PRAISE THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD, HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER!
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THEREFORE THE ISSUE IS:
“TO WHICH GROUP OF PEOPLE DO YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF?
SAITH THE LORD
“THE JEWS=WHO ARE THE KEEPER OF GOD’S WORD.
THE GENTILES=THE UNBELIEVERS=THOSE WITHOUT GOD
OR
THE CHURCH=THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD=LOVE–MEN AND WOMEN, YOUNG AND OLD FROM EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE, PEOPLE AND NATION–WHO FORM THE BODY OF CHRIST=THE ANOINTED ONE WITH ALL HIS ANOINTINGS, the burden REMOVING, yoke DESTROYING POWER OF GOD=LOVE, I AM THE HEAD YOU ARE THE BODY!
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!
I SAY THEN: WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND YOU SHALL NOT FULFILL
THE LUST OF THE FLESH=OF THE FIVE SENSES=YOUR SENSORY MECHANISMS
GALATIANS 5:13-16
FOR FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM
OF GOD; NOR DOES CORRUPTION INHERIT INCORRUPTION.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:50
OR
DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT wrongdoers WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM=THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED: NEITHER the sexually immoral NOR idolaters NOR adulterers NOR men who have sex with men, NOR thieves NOR the greedy NOR drunkards NOR slanderers NOR swindlers WILL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD=WILL WALK IN THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF GOD.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
BECAUSE they have forfeited IT.
AND
you were at least one of these!
BUT
YOU WERE WASHED,
YOU WERE SANCTIFIED,
YOU WERE JUSTIFIED
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11
THEN
THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GENTILE, NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE, NOR IS THERE MALE AND FEMALE, FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS. AND IF YOU BELONG TO CHRIST, THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM’S SEEDS, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE.
GALATIANS 3:28-29
THE SPIRIT HIMSELF TESTIFIES WITH YOUR SPIRIT THAT YOU ARE GOD’S CHILDREN. AND IF YOU ARE CHILDREN, THEN YOU ARE HEIRS: HEIRS OF GOD AND CO-HEIRS WITH CHRIST–WHO IS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS AND THROUGH WHOM GOD MADE THE UNIVERSE. HEBREWS 1:2–IF INDEED YOU SUFFER=YOU RESIST the devil
and all that he stands for WITH HIM, SO THAT YOU MAY ALSO BE GLORIFIED WITH HIM.
ROMANS 8:16-17
THEN WHY AREN’T YOU KEEPING WATCH AND PRAY
SO THAT YOU WILL NOT FALL INTO TEMPTATION.
THE SPIRIT IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK.
MATTHEW 26:41
BUT
GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU
THAN he that is in the world!
1 JOHN 4:4
GREATER ARE THEY THAT ARE WITH YOU
THAN they that are against YOU!
2 KINGS 6:16
WHY THEN DO YOU PICK AND CHOOSE WHICH OF THE WORD OF GOD TO DO AND NOT DO?
if anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless. PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION BEFORE OUR GOD AND FATHER IS THIS: TO CARE FOR ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR DISTRESS, AND TO KEEP ONESELF FROM BEING polluted by the world.
JAMES 1:27
WHO IS WISE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG YOU?
LET HIM SHOW BY GOOD CONDUCT THAT HIS WORKS ARE DONE IN THE MEEKNESS OF WISDOM.
BUT IF YOU HAVE BITTER ENVY AND SELF-SEEKING IN YOUR HEARTS, DO NOT BOAST AND LIE AGAINST THE TRUTH. THIS WISDOM DOES NOT DESCEND FROM ABOVE, BUT IS EARTHLY, SENSUAL, DEMONIC. FOR WHERE ENVY AND SELF-SEEKING EXIST,
confusion and every evil thing are there.
BUT THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE IS FIRST PURE, THEN PEACEABLE, GENTLE, WILLING TO YIELD, FULL OF MERCY AND GOOD FRUITS, WITHOUT partiality AND WITHOUT hypocrisy. NOW THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SOWN IN PEACE BY THOSE WHO MAKE PEACE.
JAMES 3:13-18
BUT
ANYONE WHO CHOOSES TO BE A FRIEND OF the world
BECOMES an enemy OF GOD.
JAMES 4:4
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD
IS NOT
A MATTER OF TALK
BUT OF POWER.
1 CORINTHIANS 4:20
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THE BLESSING OF A BORDER:
LIFE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE WORD OF GOD
AND THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT:
IN THE UNFORCED RHYTHMS OF GRACE
LIVING FREELY AND LIGHTLY.
“I AM THE GATE; WHOEVER ENTERS THROUGH ME WILL BE SAVED. THEY WILL COME IN AND GO OUT, AND FIND PASTURE. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
I HAVE COME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT TO THE FULL.
JOHN 10:9-10
“BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED BY THE WORD OF GOD, SO THAT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN WERE NOT MADE OF THINGS WHICH ARE VISIBLE.”
HEBREWS 11:3
THE FIRST BORDER CROSSED BY MANKIND
YOU DID NOT EVOLVE
‘WHEN GOD CREATED MANKIND, HE MADE THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD. HE CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE AND BLESSED THEM. AND HE NAMED THEM “MANKIND”, WHEN THEY WERE CREATED.’
GENESIS 5:1-2
‘HE HAS MADE MAN IN HIS IMAGE, TO BE LIKE HIM.’
GENESIS 1:26
“SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE; IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED HIM; MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM. THEN GOD BLESSED THEM, AND GOD SAID TO THEM,
“BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, REPLENISH THE EARTH AND SUBDUE IT WITH GOD’S GOODNESS, WITH LOVE’S GLORY, USING ALL ITS VAST RESOURCES TO THE SERVICE OF GOD AND MEN/MEN/MEN; HAVE DOMINION OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA, THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND OVER EVERY LIVING THING THAT MOVES ON THE EARTH.”
GENESIS 1:27-28
“BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU;
BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I SANCTIFIED YOU;
I ORDAINED YOU A PROPHET TO THE NATIONS.”
JEREMIAH 1:5
“LET EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH PRAISE THE LORD.
PRAISE THE LORD!”
PSALM 150:6
“KNOW THAT THE LORD, HE IS GOD;
IT IS HE WHO HAS MADE US, AND NOT WE OURSELVES;
WE ARE HIS PEOPLE AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE.”
PSALM 100:3
‘AND HAS CROWNED THEM WITH GLORY AND HONOR.
HE HAS MADE THEM TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF HIS HANDS; HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS UNDER THEIR FEET: ALL SHEEP AND OXEN, YES, AND THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD, THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, AND THE FISH OF THE SEA, AND WHATEVER PASSES ALONG THE PATHS OF THE SEAS.’
PSALM 8:5-9
THE SECOND BORDER CROSSED BY MANKIND
“BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME: FOR MEN WILL BE lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to PARENTS, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of GOOD, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than LOVERS OF GOD, HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENYING ITS POWER. AND FROM SUCH PEOPLE TURN AWAY!”
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
“WHO EXCHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR the lie, AND WORSHIPED AND SERVED the creature RATHER THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOREVER. AMEN.”
ROMANS 1:25
“BEHOLD, CHILDREN ARE A HERITAGE FROM THE LORD,
THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB IS A REWARD.”
PSALM 127:3
“YOU MADE ALL THE DELICATE, INNER PARTS OF MY BODY
AND KNIT ME TOGETHER IN MY MOTHER’S WOMB.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME SO WONDERFULLY COMPLEX!
YOUR WORKMANSHIP IS MARVELOUS–HOW WELL I KNOW IT.
YOU WATCHED ME AS I WAS BEING FORMED IN UTTER SECLUSION,
AS I WAS WOVEN TOGETHER IN THE DARK OF THE WOMB.
YOU SAW ME BEFORE I WAS BORN.
EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE WAS RECORDED IN YOUR BOOK.
EVERY MOMENT WAS LAID OUT
BEFORE A SINGLE DAY HAD PASSED.”
PSALM 139:13-16
“THE LIFE OF THE BODY IS IN THE BLOOD, AND I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU UPON THE ALTAR TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOULS; FOR IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.”
LEVITICUS 17:11
“SURELY FOR YOUR LIFEBLOOD I WILL DEMAND A RECKONING; FROM THE HAND OF EVERY BEAST I WILL REQUIRE IT, AND FROM THE HAND OF MAN. FROM THE HAND OF EVERY MAN’S BROTHER I WILL REQUIRE THE LIFE OF MAN.”
“WHOEVER SHEDS MAN’S BLOOD,
BY MAN HIS BLOOD SHALL BE SHED;
FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE MADE MAN.”
GENESIS 9:5-6
THESE SIX THINGS THE LORD HATES, INDEED,
SEVEN ARE AN ABOMINATION TO HIM:
A PROUD LOOK:
THE SPIRIT THAT MAKES ONE OVERESTIMATE HIMSELF
AND UNDERESTIMATE OTHERS,
A LYING TONGUE,
AND HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD,
A HEART THAT MANUFACTURES WICKED THOUGHTS AND PLANS,
FEET THAT ARE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO EVIL,
A FALSE WITNESS WHO BREATHES OUT LIES, EVEN UNDER OATH,
AND HE WHO SOWS DISCORD AMONG HIS BRETHREN.
PROVERBS 6:16-19
THIRD BORDER CROSSED BY MANKIND
RIGHTEOUSNESS=KNOWING TO DO RIGHT AND DO IT
EXALTS A NATION,
BUT sin IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE.
PROVERBS 14:34
SO WHOEVER KNOWS THE RIGHT THING TO DO AND FAILS TO DO IT,
FOR HIM IT IS SIN.
