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Sunday Aug 30, 2020
JAMES 2:1-7 THE TEST OF IMPARTIALITY OR THE SIN OF PARTIALITY PART 1
Sunday Aug 30, 2020
Sunday Aug 30, 2020
James 2:1 My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. 2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, "You sit here in a good place," and say to the poor man, "You stand there," or, "Sit here at my footstool," 4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? 7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
INTRODUCTION
Partiality is being intolerant, prejudiced, or racist it literally means to lay hold of one’s face or to judge by appearances
In the first century, A.D., people were either rich or poor, slaves or free, Jew or Gentile, Greek or barbarian However, part of the good news of the gospel was that in Christ Jesus social barriers were removed. As Paul wrote in.
Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
But it took a while for this truth to sink into the hearts of those who were Christians; even the apostle Peter had to be told this truth through a vision and then a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Ac 10:34-36 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: "In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. 35 "But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. 36 "The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ----He is Lord of all----
From the second chapter of the epistle of James, apparently showing partiality was still being practiced and its sinfulness needed to be pointed out
It’s a lot like today, we tend to dislike anything that doesn’t look like us, dress like us, act like us or live the same way we do.
The Motion Picture Association of America gave the Billy Graham film the Prodigal a PG rating because they said no one under teen age should be exposed to Christianity without their parents’ consent. They can get abortions without parental consent, but not learn about Christ.
Discrimination is based on two false ideas
Prejudice 1-7
Presumption 8-13
Presumption 1 - Discrimination is not sin
Presumption 2 - Discrimination is not significant
Presumption 3 - Discrimination is not serious
We know from other scriptures that Jewish Christians often showed partiality to the Gentiles which included the hated Samaritans
But here the problem was one of showing partiality between the rich and poor
TODAY, WE CAN ALSO BE GUILTY OF PARTIALITY...
By showing partiality between rich and poor by giving preferential treatment to people based upon their clothing or money
By showing partiality between people of different races
By despising people because of handicaps or looks
By not allowing people whose past was bad(drugs, prostitute, crimes etc.) to live that down and not having anything to do with them
Kosovo – Serbs and Croatians – Rada was married to a Serb and they would have forced them to divorce if they stayed in Croatia or Serbia.
Blacks - light skinned vs dark skinned - taunt and ridicule each other.
1 Sam 16:6 So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before Him." 7 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
Psalms 139:21-22 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
We need to hate the sin and love the sinner
Godly hatred is marked by a brokenhearted grieving over the condition of the sinner.
(Sadly, the sin of partiality is probably just as common if not more so than it was in the days when James wrote his epistle!)
Let's notice WHY CHRISTIANS CAN'T SHOW PARTIALITY
Faith does not show partiality v1-3
JESUS CHRIST IS A "GLORIOUS" LORD!
Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,
As Christians our goal is to imitate Christ
Lk 6:40 "A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher.
people may believe this is what Christ is like or teaches
Want to trust in the false glory of riches rather than God’s true Glory
Faith does not Judge v4-7
v4 We become judges with evil thoughts…better translated judges with evil intentions. The real sin of this passage is the way we judge people based on appearance.
One day we will be judged by our words, our actions, and our attitudes.
God has always hated unjust judges and Jesus Himself warned about the dangers of judging
Mt 7:1 "Judge not, that you be not judged.
Mt 7:12 "Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
V5 Both then and today God has chosen to honor the poor
If we judge against the poor due to our prejudice against them, we will find ourselves fighting against God!
Ps 109:31 For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, To save him from those who condemn him.
The gospel was proclaimed to the poor
Lk 7:22 Jesus answered and said to them, "Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.
The majority of those who responded were from among the poor
1 Co 1:26-29 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence.
v6-7 WE HONOR THOSE MOST CAPABLE AND LIKELY OF OPPRESSING US
The rich were doing this to the Christians in James' day and might be the ones most likely to do it in this time since they have the resources to do it.
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten.
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The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL PHILIPPIANS 4:1 STANDING FIRM IN SHAKY TIMES
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
In Philippians 4:1 Paul tells us to stand firm in the Lord. Are you spiritually stable? Or are you like the double minded man in James 1 and Eph 4:14 who doesn’t know what he believes and is tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine? The Bible tells us in 2Pe 3:18 to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. So how can you stand firm in shaky times. You need to get your Bible out, read it, study it, memorize it, then you won’t fall prey to Satan’s lies and traps because as John 8:32 says you will Know the truth and the truth will set you free.
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten.
