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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Are We Seeing the Rain of Adversity, the Heat of Evil or the Rain of God's Love

Matthew 5: 38-48 Amplified Bible: 38 You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth [punishment that fits the offense, 39 But I say to you, do not resist an evil [ who insults you or violates your rights], but whoever slaps you on the right chee, turn the other toward him also [ simply ignore insignificant insults or trivial losses and do not bother to retaliate---maintain our dignity, your self-respect, your poise]. 40 If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also [ for the Lord repays the offender]. 41 And whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two. 42 Give to him who asks of you and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

( in this period, any military could ask regular people to help them carry their gear and to go as far as the military needed to travel.) So could you imagine telling someone you will not go help them and it is for Jesus’ sake? When we do anything, either for Jesus, our spouse, those we work with, do we draw a big line not to cross to help? Like some at the hospital where I was a couple of years ago, they could not help you with an issue that caused them to walk across your room at the time. I was told they were there for blood sugar checks but their hand held machine was not working. Don’t ask her to do anything else, she only gets paid for the blood sugar check!!!!! (The duty nurse was on another floor all day!)

43 You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and Hate your enemy; [Le. 19:18; Psalm 139:21-22] 44 But I tell you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. [Proverbs 25:21-22] 45 To show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike]. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward can you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that? 47 And if you greet only your brethren, what more than others are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles (the heathen) do that? 48 You, therefore, must be perfect [growing into complete maturity of godliness in mind & character, having reached the proper height of virtue and integrity], as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Be perfect: as your Father in heaven…God is perfectly holy, perfectly good and pure. 1 Samuel 2:2 — "No one is holy like the Lord."

Complete in moral character: Romans 12:2 A. Bible: 2 Do not be conformed to this world ( this age), [fashioned after & adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed ) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals & its new attitude]. So that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good, & acceptable & perfect will of God, even the thing which is good & acceptable & perfect [in His sight for you].

Please know the Lord gives what is wisdom in the ideals and new attitudes!

Job 37:7-13 Amplified Bible 7 God seals up ( stops, brings to a standstill by severe weather) the hand of every man [and now under His seal their hands are forced to inactivity], that all men whom He has made may know His doings (His sovereign power and their subjection to it).

8 then the beasts go into dens and remain in their lairs, 9 Out of its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds. 10 By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen over. [Ps. 147:17-18]

11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture; He scatters the cloud of His lightning. 12 And it is turned round about by His guidance, that they may do whatever He commands them upon the face of the habitable earth. 13 Whether it be for correction or for His earth [generally] or for His mercy and loving kindness, He causes it to come. [Exodus 9:18, 23; 1 Samuel 12:18-19]

From verse 7 God stops, brings to a standstill by severe weather the hand of every man. It is severe weather that forces inactivity. It is for man to know God’s doings that is His sovereign power and man is to be subject to His power!

The fires in California have either stopped or completely slowed living there in some areas! It is a jumping through hoops to get the papers to rebuild their homes!

Proverbs 15:3 NKJV 3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.

In reading Job 37: 8-10 we know he is referring to winter type weather. The animals find safety in their dens, in their holes where warmth or dry is needed.

Yet even now, we see this same thing occurring over the U. S. & around the world. Areas inundated with water like Hawaii, the areas of North Carolina by hurricane strength storm two years ago and neighborhoods were cut off by water around Mystic Camp in Texas last fourth of July.

There are areas that have 120 degree weather one day or for two days and then drop back twenty to twenty five degrees to experience cold, wind and much rain. The weather person has said more than once that the weather appeared more like that of early winter. Interesting though they call winter type weather here with much snow and it is 70 degrees and thunder storms with lightning and much thunder.

There is an extreme marine heat wave simmering in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. This started forming at the end of last year but has worsened in recent weeks. The readings located from the Scripps Pier in La Jolla has broken more than 25 daily temperature records this years. We are just in the month of April. In this region surface water temp was 6,5 degrees and the sea bottom as 67.6 degrees. This related to the hottest on April 15 about 100 years. Significant things are occurring around us. But……..

Are we looking at God in His power as much as we look at the power say in the extreme of 11 inches of rain in an hour and half? Or how about seeing whales, and the such wash up on shore due to the lack of food that is most likely dead or just gone from the area!!!