JAMES 4:17
THE GOD WHO MADE THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IS IN IT,
THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, DOES NOT DWELL IN SANCTUARIES MADE BY HUMAN HANDS, NOR IS HE SERVED BY HUMAN HANDS BECAUSE HE NEEDS ANYTHING. RATHER IT IS HE WHO GIVES TO EVERYONE LIFE AND BREATH AND EVERYTHING.
AND HE HAS MADE FROM ONE BLOOD EVERY NATION OF MEN TO DWELL ON ALL THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND HAS DETERMINED THEIR PREAPPOINTED TIMES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR DWELLINGS, SO THAT PEOPLE MIGHT SEEK GOD, EVEN PERHAPS GROPE FOR HIM AND FIND HIM, THOUGH INDEED HE IS NOT FAR FROM ANY ONE OF US. 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.’ THEREFORE, SINCE WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, WE OUGHT NOT TO THINK THAT THE DIVINE NATURE IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE, SOMETHING SHAPED
BY ART AND MAN’S DEVISING.
GOD HAS OVERLOOKED THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE,
BUT NOW HE DEMANDS THAT ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE REPENT BECAUSE HE HAS ESTABLISHED A DAY ON WHICH HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD WITH JUSTICE THROUGH A MAN HE HAS APPOINTED AND HE HAS PROVIDED CONFIRMATION FOR ALL BY RAISING HIM FROM THE DEAD.”
ACTS 17:24-31
THEN BEHAVE AS GOD CREATED YOU!
CURSED IS HE WHO MOVES HIS NEIGHBOR’S BOUNDARY STONE.”
AND LET ALL THE PEOPLE SAY, “AMEN!”
DEUTERONOMY 27:17
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“NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME, ‘LORD, LORD,’ WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT ONLY THE ONE WHO DOES THE WILL OF
MY FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 7:21
FOR IT IS NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD, BUT IT IS THE DOERS OF THE LAW WHO WILL BE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS.”
ROMANS 2:13
AND THIS IS LOVE: THAT YOU WALK IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS COMMANDS. AS YOU HAVE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING,
HIS COMMAND IS THAT YOU WALK IN LOVE.
2 JOHN 6:6
AND THIS IS HIS COMMANDMENT:
TO BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST,
AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS HE COMMANDED YOU.
1 PETER 3:23
BEAR EACH OTHER’S BURDENS
AND FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST.
GALATIANS 6:2
HAVE FAITH IN GOD, TRULY I TELL YOU, IF ANYONE SAYS TO THIS MOUNTAIN ‘GO, THROW YOURSELF INTO THE SEA,’ AND DOES NOT DOUBT IN THEIR HEART BUT BELIEVES THAT WHAT THEY SAY WILL HAPPEN, IT WILL BE DONE FOR THEM. THEREFORE I TELL YOU, WHATEVER YOU ASK FOR IN PRAYER, BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED IT, AND IT WILL BE YOURS. AND WHEN YOU STAND PRAYING, IF YOU HOLD ANYTHING AGAINST ANYONE,
FORGIVE THEM, SO THAT YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN
MAY FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS.
MARK 11:22-25
TRUE YOUR SINS AND INIQUITIES HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN YOU
AND SO ARE THOSE OF THE WHOLE WORLD. BUT YOU LIVE
UNDER THE LAW OF GIVING AND RECEIVING, OF SOWING AND REAPING, A FARMER HAS TO SOW GRAINS TO HARVEST A CROP, GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON SO THAT HE COULD RECEIVE YOU AS HIS SON. IF YOUR HEART IS NOT TENDER ENOUGH TO EXTEND FORGIVENESS TO SOMEONE YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY
RECEIVE FORGIVENESS FROM YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.
IT IS WRITTEN:
BECAUSE JUDGMENT WITHOUT MERCY WILL BE SHOWN
TO ANYONE WHO HAS NOT BEEN MERCIFUL.
MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT.WORD
JAMES 2:13
HE WHO WAS SEATED ON THE THRONE SAID,
“I AM MAKING EVERYTHING NEW!”
THEN HE SAID,
“WRITE THIS DOWN,
FOR THESE WORDS ARE TRUSTWORTHY AND TRUE.”
HE SAID TO ME,
“THEY ARE ACCOMPLISHED.
I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA,
THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
TO THE THIRSTY I WILL GIVE WATER WITHOUT COST FROM THE SPRING OF THE WATER OF LIFE. THOSE WHO ARE VICTORIOUS WILL INHERIT ALL THIS, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD AND THEY WILL BE MY CHILDREN.
BUT THE FEARFUL, THE UNBELIEVING, THE VILE, THE MURDERERS, THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, THOSE WHO PRACTICE MAGIC ARTS, THE IDOLATERS AND ALL LIARS–THEY WILL BE CONSIGNED TO THE FIERY LAKE OF BURNING SULFUR. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.”
REVELATION 21:5-8
AND
THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS:
“LOOK, I AM COMING SOON! MY REWARD IS WITH ME,
AND I WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING
TO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA,
THE FIRST AND THE LAST,
THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO WASH THEIR ROBES,
THAT THEY MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE
AND MAY GO THROUGH THE GATES INTO THE CITY.
OUTSIDE ARE THE DOGS, THOSE WHO PRACTICE MAGIC ARTS, THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, THE MURDERERS, AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES AND PRACTICES FALSEHOOD.
REVELATION 22:12-15
BUT UNTIL THEN:
I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE.
THE ONE WHO BELIEVES IN ME WILL LIVE,
EVEN THOUGH THEY DIE;
AND WHOEVER LIVES BY BELIEVING IN ME
WILL NEVER DIE.
CATCH WHAT I AM SAYING TO YOU !
FROM JOHN 11:25-26
THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD, BUT THE THINGS REVEALED BELONG TO YOU AND TO YOUR CHILDREN FOREVER, THAT YOU MAY FOLLOW ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD.
I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE,
JOHN 6:35
WHOEVER EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS MY BLOOD HAS ETERNAL LIFE AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP ON THE LAST DAY. FOR MY FLESH IS TRUE FOOD AND MY BLOOD TRUE DRINK. WHOEVER EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS MY BLOOD REMAINS IN ME AND I IN HIM.
YOU WHO EAT THIS BREAD WILL LIVE FOREVER.
JOHN 6:54-56, 58
AND IF THE SPIRIT OF HIM WHO RAISED JESUS FROM the dead IS LIVING IN YOU, HE WHO RAISED CHRIST FROM the dead WILL ALSO GIVE LIFE TO YOUR MORTAL BODY BECAUSE OF HIS SPIRIT WHO LIVES IN YOU.”
ROMANS 8:11
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FAITH COMES BY HEARING AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD!
ROMANS 10:17
AS FOR YOU, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
all of you also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of your flesh and following its desires and thoughts. like the rest, you were by nature deserving of wrath.
EPHESIANS 2:1-3
OF A TRUTH I PERCEIVE THAT GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS:
BUT IN EVERY NATION HE THAT FEARETH HIM, AND WORKETH RIGHTEOUSNESS, IS ACCEPTED WITH HIM.
ATCS 10:34-35
FOR
THE LORD HAS PUT HIS LAWS IN YOUR MIND
AND HAS WRITTEN THEM ON YOUR HEART.
AND THE LORD HAS PUT HIS SPIRIT IN YOU
AND MOVE YOU TO FOLLOW HIS DECREES
AND BE CAREFUL TO KEEP HIS LAWS.
SO YOU ALSO DIED TO THE LAW THROUGH THE BODY OF CHRIST, THAT YOU MIGHT BELONG TO ANOTHER, TO HIM WHO WAS RAISED FROM the dead, IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT BEAR FRUIT FOR GOD. for when you were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in you so that you bore fruit for death.
BUT NOW, YOU ARE DISCHARGED FROM THE LAW AND HAVE TERMINATED ALL INTERCOURSE WITH IT, HAVING DIED TO WHAT ONCE RESTRAINED AND HELD YOU CAPTIVE.
SO NOW SERVE NOT UNDER OBEDIENCE TO THE OLD CODE
OR WRITTEN REGULATIONS
BUT UNDER OBEDIENCE TO THE PROMPTINGS OF THE SPIRIT IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.
ROMANS 7:4-6
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HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY “YOUR SUPERIORITY” AS A “WHITE MAN” OR A “MULATTO” THINKING THAT THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN MAKES YOU BETTER THAN SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN? AND HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN “YOUR INFERIORITY” AS A “BLACK MAN” OR A “MAN OF COLOR” THAT YOU HAVE TO LET “THE WHITE MAN” KNOW THAT “BLACK LIVES MATTER”? WHEN
I THE LORD CREATED MANKIND IN MY OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD I CREATED THEM; MALE AND FEMALE I CREATED THEM. AND BLESSED THEM.GENESIS1:27-28 I MADE THEM A LITTLE LOWER THAN ELOHIM=YAHWEH GOD THE CREATOR AND CROWNED THEM WITH GLORY AND HONOR AND GAVE THEM DOMINION=I MADE THEM RULERS OVER THE WORKS OF MY HANDSPSALM 8:5-6 NOW ADAM CALLED HIS WIFE’S NAME EVE, BECAUSE SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE LIVING.GENESIUS 3:20 AND FROM THE THREE SONS OF NOAH: SHEM, HAM AND JAPHETH, WHO THEMSELVES HAD SONS AFTER THE FLOOD, CAME ALL THE NATIONSGENESIS 10:1AND I DECLARE THAT: IF ANYONE SHEDS THE BLOOD OF MAN, BY MAN SHALL HIS BLOOD BE SHED;
FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HAS MAN BEEN MADE.
