💥 Scriptures:

 

Psalm 22:22-23   I will declare THY name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise THEE.

23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise HIM; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify HIM; and fear HIM, all ye the seed of Israel.

 

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Psalm 90:12   So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

 

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Psalm 128:1-2   Blessed is every one that feareth The Lord (the Word); that walketh in HIS ways. 

 

2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

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Proverbs 28:23  He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

rebuke: correct; express sharp disapproval because of behavior or actions:

 

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Job 5:17-18  Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18 For HE maketh sore, and bindeth up: HE woundeth, and HIS hands make whole.

 

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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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💥 Podcast: Be not overcome by the cares of this world

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on February 4, 2021)

 

Jesus says, concerning the end times:

Luke 21:34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (over indulgence), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

On January 6, 2021, we watched a crowd of people storm the USA Capitol building in an attempt to overthrow the 2020 USA presidential elections.

I'm sure none of us in USA have ever experienced anything like this before in our lifetimes.

After the event, 10 USA republican congress members voted to impeach President Trump for inciting the riot which we all watched on television.

This really caught my attention for everyone heard the words spoken by President Trump before the riot and we heard him send the crowd to the capitol and Mr. Trump even told the crowd to go, and "he would be there with them,"  but he wasn't.

A few days later, CNN reported that the republicans were trying to cause those 10 who voted against Trump to suffer loss for the way they voted.

I was sad and grieved over their suffering.

I took on a care of this world.

Jesus warned us not to be "overcharged" with cares of this life.  (Luke 21:34)

When I read this scripture, I repented for allowing myself to become so involved in this world, and I prayed, asking God to please help those 10 men and women who were being hurt by their own political party for doing that which they believed to be right and reasonable.

I even began to feel democracy itself was in danger.

But then I realized this entire heaven and earth will be destroyed, and governments of men along with the heavens and earth.  And I began to get a grip on myself and on Biblical reality.

II Peter 3

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.

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.

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I've always considered myself to be non-political, I am not registered in either political party in USA, and I do not vote for governments of men.

But for one very brief time, I knew what it was to care.  And it could have destroyed me except I turned to God for HIM to restore me.

This is what the truly godly people were like in the Bible:

Hebrews 11

8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

(mindful:  having a mind filled with that)

16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for HE hath prepared for them a city.

The apostle Peter in the Bible tells us to be diligent to be found by Jesus when HE returns, living in peace, without spot and without blame.  (II Peter 3:14)

Keeping ourselves in a state of peace even in the midst of that which is being done around us is the way we are to live and we can do that only through prayer.

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.

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I Timothy 2:1-2   I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;  For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

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💥 Scriptures:

 

2 Timothy 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 

 

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Ephesians 4:31-32  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. 

 

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Hebrews 12:14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 

 

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Proverbs 27:18  Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.  

 

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Psalms 20:6  Now know I that the LORD saveth HIS anointed; HE will hear him from HIS holy heaven with the saving strength of HIS right hand.

 

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Philippians 2:1-4  (the Apostle Paul said)  If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 

 

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1 Peter 5:7  Casting all your care upon HIM; for HE careth for you.

  

 

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💥 Podcast: Overcoming and obtaining victory through God

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on January 29, 2021)

 

From the time I was born again in 1975, God taught me to come to HIM in prayer over each problem of this life and to depend on HIM to give me the Word to deal with the problem.  Then I could stand on that Word or use that Word to give me information to know what to do in the situation of this present life.  This never fails!  

Jesus says:  He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels. (Revelation 3:5)

I attended a Faith Movement church, Word of Faith, from 1977-1982, and they taught people to hunt a scripture and to stand on that scripture.  

(I never heard anyone at Word of Faith say we should turn to God and ask God "HIS will" in the matter at hand.)

But I was taught by God to turn to HIM when I had a problem.  Then God would bring to me a scripture or a concept and I "stood" on that which God brought to me.

If we hunt a scripture and stand on that scripture we are trying to "be God".  That is antichrist.

There is a subtle difference between hunting a scripture and turning to God for help.

