guilty
before Thy face and before Thy throne today of breaking this commandment by slandering friend
and foe! There’s not one of us under the sound of my voice, including your speaker, who is not
guilty of breaking this 9th commandment, especially that aspect of slandering with our tongues.
Also under this heading comes backbiting—speaking evil of another behind his back, defaming
one’s good name by absolute or implied censure. Secret whisperings and all other ways by which
the tongue wounds and injures the name and reputation of another are included. As surely as the
devil is the father of lies, everyone who gives his tongue to slander and belies his neighbor or utters
words of falsehood comes under the group of false accusers, and stands guilty before God of
breaking this 9th commandment. And if we have broken this one, surely we know that according to
James 2, we have broken them all!
Second, there is the CENSORIOUS TONGUE. This is a cruel tongue which, as a fire, destroys
everyone and everything that comes under its lashings. It is a sin of which we are all guilty. How
my heart has been smitten as I have studied and prepared for this message! I have been made to cry:
“O Lord, I stand guilty; I am guilty, O Lord, of breaking this commandment. Will you have mercy
upon my soul?” I don’t know about you, but I have had to cry out over this sin more than any
other— the censuring or judging of other people before I have all the facts in the case. Listen to
what Rom. 14:4 says: “Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he
standeth or falleth.” And dear friend, I ask the question: “Do we keep ourselves from the things for
which we judge others?”
Listen to Rom. 2:1-3: “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for
wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
things...And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same,
that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?” No! We shall not, unless there is repentance and a
broken heart! Then listen! “Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou
that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit
adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?” (v.
21,22). Here in Rom. 2 God is speaking to every witness, every teacher and every preacher, asking
us: “Do we do the same things that we preach against or condemn in others?” “Guilty Lord,” we
must cry, “have mercy upon us!” And my friend, this censorious tongue which breaks this 9th
commandment is an abomination in the sight of God!
Third , there is the LYING TONGUE. We are told in Prov. 6:16: “These six things doth the LORD
hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed
innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to
mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” Because
God hates lying, He will show it by punishing every liar in hell unless this sin is repented of and
washed in the blood of Christ. Dear friend, there is nothing that is more contrary to God than a lie,
for you see, God is truth; all lying is of the devil and flows from a wicked heart.
To me, there is no sin as prominent today as lying. A man’s word is no longer his bond. Honesty is
a blessed virtue that has been trampled in the streets. There is lying among nations; treaties mean
nothing! There is lying among our elected officials: the truth seems to be something hard to come
by because the natural heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. All my life I’ve
said that a man would rather climb a pine tree and tell a lie than to stand on the ground and tell the
truth. And you and I know how hard it is to climb a pine tree!
Men are liars by nature; they lie everyday and think it a light thing, but God hates it! Listen to what
Psa. 58:3 says: “The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born,
speaking lies.” You and I both know that we don’t have to teach a child to lie. It is in his nature to
lie. But God hates this sin because it is against His law and His holy nature; unless it is repented of
and washed by faith in the blood of Christ, it will be punished in hell as Rev. 21:8 declares: “All
liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second
death.”
Fourth, there is the SWEARING TONGUE that breaks this 9th commandment. Some think it the
way of life to swear and curse, seemingly with every breath, but God thinks differently. If they only
knew that every idle word shall be brought into judgment (Matt.12:36), and how much more
punishment awaits them for the sin of sinful oaths! Oh, the judgment that awaits the swearing,
cursing tongue! “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned” (v.37).
Fifth, there is the CRUEL TONGUE. This tongue speaks to the wounding of the hearts of others.
Healing words are the best for a broken heart, but the cruel tongue unmercifully speaks such words
to the afflicted as to cut them to the heart. The Bible says that a soft answer turns away wrath, but
grievous words stir up anger (Prov. 15:1). You see, dear friend, one with a cruel tongue must give
forth all his venom and hatred; he must get it off his chest; he must pour it all out unto friend and
foe. He must tell it all, no matter who it hurts. He knows nothing about II Timothy 2:25 which says,
“In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” A vicious-tongued individual doesn’t possess the
Balm of Gilead to pour into wounded hearts and spirits. All he knows is cruelty, beating down his
helpless victim a little further. This cruel tongue breaks the 9th commandment and comes under the
judgment of God unless it is repented of, confessed and turned from. May God give you a new
heart to love instead of hate!
Sixth , there is the MURMURING TONGUE. This is a tongue that breaks the 9th commandment,
for when we murmur and complain about our lot in life, we are definitely bearing false witness
against God! We are in effect saying that God is not treating us right by allowing these things to
come into our lives.
Dear friend, God does not look lightly upon this sin; He leaves us many examples of His dealings
with men in judgment who brought railing accusations against Him. We read in 1 Cor. 10:10 these
words: “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer.”
You see, the children of Israel had murmured and complained over and over again about their lot in
the wilderness, and finally God brought judgment down upon them. Therefore the apostle used this
to warn us in I Cor. 10:11—“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” We had better look well
to our souls before we accuse God of dealing unjustly with us!
Murmuring is discontent: the breaking out at the lips that which comes from a rebellious heart
against God. Why should anyone murmur or be discontented with his condition? Does God owe us
anything? Do we deserve anything at the hands of God? No! A thousand times No We deserve only
justice in hell! Dear friend, do you not know that all we receive from God is out of free and pure
grace? Therefore, let us give thanks in all things, and having food and clothing, let us be content (I
Tim. 6:8).
Oh how sinful it is to murmur and complain at God’s providence! This indeed is a breaking of this
9th commandment, which brings those guilty of it under God’s wrath and judgment. Are you
listening? I cannot speak too hard against this sin of murmuring which is breaking out everywhere
you turn today! Seemingly it is in every heart, and therefore is a sin that we need to fight against,
cry out against and turn from with all of our might because it is such a vile sin against God’s
goodness, God’s mercy and God’s grace.
My dear friend, don’t you know that God has been good to us as a nation? He has been good to us
as individuals. His mercies are new every morning, great is His faithfulness! (Lam. 3:23). How we
need to repent of this sin that charges God with cruelty, harshness, unkindness, and a lack of love
and understanding! This sin that’s laid at God’s door should be laid at our door! This is a grave sin.
It is our prayerlessness, our unbelief, our laziness, our selfishness, our lack of compassion, our
discontent that is to blame for our state of things today! For you see, we have taken God’s money
and used it on ourselves; we have taken God’s day and spent it as we pleased; we have taken God’s
Word and used only its promises, having nothing to do with its precepts and commandments. We
have turned the truth of God into a lie and have worshipped the creature more than the Creator. We
have worshipped the gods of pleasure, of sports, of science, of education; we have worshipped the
gods of gold and silver, yea, the god of self more than the true and living God as He is revealed
unto us in the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a nation we have bowed down to the gods of meat and drink, and have made our bellies our
gods. And on top of that, we have made our government our god by appealing to Washington to
take care of all our needs; instead of depending upon the true and living God, and pouring out our
hearts before Him. We get mad at our little god in Washington, don’t we? We whip him, we curse
him, we get mad at him, we write articles against him in the newspapers and magazines, we call
him all kinds of names. But then we want him to bail us out of all our difficulties—after every
disaster, after every crop failure—don’t we?
Isn’t this nation guilty of this today? Of course we are! But God tells us that these things have been
brought on us because of our sins. And yet we go on in our blind unbelief, murmuring against the
living God and saying, “A loving God would not treat us like this!” And all the time the blame lies
at our door because we have turned from the River of Living Water, God Himself, and have put our
faith in broken cisterns, in the little god in Washington!
It is amazing to me that God has not already dumped us all into hell. And dear friend, it is only
because of His great grace and longsuffering that He still bears with us today. “It is of the LORD’s
mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not” (Lam. 3:22). And because He
is still holding out the sceptre of grace and mercy, I call upon each one of us to fall at His feet
saying: “Lord, I have sinned against Thee and against Thy throne; I have broken this 9th
commandment. I come in repentance, I come in confession, and I cry unto Thee for mercy on the
basis of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“HE FRANKLY FORGAVE THEM BOTH”
Mercy is welcome news indeed
To those that guilty stand;
Wretches that feel what help they need
Will bless the helping hand.
Who rightly would his alms dispose
Must give them to the poor.
None but the wounded patient knows
The comforts of his cure.
We all have sinned against our God;
Exception none can boast;
But he that feels the heaviest load
Will prize forgiveness most.
No reckoning can we rightly keep,
For who the sum can know?
Some souls are fifty pieces deep,
And some five hundred owe.
But let our debts be what they may,
However great or small,
As soon as we have nought to pay,
Our Lord forgives us all.
‘Tis perfect poverty alone
That sets the soul at large;
While we can call one mite our own
We have no full discharge. —Hart
Are you bearing a grudge against your neighbor? Husband?
Thou shall not bear a grudge against the Children of My People", are you looking down on your husband and seeing him as THE LEAST? This is out of Lev. 19:16You shall not go up and down as a dispenser of gossip and scandal among your people, nor shall you [secure yourself by false testimony or by silence and] endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.
17You shall not hate your brother in your heart;(look down on him and talk to others about him, and not because you have the counsel of God and are looking to establish it to him.")... but you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
If you dump your burden about your husband onto others due to YOUR FEAR, you are an idolater. Turning to other Gods to solve your problems. Putting them in the position of playing God because you aren’t looking to Jesus. And you who have ears to hear women turn to you other than God, is that because you still do that too? Turn to others rather than the Lord?
I remember years ago, I was really stirred up in my soul with a particular man we knew, and I was in Fear trying to war against the enemies of his soul. THE LORD SHOWED ME IT WASN'T MY BATTLE. That I needed to first of all PRAY. Get a word from THE WORD to solve my problem, THEN GO TO MY OWN HUSBAND, and if he got involved or didn't, THE BATTLE BELONGED TO THE LORD.
I have had so many women "dump" their burdens on me. I was thinking of a scripture today while talking to a friend, "out of the mouth of 2-3 witnesses THE WORD OF THE LORD IS ESTABLISHED. This tells me if I have a problem with my husband I need to a.) Ask myself if I really love his soul or am I just afraid. Then pray and ask me to love instead of fear. b.) GET FOOD FROM AFAR TO GIVE HIM, like any wise woman should do. Feed her husband, establish the word to him.
Then if he repeatedly won't hear me, I have 2 options. The first is a good one. Tell him I don't want to be divided against him, and I don't want to have a wall, or be insane due to a lack of being able to have just judgment about whatever the problem is. And I want to get someone involved for my own sanity. I'm willing to be wrong, but this is the word I have been getting from the Lord, and I understand the twig in your eye, let me tell you about the log in mine. As a matter of fact let me tell you about the revelation I'm getting and am thankful for.
Or b.) If he refuses the gift in you know that God won't hear Him when He prays. And that in refusing you, He is refusing the Lord AND THE LORD IS BIG ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH HIM, You don't have to spend your time MAKING HIM PAY OR SPANKING OR ABUSING him for not hearing you!!!! HOW ABOUT HAVING FAITH AND LOVE..........
BECUASE IF YOU DON'T SEE THE LORD COME THROUGH FOR YOU IN YOUR MARRIAGE PROBLEMS, how will your children believe the Lord will come through for them?????
YOU PLAY YOUR PART, THE LORD WILL PLAY HIS PART, and stop dumping your burdens on others, love your husband, pray for Him, go to the word about your problems with him. Take a look at the log in your eye, so you can tell him about the twig in him when you are giving him a scripture or 2. Then have faith the Lord will bring it up again, or ask him to love you enough to get someone involved if you have a good spirit and after time goes by there is still a wall in your relationship. Tell him you don't want to be divided in judgment and for loves sake to help you resolve the judgment, and maybe you are the one in the wrong who isn't hearing what the Spirit is trying to say.
"Hide not yourself from your own flesh." We all had parents THAT HID FROM US, GOD AND EACH OTHER, and we had no clue if the Lord even did help them with their problems. How much better if WE HAVE A TESTIMONY for our children of how the Lord helps Godly marriages last!!!
And how the Lord and His body helps us work through our problems, LEST OUR CHILDREN ARE INDEPENDENT.........
Don't let slothful women who don't have a REAL GODLY BURDEN for their husband’s souls, dump their problems on YOU..... Don't be their idol, turn them to the Lord and tell them you won't listen unless a.) They have prayed and have the counsel of God, and 2.) They want to get those who oversee their husbands souls involved.
Would love to hear back from all of you about this........
Think about what your friends are going to think and feel like when you work things out with your husband, and they are carrying around the burden of your slander and having a problem still WITH WHAT YOU DUMPED ON THEM..... That you decided to get right about with your husband, and they are still left to carry your burden. That's why you need to stop the mouth of the woman who speaks out of fear, TRYING TO SEDUCE YOU INTO TAKING CARE OF HER PROBLEMS. Women can be thoughtless, and even though they might not intend to do this consciously, it's still the Spirit at work in the daughter of fear and control.
Love, Ceci
17You shall not hate your brother in your heart;(look down on him and talk to others about him, and not because you have the counsel of God and are looking to establish it to him.")... but you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
If you dump your burden about your husband onto others due to YOUR FEAR, you are an idolater. Turning to other Gods to solve your problems. Putting them in the position of playing God because you aren’t looking to Jesus. And you who have ears to hear women turn to you other than God, is that because you still do that too? Turn to others rather than the Lord?
I remember years ago, I was really stirred up in my soul with a particular man we knew, and I was in Fear trying to war against the enemies of his soul. THE LORD SHOWED ME IT WASN'T MY BATTLE. That I needed to first of all PRAY. Get a word from THE WORD to solve my problem, THEN GO TO MY OWN HUSBAND, and if he got involved or didn't, THE BATTLE BELONGED TO THE LORD.
