It’s very easy to find credit in ourselves and what we have done but the thing that we forget is that we were created by God to be the way we are and no one gives the credit to God.

Picture this! God’s creations are more interested in wowing each other than they are with wowing Him!

People say one thing but then do another.

Faith in God means that no matter what happens I’m not worried because I know that He’s my God.

Christ commanded us to love each other because we will live eternally together. So if we don’t love then then there’s no eternal life.

Dedication to anything more than God is idolatry.

Being dedicated to a Church or a religion doesn’t mean that you are dedicated to God.

God is in total control but He is not eye-candy.

I am handicapped but I’m not stupid.

This should help you with Eternity: One of the things that Jesus proved was that death is not the end.

Think about this: Jesus created Society and then He was killed by Society. So is making Society happy such a big thing?

Not being popular is not bad. Jesus wasn’t popular so He was killed but He was promoted in Heaven as He rose back to life on the 3rd day and He created society and He’s in charge now.

Christ overcame the World then and so we can now. It’s as unpopular now as it was then.

Here is something that is as difficult for people now as it was for the children of Israel then: It’s not up to you it’s up to God. That's the same thing that Satan would not realize.

To put it bluntly competition between people is just a comparison and rating of what God has done.

The Bible says that the road to eternal life is narrow and only a few will find it so I’ve dedicated my time to finding out why.

Why only a few?

I first identified a few groups but the problem continued to grow which meant that the few just get larger and larger. And as this happens I read God’s Word (the Bible) and the answer is more clear.

We humans are created by God but we start our lives out the wrong way. We are taught from birth that we have to become something.

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The Bible says that God wrote down all the days of our lives before we were born and that He forms us in our mother’s womb so we have to become something? Becoming something states that there was a problem with God’s initial formation of us not to mention a mistake in the writing of all of the days of our lives before we were born!

A good example of this was the children of Israel. It’s in the Bible. They were slaves to Egypt (and we are slaves to sin). God freed them (we’ve been freed too) and then God tried to lead them to Canaan which He was giving to them like He promised to do (we’ve been promised eternal life in Heaven) but they were unhappy with what they could see and they
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always wanted something better (we too are unhappy with what we can see so we try to become something better). So we don’t hope for what He’s promised instead we imagine and hope for something better. So the road is narrow and few find it.

The miracle for the children of Israel is: 1. That they were freed from slavery in Egypt and 2. they crossed the Red Sea on dry land. The miracle for us is: 1. We have been freed from slavery to sin and 2. Given eternal life in Heaven which is much better than an Earthly life in Canaan!

The big question is whether all your efforts will be on what people like or what God wants.
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What people like will reward you on Earth but what God wants will reward you in Heaven. Too many people want their rewards on Earth but the only rewards that will matter will come in Heaven.

The children of Israel were interested in what they could see even though everything they got came from God who they couldn’t see. So if you’re more interested in what you can see then life will be good for you on this Earth.

What you can see will make you happy on Earth and what you can’t see will make you happy in Heaven. The choice is yours.


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As Christians we’re sheep and Jesus is our shepherd which is definitely simple and uncomplicated so I’m not sure how education, titles and money fit in with that. Satan wanted to think that he was better than God and he runs the Earth. Are you a sheep and is Jesus your shepherd?

In the Old Testament we see how God tried again and again to give control up to people then in the New Testament we see how God no longer relied on humans but took things into His own hands to make things right for us.

The Bible says that God is love and it also says that we are to love each other. However we have made business decisions take precedence over love.

God has given us so much and instead of simply accepting it and being thankful we have tried to define things and we’ve made things more complicated than they are. God gave to everyone but we have to give titles and money thus redefining everyone.

Bosses require a lot of us because they pay us a salary but God has given far more to us and all He asks for is that our life be one of faith.

Everything is not about us or what we’ve done but what has been done for us.

On the 3rd day as prophesied and told about by Jesus the son of God, Jesus arose from the dead. This was not just something that God did for Him but He did it to demonstrate where we were and how we would be. It was part of the gift to us.

