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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold is as pictures of silver.(Prov.25:11) It is so important to speak the right words to people at the right time to produce the right results. When you think of apples of gold in pictures of silver, then you are thinking of wealth and excellence. When we speak wisdom into the lives of others we are making them wealthy. Therefore we must seek God for He is the source of all wisdom and He will give us just the right words needed at the right time.
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#Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 Happy Veterans Day!
The Greek word for life is Psuche, meaning soul, inner being, breath, the heart's desire, the drive, or passion of one's soul. If you keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I kept my Father's commandments, and abide in His love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what His Lord doeth; but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He may give it you.
Jesus is preparing the disciples for His death on the cross, and He says you will no longer be called servants, but friends. Then Jesus tells them the greatest act of love is to lay down His life for his friends. I thank God for Veterans today as we celebrate their lives of service to this great country, and for those who have made the ultimate act of love by laying down their lives for their friends. I thank God Jesus taught us how to live and how to die. For to live is Christ, and to die great gain. Jesus said, "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." His commandments are not burdensome. So let us love one another, cause love is the fulfillment of the law. It is my prayer that you salute the veterans for their love and act of service to the United States of America. God save the USA!
#Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11 Be at peace with all men and follow holiness
The Greek word for perfect is Katartizo, meaning to complete thoroughly, i.e., repair or adjust, frame, and amend. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong; and this also we wish, even your perfection. Therefore, I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen
Be at peace with all men and follow holiness, for without holiness, no man will see the Lord. Paul is giving his doxology to the brethren and telling them to be perfect and of good comfort, and of one mind, and to live in peace. Sometimes, to do this, we have to repair old relationships and adjust them so that we can be at peace as much as possible. This is what the bond of perfection means to complete thoroughly. Then he tells us to greet one another with a holy kiss, not a French kiss. This is not practiced much in the church these days for fear of offending someone. However, let the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. When we do this, the church can be in harmony, and we can live a peaceful and holy life. This is what God wants in all of us. So it is my prayer that if you are walking in bitterness and unforgiveness, you will repent of this sin and make peace with all the saints.
#Huram said, moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the King a wise son, and endued with prudence and understanding, that might build a house for the LORD, and a house for His kingdom. 2 Chronicles 2:12 Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain.
The Hebrew word for Huram is Chuwram, meaning whiteness, i.e., nobility. Even to prepare me the timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great. And behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved His people, he hath made thee king over them. And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Hurams my father's the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, and in timber, in purple, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send his servants:
Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain. God hath appointed Solomon to make the house of the Lord and given him the wisdom and the skill to do it. And this is a picture of the Lord Jesus, who said on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her. We are the Lord's house that is being built upon that rock, and let us look unto Jesus, the Author and the finisher of our faith, to run this race with patience. Except we submit ourselves unto the mighty hand of the Lord, they shall labor in vain. So let us place all into the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall send us victorious into the vineyard to complete the task.
#And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; Revelation 5:15 Jesus is getting us ready for that great day
The Greek word for bondman is Doulos, meaning involuntarily a slave, or a bond servant in subserviency. And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and Lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island was moved out of their place. And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Jesus is getting us ready for His great day, and these twenty-one judgments will come upon the earth. The seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls of wrath, to purge sin from off the face of the earth. Slavery will still be practiced, and all these bondmen will say, hide us in the rocks from the face of the Lamb. Only the blood of Jesus can save us from this great day of His wrath. It is my prayer that you will accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, now before it is too late. Sing the great hymn of the Church," Blessed assurance, Jesus is Mine." The Church will not go into the great tribulation; only those who fail to repent of their sins and accept Jesus Christ as Lord.