I have had so many women "dump" their burdens on me. I was thinking of a scripture today while talking to a friend, "out of the mouth of 2-3 witnesses THE WORD OF THE LORD IS ESTABLISHED. This tells me if I have a problem with my husband I need to a.) Ask myself if I really love his soul or am I just afraid. Then pray and ask me to love instead of fear. b.) GET FOOD FROM AFAR TO GIVE HIM, like any wise woman should do. Feed her husband, establish the word to him.
Then if he repeatedly won't hear me, I have 2 options. The first is a good one. Tell him I don't want to be divided against him, and I don't want to have a wall, or be insane due to a lack of being able to have just judgment about whatever the problem is. And I want to get someone involved for my own sanity. I'm willing to be wrong, but this is the word I have been getting from the Lord, and I understand the twig in your eye, let me tell you about the log in mine. As a matter of fact let me tell you about the revelation I'm getting and am thankful for.
Or b.) If he refuses the gift in you know that God won't hear Him when He prays. And that in refusing you, He is refusing the Lord AND THE LORD IS BIG ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH HIM, You don't have to spend your time MAKING HIM PAY OR SPANKING OR ABUSING him for not hearing you!!!! HOW ABOUT HAVING FAITH AND LOVE..........
BECUASE IF YOU DON'T SEE THE LORD COME THROUGH FOR YOU IN YOUR MARRIAGE PROBLEMS, how will your children believe the Lord will come through for them?????
YOU PLAY YOUR PART, THE LORD WILL PLAY HIS PART, and stop dumping your burdens on others, love your husband, pray for Him, go to the word about your problems with him. Take a look at the log in your eye, so you can tell him about the twig in him when you are giving him a scripture or 2. Then have faith the Lord will bring it up again, or ask him to love you enough to get someone involved if you have a good spirit and after time goes by there is still a wall in your relationship. Tell him you don't want to be divided in judgment and for loves sake to help you resolve the judgment, and maybe you are the one in the wrong who isn't hearing what the Spirit is trying to say.
"Hide not yourself from your own flesh." We all had parents THAT HID FROM US, GOD AND EACH OTHER, and we had no clue if the Lord even did help them with their problems. How much better if WE HAVE A TESTIMONY for our children of how the Lord helps Godly marriages last!!!
And how the Lord and His body helps us work through our problems, LEST OUR CHILDREN ARE INDEPENDENT.........
Don't let slothful women who don't have a REAL GODLY BURDEN for their husband’s souls, dump their problems on YOU..... Don't be their idol, turn them to the Lord and tell them you won't listen unless a.) They have prayed and have the counsel of God, and 2.) They want to get those who oversee their husbands souls involved.
Would love to hear back from all of you about this........
Think about what your friends are going to think and feel like when you work things out with your husband, and they are carrying around the burden of your slander and having a problem still WITH WHAT YOU DUMPED ON THEM..... That you decided to get right about with your husband, and they are still left to carry your burden. That's why you need to stop the mouth of the woman who speaks out of fear, TRYING TO SEDUCE YOU INTO TAKING CARE OF HER PROBLEMS. Women can be thoughtless, and even though they might not intend to do this consciously, it's still the Spirit at work in the daughter of fear and control.
Love, Ceci
Monday, May 25, 2009
whoever doesn't hate this sin will join the ranks of satan
RIDICULE: SCOFFING
By Basilea Schlink
How quickly we try to dispose of scoffing and ridicule as something funny and harmless. Yet we have to admit that ridicule is a sin, although this sin, in contrast to many others, even has a good appearance sometimes. At parties and other get-togethers ridicule can create a "humorous" atmosphere; it does not cost us anything; it makes people laugh and wins us friends.
But the spirit of ridicule (which is not to be mistaken for the divine gift of humor) is a spirit from the devil. That we can see when we think of how Jesus was crowned with the crown of thorns. Here hell was let loose; it raged against its Creator. Ridicule, which often hurts so deeply, stems from hell. And whatever comes from hell and is sown by us will make us reap the punishment of hell. So if we tend to ridicule much, we have to see clearly that it is a serious sin, which will bring us judgment. The second letter of Peter lists the "scoffer" as one of the types of antichristian men that will appear in the last times (2 Pet. 3:3)
The Holy Scriptures also tell us more about the wickedness of scoffing. "The scoffer is an abomination to men" (Prov. 24:9b) The first Psalm begins "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked...nor sits in the seat of scoffers" (Ps. 1:1). In Proverbs 21:24 it is written, "Scoffer is the name of the proud, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride." Scoffing and ridicule have one root: pride.
Curses, insults and scorn coming out of the mouths of the proud is like poison from hell--just as blessing and humble love for one another is what makes heaven heaven. And whoever wants to enter heavenly glory has to be set free from this poison of ridicule at all costs.
So that we can see this sin and its cause more clearly, and fight against it better, we have to realize how wicked our pride is when it is at work in this sin.
Why did the adherents of the Pharisees ridicule Jesus? Because they rebelled against having the Son of God as their Lord. They lacked true power to fight against Him and so they fought with ridicule, mockery and abuse. Because they really did not have any way to attack the Holy One of God, they sought to humiliate Him with ridicule.
We do the same thing, when we envy certain people, are bitter towards them or when we hate them. We rebel against them by using cheap and dirty tactics, against which no one can defend himself. We heap ridicule upon them. Yes, only a small, spiteful remark, a small bit of irony about a third person can ruin his reputation. And we know that our reputation is often worth more to us than our lives. So we have to realize that we can almost kill a person through mockery, ridicule or irony.
One day we will find out how much damage we have caused. We will have to see the wounds that our ridicule brought others and the scars that they had to bear for life. Ridicule and scoffing are devilish and are the sign of the people inspired by Satan in the last times. If we persist in ridiculing others, we will fall into Satan's hands and judgment will catch up with us in the other world.
No matter what the cost, we must be set free from scoffing. But how? The first important thing to do is to let ourselves be shown, by the light of God, that these mean, underhanded and dirty tactics come from hell-even if the enemy seeks to make this sin seem harmless. Furthermore, it will help us if we meditate much upon Jesus, crowned with the crown of thorns. Then, instead of scoffing, we will be filled with deep shame over what we have done to the King of kings through ridicule. Whoever continues to live in this sin without hating it and fighting a battle of faith against it will join the ranks of the opponents of Jesus.
In every specific case we must ask for the Spirit of truth so that we can see why we react so quickly towards certain people with ironic remarks. Then we will see the evil root in our hearts; perhaps envy, jealousy or bitterness. Our irony is often the weapon of revenge, which we use maliciously, because we are too cowardly to tell the other person something to his face or to speak openly with him.
But listen to what Scripture says: "Repent!"-about our envy, our bitterness, or whatever the root might be, and the godly sorrow we ask for will drive us into the arms of Jesus. Jesus will rescue us from this sin, which binds us to Satan, for Jesus has come to "destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3: 8) and to establish the kingdom of love where there will not be any ridicule or scoffing. Jesus is standing before us as the Lord crowned with the crown of thorns, as the Lamb of God. A lamb does not ridicule, but it is ridiculed. We have been redeemed to bear the image of the Lamb. As the followers of Jesus we should be prepared to be laden with ridicule, mockery and disgrace for His name's sake; for "a servant is not greater than his master" (John 13: 16). Then we will lose our desire to ridicule and, instead, we will learn how to bless our enemies.
Behind this sin is Satan and he is ready to fight.
Are we ready too? Then Jesus will be on our side and
He is always the Victor.
By Basilea Schlink
How quickly we try to dispose of scoffing and ridicule as something funny and harmless. Yet we have to admit that ridicule is a sin, although this sin, in contrast to many others, even has a good appearance sometimes. At parties and other get-togethers ridicule can create a "humorous" atmosphere; it does not cost us anything; it makes people laugh and wins us friends.
But the spirit of ridicule (which is not to be mistaken for the divine gift of humor) is a spirit from the devil. That we can see when we think of how Jesus was crowned with the crown of thorns. Here hell was let loose; it raged against its Creator. Ridicule, which often hurts so deeply, stems from hell. And whatever comes from hell and is sown by us will make us reap the punishment of hell. So if we tend to ridicule much, we have to see clearly that it is a serious sin, which will bring us judgment. The second letter of Peter lists the "scoffer" as one of the types of antichristian men that will appear in the last times (2 Pet. 3:3)
The Holy Scriptures also tell us more about the wickedness of scoffing. "The scoffer is an abomination to men" (Prov. 24:9b) The first Psalm begins "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked...nor sits in the seat of scoffers" (Ps. 1:1). In Proverbs 21:24 it is written, "Scoffer is the name of the proud, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride." Scoffing and ridicule have one root: pride.
Curses, insults and scorn coming out of the mouths of the proud is like poison from hell--just as blessing and humble love for one another is what makes heaven heaven. And whoever wants to enter heavenly glory has to be set free from this poison of ridicule at all costs.
So that we can see this sin and its cause more clearly, and fight against it better, we have to realize how wicked our pride is when it is at work in this sin.
Why did the adherents of the Pharisees ridicule Jesus? Because they rebelled against having the Son of God as their Lord. They lacked true power to fight against Him and so they fought with ridicule, mockery and abuse. Because they really did not have any way to attack the Holy One of God, they sought to humiliate Him with ridicule.
We do the same thing, when we envy certain people, are bitter towards them or when we hate them. We rebel against them by using cheap and dirty tactics, against which no one can defend himself. We heap ridicule upon them. Yes, only a small, spiteful remark, a small bit of irony about a third person can ruin his reputation. And we know that our reputation is often worth more to us than our lives. So we have to realize that we can almost kill a person through mockery, ridicule or irony.
One day we will find out how much damage we have caused. We will have to see the wounds that our ridicule brought others and the scars that they had to bear for life. Ridicule and scoffing are devilish and are the sign of the people inspired by Satan in the last times. If we persist in ridiculing others, we will fall into Satan's hands and judgment will catch up with us in the other world.
No matter what the cost, we must be set free from scoffing. But how? The first important thing to do is to let ourselves be shown, by the light of God, that these mean, underhanded and dirty tactics come from hell-even if the enemy seeks to make this sin seem harmless. Furthermore, it will help us if we meditate much upon Jesus, crowned with the crown of thorns. Then, instead of scoffing, we will be filled with deep shame over what we have done to the King of kings through ridicule. Whoever continues to live in this sin without hating it and fighting a battle of faith against it will join the ranks of the opponents of Jesus.
In every specific case we must ask for the Spirit of truth so that we can see why we react so quickly towards certain people with ironic remarks. Then we will see the evil root in our hearts; perhaps envy, jealousy or bitterness. Our irony is often the weapon of revenge, which we use maliciously, because we are too cowardly to tell the other person something to his face or to speak openly with him.
But listen to what Scripture says: "Repent!"-about our envy, our bitterness, or whatever the root might be, and the godly sorrow we ask for will drive us into the arms of Jesus. Jesus will rescue us from this sin, which binds us to Satan, for Jesus has come to "destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3: 8) and to establish the kingdom of love where there will not be any ridicule or scoffing. Jesus is standing before us as the Lord crowned with the crown of thorns, as the Lamb of God. A lamb does not ridicule, but it is ridiculed. We have been redeemed to bear the image of the Lamb. As the followers of Jesus we should be prepared to be laden with ridicule, mockery and disgrace for His name's sake; for "a servant is not greater than his master" (John 13: 16). Then we will lose our desire to ridicule and, instead, we will learn how to bless our enemies.
Behind this sin is Satan and he is ready to fight.
Are we ready too? Then Jesus will be on our side and
He is always the Victor.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Gluttony
GIVEN TO GLUTTONY!
By Pat Oliver
A housewife and mother from Leesburg, Florida, Pat Oliver and her husband, Marvin, are activemembers of Westside Baptist Church of Leesb
Food an idol? Stuffing myself a daily battle? Could these have been the confessions of a born-again, Spirit-baptized child of God? Yes,they could - for I was that child. However, it is from a vantage point of victory in Christ that I make these
confessions. Although I still fight the habit of eating too much (this is one of Webster's definitions of that rather ugly word - gluttony), and I am only now losing weight after tipping the scales at 220 pounds for eight years, I can confidently say that for people like me, Jesus is the one and only solution to this very prevalent problem of overeating.
There are many gadgets, pills and clubs advertised on the market today for the purpose of helping a person lose weight. Through these avenues many have been helped to shed the outward appearance of fat. However, all too often the real source of trouble for the compulsive eater is an inner- conflict which only Jesus Christ can solve. This is why many overweight people are continually dieting unsuccessfully, often regaining lost poundage and adding more on top of
it.
Some will identify with me when I say that I have been fat since childhood. Loneliness and the feeling of being unloved is a gnawing condition which becomes our daily companion. (Espically if we have been rejected by parents, siblings, or children). A coke and sandwich, a milkshake and ~hamburger, a candy bar - these are quick and easy substitutes for the love and acceptance we desire. At a certain point in our struggle to find satisfaction, we become dominated by our loneliness. When or how this spirit takes over, we may not be certain. We attempt to pacify this overpowering force by being everyone's pal - but we are no body's sweetheart. The boys won't ask us for dates - we ate no threat to popular
girls. We are a good friend big joker ... fun to be with all because we push ourselves to fit into the mold of the crowd. We make confessors when friends want to talk over their problems. We are reliable baby-sitters. And we provide really
great "therapy" for the elderly! Our romantic life turns into one big fantasy, as we have learned the art of pretending
at an early age.