I don’t think that people realize what this says:
Rom 8:38-39
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NIV

The biggest push in this world is to make candy out of yourself that other people want which is different because the prophets and Jesus were not candy so maybe making candy out of yourself is not good.

If the world doesn’t accept you that’s actually a blessing. The world calls me disabled but my God is more than able to care for me. This world didn’t accept Jesus but His Father took care of Him and God’s prophets were not accepted either.

The Bible says that as Christians we are citizens of Heaven and Heaven is not this Earth.

What do you live for? Career? Kids? Spouse? Job? You’re not sure? Well you were created by God to accomplish His will so that’s what you should live for because the benefits far outweigh anything else. It’s not going to be approved by this World but God’s will isn’t in this World.

Knowledge and ability mean very much in this world but all God asks for is our hearts and anyone can do that so other people decide whether you’re a failure or a success in this world but your creator just looks at your heart and He’s OMNI.

All throughout the Bible people were required to give anything of personal value to God which is just what God did for us. He is able to handle things of personal value.

Absolutely everything is geared to be better for life for you here on Earth. Unfortunately in eternity the things from this Earth do not apply so you have to decide whether to put your focus on Earth on eternity.

There are many things that God has given to us that we have taken and made our own. An example of that is the scriptures. We have made them a list of rules that we must follow but God cares if our hearts are His and not if our behaviors add up.

Things go the same every day but that’s because God created things that way. But we seem to believe that’s just the way things are and we get too confident that we can figure things out but things are the way that God wants them to be and for His pleasure and He’s coming back and we have to be ready which means that things are according to God’s plan NOT ours.

Be careful about who is talking to you. In Eden God was fully taking care of Adam & Eve but Satan stepped in and sounded convincing but God threw him out of Heaven to the Earth. So Satan is still trying to convince people to do what he says but God is still taking care of us so it’s up to us to be satisfied that God is doing a good job.

Competition is a way to prove that you are the best which is what Satan did to God in the garden of Eden but God threw him out of Heaven so competition is not good. God forms you in your mother’s womb, wrote down all the days of your life before you were born and knows what you are going to say BEFORE you say it.

All that you do in this World is geared to either what you have done or will do which is no surprise because Satan runs the Earth and he is into the same thing.

Our relationship with God is completely different than any other relationship we have or anything else we know. With others we look for behaviors but God created us and He knows us and He looks at our hearts which is completely different from anything else.

The extremely difficult thing for people to do and the most unpopular thing to do is to come to the realization that this is God’s world and we are here for Him who we will meet some day.

To become the people that God created us to be we have got to stop focusing on behaviors and more on hearts. How much you make or what you do only matters in this world but God knows your heart and He’s coming.

There is NOTHING in the Bible about the Israelites (God’s people) getting money but there’s plenty about how God took care of them. People forget that so they want to make a lot of money and so they count on themselves instead of God.

Ok, I’m going to go way out on a limb here but God loves us way more than we know or are told and it’s not our behavior but our hearts that He watches and knows. We’re humans and He created us so He knows that we are going to screw up and that’s why He knows our hearts.

While I’ve been reading Zechariah the prophet from God I have read things that I didn’t even know were there and have never heard. Even the fact that he was a prophet was new to me.

Zech 11:10
breaking the beautiful covenant I had made with all the peoples.

Zech 11:6
It's dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest, and the devil take the hindmost.

Zech 10:2
Religious experts spout rubbish.

Before His crucifixion Jesus rode a donkey:
Zech 9:9
a humble king riding a donkey,

Zech 7:6
You're interested in religion, I'm interested in people.

I do read the Bible a lot and what I’m reading is not what is being taught in Churches but it is there and it can and should be read by anyone.

Zeph 1:3
Anything and everything that causes sin — will go,
but especially people.

Nah 1:12
"Even though you're on top of the world,
With all the applause and all the votes,
you'll be mowed down flat.