GENESIS 9:6
FOR I THE LORD MYSELF GIVE
EVERYONE LIFE AND BREATH AND EVERYTHING ELSE. FROM ONE BLOOD ACTS 17:25-26–FOR THE LIFE OF THE BODY IS IN THE BLOOD LEVITICUS 17:11–FROM ONE BLOOD I MADE ALL THE NATIONS OF MANKIND, THAT THEY SHOULD INHABIT THE WHOLE EARTH; AND I MARKED OUT THEIR APPOINTED TIMES IN HISTORY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR LANDS AND TERRITORIES.
I GOD DID THIS SO THAT THEY WOULD SEEK ME AND PERHAPS REACH OUT FOR ME AND FIND ME, THOUGH I AM NOT FAR FROM ANY ONE OF YOU. FOR IN ME MANKIND: MAN AND WOMAN AND CHILDREN–“BLACK AND WHITE AND RED, AND BROWN, AND HALF-BREED AND YELLOW AND MULATTO”–LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE THEIR BEING.
AS SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID,
“WE ARE HIS OFFSPRING.”
ACTS 17:26-28
AND
IN MY HAND IS THE LIFE OF EVERY CREATURE
AND THE BREATH OF ALL MANKIND.
JOB 12:10
THESE SIX THINGS THE LORD HATES, INDEED,
SEVEN ARE AN ABOMINATION TO HIM:
A PROUD LOOK:
THE SPIRIT THAT MAKES ONE OVERESTIMATE HIMSELF
AND UNDERESTIMATE OTHERS,
A LYING TONGUE,
AND HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD,
A HEART THAT MANUFACTURES WICKED THOUGHTS AND PLANS,
FEET THAT ARE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO EVIL,
A FALSE WITNESS WHO BREATHES OUT LIES, EVEN UNDER OATH,
AND HE WHO SOWS DISCORD AMONG HIS BRETHREN.
PROVERBS 6:16-19
AND
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT SOMEONE’S MONEY,
POSSESSIONS, OR THE TITLE BEHIND THEIR NAME
“MAKES THEM BETTER THEN YOU”
WHEN
THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S, AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF, THE WORLD AND ALL WHO DWELL THEREIN. PSALM 24:1 FOR EVERY BEAST OF THE FOREST IS MINE–THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS. PSALM 50:10 THE SILVER IS MINE, AND THE GOLD IS MINE, DECLARES THE LORD OF HOSTS. HAGGAI 2:8 BY MY GREAT POWER AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM,
I MADE THE EARTH AND THE MEN AND BEASTS ON THE FACE OF IT, AND I GIVE IT TO WHOM I PLEASE.” JEREMIAH 27:5 A GOOD MAN LEAVES AN INHERITANCE OF MORAL STABILITY AND GOODNESS TO HIS CHILDREN’S CHILDREN, BUT THE WEALTH OF THE SINNERS EVENTUALLY FIND IT’S WAY INTO THE HANDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS FOR WHOM IT WAS LAID UP. PROVERBS 13:22
MOREOVER,
I WAS SLAIN AND WITH MY BLOOD, MY LIFE
I HAVE RANSOMED, I PURCHASED FOR GOD THOSE FROM EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE AND PEOPLE AND NATION.
AND HAVE MADE THEM A KINGDOM AND PRIESTS
FOR OUR GOD, AND THEY WILL REIGN UPON THE EARTH.
REVELATION 5:9
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HOW MUCH GOD VALUE A WOMAN?
HE SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST!
JOHN 2:10
IT IS WRITTEN:
“WHEN I CREATED THE HEAVEN’S AND THE EARTH,
I SPOKE THEM INTO BEING.
WHEN I CREATED MAN,
I FORMED HIM AND BREATHED LIFE INTO HIS NOSTRILS.
BUT YOU, WOMAN, I FASHIONED AFTER I BREATHED THE BREATH INTO MAN BECAUSE YOUR NOSTRILS ARE TOO DELICATE.
I ALLOWED A DEEP SLEEP TO COME OVER HIM SO I COULD PATIENTLY AND PERFECTLY FASHION YOU.
MAN WAS PUT TO SLEEP SO THAT
HE COULD NOT INTERFERE WITH THE CREATIVITY.
FROM ONE BONE, I FASHISONED YOU. I CHOSE THE BONE THAT PROTECTS MAN’S LIFE. I CHOSE THE RIB, WHICH PROTECTS HIS HEART AND LUNGS AND SUPPORTS HIM, AS YOU ARE MEANT TO DO. AROUND THIS ONE BONE, I SHAPED YOU.
I MODELED YOU. I CREATED YOU, PERFECTLY AND BEAUTIFULLY.
YOUR CHARACTERISTICS ARE AS THE RIB, STRONG YET DELICATE AND FRAGILE. YOU PROVIDE PROTECTION FOR THE MOST DELICATE ORGAN IN MAN, HIS HEART. HIS HEART IS THE CENTER OF HIS BEING; HIS LUNGS HOLD THE BREATH OF LIFE, THE RIB CAGE WILL ALLOW ITSELF TO BE BROKEN BEFORE IT WILL ALLOW DAMAGE TO THE HEART. SUPPORT MAN AS THE RIB CAGE SUPPORTS THE BODY.
YOU WERE NOT TAKEN FROM HIS FEET, TO BE UNDER HIM,
NOR WERE YOU TAKEN FROM HIS HEAD, TO BE ABOVE HIM.
YOU WERE TAKEN FROM HIS SIDE, TO STAND BESIDE HIM
AND BE HELD CLOSE TO HIS SIDE.
YOU ARE MY PERFECT ‘ANGEL’, MY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL. YOU HAVE GROWN TO BE A SPLENDID WOMAN OF EXCELLENCE, AND MY EYES FILL WHEN I SEE THE VIRTUES IN YOUR HEART. YOUR EYES ARE BEAUTIFUL. YOUR LIPS, HOW LOVELY WHEN THEY PART IN PRAYER. YOUR NOSE, SO PERFECT IN FORM, YOUR HANDS SO GENTLE TO TOUCH. I’VE CARESSED YOUR FACE IN YOUR DEEPEST SLEEP;
I’VE HELD YOUR HEART CLOSE TO MINE,
OF ALL THAT LIVES AND BREATHES, YOU ARE THE MOST LIKE ME.
ADAM WALKED WITH ME IN THE COOL OF THE DAY AND YET HE WAS LONELY. HE COULD NOT SEE ME OR TOUCH ME. HE COULD ONLY FEEL ME, SO EVERYTHING I WANTED ADAM TO SHARE AND EXPERIENCE WITH ME, I FASHIONED IN YOU: MY HOLINESS, MY STRENGTH, MY PURITY, MY LOVE, MY PROTECTION AND SUPPORT. YOU ARE SPECIAL BECAUSE YOU ARE THE EXTENTION OF ME.
MAN REPRESENTS MY IMAGE–WOMAN, MY EMOTIONS. TOGETHER, YOU REPRESENT
THE TOTALITY OF GOD=LOVE.
SO MAN, TREAT WOMAN WELL, LOVE HER, RESPECT HER, FOR SHE IS FRAGILE, IN HURTING HER, YOU HURT ME. WHAT YOU DO TO HER, YOU DO TO ME, IN HURTING HER, YOU ONLY DAMAGE YOUR OWN HEART, THE HEART OF YOUR FATHER, AND THE HEART OF HER FATHER.
WOMAN, SUPPORT MAN. IN HUMILITY, SHOW HIM THE POWER OF EMOTION I HAVE GIVEN YOU. IN GENTLE QUIETNESS, SHOW YOUR STRENGTH. IN LOVE, SHOW HIM THAT YOU ARE THE RIB THAT PROTECTS HIS INNER SELF.”
“SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HE HIM; MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM.”
GENESIS 1:27
“I WILL SAY TO THE NORTH, GIVE UP; AND TO THE SOUTH, KEEP NOT BACK: BRING MY SONS FROM FAR, AND MY DAUGHTERS FORM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH;
EVEN EVERY ONE THAT IS CALLED BY MY NAME: FOR I HAVE CREATED HIM FOR MY GLORY, I HAVE FORMED HIM; YEA, I HAVE MADE HIM.
ISAIAH 43:6-7
FOR THIS CAUSE SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER,
AND SHALL BE JOINED UNTO HIS WIFE, AND THEY TWO SHALL BE ONE FLESH. THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY. BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND THE CHURCH. NEVERTHELESS LET EVERY ONE OF YOU IN PARTICULAR SO LOVE HIS WIFE EVEN AS HIMSELF, AND THE WIFE SEE THAT SHE REVERENCE HER HUSBAND.
EPHESIANS 5:31-33
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IN THE BEGINNING GOD MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE AND SAID, FOR THIS REASON “A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE,
AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH”. SO THEN YOUR SPOUSE AND YOU ARE NO LONGER TWO BUT ONE FLESH.
AND YOUR MAKER IS YOUR HUSBAND [SPIRIT NOT FLESH]-THE LORD ALMIGHTY IS HIS NAME-THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL IS YOUR REDEEMER: HE IS CALLED THE GOD OF ALL THE EARTH.
ISAIAH 54:5
THEREFORE,
GOD HAS PUT YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE TOGETHER
BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB,
LET NO ONE TAKE YOU APART;
YOU ARE JOINT HEIRS OF THE GRACIOUS GIFT OF LIFE.
MATTHEW 19:4-6, 1 PETER 3:7
BE SUBMITTED TO ONE ANOTHER OUT OF REVERENCE FOR CHRIST.
EPHESIANS 5:21
MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE
NOR WILL RIVERS OVERFLOW IT.