In one case you are doing everything without actually turning to God, thus being your own God by trying to find a scripture which fits your problem.

In the other case you are turning to God for help and depending on God.

In hunting a scripture you depend on yourself.  

In the other case you depend on God and your faith is in God.

I didn't see the difference between what I was doing and what they were teaching at Word of Faith until I left Word of Faith and God showed me the difference. 

In 1982, God brought me out of Word of Faith church by giving me a dream.  Then God showed me the difference between overcoming through God and trying to have faith apart from God.

Jesus says:  (Ye) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of ME.   And ye will not come to ME, that ye might have life.  (John 5:39-40)

Romans 10:17   So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

(Examples in this Podcast)

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After God showed me the difference between the doctrine of finding a scripture without turning to God, and turning to God for HIS help, I saw they, at Word of Faith, were doing something very different from that which God had taught me to do.

I said to my Bible teacher at Word of Faith, "I didn't know I was different from those people at Word of Faith."

Our Bible teacher said to me:  "Joan, you were never like anyone at Word of Faith.  They talk about faith, but you live faith."

Our teacher said this to me in 1982.  In 2021, I still live by turning to God and letting HIM show me what to do when there is a problem.

No other way is safe.  But when we trust God by turning to God in prayer and by waiting on HIM to reveal to us what to do, it is always safe.  God knows future and HE will take you in a way that works as events come upon this earth.

We build our faith on that Word which is revealed to us by God by HIS Spirit.

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

 

 

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Psalms 92:4-8  For THOU, LORD, hast made me glad through THY work: I will triumph in the works of THY hands.

5 O LORD, how great are THY works! and THY thoughts are very deep.

6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

8 But THOU, LORD, art most high for evermore.

 

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John 5:30  (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.

 

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Matthew 11:28-30 (Jesus says) Come unto ME, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29 Take MY yoke upon you, and learn of ME; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30 For MY yoke is easy, and MY burden is light.

 

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James 1:5-6  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. 

 

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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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💥 Do all things without murmurings and disputings

 

Barbara Preston, member of the body of Christ

 

Recently I was complaining about something. I don't remember what it was but, as I was doing this, I heard the following scripture...

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:  Philippians 2:14

Murmur - to complain or grumble

Hearing this immediately stopped me. I had no idea I was doing this! But since hearing this scripture and thinking about it on a daily basis, I find that I am much more aware of the times I start complaining or am about to start.

Because I want to please God, having this brought to my attention by the Holy Spirit, has been so helpful in pulling me back from this particular sin, turning me to God for help with the situation, instead of complaining, and often simply reminding me that complaining is a sin.

And it is like this for every person who has been given the Holy Spirit, making us the children of God. We belong to HIM and HE guides us and teaches us, in the ways that please HIM, for the remainder of our days on this earth.

Philippians 2:14-15  Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

 

 

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💥 Podcast: Child abuse in religious settings

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on January 28, 2021) 

 

At no place in the Bible does God mention the sin of child abuse.  Why?  I believe this is because all humans know this is evil.  I believe the Holy Spirit put it in all humans that child abuse is a great evil.  Thus if we resist the Holy Spirit it would be an unpardonable sin, a sin against the Holy Spirit.  I believe this is what we see in child abuse in the Catholic church, an unpardonable sin among those men they call "priests".

Matthew 12:31  Jesus says:  Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

One thing I do know, we must judge the church (not the world).  I Corinthians 5:11

The people in the churches often want to judge the world but the apostle Paul explains this to us in I Corinthians 5 that we must judge the church.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.  For what have I to do to judge them also that are without (without the church)? do not ye judge them that are within? (You are to judge within, within the church) But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 

Are there different levels of sin?  Yes.  Look at the following scriptures:

I Corinthians 6:18   Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Matthew 23:14  Jesus says  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

How can any group calling itself a church try to cover up child abuse?

And why is child abuse so rampant in the Catholic church?

They set up a rule forbidding their "priests" to marry, but that rule is opposite from the rules concerning ministers as spoken by the apostle Paul in the Bible.  By doing this the Catholics set up a natural haven for perverts. 