To make something have a statement among people you have to prove it which is odd because people like things that God made but no one can prove them like humans, the earth, animals, seasons, etc. and the purpose of proving something is to make people believe in YOU but people don’t believe in God and those things are there all of the time.

Mic 5:13
No more taking control of the world,
worshiping what you do or make.

This is about Jesus:
Mic 5:2
2 But you, Bethlehem, David's country,
the runt of the litter —
From you will come the leader
who will shepherd-rule Israel.
He'll be no upstart, no pretender.
His family tree is ancient and distinguished.

Jonah 4:2
I knew you were sheer grace and mercy, not easily angered, rich in love, and ready at the drop of a hat to turn your plans of punishment into a program of forgiveness!

Amos 8:9

9 "On Judgment Day, watch out!"
These are the words of GOD, my Master.

Amos 5:15
15 Hate evil and love good,
then work it out in the public square.
Maybe GOD, the God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
will notice your remnant and be gracious.

You talk about GOD, the God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
being your best friend.
Well, live like it,
and maybe it will happen.

Amos 4:13
His name is GOD, God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

Interesting the way that God led the children of Israel is in the Bible many times and in many places.

Joel 3:16
But GOD is a safe hiding place.

Joel 2:32
32 Whoever calls, 'Help, GOD!'
gets help.

Joel 2:27
I'm your GOD, yes, your GOD,
the one and only real God.

Joel 2:13-14

13 Change your life, not just your clothes.
Come back to GOD, your God.
And here's why: God is kind and merciful.
He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot,
This most patient God, extravagant in love,
always ready to cancel catastrophe.
14 Who knows? Maybe he'll do it now,
maybe he'll turn around and show pity.
Maybe, when all's said and done,
there'll be blessings full and robust for your GOD!

Joel 2:12
it's not too late —
GOD's personal Message! —
"Come back to me and really mean it!

Joel 1:5
Get in touch with reality — and weep!

Hos 13:2
Religion customized to taste. Professionals see to it:

Hos 12:6
Wait for your God,
and don't give up on him — ever!

Life for most humans seems to be based on you i.e.: making yourself look like the best which for me seems stupid because you aren’t the best because God is the best and He created you which eliminates the need for competitions.

I’m here for a reason. My opinion from what I read in the Bible (and I read every day) is that God is in charge and that things are worse than we think. I don’t know the exact answer for you but I will say that the answer is NOT Society and I’m positive of that.

Hos 6:6
6 I'm after love that lasts, not more religion.
I want you to know GOD, not go to more prayer meetings.

This is just my opinion: In the Old Testament we see how God continually gave humans the opportunity to recognize & honor Him and in the New Testament because that never happened He sent Jesus to become what we couldn’t and save us.

Most people look for and depend on what they can do but I look for and depend on what God can do and believe me what God can do is much better.

When people do things so that they will be noticed their goal for doing so is for themselves and not for God and He knows it.

Jesus coming here has been lied about. Salvation existed before and Jesus coming only stopped God from coming against people like He did in the Old Testament until the final judgment. The scriptures do say that God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

God is a jealous God. If you spend more time doing things to take care of yourself then He will be angry.

Rev 20:13
Each man and woman was judged by the way he or she had lived.

Rev 7:15-16
The One on the Throne will pitch his tent there for them: 16 no more hunger, no more thirst, no more scorching heat.

Rev 3:19

19 "The people I love, I call to account — prod and correct and guide so that they'll live at their best.

Rev 2:10

"Don't quit, even if it costs you your life.

1 John 4:1

My dear friends, don't believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.

1 John 3:13
13 So don't be surprised, friends, when the world hates you. This has been going on a long time.

1 John 2:15-17

15 Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. 16 Practically everything that goes on in the world — wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important — has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. 17 The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out — but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

1 John 2:1-2
2:1 I write this, dear children, to guide you out of sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a Priest-Friend in the presence of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous Jesus. 2 When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good — not only ours, but the whole world's.