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The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
JAMES 1:24-27 REAL CHRISTIANITY CAN BE SEEN PART 2
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
James 1:24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
V-24 Hearer and not a doer, You are like a man who after looking in mirror soon forgets what he looked like
"He glanced at himself and off he has gone and straightway forgot what sort of a man he was". The tenses present a vivid and lifelike picture of the careless listener to preaching (Christ's wayside hearer).
Compare Luke 12:24, 27; Heb. 3:1. So that the contrast is not between a hasty look and a careful contemplation (ver. 25, looketh). It is not mere careless hearing of the word, which James rebukes, but the neglect to carry into practice what is heard. One may be an attentive and critical hearer of the word, yet not a doer.[1]
Lu 6:47 "Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like:
You need to apply what you heard to your life,
If God convicts you of something, you need to do it.
Ro 7:9 "I was alive without the law; that is, I took all to be right with me, and thought myself not only clean, but, compared with the generality of the world, beautiful too; but when the commandment came, when the glass of the law was set before me, then sin revived, and I died--then I saw my spots and deformities, and discovered that amiss in myself which before I was not aware of; and such was the power of the law, and of sin, that I then perceived myself in a state of death and condemnation."
2Co 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
V25 Blessed is the man – Psalm 1
One who looks into(intense examination)
The perfect law of liberty and continues in it...
Joh 13:16 "Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 "If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
The Gospel is a law of liberty it frees us from sin and frees us to do the will of God
The saved man delights to do the will of God
John 8:36 "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
The ceremonial sacrifices a yoke of bondage
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
"Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:17-18).
The Bible is "perfect" because it is inerrant. It contains no factual errors or misrepresentations. It perfectly reveals the will of God for man. It will not allow for any distortions of reality. It will not allow us to fool ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are.
"The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple" (Psalm 19:7).
Liberty and license are different. Biblical liberty is the freedom to live within the principles of God. License gives free rein to the flesh.
"For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!" (Galatians 5:13-15).
Is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work
It is one thing to have an extensive knowledge of the Bible but it is another to expansively apply it to experience.
"Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalm 139:23-24).
Will be blessed in what he does
I believe it Refers back to verse 12 blessed is the man who overcomes
Matthew 5:3-12 The Beatitudes
Be Pure v26-27
V26 If you think you're religious, shows that it refers to the external observances of public worship, such as church attendance, almsgiving, prayer, fasting (Mt 6:1-18). It is the Pharisaic element in Christian worship
A religious person here is a pious person, someone who is devoted to or worships God. He perceives himself as a godly person.
But do not bridle your tongue Ps 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.
Ps 39:1 To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David I said, "I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me."
When we detract from others in order to make ourselves seem superior, we enter into the vanity of religion.
"Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips" (Psalm 141:3).
"But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment" (Matthew 12:36).
1Pe 3:10
Jas 3:12
you deceive only your heart, In verse 17 be not deceived, here deceive not yourself
He plays a trick on himself.
(Jeremiah 17:9) "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; who can know it?"
v27. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this... James now shows a genuine Christianity that is "pure" and "undefiled" instead of the formal religion of the previous verse.
Undefiled (ἀμίαντος). See 1 Pet. 1:4. The two adjectives, pure and undefiled, present the positive and negative sides of purity.[1]
To visit orphans and widows in their trouble
To visit (ἐπισκέπτεσθαι). See on Matt. 25:36. James strikes a downright blow here at ministry by proxy, or by mere gifts of money. Pure and undefiled religion demands personal contact with the world’s sorrow: to visit the afflicted, and to visit them in their affliction. [1]
The idea is to oversee orphans and widows in their trouble, "Take responsibility for them."
Helping everyone any way you can is what is meant, not just widows and orphans, although they most of the time are the most needy
Isa 1:16 "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
Isa 58:6 "Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Joh 14:18 "I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
Taking care of orphans and widows (conduct) is a duty that lies close to the heart of God (cf. Exod. 22:22-24; Deut. 10:18; Jer. 5:28; Ezek. 22:7; Zech. 7:10). Yet many who professed to love Him neglected it (Ps. 68:5; Eccles. 4:1; Mark 12:40)
To keep oneself unspotted from the world
"to keep on keeping oneself un-specked from the world" (a world, kosmos, full of dirt and slime that dirties the best of men).
We need to stay away from things we know are wrong but the world says is okay.