Satan is glad to permit us this substitute, for he is that one who "walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour" (I Peter 5:8). Through pretense and fantasy, he can lead us into masturbation and many other sex hang-ups which can linger for years and cause heart-breaking problems. If Satan cannot entice us into actually committing overt sins of immorality, stealing, lying, and such, he will see to it that we become so religious and pious that he destroys us with hypocrisy, the sin of the Pharisees which Jesus pointed out in Matthew 23:28: "Even though ye outwardly appear
righteous unto men, within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
Moving into marriage and motherhood, the same problem of self-pity crops up with similar attempts to silence its gnawing. The devouring lion had built up a picture of marriage as one blissful state of unending joy and the husband as the perfect man. We come to hate ourselves, marriage, home and family - anything and everything that is not as we had
imagined it would be. Descriptions such as chief cook and bottle washer... just a housewife ... chauffeur and drudge, are self-applied. Usually looking and acting the part of the slave we so derogatively paint, a high percentage of us tend to be overweight.
So again begins the trips to the refrigerator or the local drug store ... again comes the frustration of not finding the feeling of love and approval so desperately missed in our childhood ... again comes acceptance of a cheap substitute for love ... and, again, we tranquilize our needs with food. Self....pity ....has become a permanent member of the inner household and soon it turns into a full-blown martyr complex. This monster can only be pacified with food and more fantasy. Our little self-manufactured world, centered around the television with its daytime "soap operas" and "late movies", pushes in and takes over. We return to shutting ourselves out from reality and embracing a never-satisfying substitute.
Food, as usual, fits every occasion for appeasement. Here in America where food is so abundant, it is very easy to become
single-minded - food ... Food ...FOOD! Soon it becomes another god - an idol which usurps the time, money and worship due the heavenly Father. The First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me ... ", slowly but surely loses its meaning. Even a Christian who would never commit adultery, lie or steal, need only take one look at his bulging
waistline to get a glimpse of this truth.
When I met Jesus Christ, there came the knowledge that I had finally found the solution to my life-long problem. His initial work in me was to supernaturally deliver me from a demon of suicide, which had been pursuing me for years. Then He baptized me in His Holy Spirit and there began a beautiful healing process in my innermost being. It is still going on today. As I look back, I rejoice to see how He patiently loved me as I constantly walked in rebellion toward all that He
did. But He did not base His response on what I was doing, but heard the sincere cry which came straight from the heart. I yearned to serve Him, to be obedient, to love Him unreservedly. In all of my life I had never done this before. I wanted to trust and love Him completely enough to allow Him to point out all the stubbornness, all the rebellion and all the hatred that hindered me from being totally His obedient child. I wanted more than anything to yield myself to Him for His shaping and remolding.
From the moment I met Him, I began the cry, "Lord, what about the fat?" He showed me hate in my heart. Again I cried, "Lord, what about the fat?" He revealed in me jealousy toward a sister in Christ. I pleaded all the more, "Lord, what about the fat?" He brought home to me my fear of the dark. I continued to question, "Lord, the fat?" and He uncovered my cowardice about facing reality. I wanted the evidence of sin removed but the source left alone because
it was too painful to deal with. Finally, I came to say, "Lord, what else is there in me?", and in love He continued to cleanse me and show me these roots of sin.
One of the first scriptures the Lord gave me as a promise for the healing that was already taking place was II Timothy 1:7 - "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." The fantasy and fears Satan had used to control me had made me very unsure of my sanity. Here God promised me the power of love and a
sound mind, the two things I needed. I claim it today! As the healings continued, the time came to start the obedience of
bringing my body into subjection. I realized the Holy Spirit should be in control of my body. I realized, too, that I was not just to eat when I felt hungry but to eat when I decided in my mind and spirit that I should eat. If the Holy Spirit led me to fast and go without food for three days, my body did not like it. It cried out to be fed with grumblings from my stomach, accompanied at times with headaches and dizziness. But my body needed to be told when to eat. By the third day, the signs of rebellion in my body were gone and physically, I felt better than ever before. The heaviness had dis-
appeared and I was more alert. I worshiped the Lord with songs of praise because I felt like it!
It was by fasting that the Lord first taught me what it would be like to be slender, free and happy in Him. I found that fasting was meant to be part of the Christian life. Jesus said, "Moreover, when ye fast ... (Matthew 6:16). He did not say," ... if ye fast." I discovered that not only did fasting help move me into a deeper relationship with Him, but it
was also part of the process that was cleaning out the old "me". Bringing our bodies into subjection by fasting is
the first principle we need to learn before dieting. Once our bodies are under control, then we can will ourselves
not to eat that chocolate cake for dessert and not to eat between meals. Our bodies have come to understand
the meaning of obedience.
The scriptures speak strongly about gluttony. In Leviticus, the book of God's Law, chapter 26 tells us about the blessings promised for obedience and the curses for disobedience. Listen to verse 26 as it tells about the curse: "And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight and ye shall eat and not be satisfied. "
Micah 6: 14 says essentially the same thing, speaking to a rebellious people: "Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied."
If we have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ by accepting His death on the cross, He is the atonement for
our sins ... healing for our diseases ... deliverance from our bondage. Then, walking in obedience, we can claim the promise of blessing in Psalm 22:26: "The meek shall eat and be satisfied. "
Additional strong words are found in Proverbs 23: I and 23. "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently
what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite." "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty... " We will be drowsy and our lives turned to rags. Our deliverance from gluttony was bought and paid for on Calvary by our Lord Jesus Christ. This is a very high price for us to take lightly. Paul says in II Corinthians 6: 19, "What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price ... " Even though we may not realize it, every time we over-eat we sin against the temple of the Holy Spirit. As Christians, the stewardship of our bodies is a part of our witness to a lost world.
That lonely and unloved child, now grown to womanhood, is being healed and her problems and sins will not be inherited by her children. My daughter and son will not have the feelings of insecurity which I suffered. The healing work of Jesus is operating in their young lives the same way it is in mine.
Ezra, in his day, spoke these words: "The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him." (Ezra 8:22). The hand of our God is upon us and the Spirit of God is in us, so we claim our deliverance from any sin of excess~ in the Name of Jesus Christ! As He brings us into the blessings of health and wholeness through our obedience, then not only we, but our families and friends, will reap the rewards of another victory in Christ.
In moving our homes into scriptural order, vie find new freedom and joy in His perfect plan: God, the Father; Jesus Christ in submission to His Father; the husband, as head of the home, in submission to Jesus Christ; the wife in submission to her head, her husband; the children in submission to the Father first, then to their earthly father, and finally to the delegated authority of the mother. Each moves in submission to the authority set over him.
As a wife, my head would be held accountable for my continuing to live in the sin of gluttony. I never want to do anything' that will be held against my husband. Therefore, I will bring my body into submission, not only for
my own sake - but for my husband and for the Lord. Jesus Christ loved us and died for us that we might be freed
from the domination of earthly demands. Gluttony is sin. But Jesus Christ keeps on giving us the victory.
In this we rejoice!
By Pat Oliver
A housewife and mother from Leesburg, Florida, Pat Oliver and her husband, Marvin, are activemembers of Westside Baptist Church of Leesb
Food an idol? Stuffing myself a daily battle? Could these have been the confessions of a born-again, Spirit-baptized child of God? Yes,they could - for I was that child. However, it is from a vantage point of victory in Christ that I make these
confessions. Although I still fight the habit of eating too much (this is one of Webster's definitions of that rather ugly word - gluttony), and I am only now losing weight after tipping the scales at 220 pounds for eight years, I can confidently say that for people like me, Jesus is the one and only solution to this very prevalent problem of overeating.
There are many gadgets, pills and clubs advertised on the market today for the purpose of helping a person lose weight. Through these avenues many have been helped to shed the outward appearance of fat. However, all too often the real source of trouble for the compulsive eater is an inner- conflict which only Jesus Christ can solve. This is why many overweight people are continually dieting unsuccessfully, often regaining lost poundage and adding more on top of
it.
Some will identify with me when I say that I have been fat since childhood. Loneliness and the feeling of being unloved is a gnawing condition which becomes our daily companion. (Espically if we have been rejected by parents, siblings, or children). A coke and sandwich, a milkshake and ~hamburger, a candy bar - these are quick and easy substitutes for the love and acceptance we desire. At a certain point in our struggle to find satisfaction, we become dominated by our loneliness. When or how this spirit takes over, we may not be certain. We attempt to pacify this overpowering force by being everyone's pal - but we are no body's sweetheart. The boys won't ask us for dates - we ate no threat to popular
girls. We are a good friend big joker ... fun to be with all because we push ourselves to fit into the mold of the crowd. We make confessors when friends want to talk over their problems. We are reliable baby-sitters. And we provide really
great "therapy" for the elderly! Our romantic life turns into one big fantasy, as we have learned the art of pretending
at an early age.
Satan is glad to permit us this substitute, for he is that one who "walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour" (I Peter 5:8). Through pretense and fantasy, he can lead us into masturbation and many other sex hang-ups which can linger for years and cause heart-breaking problems. If Satan cannot entice us into actually committing overt sins of immorality, stealing, lying, and such, he will see to it that we become so religious and pious that he destroys us with hypocrisy, the sin of the Pharisees which Jesus pointed out in Matthew 23:28: "Even though ye outwardly appear
righteous unto men, within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
Moving into marriage and motherhood, the same problem of self-pity crops up with similar attempts to silence its gnawing. The devouring lion had built up a picture of marriage as one blissful state of unending joy and the husband as the perfect man. We come to hate ourselves, marriage, home and family - anything and everything that is not as we had
imagined it would be. Descriptions such as chief cook and bottle washer... just a housewife ... chauffeur and drudge, are self-applied. Usually looking and acting the part of the slave we so derogatively paint, a high percentage of us tend to be overweight.
So again begins the trips to the refrigerator or the local drug store ... again comes the frustration of not finding the feeling of love and approval so desperately missed in our childhood ... again comes acceptance of a cheap substitute for love ... and, again, we tranquilize our needs with food. Self....pity ....has become a permanent member of the inner household and soon it turns into a full-blown martyr complex. This monster can only be pacified with food and more fantasy. Our little self-manufactured world, centered around the television with its daytime "soap operas" and "late movies", pushes in and takes over. We return to shutting ourselves out from reality and embracing a never-satisfying substitute.
Food, as usual, fits every occasion for appeasement. Here in America where food is so abundant, it is very easy to become
single-minded - food ... Food ...FOOD! Soon it becomes another god - an idol which usurps the time, money and worship due the heavenly Father. The First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me ... ", slowly but surely loses its meaning. Even a Christian who would never commit adultery, lie or steal, need only take one look at his bulging
waistline to get a glimpse of this truth.
When I met Jesus Christ, there came the knowledge that I had finally found the solution to my life-long problem. His initial work in me was to supernaturally deliver me from a demon of suicide, which had been pursuing me for years. Then He baptized me in His Holy Spirit and there began a beautiful healing process in my innermost being. It is still going on today. As I look back, I rejoice to see how He patiently loved me as I constantly walked in rebellion toward all that He
did. But He did not base His response on what I was doing, but heard the sincere cry which came straight from the heart. I yearned to serve Him, to be obedient, to love Him unreservedly. In all of my life I had never done this before. I wanted to trust and love Him completely enough to allow Him to point out all the stubbornness, all the rebellion and all the hatred that hindered me from being totally His obedient child. I wanted more than anything to yield myself to Him for His shaping and remolding.
From the moment I met Him, I began the cry, "Lord, what about the fat?" He showed me hate in my heart. Again I cried, "Lord, what about the fat?" He revealed in me jealousy toward a sister in Christ. I pleaded all the more, "Lord, what about the fat?" He brought home to me my fear of the dark. I continued to question, "Lord, the fat?" and He uncovered my cowardice about facing reality. I wanted the evidence of sin removed but the source left alone because
it was too painful to deal with. Finally, I came to say, "Lord, what else is there in me?", and in love He continued to cleanse me and show me these roots of sin.
One of the first scriptures the Lord gave me as a promise for the healing that was already taking place was II Timothy 1:7 - "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." The fantasy and fears Satan had used to control me had made me very unsure of my sanity. Here God promised me the power of love and a
sound mind, the two things I needed. I claim it today! As the healings continued, the time came to start the obedience of
bringing my body into subjection. I realized the Holy Spirit should be in control of my body. I realized, too, that I was not just to eat when I felt hungry but to eat when I decided in my mind and spirit that I should eat. If the Holy Spirit led me to fast and go without food for three days, my body did not like it. It cried out to be fed with grumblings from my stomach, accompanied at times with headaches and dizziness. But my body needed to be told when to eat. By the third day, the signs of rebellion in my body were gone and physically, I felt better than ever before. The heaviness had dis-
appeared and I was more alert. I worshiped the Lord with songs of praise because I felt like it!
It was by fasting that the Lord first taught me what it would be like to be slender, free and happy in Him. I found that fasting was meant to be part of the Christian life. Jesus said, "Moreover, when ye fast ... (Matthew 6:16). He did not say," ... if ye fast." I discovered that not only did fasting help move me into a deeper relationship with Him, but it
was also part of the process that was cleaning out the old "me". Bringing our bodies into subjection by fasting is
the first principle we need to learn before dieting. Once our bodies are under control, then we can will ourselves
not to eat that chocolate cake for dessert and not to eat between meals. Our bodies have come to understand
the meaning of obedience.
The scriptures speak strongly about gluttony. In Leviticus, the book of God's Law, chapter 26 tells us about the blessings promised for obedience and the curses for disobedience. Listen to verse 26 as it tells about the curse: "And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight and ye shall eat and not be satisfied. "
Micah 6: 14 says essentially the same thing, speaking to a rebellious people: "Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied."