2 Peter 2:1
there will be lying religious teachers among you.

2 Peter 1:20-2:1
20 The main thing to keep in mind here is that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of private opinion. 21 And why? Because it's not something concocted in the human heart. Prophecy resulted when the Holy Spirit prompted men and women to speak God's Word.

1 Peter 5:5

God has had it with the proud,
But takes delight in just plain people.

1 Peter 2:11

11 Friends, this world is not your home, so don't make yourselves cozy in it.

James 5:3
You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment.

James 4:3
You're spoiled children, each wanting your own way.

James 2:18
Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.

James 2:8

8 You do well when you complete the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: "Love others as you love yourself."

James 2:1-2

My dear friends, don't let public opinion influence how you live out our glorious, Christ-originated faith.

James 1:10
Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don't ever count on it.

Heb 13:5

5 Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have.

Heb 12:16
16 Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God's lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite.

My life has made a 180 degree change but at least it has made a change.

Prior to 2000 I was an executive making tons of money, married and traveling all over the world. However instead of focusing on the one who had given me everything, God, I focused on myself and all I had. So in 2000 I was beaten up, my brain stem broken and several other things but I didn’t die contrary to all the predictions but I was in a coma for 5 years and I live in a wheelchair and can’t work. I’ve lost my job, my wife and my money. It’s no longer about me and what I can do but what God does for me. That’s a 180 degree turn for me but at least I got another turn. I didn’t know many things before but they have been revealed to me now.
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It’s been difficult for me because I am still fairly young and I am still capable of doing many things but because of many things, most of which I need to trust in God, there is no way in this world for me to move forward.

I need nothing but I do volunteer a lot so I’ll have things to do but I have to be very patient which is much the same as is required of God so I’m learning to be patient which is not easy for me and it’s NOT COMMON in this world.





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I don’t know that I would have said this before but because we were created by God to have a relationship with God, He writes down ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES IN HIS BOOK BEFORE WE ARE BORN and forms us in our
Mother’s wombs a relationship with Him should be our top priority which is not what we are taught by this world. We are taught that WE are #1 and that everything revolves around us but that’s not true. If it was then I would just be an accident.

So I encourage people not to focus on getting what they want to get but to focus on what they have been given by God and why they are even here. It won’t be popular in this world but Satan runs this world.
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So you can’t get the best of this world because it does not honor the best and the best is God.

Since Satan runs this world the thing to encourage people to do is simply understand that the big push is against God as it was with Adam & Eve so they should focus on God instead of anything else. What you can achieve on Earth will last only on the Earth but there is an eternity coming and Earthly things won’t matter.

Surprise, surprise! Everything in this world IS NOT for you it’s for Satan! So the bounty from this world will not help you in Eternity! And since we do not know when Eternity will begin we have to be ready.
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This is all written out clearly in the Bible so I am NOT making this up.

I am very thankful to know what I know and that’s why I am passing it on to you with the goal that we will all spend Eternity together with God. I am only 1 person and there are many of you but the effort is worth it. God wrote the Bible for everyone He created and this is in conjunction with that and He did it so as His child I will do it.

The BIG DIFFERENCE is focusing on Eternity and not your life on Earth. Earth is right now and Eternity is forever.


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This will not be easy for you to see and don’t believe it just because I said it. Read the Bible because God said it first and He will be in charge at judgment and no one else because life is His game.

Regardless of what you think about yourself, what others think about you or your job or title you are only a being that God created for His benefit as part of His plan.






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A HUGE thing for humans is how things look to us or eye-candy thus everything is based on that which is sorry because God can’t be seen therefore He is not eye candy and not attractive to people.

Heb 12:2
2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in.

Heb 11:29

29 By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.

Heb 11:1

The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It's our handle on what we can't see.

Heb 10:11-14

11 Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. 12 As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God 13 and waited for his enemies to cave in. 14 It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people.

Heb 10:10
10 God's way — by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus.

Heb 9:22
Practically everything in a will hinges on a death. That's why blood, the evidence of death, is used so much in our tradition, especially regarding forgiveness of sins.

