Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The apostle Paul said: 7 But refuse profane and old wives 'fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. I Tim. 4
profane means: secular
During the time when I would go to lunch with that Catholic woman, she would frequently state some superstition as fact.
I would counter by saying: "That's not in the Bible." (Showing
the Bible is that which I build my house on. It is a foundation that
is sound and true. I do not want to build on anything that is not in
the Bible.)
She would become angry and say, "I know that ..." (but she didn't know that for she was filled with superstition, often religious superstition and that is what she believed.)
Paul warned Timothy not to take in "profane" things (secular things) nor "old wives tales" (fables).
Many untrue things are out there. Refuse them, says Paul.
Many times I "reject" profane sayings, saying of man based on their own wisdom and superstitions.
Often I cry out at the TV: "That's not true ..." (rejecting what they say)
And I do the same thing with people when they speak worldly wisdoms and superstitions of man... "That's not true ..." (rejecting these profane concepts)
Ephesians 4:21 If so be that ye have heard HIM, and have been taught by HIM, as the truth is in Jesus: (The WORD is truth.)
We can build our house on the wisdom of this world ... or we can build on what the Bible says.
Preventive medicine?
Luke 5:31... And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Bodily exercise?
I Timothy 4:8 ... For bodily exercise
profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having
promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Planning for future?
Matthew 6:33 ... But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:34 ... Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Trusting in man?
Philippians 3:3 ...For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Psalm 118:8 ... It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
What we speak:
Matthew 12 ... 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt:for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things:and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin:
but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Success in life?
Joshua 1:8 ... This book of the law shall not depart out of
thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou
mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then
thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good
success.
Psalm 1 ... 1 Blessed is the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither;
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
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John 18 ... My kingdom is not of this world.
Col.
3 ... 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your
affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are
dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our
life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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These are truths from God which I am trying to build my house on, rejecting profane sayings of man.
But
it takes work to live in these truths from God. Man is always trying
to get us to accept sayings of man, profane sayings, secular saying and
live by them. But I want to build my house on what God says. I see
that as safe.
Mt. 7 ... Jesus says ...
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them,
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:25
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and it fell not:for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not,
shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the
sand:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house; and it fell:and great was the fall of it.