To: ALL
WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From;
GOD THE FATHER, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the
HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16]
Subject:
MY WORD
James 4:5–17 (The Living Bible) 5 Or what do you think the
Scripture means when it says that the Holy Spirit, whom God has placed within
us, watches over us with tender jealousy? 6 But he gives us more and
more strength to stand against all such evil longings. As the Scripture says,
God gives strength to the humble but sets himself against the proud and
haughty. 7 So give yourselves humbly to God. Resist the devil and he
will flee from you. 8 And when you draw close to God, God will draw
close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and let your hearts be filled
with God alone to make them pure and true to him. 9 Let there be
tears for the wrong things you have done. Let there be sorrow and sincere
grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy. 10
Then when you realize your worthlessness before the Lord, he will lift you up,
encourage and help you. 11 Don’t criticize and speak evil about each
other, dear brothers. If you do, you will be fighting against God’s law of
loving one another, declaring it is wrong. But
your job is not to decide whether this law is right or wrong, but to obey it.
12 Only he who made the law can rightly judge among us. He alone
decides to save us or destroy. So what right do you have to judge or criticize
others? 13 Look here, you people who say, “Today or tomorrow we are
going to such and such a town, stay there a year, and open up a profitable
business.” 14 How do you know what is going to happen tomorrow? For
the length of your lives is as uncertain as the morning fog—now you see it;
soon it is gone. 15 What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us
to, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 Otherwise you will be
bragging about your own plans, and such self-confidence never pleases God. 17 Remember, too, that knowing
what is right to do and then not doing it is sin.
Joshua
24:14–16 (ESV) 14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in
faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River
and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord,
choose this day whom you will serve,
whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the
gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” 16 Then the people answered, “Far be
it from us that we should forsake the Lord
to serve other gods,
1 Corinthians 3:9–23 (The Living Bible) 9 We are only God’s coworkers. You are God’s garden, not
ours; you are God’s building, not ours. 10 God, in his
kindness, has taught me how to be an expert builder. I have laid the foundation
and Apollos has built on it. But he who builds on the foundation must be very
careful. 11 And no one can
ever lay any other real foundation than that one we already have—Jesus Christ. 12
But there are various kinds of materials that can be used to build on that
foundation. Some use gold and silver and jewels; and some build with sticks and
hay or even straw! 13 There
is going to come a time of testing at Christ’s Judgment Day to see what kind of
material each builder has used. Everyone’s work will be put through the fire so
that all can see whether or not it keeps its value, and what was really accomplished.
14 Then every workman who has built on the foundation with the right
materials, and whose work still stands, will get his pay. 15 But
if the house he has built burns up, he will have a great loss. He himself will
be saved, but like a man escaping through a wall of flames. 16 Don’t
you realize that all of you together are the house of God, and that the Spirit
of God lives among you in his house? 17 If anyone defiles and spoils
God’s home, God will destroy him. For God’s home is holy and clean, and you are
that home. 18 Stop fooling
yourselves. If you count yourself above average in intelligence, as judged by
this world’s standards, you had better put this all aside and be a fool rather
than let it hold you back from the true wisdom from above. 19 For
the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As it says in the book of Job,
God uses man’s own brilliance to trap him; he stumbles over his own “wisdom”
and falls. 20 And again, in the book of Psalms, we are told that the
Lord knows full well how the human mind reasons and how foolish and futile it
is. 21 So don’t be proud of following the wise men of this world.
For God has already given you everything you need. 22 He has
given you Paul and Apollos and Peter as your helpers. He has given you the
whole world to use, and life and even death are your servants. He has given you
all of the present and all of the future. All are yours, 23 and you
belong to Christ, and Christ is God’s.
[Please Note: Always Read the Word of God in Context asking
the Holy Spirit of the Living God to give you the interpretation. 2 Peter 1:16–21 (Williams) 16 For it was not mere stories of fancy
that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For when He
received such honor and glory from God the Father, when from the majestic glory
there was borne to Him a voice like this, “This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom
I take delight.” 18 we heard this voice ourselves borne from heaven
while we were with Him on that sacred mountain. 19 So we have the
message of the prophets more certainly guaranteed. Please pay attention to this message as to a
lamp that is shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning
star rises in your hearts; 20 because you recognize this truth above
all else, that no prophecy in Scripture
is to be interpreted by one’s own mind, 21 for no prophecy has
ever yet originated in man’s will, but men who were led by the Holy Spirit
spoke from God.]
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