SONG OF SOLOMON 8:7
BE KIND TO EACH OTHER, TENDERHEARTED FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER EVEN AS GOD FOR CHRIST’S SAKE HATH FORGIVEN YOU.
EPHESIANS 4:3-2
PUT ON THEN, AS GOD’S CHOSEN ONES, HOLY AND BELOVED, HEARTFELT COMPASSION, KINDNESS, HUMILITY, GENTLENESS, AND PATIENCE, BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER AND FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER, IF ONE HAS A GRIEVANCE AGAINST ANOTHER; AS THE LORD HAS FORGIVEN YOU,
SO YOU DO ALSO FORGIVE EACH OTHER.
ABOVE ALL THESE PUT ON LOVE WHICH IS THE BOND OF PERFECTION. AND LET THE PEACE OF GOD RULE IN YOUR HEARTS TO WHICH ALSO YOU WERE CALLED IN ONE BODY AND ARE THANKFUL.
COLOSSIANS 3:14-15
BE FOLLOWERS OF GOD AS DEAR CHILDREN.
EPHESIANS 5:21
KEEP ON LOVING ONE ANOTHER AS BROTHER AND SISTER.
DO NOT FORGET TO SHOW HOSPITALITY TO STRANGERS, FOR BY SO DOING SOME PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN HOSPITALITY TO ANGELS WITHOUT KNOWING IT. CONTINUE TO REMEMBER THOSE IN PRISON AS IF YOU WERE TOGETHER WITH THEM IN PRISON, AND THOSE WHO ARE MISTREATED AS IF YOU YOURSELVES WERE SUFFERING.
IN THE LORD WOMAN IS NOT INDEPENDENT OF MAN, NOR IS MAN INDEPENDENT OF WOMAN. FOR AS WOMAN CAME FROM MAN,
SO ALSO MAN IS BORN OF WOMAN.
BUT EVERYTHING COMES FROM GOD.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:11-12
A WIFE OF NOBLE CHARACTER IS HER HUSBAND’S CROWN,
BUT A DISGRACEFUL WIFE IS LIKE CANCER IN HIS BONES.
PROVERBS 12:4
IT IS BETTER TO LIVE ALONE IN THE DESERT THAN WITH A QUARRELSOME, COMPLAINING WIFE.
PROVERBS 21:19
A WISE WOMAN BUILTS HER HOME.
A FOOLISH ONE TEARS IT DOWN WITH HER OWN HANDS.
PROVERBS 13:1-2
IT IS BETTER TO DWELL IN A CORNER OF THE HOUSETOP
THAN IN A ROOMY HOUSE WITH A QUARRELSOME WOMAN.
PROVERBS 25:24
FOR A PERSISTENT LEAK ON A RAINY DAY
THE MATCH IS A QUARRELSOME WOMAN.
PROVERBS 27:15
TO THE WIFE
WALK IN PURITY AND REVERENCE IN YOUR LIFE, OF YOUR INNER SELF, HAVE THE UNFADING BEAUTY OF A GENTLE AND QUIET SPIRIT, WHICH IS OF GREAT WORTH IN GOD’S SIGHT.
WALK IN A GRACE FILLED CHARACTER AND ELEGANCE, AN UNUSUAL RESTRAINT AND CONTROL, A CONTINUAL TEACHABLE SPIRIT, AN UNSELFISH MODESTY, AND AUTHENTICITY, PLEASANTNESS, DELIGHTFULLNESS REGARDLESS OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES, A HUMBLE RESPECT FOR YOUR HUSBAND’S AUTHORITY AND THE AUTHORITY OF THOSE THE LORD PUT OVER YOU, A JOYFUL AND ENTHUSIATIC MANNER, IN INTEGRITY, IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD,
AND IN SINGLENESS OF EYE,
DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND DO NOT GIVE WAY TO fear.
THEREFORE, THE WIFE, be SUBORDINATE TO YOUR HUSBAND AS IS PROPER IN THE LORD,
WIFE BE SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR OWN HUSBAND AS YOU DO TO THE LORD. FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, HIS BODY, OF WHICH HE IS THE SAVIOR. NOW AS THE CHURCH SUBMITS TO CHRIST, SO ALSO DO THE WIFE DO SUBMIT TO HER HUSBAND IN EVERYTHING.
[SUBORDINATE YOURSELF AS BEING SECONDARY TO AND DEPENDENT ON HIM, AND ADAPT YOURSELF TO HIM], SO THAT EVEN IF HE DOES NOT OBEY THE WORD [OF GOD], HE MAY BE WON OVER NOT BY DISCUSSION BUT BY YOUR [GODLY] LIFE.
WHEN HE OBSERVES THE PURE AND MODES WAY IN WHICH YOU CONDUCT YOURSELF, TOGETHER WITH YOUR REVERENCE [FOR HIM];
DO FEEL FOR HIM, ALL THAT REVERENCE INCLUDES:
RESPECT, DEFER TO, REVERE HIM–HONOR, ESTEEM, APPRECIATE, PRIZE AND, IN THE HUMAN’S SENSE ADORE HIM, THAT IS ADMIRE, PRAISE, BE DEVOTED TO, DEEPLY LOVE, AND ENJOY YOUR HUSBAND.]
LET NOT YOUR WAY BE THE [MERELY] EXTERNAL ADORNING WITH [ELABORATE] INTERWEAVING AND KNOTTING OF THE HAIR, THE WEARING OF JEWELRY, OR CHANGES OF CLOTHES;
BUT LET IT BE THE INWARD ADORNING AND BEAUTY OF THE HIDDEN PERSON OF THE HEART, WITH THE INCORRUPTIBLE AND UNFADING CHARM OF A GENTLE AND PEACEFUL SPIRIT, WHICH [IS NOT ANXIOUS OR WROUGHT UP, BUT] IS VERY PRECIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.
FOR IT WAS THUS THAT THE PIOUS WOMEN OF OLD WHO HOPED IN GOD WERE [ACCUSTOMED] TO BEAUTIFY THEMSELVES AND WERE SUBMISSIVE TO THEIR HUSBANDS [ADAPTING THEMSELVES TO THEM AS THEMSELVES SECONDARY AND DEPENDENT UPON THEM].
IT WAS THUS THAT SARAH OBEYED ABRAHAM [FOLLOWING HIS GUIDANCE AND ACKNOWLEDGING HIS HEADSHIP OVER HER BY]CALLING HIM lord (master, leader, authority). AND YOU ARE NOW HER TRUE DAUGHTER FOR YOU DO RIGHT AND LET NOTHING TERRIFY YOU [NOT GIVING WAY TO HYSTERICAL FEARS OR LETTING ANXIETIES UNNERVE YOU.]
FOR THE MAN IS THE IMAGE AND GLORY OF GOD;
BUT THE WOMAN IS THE GLORY OF THE MAN. FOR MAN DID NOT COME FROM WOMAN, BUT WOMAN FROM MAN; NEITHER WAS MAN CREATED FOR WOMAN, BUT WOMAN FOR THE MAN.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:7-9
YOU ARE A CAPABLE, INTELLIGENT AND VIRTUOUS WOMAN.
YOU ARE FAR MORE PRECIOUS THAN JEWELS AND YOUR VALUE IS FAR ABOVE RUBIES OR PEARLS. THE HEART OF YOUR HUSBAND TRUST IN YOU CONFIDENTLY AND RELIES ON AND BELIEVES IN YOU SECURELY, SO THAT YOUR HUSBAND HAS NO LACK OF HONEST GAIN, OR NEED OF DISHONEST SPOIL. COMFORT ENCOURAGE AND DO YOUR HUSBAND ONLY GOOD AS LONG AS THERE IS LIFE WITHIN YOU.
PROVERBS 31:10-12
FULFILL YOUR DUTY TOWARD EACH OTHER FOR YOU DO NOT HAVE AUTHORITY OVER YOUR OWN BODY, BUT RATHER YOUR HUSBAND AND YOUR HUSBAND DOES NOT HAVE AUTHORITY OVER HIS OWN BODY BUT YOU HIS WIFE. DO NOT DEPRIVE EACH OTHER, EXCEPT PERHAPS BY MUTUAL CONSENT FOR A TIME, TO BE FREE FOR PRAYER. BUT THEN RETURN TO EACH OTHER, SO THAT satan may not tempt you THROUGH YOUR LACK OF SELF-CONTROL.
1 CORINTHIANS 7:3-5
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THE QUESTION IS OFTEN ASKED
CAN YOU BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
I ASK YOU:
CAN YOU BE A MURDEROUS CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A CHEATING, A THIEVING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A GOSSIPING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A FORNICATING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE AN ADULTEROUS CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A PEDOPHILIC CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A PRIDFUL CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A RACIST CHRISTIAN?
WHEN IT IS WRITTEN:
‘THE FEARFUL, THE UNBELIEVING, THE VILE, THE MURDERERS, THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, THOSE WHO PRACTICE MAGIC ARTS, THE IDOLATERS AND ALL LIARS–THEY WILL BE CONSIGNED TO THE FIERY LAKE OF BURNING SULFUR. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.REVELATION 21:8 OUTSIDE ARE THE DOGS, THOSE WHO PRACTICE MAGIC ARTS, THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, THE MURDERERS, AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES AND PRACTICES FALSEHOOD.’ REVELATION 22:15
TRULY TRULY I TELL YOU
YOU ARE A REDEEMED CHRIST LIKE MAN, WOMAN
FOR THE GRACE OF GOD HAS APPEARED,
BRINGING SALVATION TO YOU, INSTRUCTING YOU TO
DENY ungodliness and worldly desires AND TO LIVE SENSIBLY, RIGHTEOUSLY AND GODLY IN THE PRESENT AGE, LOOKING FOR THE BLESSED HOPE AND THE APPEARING OF THE GLORY OF YOUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR, CHRIST JESUS, WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR YOU TO REDEEM YOU FROM all wickedness AND TO PURIFY FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE THAT IS HIS VERY OWN, EAGER TO DO WHAT IS GOOD.
