Book: Exhortations For The Church
Vol. 10, Chapter 28
Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The apostle Paul show us how corruptions develop ... Paul says ...
Ephesians 4:22 ... That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
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Young women at early ages (such as 14-17) often follow after vain, romantic ideas of how wonderful it will be to be married, how much honor it will bring to her if she can marry such & such. Often these ideas are based on foolishness and if they continue to deepen in her desires they can be extremely destructive to her and to others and result in much depression and despondency if she accomplishes her fleshly pursuits. She awakens to find the horrible fact that it was all wrong! But now she is trapped in a marriage and life that she despises. (And when she fails to get the person she desires, corruption of that desire often disrupts her life for many years and turns her to an unreasonable bitterness.)
Men and women both often lust after power, money, possessions, fame, praise of other humans. These desires, when followed, grow and produce much corruption and perversion.
Paul explains ...
Ephesians 4:20-21 ... But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard HIM, and have been taught by HIM, as the truth is in Jesus (The Word).
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Ephesians 4:23-24 ... And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
(After God: Not your image of God but rather after those things God has taught you for these are righteousness and "true" holiness.)
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If your world seems empty, it is probably because it is empty.
These worldly things do not fulfill the humans even when we obtain them. We are only fulfilled when we are rejoicing in things of God. Things of God are eternal. Things of this world are temporary. That which is temporary will vanish. That which is eternal will continue forever.
Jesus said: "My kingdom is not of this world." (John 18)
Neither is our kingdom of this world.
Like those who have gone before us, we consider we are just "strangers and pilgrims" on this earth, just passing through. (Heb. 11:13)
So if we are trying to fulfill ourselves with another human or a job, we are going to reach a time our life will feel very empty.
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Therefore Paul tells us ...
Colossians 3:1-4 ... If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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In 1979, God gave me the following terrifying dream:
A meeting was going on. A man was speaking to a room filled with people. I went in and began to listen.
A second man rushed in and said: "Stop ... Wait ... Can't you see ... It's too late ... It's already begun."
The first man resumed speaking.
I looked out the window to see what had "already begun."
There
was a tall pole with a yellow civil defense speaker at top of the
pole. A gas was coming out of the speaker. I knew it was poisonous and
would kill the people. It was coming directly toward us!
The
shocking thing was the speaker that was set there for the purpose of
warning us was being used as the instrument which dispersed the gas that
was poison and would kill us!
I
looked at the man seated next to me. He had a big grin on his face and
was looking directly at the man who was speaking to the group. But
then I saw this man was a corpse, though he looked alive. He was already dead!
I looked about the room at the other people and realized they were all dead.
As
I sat back in my chair and listened to the man speaking I began to feel
sleepy and I knew as I sat there among them this was killing me too.
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God was showing me the anarchy that was already going on in our church groups
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BOOK: Exhortations For The Church, Volume 10
Chapter 28
Joan Boney
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