If we have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ by accepting His death on the cross, He is the atonement for
our sins ... healing for our diseases ... deliverance from our bondage. Then, walking in obedience, we can claim the promise of blessing in Psalm 22:26: "The meek shall eat and be satisfied. "
Additional strong words are found in Proverbs 23: I and 23. "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently
what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite." "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty... " We will be drowsy and our lives turned to rags. Our deliverance from gluttony was bought and paid for on Calvary by our Lord Jesus Christ. This is a very high price for us to take lightly. Paul says in II Corinthians 6: 19, "What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price ... " Even though we may not realize it, every time we over-eat we sin against the temple of the Holy Spirit. As Christians, the stewardship of our bodies is a part of our witness to a lost world.
That lonely and unloved child, now grown to womanhood, is being healed and her problems and sins will not be inherited by her children. My daughter and son will not have the feelings of insecurity which I suffered. The healing work of Jesus is operating in their young lives the same way it is in mine.
Ezra, in his day, spoke these words: "The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him." (Ezra 8:22). The hand of our God is upon us and the Spirit of God is in us, so we claim our deliverance from any sin of excess~ in the Name of Jesus Christ! As He brings us into the blessings of health and wholeness through our obedience, then not only we, but our families and friends, will reap the rewards of another victory in Christ.
In moving our homes into scriptural order, vie find new freedom and joy in His perfect plan: God, the Father; Jesus Christ in submission to His Father; the husband, as head of the home, in submission to Jesus Christ; the wife in submission to her head, her husband; the children in submission to the Father first, then to their earthly father, and finally to the delegated authority of the mother. Each moves in submission to the authority set over him.
As a wife, my head would be held accountable for my continuing to live in the sin of gluttony. I never want to do anything' that will be held against my husband. Therefore, I will bring my body into submission, not only for
my own sake - but for my husband and for the Lord. Jesus Christ loved us and died for us that we might be freed
from the domination of earthly demands. Gluttony is sin. But Jesus Christ keeps on giving us the victory.
In this we rejoice!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
how to have a good marriage
WHY I HAVE SUCH A GOOD MARRIAGE .....The Lord will show you how to be a repairer of breeches, and a blessed peacemaker!
WHY I HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL MARRIAGE AFTER 13 (23) YEARS OF LIFE WITH MY HUSBAND...............I HAVE A SMALL
VISION FOR WHERE JESUS WANTS TO TAKE THE CHURCH!!
How does passion and unity continue to get better? Well I had some thoughts on the subject today! I got a letter from a friend this morning, which made me start thinking of Ps.133. "Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It's like precious ointment.....it's like
the dew on the mountains.....there has the Lord commanded the blessing! It made me start thinking of my good marriage, and why other's aren't so good, and why there is such dis-unity in the church.
Then I read part of David Wilkerson's newest letter to the church called "Satan seeks to devour you." He specifically addresses marriages under attack! Lives under attack. I thought of the scripture in Ecc. "The little foxes spoil the vine." It made me realize why love and passion is ever increasing in my own marriage..........BECAUSE WE GO AFTER, AND DEAL WITH THE "LITTLE FOXES!" Many married people don't even see the whiles
of the devil to destroy them and their relationships. I know that after years of marriage, the offences, criticisms, accusations, divisions
(demiliatrized zones) cause people to build walls against one another. So instead of becoming closer, they become worlds apart....I want to say
DEMONS APART.....DEMONIC STRONGHOLDS set in, and passion and love are out the window! We need to learn to put on love rather than pride.
To put on honesty, sincerity, and have the law of kindness in our mouths.
Rm. 12:5 "So we being many are one body in Christ, and everyone members of one another". 1 Cor.10:17 "for we being many are ONE BREAD, and
one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread." 1Cor.1:10 "Now I beseech you , brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be NO DIVISIONS AMONG YOU, but that you be perfectly joined together......in the same mind, and in the same judgment! THIS MAY BE EXTREMELY HARD FOR YOU TO BELIEVE, BUT I ACTUALLY LIVE WITH A MAN IN A "SPIRIT OF UNITY!" We fight for unity,
and to make sure there are no divisions between us! We deal with, kill, the "little foxes" that come to spoil our
relationship! Rather than being offended, we look to feed each other with understanding when there are problems. We seek the Lord, and humble ourselves to one another in the fear of the Lord. And we walk in this same spirit with the christians we relate to.
2 Co.13:11 "Finally, brethren, Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Ep. 4:3 "Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Ph.1:27 "only let you conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ,
that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel." 1Pet.3:8 "Be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous." In Phil. 4:2 Paul beseeches two of his loved ones to be of the same mind. Col. 2:2 "That their hearts might BE COMFORTED, being knit together in LOVE, and
unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the MYSTERY OF GOD, and of the Father, and of Christ."
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I HAVE MET, WHO DON'T EVEN BELIEVE UNITY IS EVEN POSSIBLE? They don't even have faith in what God say's
in His word or what He promises to do for those who love Him. He stands behind women who are looking to love and do God's will in their husbands lives. And a woman of God has faith that God will deal with her husband if he refuses her kind words. She doesn't look to beat him into submission,
she knows and trusts in God's love and intentions for their marriage. Many marriages get familiar with.........DISUNITY, STRIFE and they take on an unbelieving spirit that refuses to think unity is possible! When you loose a bad spirit into your marriage, contrary to love and faith, do you think it will sprout? If you loose love and faith, and have hope against hope, don't you think the God of all the Heaven's and earth is able to stand behind His Sprit? That's the spirit, the food you should be feeding your family. You need to think about what table you are eating from, the devils or God's?
For the bread, your words are life or death. If your mouth is an open grave, and everyone that EATS of the bread, the reaping will not be good! If
you fling forth evil things how can you hope good to come from it?
I have to say here, There were many things that divided my husband and I when I first met him. And the first few years of our relationship were not
really easy, because I doubted God and him, and didn't really know His heart towards me, or the Lord's to help us. He had more faith and trust in
the Lord regarding me, while I was the despairing unbeliever, because I was offended and unhealed regarding men in general. I let the little foxes in
the door all the time and was a bit slow in chasing them back out the door. (contrary thoughts against him, merciless thoughts, where I didn't have much mercy in what I thought he was doing wrong. I hadn't removed the log from my eye to help remove the twig in his. I had gotten to the place in my life, where I was not content to live with DIVISIONS, and in a spirit of DISUNITY. I had lived in pretense too long in my past, and it had cost me
too much. I crossed over a line before I ever met my husband, that I would FIGHT FOR UNITY! There is NO COMFORT, when you have to live in a house divided among itself. When you have to hide, lie and pretend, and play God for someone who doesn't have a grip on their emotions. I decided I wasn't going to play God anymore. I was going to live honestly, and let the chips fall where they may, and let God be God. I got to the place when I met my husband, that I was going to be honest, sincere, speak the truth in love, and I WAS WILLING TO PUT THE RELATIONSHIP ON THE LINE FOR
THE SAKE OF TRUTH! I wasn't going to hide, lie, and,only give "most of my heart", not "ALL OF MY HEART."
I heard a man talking about Ananias and Sapphira, and the principal of "holding back."
Whenever I have chosen to "hold back", a portion of my heart from my husband........not loving him with all my heart, mind and strength, not being open with him about my thoughts and emotions, it has brought DIVISION INTO OUR RELATIONSHIP! I know when I have done this, it's been a reflection of not loving the Lord with all my heart, mind, and strength. When I'm open and honest with Our Father, he helps me to be open and
honest with my husband.
How to keep the devil from getting ground in our lives. 1. By not forsaking the assembling, but exhorting one another. I see that when we do assemble, whether it be with our husband, or fellow Christian's, if we are half-hearted, we lie, are insincere, pretentious, content to be divided and are not hearing from God and speaking the truth in love.......UNITY ISN'T THERE! God is a spirit of truth and His spirit visits those walking in the light. He doesn't fellowship deceit....the father of lies.
2. Forgiveness.....THE BIG TEMPTATION, Jesus refers to in the Lords Prayer. "Forgive us our sins, as we forgive others......lead us not into the temptation of being unforgiving......DELIVER US FROM THIS GREAT EVIL! If we have a forgiving spirit, we can tell the truth in the right spirit, without sounding self-righteous.
3. If you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, GLORY NOT....(how many people get familiar with running on STRIFE GAS). Strife is part of lying, and pretense. .where strife is so familiar, they cant' even tell they are striving? They loose a bad spirit on the earth and don't even care.
DON'T LIE TO YOURSELF....when your in strife. The devil will start talking to you....tickling your senses! It creates all kinds of confusion and evil
work! Blessed are the PEACE MAKERS, NOT THE STRIFE MAKERS!!!!
So......If 1 Cor. 10:17 is REALLY TRUE...."for we being many are ONE BREAD"????? What kind of bread are you?? What kind of bread is your marriage?? How about the Christians you walk with?? I remember speaking to a woman several years ago who was asking me what kind of church she should go
to back in Wisconsin where she lived. I said to her, "what ever you do, look very closely at the pastor and his wife. Ask yourself, do they walk in a spirit of faith, love, and unity? Can they work through their own problems, and do they share testimony about how the Lord helps them work through their divisions, so they can help other's too? See what ingredients are in their bread (spiritually speaking). Are they open, honest, do they lie, hide
and pretend like they have it all together? Are they willing to share the battles of their relationship and how Jesus helps them, in an honest, open transparent spirit? Do you hear the TESTIMONY OF JESUS in how they work through their divisions, evil imaginations, accusations, and how The Lord has helped them fight for unity and love? BECAUSE........if they don't do it with each other......they won't CONTAIN a spirit to help the children of
God do it either! Is there bread full of artificial ingredients?"
One thing many of my friends and I have in common is, "we didn't grow up in Christian families, where we heard and witnessed how Jesus helped our parents work through the battles of life. How they dealt with the "little foxes" that spoiled the vine. Most of us saw people who lived a passionless, pretentious, divided life, where they hid from each other. "Hide not yourself from your own flesh", it says in Isaiah. I
decided early on, I was not going to hide from my husband......I was not going to hide anymore from the Lord. I wasn't going to be a with-holder
and settle for a passionless, dark, deceitful way of life. There are times I wondered if my husband would throw me in the gutter for being honest,
but I knew if I really loved him, how could I hold divisions in my heart against him? I went to him (not always, but I try to) in a spirit of honesty, sincerity, humility, and faith because I love him. When I question his integrity, I tell him, because I love him. Our children....and God's children have gotten to benefit from our divisions, and hear how we dealt with them. WE ENDED UP BE AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS WHO NEVER HAD PARENTS WHO WOULD BE REAL, HONEST, AND FEED THEM WITH UNDERSTANDING TO HOW JESUS HELPED THEM WITH THEIR PROBLEMS.
We FIGHT NOT TO LET THE BREAD (OUR RELATIONSHIP) get moldy. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee's whichis hypocrisy! We don't practice hypocrisy with each other. And because I'm willing, and He's taught me to walk in a spirit of LOVING THE LORD WITH ALL MY HEART, MIND AND STRENGTH, I can love other's the way I have been loved. AND KEEP PRESSING ON TO BE BETTER EACH DAY! The love and passion in our lives is
ever increasing instead of decreasing like the couples in the world. Isn't that how we should live as the body Of Christ too? I pray that the spirit of love, faith, and truth? What Jesus has given my husband and I would is a precious gift we can impart to all our friends. So they will want to follow
our example..... That the world could see Jesus lives by the way they love each other!
Jesus prayed in John 17......that we would be sanctified by the truth of His Word. He SANCTIFIED himself unto the truth, that we might be sanctified
unto the truth.....He prayed for ALL THOSE WHO WOULD BELIEVE ON HIM, BECAUSE OF THE WORDS OF OTHERS! DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT YOUR HUSBAND COULD COME TO BELIEVE MORE IN JESUS BY THE WORDS YOU SPEAK TO HIM???? Jesus PRAYED THAT WE WOULD ALL BE ONE!! As He is in the Father and the Father IN Him, THAT WE WOULD BE ONE.......IN HIM! That the world would see and believe in Him by the love we have
one for another!
His prayer was that we would all be one in Him......and though we might be far from it, we all will be one in heaven, and we can do our best to fight
for the unity of the faith on the earth! (Why not take on faith to deal with the dis-unity here on the earth.) It's all going to be seen and known for what it is one day anyway, don't you want to be on God's side when the dust settles? YOU ARE CALLED TO BE A PEACE MAKER, so TAKE ON FAITH,
to do God's will in ALL THE LIVES WHICH YOU TOUCH!! Don't be indifferent to the divisions in your heart towards your husband. Life isn't about
you, it's about you making it your food to do God's will. I don't want Jesus to have to straighten out my problems for me when we see Him face to face, because I was a fainting, indifferent, give up, complaining girl. The scripture we had put on our wedding cake said......."We pray that the
world would SEE AND BELIEVE THAT JESUS LIVES BY THE WAY.......WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER!! YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE WORLD, AND ESPECIALLY YOUR CHILDREN SEEING AND BELIEVING THAT JESUS LIVES BECAUSE THE WAY YOU LOVE YOUR HUSBAND AND THEM!
WHY I HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL MARRIAGE AFTER 13 (23) YEARS OF LIFE WITH MY HUSBAND...............I HAVE A SMALL
VISION FOR WHERE JESUS WANTS TO TAKE THE CHURCH!!