TITUS 2:11-14
THEREFORE, IT IS OF FAITH, THAT IT MIGHT BE BY GRACE;
ROMANS 4:16
THUS,
GRACE WORKETH BY FAITH
AND FAITH WORKETH BY LOVE;
FAITH WITHOUT LOVE IS DEAD.
THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS IS FAITH
EXPRESSING ITSELF THROUGH LOVE.
GALATIANS 5:6
AND LOVE NEVER FAILS.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:8
AND WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD=LOVE,
BECAUSE ANYONE WHO APPROACHES HIM MUST BELIEVE, LEAN, DEPEND, RELY ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT HE EXISTS AND THAT HE REWARDS THOSE WHO EARNESTLY SEEK HIM!
HEBREWS 11:6
HAVE YOU COME TO KNOW AND TO BELIEVE THE LOVE THAT GOD HAS FOR YOU? GOD IS LOVE, AND WHOEVER ABIDES IN LOVE ABIDES IN GOD, AND GOD ABIDES IN HIM.
1 JOHN 4:16
BE NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL, BECAUSE IT IS THE POWER OF GOD THAT BRINGS SALVATION TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES: FIRST TO THE JEW, THEN TO THE GENTILE. FOR IN THE GOSPEL THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD=HIS WAY OF DOING THINGS AND BEING RIGHT IS REVEALED–A RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS BY FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST, JUST AS IT IS WRITTEN:
THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH=BY THE WORD OF GOD
AND THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.”
ROMANS 1:16-17
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THE QUESTION IS OFTEN ASKED
CAN YOU BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
I ASK YOU:
CAN YOU BE A MURDEROUS CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A CHEATING, A THIEVING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A GOSSIPING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A FORNICATING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE AN ADULTEROUS CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A PEDOPHILIC CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A PRIDFUL CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A RACIST CHRISTIAN?
‘RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE ABILITY TO STAND IN THE PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD WITHOUT guilt or shame KNOWING THAT YOU ARE OF THE SAME NATURE WITH GOD, FOR YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE SIN NATURE: WHICH IS LAWBREAKER AND LIAR INHERITED FROM ADAM FOR OUR LORD JESUS TOOK UPON HIMSELF YOUR SIN NATURE AND GAVE YOU THE NATURE OF GOD: GOD IS SPIRIT, IS LOVE, IS HOLY, IS COMPASSIONATE, IS MERCIFUL AND FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. YOU WERE A SINNER YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED BY GRACE, IT MEANS HAVING NO CONCEPT OF YOUR past life, NO CONCEPT OF failure or lack AND RECEIVE THAT WHICH HE HAS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU FOR GOD’S FAVOR IS UPON YOU. YES, YOU DO HAVE TO RESIST THE FLESH–THAT MINDSET THAT GOES AGAINST THE WORD, THE WAY OF GOD; BUT IF YOU DO SIN YOU HAVE AN ADVOCATE BEFORE THE FATHER–JESUS CHRIST, THE RIGHTEOUS ONE. HE HIMSELF IS THE ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR sins, AND NOT ONLY FOR OURS BUT ALSO FOR the sins OF THE WHOLE WORLD. 1 JOHN 2:1-2 COME BOLDLY THEREFORE UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE, THAT YOU MAY OBTAIN MERCY, AND FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED.
THE BLESSING=THE ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS PEACE, HEALING, HEALTH, PROSPERITY,
AS A BELIEVER, THAT’S YOU!’
SO WALK BY FAITH=DO THE WORD OF GOD
AND BE LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT,
and not by your sensory mechanisms.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:7
THIS IS THE WORK OF GOD THAT
YOU BELIEVE IN THE ONE HE SENT.
JOHN 6:29
“FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF MY FATHER,”
SAYS THE LORD
“THAT EVERYONE WHO SEES THE SON
AND BELIEVES IN HIM MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE,
AND I WILL RAISE HIM ON THE LAST DAY.”
JOHN 6:40
NOW KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THIS:
EVERYTHING YOU ARE GOING TO RECEIVE FROM GOD WILL BE:
THROUGH THE BLOOD COVENANT PROMISES IN THE WORD=JESUS CHRIST=THE SON OF GOD BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BY FAITH WALKING IN THE LOVE OF GOD;
SO FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANTLY SEEK (AIM AT, STRIVE AFTER)
THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS [HIS WAY OF DOING AND BEING RIGHT–THE ATTITUDE AND CHARACTER OF GOD], AND EVERYTHING ELSE WILL BE ADDED UNTO YOU IN SURPLUS.
MATTHEW 6:33
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT A MATTER OF EATING AND DRINKING, BUT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS [BEING IN RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD THROUGH REPENTANCE], PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR WHOEVER SERVES CHRIST IN THIS WAY IS PLEASING TO GOD AND APPROVED BY MEN.
ROMANS 14:17-18
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THE QUESTION IS OFTEN ASKED
CAN YOU BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
I ASK YOU:
CAN YOU BE A MURDEROUS CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A CHEATING, A THIEVING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A GOSSIPING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A FORNICATING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE AN ADULTEROUS CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A PEDOPHILIC CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A PRIDEFUL CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A RACIST CHRISTIAN?
WHEN IT IS WRITTEN:
FOR THIS YOU CAN BE SURE: NO IMMORAL, IMPURE, OR GREEDY PERSON (THAT IS, AN IDOLATER), HAS ANY INHERITANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST AND OF GOD. LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU WITH EMPTY WORDS, FOR BECAUSE OF SUCH THINGS GOD’S WRATH COMES ON THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE.
EPHESIANS 5:5-6
DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE WICKED WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED: NEITHER THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, NOR IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR MEN WHO SUBMIT TO OR PERFORM HOMOSEXUAL ACTS, NOR THIEVES, NOR THE GREEDIY, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR VERBAL ABUSERS, NOR SWINDLERS, WILL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
BUT FORNICATION, AND ALL UNCLEANNESS, OR COVETOUSNESS, LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED AMONG YOU, AS BECOMETH SAINTS;
EPHESIANS 5:3
MARRIAGE IS HONOURABLE IN ALL, AND THE BED UNDEFILED: BUT WHOREMONGERS AND ADULTERERS GOD WILL JUDGE.
HEBREWS 13:4
ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELLINGS, AND SUCH LIKE: OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
GALATIANS 5:21
WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS YOUR LIFE, APPEARS, THEN YOU ALSO WILL APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY. PUT TO DEATH, THEREFORE, THE COMPONENTS OF YOUR EARTHLY NATURE: SEXUAL IMMORALITY, IMPURITY, LUST, EVIL DESIRES, AND GREED, WHICH IS IDOLATRY. BECAUSE OF THESE, THE WRATH OF GOD IS COMING ON THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE.
COLOSSIANS 3:5
“DO NOT PRESENT THE PARTS OF YOUR BODY TO SIN AS instruments of wickedness, BUT PRESENT YOURSELVES TO GOD AS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FROM DEATH TO LIFE;
AND PRESENT THE PARTS OF YOUR BODY TO HIM AS INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
ROMANS 6:13
“FOR IF YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO the flesh, YOU WILL DIE; BUT IF BY THE SPIRIT YOU PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YOU WILL LIVE.”
ROMANS 8:13
“NOW THE WORKS OF the flesh ARE EVIDENT, WHICH ARE:
adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; OF WHICH I TELL YOU BEFOREHAND, JUST AS I ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THOSE WHO PRACTICE SUCH THINGS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”
GALATIANS 5:19-21
“FLEE FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY. EVERY OTHER SIN A MAN CAN COMMIT IS OUTSIDE HIS BODY, BUT HE WHO SINS SEXUALLY SINS AGAINST HIS OWN BODY.”
1 CORINTHIANS 6:18
“HAVE YOU NOT READ THAT FROM THE BEGINNING THE CREATOR ‘MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.’
MATTHEW 19:4
THE MAN SAID,
“THIS IS NOW BONE OF MY BONES
AND FLESH OF MY FLESH;
SHE SHALL BE CALLED ‘WOMAN,’
FOR SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN.”
THIS IS WHY A MAN LEAVES HIS FATHER AND MOTHER
AND IS UNITED TO HIS WIFE, AND THEY BECOME ONE FLESH.
GENESIS 2:23-24
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THE QUESTION IS OFTEN ASKED
CAN YOU BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
I ASK YOU:
CAN YOU BE A MURDEROUS CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A CHEATING, A THIEVING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A GOSSIPING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A FORNICATING CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE AN ADULTEROUS CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A PEDOPHILIC CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A PRIDFUL CHRISTIAN?
CAN YOU BE A RACIST CHRISTIAN?
“IF YOU DELIBERATELY KEEP ON SINNING AFTER YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, NO SACRIFICE FOR SINS IS LEFT, BUT ONLY A FEARFUL EXPECTATION OF JUDGMENT AND OF RAGING FIRE THAT WILL CONSUME the enemies OF GOD. ANYONE WHO REJECTED THE LAW OF MOSES DIED WITHOUT MERCY ON THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. HOW MUCH MORE SEVERELY DO YOU THINK SOMEONE DESERVES TO BE PUNISHED WHO HAS TRAMPLED THE SON OF GOD UNDERFOOT, WHO HAS TREATED AS AN UNHOLY THING THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT THAT SANCTIFIED THEM, AND WHO HAS INSULTED THE SPIRIT OF GRACE?