#And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, the LORD is God of the hills, be He is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 1 Kings 20:28 Jesus Christ is Lord
#Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1 Love never fails
The Greek word for charity is Agape, meaning Love, i.e., affection or benevolence. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never fails, but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Love never fails. Paul is telling us about the greatest kind of love, agapē, which is affection or benevolence. This is the love that never fails. The problem is that not all love is agape; some is friendship love, or eros for intimate love, and this kind of love does fail. So it is why so many marriages fail because it is not based on agape love. We need this type of love in marriage for it to be a marriage that will not fail. If there is good friendship and intimacy, that is good, but they will not pass the test of time. Jesus asked Peter, Lovest thou Me more than these, and Peter replied Yes, Lord, but it was a friendship love, and we know that Peter denied the Lord three times. Jesus wanted Peter to respond with agape love
#And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning , your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. 2 Corinthians 7:7 God comforts the mourning for repentance
The Greek word for consolation is Paraklesis, meaning an entreaty, an exhortation, a comfort, and solace. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. For when we were in Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. Nevertheless, God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus. For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorrowful to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
God comforts the mourning for repentance. Paul has written an epistle that led to the godly sorrow of the brother who took his father's stepwife, and this sorrow led the church to repentance. This is the godly sorrow God wants us to have so that we will repent of our sins of commission and omission. But worldly sorrow leads or worketh death. We are in the 36th day of the Government Shutdown, which has caused worldly sorrow. It is time for our Congress to repent and do the right thing for the federal workers and the American people who are suffering no snap benefits to feed their families. God comforts the mourning for repentance, and will have this Shutdown ended. Just as God comforted the Corinthians in Macedonia with the coming of Titus. I pray that the President will sit down with the Republicans and Democrats and seek a godly end to this Government Shutdown and open the Government so the Military and federal workers can be paid and the people receive their SNAP benefits. For God is not willing that any would perish, but that all would come to repentance unto salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. Titus told the people their desire must be to repent and do the will of God by living a godly life. Thank God that Paul preached the message of repentance in his epistle, and many people were saved because of this. More ministers need to preach this gospel so others will repent too and join the church and be baptized. The Greek word for repentance is metanoia, for a change of mind. So change your mind about Jesus and ask Him to forgive you and save your soul.
#Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Philippians 3:13. Forget what is behind
The Greek word for apprehended is Katalambano, meaning to take eagerly, i.e., seize, possess, etc., to comprehend or perceive. That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded, and if in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Forget what is behind. Dementia is an awful illness that causes us to forget things; usually, the short-term memory goes first. Paul is saying to forget those things which are behind, and reach forth unto those things which are before. So to forget is sometimes a good thing. We must not only forget our mistakes, but also forget our successes. We have to seize and possess those things which God wants us to have. Perfection is what we desire, but none of us is perfect. So we have to endeavor to apprehend perfection. That is why Paul says I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. This is what we are to be thus minded, and know that if in anything else ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Memories are great, but the most important thing we must desire is to be like Jesus. For one day, we shall see Him as He is, being fashioned like unto His glorious body. Therefore, let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus, even though He was equal unto God, He humbled Himself to death on the cross, and is now seated at the right hand of God in heaven. We, too, must humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, and in due season He will exalt us. Being like Jesus in the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His suffering, and made conformable unto His death.
#Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 He will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is stayed on Jesus.
The Greek word for peace is Eirene, for prosperity, and rest. He that loveth Me not keepeth not my sayings, and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent Me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you loved Me, ye would rejoice, because I said I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it is come, ye might believe. Hereafter, I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in Me.
He will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is stayed on Jesus. God the Father sent Jesus to go to the cross to die for our sins, and when we keep our minds stayed on Jesus, He, the Holy Spirit, will keep us in perfect peace. This is the true prosperity and rest that we find when we place all our faith in the shed blood of Jesus on the cross for our sins. Now, thank God that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven interceding for you and me. Therefore, let us bear His reproach outside the camp until He comes in the clouds to take us home. Jesus said Let not your hearts be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father's house are many mansions, and if it were not so I would have told you. Behold, I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, ye may be also. So thank God the prince of this world, who is Satan, was defeated on the cross, and is awaiting his final judgment in the Lake of Fire. Therefore, let us be stedfast and unmoverable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for we know that our labor is not in vain in the Lord.
#And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29 Look to Jesus and live.
The Greek word for "offend" is "skandalizo," meaning to entrap, i.e., trip up, to stumble, to entice to sin, apostasy, or displeasure. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery; But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh at a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery in his heart. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement; But I say unto you, That whosover shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery
Look to Jesus and live, for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than anyone, and it is a real place. So be careful not to offend or scandalize anyone. If you have been released from a wife, seek not a wife. For it is better to serve the Lord with your whole body than to be bound to a wife. The Lord has promised never to leave us or to forsake us. Let your yay be yay, and your nay be nay. For God does not take pleasure in us when we are inconsistent. Do not put away thy wife except she has committed fornication, or you will cause her to commit adultery. Look not to the left or the right, but look straight ahead, so that your feet will not stumble. It is my prayer that you will live by the Sermon on the Mount, look to Jesus, and live.
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