💥 Podcast: When oppression comes

 

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on November 23, 2020)

 

Here is a letter received November 18, 2020, from a woman in Italy. 

 

Dears in Christ,

My husband Gianluca - (Italy), has been attacked 2 times, tonight and early this morning with 2 awful mental oppressions, while sleeping, the second worst than the first.  Even if we have prayed and taken authority he's still attacked.

 

I ask prayer till the Lord reveals to us what is "the root" of those attacks, those mental oppressions

 

Thank you so much.  God bless you.  Yours in Christ:  - Lea and Gianluca - (Italy) 

 

My response:  (Joan Boney)

 

11-18-2020 

 

I had this happen to me about two months ago. 

 

I just kept calling out to God for help.

 

Hold onto God. Refuse to let go.

 

Just keep crying out to God. 

 

Joan Boney

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We cry out to God for help:  "Please, God, help me."

It is really as simple as that.

Trust in God.  Wait on God until you receive information.

It is very dangerous to look for scripture in such times.  Just wait after crying out to God, trusting HIM.

God might choose to bring something to your attention to do, or the battle might just end.

Regardless, we hold onto God, crying out to God for help.

 

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Proverbs 29:8  Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

 

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1 Peter 5:6-7  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time:

7 Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.

 

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Psalm 5:11-12  But let all those that put their trust in THEE rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because THOU defendest them: let them also that love THY name be joyful in THEE. 

 

12 For THOU, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt THOU compass him as with a shield.

 

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Psalm 145:20-21   The Lord preserveth all them that love HIM: but all the wicked will HE destroy.

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless HIS holy name for ever and ever. 

 

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Daniel 12:1-3  And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of THY people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time THY people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

 

 

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💥 II Peter 3 (Reading through the Bible)

 

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4 And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 

9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 

(We will never have righteousness on this present earth ... Righteousness will be in the new heaven and the new earth.  On this earth, what the apostle Paul said, will happen:  "Evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."  II Timothy 3)

 

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

 

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💥 Podcast: Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine, says the apostle Paul. Work out your own salvation in fear and trembling.

 

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on November 15, 2020)

What do we do? as we continue to live on this present earth.

I go by these instructions which Paul gave to Timothy in the New Testament Bible:

I Timothy 4

13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee  ... (the spiritual gift which God has given us for the church)

15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

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* to reading:

The New Testament Bible is filled with letters which the apostle Paul wrote to the church.

I've been re-reading these epistles in a single setting.  Such as reading the entire letter to the Romans.

Then I read the next day the entire first letter to the Corinthians ... then the second letter to the Corinthians ... then the following days, reading the letters: Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, etc.

I also focus on some of the meditation scriptures which I have accumulated for these build me up in the faith in God and help me to stay focused.

I read our blog daily:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations 

In my bathroom, I keep one of the ministry books that we have published on Amazon.  (see Joan Boney)

These books are filled with scripture.  I use paperback book for bathroom.  You can start anywhere in any one of the books and be edified in things of God with many scriptures.  I find re-reading these books helpful to me.

Often as I am reading, God will catch my attention on a subject for me to write that subject.  For example, when I began reading I Corinthians 1:1-2  Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:  God got my attention on how we are all called to be saints.

I thought of how the Catholic church appoints certain dead men and women as "saints" and how they teach their people that these dead "saints" have certain powers to help them, which is abominable doctrine for they teach their people to trust in corpses rather than to trust in the living God.

I was stirred up by the Holy Spirit to write an exhortation to the church concerning the subject of "saints" according to the Bible meaning.

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* to exhortation:

To exhort means to urge earnestly by advice and warning.  We are to exhort one another in the faith in God and the Word of God.  For the days are certainly evil and many evil concepts are spoken by humans on TV and in person.

I Timothy 4:7-8   But refuse profane (secular sayings) and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.  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.

A Catholic woman often visited me at my previous home in Texas.  She spoke many "profane" sayings which were not in the Bible.  I would just look at her and tell her I lived by the Bible and what she just said was not in the Bible.  This is the way I "rejected" her profane sayings.

When you do this, they will usually depart from you and choose not to keep company with you any more.

