💥 Podcast: Looking for peace and living in peace

 

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on August 21, 2020)  

 

In 1980, I was in France.  As I listened to the people walking past me, it was so lovely and peaceful.  Then I realized:  "It is peaceful to me because I can't understand what they are saying!"

One day, we come to this understanding:

II Peter 3:13  Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

We can't make this present earth righteous.

It is the "new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness."

But as Christians we do live in peace by learning to take every concern to God in prayer and by settling the matter with God by the Spirit of God and by living in the truth given to us by God concerning the issue at hand.

We, like Abraham, set our goal and mind as follows:

Genesis 14:21-23   And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.  And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,  That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

We, as children born of the Spirit of God, do not look to governments of men for our "riches" or well being on this earth.  We determine that which we have will be given to us by God.  We do not seek the lottery money.  We seek God's plan for our well being.

We do not protest in the streets when people do unrighteous acts.  For we know humans will be unrighteous on this earth.

We seek our well being from God and live in peace through prayer by trusting in God.

  

Romans 12:19  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is MINE; I will repay, saith the Lord. 

 

 

2 Peter 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.


Philippians 4:6-7  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 

7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

 

 

James 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.  

 

 

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Scriptures:

 

Psalms 63:1-4  O God, THOU art my God; early will I seek THEE: my soul thirsteth for THEE, my flesh longeth for THEE in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

 

2 To see THY power and THY glory, so as I have seen THEE in the sanctuary.

 

3 Because THY lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise THEE.

 

4 Thus will I bless THEE while I live: I will lift up my hands in THY name. 

 

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

 

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1 Peter 5:8  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.  

 

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James 3:13-18  Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

 

14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 

 

15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 

 

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 

 

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

 

18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace

 

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I Thessalonians 5:16-21  Rejoice evermore. 

 

17 Pray without ceasing. 

 

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 

 

19 Quench not the Spirit. 

 

20 Despise not prophesyings. 

 

21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 

 

 

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💥 Romans 4 (Reading through the Bible)

 

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

² For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

³ For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

⁴ Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

⁵ But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

⁶ Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

⁷ Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

⁹ Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

¹⁰ How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

¹² And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

¹³ For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

¹⁵ Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith (believing what God says), that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

¹⁷ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before Him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹ And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

²⁰ He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹ And being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform.

²² And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

²³ Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

²⁴ But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

²⁵ Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

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💥 Podcast: Taught by God

 

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on August 20, 2020) 

 

 

If we are born of the Spirit of God, we are taught by God.  Most people in churches today are not taught by God.  They put themselves into the churches by going forward and being baptized without having the Spirit of God ... or they joined the church by the will of man.

 

John 6    Jesus said: 

 

44  No man can come to ME (The Word), except the Father which hath sent ME draw him: and I (The Word) will raise him up at the last day.

 

45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of (by) God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of (from) the Father, cometh unto ME (The Word).

 

Man loves to "glory in the flesh" of man.  Therefore the Jews in the New Testament church in the day of Paul said the believers from the Gentiles had to be circumcised.  (Galatians 3-5) They wanted to glory in the flesh of that which man did.

 

Today they want to glory in our flesh by telling people things we did.  But I've found when I tell then that God had me do that thing over which they glory, most flee from me.  They don't want to glory in things God has done.  They want to glory in my flesh, in things I have done.

 

That person who is really of God glories in that which God has done.

 

Jesus said:  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.  (John 5:30) 

 

Like Jesus, we can do nothing except that which we hear from God by HIS Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

 

And by HIS Spirit we are taught by God concerning the will of God and that which God wants us to do as we live on this present earth.

 

I John 2:27  But the anointing which ye have received of HIM abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in HIM.

 

 

Hebrews 8:10-11  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put MY laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people: 

 

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know ME, from the least to the greatest.

 

 

I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 

 

 

2 Corinthians 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?


John 14:26  Jesus says: 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  Jesus says:   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 (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.

1 Corinthians 2:4-5, 13-14  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.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

 

 

Titus 3:10-11 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; 

 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.


2 Timothy 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.  

 

 

2 John vv. 8-11  Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

 

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Scriptures:

 

Job 33: 14-17  For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

 

15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

 

16 Then HE openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 

17 That HE may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. 

 

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Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: HE turneth it withersoever HE will.

 

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Psalm 149:4  For The Lord taketh pleasure in HIS people: HE will beautify the meek with salvation.

 

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Psalm 18:30  As for God, HIS way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: HE is a buckler to all those that trust in HIM.

 

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Psalm 30:4-5   Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of HIS, and give thanks at the remembrance of HIS holiness.

5 For HIS anger endureth but a moment; in HIS favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 

 

 

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💥 Romans 3 (Reading through the Bible)

 

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

² Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

³ For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

⁴ God forbid:

yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

(Agree with God that you may overcome.)

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

⁶ God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto His glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?  ⁸ And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

⁹ What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

¹⁰ As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: ¹¹ There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. ¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. ¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: ¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood: ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways: ¹⁷ And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

²⁰ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ (The Word) unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

²⁷ Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

²⁸ Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

(When we belong to God and HE reveals HIMSELF to us, we are changed.  Our faith is in HIM, in that which HE said to us, and also we no longer want to sin as we once did.  We fulfill the law now through our love of the Word and the fact that we no longer want to sin.  But our faith is in HIM and not in our works.)