FOR YOU KNOW HIM WHO SAID, “VENGEANCE IS MINE,
I WILL REPAY,” SAYS THE LORD.
AND AGAIN
“THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.”
IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS
OF THE LIVING GOD.
HEBREWS 10:26-31
THEREFORE, IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST, YOU ARE A NEW CREATION; old things HAVE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW=YOU ARE A NEW SPECIE OF BEING THAT NEVER EXISTED BEFORE AND WILL NEVER EXIST AGAIN;
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17
PUT OFF YOUR former way of life, YOUR old self,
which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MINDS,
AND PUT ON THE NEW SELF, CREATED AFTER THE LIKENESS OF GOD IN TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS.
EPHESIANS 4:22-24
FOR IF YOU HAVE BEEN UNITED WITH HIM IN A DEATH LIKE HIS, YOU SHALL CERTAINLY BE UNITED WITH HIM IN A RESURRECTION LIKE HIS. YOU KNOW THAT YOUR old self WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM IN ORDER THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE BROUGHT TO NOTHING, SO THAT YOU WOULD NO LONGER BE ENSLAVED TO SIN. FOR ONE WHO HAS DIED HAS BEEN SET FREE FROM SIN. NOW IF YOU HAVE DIED WITH CHRIST, YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL ALSO LIVE WITH HIM. YOU KNOW THAT CHRIST, BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD, WILL NEVER DIE AGAIN; DEATH NO LONGER HAS DOMINION OVER HIM. FOR THE DEATH HE DIED HE DIED TO SIN, ONCE FOR ALL, BUT THE LIFE HE LIVES HE LIVES TO GOD. SO YOU ALSO MUST CONSIDER YOURSELVES DEAD TO SIN AND ALIVE TO GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.
LET NO SIN THEREFORE REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY,
TO MAKE YOU OBEY its passions. DO NOT PRESENT YOUR MEMBERS TO SIN as instruments for unrighteousness, BUT PRESENT YOURSELVES TO GOD AS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FROM death TO LIFE, AND YOUR MEMBERS TO GOD AS INSTRUMENTS FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. FOR SIN WILL HAVE no dominion OVER YOU, SINCE YOU ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE.
ROMANS 6:5-14
GOD IS LIGHT AND IN HIM THERE IS NO darkness AT ALL IF YOU SAY YOU HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM YET WALK IN the darkness , YOU LIE AND DO NOT PRACTICE THE TRUTH. BUT IF YOU WALK IN THE LIGHT–GROWING IN HOLINESS AND MATURING IN THE FAITH AS YOU FOLLOW JESUS–AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT, YOU HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER, AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS, HIS SON CLEANSES YOU FROM ALL SIN.
JOHN 1:5-7
I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. HE WHO FOLLOWS ME SHALL NOT walk in darkness, BUT HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE JOHN 8:12
FOLLOW MY PRECEPTS,
LIVE IN MY POWER,
AND GROW IN MY GRACE
IN REPENTANCE AND REST YOU SHALL BE SAVED
IN QUIETNESS AND CONFIDENT TRUST IS YOUR STRENGTH
BUT ARE YOU WILLING?
ISAIAH 30:15
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SO LOVE CREATED MANKIND IN HIS OWN IMAGE,
IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED THEM;
MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM.
LOVE BLESSED THEM AND SAID TO THEM,
“BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY; FILL THE EARTH AND SUBDUE IT.
RULE OVER THE FISH IN THE SEA AND THE BIRDS IN THE SKY AND OVER EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT MOVES ON THE GROUND.”
GENESIS 1:27-28
WHAT IF SOME DID NOT HAVE FAITH?
WILL THEIR LACK OF FAITH NULLIFY GOD’S FAITHFULNESS?
ABSOLUTELY NOT! LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR.
AS IT IS WRITTEN: “SO THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL IN YOUR JUDGMENTS.”
ROMANS 3:3-4
IF YOUR CHILD COME TO YOU AND SAID:
“I WANT TO BE A THIEF, A MURDERER”
WOULD YOU SAY TO THEM “GO FOR IT, I WILL HELP YOU,
I WILL PAY FOR WHATEVER YOU NEED TO BE A THIEF, A MURDERER.”
WOULD YOU SAY THAT TO THEM? THEN WHY DO YOU HELP YOUR CHILD “CHANGE THEIR SEX”? OR WHY DO YOU ACCEPT AND OR ENCOURAGE THEM TO LIVE A HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE?
“IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR HIM TO HAVE A MILLSTONE HUNG AROUND HIS NECK AND TO BE THROWN INTO THE SEA THAN TO CAUSE ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES TO STUMBLE.”
LUKE 17:2
FOOLISHNESS IS BOUND UP IN THE HEART OF A CHILD,
BUT THE ROD OF DISCIPLINE WILL DRIVE IT FAR FROM HIM.
PROVERBS 22:15
HE WHO SPARES THE ROD HATES HIS SON,
BUT HE WHO LOVES HIM DISCIPLINES HIM DILIGENTLY.
PROVERBS 13:24
A ROD OF CORRECTION IMPARTS WISDOM,
BUT A CHILD LEFT TO HIMSELF DISGRACES HIS MOTHER.
PROVERBS 29:15
CHASTEN THY SON WHILE THERE IS HOPE,
DO NOT BE PARTY TO HIS DEATH.
PROVERBS 19:18
DO NOT WITHHOLD DISCIPLINE FROM A CHILD;
ALTHOUGH YOU STRIKE HIM WITH A ROD, HE WILL NOT DIE.
STRIKE HIM WITH A ROD, AND YOU WILL DELIVER HIS SOUL FROM SHEOL.
PROVERBS 23: 13, 14
TO THE CHILDREN MAKE KNOWN GOD’S TRUTH.
MANAGE YOUR FAMILY WELL AND SEE THAT YOUR CHILDREN OBEY YOU WITH PROPER RESPECT.
CORRECT YOUR SONS, AND DAUGHTERS AND THEY SHALL GIVE YOU REST AND GIVE DELIGHT TO YOUR SOUL.
DO NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN TO ANGER LEST THEY GET DISCOURAGED.
PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN TO WRATH,
BUT BRING THEM UP IN THE NURTURE AND ADMONITION OF THE LORD.
DOES THE WORD OF GOD CHANGE WHEN YOU ARE FACING
A FAMILY MEMBER LIVING IN sin
AND REFUSING TO GET OUT OF IT
AND DETERMINE TO GO the way of death
FOR THE WAGES OF sin IS death.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF AGREEMENT?
HOW DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO BE DELIVERED WHEN YOU WHO ARE TO STAND IN THE GAP FOR THEM INSTEAD JOIN THEM IN THEIR sins, ACCEPTING THEIR LIFESTYLE BY PRETENDING THAT YOU ARE BEING COMPASSIONATE AND LOVING TOWARD THEM?
BY ACCEPTING THEIR LIFESTYLE YOU HAVE BECOME AN ENABLER AND A PARTAKER OF THEIR sin.
YOU LOVE THE PERSON, YOU HATE THEIR sin TO THE POINT–IF NEED BE–OF SEVERING THE RELATIONSHIP FOR THAT PERSON’S SAKE AND FOR YOUR SAKE AND FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL AS YOU CONTINUE TO INTERCEDE FOR THEM IN PRAYER.
IF ANYONE COMES TO ME, AND DOES NOT HATE HIS OWN FATHER AND MOTHER AND WIFE AND CHILDREN AND BROTHER AND SISTERS, BY COMPARISON, YES, AND EVEN HIS OWN LIFE, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.
LUKE 14:26
THEREFORE IMPRESS THESE WORDS OF THE LORD ON YOUR HEART AND ON YOUR SOUL AND BIND THEM AS A SIGN ON YOUR HAND, AND THEY ARE AS FRONTALS ON YOUR FOREHEAD. AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN TALKING OF THEM WHEN YOU SIT IN YOUR HOUSE AND WHEN YOU WALK ALONG THE ROAD AND WHEN YOU LIE DOWN AND WHEN YOU RISE UP. AND WRITE THEM ON THE DOORPOSTS OF YOUR HOUSE AND ON YOUR GATES SO THAT YOUR DAYS AND THE DAYS OF YOUR CHILDREN MAY BE MULTIPLIED ON THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS TO GIVE THEM AS LONG AS THE HEAVENS REMAIN ABOVE THE EARTH.
DEUTERONOMY 11:18-21
THE HEAVEN, EVEN THE HIGHEST HEAVENS, BELONG TO THE LORD;
BUT THE LAND=THE EARTH HE HAS GIVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN.
The dead DO NOT PRAISE THE LORD,
NOR any WHO GO DOWN INTO SILENCE.
PSALM 115:16-17
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WHO ARE THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF DISOBEDIENCE?
THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD WHO HAVE REJECTED
JESUS CHRIST=YESHUA HAMASHIACH=THE WORD OF GOD
AND WHO ARE OF THEIR FATHER THE DEVIL AND THE DESIRES OF THEIR FATHER THEY WANT TO DO. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. WHEN HE LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR HE IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES.
JOHN 8:44
THUS THEY ARE ALWAYS UNDER THE CURSE ON THEIR WAY TO HELL, FOR HELL EXPANDS ITS JAWS, OPENING WIDE ITS MOUTH; INTO IT WILL DESCEND THEIR NOBLES AND MASSES WITH ALL THEIR BRAWLERS AND REVELERS.
