We should be concerned with the fruit of our mouth instead of always defecating on others from the other end.
Proverbs 13:2 KJV A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
Proverbs 13:3 KJV He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Respect has always been a pet peeve of mine. When I'm disrespected, a shot is fired at my pride. Through spiritual growth and the relentless attacks on social media over the years, I've developed armor to deflect such ignorance and hostility.
Proverbs 13:10 KJV Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Many put more effort into chasing a quick buck than actual work that earns a steady and sure buck.
Proverbs 13:11 KJV Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
The hope of Christ always bears fruit in its season, so never lose that hope.
Proverbs 13:12 KJV Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Here at Gospilled, we love the Word and fear the Commandment.
Proverbs 13:13 KJV Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
I have learned many things the hard way, and as I get older, I seek to learn things the favorable way.
Proverbs 13:15 KJV Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Wicked messengers gain the world's spotlight to mock our faith with their mischief as they are exposed, whereas faithful ambassadors accomplish God's will while rarely being known.
Proverbs 13:17 KJV A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
A wise man once said, “Eat to live. Do not live to eat.” I have seen preachers joke about their obesity and gluttony from the pulpit. It’s not a joke.
Proverbs 13:25 KJV The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
A man's calling is ordained by God. If other men choose to honor such an ordination with prayer, fasting, and laying on of hands, they join in the blessing of that calling. If not, the man's mission goes on.
Galatians 1:1 KJV Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Paul understood the distinction between the Church—the Body of Christ—and the local churches within it.
Galatians 1:2 KJV And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
Galatians 1:3 KJV Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Churches in Christ, not of Rome.
Galatians 1:22 KJV And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
We live in an evil world with fallen men. I'm sure you're not shocked by this.
Galatians 1:4 KJV Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
The gospel of Christ saves the Jew and the Gentile. (Romans 1:16)
The gospel of Christ was fully preached and the fullness of the blessing received with many signs and wonders prior to false gospels such as Mormonism. (Romans 15:19, 29)
The gospel of Christ does not demand a charge. (1 Corinthians 9:18)
The gospel of Christ opens the eyes so that people can believe. (2 Corinthians 4:4)
The gospel of Christ causes people to distribute to others’ needs. (2 Corinthians 9:13)
The gospel of Christ fosters the unity of the Brethren. (Philippians 1:27)
The gospel of Christ establishes and comforts. (1 Thessalonians 3:2)
There are other gospels that claim to be the gospel of Christ.
Galatians 1:6 KJV I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Galatians 1:7 KJV Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, claimed that the angel Moroni appeared to him in 1823, guiding him to golden plates that he translated into the Book of Mormon. Similarly, Prophet Muhammad received revelations from the angel Jibril (Gabriel) over 23 years, starting in 610 CE, in the Cave of Hira, which became the Quran. Enough said.
Galatians 1:8 KJV But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:9 KJV As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Preaching the gospel of Christ doesn't please men because it doesn't please the flesh.
Galatians 1:10 KJV For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
The gospel of Christ wasn't given to us by man or by an angel. It's been given to us by God.
Galatians 1:11 KJV But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
Galatians 1:12 KJV For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The Jews' religion is not the Christian's religion.
Galatians 1:13 KJV For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
Again, the Jews' religion is not the Christian's religion.
Jeremiah 2:13 KJV For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:19 KJV Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Paul wasn't assigned an AIPAC handler when he became a Christian, nor did he seek their counsel.
Galatians 1:15 KJV But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
Galatians 1:16 KJV To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
There's still hope for the Jew who converts by faith in Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:23 KJV But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
Galatians 1:24 KJV And they glorified God in me.
We may not have the original manuscripts of the Bible, just as the first tablets were destroyed, but we have the Word of God as it has been copied time and time again. His Writing never changes.
Deuteronomy 10:4 KJV And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
The Israel of God (Church) has a circumcised heart, which is the circumcision of Christ.
Deuteronomy 10:12 KJV And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 10:13 KJV To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Deuteronomy 10:14 KJV Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Deuteronomy 10:15 KJV Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 10:16 KJV Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Colossians 2:11 KJV In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
The LORD doesn't bow to Jewish lobbyism, nor should we.
Deuteronomy 10:17 KJV For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
For nations to exist, there must be an immigration standard. However, this enforcement or lack thereof doesn't change how we're to treat the immigrants we encounter, documented or not.
Deuteronomy 10:18 KJV He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 10:19 KJV Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Swear by His name, not curse using His name.
Deuteronomy 10:20 KJV Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 10:21 KJV He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
The Israel of God—Jesus Christ, the Firstfruits of the Body (Church)—is holy because He is holy. Bless the Israel of God and you will be blessed. Curse the Israel of God and you will be cursed.
Jeremiah 2:3 KJV Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
1 Corinthians 15:20 KJV But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Just as those who call themselves Jews and Israel defile the land today.
Jeremiah 2:7 KJV And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
A corrupt religious establishment? Nah, it cant’ be!
Jeremiah 2:8 KJV The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Jesus Christ is the noble vine and the right seed, and the fruit thereof are Christians. The Jews' religion is a strange vine.
Jeremiah 2:21 KJV Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
I do not care how many times you bathe or are baptized; your sins will not be washed away unless you are bathed and baptized by Christ.
Jeremiah 2:22 KJV For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
The Jews have many gods! Nah, it can’t be!
Jeremiah 2:28 KJV But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
The LORD punished the Jews who killed their own prophets? Nah, it can’t be!
Jeremiah 2:30 KJV In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
The Jews persecuted and slew the innocent while claiming to be innocent? Nah, it can’t be!
Jeremiah 2:34 KJV Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Jeremiah 2:35 KJV Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Father, thank You for the gospel of Christ! In Jesus' Name, Amen.