²⁹ Is He the God of the Jews only? is He not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

³⁰ Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

³¹ Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

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💥 Podcast: We can't follow this world and it's ways. Follow the Spirit of God.

 

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on August 19, 2020)

 

 

The Holy Spirit of God lives in each believer to show that believer the will of God in dealing with the issues of this present life.  (I Cor. 2)

James 1:5   If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

The Holy Spirit teaches us all things, reminds us of that which Jesus has said, guides us into all truth, shows us things to come.  (Jn. 14:26 & 16:13)

The way of this world will fail.  God will not fail.

We have a sure thing with God when we have the Holy Spirit in us to guide us and when we follow God by HIS Spirit making our decisions by HIS Spirit.

 

 

I Corinthians 2:12-13  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 

 

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

 

 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

 

2 Timothy 4:3-4  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

 

 

I Timothy 6 

 

 

Matthew 7:13-14  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.   

2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

 

 

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Scriptures:

 

1 John 5:14-15  And this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to HIS will, HE heareth us:

15 And if we know that HE hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of HIM. 

 

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Ecclesiastes 4:6  Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

 

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Isaiah 26:3  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee.

 

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I Corinthians 13:12-13   For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

 

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Isaiah 55:10-11  God says:  For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11 So shall MY word be that goeth forth out of MY mouth: it shall not return unto ME void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

 

 

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💥 Romans 2 (Reading through the Bible)

 

 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.

² But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

³ 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?

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

⁵ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

⁶ Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

⁷ To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

⁸ But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

⁹ Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

¹⁰ But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

¹¹ For there is no respect of persons with God.

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¹² For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

¹³ (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

¹⁵ Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

¹⁶ In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ (The Word) according to my gospel.


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¹⁷ Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

¹⁸ And knowest His will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

¹⁹ And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

²⁰ An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

²¹ Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

²² Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

²³ Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

²⁵ For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶ Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷ And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

²⁸ For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

²⁹ But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

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💥 Podcast: In the beginning was THE WORD. In the end is THE WORD.

  

 

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on August 14, 2020) 

 

 

People today speak of "The Lord" and "Jesus"  but both are "THE WORD."  When we say, "The Lord is my shepherd," we are really saying "THE WORD is my shepherd."  For everything is THE WORD.

THE WORD was with God in the beginning.  At the appointed time, THE WORD came to earth in the form of the flesh of a man named Jesus, and dwelt for an appointed time.  Then THE WORD returned to heaven and became our intercessor and the Holy Spirit of Jesus, THE WORD, came to dwell in each believer.

Now THE WORD speaks to us by HIS Spirit.  THE WORD teaches us, speaking to us in the form of a thought.  THE WORD guides us into all truth.  THE WORD lives in us and is with us constantly.

All things were made by The Word and without The Word nothing was made.  If it exists at all it is by The Word.

All scriptures were inspired by God.  II Timothy 3:16 

God brought THE WORD down to men and they put THE WORD into the Bible, thus the scripture themselves are THE WORD.

The scriptures are not an history book telling about things of God.  The scriptures are God, The Word.

It is a mystery to most who say they are Christians today.

But The Word is God.

 

John 1:1-4  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

 

2 The same was in the beginning with God. 

 

3 All things were made by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing made that was made. 

 

4 In HIM was life; and the life was the light of men. 

 

 

Proverbs 21:30  There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord (the Word).  

 

 

Psalm 16:5 The Lord (the Word) is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: THOU maintainest my lot. 

 

 

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

 

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 

 

 

Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.  

 

 

John 6:28-58 

 

 

I Thessalonians 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

 

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Scriptures:

2 Corinthians 5:9-10  Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of HIM.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

 

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1 Peter 1:13-16  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

15 But as HE which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

 

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Revelation 21:6-7 And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son.

 

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1 Timothy 6:6-12  But godliness with contentment is great gain.  

 

7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.  

 

8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.  

 

9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.  

 

10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.  

 

11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.  

 

12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

 

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Micah 6:8  He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

 

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Proverbs 17:27-28  He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. 

28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. 

 

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Luke 16:13  No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  

 

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💥 Romans 1 (Reading through the Bible)

 

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ (The Word), called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, ² (Which HE had promised afore by HIS prophets in the holy scriptures,)  ³ Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord (The Word), which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; ⁴ And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

⁵ By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name (The Word):

⁶ Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ (The Word):  ⁷ To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: 

Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ (The Word).

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John 1:1   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

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Romans 1:8-17     First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ (The Word) for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.  ⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son (The Word), that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

¹⁰ Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

(In Paul's day, the only way he had to communicate with the church in other cities was by the letters he wrote on his parchments.  So it was Paul's great desire to visit the churches to see how they were doing.)

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;  ¹² That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

¹³ Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

¹⁴ I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

¹⁵ So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ (The Word): for it (The Word) is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁷ For therein (by The Word) is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

(As we go through the various problems of this present life and overcome through The Word given us by God, we have the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith)

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Romans 1:18    For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

¹⁹ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

²⁰ For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

(The heavens and earth, created by God, testify of God to all.)

²¹ Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

(The desire to be seen of others as being wise and to be wise in your own thinking, is deadly.  Our desire should be for all our wisdom to come from God that God be glorified.)

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.

(We look into the heavens at the stars and we see The Creator, God, The Word … They look into the sky at the stars and they see only the created.)

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;

(We see God speaks not just of homosexual and lesbians but God also speaks of many forms of unrighteousness committed by humans.)

²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,³⁰ Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,³¹ Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

³² Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

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