1. As in this extreme, the flooding has curved tremendously the work man would do, but because of the massive run of rivers over land and businesses, man is stopped. There have been many casualties due to flooding.

2. Stopped from all activities would include work, those in recreation and possible sports. If the beasts of the field find safety in their lairs, should we not also look for safety within the pages of God’s word?

3. Thought: Even as the clouds are under the counsel of God, might our hearts do well to be led under His management? For whether it is for correction, for his land or for mercy, it is by the hand of God, like lightning that is designed to accomplish his purpose of mercy and justice. See Job 36:30

Executing as in correction in Job 37:13: Genesis 7:11-12 Amp. Bible 11 In the year 600 of Noah’s life, in the seventeenth day of the second month, that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and burst forth, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And it rained for forty days and for forty nights.

God said He would never flood the earth like He did then: Genesis 9:13 I set My bow [rainbow] in the cloud, & it shall be a token or sign of a covenant or solemn pledge between Me & the earth.

This correction : it is seen as that which sweeps away the works of men, to render the fields useless and cut off the wicked! Correction will hinder any production of a seed or of a crop! This type is seen like Prejudice and the effects is of much flooding in many areas.

Prejudice: is animosity, bias, injustice, discrimination… Prejudice occurs to all colors of people, not just to a select few. Prejudice can also occur against those who worship God, the one true God who created the heavens and the earth. And it can happen for other distinct reasons like of race, sex or age . But prejudice should not prevail in the life of believer’s if we really are in Christ Jesus. Remember: Jesus was discriminated against and He was God! He also showed people how to receive healing and then work not wait for a hand out.

As believer’s in Christ Jesus, we are to be about putting aside fears, prejudices, resentments and hatred. In Jesus, we are to be giving God’s love & compassion for all people. In this then we are true followers of Him and carry the true mark for forgiving others. Any anger, any hatred, harsh words, retaliation and revenge only result in more of the same.

It is sowing those seeds of violence, hate and revenge on others.

It is only in God’s love that we can conquer evil …….Romans 12:17-21 Amp. Bible…17 Repay no one evil for evil but take thought for what is honest & proper & noble [aiming to be above reproach] in the sight of everyone. 18 If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave the way open for [God’s ] wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is Mine, I will repay (requite), says the Lord. 20 but if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head. 21 Do not let yourselves be overcome by evil, but overcome (master) evil with good.

2. Executing a productive land from Job 37:13,: it calls the timely rains. Any that belong to the Lord, he will cultivate as His very own: being faithful , the committed, submitted to God and His purposes for our lives.

Psalm 24:1…the Earth is the Lord’s & the fullness of it, the world & they who dwell in it.

3. For executing mercy from Job 37:13: that man might worship God. That just like the man Elihu who came to see Job, he regarded the supremacy of a mighty God and gloried in His majesty. It is that within God’s mercy, we would become more fruitful. Being people who give thanks and worship with praise on our lips.

God will have nothing to do with anyone who discriminates against another. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves!

Are we seeing by the impacts of the floods in so many areas, God speaking? Is He revealing that we must look toward Him and not for vengeance? Not for any prejudicial matter?

1. What God has executed in regard to the workings of the weather, no matter the time of year, He holds them all by His power.

2. Beasts of the field know enough to remain within their protective habitations.

3. However calm and docile our days may seem, when the tempest blows, and rains fall in inches within an hour, does one take note?

4. Will we not seek the Lord while He may be found?

Jesus is the Great Intercessor, and will pray for us. He will not frighten us or hold us in terror. But we are to fear the Lord …to hold Him in His majesty and glory. We are not thrown out of the covenant He has made with us. In His mercy we should be driven toward His mercy. Choosing Him for His commandments, truth, wisdom and grace, we are choosing life in Jesus.

In the time of the hospital stay, the Lord gave me words to encourage three young men for their future. The Lord had us to pray for the lady with her handheld machine. In the storm, or the calm, a wind of strength or darkness, the Lord's voice we seek to hear!