Heb 7:23-25

23 Earlier there were a lot of priests, for they died and had to be replaced. 24 But Jesus' priesthood is permanent. He's there from now to eternity 25 to save everyone who comes to God through him, always on the job to speak up for them.

Heb 3:1
take a good hard look at Jesus. He's the centerpiece of everything we believe.

Heb 2:14-15

14 Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it's logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil's hold on death 15 and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death.

Titus 1:10-12

10 For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst. 11 They've got to be shut up. They're disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck.

Titus 1:2
2 My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end.

2 Tim 4:1
Christ himself is the Judge, with the final say on everyone, living and dead.

2 Tim 3:12
12 Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble; there's no getting around it.

2 Tim 2:11

If we die with him, we'll live with him;

1 Tim 6:20-21
Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-called experts. 21 People caught up in a lot of talk can miss the whole point of faith.

1 Tim 4:6-7
7 Stay clear of silly stories that get dressed up as religion.

1 Tim 4:4
4 Everything God created is good, and to be received with thanks.

1 Tim 1:7
7 They set themselves up as experts on religious issues, but haven't the remotest idea of what they're holding forth with such imposing eloquence.

2 Thess 3:2
I'm finding that not all "believers" are believers.

2 Thess 1:12
12 If your life honors the name of Jesus, he will honor you.

2 Thess 1:2
2 Our God gives you everything you need, makes you everything you're to be.

1 Thess 5:6
6 So let's not sleepwalk through life like those others. Let's keep our eyes open and be smart.

1 Thess 4:14
God will most certainly bring back to life those who died in Jesus.

The first gift that we get from God is our life as human beings. Whether or not Society accepts us is up to Society but to become a human being is a gift from God.

Col 4:3-4
4 Pray that every time I open my mouth I'll be able to make Christ plain as day.

Col 3:25
Being Christian doesn't cover up bad work.

Col 3:12-14

12 So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. 13 Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. 14 And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.

Col 2:16-17

16 So don't put up with anyone pressuring you in details of diet, worship services, or holy days. 17 All those things are mere shadows cast before what was to come; the substance is Christ.

Col 2:11

11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It's not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you're already in — insiders — not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin.

Col 2:5

5 I'm a long way off, true, and you may never lay eyes on me, but believe me, I'm on your side, right beside you.

Col 2:1
Not many of you have met me face-to-face, but that doesn't make any difference. Know that I'm on your side, right alongside you. You're not in this alone.

Col 1:27
27 God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, therefore you can look forward to sharing in God's glory. It's that simple.

Col 1:22-23
by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God's side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence. 23 You don't walk away from a gift like that!

Col 1:15-16

We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. 16 For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels — everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.

Col 1:13-14

13 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, 14 the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.

Phil 4:11
11 Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances.

Phil 4:10

I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess

Phil 4:6-7

6 Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. 7 Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Phil 4:4

4 Celebrate God all day, every day.

Col 1:16
16 For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels — everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.

Col 1:2
May everything good from God our Father be yours!

Phil 4:11
11 Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally.

Phil 4:10

I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess

Phil 3:12-14

I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. 13 Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward — to Jesus. 14 I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back.

Phil 3:7-9

7 The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I'm tearing up and throwing out with the trash — along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. 8 Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant — dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ 9 and be embraced by him. I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ — God's righteousness.

Phil 2:21
21 Most people around here are looking out for themselves, with little concern for the things of Jesus.

Phil 2:18
Whatever you do, don't feel sorry for me.

Eph 5:6
6 Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk.

Eph 5:5

5 You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them — the usual variations on idolatry — will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God.

Eph 5:1-2
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. 2 Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

Eph 4:31-32

31 Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. 32 Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.

Eph 4:22-24
22 Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything — and I do mean everything — connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life — a God-fashioned life, 23 a life renewed from the inside 24 and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you.

Eph 3:20

20 God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

Eph 2:7-10
7 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. 8 Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! 9 We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! 10 No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Gal 5:25-26

25 Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. 26 That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.

Gal 5:24
24 Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good — crucified.

