In 2016, I began writing a series of ministry books on various
subjects, which we published on Amazon, in both E-book and paperback. For the next few weeks, we will show an example of the contents in each of these 18 books. You
might find these books helpful in reminding you of godly concepts used
in following God. The E-books are priced at 99-cents each in USA.
Paperback books vary in prices according to the number of pages. Free
E-books are offered daily on selected books through Amazon. At the end
of this writing, you will find a link which takes you directly to Amazon
if you choose to order this book.
This is one of my favorite books, for it compares Old Testament scripture with New Testament concepts. I have read this book at least 3 times and often keep a paperback copy in my bathroom. It has so much OT scripture which I always love reading.
Joan Boney
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From: Chapter 1
God sees man as he really is
God sees man as he really is
Here is God's view of man:
Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
(Man is no different today than he was in the days of Noah, except for those men who are born again by the Spirit of God. The nature of man has not changed since God described man in the above scripture.
6-8 And it repented the Lord that HE had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
So God made a way of escape for Noah and his family!
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The apostle Paul came to see himself as God viewed him.
And Paul said:
"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing ..." Romans 7:18
Here are the things our flesh does:
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft (living in superstitions), hatred, variance (to vary, to argue, to debate), emulations (to strive to outdo one another), wrath (to desire to see harm done to those considered enemies), strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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So God made another way for man to be redeemed from his own flesh.
When I was baptized, after I was born again, as the minister lowered me into the water, the Holy Spirit said to me, "This is like being buried with Christ."
When I came out of the water, the Holy Spirit said, "This is like being raised with Christ."
After we are born again we have the Spirit of God in us. We keep the flesh "crucified" by choosing the way of the Spirit. Our flesh suffers when we do this for the flesh no longer gets to do what it wants to do. There is now a power of God in us which gives us the option of walking in the ways of the Spirit of God and keeping the flesh "under". We live in Christ when we learn to do this.
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The Holy Spirit that God gives us to live in us does the following for us:
John 14:26 Jesus said: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear, that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
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Now that we are Christians, we no longer choose to follow what our flesh wants to do. Now we walk in the Spirit by choosing to do that which the Holy Spirit brings to our mind, keeping our flesh crucified by going in the way instructed by the Spirit.
Romans 6:3-4 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into HIS death? Therefore we are buried with HIM by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
The flesh will continue to suggest to us ways to go but we choose the way shown us by the Spirit which is the way of God.
5-6 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of HIS death, we shall be also in the likeness of HIS resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with HIM, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
We keep our flesh, the old man, crucified by choosing to go in the way of God in the matter pertaining to this present life.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8-10 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with HIM: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
For in that HE died, HE died unto sin once: but in that HE liveth, he liveth unto God.
Now we live unto God, choosing God's way instead of the way of our flesh.
11-12 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Now we ask God not to let us do that! We pray to God asking God to keep us from saying that!
Instead of exalting ourselves over other people, we come to want to help those other people that they can know God as we know God.
Every time the Holy Spirit shows us the way of God and we choose to go in that way of God, we are recreated in the image of Christ, the Word.
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