What does this say about anything on commercials?
Deut 5:21
And no lusting for his house, field, servant, maid, ox, or donkey either — nothing that belongs to your neighbor!

Deut 4:39
GOD is in Heaven above; GOD is on Earth below. He's the only God there is.

It’s interesting that Moses always said: God your God did this but people always say: I did this.

Since God is able to control what people think and feel your success belongs solely to Him and NOT to yourselves which isn’t what this world teaches you but who runs this world?

God created, freed and kept track of these people and more:
Num 26:51
51 The total number of the People of Israel: 601,730.

This is what created people do. It didn’t work then and it won’t now.
Num 22:15
another group of nobles, higher ranking and more distinguished.

This was a pre Jesus blessing:
Num 21:9
9 So Moses made a snake of fiery copper and put it on top of a flagpole. Anyone bitten by a snake who then looked at the copper snake lived.

Num 14:10-11
11 GOD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me like dirt? How long refuse to trust me? And with all these signs I've done among them!

Num 14:2
"Why didn't we die in Egypt? Or in this wilderness?

Num 6:24-26
24 GOD bless you and keep you,
25 GOD smile on you and gift you,
26 GOD look you full in the face
and make you prosper.

Lev 26:19
I'll break your strong pride:

This is in both the Old and New Testaments:
Lev 19:18
"Love your neighbor as yourself. I am GOD.

I guess freedom from Egypt, crossing the Red Sea and manna & wellness weren’t enough:
Ex 33:16
16 How else will it be known that you're with me in this, with me and your people?

I NEVER hear this:
Ex 33:5-6
5 GOD said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You're one hard-headed people. I couldn't stand being with you for even a moment — I'd destroy you. So take off all your jewelry until I figure out what to do with you.'" 6 So the Israelites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb on.

I NEVER hear about this:
Ex 33:1
GOD said to Moses:
Ex 33:1
GOD said to Moses: I will send an angel ahead of you and I'll drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

How is this different from what we do?
Ex 32:31
They made gods of gold for themselves.

When the Israelites made Gods that they could see that was like what people do today still. We don’t hesitate to create things that we feel have value and the things of plain old God are regarded much less if at all.

One of the HUGE gifts of God that I have NEVER heard about is that we are the tabernacle of God. The original one as very detailed and ornate but we are not.

Think about this: Moses addressed the Israelites continually and they heard him and listened and answered but there were thousands of them and NO microphones.

God made this promise to the Israelites:
Ex 23:25-27
I'll get rid of the sickness among you; 26 there won't be any miscarriages nor barren women in your land. I'll make sure you live full and complete lives.

God is much more than we humans can see or know and that’s where faith comes in.

God fed the Israelites for years.
Ex 16:35
35 The Israelites ate the manna for forty years until they arrived at the land where they would settle down.

Ex 16:3
3 The Israelites said, "Why didn't GOD let us die in comfort in Egypt where we had lamb stew and all the bread we could eat? You've brought us out into this wilderness to starve us to death, the whole company of Israel!"

Comfort? So God gave them manna.

Ex 15:25
Moses threw it into the water and the water turned sweet.
This happened right after the Red Sea incident. The water was sour and they complained so Moses prayed to God and God told Moses to do this. But were they happy for long? NO! People just don’t remember or see just how good God is to them.

For now…
Ex 14:29-31
29 But the Israelites walked right through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall to the right and to the left. 30 GOD delivered Israel that day from the oppression of the Egyptians. And Israel looked at the Egyptian dead, washed up on the shore of the sea, 31 and realized the tremendous power that GOD brought against the Egyptians. The people were in reverent awe before GOD and trusted in GOD and his servant Moses.

Ex 14:22
22 The Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground with the waters a wall to the right and to the left.

They’ll forget this soon…

After being freed from slavery, leaving Egypt, God being a cloud by day and fire by night the Israelites still doubted God hmmn that sounds like people today.
Ex 14:11
What have you done to us, taking us out of Egypt?

Moses and Egypt are in the Bible for this reason:
Ex 10:2
so that you'll all know that I am GOD.
But people are no different than Pharaoh was.

God just wanted people to worship Him when He sent the Israelites out of Egypt and He still wants that worship now. Worship is with your life not attendance at some Church.

Moses was 80 and Aaron was 83 when they talked to Pharaoh.

Ex 6:3
my name GOD (I-Am-Present)

not maybe or IF

This was the passover waay in advance:
Ex 4:23
So now I'm going to kill your son, your firstborn.'"

Ex 4:11
11 GOD said, "And who do you think made the human mouth? And who makes some mute, some deaf, some sighted, some blind? Isn't it I, GOD?

Only God can do this:
Ex 1:21
God gave them families of their own.

Gen 49:18
18 I wait in hope
for your salvation, GOD.

Israel had to give up everything much the same as Abraham and God.

The examples of trading the birthrights and saying that the wife is the sister and examples of how following God is traded for the things of this World.

Gen 26:5
Because Abraham obeyed my summons and kept my charge — my commands, my guidelines, my teachings."
Abraham made what God said #1 do you?

Gen 25:34
Esau shrugged off his rights as the firstborn

As Christians we have the rights of the firstborn like Esau but we often trade off our rights for the things of this World much like Esau did.

This preceded Jesus:
Gen 22:2
2 He said, "Take your dear son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I'll point out to you."

Gen 21:5
5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah sounds awful but it was real so why do Heaven and Hell seem unreal?

This was about Araham:
Gen 18:19
19 Yes, I've settled on him as the one to train his children and future family to observe GOD's way of life

God’s way of Life. Just like Abraham & Sarah in their old age bearing a child was not their way of life but God’s.

Abraham was 99 years old and Sarah was in her 90’s when Isaac was promised by God so it wasn’t what they could see and they were not eye candy.

This was well in advance and it was the children of Israel:
Gen 15:13-14
13 GOD said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years. 14 Then I'll punish their slave masters

Abram was a very old man when he got this promise from God. He didn’t question or doubt it by what he could see or know. NO, he trusted God and we’re to do the same:
Gen 15:4
"Don't worry, he won't be your heir; a son from your body will be your heir."

If people would just think like this:
Gen 14:23
I'm not going to have you go around saying, 'I made Abram rich.'

When Abram and Lot split not once do you read: “Why would God have put us together?” NO. They just looked for a way to make things better.

Making ourselves look good only benefits us on Earth. Making God look good benefits us in Heaven.