If our foundation is anything but the Bible, we set ourselves up for a great fall.

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Matthew 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.

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The example we have in the New Testament Bible is the following:  The apostle Peter was married and had children.

Matthew 8:14-15   And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, HE saw his (Peter's) wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.  And HE (Jesus) touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

So we know the apostle Peter had a wife.

Peter also had multiple children for in the Bible Peter tells us he is an elder (also called bishop).

Here is a requirement for an elder (bishop) in the church.

Titus 1:6-9   If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.  For a bishop (elder) must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;  But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;  Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

Whoever set up the Catholic church, said their ministers could not marry.

By doing this they violated the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament for the church and by doing this set up a type of haven for perverts among their ministers.

For many decades Catholic priests have abused children and other Catholic hierarchy have covered up for these child abusers in their church, often transferring these abominable child abusers to another city and another Catholic church. 

And there is no such thing as a "priest" as a minister in the New Testament church.  Jesus set up ministers as follows:

Ephesians 4:11-12   And HE (Jesus) gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

If you change any part of the New Testament Bible, you bring upon yourselves damnation.

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💥 Scriptures:

1 Corinthians 15:55, 57   O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

John 14:18-19  I (Jesus the Word) will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
 

19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth ME no more; but ye see ME: because I live, ye shall live also.

 

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John 17:13  (Jesus said)  And now come I to THEE (the Father); and these things I speak in the world, that they might have MY joy fulfilled in themselves.

 

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Psalm 62:8  Trust in HIM at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before HIM: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

 

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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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Ephesians 6:13-18  Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

 

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Hebrews 11:3  Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

 

 

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💥 Podcast: If you return to your old sins after you have been enlightened by God, it is a very serious matter

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on February 13, 2021)

 

Jesus died for our sins.  

But after we are enlightened by the Spirit of God to a sin, if we turn away from the truth from God and return to that sin, there is no more sacrifice for that sin.

Hebrews 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

So if you were a drunkard and then born again and have been freed from being a drunkard and you are enlightened by God to drunkenness being a sin, if you fall away from the truth concerning this sin and return to being a drunkard, there is no more sacrifice for sins.  

Jesus was crucified once for our sins.  To return to those sins after we have been enlightened by God to that sin would be to crucify Jesus afresh.

Hebrews 6:4-8   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.

7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

The apostle Peter says it would have been  better if a person had never been enlightened to the truth of God rather than to turn away from that truth and return to old sins.

II Peter 2:20-21  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.

Jesus says:

Revelation 3:5  He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels.

After we are born again, to return to our old sins has dire consequences.

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Hebrews 10 warns us to exhort one another and even more as we see the day of the Lord approaching to help that brother in Christ to abstain from his past sins and keep from being swept away from the church in the last days.

Hebrews 10

23 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.

26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 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?

30 For we know HIM that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge HIS people.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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II Peter 2

1 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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The man who was our Bible teacher when I attended Word of Faith was secretly having sex with women outside of marriage.  This man was going to bars and women would proposition him and he would also "chase" women for sex.  

None of us in our Bible class knew this was going on.

But a woman who owned a coffee shop mentioned his name to me.  I revealed to her that he was my Bible teacher at the church I attended.  She said to me, "Oh.  He is such a terrible influence on my boyfriend."  

I was terribly shocked.  Here was a worldly woman telling me that our Bible teacher was a terrible influence for her boyfriend!

Then she mentioned his girlfriend.

None of us knew he had a girlfriend.  He was living a life at church and a life in private.

This is terrible.  We have one life and that is a life in Christ.  And we live openly and honestly before all.

I went to this man and asked him about this "girlfriend".  He tried to be evasive.  

I then point blank said to him, "Are you having sex with this woman?"

He replied, "Of course."

I said, "You know the Bible as well as I do.  I can have no more to do with you."

He replied, "That's right."

I could no longer attend his Bible classes.

Is there any hope at all for this man?  He was definitely enlightened to the truth of God concerning fornication.

There is one possible way for him.

