Obrighterdays

This has been a long time coming. Thank you son for doing this for me. I love idel of doing this. love you dad.

As a shared in the last newsletter my house had been broken into. And I talked to the father of one of the kids who broke into my home. As we talked I learn more about that child and learned about the father. But how he raised his children and listen to the way he talked about them. And I thought back to the way I raise my children and how the lord showed me how to raise my children. And proverbs 23:13 it’s not to withhold discipline, from a child. My wife and I (Terry) had to learn the correct way to discipline. I can brag about my children now my children have a great work ethics. Every one of them feels it is better to work. Given employer a day’s work for a day’s pay, that is what I have always told them. I believe that some scriptures from proverbs that will I hope open some eyes to the way we should raise our children the way God has intended it to be. We should stop trying to Legislate morality in the world and start teaching morality in the home. The foundation of all of God’s words start in the home. We as parents need to stop counting on Teachers coaches Sunday school teachers the pastor of the church as parents start pastor own homes. Now understand something right off the bat I believe in going to church I believe in being involved in the local parish or church it is important that we fellowship is important that we have somebody to go to war were having problems in scriptural it’s important that you have other parents to talk to the share to pray with the cry on their shoulders were left one another up would be a family. Men should take the rightful place as head of the home. The scriptures say in the first Corinthians chapter seven that a man or woman leave their parents (, paraphrasing right now) two Cleve one another, now what is that saying, it’s saying they leave the home to be married. I believe that were responsible for our children until they start their own home. I have some controversial views on things Some people don’t like them some people of all some people like to make fun of me but nonetheless I know what is God will reveal your mind to expose your heart. Like I said earlier Here are some scriptures and proverbs read them study them learn them.

I hope this helps, bless you that read this.

And his holy name Jesus Christ lord savior of all.

Jim

 

 

 

Prov 20:11

 

11 Even a child is known by his acts, whether [or not] what he does is pure and right.

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Prov 22:6

 

6 Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Eph 6:4; 2 Tim 3:15.]

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Prov 22:15

 

15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child , but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

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Prov 23:13

 

13 Withhold not discipline from the child ; for if you strike and punish him with the [reedlike] rod, he will not die.

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Prov 23:24

 

24 The father of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) shall greatly rejoice, and he who becomes the father of a wise child shall have joy in him.

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Prov 29:15

 

15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left undisciplined brings his mother to shame.

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Prov 20:11

 

11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

KJV

 

Prov 22:6

 

6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

KJV

 

Prov 22:15

 

15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child ; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

KJV

 

Prov 23:13

 

13 Withhold not correction from the child : for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

KJV

 

Prov 23:24

 

24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

KJV

 

Prov 29:15

 

15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

KJV

Here is a song that is very dear to my heart. So when you read the words read this part again

 The hour I first believ’d! C.S.Lewis wrote when he first believed, he said Iwas on my way to the Zoo when I got there I believed. When did you first believe? I remember the hour and day, can you? John Newton does he wrote this amazing song tells us about the very moment.

Amazing Grace”

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That sav’d a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev’d;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ’d!

Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promis’d good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call’d me here below,
Will be forever mine.

John New­ton, Ol­ney Hymns (Lon­don: W. Ol­i­ver, 1779)

One morning while I was watching the news they reported a city in Maine was going to vote on whether or not to give birth control pills to middle school aged young girls without telling their parents. Friends this is the same state that once wanted to abolish the right of a clergyman to marry. They wanted to rule only a state official to have the power to marry.  

Now we as parents have been given the responsibility by God to Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov 22:6  

 Prov 17: 6 Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

 Prov 20: 7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

 Prov 31: 28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Eph 6: 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

 Eph 6: 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

When you read these scriptures do you see anything that tells us to sign over our parental rights to none believing people? How is it we do it every day of our lives. We read books after books on how to raise our children. If they have “Dr.” in front or a “PhD” behind their name we race after their folly like a dog returns to his vomit. Did not our Lord tell us in the gospels we will know them by their fruits?  Well, the fruits I see are mass ramped shootings and murders on campuses all across the country, more rapes and death amongst young people than ever before, campus police and metal detectors are standard modes of operation in the school systems today.  If you get caught fighting as a high school student you are automatically taken to jail and your parents have to come bail you out and go before a judge of the courts, and pay a fine. Isn’t it ironic the only time parents are asked to participate is when money is exchanged?  They pass condoms out like candy. I don’t know about you but that’s like saying skim to a dog.

Brothers and sisters, fellow believers I believe it’s time we take the public’s school systems back over.  Because the school board did rule in favor of the distribution of birth control pills to our middle school aged children. They already can abort and murder our unborn grandchildren without our knowledge what’s next?

 Met a woman and she was pride of the fate she was going to school to be a marriage consoler, now this woman has been married multiple times. Some of the people that teach our children live a different life not one of severing the lord. Yet we hand over our little ones gladly. Now I know what the Lord told us. When it comes to my children I want to sever the Lord.  Fellow believers look at who is watching over your blessing from the Lord.

 

Blessing Jim

Ex 13:3

3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

KJV

 

Heb 11:1

11:1 now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

KJV

 

FAITH

 

Heb 11:1, “the substance of things hoped for (i.e., it substantiates God’s promises, the fulfillment of which we hope, it makes them present realities), the evidence (elengchos, the ‘convincing proof’ or ‘demonstration’) of things not seen.” Faith accepts the truths revealed on the testimony of God (not merely on their intrinsic reasonableness),

 

James 2:14

 

14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?