Gen 13:15-17
15 Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. 16 I'll make your descendants like dust — counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. 17 So — on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you."
He didn’t need to hear opinions to make himself look good he just did it.

Gen 12:1
GOD told Abram: "Leave your country, your family, and your father's home for a land that I will show you.

To do his Abram had to believe in what he couldn’t see.

Gen 11:1
At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language.

This is happening again today.

The children of Israel are in the Bible for a reason. That story shows us that we don’t need to focus on things that we can see because God who we can’t see can do anything.

“Hear the word f the Lord…” every time we see those words they are not just words for other people, NO, they are words to us!

When Adam & Eve sinned God told the Serpent that he would harm man’s head which is completely overlooked! Think about it: is a snake tall enough to read a man’s head? No, so God must be talking about the mind. And often man uses the mind instead of what God says. Do opinions make sense to you? Often people use opinions are often used to describe what God says.

In Genesis God created on day (creation):
1 the Sun & Moon
2 sky (Heavens)
3 land (Earth) seed bearing plants & trees
4 Sun & Moon & Stars & Seasons
5 Animal & fish in the ocean & all sea life, birds, huge whales, animals
6 Male & Female human beings
Everything was made with the ability to reproduce
7 God rested

Wisdom has been redefined to mean something that man knows and accumulates and accumulation has been specifically linked to education meaning that the more education you have the more that you accumulate thus the more wise you are. But education costs money so without it you aren’t wise and God isn’t here for education so He isn’t wise along with poor people whom God created.

Faith does not mean belief alone. Satan and his demons believe that God is in control and that won’t save them. No faith without works is dead. You must live out what you know.

Who you are makes all the difference. Now who you are with people (the World) is very different from who you are with God. If people like you then you get fame and money but if God likes you then you get Heaven. So what do you want?

As people were able to do whatever they wanted and God didn’t stop it or come in the Bible we are able to do the same thing. A day to the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day.

When the children of Israel are discussed all that’s ever said is: “Look at what God did for them!” but what God was doing with them is the same thing that God is doing for us: patiently waiting and allowing us to come around.

To Isaiah God said: “He shall not judge by what his eyes can see…” so that takes care of eye candy.

As real as God was to Jeremiah He is real to me

Words from God are as new as they can be. He is more active and real in our lives than anything else so His word is not something historical that we read rather it’s instructions for His creations.

Since Satan was thrown from Heaven to the Earth and told to run the Earth how could things that please the Earth get you to Heaven?

When you think about what you should do to make a living the first thing that you must do is acknowledge the fact that the things of this world are not the things of God’s world. So it’s not about how you can make the most money it’s about making God happy.

I have just finished reading Revelation and there are somethings that God wrote and I want to share with you.
The way you live now determines your Eternity.

Rev 20:12

The dead were judged by what was written in the books, bythe way they had lived.

Rev 20:15

15 Anyone whose name was not found inscribed in the Book ofLife was hurled into Lake Fire.

I’m not making this up and this is not my opinion.

Rev 22:18-20

18 I give fair warning to all who hear the words of the prophecy of this book: If you add to the words of this prophecy, God will add to your life the disasters written in this book; 19 if you subtract from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will subtract your part from the Tree of Life and the Holy City that are written in this book.

So living life is not by human standards it’s by God’s standards and God’s standards have nothing to do with money. Yes money can make your life on Earth better and easier but Eternity does not occur on Earth and you have to decide. If I could do it for you I would but I can’t.

Jude 17-18
17 But remember, dear friends, that the apostles of our Master, Jesus Christ, told us this would happen: 18 "In the last days there will be people who don't take these things seriously anymore. They'll treat them like a joke, and make a religion of their own whims and lusts."

1 John 4:16-17
God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. 17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day

The ONLY thing that depends on you is whether or not God is the most important thing to you as opposed to being told that we have to make something out of ourselves. What you make of yourself lasts only on the Earth but God lasts for Eternity.

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 3:23
23 Again, this is God's command: to believe in his personally named Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:18-20
My dear children, let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love. 19 This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality. 20 It's also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.

1 John 3:16
16 This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves.

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 3:1-2
we're called children of God! That's who we really are. But that's also why the world doesn't recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he's up to.

1 John 2:28
Live deeply in Christ. Then we'll be ready for him when he appears, ready to receive him with open arms, with no cause for red-faced guilt or lame excuses when he arrives.

1 John 2:22
22 So who is lying here? It's the person who denies that Jesus is the Divine Christ, that's who.

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 1:8
8 If we claim that we're free of sin, we're only fooling ourselves.

2 Peter 3:15
Interpret our Master's patient restraint for what it is: salvation.

2 Peter 3:11-12
11 Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life? 12 Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival.

2 Peter 3:9
9 God isn't late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn't want anyone lost. He's giving everyone space and time to change.

2 Peter 3:8
With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day.

2 Peter 2:10-11
God is especially incensed against these "teachers" who live by lust, addicted to a filthy existence. They despise interference from true authority, preferring to indulge in self-rule. Insolent egotists, they don't hesitate to speak evil against the most splendid of creatures. 11 Even angels, their superiors in every way, wouldn't think of throwing their weight around like that, trying to slander others before God.

2 Peter 2:9
9 So God knows how to rescue the godly from evil trials.

2 Peter 2:3
They'll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won't, of course, get by with it. They'll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.

2 Peter 2:1-2
But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They'll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other — biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They've put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, 2 but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can't tell right from wrong.

2 Peter 1:20-21
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.

2 Peter 1:16
16 We weren't, you know, just wishing on a star when we laid the facts out before you regarding the powerful return of our Master, Jesus Christ.

I’m glad that I don’t fit into this:
2 Peter 1:4
a world corrupted by lust.

1 Peter 5:7
7 Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you.

1 Peter 5:5
God has had it with the proud,
But takes delight in just plain people.

1 Peter 4:12-13
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job. 13 Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner.

1 Peter 4:3-5
3 You've already put in your time in that God-ignorant way of life, partying night after night, a drunken and profligate life. Now it's time to be done with it for good. 4 Of course, your old friends don't understand why you don't join in with the old gang anymore. But you don't have to give an account to them. 5 They're the ones who will be called on the carpet — and before God himself.

1 Peter 4:1-2
Since Jesus went through everything you're going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. 2 Then you'll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want.

1 Peter 3:22
22 Jesus has the last word on everything and everyone, from angels to armies. He's standing right alongside God, and what he says goes.

