We cannot answer for our own sin, except to die for it. To answer the challenge for all of us requires a perfect sacrifice
Hebrews 10:14
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
A selfish person will find a thousand reasons NOT to help; a loving person will find a thousand ways TO help.
Proverbs 19:17
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Assaults from outside are not the biggest danger to Jesus Christ’ church; apathy and false teaching from within are
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
When we compare who God is to who we are, it will make us very humble
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Like us holding the hand of a child to keep them from stumbling or running into danger, God does the same for us
Psalm 17:7-8
Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
The Best way to spot an imposter is to be familiar with the real thing.
2 John 7-10
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
The world’s lie is that there are many paths to God, but Jesus told us the truth
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
We should love the things God loves, and hate the things God hates
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
To love the world is to waste our time on Earth
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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