Gal 5:16-17
Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. 17 For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness.

This SOUNDS simple but I see the opposite thing all the time.
Gal 5:14
14 For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself.

Gal 5:6
6 For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.

Gal 5:4-5
When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace.

I experience this:
Gal 4:17
17 Those heretical teachers go to great lengths to flatter you, but their motives are rotten. They want to shut you out of the free world of God's grace so that you will always depend on them for approval and direction, making them feel important.

Gal 3:28-29
In Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. 29 Also, since you are Christ's family, then you are Abraham's famous "descendant," heirs according to the covenant promises.

Gal 2:21
If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.

Gal 2:19-20
I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn't work. So I quit being a "law man" so that I could be God's man. 20 Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Gal 2:18
18 If I was "trying to be good," I would be rebuilding the same old barn that I tore down. I would be acting as a charlatan.

Gal 2:16
Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement.

2 Cor 12:15
15 I'd be most happy to empty my pockets, even mortgage my life, for your good.

2 Cor 12:14
I have no interest in what you have — only in you.

2 Cor 12:9

My grace is enough; it's all you need.
My strength comes into its own in your weakness.

2 Cor 12:7
I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations.

2 Cor 12:6
I don't want anyone imagining me as anything other than the fool you'd encounter if you saw me on the street or heard me talk.

2 Cor 11:30

30 If I have to "brag" about myself, I'll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus.

2 Cor 11:14
Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light.

2 Cor 10:17-18
18 What you say about yourself means nothing in God's work. It's what God says about you that makes the difference.

2 Cor 10:3-6
3 The world is unprincipled. It's dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn't fight fair. But we don't live or fight our battles that way — never have and never will. 4 The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. 5 We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. 6 Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity.

I have no idea of who you are.
2 Cor 7:4
4 I have, in fact, the greatest confidence in you. If only you knew how proud I am of you! I am overwhelmed with joy despite all our troubles.

2 Cor 6:9
ignored by the world, but recognized by God

2 Cor 5:20
Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you.

2 Cor 5:9
pleasing God is the main thing.

2 Cor 5:2-5
Compared to what's coming, living conditions around here seem like a stopover in an unfurnished shack, and we're tired of it! We've been given a glimpse of the real thing, our true home, our resurrection bodies! 5 The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what's ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less.

1 Cor 15:58
Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort.

1 Cor 15:37-38
37 We do have a parallel experience in gardening. You plant a "dead" seed; soon there is a flourishing plant. There is no visual likeness between seed and plant. 38 You could never guess what a tomato would look like by looking at a tomato seed.

1 Cor 15:10

10 But because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am.

This answers us saying: “This is what I was called to do.
1 Cor 14:36
Do you think everything revolves around you?

1 Cor 13:3

3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

1 Cor 13:2
2 If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.

I’m just guessing this: money was developed by Satan to control people. In the wilderness Moses imposed a tax on people and that money went to support God who needed no money.

1 Cor 12:27

27 You are Christ's body — that's who you are!

1 Cor 11:1
All actual authority stems from Christ.

1 Cor 10:31
As a matter of fact, do everything that way, heartily and freely to God's glory.

14 So, my very dear friends, when you see people reducing God to something they can use or control, get out of their company as fast as you can.

1 Cor 10:12
Forget about self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence.

1 Cor 7:31
This world as you see it is on its way out.

1 Cor 3:19
19 Be God's fool — that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid.

1 Cor 3:16-17

16 You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you?

1 Cor 2:13
13 We don't have to rely on the world's guesses and opinions. We didn't learn this by reading books or going to school; we learned it from God, who taught us person-to-person through Jesus.

1 Cor 2:8-9
8 The experts of our day haven't a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn't have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross.

1 Cor 2:7
7 God's wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don't find it lying around on the surface. It's not the latest message, but more like the oldest — what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us.

1 Cor 1:31
"If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."

1 Cor 1:20-21

20 So where can you find someone truly wise, truly educated, truly intelligent in this day and age? Hasn't God exposed it all as pretentious nonsense? 21 Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb — preaching, of all things! — to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation.