How does passion and unity continue to get better? Well I had some thoughts on the subject today! I got a letter from a friend this morning, which made me start thinking of Ps.133. "Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It's like precious ointment.....it's like
the dew on the mountains.....there has the Lord commanded the blessing! It made me start thinking of my good marriage, and why other's aren't so good, and why there is such dis-unity in the church.
Then I read part of David Wilkerson's newest letter to the church called "Satan seeks to devour you." He specifically addresses marriages under attack! Lives under attack. I thought of the scripture in Ecc. "The little foxes spoil the vine." It made me realize why love and passion is ever increasing in my own marriage..........BECAUSE WE GO AFTER, AND DEAL WITH THE "LITTLE FOXES!" Many married people don't even see the whiles
of the devil to destroy them and their relationships. I know that after years of marriage, the offences, criticisms, accusations, divisions
(demiliatrized zones) cause people to build walls against one another. So instead of becoming closer, they become worlds apart....I want to say
DEMONS APART.....DEMONIC STRONGHOLDS set in, and passion and love are out the window! We need to learn to put on love rather than pride.
To put on honesty, sincerity, and have the law of kindness in our mouths.
Rm. 12:5 "So we being many are one body in Christ, and everyone members of one another". 1 Cor.10:17 "for we being many are ONE BREAD, and
one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread." 1Cor.1:10 "Now I beseech you , brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be NO DIVISIONS AMONG YOU, but that you be perfectly joined together......in the same mind, and in the same judgment! THIS MAY BE EXTREMELY HARD FOR YOU TO BELIEVE, BUT I ACTUALLY LIVE WITH A MAN IN A "SPIRIT OF UNITY!" We fight for unity,
and to make sure there are no divisions between us! We deal with, kill, the "little foxes" that come to spoil our
relationship! Rather than being offended, we look to feed each other with understanding when there are problems. We seek the Lord, and humble ourselves to one another in the fear of the Lord. And we walk in this same spirit with the christians we relate to.
2 Co.13:11 "Finally, brethren, Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Ep. 4:3 "Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Ph.1:27 "only let you conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ,
that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel." 1Pet.3:8 "Be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous." In Phil. 4:2 Paul beseeches two of his loved ones to be of the same mind. Col. 2:2 "That their hearts might BE COMFORTED, being knit together in LOVE, and
unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the MYSTERY OF GOD, and of the Father, and of Christ."
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I HAVE MET, WHO DON'T EVEN BELIEVE UNITY IS EVEN POSSIBLE? They don't even have faith in what God say's
in His word or what He promises to do for those who love Him. He stands behind women who are looking to love and do God's will in their husbands lives. And a woman of God has faith that God will deal with her husband if he refuses her kind words. She doesn't look to beat him into submission,
she knows and trusts in God's love and intentions for their marriage. Many marriages get familiar with.........DISUNITY, STRIFE and they take on an unbelieving spirit that refuses to think unity is possible! When you loose a bad spirit into your marriage, contrary to love and faith, do you think it will sprout? If you loose love and faith, and have hope against hope, don't you think the God of all the Heaven's and earth is able to stand behind His Sprit? That's the spirit, the food you should be feeding your family. You need to think about what table you are eating from, the devils or God's?
For the bread, your words are life or death. If your mouth is an open grave, and everyone that EATS of the bread, the reaping will not be good! If
you fling forth evil things how can you hope good to come from it?
I have to say here, There were many things that divided my husband and I when I first met him. And the first few years of our relationship were not
really easy, because I doubted God and him, and didn't really know His heart towards me, or the Lord's to help us. He had more faith and trust in
the Lord regarding me, while I was the despairing unbeliever, because I was offended and unhealed regarding men in general. I let the little foxes in
the door all the time and was a bit slow in chasing them back out the door. (contrary thoughts against him, merciless thoughts, where I didn't have much mercy in what I thought he was doing wrong. I hadn't removed the log from my eye to help remove the twig in his. I had gotten to the place in my life, where I was not content to live with DIVISIONS, and in a spirit of DISUNITY. I had lived in pretense too long in my past, and it had cost me
too much. I crossed over a line before I ever met my husband, that I would FIGHT FOR UNITY! There is NO COMFORT, when you have to live in a house divided among itself. When you have to hide, lie and pretend, and play God for someone who doesn't have a grip on their emotions. I decided I wasn't going to play God anymore. I was going to live honestly, and let the chips fall where they may, and let God be God. I got to the place when I met my husband, that I was going to be honest, sincere, speak the truth in love, and I WAS WILLING TO PUT THE RELATIONSHIP ON THE LINE FOR
THE SAKE OF TRUTH! I wasn't going to hide, lie, and,only give "most of my heart", not "ALL OF MY HEART."
I heard a man talking about Ananias and Sapphira, and the principal of "holding back."
Whenever I have chosen to "hold back", a portion of my heart from my husband........not loving him with all my heart, mind and strength, not being open with him about my thoughts and emotions, it has brought DIVISION INTO OUR RELATIONSHIP! I know when I have done this, it's been a reflection of not loving the Lord with all my heart, mind, and strength. When I'm open and honest with Our Father, he helps me to be open and
honest with my husband.
How to keep the devil from getting ground in our lives. 1. By not forsaking the assembling, but exhorting one another. I see that when we do assemble, whether it be with our husband, or fellow Christian's, if we are half-hearted, we lie, are insincere, pretentious, content to be divided and are not hearing from God and speaking the truth in love.......UNITY ISN'T THERE! God is a spirit of truth and His spirit visits those walking in the light. He doesn't fellowship deceit....the father of lies.
2. Forgiveness.....THE BIG TEMPTATION, Jesus refers to in the Lords Prayer. "Forgive us our sins, as we forgive others......lead us not into the temptation of being unforgiving......DELIVER US FROM THIS GREAT EVIL! If we have a forgiving spirit, we can tell the truth in the right spirit, without sounding self-righteous.
3. If you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, GLORY NOT....(how many people get familiar with running on STRIFE GAS). Strife is part of lying, and pretense. .where strife is so familiar, they cant' even tell they are striving? They loose a bad spirit on the earth and don't even care.
DON'T LIE TO YOURSELF....when your in strife. The devil will start talking to you....tickling your senses! It creates all kinds of confusion and evil
work! Blessed are the PEACE MAKERS, NOT THE STRIFE MAKERS!!!!
So......If 1 Cor. 10:17 is REALLY TRUE...."for we being many are ONE BREAD"????? What kind of bread are you?? What kind of bread is your marriage?? How about the Christians you walk with?? I remember speaking to a woman several years ago who was asking me what kind of church she should go
to back in Wisconsin where she lived. I said to her, "what ever you do, look very closely at the pastor and his wife. Ask yourself, do they walk in a spirit of faith, love, and unity? Can they work through their own problems, and do they share testimony about how the Lord helps them work through their divisions, so they can help other's too? See what ingredients are in their bread (spiritually speaking). Are they open, honest, do they lie, hide
and pretend like they have it all together? Are they willing to share the battles of their relationship and how Jesus helps them, in an honest, open transparent spirit? Do you hear the TESTIMONY OF JESUS in how they work through their divisions, evil imaginations, accusations, and how The Lord has helped them fight for unity and love? BECAUSE........if they don't do it with each other......they won't CONTAIN a spirit to help the children of
God do it either! Is there bread full of artificial ingredients?"
One thing many of my friends and I have in common is, "we didn't grow up in Christian families, where we heard and witnessed how Jesus helped our parents work through the battles of life. How they dealt with the "little foxes" that spoiled the vine. Most of us saw people who lived a passionless, pretentious, divided life, where they hid from each other. "Hide not yourself from your own flesh", it says in Isaiah. I
decided early on, I was not going to hide from my husband......I was not going to hide anymore from the Lord. I wasn't going to be a with-holder
and settle for a passionless, dark, deceitful way of life. There are times I wondered if my husband would throw me in the gutter for being honest,
but I knew if I really loved him, how could I hold divisions in my heart against him? I went to him (not always, but I try to) in a spirit of honesty, sincerity, humility, and faith because I love him. When I question his integrity, I tell him, because I love him. Our children....and God's children have gotten to benefit from our divisions, and hear how we dealt with them. WE ENDED UP BE AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS WHO NEVER HAD PARENTS WHO WOULD BE REAL, HONEST, AND FEED THEM WITH UNDERSTANDING TO HOW JESUS HELPED THEM WITH THEIR PROBLEMS.
We FIGHT NOT TO LET THE BREAD (OUR RELATIONSHIP) get moldy. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee's whichis hypocrisy! We don't practice hypocrisy with each other. And because I'm willing, and He's taught me to walk in a spirit of LOVING THE LORD WITH ALL MY HEART, MIND AND STRENGTH, I can love other's the way I have been loved. AND KEEP PRESSING ON TO BE BETTER EACH DAY! The love and passion in our lives is
ever increasing instead of decreasing like the couples in the world. Isn't that how we should live as the body Of Christ too? I pray that the spirit of love, faith, and truth? What Jesus has given my husband and I would is a precious gift we can impart to all our friends. So they will want to follow
our example..... That the world could see Jesus lives by the way they love each other!
Jesus prayed in John 17......that we would be sanctified by the truth of His Word. He SANCTIFIED himself unto the truth, that we might be sanctified
unto the truth.....He prayed for ALL THOSE WHO WOULD BELIEVE ON HIM, BECAUSE OF THE WORDS OF OTHERS! DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT YOUR HUSBAND COULD COME TO BELIEVE MORE IN JESUS BY THE WORDS YOU SPEAK TO HIM???? Jesus PRAYED THAT WE WOULD ALL BE ONE!! As He is in the Father and the Father IN Him, THAT WE WOULD BE ONE.......IN HIM! That the world would see and believe in Him by the love we have
one for another!
His prayer was that we would all be one in Him......and though we might be far from it, we all will be one in heaven, and we can do our best to fight
for the unity of the faith on the earth! (Why not take on faith to deal with the dis-unity here on the earth.) It's all going to be seen and known for what it is one day anyway, don't you want to be on God's side when the dust settles? YOU ARE CALLED TO BE A PEACE MAKER, so TAKE ON FAITH,
to do God's will in ALL THE LIVES WHICH YOU TOUCH!! Don't be indifferent to the divisions in your heart towards your husband. Life isn't about
you, it's about you making it your food to do God's will. I don't want Jesus to have to straighten out my problems for me when we see Him face to face, because I was a fainting, indifferent, give up, complaining girl. The scripture we had put on our wedding cake said......."We pray that the
world would SEE AND BELIEVE THAT JESUS LIVES BY THE WAY.......WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER!! YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE WORLD, AND ESPECIALLY YOUR CHILDREN SEEING AND BELIEVING THAT JESUS LIVES BECAUSE THE WAY YOU LOVE YOUR HUSBAND AND THEM!
a FAITHFUL MAN, WHO CAN FIND?????
I was thinking today about why the scriptures say that. IT'S TRUE. Most men give themselves to their appetites, passions, emotions and
desires, and are overcome by them. A man full of faith, and self sacrifice who can find, they are rare. Most men WILL NOT DENY THEMSELVES, and pick up their cross and follow Jesus, so they live lives of self indulgence.
Most men are not faithful in relationships, not full of faith, not willing to do God's will in people's lives, so they are overcome by lust and worldliness by DEFAULT. They can't control their lusts and appetites for worldliness, because God gives His Spirit of self control TO THOSE WHO LOVE AND OBEY HIM, those who REALLY CARE for each other with more than lip service.
Many of the men I have known sacrifice relationships with wives, children, friends, and are overcome by their lusts or worldliness,
due to selfishness. Look what the bible says about JOB. "I was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, THE CAUSE I KNEW NOT I SEARCHED OUT"
Many men live slothful lives, void of understanding. They are the greater cause in their lives, not the Lord, God's family, or even their own family.
They live life according to their selfish desires and self gratifications, without a whole lot of contemplation on what they are sowing on the earth!
"When you seek Me with ALL your heart, YOU WILL BE FOUND BY ME." So the problem is a seeking problem. Too much self seeking, and not enough
God seeking. Men who are void of understanding can only be oppressors, they can't be reconcilers!
Usually when I get tempted to fret or worry and I start praying, the scripture comes to me....."let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. If you believe in God,
believe in my also. In my Father's house are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you."
The desire of a mans heart is his kindness." It came to me that when our desire is selfish and ungodly, we will eventually be showing it by being mean. People get mean
when their selfish desires and interfered with. The fires of life take us either to destruction or to a place where IT'S OUR FOOD TO DO GOD'S WILL. We fall on the stone, or the stone falls on us.
There is another scripture in Pvb.24, 1 and 2 says, "Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction and their lips talk of mischief." I began thinking of the STUDY OF DESTRUCTION. Our hearts are always MEDITATING. Most people meditate on what they think is good for them, not
what IS THE GREATER CAUSE. The Psalmist prayed, "let the words of my mouth and the MEDITATION OF MY HEART, be acceptable in YOUR SIGHT." Our hearts are always studying, mediating. I began remembering back to how depressed I was when I lived with people who were overcome by their lusts, because their hearts studied....longed for worldliness, carnal comforts, etc. Most men are overcome by their lusts.....and the destructive forces in their lives.....because they spend
their lives studying the wrong thing. Loosing the bands of wickedness, undoing heavy burdens, freeing the opressed, giving food to the hungry, is not the sport they
want to play. Pleasing God is not their study.