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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Choosing Humility Will Produce Astonishment in Others

Humility was expressed in Jesus : Matthew 13:54-58… NKJV 54 & when He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished & said, "Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 55 Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary? & His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? 56 & His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?" 57 So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country & in his own house." 58 Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

As unbelief, not trusting in God causes us to not hear. Harboring anger, resentment, jealousy and un-forgiveness causes the fruit to develop deafness or the hardness of our hearts. A spirit of deafness, an insensitivity, is one of hardness and refuses to comply to the Word of God. (from Preparing to Hear)

**The people of his hometown knew him so well, being puzzled by His wisdom and His works done in God……they were going to hold Him in their own eyes as they knew Him, the carpenter’s son and in….that they rather cling to ignorance. The people in which He knew as neighbors, had no real need for healing or anything else. They did not recognize Who He was & they held NO VALUE FOR HIM!

· In His wisdom: Jesus spoke in Matthew 7:24-29….24 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, & does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 & the rain descended, the floods came, & the winds blew & beat on that house; & it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 Now everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, & does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 & the rain descended, the floods came, & the winds blew & beat on that house; & it fell. & great was its fall." 28 & so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, 29 for He taught them as one having authority, & not as the scribes. NKJV the scribes were echoing what they had heard …possibly boring and without power, but Jesus spoke with intensity, passion and power. He had authority in the situation

· Christ’s works (3913) John 10:25-30…… 25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, & you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear My voice, & I know them, & they follow Me. 28 & I give them eternal life, & they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; & no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. 30 I & My Father are one." NKJV

Bearing witness of Me..Jesus was bearing a good report of the Father God…..

Jesus held not as an echo but a TRUE VOICE!

James 3:9-18 Amplified Bible…………….9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God’s likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so. 11 Does a fountain send forth [simultaneously] from the same opening fresh water and bitter?

12 Can a fig tree, my brethren bear olives or a grapevine figs? Neither can a salt spring furnish fresh water. 13 Who is there among you who is wise & intelligent? Then let him by his noble living show forth his [good] works with the [un-obstrusive] humility [which is the proper attribute] of true wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry) selfish ambition in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it & thus be in defiance of and false to the Truth.

A person with the heart intent of envy, rivalry, that selfishness will be found in pride with lies. Everything he touches will be the “FALSE”, THE PHONEY, THE FAKE... WILL NOT BE REAL.

15 This [superficial] wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animal, even devilish (demonical). 16 For wherever there is jealousy (envy) & contention (rivalry & selfish ambition) there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) & all sorts of evil and vile practices. 17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled) then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion & good fruits: it is wholehearted & straightforward, impartial & unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering & insincerity). It is God’s Word that propels us into TRUTH…..

18 And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God’s will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement and harmony between individuals with un-disturbedness in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions & moral conflicts.

C - 1: εἰρηνικός James 3:17..is peace…without this peace….of God you will have no wisdom of
God.

When Jesus prayed, and met with people, lives were changing. In Jesus’ time and as in today’s culture, the world sees the “wise man” as one who will live for the moment, always living by sight, and is devoted to self. For Jesus, His own neighbors rejected Him. They saw interruption in their lifestyle, in their own thinking, but chose to carry on in their unbelief. The Sadducees’ did as did the Pharisees! Ego will kill you! Some people just want to be right all the time. But we cannot be that way ….we must have God guiding us with His eye. Certainly those who were astonished also became those who were ready to kill Him. They wanted Jesus gone however they had to do it. But truth ruled Jesus’ life. The truth of God carried Him to the Cross and then to the right hand of God in Heaven.

In closing: His prayer time brought power, looked like grace, and caused reactions. In His teaching the EXTREME was heard, His prayer was for ADVANCEMENT OF THE KINGDOM!

Jesus’ Prayer: John 17:3….(3)& this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, & Jesus Christ whom You have sent. Advancement of the kingdom.

John 17:6 .(6) "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

John 17:11…(11) Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, & I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.

John 17:26 ...(26) And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them." NKJV

THE IMPORTANCE in this prayer was that Jesus spoke what He spent His ministry revealing to us about God His Father. It is in this, that He keeps us through His name, both by our trusting in what it means & by the evidence revealed by living this life in obedience! This obedience to fellowship, communion, God’s Word in teaching & prayer gives us VOICE!