1 Peter 2:25
25 You were lost sheep with no idea who you were or where you were going. Now you're named and kept for good by the Shepherd of your souls.

I was very happy to read this:
1 Peter 2:15
15 It is God's will that by doing good, you might cure the ignorance of the fools who think you're a danger to society.

1 Peter 2:13
13 Make the Master proud of you by being good citizens.

God is OMNI so this is no surprise:
1 Peter 2:5
Christ-approved lives up to God.

1 Peter 1:21
you know you have a future in God.

1 Peter 1:8-9
8 You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don't see him, yet you trust him — with laughter and singing. 9 Because you kept on believing, you'll get what you're looking forward to: total salvation.

1 Peter 1:7
When Jesus wraps this all up, it's your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.

The Bible is very clear about how you need to handle wanderers. Call them back! Not long ago you were a wanderer too! Try to save them from destruction! God will notice that.

I have NEVER heard tis from a preacher:
James 4:12
12 God is in charge of deciding human destiny.

James 4:4-6
4 You're cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and his way. 5 And do you suppose God doesn't care? The proverb has it that "he's a fiercely jealous lover." 6 And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you'll find. It's common knowledge that "God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble."

Competition was big then too:
James 4:1-2
Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. 2 You lust for what you don't have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn't yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.

James 3:17
17 Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings

James 3:13
Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts.

James 3:7-10
7 This is scary: You can tame a tiger, 8 but you can't tame a tongue — it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. 9 With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. 10 Curses and blessings out of the same mouth!

James 2:26
Separate faith and works and you get the same thing: a corpse.

James 2:20-23
21 Wasn't our ancestor Abraham "made right with God by works" when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar? 22 Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works? That the works are "works of faith"? 23 The full meaning of "believe" in the Scripture sentence, "Abraham believed God and was set right with God," includes his action.

James 2:19-20
19 Do I hear you professing to believe in the one and only God, but then observe you complacently sitting back as if you had done something wonderful? That's just great. Demons do that, but what good does it do them? 20 Use your heads! Do you suppose for a minute that you can cut faith and works in two and not end up with a corpse on your hands?

James 2:18
You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.

James 2:14-17
Dear friends, do you think you'll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? 15 For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved 16 and say, "Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!" and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup — where does that get you? 17 Isn't it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?

James 2:12-13
12 Talk and act like a person expecting to be judged by the Rule that sets us free. 13 For if you refuse to act kindly, you can hardly expect to be treated kindly. Kind mercy wins over harsh judgment every time.

James 2:8
8 You do well when you complete the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: "Love others as you love yourself."

James 2:5
5 Listen, dear friends. Isn't it clear by now that God operates quite differently? He chose the world's down-and-out as the kingdom's first citizens, with full rights and privileges.

James 2:1
My dear friends, don't let public opinion influence how you live out our glorious, Christ-originated faith.

James 1:26-27
26 Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. 27 Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.
And remember: God knows your heart.

James 1:22-25
22 Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! 23 Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror, 24 walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like. 25 But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God — the free life!

James 1:21
In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

James 1:21
In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

James 1:20
20 God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger

James 1:13-14
13 Don't let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say, "God is trying to trip me up." God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one's way. 14 The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust.

James 1:12
12 Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.

James 1:2-4
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. 3 You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. 4 So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

Heb 13:13-15
13 So let's go outside, where Jesus is, where the action is — not trying to be privileged insiders, but taking our share in the abuse of Jesus. 14 This "insider world" is not our home. We have our eyes peeled for the City about to come. 15 Let's take our place outside with Jesus, no longer pouring out the sacrificial blood of animals but pouring out sacrificial praises from our lips to God in Jesus' name.

Heb 13:8
8 For Jesus doesn't change — yesterday, today, tomorrow, he's always totally himself.

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

Heb 12:1-2
Do you see what this means — all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running — and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. 2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in.

Heb 11:7
7 By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world.

Heb 11:6
anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.

Humans love competition. Competition is where each human tries to be the best and the winner is the best at whatever the competition is for. That all is silly to me because God writes down ALL the days of each persons life in His book BEFORE they are born as well as forms each person in their mother’s womb so nothing is unplanned for but humans think it is.

Heb 11:6
6 It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.

Heb 11:3
3 By faith, we see the world called into existence by God's word, what we see created by what we don't see.

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 10:26-27
26 If we give up and turn our backs on all we've learned, all we've been given, all the truth we now know, we repudiate Christ's sacrifice 27 and are left on our own to face the Judgment — and a mighty fierce judgment it will be!

Let’s talk about being saved. Jesus is God and He is OMNI so when He saves us He knows everything about us: past, present and future so there’s nothing to surprise Him. The future may surprise us but not Him.

Heb 10:19
So, friends, we can now — without hesitation — walk right up to God, into "the Holy Place." Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The "curtain" into God's presence is his body.

Heb 10:18
18 Once sins are taken care of for good, there's no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them.

Heb 10:12
12 As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it!

Heb 9:26
But instead he sacrificed himself once and for all, summing up all the other sacrifices in this sacrifice of himself, the final solution of sin.

Heb 9:24
24 For Christ didn't enter the earthly version of the Holy Place; he entered the Place Itself, and offered himself to God as the sacrifice for our sins.

Let’s talk about a person’s slate of sins. The Bible says that Jesus died for sin and that God is OMNI so a slate of sins doesn’t apply to one who hasn’t been forgiven so the slate must apply to sins created before a person comes to Christ.

Heb 8:11
11 They won't go to school to learn about me

People today want other people to act a certain way. They don’t understand that Jesus died to do away with sin once and for all so they think they have to publically confess sin and be prayed for when in fact Jesus already died for sin so they are trying to crucify Him again!

Heb 4:13
13 Nothing and no one is impervious to God's Word.

The children of Israel though they were led out of Egypt, through the Red Sea and fed Manna they turned a deaf ear to God and people still do today.

Heb 3:4
4 Every house has a builder, but the Builder behind them all is God.

Heb 3:1-2
So, my dear Christian friends, companions in following this call to the heights, take a good hard look at Jesus. He's the centerpiece of everything we believe, 2 faithful in everything God gave him to do.

Heb 1:1-2
1:1 Going through a long line of prophets, God has been addressing our ancestors in different ways for centuries. 2 Recently he spoke to us directly through his Son. By his Son, God created the world in the beginning, and it will all belong to the Son at the end.

