There is a time to answer a fool, and there is a time to scroll on. Only the Holy Spirit can dictate the correct time. Sometimes I respond to ignorance, and sometimes I don't. Either way, I pray that I respond according to the Holy Spirit's guidance.
Proverbs 26:4 KJV Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Proverbs 26:5 KJV Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
The parables of Christ can't be discerned without the Spirit of God. That's why fools mock Christ while they still can.
Proverbs 26:7 KJV The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Joining online dog fights is pointless.
Proverbs 26:17 KJV He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Christian or not, on this side of heaven, if you do godly things, you'll receive godly rewards. If you play stupid games, you'll win stupid prizes.
Proverbs 26:10 KJV The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
Foolish jesting at others' expense never ends well and almost always results in contention.
Proverbs 26:18 KJV As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Proverbs 26:19 KJV So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Proverbs 26:20 KJV Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs 26:21 KJV As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Modern politics in a nutshell.
Proverbs 26:25 KJV When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Proverbs 26:28 KJV A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Gospilled Minute #170
There's a gym called salvation that I didn't build. One day, I was invited to join, and I've been working out seriously in it ever since. I can't guarantee the results, but I know the gains are real – past, present, and future. Salvation is not your gym if there is no exercise.
Philippians 2:12 KJV Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Very few men will truly care for your soul, and no one can care for your soul like Jesus.
Philippians 2:20-21 KJV For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
The Son of God has always walked among His people – Israel the Church – where there is a standard of holiness, including sexual purity.
Deuteronomy 23:17 KJV There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
If judgment ever comes upon the Jews, it's because the LORD has appointed it, as with all judgment.
Jeremiah 15:3 KJV And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Jeremiah 15:6 KJV Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah 15:7 KJV And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
There are Jews whom God cursed and destroyed, and there are Jews who were part of the remnant in Christ, such as Jeremiah. Many Christians have been deceived into believing they are the same.
Jeremiah 15:11 KJV The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Jeremiah knew the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 15:16 KJV Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
God is gathering His precious ones in Christ from the vile world without Him, even to this day. These precious ones were known as Remnant Israel in the past and the Church in the present.
Jeremiah 15:19 KJV Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Jeremiah 15:20 KJV And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 15:21 KJV And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Father, help us to be good stewards of our words. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