In John 17 & verses 6 & 26….the Greek word for Name is onoma. When Jesus spoke this: He was speaking God’s authority, His character, His very majesty, & the power of His excellence which belongs to God HIMSELF. Jesus was expanding & advancing God’s name on the earth & in the earth.

When we can see with our eyes & understand in our hearts that being united with the Father presents to us the opportunity to participate with the Son as the Son did with the Father, how much more should we expect to see the astonishment in the faces of those God is touching by His presence in us? Before we go to participate out there, we should have the intimate time to know our Father’s heart.

Father, like Jesus spoke in John 17, I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Jesus through this word given. That they all may be one as You, Father are in Jesus & in me, that the world may believe You sent Jesus. The glory which You gave Jesus I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one.(John 17:20-23) Father, thank you for bringing health & healing revealed in Your peace & truth. Captives have been set free to pray. Thank You for salvation! For all Your goodness & prosperity You provide, may it be to YOU God a name of joy, praise & an honor before all nations of the earth who hear all the good that You do to them. May they fear & tremble before You in humility knowing that hypocrisy is far & away from You. May we be that voice to carry Your glory forward.

For those who abide in You will have the voice of joy, & the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom & the voice of the Bride, the voice of those who will say:"Praise the LORD of hosts, For the LORD is good, For His mercy endures forever"- Oh holy Father, at this juncture of choosing to pray, may we be truly be those who will not find excuse to put off prayer. For those who EMBRACE the relationship with YOU will know THE VOICE of truth. They will walk TOWARD HOLINESS finding power in prayer! Oh it is in Jesus’ Name we prayer……………… Amen.

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Sunday, April 5, 2026

A Threat Against Loyalty

Defining Loyalty Will be Found in Our Character: Luke 14:26-27 NKJV 26 "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. (27) And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
1. Loyalty to Christ is found in these 2 verses

2. Entering into the New covenant, our loyalty should be toward Him

3. Peter confirmed this word: Acts 5:29 We ought to obey God rather than " men.”

4. Our character will determine where we go in life and find what rules it!

At the beginning of our conversion usually during counseling for baptism, we are asked to consider this passage seriously. Verses 26-27 are particularly important because loyalty to Christ is the issue in this context. Jesus makes it plain that, after entering into the New Covenant, our highest loyalty is to Him.

This is extremely important because the character of every life is determined by the loyalty that rules it. Peter confirms Jesus' words in Acts 5:29, saying, "We ought to obey God rather than men." He made this affirmation following Jesus' crucifixion. Persecution was imminent against the fledgling church. However, we must understand that the world is always a threat against our loyalty to Christ.

Heard on the news where the new mayor of New York refused to mention anything of Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice. We have to have that "sacrifice" God ordained.

Loyalty to Jesus Who Rules

Ephesians 4:17-24 …..NKJV….17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. (dealing deceitfully) 20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus; 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, (like living with big egos)……23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in righteousness and holiness.

Lewdness: ( from v.19) one who has the characteristic nature to act out his arrogance & contempt in public. ( We see ignorance and that contempt in public when people refuse Jesus.)

Every person has character, and the character of every life is determined by the loyalty that rules it.

Slaves of Sin No More : Romans 6:12-23 NKJV……12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that dorm of doctrine to which you were delivered.

18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those thins is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Alignment with God into His Presence : Romans 5:6-11 NKJV.......6 For when we were still without strength in due time Christ dies for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ dies for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

From Romans 5: 11 we also rejoice in God because we have a present fellowship with God through Jesus. We are to understand and know that the two: Sanctification and justification are not the same.

Each has a different process but within the same pattern God has provided to us. His purpose is they both began at the same point of salvation. In that profession and confession of our faith in Jesus, we are the forgiven, the justified and sanctified.

But it is Justification that aligns us with that standard of God’s law. It is that God activated card that brings us into His presence.

AND Sanctification is that inward spiritual work that Jesus Christ works in us.

Jesus confirmed that word when He spoke this: John 14:18: "I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”

As our High Priest, He continues that work in us after our justification. He not only washes us of our sins by means of His blood, but He also labors to separate us from that which is of the natural love of sin and the world.