Titus 3:2
God's people should be bighearted and courteous.

Titus 2:11
11 God's readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation's available for everyone!

Titus 1:15-16
16 They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words.

Titus 1:10
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.

2 Tim 4:7
7 This is the only race worth running.

2 Tim 4:3-5
3 You're going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food — catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. 4 They'll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages. 5 But you — keep your eye on what you're doing; accept the hard times along with the good; keep the Message alive; do a thorough job as God's servant.

2 Tim 3:17
17 Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.

2 Tim 3:12-13
12 Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble; there's no getting around it. 13 Unscrupulous con men will continue to exploit the faith. They're as deceived as the people they lead astray.

I am not interested in religion, I’m interested in God.

2 Tim 3:1-5
Don't be naive. There are difficult times ahead. 2 As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, 3 dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, 4 treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. 5 They'll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they're animals. Stay clear of these people.

Often people think religion is a way to make a fast buck.

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

The Christian life is a great mystery, far exceeding our understanding, but some things are clear enough

1 Tim 2:8-10
8 Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray — not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. 9 And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions 10 but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.

This and this only has been my appointed work: explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.

There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith.

Here's a word you can take to heart and depend on: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. I'm proof — Public Sinner Number One — of someone who could never have made it apart from sheer mercy.

1 Tim 1:12
12 I'm so grateful to Christ Jesus for making me adequate to do this work. He went out on a limb, you know, in trusting me with this ministry.

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

1 Thess 5:28
28 The amazing grace of Jesus Christ be with you!

1 Thess 5:15
Look for the best in each other, and always do your best to bring it out.

1 Thess 4:6
6 Don't run roughshod over the concerns of your brothers and sisters. Their concerns are God's concerns, and he will take care of them.

While reading through the Bible the word religion keeps coming up and not positively. I want to remind you that faith comes only from God and NOT from following any program or rules. Rules and programs ARE out there but they are NOT from God.

Be assured that when I speak to you I’m not after crowd approval — only God approval.

This is for Christian workers. I’ not the boss it’s God
Col 3:22-25
don't just do the minimum that will get you by. Do your best. 23 Work from the heart for your real Master, for God, 24 confident that you'll get paid in full when you come into your inheritance. Keep in mind always that the ultimate Master you're serving is Christ. 25 The sullen servant who does shoddy work will be held responsible. 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 2:20
20 So, then, if with Christ you've put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it?

Col 2:12-13
12 If it's an initiation ritual you're after, you've already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. 13 When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive — right along with Christ!

Col 2:11
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 2:1
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.

Col 1:15
We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen.

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 4:11-13
11 Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. 12 I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. 13 Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.

Phil 4:6-7
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 3:18-20
18 There are many out there taking other paths, choosing other goals, and trying to get you to go along with them. I've warned you of them many times; sadly, I'm having to do it again. All they want is easy street. They hate Christ's Cross. 19 But easy street is a dead-end street. Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites.

Phil 3:13-14
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 2:21
21 Most people around here are looking out for themselves, with little concern for the things of Jesus.

Phil 2:1-4
If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care — 2 then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. 3 Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. 4 Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

Eph 6:17
God's Word is an indispensable weapon.

Eph 6:12
12 This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels.

Eph 5:21
Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another.

Eph 5:6
6 Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him.

Eph 5:2
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 4:25
In Christ's body we're all connected to each other

Eph 4:5-6
5 You have one Master, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all.

Eph 4:15
We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do.

Eph 4:5-6
5 You have one Master, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all.

Eph 3:19-20
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 3:7
7 This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to Jesus.

Eph 3:6
6 The mystery is that people who have never heard of God and those who have heard of him all their lives (what I've been calling outsiders and insiders) stand on the same ground before God. They get the same offer, same help, same promises in Christ Jesus. The Message is accessible and welcoming to everyone, across the board.

Eph 2:19
You're no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You're no longer strangers or outsiders. You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. God is building a home. He's using us all — irrespective of how we got here — in what he is building.

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.

Eph 1:23
23 The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.

Eph 1:20-21
20 All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, 21 in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule.

Gal 6:15
It is what God is doing, and he is creating something totally new, a free life!

Gal 6:7-8

7 Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others — ignoring God! — 8 harvests a crop of weeds. All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.

Gal 6:4-5
4 Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. 5 Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

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 5:14
14 For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom.

Gal 5:6
6 For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything.

Gal 5:2-3
The moment any one of you submits to circumcision or any other rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ's hard-won gift of freedom is squandered. 3 I repeat my warning: The person who accepts the ways of circumcision trades all the advantages of the free life in Christ for the obligations of the slave life of the law.

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
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.

Gal 3:26
26 By faith in Christ you are in direct relationship with God.

Gal 3:11
The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him.

Gal 3:10
10 And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure.

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

Gal 2:21
Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God?

Gal 2:19
I quit being a "law man" so that I could be God's man.

Gal 2:6
God isn't impressed with mere appearances, and neither am I.

Gal 1:11-12
11 Know this — I am most emphatic here, friends — this great Message I delivered to you is not mere human optimism. 12 I didn't receive it through the traditions, and I wasn't taught it in some school. I got it straight from God, received the Message directly from Jesus Christ.

This is me:
Gal 1:10
10 Do you think I speak this strongly in order to manipulate crowds? Or curry favor with God? Or get popular applause? If my goal was popularity, I wouldn't bother being Christ's slave.

If you don’t feel that you fit in with other people that’s probably ok because the road is slim and few find it. So if many don’t accept you you may be on the right track.

As with Job, people are not going to agree with or understand where we are with God and our job is to stand firm and teach them.

2 Cor 13:14
14 The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, the extravagant love of God, the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit, be with all of you.

2 Cor 12:19
You're not the jury; God is the jury — God revealed in Christ

2 Cor 11:14-15
Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. 15 So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God.

2 Cor 11:12
those money-grubbing "preachers," vaunting themselves as something special.

2 Cor 10:18
18 What you say about yourself means nothing in God's work.

2 Cor 10:12
But in all this comparing and grading and competing, they quite miss the point.

2 Cor 10:3-5
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

2 Cor 8:9
9 You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us — in one stroke he became poor and we became rich.

2 Cor 7:4
If only you knew how proud I am of you!

2 Cor 6:9
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 5:19
God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing.