My youngest daughter put it this way after she read Dante's version of Hell. You basically have the CONSUMERS and the PRODUCERS. Consumers are busy consuming and producers and busy producing. It made me think of a revelation I got yesterday reading Heb.5. I realized the first half of the chapter talks about those who God has raised up, who will care for the weak, poor, afflicted and those bound in chains. They pray for others and they get food from God to feed the hungry. They care about others, and they pray for others. They the last half is about those who scream for milk. They spend their lives looking for others to feed them, they only want to be given care,
they don't become care givers. Have you ever noticed in a room when there is one screaming baby, the baby screaming is OK? You put
another screaming baby in the same room, and the two babies can't handle it. I have come to see some of my friends like this. When they are being
babies, screaming for milk they can't stand being around other demanding babies. It's OK as long as they are the only one screaming, but when another one
comes in who is screaming for milk too.....they get totally offended. It's only OK if they are the ONLY screaming baby, and they hate it when they
have to deal with other screaming babies. Some of my friends have a hard time loving and forgiving one another, when they are living in the CONSUMING
self seeking mode.
I guess Is. 58 sums it all up in talking about the fast God has chosen. To lose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burden, set the oppressed
free, break the yoke. Those willing to intercede by speaking the truth in love to their brother inherit the blessings of God. Those who are self seeking,
and care about blessing their own life above all things never ride on the high places it talks about in Is.58.
If dying and going to heaven were like a big family reunion.....how would you fare? In this big family reunion.....there will be nothing hidden,
everything will be revealed with every secret thought. What we have hid in the dark will be shouted from the house tops.....and will the world have
seen Jesus really lives, BY THE WAY WE HAVE LOVED EACH OTHER.
At this family reunion we won't be able to have a hidden world of thoughts we didn't let Jesus into. It will be plain for all to see if we really
prayed TO BE REPAIRERS of the breeches, restorer's of paths to walk in. Were we like Job, "eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and did we search out the
cause of things we know not? Did we really look to loose the bands of wickedness, and undo the heavy burdens, and to set each other free of
oppression, and to break the yoke of bondage we see one another bound by? It would be great if we all opened up our hidden little worlds of thoughts we have with each other, now before the big family reunion.....so we won't be ashamed. I'm not talking about dumping on each other things the devil whispers in our ears either. I'm talking about giving our talent. Not burying our gift. When we see things in each other we need to know if it's the accuser of the brethren talking to us, or if God wants to use us to
keep our brother or sister from falling into a ditch. When we don't let Jesus in to our secret world of thoughts and deeds, he will shout from the housetops
(the evil we have hid in our hearts), and reveal what we refused to deal with in life, at our death!
We don't need to be among those who work hard at making the outside of the cup clean.....but the inside is filled with accusations, imaginations, EVEN
TRUTH.....BUT that we were too slothful to divide the flesh from the spirit....for ourselves and one another. WHY DO WE SLEEP............and
grieve the Spirit of Christ in our soul? We know when others dirty their feet.........but we refuse to be foot washers. We know when others are
wearing grave clothes.......but we reject the fact that Jesus has called us to peel off each others rags. One day men, women, will be rewarded for what they have done, and REWARDED FOR WHAT THEY FAILED TO DO, OR WERE TOO SLOTHFUL TO DO.
It reminds me of something God had Gene bring up. It was in 1 John 5 that said something like, "If your brother sins and it's not a sin unto
death...and you have light to his sin, YOU CAN IMPART LIFE TO HIM WHERE HE IS DEAD IN HIS SIN! Jesus has given us such great power, but we don't tap into
it. That's what I got out of John 1 and 17. We should have a word anointing in our lives. We should HAVE THE WORDS OF JESUS for our problems, and we
can give one another the words that Jesus has given us. That's what Jesus did. He gave us the words of the Father....He gave us THE SPIRIT OF GLORY...LIGHT
AND LIFE....that comes through the spoken word. He sanctified himself unto the truth out of his great love for us, and gave us an example to follow.
Some of us are still ROCK COLLECTOR'S! We don't ask God for bread for one another, and the devil is right there to help us be stone collector's. When
it comes down to it...you can tell who loves the Father, by watching their fruit. Selfish people are mean, and they don't deal God's bread to the
hungry. And they raise selfish children who won't love and deal bread to the hungry either.
If we abide in His Spirit...we will get His words for one another. We won't let the little foxes live...we won't feed them until they are too fat to
deal with, we won't ignore them and pretend like they aren't there and that they won't do any damage. People who love Jesus, don't let the little foxes
live. They Judge them, and the things that divide, because THEY ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR THE UNITY OF FAITH....THE BOND OF PEACE. We need to be willing
to be peace makers, AND GOD GIVES THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION TO ALL THOSE WHO LOVE WHO HE LOVES.....HIS CHILDREN! THESE WILL BE THE OVERCOMERS JESUS INVITES TO SIT DOWN AT HIS TABLE. Selfish, self indulgent men and women cannot be OVERCOMERS!
One day..........WHEN WE ARE AT THE BIG FAMILY REUNION, AFTER THIS LIFE.....we will see the great manifestation of Jesus'
words.........BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS.....FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN!
desires, and are overcome by them. A man full of faith, and self sacrifice who can find, they are rare. Most men WILL NOT DENY THEMSELVES, and pick up their cross and follow Jesus, so they live lives of self indulgence.
Most men are not faithful in relationships, not full of faith, not willing to do God's will in people's lives, so they are overcome by lust and worldliness by DEFAULT. They can't control their lusts and appetites for worldliness, because God gives His Spirit of self control TO THOSE WHO LOVE AND OBEY HIM, those who REALLY CARE for each other with more than lip service.
Many of the men I have known sacrifice relationships with wives, children, friends, and are overcome by their lusts or worldliness,
due to selfishness. Look what the bible says about JOB. "I was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, THE CAUSE I KNEW NOT I SEARCHED OUT"
Many men live slothful lives, void of understanding. They are the greater cause in their lives, not the Lord, God's family, or even their own family.
They live life according to their selfish desires and self gratifications, without a whole lot of contemplation on what they are sowing on the earth!
"When you seek Me with ALL your heart, YOU WILL BE FOUND BY ME." So the problem is a seeking problem. Too much self seeking, and not enough
God seeking. Men who are void of understanding can only be oppressors, they can't be reconcilers!
Usually when I get tempted to fret or worry and I start praying, the scripture comes to me....."let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. If you believe in God,
believe in my also. In my Father's house are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you."
The desire of a mans heart is his kindness." It came to me that when our desire is selfish and ungodly, we will eventually be showing it by being mean. People get mean
when their selfish desires and interfered with. The fires of life take us either to destruction or to a place where IT'S OUR FOOD TO DO GOD'S WILL. We fall on the stone, or the stone falls on us.
There is another scripture in Pvb.24, 1 and 2 says, "Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction and their lips talk of mischief." I began thinking of the STUDY OF DESTRUCTION. Our hearts are always MEDITATING. Most people meditate on what they think is good for them, not
what IS THE GREATER CAUSE. The Psalmist prayed, "let the words of my mouth and the MEDITATION OF MY HEART, be acceptable in YOUR SIGHT." Our hearts are always studying, mediating. I began remembering back to how depressed I was when I lived with people who were overcome by their lusts, because their hearts studied....longed for worldliness, carnal comforts, etc. Most men are overcome by their lusts.....and the destructive forces in their lives.....because they spend
their lives studying the wrong thing. Loosing the bands of wickedness, undoing heavy burdens, freeing the opressed, giving food to the hungry, is not the sport they
want to play. Pleasing God is not their study.
My youngest daughter put it this way after she read Dante's version of Hell. You basically have the CONSUMERS and the PRODUCERS. Consumers are busy consuming and producers and busy producing. It made me think of a revelation I got yesterday reading Heb.5. I realized the first half of the chapter talks about those who God has raised up, who will care for the weak, poor, afflicted and those bound in chains. They pray for others and they get food from God to feed the hungry. They care about others, and they pray for others. They the last half is about those who scream for milk. They spend their lives looking for others to feed them, they only want to be given care,
they don't become care givers. Have you ever noticed in a room when there is one screaming baby, the baby screaming is OK? You put
another screaming baby in the same room, and the two babies can't handle it. I have come to see some of my friends like this. When they are being
babies, screaming for milk they can't stand being around other demanding babies. It's OK as long as they are the only one screaming, but when another one
comes in who is screaming for milk too.....they get totally offended. It's only OK if they are the ONLY screaming baby, and they hate it when they
have to deal with other screaming babies. Some of my friends have a hard time loving and forgiving one another, when they are living in the CONSUMING
self seeking mode.
I guess Is. 58 sums it all up in talking about the fast God has chosen. To lose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burden, set the oppressed
free, break the yoke. Those willing to intercede by speaking the truth in love to their brother inherit the blessings of God. Those who are self seeking,
and care about blessing their own life above all things never ride on the high places it talks about in Is.58.
If dying and going to heaven were like a big family reunion.....how would you fare? In this big family reunion.....there will be nothing hidden,
everything will be revealed with every secret thought. What we have hid in the dark will be shouted from the house tops.....and will the world have
seen Jesus really lives, BY THE WAY WE HAVE LOVED EACH OTHER.
At this family reunion we won't be able to have a hidden world of thoughts we didn't let Jesus into. It will be plain for all to see if we really
prayed TO BE REPAIRERS of the breeches, restorer's of paths to walk in. Were we like Job, "eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and did we search out the
cause of things we know not? Did we really look to loose the bands of wickedness, and undo the heavy burdens, and to set each other free of
oppression, and to break the yoke of bondage we see one another bound by? It would be great if we all opened up our hidden little worlds of thoughts we have with each other, now before the big family reunion.....so we won't be ashamed. I'm not talking about dumping on each other things the devil whispers in our ears either. I'm talking about giving our talent. Not burying our gift. When we see things in each other we need to know if it's the accuser of the brethren talking to us, or if God wants to use us to
keep our brother or sister from falling into a ditch. When we don't let Jesus in to our secret world of thoughts and deeds, he will shout from the housetops
(the evil we have hid in our hearts), and reveal what we refused to deal with in life, at our death!
We don't need to be among those who work hard at making the outside of the cup clean.....but the inside is filled with accusations, imaginations, EVEN
TRUTH.....BUT that we were too slothful to divide the flesh from the spirit....for ourselves and one another. WHY DO WE SLEEP............and
grieve the Spirit of Christ in our soul? We know when others dirty their feet.........but we refuse to be foot washers. We know when others are
wearing grave clothes.......but we reject the fact that Jesus has called us to peel off each others rags. One day men, women, will be rewarded for what they have done, and REWARDED FOR WHAT THEY FAILED TO DO, OR WERE TOO SLOTHFUL TO DO.
It reminds me of something God had Gene bring up. It was in 1 John 5 that said something like, "If your brother sins and it's not a sin unto
death...and you have light to his sin, YOU CAN IMPART LIFE TO HIM WHERE HE IS DEAD IN HIS SIN! Jesus has given us such great power, but we don't tap into
it. That's what I got out of John 1 and 17. We should have a word anointing in our lives. We should HAVE THE WORDS OF JESUS for our problems, and we
can give one another the words that Jesus has given us. That's what Jesus did. He gave us the words of the Father....He gave us THE SPIRIT OF GLORY...LIGHT
AND LIFE....that comes through the spoken word. He sanctified himself unto the truth out of his great love for us, and gave us an example to follow.
Some of us are still ROCK COLLECTOR'S! We don't ask God for bread for one another, and the devil is right there to help us be stone collector's. When
it comes down to it...you can tell who loves the Father, by watching their fruit. Selfish people are mean, and they don't deal God's bread to the
hungry. And they raise selfish children who won't love and deal bread to the hungry either.
If we abide in His Spirit...we will get His words for one another. We won't let the little foxes live...we won't feed them until they are too fat to
deal with, we won't ignore them and pretend like they aren't there and that they won't do any damage. People who love Jesus, don't let the little foxes
live. They Judge them, and the things that divide, because THEY ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR THE UNITY OF FAITH....THE BOND OF PEACE. We need to be willing
to be peace makers, AND GOD GIVES THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION TO ALL THOSE WHO LOVE WHO HE LOVES.....HIS CHILDREN! THESE WILL BE THE OVERCOMERS JESUS INVITES TO SIT DOWN AT HIS TABLE. Selfish, self indulgent men and women cannot be OVERCOMERS!
One day..........WHEN WE ARE AT THE BIG FAMILY REUNION, AFTER THIS LIFE.....we will see the great manifestation of Jesus'
words.........BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS.....FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN!
A TWIG MINISTRY................
A TWIG MINISTRY................
Jesus said..... "first take the log out of your eye so you can see clearly
to remove the speck out of your brother's eye." We should all have a
"twig" ministry. And if we get offended with our brother or sister,
bitter, critical, unforgiving, it's a symptom of never removing the log out
of our own eye. I think that's why Jesus also said, if you don't
forgive, Your Father in heaven won't forgive you.
We bind our sins to us when we refuse to forgive others. In Ez. 3 it talks
about showing others the twig in their eye. Those who want to be Holy before a
Holy God, will thank God for eternity for someone who came into their lives who
reflected anything they might be doing that would be an offense to the God they
say they love and serve. They love reproof and correction and see it as a
blessing not a curse! If we are "self-righteous" we will hate anyone
who dare reprove us.
I got a revelation the other night while praying..... Heaven will be full
women (in my case I'm a woman), who NEEDED A SAVIOUR, and turned to JESUS
CHRIST to wash away their sin. In turn they became SO THANKFUL, they became
righteous, BECAUSE THEY LOVED JESUS SO MUCH FOR freeing them from their
wretched, naked, poor, miserable selves! Change is easy for those who love.
And women who have been forgiven much, LOVE MUCH.