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*  to doctrine:

Doctrine is critical for us.  Doctrine are the rules of God from the New Testament church.  We live by doctrines, such as:

* The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. (Matthew 5:32)

* Flee fornication:  Every sin that a man doeth is without the body but he who committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.  (I Corinthians 6)

* And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.  (I Corinthians 7:10-11)

*  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.   And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;  (Romans 1:26-28)

* Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (I Corinthians 6:9-10)

* For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,  But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?  (Hebrews 10:26-29)

* For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame.  (Hebrews 6:4-6)

* For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.  (II Peter 2:20-22)

It is critical for us to keep reading these doctrines of Christ for this world and the churches today teach something very different from the New Testament Bible.

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So I have set myself daily to do that which Paul said to do:  "Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine."

I believe doing this gives me a better opportunity to endure to the end of my time on this earth.

Jesus says:

Matthew 24:12-13   And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Philippians 4:13  I can do all things through Christ (the Word) which strengtheneth me. 

 

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James 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

 

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Hebrews 10:23-25  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised;)

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

 

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Ephesians 4:26-27  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 

 

27 Neither give place to the devil.

 

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1 John 1:9  If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

 

 

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💥 II Peter 2 (Reading through the Bible)

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 

10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. 

Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

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💥 Podcast: Winning God's way

 

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on November 16, 2020) 

 

When we are in the midst of a struggle over an issue of this present life, God will often show us what to do by bringing a thought or concept to our mind whereby we can overcome the evil of this present world.  Or God might give us a dream.

Regardless, we always overcome through God, by going HIS way in the situation.

2 Corinthians 2:14  Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place.

A businessman defrauded me once concerning a defective television unit.  He would not fix the unit although he said he would do so.  

I kept trying to tune that TV (a plasma) which had wide streaks on the left side of the screen.

One day, as I was trying to adjust the TV, the following came to my mind:  "You don't have to put up with this."

"That's right."  I reasoned.  

And I realized I could afford to replace the TV and just have the unit removed from my house.  (The way of peace in this matter.)  

I bought a new TV that same day and when the installers came to my house to set up the TV, I had the installer carry away the defective TV, not wanting to have it in my house to remind me of that bad situation.

When we hear a word from God, we know what to do and we always overcome in the situation by doing what we hear from God, and we rejoice in God who gave us HIS Word on the matter.

Sometimes we win by suffering the loss.

I Corinthians 6:7   Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

 

Consider Joseph:

God left Joseph in prison for 2 full years after he was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife!  

Joseph submitted to the authority, and God caused Joseph to prosper even in the prison.

Genesis 39

20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

 

21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.

23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.

 

These are astounding examples for us!

We could destroy ourselves by the evil they do against us if we puff up and fight that evil in worldly ways and complain and murmur. 

 

Sometimes we must wait quietly until we hear what God wants us to do in the issue.

 

 

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Proverbs 29:27  An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. 

 

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Matthew 7:13-14 (Jesus said) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

 

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Psalm 18:1-3  I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.

2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in Whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

3 I will call upon the Lord, Who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 

 

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1 Corinthians 2:4-5  Paul said ...  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 

 

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 

 

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2 Corinthians 6:14  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

 

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Psalm 34:7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear HIM, and delivereth them.

 

 

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💥 II Peter 1 (Reading through the Bible)

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

3 According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. 

16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. 

(We simply speak what God has done in our lives and we follow that which HE has shown us.)

17 For He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the excellent glory, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with Him in the holy mount.

19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

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💥 Podcast: The sins of Sodom, Sodomites, homosexuals

 

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on November 10, 2020)

In the New Testament Bible in Romans 1:26, God calls homosexual and lesbian acts "vile affections."

In the Old Testament, when a king of the children of Israel removed the Sodomites from the city, that king was said to be a king who did right in the sight of God. (I Kings 22:43-46)

God sent 2 angels to Sodom to destroy the city and all the people except for Lot and his wife and two daughters.  

When homosexuals came from every quarter of Sodom to have sex with the two angels, Lot said to the men of Sodom,   "I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly."  (Genesis 19:7)

The homosexual acts of the men of Sodom were known to be wicked.