2 Cor 5:9
Cheerfully pleasing God is the main thing, and that's what we aim to do, regardless of our conditions.

2 Cor 4:18
The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.

2 Cor 4:14
the One who raised up the Master Jesus will just as certainly raise us up with you, alive.

2 Cor 4:7
7 If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with us.

2 Cor 4:5
5 Remember, our Message is not about ourselves; we're proclaiming Jesus Christ, the Master. All we are is messengers, errand runners from Jesus

2 Cor 4:3-4
3 If our Message is obscure to anyone, it's not because we're holding back in any way. No, it's because these other people are looking or going the wrong way and refuse to give it serious attention. 4 All they have eyes for is the fashionable god of darkness. They think he can give them what they want, and that they won't have to bother believing a Truth they can't see. They're stone-blind to the dayspring brightness of the Message that shines with Christ, who gives us the best picture of God we'll ever get.

2 Cor 4:2
2 We refuse to wear masks and play games. We don't maneuver and manipulate behind the scenes. And we don't twist God's Word to suit ourselves.

2 Cor 3:17
God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone.

2 Cor 1:9
Instead of trusting in our own strength or wits to get out of it, we were forced to trust God totally

There is something that I hear a lot but I don’t agree with. When I am in need and at Church people say: “I am at work…”. Now I am a brother and I am in need so what does work have to do with anything?

God is 100% opposite of anything that this World can imagine. You can’t see Him but He is very much there and this World only believes what they can see so He time after time He has tried to give them things that they can see.

1 Cor 15:57-58
57 But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three — sin, guilt, death — are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!

1 Cor 15:34
Ignorance of God is a luxury you can't afford in times like these.

1 Cor 15:22
22 Everybody dies in Adam; everybody comes alive in Christ.

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

1 Cor 10:6-7

6 The same thing could happen to us. We must be on guard so that we never get caught up in wanting our own way as they did. 7 And we must not turn our religion into a circus as they did

1 Cor 8:12
12 When you hurt your friend, you hurt Christ.

1 Cor 8:7
some people end up as know-it-alls who treat others as know-nothings.

1 Cor 8:2
sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds.

1 Cor 4:13
We're treated like garbage, potato peelings from the culture's kitchen.

1 Cor 4:7-8
7 For who do you know that really knows you, knows your heart? And even if they did, is there anything they would discover in you that you could take credit for? Isn't everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? So what's the point of all this comparing and competing? 8 You already have all you need.

1 Cor 4:6
It's important to look at things from God's point of view.

1 Cor 3:21
21 I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else.

1 Cor 4:3
3 It matters very little to me what you think of me, even less where I rank in popular opinion. I don't even rank myself.

1 Cor 3:19
What the world calls smart, God calls stupid.

1 Cor 3:3
3 As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way?

1 Cor 1:25
Human strength can't begin to compete with God's "weakness."

1 Cor 1:25
25 Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God.

This is NOT known by people:
Rom 13:1-2
Be a good citizen. All governments are under God. Insofar as there is peace and order, it's God's order. So live responsibly as a citizen. 2 If you're irresponsible to the state, then you're irresponsible with God, and God will hold you responsible.

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

Rom 12:6
6 let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren't.

Rom 12:3
The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.

Rom 12:3
it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you.

Rom 12:1
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.

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 9:18
18 All we're saying is that God has the first word, initiating the action in which we play our part for good or ill.

Rom 9:16
16 Compassion doesn't originate in our bleeding hearts or moral sweat, but in God's mercy.

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 8:26
26 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.

I have come to a HUGE revelation: What I did was human faults and failures and if I was under the law then I would be a failure but I am under grace so what I did doesn’t matter! God is good!

Rom 8:12

12 So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent.

To make something special out of yourself is to ignore what God has done for you.

Rom 8:7
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.

This isn’t taught:
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 7:24-25
24 I've tried everything and nothing helps. I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question?
25 The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does.

Rom 6:11
Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did.

Rom 6:3-4
That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means. 4 When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus.

Rom 6:2-3
If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? 3 Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace — a new life in a new land!

Rom 5:20-21
When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down.

Rom 5:10
10 If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life!

Rom 5:8
8 But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

Rom 4:19-21
19 Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up. 20 He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, 21 sure that God would make good on what he had said.

Rom 4:18
18 When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do

Rom 4:14
14 If those who get what God gives them only get it by doing everything they are told to do and filling out all the right forms properly signed, that eliminates personal trust completely and turns the promise into an ironclad contract!

Rom 3:27
What we've learned is this: God does not respond to what we do; we respond to what God does.

Rom 3:19-20
it's clear enough, isn't it, that we're sinners, every one of us, in the same sinking boat with everybody else? 20 Our involvement with God's revelation doesn't put us right with God. What it does is force us to face our complicity in everyone else's sin.

Rom 3:9
Basically, all of us, whether insiders or outsiders, start out in identical conditions, which is to say that we all start out as sinners. Scripture leaves no doubt about it:

Rom 3:4
Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth.

Rom 2:17-21
don't assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you're an insider to God's revelation, 18 a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest doctrines! 19 I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have it all together yourselves and, because you know God's revealed Word inside and out, 20 feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights and confused emotions to God. 21 While you are guiding others, who is going to guide you? I'm quite serious.

Rom 2:9-11
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. 10 But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up. 11 Being a Jew won't give you an automatic stamp of approval. God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up his own mind.

Rom 2:3-4
3 You didn't think, did you, that just by pointing your finger at others you would distract God from seeing all your misdoings and from coming down on you hard? 4 Or did you think that because he's such a nice God, he'd let you off the hook? Better think this one through from the beginning. 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.

People have always and still do worship the god they make instead of the real God. The god you make only lasts on this Earth but the real God was, is and will be so He lasts through Eternity.

I’m just as satisfied and eager to share God’s good news as Paul was! I’m not comparing myself to Paul I just know that I feel as he did!

The Old Testament is life with humans trying and failing to meet God’s terms and the New Testament is life with God providing a substitute for meeting God’s terms.

The story of Job is a good Biblical example that human opinions though powerful to us mean nothing to God.

Acts 20:35
our Master said, 'You're far happier giving than getting.'"

Acts 17:30
30 "God overlooks it as long as you don't know any better — but that time is past. The unknown is now known, and he's calling for a radical life-change.

Acts 14:22
Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.

If you’re doing well it’s not your job or money that did it, God did it!

There’s no such thing as nature because God made everything. So nature is just a way of not saying and giving credit to God.