Then you have the women who accuse others and excuse themselves. They
don't go to their brother when they are offended with a loving, forgiving,
understanding spirit. They can't feed others what God has shown them about
their own sin, for they haven't looked at their sin. And those who HATE to
look at their sin, will Hate anyone who comes to them even about their
"twig", and who is willing to talk to them about the log they once had
in their eye. They don't care if someone comes to them humble, and
forgiving with understanding because they don't care if they have offended
God. They don't want to look at their sin, their log.
In Lev. 19:17 it actually says if you don't go to others when they have
offended you, YOU WILL LOOK DOWN ON THEM IN YOUR HEART AND YOU WILL INCUR SIN
BECAUSE OF IT.
In Jer. 3 it says if you don't reflect to others their sin, YOU WILL BE
HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR SIN TOO. It also says in Jer.23 that TRUE shepherds
will turn God's people from their sin. False Shepherd tell the sheep they
are ok in their sin. And Rev.3 talks about who Jesus really is...... HE SHOWS
US OUR FAULTS, our sins. The Holy Ghost job is "the spirit of
judgment", to comfort, heal, direct, He's the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, not the
spirit of flattery, pretense and deceit.
People who are serving themselves and not the Lord, don't want to get
involved with the "washing of the feet of others." They also
don't have a care for removing any grave clothes. They don't pray, they
don't look for Jesus to help them with others to feed them the word of
God....... "He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from all
their destructions." They don't really believe in God or His word, so
they can't give it freely knowing God will do the rest.
Proverbs 31 talks about wise women who get their bread from afar. These are
the women who love God, who pray for others out of sincere love for God and
others, who get "food" for their children and God's children.
These are the ones with "oil" in their lamp.
Their is a principal that Gene gave Michael Davis one time. Jesus said,
"agree with your adversary quickly while you are in the way with him, lest
you be cast into prison, and pay to the last penny." He already was in
prison, but he was a man who always had to get "caught" in sin. He
wouldn't judge himself, so he was always judged. And fighting against the
truth put him in spiritual prison too.
That's why Jesus told us to judge ourselves. Gene calls this "damage
control" Christianity. Wait until your caught then deal with things. But
you live to clean up your mess, rather than take on true change. I can have
confidence that when I speak God's word in love and faith to someone and
they choose to reject it, they are headed for spiritual prison. It has nothing
to do with me and everything to do with God. What I have seen sadly to say is,
some women love to live in prison. They are like real prisoners. They are
prisoners of their sin. They are told what to do, where to go, they get their 3
square meals and they are as addicted to their prison as someone who keeps
getting locked up due to being familiar with it. A life of taking and usury,
all in the name of Christianity. A wasted life, fruitless, only seeking their
own comfort and gain, hoping their "salvation" ticket will get them in
those pearly gates! Many people in prison are sorry for how they have messed up
their lives, but they have never been sorry for how they affected God and His
Kingdom, or His Children. It's a selfish sorrow they have, not a godly
sorrow.
I wonder if it's "hell insurance" Christianity. All about what
Jesus can do for me, nothing to do with DOING HIS WILL. So many Christians
think they can escape, looking to get, take, have, and be benefactors in
God's kingdom, all the while caring very little if they are living to please
Him or do His will. That should be what "feeds" us, to do His will,
just like it fed Jesus!
Just like I said when I spoke in a church yesterday, " I know the Lord
knows what I think about others and He will reward me according to what I did
about what I thought about others." Many people never even get to that
place. They have hope and faith that the Lord doesn't know what they are
thinking about others, and He won't care about what they did about what they
thought. I was revealing what I thought about a Pastor's wife I had just
met. I said, "I believe Jesus' words, what we do in the dark will be
shouted from the housetops. What we hide will be revealed one day. So many
people don't even believe that." I didn't either until Gene came
into my life.
I realized we (some of the women I have known for years) have a strength. We
go after the little foxes, divisions, schisms, evil imaginations, and there is a
unity we have that most Christian groups don't really have. Ps.133 says,
"Oh how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity, that's
where the anointing is, that's where the Lord commands the blessing.
That's the kind of marriage I have, an anointed, blessed marriage because
Gene and I know who the "accuser of the brethren is". The one who
divides us, so we go after the little foxes, divisions, schisms, evil
imaginations that come our way. We pray for and hear from God for our problems
with each other, and "wisdom is seen in her children." Our blood
children and spiritual children are catching on, and having more and more
anointed and blessed lives due to that! They are getting to the place they care
more about doing God's will than pleasing themselves. They are turning from
pleasing themselves by not shutting their eyes and hearts to each other.......
being indifferent. If you want what I wrote about indifference and what a sin
it is, please let me know. Most of us came from indifferent families...........
and their was a "famine in the land for the word of the Lord."
Jesus said..... "first take the log out of your eye so you can see clearly
to remove the speck out of your brother's eye." We should all have a
"twig" ministry. And if we get offended with our brother or sister,
bitter, critical, unforgiving, it's a symptom of never removing the log out
of our own eye. I think that's why Jesus also said, if you don't
forgive, Your Father in heaven won't forgive you.
We bind our sins to us when we refuse to forgive others. In Ez. 3 it talks
about showing others the twig in their eye. Those who want to be Holy before a
Holy God, will thank God for eternity for someone who came into their lives who
reflected anything they might be doing that would be an offense to the God they
say they love and serve. They love reproof and correction and see it as a
blessing not a curse! If we are "self-righteous" we will hate anyone
who dare reprove us.
I got a revelation the other night while praying..... Heaven will be full
women (in my case I'm a woman), who NEEDED A SAVIOUR, and turned to JESUS
CHRIST to wash away their sin. In turn they became SO THANKFUL, they became
righteous, BECAUSE THEY LOVED JESUS SO MUCH FOR freeing them from their
wretched, naked, poor, miserable selves! Change is easy for those who love.
And women who have been forgiven much, LOVE MUCH.
Then you have the women who accuse others and excuse themselves. They
don't go to their brother when they are offended with a loving, forgiving,
understanding spirit. They can't feed others what God has shown them about
their own sin, for they haven't looked at their sin. And those who HATE to
look at their sin, will Hate anyone who comes to them even about their
"twig", and who is willing to talk to them about the log they once had
in their eye. They don't care if someone comes to them humble, and
forgiving with understanding because they don't care if they have offended
God. They don't want to look at their sin, their log.
In Lev. 19:17 it actually says if you don't go to others when they have
offended you, YOU WILL LOOK DOWN ON THEM IN YOUR HEART AND YOU WILL INCUR SIN
BECAUSE OF IT.
In Jer. 3 it says if you don't reflect to others their sin, YOU WILL BE
HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR SIN TOO. It also says in Jer.23 that TRUE shepherds
will turn God's people from their sin. False Shepherd tell the sheep they
are ok in their sin. And Rev.3 talks about who Jesus really is...... HE SHOWS
US OUR FAULTS, our sins. The Holy Ghost job is "the spirit of
judgment", to comfort, heal, direct, He's the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, not the
spirit of flattery, pretense and deceit.
People who are serving themselves and not the Lord, don't want to get
involved with the "washing of the feet of others." They also
don't have a care for removing any grave clothes. They don't pray, they
don't look for Jesus to help them with others to feed them the word of
God....... "He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from all
their destructions." They don't really believe in God or His word, so
they can't give it freely knowing God will do the rest.
Proverbs 31 talks about wise women who get their bread from afar. These are
the women who love God, who pray for others out of sincere love for God and
others, who get "food" for their children and God's children.
These are the ones with "oil" in their lamp.
Their is a principal that Gene gave Michael Davis one time. Jesus said,
"agree with your adversary quickly while you are in the way with him, lest
you be cast into prison, and pay to the last penny." He already was in
prison, but he was a man who always had to get "caught" in sin. He
wouldn't judge himself, so he was always judged. And fighting against the
truth put him in spiritual prison too.
That's why Jesus told us to judge ourselves. Gene calls this "damage
control" Christianity. Wait until your caught then deal with things. But
you live to clean up your mess, rather than take on true change. I can have
confidence that when I speak God's word in love and faith to someone and
they choose to reject it, they are headed for spiritual prison. It has nothing
to do with me and everything to do with God. What I have seen sadly to say is,
some women love to live in prison. They are like real prisoners. They are
prisoners of their sin. They are told what to do, where to go, they get their 3
square meals and they are as addicted to their prison as someone who keeps
getting locked up due to being familiar with it. A life of taking and usury,
all in the name of Christianity. A wasted life, fruitless, only seeking their
own comfort and gain, hoping their "salvation" ticket will get them in
those pearly gates! Many people in prison are sorry for how they have messed up
their lives, but they have never been sorry for how they affected God and His
Kingdom, or His Children. It's a selfish sorrow they have, not a godly
sorrow.
I wonder if it's "hell insurance" Christianity. All about what
Jesus can do for me, nothing to do with DOING HIS WILL. So many Christians
think they can escape, looking to get, take, have, and be benefactors in
God's kingdom, all the while caring very little if they are living to please
Him or do His will. That should be what "feeds" us, to do His will,
just like it fed Jesus!
Just like I said when I spoke in a church yesterday, " I know the Lord
knows what I think about others and He will reward me according to what I did
about what I thought about others." Many people never even get to that
place. They have hope and faith that the Lord doesn't know what they are
thinking about others, and He won't care about what they did about what they
thought. I was revealing what I thought about a Pastor's wife I had just
met. I said, "I believe Jesus' words, what we do in the dark will be
shouted from the housetops. What we hide will be revealed one day. So many
people don't even believe that." I didn't either until Gene came
into my life.
I realized we (some of the women I have known for years) have a strength. We
go after the little foxes, divisions, schisms, evil imaginations, and there is a
unity we have that most Christian groups don't really have. Ps.133 says,
"Oh how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity, that's
where the anointing is, that's where the Lord commands the blessing.
That's the kind of marriage I have, an anointed, blessed marriage because
Gene and I know who the "accuser of the brethren is". The one who
divides us, so we go after the little foxes, divisions, schisms, evil
imaginations that come our way. We pray for and hear from God for our problems
with each other, and "wisdom is seen in her children." Our blood
children and spiritual children are catching on, and having more and more
anointed and blessed lives due to that! They are getting to the place they care
more about doing God's will than pleasing themselves. They are turning from
pleasing themselves by not shutting their eyes and hearts to each other.......
being indifferent. If you want what I wrote about indifference and what a sin
it is, please let me know. Most of us came from indifferent families...........
and their was a "famine in the land for the word of the Lord."
LYING
Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
GOD KNOWS WHO'S LYING: 2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.
Jeremiah 23:26
How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?
Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.
Hosea 4:2
There is only cursing, [ That is, to pronounce a curse upon ] lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Psalm 4:2
O you sons of men, how long will you turn my honor and glory into
shame? How long will you love vanity and futility and seek after
lies? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
Psalm 4:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 4 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 5:6
You will destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors [and rejects]
the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Psalm 5:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 5 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 7:14
Behold, [the wicked man] conceives iniquity and is pregnant with
mischief and gives birth to lies.
Psalm 7:13-15 (in Context) Psalm 7
Psalm 58:3
The ungodly are perverse and estranged from the womb; they go astray
as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Psalm 58:2-4 (in Context) Psalm 58 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out [insults] with their mouths; swords [of
sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips, for who,
they think, hears us?
Psalm 59:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 59 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 62:4
They only consult to cast him down from his height [to dishonor him];
they delight in lies. They bless with their mouths, but they curse
inwardly
Psalm 101:7
He who works deceit shall not dwell in my house; he who tells lies
shall not continue in my presence.
Psalm 101:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 101 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness who breathes out lies [even under oath], and he who
sows discord among his brethren.
Proverbs 6:18-20 (in Context) Proverbs 6 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 14:25
A truthful witness saves lives, but a deceitful witness speaks lies
[and endangers lives].
Proverbs 14:24-26 (in Context) Proverbs 14 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who breathes out lies
shall not escape. [Exod 23:1; Deut 19:16-19; Prov 6:19; 21:28 ]
Proverbs 19:4-6 (in Context) Proverbs 19 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who breathes forth
lies shall perish
Proverbs 23:28
She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she
increases the treacherous among men.
Ecclesiastes 8:6
For every purpose and matter has its [right] time and judgment,
although the misery and wickedness of man lies heavily upon him [who
rebels against the king].
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 59:4
None sues or calls in righteousness [but for the sake of doing injury
to others--to take some undue advantage]; no one goes to law honestly
and pleads [his case] in truth; they trust in emptiness,
worthlessness and futility, and speaking lies! They conceive mischief
and bring forth evil!
Isaiah 59:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 59 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue, [which is] their bow for the lies [they
shoot]. And not according to faithfulness do they rule and become
strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do
not know and understand and acknowledge Me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:2-4 (in Context) Jeremiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:5
And they deceive and mock every one his neighbor and do not speak the
truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they weary
themselves committing iniquity
Jeremiah 16:19
[Then said Jeremiah] O Lord, my Strength and my Stronghold, and my
Refuge in the day of affliction, to You shall the nations come from
the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have
inherited nothing but lies, emptiness, and futility, worthless things
in which there is no profit!
Jeremiah 16:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 16 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they
commit adultery and walk in lies; they encourage and strengthen the
hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They
have all of them become to Me like Sodom, and her inhabitants like
Gomorrah
Ezekiel 13:8
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken empty,
false, and delusive words and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am
against you, says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 13:7-9 (in Context) Ezekiel 13 (Whole Chapter)
Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned Me among My people [in payment] for handfuls of
barley and for pieces of bread, slaying persons who should not die
and giving [a guaranty of] life to those who should not live, by your
lying to My people, who give heed to lies.