And these men of Sodom did not try to hide their homosexual preferences, but they were openly known to be homosexuals, and their wickedness reached God, and God sent the angels to destroy these men and to destroy Sodom and all the people in Sodom.

The angel explained to Lot:

Genesis 19:12-13   And the men (the angels) said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

When the sins become open before all, then the cry "of them" as they flaunt their sin waxes great before God and God deals with their open sins.

Isaiah 3:9   The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

The time of judgment is upon this world.

The Catholic pope announced to the world on October 21, 2020, that same sex marriages would be approved in Catholic church when they were performed in civil ceremonies.

The Catholic pope condemns himself and his followers to eternal hell by his approval of sins against God.

And such also is the case of protestant preachers who approve sins of the Bible in their church groups.

II Thessalonians 2:10-12  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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Revelation 22

Jesus says:

11 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

14 Blessed are they that do HIS commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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Romans 1

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

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They would not repent ... or could not repent:

II Peter 3

8  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Revelation 2:21  And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

Revelation 9:20  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Revelation 16:9   And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give Him glory.

Revelation 16:11  And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

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Deuteronomy 23:17  There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Psalms 28:8  The LORD is their strength, and HE is the saving strength of HIS anointed. 

 

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Romans 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose.

 

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Psalm 103:19 The Lord hath prepared HIS throne in the heavens; and HIS kingdom ruleth over all.

 

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Psalm 103:17-18  But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear HIM, 

and HIS righteousness unto children's children;

18 To such as keep HIS covenant, and to those that remember HIS commandments to do them. 

 

 

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💥 I Peter 5 (Reading through the Bible)

 

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

(Peter was both a witness of the sufferings of Jesus and a partaker of those suffering of Jesus as Peter did the Word of God and followed the teaching of Jesus.  So will we suffer with HIM if we partake of the teachings and share them with others.  For all who shall live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.  II Timothy 3 ... That persecution will come from those in the churches as they reject Bible teachings.  This is the end-time apostasy in the churches.  They fall away from portions of scripture.) 

2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.

4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time:

7 Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you. 

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

11 To Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.

13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.

14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

 

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💥 Do we seek approval from God or from those around us?

Barbara Preston, member of the body of Christ

 

I recently became aware of a story about two people who announced their engagement to be married. The man has been married and divorced one time. The woman has been twice married and twice divorced.

This account told how the man proposed to his fiancée in the church they both attend which was identified as a Protestant evangelical church because he felt their faith was so strong that it seemed like their church was where this should be done. The account went on to tell how they had talked to their pastor about their plan to marry, and had sought out the approval of the children from their previous marriages and had sought the approval of friends also. Apparently everyone they talked to, including their pastor, approved and were happy about their upcoming marriage.

What struck me so strongly about this story is that these church people cared so much about whether the people around them approved of their planned marriage but apparently knew nothing about (or cared nothing about) what the Holy Bible, the written Word of God, instructs on this subject, such as the following scriptures ...

Matthew 5:31-32 (Jesus said) It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery


Matthew 19:9 (Jesus said) And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.


1 Corinthians 7:10-11  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.


The only thing that matters to a Christian, meaning someone who has the Holy Spirit living inside them, is always what God says about the matter.

If you attend a church and find that church does not obey the Word of God, then how can you continue to sit there among them and be a part of their apostasy?

 

 

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💥 Podcast: Does the doctrine of the church you are attending fit the doctrine of the Bible?

 

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on November 12, 2020)

 

The first church I attended after I was born again was teaching that tongues are of the devil.

 

I was reading the Bible and came across the following scripture:  The apostle Paul said:  Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.  (I Corinthians 14:39)

What do you do when the doctrine being taught at your church differs from that which you read in the Bible?

 

We have to choose.  Do we follow our church or do we follow the Bible?  We can't do both.

 

 

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💥 Scriptures:

James 1:22-25   But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

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1 Corinthians 12:25  That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

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Lamentations 3:22-23  It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because HIS compassions fail not.

 

23 They are new every morning: great is THY faithfulness. 

 

24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in HIM.

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Psalm 138:3  In the day when I cried Thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

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