This is a HUGE problem even though God is not public:

Acts 14:4
a split in public opinion

When we put our faith in and celebrate a human that’s fine until they die but our Savior will never die.

Acts 12:3
3 saw how much it raised popularity ratings

This has always been a problem.

Acts 10:34
God plays no favorites!

Acts 10:26
26 Peter pulled him up and said, "None of that — I'm a man and only a man, no different from you.

This is NOT what I see from religious leaders!

Acts 10:4
Your prayers and neighborly acts have brought you to God's attention.

God sees everything you do. There were probably many people at this time.

I am telling you that Jesus Christ is God’s Son. He came to this Earth and was not accepted and killed but no one comes to the Father but through Him.

Baptism is NOT an act or a behavior that gets you to God. God looks at your heart for a permanent life change and dedication to Him and He is OMNI.

Moses was not respected by people in Egypt but God sent him to Egypt to free those who had been slaves in Egypt for over 400 years.

Acts 5:29-30
It's necessary to obey God rather than men.

Acts 5:26
fearful that the people would riot and turn on them.

This is your situation. People are more interested in people than they are in God.

Acts 4:34-35
Those who owned fields or houses sold them and brought the price of the sale 35 to the apostles and made an offering of it.

This doesn’t happen today that I know of.

God has enabled normal people to speak in other languages that they didn’t know so why do we pay and celebrate people who translate His word?

Acts 4:21
21 The religious leaders renewed their threats
This has been going on and it won’t stop.

Acts 4:13
Their fascination deepened when they realized these two were laymen with no training in Scripture or formal education.

I am no different than any other believer in God.

Acts 2:40
Get out while you can; get out of this sick and stupid culture!

God doesn’t do things just because our behavior just happens to be correct, NO He knows our hearts and He is OMNI and our behavior is not our heart.

Job had all of the things of this World but he lost them all but his faith was in the one who was not of this World.

John 28:17
Jesus said, "Feed my sheep.
This is why I write.

John 15:19John 15:19

John 15:19
19 If you lived on the world's terms, the world would love you as one of its own.

John 13:33
33 "Children, I am with you for only a short time longer. You are going to look high and low for me. But just as I told the Jews, I'm telling you: 'Where I go, you are not able to come.'
We are ONLY able to go where He is because we have His righteousness.

John 13:10
My concern, you understand, is holiness, not hygiene.

John 12:43
43 When push came to shove they cared more for human approval than for God's glory.

John 12:26
The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves me.

John 9:39
39 Jesus then said, "I came into the world to bring everything into the clear light of day, making all the distinctions clear, so that those who have never seen will see, and those who have made a great pretense of seeing will be exposed as blind."

John 8:35
35 A slave is a transient, who can't come and go at will.

John 8:23

23 Jesus said, "You're tied down to the mundane; I'm in touch with what is beyond your horizons. You live in terms of what you see and touch. I'm living on other terms.

John 8:15
15 You decide according to what you can see and touch. I don't make judgments like that.

John 7:4
4 No one who intends to be publicly known does everything behind the scenes.

No discussion of human schools
John 6:45
be personally taught by God.'

Competition?
John 5:43-44
44 How do you expect to get anywhere with God when you spend all your time jockeying for position with each other, ranking your rivals and ignoring God?

John 4:23
"It's who you are and the way you live that count before God.

I had no idea that competition has been going on so long!
John 3:26
Well, he's now competing with us. He's baptizing, too, and everyone's going to him instead of us."

Parts of the Bible were written by humans who had NO college education so why do we have college programs that encompass the Bible?

Luke 19:26
26 "He said, 'That's what I mean: Risk your life and get more than you ever dreamed of. Play it safe and end up holding the bag.

Luke 18:27
27 "No chance at all," Jesus said, "if you think you can pull it off by yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it."

Luke 18:17
17 Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in."

Luke 18:14
If you walk around with your nose in the air, you're going to end up flat on your face, but if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself."

Luke 17:33
33 If you grasp and cling to life on your terms, you'll lose it, but if you let that life go, you'll get life on God's terms.

Luke 14:33
33 "Simply put, if you're not willing to take what is dearest to you, whether plans or people, and kiss it good-bye, you can't be my disciple.

Luke 12:57
57 "You don't have to be a genius to understand these things. Just use your common sense

Luke 12:40
40 So don't you be slovenly and careless. Just when you don't expect him, the Son of Man will show up."

Luke 12:3
3 You can't whisper one thing in private and preach the opposite in public

Luke 12:2
You can't hide behind a religious mask forever

Luke 11:29
As the crowd swelled, he took a fresh tack: "The mood of this age is all wrong. Everybody's looking for proof, but you're looking for the wrong kind. All you're looking for is something to titillate your curiosity, satisfy your lust for miracles.

Luke 11:28
28 Jesus commented, "Even more blessed are those who hear God's Word and guard it with their lives!"

Luke 10:20
Not what you do for God but what God does for you

Luke 9:60
60 Jesus refused. "First things first. Your business is life

Luke 9:48
You become great by accepting, not asserting. Your spirit, not your size, makes the difference."

Luke 7:35
35 Opinion polls don't count for much, do they? The proof of the pudding is in the eating."

Luke 6:42
It's this I-know-better-than-you mentality again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your own part.

Luke 6:37-38
Be easy on people; you'll find life a lot easier. 38 Give away your life; you'll find life given back, but not merely given back — given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way.

Luke 6:37
37 "Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults — unless, of course, you want the same treatment.

Luke 6:35-36
Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives toward us, generously and graciously, even when we're at our worst. 36 Our Father is kind; you be kind.

Luke 6:26
26 "There's trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth contests — look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors! Your task is to be true, not popular.

Luke 6:25

And it's trouble ahead if you think life's all fun and games.
There's suffering to be met, and you're going to meet it.

Luke 6:25
25 And it's trouble ahead if you're satisfied with yourself.
Your self will not satisfy you for long.

But it's trouble ahead if you think you have it made.
What you have is all you'll ever get.

People are happy with just what they are doing in this life and they don’t seem to be concerned with planning for eternity.

Mark 13:22-23
Their impressive credentials and dazzling performances will pull the wool over the eyes of even those who ought to know better. 23 So watch out. I've given you fair warning.

Mark 12:38-40
38 He continued teaching. "Watch out for the religion scholars. They love to walk around in academic gowns, preening in the radiance of public flattery, 39 basking in prominent positions, sitting at the head table at every church function. 40 And all the time they are exploiting the weak and helpless. The longer their prayers, the worse they get. But they'll pay for it in the end."