Stay away from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
Deut:8:3 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord
John 6:35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
We are given Spiritual Strength and Power by trusting in Jesus Christ and feasting on His Word
We need to read, study, and memorize the Word
The Word will give you:
Deliverance from Sin
Victory over Satan
Spiritual prosperity
Personal Guidance
Help for Others
"To summarize, vv. 22-27 insist that a person's religion must consist of more than superficial acts. It is not enough to listen to the statement of spiritual truth (vv. 22-25), nor is it sufficient to engage in formal religious activity (v. 26). The person whose religious experience is genuine will put
spiritual truth into practice, and his life will be marked by love for others and holiness before God."85
If you died today, do you know for sure you would go to heaven?
If God asked you why should I let you in My heaven what would you say
Can you say that you know your faith is real?
What are you trusting in to get you to heaven?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten.
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL JOHN 8:24 JESUS SAID, YOU SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
In John 8:24 Jesus said, "You shall die in your sins for if you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sins." “John 3:16 says For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes should not perish but have everlasting life.” Did you hear that? It says whoever believes, not whoever behaves or is baptized or takes communion or does good works. You need to believe that Jesus is God, He died for your sins, turn to Him, repent of your sins and ask God to forgive you by because He said He would. Have you been made righteous because you have trusted Christ?
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten.
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The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
JAMES 1:19-22 REAL CHRISTIANITY CAN BE SEEN PART 1
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
James 1:19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James has told us in verses 1:1-12 that he is a willing slave to God and the Lord Jesus Christ. He has told us that we will fall into trials and that we should count it all joy because of the reasons for trials, the results of our trials, that we can count on God in our trials and when we have overcome trials, we will receive eternal life. Because if we depend on God in trials he will sustain us and we will not only make it through the trials but also be better people because of them. Instead of being VICTIMS, we can become VICTORS In verses 13-18 he tells us that God allows trials and Satan causes temptation, but when we are drawn away by our own desires, it causes sin and sin causes physical death. James says that God is creator and giver of every good thing and that God never changes. God saved us by his word as a promise of the future glory we will have in the new heaven and new earth. Based on these wonderful things, James says how then ought we to live our lives if we are Christians!
1:17-18. The solution for temptation is to be found in a close relationship with the Father and a constant response to His Word. One must rest in the unchangeable Lord of light and rely on His life-giving “Word of truth” (cf. Eph. 1:13; Col. 1:5; 2 Tim. 2:15).[1]. In stark contrast with the morbid scene of death that descends from unbridled lust is the bright scene of new life that emanates from the Word of truth (v. 18; of Eph. 1:13; Col. 1:5). The father of darkness—Satan (Acts 26:18; Col. 1:13)—generates the offspring of sin and death. The Father of the heavenly lights (i.e., God, who created the starry universe) gives salvation and life and is unchanging. [1] V18 - Ac 17:28 "for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'
What do I have - v17-18, What do I need - v19-20, and how do I get there - v21-27
It is implanted; divinely given, in contrast with something acquired by study-Compare Matt. 13:19, “the word of the kingdom — sown in his heart.” Grafted or graffed is expressed by a peculiar word, employed by Paul only, ἐγκεντορίζω, from κέντρον, a sharp point, thus emphasizing the fact of the incision required in grafting. See Rom. 11:17, 19, 23, 24.[1]
V-19 So then my beloved brethren
Be Disciplined v19-21
Go back to verse 4- let patience have it’s perfect work
Be patient not letting passions control you
An angry and hasty spirit is soon provoked to wrong things
be ready to hear and consider what God's word teaches
We should be swift to hear reason and truth on all sides, and be slow to speak any thing that should prevent this: and, when we do speak, there should be nothing of wrath; for a soft answer turns away wrath.
We need to learn to be more disciplined and we will if we belong to Jesus Christ
v-19 Let everyone be swift to hear
They did not have the whole word of God written down like we do today, where it is available to everyone. It was not until the 14th century John Wycliffe in England had the whole Bible translated into English for the common man, but copies were still made by hand. Then Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440 so that Bibles were able to be mass produced for the common man to have and read for the first time in 1456. It was actually declared illegal by the council of Toulouse in 1229 AD for anyone but a church leader to have a copy of the Bible.
We need to be swift to
Hear the word of truth and apply it to our lives
1 Peter 2:1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
"Whereas men often pretend zeal for God and his glory, in their heat and passion, let them know that God needs not the passions of any man; his cause is better served by mildness and meekness than by wrath and fury."
Solomon says, The words of the wise are heard in quiet, more than the cry of him that rules among fools, Ec 9:17.