Paul said:  

I Corinthians 5

1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

I did learn later that this man who had been our Bible teacher could no longer have sexual intercourse.  I assumed his flesh had been destroyed by Satan.  That gives me hope for the salvation of his spirit in the day of the Lord.

 

 

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💥 Scriptures:

 

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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2 Thessalonians 2:13  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

 

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Matthew 5:37 (Jesus said)  But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

 

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Psalm 19:8-9  The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

 

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1 Corinthians 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, WHO will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

 

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Psalm 101:6  (King David said) Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

 

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Romans 13:11-14  And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 

12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 

13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 

14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ (the Word), and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. 

 

 

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💥 Podcast: A man in our church filed divorce papers against his wife. I contacted him.

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on January 26, 2021) 

 

There is one scriptural time when a man can divorce his wife and that is if the wife is committing fornication.  (adultery)

Jesus said:  

Matthew 5:32   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.

I asked Joseph, "Is your wife committing fornication?"

Joseph replied, "No."

I told him fornication is the only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife. 

If he divorces a "faithful wife" and that "faithful wife" remarries after he divorces her, he will be the cause of her adultery according to what Jesus says in Matthew 5:32.

But if the wife is not pleased to live with him, let her depart.  

I Corinthians 7:12  If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.  I Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Joseph withdrew the divorce proceedings from the government courts.

Consider Mark 10 also:  Jesus says:

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.

11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

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Concerning a woman who wants to divorce her husband:

I Corinthians 7:10-11 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 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Romans 7:1-3

 1  Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3  So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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💥 Scriptures:

 

2 John 1:8  Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 

 

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John 3:16-17  For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.

 

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John 6:63 (Jesus says) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

 

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John 10:10  Jesus says ... The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I (the Word) am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

 

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Hebrews 10:35-36  Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 

 

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

 

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Psalm 31:24  Be of good courage, and HE shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. 

 

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2 Timothy 3:1-7  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

 

 

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💥 Changed by the Holy Spirit bringing truth from God

 

Pam Padgett, member of the body of Christ.  

 

A few days ago, I was going about some chores I typically do each morning, feeding the dogs and cats, and cleaning litter boxes.  I hadn't slept well the night before, and felt "sluggish" as I went from one thing to another.  A thought came of how boring and never-ending these tasks seem.  

 

Right away, the Holy Spirit reminded me of what we're told in Psalm 118:24.  

 

Psalm 118:24  This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.  

 

Thinking on this completely changed my attitude.  

 

Now, as I finished these chores, I was thinking of how God made this day and has HIS purpose for this day.  I found myself looking forward to the day, rejoicing in God fulfilling HIS purpose for the day, and wanting to please God as I went through the day.  

 

Also, I was grateful to God for watching over me and reminding me of what we're told in Psalm 118:24 by the Holy Spirit, exactly what I needed at that moment, that I might go forth in joy rather than drudgery.

 

Psalm 40:2  HE brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

 

 

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💥 Podcast: Sexual intercourse causes two to become one flesh. Flee fornication.

 

(This podcast was previously published on January 18, 2021)

 

In today's society, even in some churches, fornication is rampant.

The one thing that might hold some people back is a scripture where Paul explains that at the time of sexual intercourse, two become one flesh.

I Corinthians 6:15-16   Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.   What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.

(Paul explains that even if you have sex with a prostitute, you become one flesh with that prostitute.)

Then Paul tells us sexual sins are different from all other sins for sexual sins are sins against your own body.

I Corinthians 6:18   Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

 

 

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💥 Scriptures:

Psalm 3:3  But Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

 

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Psalms 121:1-3  I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

3 HE will not suffer thy foot to be moved: HE that keepeth thee will not slumber.

 

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Revelation 3:5  Jesus says ... He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels.

 

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Job 13:15  Though HE slay me, yet will I trust in HIM: but I will maintain mine own ways before HIM.

  

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Colossians 4:5-6  Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. 

 

6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

 

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Psalm 46:1  God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

  

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Psalm 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in THEE. 

 

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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18   (the Apostle Paul said) But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, (those believers who have died) that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep.

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:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

 

 

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