1 Cor 1:19
I'll expose so-called experts as crackpots.

There is such a push to have it all but read this:
1 Cor 1:7
7 Just think — you don't need a thing, you've got it all!

Rom 16:17-18
18 They have no intention of living for our Master Christ. They're only in this for what they can get out of it.

Rom 15:1-2
2 Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, "How can I help?"

Rom 14:13
13 Forget about deciding what's right for each other.

Rom 14:8
8 It's God we are answerable to — all the way from life to death and everything in between — not each other.

Rom 13:1

Be a good citizen. All governments are under God.

Rom 12:19
19 Don't insist on getting even; that's not for you to do. "I'll do the judging," says God. "I'll take care of it."

Rom 12:16
Make friends with nobodies; don't be the great somebody.

Rom 12:2
God brings the best out of you.

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. 2 Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.

Rom 11:33
33 Have you ever come on anything quite like this extravagant generosity of God, this deep, deep wisdom?

Rom 10:14-15
14 But how can people call for help if they don't know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven't heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? 15 And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it? That's why Scripture exclaims,
A sight to take your breath away!
Grand processions of people
telling all the good things of God!

Rom 10:9
You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That's salvation.

Rom 8:38-39
38 I'm absolutely convinced that nothing — nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, 39 high or low, thinkable or unthinkable — absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

Rom 8:12-14
12 So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. 13 There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. 14 God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!

Rom 8:10-11
10 But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells — even though you still experience all the limitations of sin — you yourself experience life on God's terms.

Rom 8:6-8
6 Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. 7 Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. 8 And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Rom 8:3
3 God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all.

Rom 6:23
But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

Rom 6:11
You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did.

Rom 5:20
When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down!

This is the gift. People just think that the forgiveness of sins is the gift but Jesus got us ready for God so there is more.
Rom 4:25
25 The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.

This is difficult for some to realize:
Rom 3:27
God does not respond to what we do; we respond to what God does.

Rom 2:29
And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics.

Rom 2:9
9 If you go against the grain, you get splinters, regardless of which neighborhood you're from, what your parents taught you, what schools you attended.

Rom 2:6-8
6 Make no mistake: In the end you get what's coming to you — 7 Real Life for those who work on God's side, 8 but to those who insist on getting their own way and take the path of least resistance, Fire!

This radical life change is not a change for you but a change for Him:
Rom 2:4
God is kind, but he's not soft. In kindness he takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life-change.

If it has to do with you then it’s an idol:
Rom 1:25
25 And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them — the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!

God gave Solomon what he asked for but the fame and fortune he got from it caused him to focus only on himself which happens with people today.

The story of Solomon is there to show us how money and fame can take anyone away from God.

I can’t hope in what I can do only in what He does.

Things are not about what I think is good but what He thinks are good because I died with Christ.

As Christians we have DIED with Christ so we are dead with that being said our status is dead too! That’s not what this world teaches us but then who manages this world?

God created everything by Himself and He got an entire nation out of slavery by Himself so why do people think that THEY have to go everywhere to promote God?

It’s important to realize that God created man because He wanted a relationship with them NOT to limit His power.

To take an entire nation into the wilderness makes no sense but God could do it and He did it. That’s what we need to see.

Golden calves are what the Israelites made then but we make different things now. They’re still idols though.

God is far bigger and more powerful than anything or anyone that we can see.

In Jeremiah 31 it says that eventually people will no longer set up schools to teach each other about God.

As per the Bible our goal in life as a Christian is to be a shepherd to other people and with that being said we need to ultimately care about others destinations more than other things.

Does “indispensable” mean as long as nothing else is going on?

As Christians our success is NOT ON THIS EARTH. Was God successful on this Earth or did we kill Him?

The Bible also says that there are many responsibilities but one God who gives them all which is way different than “I can do this”.

In 1 Corinthians it says “let all things be done to build up” which is way different from to make money or meet responsibilities.