ISAIAH 5:14
THEY ARE ON THE PATH THAT LEADS TO
PERDITION ON THEIR WAY TO HELL TO ETERNAL PUNISHMENT INTO THE ETERNAL FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS-MATTHEW 25:41 WHO REBELLED AGAINST GOD BECAUSE OF PRIDE AND SELF-CENTEREDNESS, AND FOLLOWING THE PATH OF THEIR FATHER THE DEVIL BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF, THEY REJECTED JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH WHO IS THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH HIM.
JOHN 14:6
THESE WILL PAY THE PENALTY OF ETERNAL DESTRUCTION,
AWAY FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND FROM THE GLORY OF HIS MIGHT.
1 THESSALONIANS 1:9
BUT
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD IS FULLNESS OF JOY;
AT HIS RIGHT HAND PLEASURES FOREVERMORE.
PSALM 16:11
SO
AS THE WEEDS ARE PULLED UP AND BURNED IN THE FIRE,
SO IT WILL BE AT THE END OF THE AGE.
THE SON OF MAN WILL SEND OUT HIS ANGELS, AND THEY WILL WEED OUT OF HIS KINGDOM EVERY CAUSE OF SIN AND ALL WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS. AND THEY WILL THROW THEM INTO THE FIERY FURNACE, WHERE THERE WILL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE LIKE THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER. HE WHO HAS EARS LET HIM HEAR.
MATTHEW 13:40-43
THEY PERISH BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO LOVE THE TRUTH AND SO BE SAVED [JESUS=YESHUA=THE WORD OF GOD IS TRUTH]. FOR THIS REASON GOD SENDS THEM A POWERFUL DELUSION SO THAT THEY WILL BELIEVE THE LIE AND SO THAT ALL WILL BE CONDEMNED WHO HAVE NOT BELIEVED THE TRUTH [JESUS CHRIST=YESHUA HAMASHIACH=THE WORD OF GOD IN THE HOLY SPIRIT=THE ADVOCATE-BUT HAVE DELIGHTED IN WICKEDNESS.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-11
THEY ARE DARKENED IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING AND SEPARATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD BECAUSE OF THE IGNORANCE THAT IS IN THEM DUE TO THE HARDENING OF THEIR HEARTS. HAVING LOST ALL SENSITIVITY, THEY HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO SENSUALITY SO AS TO INDULGE IN EVERY KIND OF IMPURITY, AND THEY ARE FULL OF GREED.
EPPHESIANS 4:18-19
13
DO YOU RECALL THIS ANALOGY WE SPOKE OF SOMETIME BACK
AND YOU WROTE:
IN THIS WORLD WE THE BODY OF CHRIST-THE CHURCH REPRESENT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
BUT LORD FOR THE MOST PART WE CHRISTIANS DO NOT UNDERSTAND OUR ROYALTY IN CHRIST.
I REMEMBER AND I THINK THAT IS ONE OF THE REASON YOU ALLOWED THAT TO HAPPEN.
I REMEMBER WHEN THE WORLD FOUND OUT THAT
PRINCE WILLIAM THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE CHOSE CATHERINE MIDDLETON, A COMMONER, FOR HIS BRIDE. THERE WAS A FAR OUT CRY ON ONE SIDE AND APPLAUSE ON THE OTHER SIDE.
I DIDN’T CARE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
AND I REMEMBER THE DAYS, THE MONTHS LEADING TO THE WEDDING HOW THEY MADE A POINT TO CALL HER A COMMONER.
AND I WAS MUCH INTERRESTED IN WATCHING THE WEDDING CEREMONY FOR IN MY OPINION MARRIAGE BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN IS NOT ONLY THE FIRST INSTITUTION GOD ESTABLISHED ON EARTH BUT THERE IS SOMETHING
MAGICAL, MAJESTIC IN WATCHING A WEDDING BETWEEN
ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. EVEN WHEN IT IS MAKE BELIEVE
ON TELEVISION IT IS SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL. SO I WATCHED THEIR
WEDDING ON AND OFF THAT DAY.
AND ONE DAY I WENT TO THE STORE AND I SAW A MAGAZINE WITH “COMPLETE COVERAGE” OF THEIR WEDDING.
I GLANCED AT THE PICTURE IN FRONT OF THE MAGAZINE
ON THE RACK, AND I WAS ABOUT TO WALK AWAY BECAUSE
I DON’T BUY MAGAZINES. BUT YOU LORD TOLD ME TO BUY IT.
I WASN’T SURE WHY I HAD TO BUY IT BUT I DID AND BROUGHT IT TO THE HOUSE. ONE DAY I TOOK THE MAGAZINE AND I STARTED TO LOOK THROUGH THE PAGES, AND THAT DAY I UNDERSTOOD OUR MARRIAGE TO YOU AND OUR ROYALTY IN YOU LORD, MY GOD.
THIS IS AN ANALOGY-A SIMILARITY BETWEEN HOW CATHERINE
MIDDLETON BORN IN ENGLAND ENTERED THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND AND HOW WE HUMAN BEINGS BORN IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
IF I RECALL BOTH PRINCE WILLIAM AND HER WENT TO THE SAME UNIVERSITY AND THEY MET AND HE LOVES HER AND CHOSE HER FOR HIS BRIDE AND PROPOSE TO HER. CATHERINE MIDDLETON THE COMMONER HAD A CHOICE TO ACCEPT THE PRINCE’S PROPOSAL AND EVERYTHING THAT HIS KINGDOM IS READY TO OFFER HER OR REJECT HIM AND HIS INHERITANCE.
[THOUGH I WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY SHE WOULD DO THAT BUT SHE HAD THE POWER TO CHOOSE WHAT WAS BEING
OFFERED TO HER BY HIM WITH NO WORK ON HER PART. EVERYTHING HAD ALREADY BEEN GAINED FOR HER, ALL SHE HAD TO DO IS SAY YES. THANK GOD FOR HER SHE SAID YES OTHERWISE WE WOULD NEVER HEAR OF HER AGAIN.]
AND I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT PRINCE WILLIAM HAD TO FACE: HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF TRADITION. HOW HE HAD TO STAND IN THE GAP AND FIGHT FOR HER–LOVE FOUGHT FOR HER–TO CONVINCE THE KINGDOM THAT HE WANTED HER, THAT SHE IS WORTHY, AND THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT HER.
ONCE AND AGAIN AT THE ALTAR IN HER WEDDING GOWN SHE COULD HAVE SAID NO AFTER SHE HAD BEEN TRAINED IN THE WAYS OF THE KINGDOM. I NOW CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE MAN CHOOSE THE WOMAN AT THE TIME OF THE ENGAGEMENT, BUT AT THE WEDDING CEREMONY THE WOMAN HAS TO SAY YES FIRST TO THE QUESTION “WOULD YOU TAKE THIS MAN AS YOUR LAWFUL WEDDED HUSBAND”, SHE HAS TO RECEIVE WHAT WAS GIVEN TO HER. AND WHEN THE MAN IS ASKED THAT QUESTION AND HE ANSWERED “I DO” HE IMMEDIATELY PROVIDE A COVER FOR HER.
AND WHATEVER THEY WERE NOT THEY BECAME:
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
HE BECAME THE HEAD OF HIS WIFE TO LOVE AND CARE FOR HER.
SHE BECAME THE GLORY OF HER HUSBAND.
AND THEY BECAME JOINT HEIRS OF THE GRACIOUS GIFT OF LIFE.
AND WHATEVER THEY DID NOT HAVE NOW THEY HAVE:
THE POWER OF AGREEMENT.
ONE CAN PUT A THOUSAND TO FLIGHT
BUT TWO CAN PUT TEN THOUSAND.
TWO ARE BETTER OFF THAN ONE,
BECAUSE TOGETHER THEY CAN WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY,
IF ONE OF THEM FALLS DOWN
THE OTHER CAN HELP HIM UP.
BUT IF SOMEONE IS ALONE AND FALLS,
IT’S JUST TOO BAD, BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP HIM.
IF IT IS COLD, TWO CAN SLEEP TOGETHER AND
STAY WARM, BUT HOW CAN YOU KEEP WARM BY YOURSELF?
TWO PEOPLE CAN RESIST AN ATTACK THAT WOULD DEFEAT ONE PERSON ALONE. A ROPE MADE OF THREE CORDS IS HARD TO BREAK.
ECCLESIASTES 4:9-12
MARRIAGE IS A THREESOME:
THE HUSTAND, THE WIFE AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
THAT DAY APRIL 29, 2011 AMIDST OF ALL THE FANFARE, DRESSED IN HER WHITE WEDDING GOWN, THE SPIRIT OF ROYALTY WAS HOVERING OVER HER, CATHERINE MIDDLETON AS A COMMONER WENT INTO WESTMINSTER ABBEY IN LONDON, BUT CAME OUT OF WESTMINTER ABBEY IN LONDON AS CATHERINE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE FOR SHE HAD RECEIVED WHAT WAS PREPARED FOR HER AND THE MOMENT PRINCE WILLIAM THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE SAID
“I DO” TO THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT OF ROYALTY SEALED HER AS ROYAL, AND IN HIM SHE WAS CLEANSED, PURIFIED, MADE HOLY AND HE JUSTIFIED HER AS ROYALTY, HE REDEEMED HER OF THE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF BEING A COMMONER AND PUT HER IN RIGHT STANDING WITH THE QUEEN, SHE IS NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE QUEEN IN THE ROYAL ANOINTING FOR THAT ANOINTING THAT WAS ON PRINCE WILLIAM CAME ON HER FOR THEY BECAME ONE FLESH. AND AS LONG AS THEY ARE MARRIED NO ONE CAN EVER CALL CATHERINE THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE A COMMONER! AND SHE IS NOW SECOND IN LINE TO BECOME QUEEN AS HER HUSBAND PRINCE WILLIAM IS SECOND IN LINE TO SUCCEED HIS GRANDMOTHER, QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND. AND EVEN THOUGH SHE MAY DO CERTAIN THINGS DIFFERENTLY, SHE HAD TO LEARN THE WISDOM OF THAT KINGDOM AND SHE MUST ABIDE BY THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THAT KINGDOM, BECAUSE SHE IS IN AND UNDER THE DOMINION OF THAT KINGDOM AS AN JOINT HEIR WITH HER HUSBAND TO THE THRONE, HER FREEDOM IS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THAT KINGDOM.