What God says about trials and temptations.. don’t blame him
James1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
In relationship to Christian disputes
Open our hearts and our ears to hear what God says to us
Slow to speak..Hear others out, meditate on the word before you decide that you know everything the word says
Pr 10:19; 14:7; 16:32; 17:27; Ec 5:1-2; 7:9
Mark 4 soils, had no root in themselves – Implanted word
Slow to wrath
Don’t get angry with others when they treat you bad, admonish you or especially when they preach the word. They are only speaking what God has laid on their heart and what is in the bible
Luke 4:28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff.
Don’t get angry with God
V20 For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God
Romans 12:19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.
"Give room for the wrath" of God instead of taking vengeance in your own hands.
V21. What to lay aside, and what to receive
Lay aside all filthiness (pride, vanity, wrath, and evil speaking) and overflow of wickedness (malice is ill will towards someone or the desire to injure them) malicious disposition toward one’s neighbor.
filthiness speaks of taking off a filthy garment
metaphor of removing clothing as in Ro 13:12; Col 3:8; Eph 4:22,25; 1Pe 2:1
We are called upon to suppress other corrupt affections, as well as rash anger: Lay aside all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, Jas 1:21. The word here translated filthiness signifies those lusts which have the greatest wickedness and sensuality in them; and the words rendered superfluity of naughtiness may be understood of the overflowings of malice or any other spiritual wickedness. Hereby we are taught, as Christians, to watch against, and lay aside, not only those more gross and fleshly dispositions and affections which denominate a person filthy, but all the disorders of a corrupt heart, which would prejudice it against the word and ways of God.
Observe,
Sin is a defiling thing; it is called filthiness itself.
There is abundance of that which is evil in us, to be watched against; there is superfluity of naughtiness.
It is not enough to restrain evil affections, but they must be cast from us, or laid apart. Isa 30:22, Thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say, Get you hence.
This must extend not only to outward sins, and greater abominations, but to all sin of thought and affection as well as speech and practice; --all filthiness, every thing that is corrupt and sinful.
Observe, from the foregoing parts of this chapter, the laying aside of all filthiness is what a time of temptation and affliction calls for, and is necessary to the avoiding of error, and the right receiving and improving of the word of truth: for,
Receive or welcome with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls
We need to be meek and mild
Psalms 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Mt 15:13 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
Which is able to save (τὸν δυνάμενον σῶσαι) Compare Rom. 1:16, “the power of God unto salvation.”[1]
Be Doers (22-25) Rather, "But keep on becoming
v22 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only
Jas 4:11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Mt 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
1Jo 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
Ro 2:13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified
Otherwise you deceive yourselves
Our Faith is shown by how we treat others
An unknown author captured eloquently the way in which we so religiously fall short of Christ’s demand of service for others:
I was hungry and you formed a humanities club and discussed my hunger.I was imprisoned and you crept off quietly to your chapel and prayed for my release.I was naked and in your mind you debated the morality of my appearance.I was sick and you knelt and thanked God for your health.I was homeless and you preached to me of the spiritual shelter of the love of God.I was lonely and you left me alone to pray for me.You seem so holy, so close to God.But I’m still very hungry and lonely and cold.
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten.
hisloveministries.podbean.com #HLMSocial hisloveministries.net https://www.instagram.com/hisloveministries1/?hl=en Don’t go for all the gusto you can get, go for all the God (Jesus Christ) you can get. The gusto will get you, Jesus can save you. https://www.facebook.com/His-Love-Ministries-246606668725869/?tn-str=k*F
The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
HIS LOVE MINISTRIES 30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL SO SHALL YOU REAP
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Hi, This is Marty McKenzie with His Love Ministries. Why do you think God gave us the 10 commandments? Is it because you think that God is some kind of cosmic kill joy, and that He doesn’t want you to have fun? You wouldn’t let someone you loved play in the middle of a busy highway would you? God gave the 10 Commandments because He is Holy and also to keep us from getting hurt. When we sin we hurt others and ourselves. The Bible says sin is fun for a season, but it also says whatever a man sows that shall he reap. Sin does have consequences.
Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” -John 8:32
Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten.
hisloveministries.podbean.com #HLMSocial hisloveministries.net https://www.instagram.com/hisloveministries1/?hl=en Don’t go for all the gusto you can get, go for all the God (Jesus Christ) you can get. The gusto will get you, Jesus can save you. https://www.facebook.com/His-Love-Ministries-246606668725869/?tn-str=k*F
The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions