BEWARE the Lawkeepers

[eternally-gratefull]

I was replying to your point that the law does not teach. It clearly does and did for those who lived before Jesus came and does for us before we come to Christ.

I agree that Jesus replaces the law on stone for those who believe on Him.

I am not under law but under Grace maybe on this part we just have different ways of wording it.

The law shows sin by showing righteousness.

Psa 119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

that word "Just" can be translated right short for righteous.

The law is not sin but rather shows what is right so that sin appears wrong as it is.

Rom 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

The law is righteous and good.

So If we by the grace of God are made good and righteous then we will be by def ult keeping the law. So I agree it was given to show us our need of Christ but it does that by showing what is good and right and thus clearly showing us that we are sinful and wrong.

I like what you said About David and God teaching them I agree with that.

As I said above the letter does show what is righteous, It does not show how to be righteous. Jesus does that as God did for David.

It seems that our disagreement is more in the way we word things than anything. Sounds to me from this last post of yours that we are more in agreement.

blessings.

yes, it sounds like we misunderstood each other.

 

[gotime]

yes, it sounds like we misunderstood each other.

I apologies for any misunderstanding on my part and in that respect my miss judgment of your words.

 

[eternally-gratefull]

I apologies for any misunderstanding on my part and in that respect my miss judgment of your words.

as do I, and appology accepted.

all we just did is prove how flawed we are, and why we still need Christ,

amen

 

[RedTent]

Why is there a misunderstanding about how we keep the law? When we accept Christ as our Savior we receive the HS, That makes a difference in all parts of our life, our understanding, actions, and what we do as we give ourselves over to this leading. We agree this HS is of God, so of course God's laws would be included in the whole package. What we don't seem to agree on is what can be eliminated from the whole of God. I don't see how some can say that parts of God's word can be eliminated and still follow God?

Even when Christ became the lamb of God, and we were not to use animal blood any more, it was a big change but blood was not eliminated. In spirit and truth, as we are to read scripture as well as see the literal of scripture, nothing is eliminated, only changed. It was still blood. Anyone who reads scripture only literally, knows nothing about what scripture says, but those who read it without including any of the literal also are not reading it correctly. God eliminated nothing He said God is truth and the same always.

 

[Karraster]

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

God said that He made human beings in His “image” and “likeness.”
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is”

King David also understood this a thousand years earlier when he wrote: “As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Your likeness”

[SUP]19 [/SUP]And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. [SUP]20 [/SUP]And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Do you notice a theme here? Any feedback would be appreciated in explaining "foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests". Because the way I see it is that foxes are in burrows to reproduce, as birds use nests for the same purpose ..to produce a "likeness" of themselves, they don't just hang out there daily, as we tend to do with homes.

He goes on to say He has no place to lay His head...I think He's saying it is not yet time for Him to gather His children. any thoughts would be appreciated.

Point being, My understanding is He forgives the repentant, and then we go on to become more and more like Him. He is the author and finisher, but until that time we breath our last our journey must be transformative, ever changing into His image.

Also consider, has any man made government worked in harmony? There must be cause and effect in the natural, and only the government of God is perfect and everlasting.

opens my eyes?

you need to open yours.

If the schoolmaster as paul said was ONLY to lead us to Christ, and once we came to him, we no longer are in need of a schoolmaster.

Then your whole theory falls on its face.

The schoolmaster takes yuo ny the hand, Guides you and directs you to a point where his job is to bring you, whether that be teaching, guidling or directing.

Once the task of that schoolmaster is complete. Your given to another teacher, or another school, or another tutor..

If you still think your under law. Your still following the schoolmaster. and evidenly have not found Christ. for as yuo said you think it shows you how to be righteous. That was not its purpose. It was given to show you why Christ had to die for your sin, and why you need to trust him.

As for your proof. The same david understood that sacrifice and burnt offering God did not desire to forgive him his sin, He understood what Abraham and every person before the law understood. It is our heart attitude which sins. Not the letter of the law. The law did not teach them that, It could not. It was the relationship with God which taught them that.

the letter was given to prove we are sinners. Not to show us how to be righteous. If it could teach us to be righteous, then why do we need to be born again and given the power of God to do good? they law would do it for us??

From an Oxyrhynchus papyrus we learn of the custom of committing a boy to the care of a trusted slave who conducted the boy to school and watched over his conduct until he became an adult. This was the paidagwgo/j to which Paul refers in Galatians 3:24. The KJV translates the word as "schoolmaster." However, rather than being the teacher, he was the person who took the boy to the teacher.

Obviously, the "teacher" is Messiah.

 

[BradC]

I came under conviction and believed upon the Lord when I was 19 years old. Up to that point in time there were issues in my life that concerned me but I never knew just how wicked and deceitful the human heart was until after I got saved. The more light that God shed on my heart the more I became convicted of the wickedness of my heart. When we get saved God never eradicates the heart or the sin nature within. We have it and God deals with it through the cross, through the life of the Spirit and through the light of His word. Keeping the law has absolutely nothing to do with how God works in our life. I have a wicked heart and I am never going to be able to change that by keeping the law. I can not restrain my heart by keeping the law and if I try I only strengthen sin in me. There is only one solution for a wicked heart and it is the cross and being filled with the Spirit. The heart is so deceitful and desperately wicked that we can't even know just how wicked it really is.

The heart is capable of every conceivable wickedness and God knows it. Keeping the law has no effect upon a wicked heart no matter how hard you try to keep it or any of the commandments. Trying to keep the law to compensate for a wicked heart that wanders into sin operates the opposite of what we are striving for. It strengthens sin instead of keeps us from it. Those who strive after the law do it to keep themselves from sin and it has the opposite effect. When sin abounds God does not instruct us through the Spirit to do a better job at keeping the law, He makes grace abound that much more. He does not want us to try harder, he wants us to give up striving after the law or being better and come to Him so that we can find rest from our sin.

Everyone tells us to repent, repent, repent from sin and Christ says come to me all you who are heavy ladened with sin and I will give you rest for your soul. God knows that we have a problem with sin because of our wicked heart and He makes grace abound toward us that we would come to Him. Isn't it better when we are having problems with sin to come to Him instead of going to the law? I think it pleases Him so much when we come to Him with our weaknesses and troubles with sin that He is glorified when we do so. He is not interested with us going to the law but to come to Him and to His throne to obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need.

Please, those of you who would come back and respond to this post with the law, don't ruin it for those who humble themselves before the mighty hand of God to receive grace. Let them grow in grace and knowledge of knowing the God of all grace and the Father of all mercies. Let people find grace and have Christ as their head. Let them have a relationship with Christ through grace and truth and not the law. Let them take up a cross so that they can say for them to live is Christ and by faith in the Son who died for them, for Christ is the end of the law to everyone that believes.

 

[gotime]

From an Oxyrhynchus papyrus we learn of the custom of committing a boy to the care of a trusted slave who conducted the boy to school and watched over his conduct until he became an adult. This was the paidagwgo/j to which Paul refers in Galatians 3:24. The KJV translates the word as "schoolmaster." However, rather than being the teacher, he was the person who took the boy to the teacher.

Obviously, the "teacher" is Messiah.

Nice I stand corrected. thank you for this I looked it up to see if what you said here was true.

 

[gotime]

as do I, and appology accepted.

all we just did is prove how flawed we are, and why we still need Christ,

amen

I must apologize again, I was wrong on the schoolmaster thing. I used the English translation which Karraster brought up so I looked it up. I was wrong and you were right.

Praise God it is good to find truth.

Thank you for your patience. blessings.

 

[Karraster]

Nice I stand corrected. thank you for this I looked it up to see if what you said here was true.

Sorry, I didn't see the post you are referring to, but your humility is refreshing! Carry on brother.

 

[Karraster]

gotime, I just wanted to say I am wrong about things too, heck we all are, but I have to pause and smile about your wanting to say that and without hesitation. That's setting a good example brother!

 

[RedTent]

I came under conviction and believed upon the Lord when I was 19 years old. Up to that point in time there were issues in my life that concerned me but I never knew just how wicked and deceitful the human heart was until after I got saved. The more light that God shed on my heart the more I became convicted of the wickedness of my heart. When we get saved God never eradicates the heart or the sin nature within. We have it and God deals with it through the cross, through the life of the Spirit and through the light of His word. Keeping the law has absolutely nothing to do with how God works in our life. I have a wicked heart and I am never going to be able to change that by keeping the law. I can not restrain my heart by keeping the law and if I try I only strengthen sin in me. There is only one solution for a wicked heart and it is the cross and being filled with the Spirit. The heart is so deceitful and desperately wicked that we can't even know just how wicked it really is.

The heart is capable of every conceivable wickedness and God knows it. Keeping the law has no effect upon a wicked heart no matter how hard you try to keep it or any of the commandments. Trying to keep the law to compensate for a wicked heart that wanders into sin operates the opposite of what we are striving for. It strengthens sin instead of keeps us from it. Those who strive after the law do it to keep themselves from sin and it has the opposite effect. When sin abounds God does not instruct us through the Spirit to do a better job at keeping the law, He makes grace abound that much more. He does not want us to try harder, he wants us to give up striving after the law or being better and come to Him so that we can find rest from our sin.

Everyone tells us to repent, repent, repent from sin and Christ says come to me all you who are heavy ladened with sin and I will give you rest for your soul. God knows that we have a problem with sin because of our wicked heart and He makes grace abound toward us that we would come to Him. Isn't it better when we are having problems with sin to come to Him instead of going to the law? I think it pleases Him so much when we come to Him with our weaknesses and troubles with sin that He is glorified when we do so. He is not interested with us going to the law but to come to Him and to His throne to obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need.

Please, those of you who would come back and respond to this post with the law, don't ruin it for those who humble themselves before the mighty hand of God to receive grace. Let them grow in grace and knowledge of knowing the God of all grace and the Father of all mercies. Let people find grace and have Christ as their head. Let them have a relationship with Christ through grace and truth and not the law. Let them take up a cross so that they can say for them to live is Christ and by faith in the Son who died for them, for Christ is the end of the law to everyone that believes.

But doing our best to keep the law has a lot to do with God working in your life. By your own admission, when God came into your heart you let God lead you to the law. The more God led you and took over your heart the more you accepted the law as you lived your life and made it a part of your life.

Christ in our life IS the law in our life. It is part and partial of God, it is freedom, it is abundance, it is love. It is the HS made manifest. Repentance is part of freeing us from the bondage of sin.

 

[Laodicea]

From an Oxyrhynchus papyrus we learn of the custom of committing a boy to the care of a trusted slave who conducted the boy to school and watched over his conduct until he became an adult. This was the paidagwgo/j to which Paul refers in Galatians 3:24. The KJV translates the word as "schoolmaster." However, rather than being the teacher, he was the person who took the boy to the teacher.

Obviously, the "teacher" is Messiah.

That is true. Now we have something better than the law, The lawgiver. The life of Jesus here on earth is a true fulfillment of the law as God intends. If we see the law as only "Thou shalt not" we are looking at it incorrectly. We need to look at the law in the life of Christ.

 

[RedTent]

I am very GLAD to print this post of yours, it is RIGHT ON ! Thanks. Love Hoffco ps I want to make a preaching tour with my wife this next year, or sooner. Much has to happen to make it a reality. But, I would love to meet you and preach in the Churches you go to. May God make it a reality.! This is also true of you others who agree with me, you know who you are.

How I would love to meet you and explore your ministry. What stories you have to tell.

I am self taught, my minister and I love each other, but we do not agree. I had to go to bed because of my leg, so all my time was spent listening and reading in God's word and the history of the people God used to tell of His word.

 

[Hoffco]

You all are missing a key truth of God's holy WORD, His LAW. It was given to cleanse a sinner of his evil ways. Please be more careful.! Psa.119:1-16 verses 9-10 "How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your words. With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!" We are to do the same today, We are to order our lives according to all the New Testament. Rom. 7 teach us that Paul loved the WORD of God, laws of God and keep the commands of Jesus with his whole heart.

 

[Karraster]

I came under conviction and believed upon the Lord when I was 19 years old. Up to that point in time there were issues in my life that concerned me but I never knew just how wicked and deceitful the human heart was until after I got saved. The more light that God shed on my heart the more I became convicted of the wickedness of my heart. When we get saved God never eradicates the heart or the sin nature within. We have it and God deals with it through the cross, through the life of the Spirit and through the light of His word. Keeping the law has absolutely nothing to do with how God works in our life. I have a wicked heart and I am never going to be able to change that by keeping the law. I can not restrain my heart by keeping the law and if I try I only strengthen sin in me. There is only one solution for a wicked heart and it is the cross and being filled with the Spirit. The heart is so deceitful and desperately wicked that we can't even know just how wicked it really is.

The heart is capable of every conceivable wickedness and God knows it. Keeping the law has no effect upon a wicked heart no matter how hard you try to keep it or any of the commandments. Trying to keep the law to compensate for a wicked heart that wanders into sin operates the opposite of what we are striving for. It strengthens sin instead of keeps us from it. Those who strive after the law do it to keep themselves from sin and it has the opposite effect. When sin abounds God does not instruct us through the Spirit to do a better job at keeping the law, He makes grace abound that much more. He does not want us to try harder, he wants us to give up striving after the law or being better and come to Him so that we can find rest from our sin.

Everyone tells us to repent, repent, repent from sin and Christ says come to me all you who are heavy ladened with sin and I will give you rest for your soul. God knows that we have a problem with sin because of our wicked heart and He makes grace abound toward us that we would come to Him. Isn't it better when we are having problems with sin to come to Him instead of going to the law? I think it pleases Him so much when we come to Him with our weaknesses and troubles with sin that He is glorified when we do so. He is not interested with us going to the law but to come to Him and to His throne to obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need.

Please, those of you who would come back and respond to this post with the law, don't ruin it for those who humble themselves before the mighty hand of God to receive grace. Let them grow in grace and knowledge of knowing the God of all grace and the Father of all mercies. Let people find grace and have Christ as their head. Let them have a relationship with Christ through grace and truth and not the law. Let them take up a cross so that they can say for them to live is Christ and by faith in the Son who died for them, for Christ is the end of the law to everyone that believes.

What say you about Peter walking on water? (Matt. 14:22-33). When Jesus (the rabbi/teacher) walked on water, Peter (the talmid/student) wanted to be like him. Do you think Peter had walked on water before or have even imagined doing so. However, if the teacher, who chose me because he believed I could be like him, can do it so must I, and he did! It was a miracle that he walked on water like the rabbi! And then...he doubted. Doubted what I wonder? Traditionally we have seen he doubted Jesus' power. Possibly, but Jesus was still standing on the water. Did Peter doubted himself, or maybe better his capacity to be empowered by Jesus? Does Jesus response "why did you doubt?" (14:31) mean "why did you doubt I could empower you to be like me?" I think so.
That is a crucial message for the talmid/student/follower of today. We must believe that Jesus calls us to be disciples because he knows he can so instruct, empower, and fill us with his Spirit that we can be like him (at least in our actions). We must believe in ourselves! Otherwise we will doubt that he can use us and as a result we will not be like him. This my friend, is Faith. Now why in the world would we hide this under a bushel?

 

[Hoffco]

To RedTent, I have forgotten what you did share about your church and the other one you like to go to also. If You would talk to me on email., Maybe God will open up a short time ministry with the churches near you, if and when we get our trip planned. [email protected] Love to all, Hoffco, Doug

 

[JaumeJ]

Yeshua is the Gate of the enemies of Israel. The Good Shepherd gathered His other flock (Gentiles) to be with the original flock (Jews cum Israel). If Gentiles enter through the Gate they become one with those witing, Israel. If we be that other flock, we are brought together with the original flock, Jew. No, we need not call ourselves anything other than of the faith of Abraham having come to Yeshua, however we are the same people of Yahweh, God, because of having associated ourselves with them in the faith of Abraham. Gentiles are no longer Gentiles. This rings true in the law, the writings, the prophets and the New Testament.

To Red Tent, I don't think a Gentile ever became a Jew. They became a "GOD fearing person" or a proselyte to Judaism. By faith in Christ we are the "seed"of Abraham. I enjoyed your "story" and I learn from them, thanks. . Love to all, Hoffco

 

[Zinzerio]

The law is Holy holy holy holy.

Let me try this again

The
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good. so then the law is Good [COLOR=#0000FF !important]Romans[/COLOR] 7:12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

It was Jesus who said he was not under any law,,, not you not i but Jesus said this.
Jesus said this, not you not i, "Jesus". Jesus could say this as he is above the law not you not i but Jesus.
Jesus is above the law and Jesus is God. and we are still under Gods law.
1 Corinthians 9:21 though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ.

So then what are thees laws of Jesus Christ what is holy about the law, what is righteous and good ? one thing that is good is the law of jesus (God) still stands today yes holy holy holy,

 

[Zinzerio]

the laws and commandments of our lord Jesus christ

REPENTANCE
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[TR]
[TD]1. "Repent"[/TD]
[TD]Matt. 4:17;
Rev. 2:5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]2. "Come unto Me"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 11:28[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]3. "Seek first God and His righteousness"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 6:33[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]4. "Forgive if ye have ought against any"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Mark 11:25[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]5. "Deny Yourself"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 16:24[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]6. "Ask…seek…knock"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 7:7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]7. "Strive to enter in at the strait gate"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Luke 13:24[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


II.
BELIEF

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Believe the Gospel"[/TD]
[TD]Mark. 1:15[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]2. "Ye believe in God, believe also in Me"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 14:1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]3. "Believe on Him who He (God) hath sent"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 6:28-29[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]4. "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 14:11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]5. "Believe the works…I do"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 10:37-38[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]6. "While ye have light believe in the light"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 12:36[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]7. "Believe that ye receive"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Mark 11:24[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


III.
THE NEW BIRTH
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[TR]
[TD]1. "Ye must be born again"[/TD]
[TD]John 3:7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]2. "Cleanse first that which is within"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 23:26[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]3. "Make the tree good, and his fruit good"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 12:33[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]4. "Abide in Me and I in you"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 15:4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]5. "Have salt in yourselves"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Mark 9:50[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]6. "Labor…for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 6:27[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]7. "Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Luke 10:20[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


IV.
RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Receive ye the Holy Ghost"[/TD]
[TD]John 20:23[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]2. "Let the children first be filled"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Mark 7:27[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]3. "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 7:37-39[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]4. "Keep my commandments and…the Father…shall give you another Comforter"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 14:15-17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]5. "Ask…with importunity"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 16:24; Luke11:5-13[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]6. "Tarry…until ye be endued with power from on high"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Luke 24:49[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]7. "When the Comforter is come…He shall testify of Me: and ye also shall bear witness"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 15:26-27[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


V.
FOLLOWING JESUS

[TABLE="class: cms_table_cms_table"]
[TR]
[TD]1. "Follow Me"[/TD]
[TD]John 12:26[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]2. "Be baptized"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 3:13-15;
Matt. 28:19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]3. "Take this…(communion) in remembrance of Me"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Luke 22:17-19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]4. "Ye also ought to wash one another’s feet"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 13:14-15[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]5. "If any man will come after Me…let him take up his cross daily"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Luke 9:23[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]6. "Learn of Me"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 11:29[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]7. "Continue ye in My love"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]John 15:9[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


VI.
PRAYER

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Pray always"[/TD]
[TD]Luke 21:36[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]2. "Pray that ye enter not into temptation"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Luke 22:40, 46[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]3. "Pray…the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Luke 10:2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]4. "Pray for them which despitefully use you"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Luke 6:28[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]5. "Pray to the Father…in my name"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt.6:6;
John16:24,26[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]6. "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father, which art in heaven…"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 6:9-13[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 384"]7. "When ye pray, use not vain repetitions"[/TD]
[TD="width: 88"]Matt. 6:7-8[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


VII.
FAITH

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Have faith in God"[/TD]
[TD]Mark 11:22[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 385"]2. "Be not faithless"[/TD]
[TD="width: 87"]John 20:27[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 385"]3. "Neither be ye of doubtful mind"[/TD]
[TD="width: 87"]Luke 12:29[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 385"]4. "Take no thought for your life"[/TD]
[TD="width: 87"]Matt. 6:25-34[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 385"]5. "Let not your heart be troubled"[/TD]
[TD="width: 87"]John 14:1,27[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 385"]6. "Be of good cheer"[/TD]
[TD="width: 87"]Matt. 14:27[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 385"]7. "Be not afraid"[/TD]
[TD="width: 87"]Mark 5:36: Luke 12:4-7[/TD]
[/TR]
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VIII.
SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Search the scriptures"[/TD]
[TD]John 5:39[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 386"]2. "Remember the word that I said"[/TD]
[TD="width: 86"]John 15:20[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 386"]3. "Let these sayings sink down into your ears"[/TD]
[TD="width: 86"]Luke 9:44[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 386"]4. "Take heed therefore how ye hear"[/TD]
[TD="width: 86"]Luke 8:18[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 386"]5. "Take heed what ye hear"[/TD]
[TD="width: 86"]Mark 4:24[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 386"]6. "Beware of the leaven (doctrine) of the Pharisees"[/TD]
[TD="width: 86"]Matt.16:6, 12[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 386"]7. "Beware of false prophets"[/TD]
[TD="width: 86"]Matt. 7:15-17[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


IX.
LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works"[/TD]
[TD]Matt. 5:16[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 390"]2. "Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness"[/TD]
[TD="width: 82"]Luke 11:35[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 390"]3. "Go and bring forth fruit, and …bear much fruit"[/TD]
[TD="width: 82"]John 15:16, 8[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 390"]4. "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father"[/TD]
[TD="width: 82"]Luke 6:36[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 390"]5. "Tell…how great things the Lord hath done for thee"[/TD]
[TD="width: 82"]Mark 5:19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 390"]6. "Lift up you eyes, and look on the fields"[/TD]
[TD="width: 82"]John 4:35[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 390"]7. "Walk while you have the light"[/TD]
[TD="width: 82"]John 12:35[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


X.
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Hold fast till I come"[/TD]
[TD]Rev. 2:25;
Rev. 3:2-3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 389"]2. "Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Luke 12:40[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 389"]3. "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Luke 12:35-36[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 389"]4. "Take heed…lest…your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Luke 21:34[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 389"]5. "Remember Lot’s wife"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Luke 17:31-32[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 389"]6. "Take heed that ye be not deceived"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Luke 21:8;
Mark 13:5-6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 389"]7. "Watch"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Mark 13:34-37[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]




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XI.
SUPREME LOVE TO GOD

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart…soul…mind…strength"[/TD]
[TD="width: 81"]Mark 12:30[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 391"]2. "God, and Him only shalt thou serve"[/TD]
[TD="width: 81"]Matt. 4:10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 391"]3. "Worship the Father in spirit and in truth"[/TD]
[TD="width: 81"]John 4:23-24[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 391"]4. "Call no man your father upon the Earth"[/TD]
[TD="width: 81"]Matt. 23:9[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 391"]5. "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God"[/TD]
[TD="width: 81"]Matt. 4:7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 391"]6. "Fear Him (God) which…hath power to cast into hell"[/TD]
[TD="width: 81"]Luke 12:5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 391"]7. "All men should honor the Son"[/TD]
[TD="width: 81"]John 5:22-23[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XII.
OUR DUTY TO GOD AND MAN

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,
and to God the things that are God’s"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Mark 12:17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 657"]2. "Swear not at all"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Matt.5:34-37; Mark 4:22[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 657"]3. "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Matt. 19:5-6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 657"]4. "Agree with thine adversary quickly"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Matt. 5:25[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 657"]5. "We saw one casting out devils in thy name…Forbid him not"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Mark 9:38-40[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 657"]6. "Eat such things as are set before you"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Luke 10:8[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 657"]7. "Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]John 6:12[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XIII.
OUR DUTY TO OUR NEIGHBOR

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Matt.19:17-19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]2. "Thou shalt do no murder"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Matt. 19:18[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]3. "Thou shalt not commit adultery"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Matt. 19:18[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]4. "Thou shalt not steal"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Matt. 19:18[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]5. "Thou shalt not bear false witness"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Matt. 19:18[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]6. "Honor thy father and thy mother"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Matt. 19:19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]7. "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise"[/TD]
[TD="width: 83"]Luke 6:31[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XIV.
COVETOUSNESS

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Take heed and beware of covetousness"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Luke 12:15[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 399"]2. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth…but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Matt. 6:19-20[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 399"]3. "Ye pay tithe…and not leave (them) undone"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Matt.23:23[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 399"]4. "Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Matt. 5:42[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 399"]5. "Give alms of such things as ye have"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Luke 11:41[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 399"]6. "When thou makest a dinner..call not thy friends, nor thy brethren…but….call the poor"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Luke 14:12-13[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 399"]7. "Make yourselves friends of the mammon…"[/TD]
[TD="width: 80"]Luke 16:9[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XV.
HYPOCRISY

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy"[/TD]
[TD="width: 78"]Luke 12:1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]2. "Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes"[/TD]
[TD="width: 78"]Luke 20:46-47[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]3. "Do not ye after their works"[/TD]
[TD="width: 78"]Matt. 23:2-3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]4. "Make not My Father’s house an house of merchandise"[/TD]
[TD="width: 78"]John 2:16[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]5. "Do not your alms before men, to be seen of them"[/TD]
[TD="width: 78"]Matt.6:1-4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]6. "When thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites…to be seen of men…enter into thy closet and pray in secret"[/TD]
[TD="width: 78"]Matt. 6:5-6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 401"]7. "When thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast"[/TD]
[TD="width: 78"]Matt. 6:16-18[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XVI.
MEEKNESS

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Take my yoke upon you…for I am meek and lowly in heart"[/TD]
[TD="width: 77"]Matt. 11:29[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 402"]2. "The princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them…but it shall not be so among you"[/TD]
[TD="width: 77"]Matt. 20:25-26[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 402"]3. "Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all"[/TD]
[TD="width: 77"]Mark 10:43-44[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 402"]4. "Be not ye called Rabbi"[/TD]
[TD="width: 77"]Matt. 23:8[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 402"]5. "Sit not down in the highest room"[/TD]
[TD="width: 77"]Luke 14:8-11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 402"]6. "Rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you"[/TD]
[TD="width: 77"]Luke 10:20[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 402"]7. "Say, we are unprofitable servants"[/TD]
[TD="width: 77"]Luke 17:10[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XVII.
OUR LOVE TO THE BRETHREN

[TABLE="class: cms_table_cms_table"]
[TR]
[TD]1. "Love one another as I have loved you"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]John 15:12[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]2. "Despise not one of these little ones"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 18:10-14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]3. "Have peace one with another … and be reconciled to thy brother"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Mark 9:50; Matt. 5:23-24[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]4. "If thy brother…trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 18:15-17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]5. "If thy brother trespass against thee seven times a day…thou shalt forgive him"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Luke 17:3-4;
Matt. 18:21-22[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]6. "Judge not according to appearance… first cast the beam out of thine own eye"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]John 7:24;
Matt. 7:1-5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]7. "Condemn not"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Luke 6:37[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XVIII.
PERFECT LOVE

[TABLE="class: cms_table_cms_table"]
[TR]
[TD]1. "Be ye therefore perfect"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 5:48[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]2. "Sell that ye have and give alms"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 19:21; Luke 12:32-33[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]3. "Love your enemies"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 5:44; Matt. 26:52[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]4. "Do good to them which hate you"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Luke 6:27-28[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]5. "Lend, hoping for nothing again"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Luke 6:35[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]6. "Resist not evil"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 5:39-41[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 405"]7. "In your patience posses ye your souls"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Luke 21:19[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XIX.
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Be thou faithful unto death"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Rev. 2:10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]2. "Hold that fast which thou hast"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Rev. 3:11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]3. "When men shall revile you, and persecute you,…rejoice, and be exceeding glad"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Matt.5:11-12
Luke 6:23[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]4. "When they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Matt. 10:23[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]5. "When they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Matt. 10:19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]6. "Murmur not among yourselves"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]John 6:41-43[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]7. "Look up and lift up your hands"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Luke 21:28[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XX.
PREACHING THE GOSPEL

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Preach the gospel to every creature"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Mark. 16:15; Matt.10:7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]2. "Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His (Christ’s) name"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Luke 24:46-47[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]3. "Baptize disciples, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Matt. 28:19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]4. "Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Matt. 28:20[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]5. "What I tell you … that speak"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Matt. 10:27; Mark 4:22[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]6. "Feed my sheep"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]John 21:15-17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 407"]7. "Heal the sick"[/TD]
[TD="width: 76"]Matt. 10:8[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


XXI.
WISDOM

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[TR]
[TD]1. "Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 10:16[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 409"]2. "Beware of men"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 10:17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 409"]3. "Let (the blind leaders) alone"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 15:12-14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 409"]4. "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 7:6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 409"]5. "Consider the lilies… how they grow"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 6:28[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 409"]6. "Whatsoever city … ye shall enter, inquire who is worthy; and there abide … Go not from house to house"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Matt. 10:11-13;
Luke 10:5-7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 409"]7. "Whosoever will not receive you … shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them"[/TD]
[TD="width: 74"]Luke 9:5;
Luke 10:10-11[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]