YES THE PRINCE HAS MADE HER POWERFUL, RICH, WEALTHY, WISE, STRONG, HONORED, GLORIFIED, BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED.
BUT WHAT, YOU MAY ASK, DID SHE HAD TO OFFER HIM:
AS A CAPABLE, INTELLIGENT AND VIRTUOUS WOMAN, SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN JEWELS AND HER VALUE IS FAR ABOVE RUBIES OR PEARLS.
THE HEART OF HER HUSBAND TRUSTS IN HER CONFIDENTLY, AND RELIES ON AND BELIEVES IN HER SECURELY, SO THAT HE HAS
NO LACK OF (HONEST) GAIN OR NEED OF [DISHONEST ] SPOIL.
SHE IS TO COMFORT, ENCOURAGE, AND DO HIM ONLY GOOD AS LONG AS THERE IS LIFE WITHIN HER.–THIS IS A PROFOUND MYSTERY–BUT I AM TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
[TODAY MAY 19, 2018, I WAS PROMPTED BY THE LORD TO INSERT THE FOLLOWING: SINCE NOVEMBER 2017 WHEN PRINCE HARRY, THE BROTHER OF PRINCE WILLIAM GOT ENGAGED TO RACHEL MEGHAN MARKLE, I FOLLOWED TO A CERTAIN DEGREE THE NEWS LEADING TO THEIR WEDDING DAY TODAY. I DIDN’T WATCH IT LIVE FOR THIS WAS
THE TIME WHEN WE WERE BRINGING AND PRAISING AND WORSHIPPING THE LORD OUR GOD WITH OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS. RIGHT AFTER THAT I WATCHED THE RECAP OF THEIR WEDDING AND AS I WAS WATCHING IT AND PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT OVER THEM, I ASKED THE LORD: “WHAT IS YOUR SAY IN REGARD TO THEM, WHAT IS IT YOU WANT ME TO TAKE FROM THEIR WEDDING.” FOR I REMEMBER THE ABOVE REVELATION THE LORD GAVE ME FOR PRINCE WILLIAM AND CATHERINE MIDDLETON’S WEDDING.
BEFORE I TYPE WHAT THE LORD SAID I HAVE TO INJECT THE FOLLOWING, THIS IS MY OPINION: I BELIEVE THE HEART OF THEIR MOTHER LIVES IN PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY AND THAT SHE LEFT A GREAT LEGACY OF LOVE IN HER SONS AND I PRAY THAT IT GOES DOWN TO GENERATIONS TO COME. AND ALSO I BELIEVE THAT THE DIFFERENT KINGDOMS STILL IN EXISTANCE AROUND THE WORLD ARE NOT JUST FOR THE ROYALS TO ENJOY THEIR ROYALTIES, BUT I BELIEVE THE LORD KEPT THEM TO THIS DAY TO GIVE US THE CHURCH A GLIMPSE OF HIS KINGDOM AND HOW TO FUNCTION AS KINGS AND PRIESTS TO SERVE OUR GOD.
NOW I SPENT THE DAY EXPECTING THE LORD’S ANSWER AND IT CAME TO ME THIS AFTERNOON AND THE LORD SAID: “IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE POOR OR WELL TO DO, COMING FROM A DISFUNCTIONAL FAMILY, OR FROM DIVORCED PARENTS, OR ARE DIVORCED YOURSELF I THE LORD CREATED MANKIND IN MY OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD I CREATED THEM; MALE AND FEMALE I CREATED THEM.
AND BLESSED THEM. GENESIS1:27-28 AND GAVE THEM DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF MY HANDS PSALM 8:6 NOW THE MAN CALLED HIS WIFE’S NAME EVE, BECAUSE SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE LIVING. GENESIS 3:20 AND FROM THE THREE SONS OF NOAH: SHEM, HAM AND JAPHETH, WHO THEMSELVES HAD SONS AFTER THE FLOOD, CAME ALL THE NATIONS GENESIS 10:1 FOR I THE LORD MYSELF GIVE EVERYONE LIFE AND BREATH AND EVERYTHING ELSE. FROM ONE BLOOD I MADE ALL THE NATIONS OF MANKIND, THAT THEY SHOULD INHABIT THE WHOLE EARTH; AND I MARKED OUT THEIR APPOINTED TIMES IN HISTORY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR LANDS AND TERRITORIES.
I GOD DID THIS SO THAT THEY WOULD SEEK ME AND PERHAPS REACH OUT FOR ME AND FIND ME, THOUGH I AM NOT FAR
FROM ANY ONE OF YOU.
FOR IN ME MANKIND, MAN AND WOMAN LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE THEIR BEING.
AS SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID,
“WE ARE HIS OFFSPRING.”
ACTS 17:25-28
YET PEOPLE IN THEIR IGNORANCE, IN THE SENSE OF THEIR OWN INFERIORITY THAT TRANSLATE TO PRIDE AND PREJUDICE=FEAR HAVE PUT A LABEL ON THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN IN OTHER TO KEEP THE HUMAN RACE IN BONDAGE–DIVIDE TO CONQUER IS THE enemy’s STRATEGY. BUT WETHER YOU ARE AS THEY CALL IT OF A “MAJORITY” OR OF A “MINORITY” OR OF A “MIXED” RACE, WHEN THE PRINCE ‘OF PEACE’ SET HIS EYES ON YOU, WHEN HE STANDS AT THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AND KNOCK, AND YOU HEAR HIS VOICE AND OPEN THE DOOR, THEN HE ENTERS YOUR HOUSE AND DINES WITH YOU, AND YOU WITH HIM, REVELATION 3:20 YOU NO LONGER HAVE A PAST FOR HE THE PRINCE ‘OF PEACE’ CLEANSES YOU FROM all unrighteousness AND YOU CAN STAND BLAMELESS WITHOUT spot or wrinkle or any such things HOLY WITHOUT BLEMISH EPHESIANS 5:27 DRESSED IN WHITE AND BE ACCEPTED IN THE KINGDOM, IN THE BELOVED.
AND ON YOU IS BESTOWED A NEW LABEL:
“THE BRIDE OF CHRIST=THE ANOINTED ONE WITH ALL HIS ANOINTINGS”
REVELATION 19:7-9
THUS START AND CONTINUE TO THINK AND SPEAK AND ACT AND WALK AND LIVE AS KING AND PRIEST FOR OUR GOD AND REIGN=LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE IN SPLENDOR ON THE EARTH.]
REVELATION 5:9
FOR YOU HAVE BEEN BOUGHT WITH A PRICE:
1 CORINTHIANS 6:20
I WAS SLAIN AND WITH MY BLOOD I PURCHASE YOU FOR GOD FROM EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE, PEOPLE AND NATION.
REVELATION 5:9
“BUT WHEN PURPOSE IS NOT KNOWN, ABUSE IS INEVITABLE.”
IT IS WRITTEN:
“LIKE A DOG THAT RETURNS TO HIS VOMIT
IS A FOOL WHO REPEATS HIS FOOLISHNESS.
DO YOU SEE A MAN [WHO IS UNTEACHABLE AND] WISE IN HIS OWN EYES AND FULL OF SELF-CONCEIT? THERE IS MORE HOPE FOR A FOOL THAN FOR HIM.”
PROVERBS 26:11-12
JUST AS IT IS WRITTEN,
“THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND WHICH HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.” FOR TO US GOD REVEALED THEM THROUGH THE SPIRIT, FOR THE SPIRIT SEARCHES ALL THINGS, EVEN THE DEPTHS OF GOD.”
1 CORINTHIANS 2:9-10
“THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT TO A MAN
BUT THE END IT’S DESTRUCTION;
PROVERBS 14:12
ENTER THROUGH THE NARROW GATE
FOR WIDE IS THE GATE AND BROAD IS THE WAY
THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION
AND MANY ENTER THROUGH IT.
BUT SMALL IS THE GATE AND NARROW THE WAY
THAT LEADS TO LIFE IN ABUNDANCE TO THE FULL TILL
IT OVERFLOWS INTO ETERNITY WITH THE LORD, YOUR GOD,
AND ONLY A FEW FIND IT
AND REMAIN ON THAT NARROW ROAD.
MATTHEW 7:13
THIS IS A PROFOUND MYSTERY–BUT I AM TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
FOR YOU HAVE NEED OF PATIENT ENDURANCE [TO BEAR UP UNDER difficult circumstances WITHOUT COMPROMISING], SO THAT WHEN YOU HAVE CARRIED OUT THE WILL OF GOD, YOU MAY RECEIVE AND ENJOY TO THE FULL WHAT IS PROMISED.
FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE,
HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY.
BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE [THE ONE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH] SHALL LIVE BY FAITH [RESPECTING MAN’S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD AND TRUSTING HIM]; AND IF HE draws back [shrinking in fear], MY SOUL HAS NO DELIGHT IN HIM.
BUT OUR WAY IS NOT THAT OF THOSE WHO shrink back to destruction, BUT [WE ARE] OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE [RELYING ON GOD THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, THE MESSIAH AND BY THIS CONFIDENT FAITH PRESERVE THE SOUL.”
HEBREWS 10:36-39
JESUS IS LORD! 