Mark 11:22-23
22 Jesus was matter-of-fact: "Embrace this God-life. Really embrace it, 23 and nothing will be too much for you.

Mark 10:27
27 Jesus was blunt: "No chance at all if you think you can pull it off by yourself. Every chance in the world if you let God do it."

Mark 9:35
35 He sat down and summoned the Twelve. "So you want first place? Then take the last place. Be the servant of all."

It is interesting to see that Jesus came to be a servant and all of the things that His disciples did were those of servants. Not leaders but servants.

Mark 7:13
13 You scratch out God's Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this."

Mark 7:6-8
6 Jesus answered, "Isaiah was right about frauds like you, hit the bull's-eye in fact:
These people make a big show of saying the right thing, but their heart isn't in it.
7 They act like they are worshiping me,
but they don't mean it.
They just use me as a cover
for teaching whatever suits their fancy,
8 Ditching God's command
and taking up the latest fads."

When Jesus was on Earth people always brought their sick to Him and He was criticized for always hanging around with sinners but we are all sinners and sick people without Him.

All honor goes to God and not to the people He made.

Mark 4:24
24 "Listen carefully to what I am saying — and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way.

Mark 4:18-19
18 "The seed cast in the weeds represents the ones who hear the kingdom news 19 but are overwhelmed with worries about all the things they have to do and all the things they want to get. The stress strangles what they heard, and nothing comes of it.

The creation of the Heavens and the Earth were complete BEFORE God created the first humans so opinions and knowledge aside He was fine.

Prov 3:5-6
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.

As events occur you can either check with God to see what He wants for you to do or you can check with yourself to see what you prefer to do.

There is a huge difference between what I do and what God does. If I do something it may or may not have an effect but if God does something is will have an effect.

Most people are working very hard to be the best at what they do but I want nothing more than to make God happy.

A person can make their life on Earth good but life on Earth has nothing to do with Eternity.

Matt 27:1-2
In the first light of dawn, all the high priests and religious leaders met and put the finishing touches on their plot to kill Jesus.

Matt 24:37-39
37 "The Arrival of the Son of Man will take place in times like Noah's. 38 Before the great flood everyone was carrying on as usual, having a good time right up to the day Noah boarded the ark. 39 They knew nothing — until the flood hit and swept everything away.

Matt 24:35
35 Sky and earth will wear out; my words won't wear out.

Matt 23:13
"I've had it with you! You're hopeless, you religion scholars, you Pharisees! Frauds! Your lives are roadblocks to God's kingdom.

Matt 23:11-12
11"Do you want to stand out? Then step down. Be a servant. 12 If you puff yourself up, you'll get the wind knocked out of you. But if you're content to simply be yourself, your life will count for plenty.

Matt 23:8-9
8 "Don't let people do that to you, put you on a pedestal like that. You all have a single Teacher, and you are all classmates. 9 Don't set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do. Save that authority for God; let him tell you what to do. No one else should carry the title of 'Father'; you have only one Father, and he's in heaven.

Matt 23:6-7
6 They love to sit at the head table at church dinners, basking in the most prominent positions, 7 preening in the radiance of public flattery, receiving honorary degrees, and getting called 'Doctor' and 'Reverend.'

Matt 23:1-4
Now Jesus turned to address his disciples, along with the crowd that had gathered with them. 2 "The religion scholars and Pharisees are competent teachers in God's Law. 3 You won't go wrong in following their teachings on Moses. But be careful about following them. They talk a good line, but they don't live it. They don't take it into their hearts and live it out in their behavior. It's all spit-and-polish veneer.

Matt 22:37-40
37 Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' 38 This is the most important, the first on any list. 39 But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.' 40 These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them."

Matt 21:15
15 When the religious leaders saw the outrageous things he was doing, and heard all the children running and shouting through the Temple, "Hosanna to David's Son!" they were up in arms and took him to task.

Matt 21:14
14 Now there was room for the blind and crippled to get in. They came to Jesus and he healed them.

Matt 20:1
"God's kingdom is like an estate manager who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
With Christianity is doesn’t matter what you’ve done just that you’re working toward the goal

God didn’t write the Bible so that you have to have a certain level of education to understand it, He wrote it for His creations.

Matt 19:21
All your wealth will then be in heaven.

Matt 16:16-17

16 Simon Peter said, "You're the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God."

17 Jesus came back, "God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn't get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am.

Matt 12:34
It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.

Matt 12:31
31 "There's nothing done or said that can't be forgiven.

Matt 12:6-7
6 "There is far more at stake here than religion.

Matt 11:28
28 "Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest.

Matt 11:25-26
25 Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. 26 Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work."

Matt 10:16
don't call attention to yourselves

Matt 9:13
I'm after mercy, not religion.' I'm here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.

Matt 7:13-14
"Don't look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with surefire, easygoing formulas for a successful life that can be practiced in your spare time. Don't fall for that stuff, even though crowds of people do.

Matt 7:12
12 "Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them.

Matt 7:11
11 As bad as you are, you wouldn't think of such a thing. You're at least decent to your own children. So don't you think the God who conceived you in love will be even better?

Matt 7:7-9
7 "Don't bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. 8 This isn't a cat-and-mouse, hide-and-seek game we're in.

Matt 6:34
34 "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

Matt 6:33
33 Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

Matt 6:30-32
30 "If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers — most of which are never even seen — don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? 31 What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving.

Matt 6:28-29
Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, 29 but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.

Matt 6:25-26
There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. 26 Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.

Matt 6:24
24 "You can't worship two gods at once. Loving one god, you'll end up hating the other. Adoration of one feeds contempt for the other. You can't worship God and Money both.

Jesus death did not just bring us forgiveness it brought us His righteousness to be accepted by God.

I have come to a place where all I can depend on is God as my dependence is not in vain.

Matt 6:1
"Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don't make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won't be applauding.

Matt 5:42
42 No more tit-for-tat stuff. Live generously.

Matt 5:34
In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

The simple moral fact is that words kill.

Matt 5:20
20 Unless you do far better than the religious experts you won't know the first thing about entering the kingdom.

Matt 5:18
18 God's Law is more real and lasting than the stars in the sky and the ground at your feet.

Matt 5:13
"Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth.

Matt 5:9
9 "You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family.

Matt 5:5
5 "You're blessed when you're content with just who you are — no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

Matt 5:3
3 "You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

No matter what seems good
Matt 4:10
"Worship the Lord your God, and only him. Serve him with absolute single-heartedness."

It doesn’t matter who you are or your position
Matt 3:10
10 What counts is your life.

Being a Christian is not the popular thing to do
Matt 3:7
7 When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducees were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded

No matter what else was going on:
Matt 2:21
21 Joseph obeyed.

God knows your heart:
Matt 2:7-8
7 Herod then arranged a secret meeting with the scholars from the East. Pretending to be as devout as they were, he got them to tell him exactly when the birth-announcement star appeared. 8 Then he told them the prophecy about Bethlehem, and said, "Go find this child. Leave no stone unturned. As soon as you find him, send word and I'll join you at once in your worship."

Did all of the religion scholars help Herod? No, and they won’t help you today either.
Matt 2:4
4 Herod lost no time. He gathered all the high priests and religion scholars in the city together and asked, "Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?"

Did all of the religion scholars help Herod?
Matt 2:4
4 Herod lost no time. He gathered all the high priests and religion scholars in the city together and asked, "Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?"

Only God could say this:
Matt 1:1
1:1 The family tree of Jesus Christ, David's son, Abraham's son:

A new book called Indispensible

Indispensable means can’t be disposed of.

The scriptures say that the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable (1 Cor. 12:22) which means that those who don’t seem so important to Society are important to God.

That’s where I am. I don’t seem to be important by the World’s standards but I am very important to God. Now getting people to understand that is a constant battle. People are most quick to respond positively IF they feel important per the World’s standards or IF what they are doing seems important by the World’s standards BUT IF NOT, they don’t hesitate to dispose of it quickly. I am constantly disposed of by people who say that they are Christians.
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So it’s time to define Christianity by God’s standards and not the standards of this World.

God defines Christianity in the Bible as like Christ and to be like Christ you have to die to this World.

Dyeing to this World is not easy for people to do in fact most people want to conform to this World. What I see are people wanting the praise of this World foremost while I am disposed of!

Think about this: God is the same yesterday, today and forever but as humans we repeatedly change so who is dependable ourselves or God? God!
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But people just depend on themselves because they meet the standards of this World! So everything is up to them and what they know and what they do. They may talk about God when they feel that it’s convenient but they depend on the things that the World has told them because that’s here and now and reality and to them God is not here and now or reality.

And human futures are built on what the World wants as opposed to eternal futures based on what God wants. So life on Earth may be good for them. And to them it’s all up to them.

So let me ask you: did the children of Israel part the Red Sea? Was Jesus born by human conception? The answer to both is NO.
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So with that being said why do people think that things are up to them?

God brought me to where I am today to teach me that so I’m paying attention but I am constantly disposed of by people. People who are more interested in making a dollar for themselves than they are in loving their neighbor as God commanded.

So who is behind all of this? Well, who was thrown out of Heaven and given the Earth to run? Satan. Nothing has changed. Things are just the same as they were in the garden of Eden. Just like Adam and Eve God said one thing but we do something else and we are out of communication with God.
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That is why Jesus came but we still do what we want to do. Jesus didn’t say to be the best or to take care of yourself, NO! He said to love your neighbor and that’s why the scriptures say that I am indispensable. So why am I disposed of?

For the same reason that Adam and Eve did what God told them NOT TO DO! Satan said something and they used their own opinions instead of what God had told them. And He has told us to love our neighbors and He didn’t say a word about being the best or to take care of ourselves. He is our creator and He said to love each other and He has told us about indispensable people.

Ignoring that or developing our own opinions didn’t work for Adam and Eve and it won’t for us.
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There is so much more to God than any human religion can describe and that’s why there are so many denominations. Think about this: the created cannot define the creator.

If you were crucified you had done something so bad that you deserved to die shamefully. The Son of God died that way. So making something special of Himself was not a priority to Him.

“Share in the sufferings of the gospel…” This is a HUGE difference from what I see going on. Did Jesus suffer? Aren’t we supposed to be Christ like?

On Earth cash is king but in Heaven God is king.

As a Christian on Earth your goal is to make something of yourself with God. On Earth you’ll be encouraged to make something of yourself for yourself but that only applies to this Earth.

God can’t become part of your life He has to become your life!

God said: “no other gods before me” which means do not worship ANYTHING else. NOTHING like your boss, your job, your family, your career or anything else.

God said no other gods before me which means do not worship ANYTHING else.

In 11 years as I am I have learned that life on Earth is a HUGE competition that I can’t win or even play in which on one hand is bad because I can’t play at all but on the other hand is fine because salvation IS NOT a competition.

Communion IS NOT a Church competition! It’s a celebration of the gift you have been given by God. It can’t be earned!

When the Passover was first observed the prize was life not the death of the lamb. In the same way when we take communion we should not celebrate the death of the lamb of God, we should be celebrating the life that it gave us.

God taught me something today that to me was new: when we drink the juice at communion it is not just to remind us that Jesus shed His blood but that He gave us eternal life when He died.

In the Garden of Eden Satan used his opinion to bring about sin for mankind and he was thrown out of Heaven to run the Earth. Unfortunately opinions are prevalent among humans on Earth.

When God creates us we are faced with focusing on one of two things: either on ourselves or on God. Be careful to do the right thing and focus on God.

I spend EVERY moment of EVERY day being thrilled about who I am with God!

God made me the way I am to please Him!

I could make people happy about me but that’s not important because what is is making people happy about God.

God used some of the people that He created to write the Bible.

God is much more forgiving than I know how to be.

In our World there is more interest in what you make than there is on who you serve.

Religion is VERY judgmental but I just have faith and I just say: “would I do that?” and that’s all.

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 6:6-8
6 A devout life does bring wealth, but it's the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. 7 Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, 8 if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that's enough.

1 Tim 6:6-8

6 A devout life does bring wealth, but it's the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. 7 Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, 8 if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that's enough.

1 Tim 6:5
They think religion is a way to make a fast buck.

1 Tim 5:4
religion begins at your own doorstep

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

2 Cor 5:7
7 We live by faith, not by sight .
NIV
So eye candy is no good.

We have to be very careful that we are not more interested in ourselves than our creator and this World encourages us to be interested in ourselves.

There is such a HUGE push in this World to focus on yourself instead of our creator but our creator isn’t managing this World.

1 John 4:21
21 The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both.

You may have tried hard to become something in this world but God does not live in this world.

A Christians behavior should come from LOVE not the adherence to anything.