Ezekiel 13:18-20
Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies you have made the righteous sad and disheartened,
whom I have not made sad or disheartened, and because you have
encouraged and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should
not return from his wicked way and be saved [in that you falsely
promised him life],
Ezekiel 13:21-23
Daniel 11:27
And as for both of these kings, their hearts and minds shall be set
on doing mischief; they shall speak lies over the same table, but it
will not succeed, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.
Daniel 11:26-28 (in Context) Daniel 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with
their lies.
Hosea 7:2-4 (in Context) Hosea 7 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them, for they have wandered from Me! Destruction to them,
because they have rebelled and trespassed against Me! Though I would
redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.
Hosea 7:12-14
Hosea 10:13
You have plowed and plotted wickedness, you have reaped the [willful]
injustice [of oppressors], you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because
you have trusted in your [own] way and your chariots, in the
multitude of your mighty men,
Hosea 10:12-14 (in Context) Hosea 10 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim surrounds Me with lies and the house of Israel with deceit,
and Judah is not yet steadfast with God, with the faithful Holy One.
Hosea 11:11-13 (in Context) Hosea 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 12:1
EPHRAIM HERDS and feeds on the wind and pursues the [parching] east
wind; every day he increases lies and violence, and a covenant is
made with Assyria and oil is carried to Egypt. [Isa 30:6, 7 ]
Hosea 12:1-3 (in Context) Hosea 12 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 2:4
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah and for four
[for multiplied delinquencies], I will not reverse the punishment of
it or revoke My word concerning it, because they have despised and
rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept His commandments, but
their lies, after which their fathers have walked, caused them to err
and go astray.
Zephaniah 3:13
What is left of Israel shall not do iniquity or speak lies, neither
shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they shall feed
and lie down and none shall make them afraid
John 8:44
You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice
the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your
father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a
falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar
[himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.
A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
GOD KNOWS WHO'S LYING: 2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.
Jeremiah 23:26
How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?
Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.
Hosea 4:2
There is only cursing, [ That is, to pronounce a curse upon ] lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Psalm 4:2
O you sons of men, how long will you turn my honor and glory into
shame? How long will you love vanity and futility and seek after
lies? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
Psalm 4:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 4 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 5:6
You will destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors [and rejects]
the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Psalm 5:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 5 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 7:14
Behold, [the wicked man] conceives iniquity and is pregnant with
mischief and gives birth to lies.
Psalm 7:13-15 (in Context) Psalm 7
Psalm 58:3
The ungodly are perverse and estranged from the womb; they go astray
as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Psalm 58:2-4 (in Context) Psalm 58 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out [insults] with their mouths; swords [of
sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips, for who,
they think, hears us?
Psalm 59:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 59 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 62:4
They only consult to cast him down from his height [to dishonor him];
they delight in lies. They bless with their mouths, but they curse
inwardly
Psalm 101:7
He who works deceit shall not dwell in my house; he who tells lies
shall not continue in my presence.
Psalm 101:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 101 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness who breathes out lies [even under oath], and he who
sows discord among his brethren.
Proverbs 6:18-20 (in Context) Proverbs 6 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 14:25
A truthful witness saves lives, but a deceitful witness speaks lies
[and endangers lives].
Proverbs 14:24-26 (in Context) Proverbs 14 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who breathes out lies
shall not escape. [Exod 23:1; Deut 19:16-19; Prov 6:19; 21:28 ]
Proverbs 19:4-6 (in Context) Proverbs 19 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who breathes forth
lies shall perish
Proverbs 23:28
She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she
increases the treacherous among men.
Ecclesiastes 8:6
For every purpose and matter has its [right] time and judgment,
although the misery and wickedness of man lies heavily upon him [who
rebels against the king].
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 59:4
None sues or calls in righteousness [but for the sake of doing injury
to others--to take some undue advantage]; no one goes to law honestly
and pleads [his case] in truth; they trust in emptiness,
worthlessness and futility, and speaking lies! They conceive mischief
and bring forth evil!
Isaiah 59:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 59 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue, [which is] their bow for the lies [they
shoot]. And not according to faithfulness do they rule and become
strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do
not know and understand and acknowledge Me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:2-4 (in Context) Jeremiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:5
And they deceive and mock every one his neighbor and do not speak the
truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they weary
themselves committing iniquity
Jeremiah 16:19
[Then said Jeremiah] O Lord, my Strength and my Stronghold, and my
Refuge in the day of affliction, to You shall the nations come from
the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have
inherited nothing but lies, emptiness, and futility, worthless things
in which there is no profit!
Jeremiah 16:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 16 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they
commit adultery and walk in lies; they encourage and strengthen the
hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They
have all of them become to Me like Sodom, and her inhabitants like
Gomorrah
Ezekiel 13:8
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken empty,
false, and delusive words and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am
against you, says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 13:7-9 (in Context) Ezekiel 13 (Whole Chapter)
Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned Me among My people [in payment] for handfuls of
barley and for pieces of bread, slaying persons who should not die
and giving [a guaranty of] life to those who should not live, by your
lying to My people, who give heed to lies.
Ezekiel 13:18-20
Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies you have made the righteous sad and disheartened,
whom I have not made sad or disheartened, and because you have
encouraged and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should
not return from his wicked way and be saved [in that you falsely
promised him life],
Ezekiel 13:21-23
Daniel 11:27
And as for both of these kings, their hearts and minds shall be set
on doing mischief; they shall speak lies over the same table, but it
will not succeed, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.
Daniel 11:26-28 (in Context) Daniel 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with
their lies.
Hosea 7:2-4 (in Context) Hosea 7 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them, for they have wandered from Me! Destruction to them,
because they have rebelled and trespassed against Me! Though I would
redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.
Hosea 7:12-14
Hosea 10:13
You have plowed and plotted wickedness, you have reaped the [willful]
injustice [of oppressors], you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because
you have trusted in your [own] way and your chariots, in the
multitude of your mighty men,
Hosea 10:12-14 (in Context) Hosea 10 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim surrounds Me with lies and the house of Israel with deceit,
and Judah is not yet steadfast with God, with the faithful Holy One.
Hosea 11:11-13 (in Context) Hosea 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 12:1
EPHRAIM HERDS and feeds on the wind and pursues the [parching] east
wind; every day he increases lies and violence, and a covenant is
made with Assyria and oil is carried to Egypt. [Isa 30:6, 7 ]
Hosea 12:1-3 (in Context) Hosea 12 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 2:4
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah and for four
[for multiplied delinquencies], I will not reverse the punishment of
it or revoke My word concerning it, because they have despised and
rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept His commandments, but
their lies, after which their fathers have walked, caused them to err
and go astray.
Zephaniah 3:13
What is left of Israel shall not do iniquity or speak lies, neither
shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they shall feed
and lie down and none shall make them afraid
John 8:44
You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice
the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your
father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a
falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar
[himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.
Friday, February 13, 2009
good ones on integrity
Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright will guide them, But ... ... The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the crookedness of the ... Integrity
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Proverbs 10:9 He who walks in integrity walks securely, But he who ... He who walks in integrity walks securely, But he who perverts ... He that walketh in
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Psalm 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait ... ... Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You. ... Integrity
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Psalm 15:2 He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness ... ... He who walks with integrity, and works ... [A psalm by David.] The one who walks with
integrity, does what is righteous, and speaks the truth within his heart. ...
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Job 2:3 The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant ... and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although
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Job 2:9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold ... Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? ...
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Genesis 20:5 "Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my ... my sister '? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity
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Genesis 20:6 Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I ... Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your ...
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1 Kings 9:4 "As for you, if you will walk before Me as ... As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity
of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and ...
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Titus 2:7 In all things show yourself to be an example of ... Teach with integrity and dignity. .... ... In ..... integrity ..... ...
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Judges 9:19 If then you have dealt in truth and integrity with ... if then you have dealt in truth and integrity with Jerubbaal and his house this
day, rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. ...
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Judges 9:16 "Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and ... ... "Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and integrity in making ...
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2 Peter 1:5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence ... ... Because of this, make every effort to add integrity to
your faith; and to integrity add knowledge ...
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2 Peter 1:3 Seeing that His divine power has granted to us ... ... for life and for godliness. This power was given to us through knowledge
of the one who called us by his own glory and integrity. ...
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Amos 5:10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they ... They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks
with integrity. ... in ..... integrity ..... one ..... ...
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1 Chronicles 29:17 "Since I know, O my God, that You try the ... "Since I know, O my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness,
I, in the integrity of my heart ... integrity ..... intent ..... ...
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Galatians 2:5 But we did not yield in subjection to them for ... But not for an hour did we give way and submit to them; in order that
the Good News might continue with you in its integrity. ...
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Nehemiah 7:2 Then I put Hanani my brother, and Hananiah the ... ... Hananiah ..... he ..... I ..... in ..... integrity ..... Jerusalem ..... man ..... ...
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2 Timothy 2:22 Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue ... ... Keep a strong curb, however, on your youthful cravings; and strive for integrity,
good faith, love, peace, in company with all who pray to the Lord with pure ...
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2 Corinthians 8:21 For we have regard for what is honorable, not ... ... For we seek not only God's approval of our integrity, but man's also. ...
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Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white ... ... I saw heaven standing open. There was a white horse, and its rider is named
Faithful and True. With integrity he judges and wages war. ...
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Joshua 24:14 "Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in ... ... "Fear the LORD, and serve him with integrity and faithfulness. ...
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Deuteronomy 18:13 "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God ... ... You must have integrity [in dealing] with the LORD your God. ...
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Deuteronomy 9:5 "It is not for your righteousness or for the ... ... he ..... heart ..... in ..... integrity ..... is ..... Isaac ..... It ..... ...
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Isaiah 59:4 No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. ... ... his ..... honestly ..... in ..... iniquity .....
integrity ..... justice ..... lies ..... ...
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Isaiah 45:23 "I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth ... has ..... have ..... I ..... in ..... integrity ..... knee ..... me ..... ...
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Matthew 22:16 And they sent their disciples to Him, along with the ... Herodians ..... him ..... in ..... integrity ..... know ..... man ..... men ..... ...
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Mark 12:14 They came and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that ... God ..... him ..... in ..... integrity ..... Is ..... it ..... know ..... ...
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guides decent people, but hypocrisy leads treacherous people to ruin. ...
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Proverbs 10:9 He who walks in integrity walks securely, But he who ... He who walks in integrity walks securely, But he who perverts ... He that walketh in
integrity walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. ...
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Psalm 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait ... ... Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You. ... Integrity
and honesty will protect me because I wait for you. ...
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Psalm 15:2 He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness ... ... He who walks with integrity, and works ... [A psalm by David.] The one who walks with
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Job 2:3 The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant ... and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although
you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause ...
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Job 2:9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold ... Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? ...
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Genesis 20:5 "Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my ... my sister '? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity
of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this ...
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Genesis 20:6 Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I ... Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your ...
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1 Kings 9:4 "As for you, if you will walk before Me as ... As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity
of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and ...
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Titus 2:7 In all things show yourself to be an example of ... Teach with integrity and dignity. .... ... In ..... integrity ..... ...
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Judges 9:19 If then you have dealt in truth and integrity with ... if then you have dealt in truth and integrity with Jerubbaal and his house this
day, rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. ...
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Judges 9:16 "Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and ... ... "Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and integrity in making ...
if ..... in ..... integrity ..... Jerubbaal ..... ...
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2 Peter 1:5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence ... ... Because of this, make every effort to add integrity to
your faith; and to integrity add knowledge ...
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2 Peter 1:3 Seeing that His divine power has granted to us ... ... for life and for godliness. This power was given to us through knowledge
of the one who called us by his own glory and integrity. ...
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Amos 5:10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they ... They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks
with integrity. ... in ..... integrity ..... one ..... ...
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1 Chronicles 29:17 "Since I know, O my God, that You try the ... "Since I know, O my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness,
I, in the integrity of my heart ... integrity ..... intent ..... ...
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Galatians 2:5 But we did not yield in subjection to them for ... But not for an hour did we give way and submit to them; in order that
the Good News might continue with you in its integrity. ...
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Nehemiah 7:2 Then I put Hanani my brother, and Hananiah the ... ... Hananiah ..... he ..... I ..... in ..... integrity ..... Jerusalem ..... man ..... ...
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2 Timothy 2:22 Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue ... ... Keep a strong curb, however, on your youthful cravings; and strive for integrity,
good faith, love, peace, in company with all who pray to the Lord with pure ...
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2 Corinthians 8:21 For we have regard for what is honorable, not ... ... For we seek not only God's approval of our integrity, but man's also. ...
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Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white ... ... I saw heaven standing open. There was a white horse, and its rider is named
Faithful and True. With integrity he judges and wages war. ...
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Joshua 24:14 "Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in ... ... "Fear the LORD, and serve him with integrity and faithfulness. ...
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Deuteronomy 18:13 "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God ... ... You must have integrity [in dealing] with the LORD your God. ...
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Deuteronomy 9:5 "It is not for your righteousness or for the ... ... he ..... heart ..... in ..... integrity ..... is ..... Isaac ..... It ..... ...
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Isaiah 59:4 No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. ... ... his ..... honestly ..... in ..... iniquity .....
integrity ..... justice ..... lies ..... ...
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Isaiah 45:23 "I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth ... has ..... have ..... I ..... in ..... integrity ..... knee ..... me ..... ...
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Matthew 22:16 And they sent their disciples to Him, along with the ... Herodians ..... him ..... in ..... integrity ..... know ..... man ..... men ..... ...
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Mark 12:14 They came and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that ... God ..... him ..... in ..... integrity ..... Is ..... it ..... know ..... ...
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