Jesus said this: John 5:17 NKJV 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”

Philippians 1:6 NKJV Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

This good work: Philippians 1:6..is in physical and moral sense. It conveys that of producing benefits.

God in His mercy sent Jesus. In HIM, we have the benefit of life eternal. He made us holy. In that work which is continuing, it is possible for us to be the godly witness before men.

If God's only purpose was to save us, He could end the salvation process with our justification. Certainly, His purpose is to save us, but His goal is to save us with character that is the image of His own.

PATTERNS: Spirit –filled relationship with Jesus..Acts 3:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 4:29-31 Now Lord look on their threats and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, 30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus. 31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Boldness: parrhesia (par-rah-see-ah) unreserved, freedom of speech with frankness, candor, and cheerful courage. It is divine enablement that comes from the Holy Spirit and not by man!

Jesus reminded them in John 8:31-32 this: Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word you are my disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

Abiding in Jesus makes us free continually when we abide in Him continually. We are to know His word and repeat it in our speaking!

He was speaking that which you will know from Him as truth is that which sets you free. It is abiding in His presences and makes one free. It also represents that we stay within His boundary being active within that pattern He has divinely produced. It does not happen in one moment but many moments of our lives.

Our giving time to Him and His presence is a costly thing. It is an investment not to be taken lightly. Within God and His pattern for life is abiding, then pressing forward in that once given freedom through His son Jesus. Jesus did this all the way to the grave. He kept reaching out to His Father and in that Resurrection with great light would bring Him forth unto the new DAY! In that day of rest, we are new, living out in the light and truth of God and not by some word of a liberal!

If we can discipline ourselves to work at a job, then we certainly can discipline ourselves to be active in reading about, and pursuing Jesus. It is not “hey God, I will catch you up on my leisure time.”

Was thinking of the young woman who had been kidnapped at birth and raised by another woman. The whole of this young teen now is based on a lie. Even though she had seen what she thought was a good life, still all of it is based on the false which is a lie.

We start each day either that which is based on God and His Word or of the other. If our lives are dealing with us in the middle, and the choice is only us then we have no hope. Our only hope is in Jesus Christ! Truly Jesus is the Son of God. Truly He has risen to give us life abundantly.

Jeremiah 10:23-24 says that the way of man is not in him to direct his steps.

We have to understand that, when we come to God, we are admitting to Him through repentance that our salvation is not internal—it is not something we can produce. In the same vein, the right way to live is not within us. It must come from outside, and that "outside" is God. Thus, we ask God to direct our steps. At baptism, we are asking God to make us into the image of Christ and to rid us of the perversions of human nature that have produced this world.

Psalm 101:7 NKJV……He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.

That continue means: shall NOT BE ESTABLISHED…

Matthew 26:57-60 NKJV…………….57 And those who had laid hold of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed Him at a distance to the high Priest’s courtyard. And he went in and sat with the servants to see the end. 59 Now the chief priests, the elders and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, 60 but found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward 61 and said, “this fellow said, “I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.” 62 and the high priest arose and said to Him, “do you answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?” 63 But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, “ I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!” 64 Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless; I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

Sacrificial love toward other people will be decreasing, but the real cause is that the relationship with God is cooling off. People want more sin and more freedom in that sin!

Matthew 24:9-13 NKJV 9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 “And then many will be offended, will betray one another and will hate one another. 11 “Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many 12 and because lawlessness will abound, and the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

In Closing: Philippians 4:8 to think on that which is true and noble not fantasy…

Finally brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy ----meditate on these things.

Proverbs 25:19 instructs us, "Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth and a foot out of joint." Faithfulness always indicates a person who deals truthfully; he can be trusted. Yet, dealing with unfaithful people is usually painful because one never knows whether they will come through. Or if you truly will see them in your need. Thus, our evaluation of ourselves comes down to this question: How can God trust us if we are not striving to be honest now? More want to be entertained and the very thought of work is just terrible for them to handle.

Whatever may be going on in your neighborhood or community, Jesus and His Strength will be required. We must remain in Him and His peace to take the next step through a darkened path. He will set us on His straight and narrow and see we have all the light we need to get to end of days. His truth is every lasting!

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