KJV

 

Ex 13:9

 

[And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand] This direction, repeated and enlarged Ex 13:16, gave rise to phylacteries or tepillin, and this is one of the passages which the Jews write upon them to the present day. The manner in which the Jews understood and kept these commands may appear in their practice. They wrote the following four portions of the law upon slips of parchment or vellum: “Sanctify unto me the first-born,” see Ex 13:2-10. “And it shall be, when the Lord shall bring thee into the land,” see Ex 13:11-16. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord” see Deut 6:4-9. “And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently,” see Deut 11:13-21. These four portions, making in all 30 verses, written as mentioned above, and covered with leather, they tied to the forehead and to the hand or arm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAITH

 

Heb 11:1, “the substance of things hoped for (i.e., it substantiates God’s promises, the fulfillment of which we hope, it makes them present realities), the evidence (elengchos, the ‘convincing proof’ or ‘demonstration’) of things not seen.” Faith accepts the truths revealed on the testimony of God (not merely on their intrinsic reasonableness), that testimony being to us given in Holy Scripture. Where sight is, there faith ceases (John 20:29; 1 Peter 1:8). We are justified (i.e. counted just before God) judicially by God (Rom 8:33), meritoriously by Christ (Isa 53:11; Rom 5:19), mediately or instrumentally by faith (Rom 5:1), evidentially by works. Loving trust. James 2:14-26, “though a man say he hath faith, and have not works, can (such a) faith save him?” the emphasis is on “say,” it will be a mere saying, and can no more save the soul than saying to a “naked and destitute brother, be warmed and filled” would warm and fill him. “Yea, a man (holding right views) may say, Thou hast faith and I have works, show (exhibit to) me (if thou canst, but it is impossible) thy (alleged) faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.” Abraham believed, and was justified before God on the ground of believing (Gen 15:6). Forty years afterward, when God did” tempt,” i.e. put him to the test, his justification was demonstrated before the world by his offering Isaac (Gen 22). “As the body apart from (chooris) the spirit is dead, so faith without the works (which ought to evidence it) is dead also.” We might have expected faith to answer to the spirit, works to the body. As James reverses this, he must mean by “faith” here the FORM of faith, by “works” the working reality. Living faith does not derive its life from works, as the body does from its animating spirit. But faith, apart from the spirit of faith, which is LOVE (whose evidence is works), is dead, as the body is dead without the spirit; thus James exactly agrees with Paul, 1 Cor 13:2, “though I have all faith … and have not charity (love), I am nothing.”

 

In its barest primary form, faith is simply crediting or accepting God’s testimony (1 John 5:9-13). Not to credit it is to make God a “liar”! a consequence which unbelievers may well start back from. The necessary consequence of crediting God’s testimony (pisteuoo Theoo) is believing in (pisteuoo eis ton huion, i.e. trusting in) the Son of God; for He, and salvation in Him alone, form the grand subject of God’s testimony. The Holy Spirit alone enables any man to accept God’s testimony and accept Jesus Christ, as his divine Savior, and so to “have the witness in himself” (1 Cor 12:3). Faith is receptive of God’s gratuitous gift of eternal life in Christ. Faith is also an obedience to God’s command to believe (1 John 3:23); from whence it is called the “obedience of faith” (Rom 1:5; 16:26; Acts 6:7), the highest obedience, without which works seemingly good are disobediences to God (Heb 11:6). Faith justifies not by its own merit, but by the merit of Him in whom we believe (Rom 4:3; Gal 3:6). Faith makes the interchange, whereby our sin is imputed to Him and His righteousness is imputed to us (2 Cor 5:19,21; Jer 23:6; 1 Cor 1:30). “Such are we in the sight of God the Father, as is the very Son of God Himself” (Hooker) (2 Peter 1:1; Rom 3:22; 4:6; 10:4; Isa 42:21; 45:21,24-25).

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When we read in Psalms 51 David is crying out to God because Father sent the Prophet Nathan. Nathan Pointed out the sin David had committed in the eyes of God.

 

I’m reminded of this because of what I’ve seen on television the last few days, and how Christians feel about pointing out sin in their brother’s lives. I have used the excuse that I’m not called to be a pastor so I don’t get involved in people’s lives. Although the Father has been dealing with me in this area, showing me as a servant or minister I need to be involved in people’s lives in other words be more of a people person. So why am I bring all this up I see that we have to be involved with people and stick our nose in their lives and love them.

 1 John 5:17

17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

KJV

 

You see at one point we are all pastors to somebody we pastor our children or walking down the street we become their shepherd for a moment in time. You see in times past we’ve ignored speaking out to help others it’s got to stop we need to act on that push from God. In the scriptures it says that God will put us as stumbling blocks to people.

 

 

 

(Eze 3:17)  Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word of my mouth, and give them warning from me.

 

(Eze 3:18)  When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

 

(Eze 3:19)  Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

 

(Eze 3:20)  Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

 

(Eze 3:21)  Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

 

I see it’s time we get involved in our brothers lives.  Start loving one another, God loved us, In Revelations, Jesus says he is standing at the door of our heart knocking and all we have to do is open it.  Is that not getting involved in our lives? God wants to be involved in every aspect of our daily lives.  May The God of Glory bless your lives. Jim O

 

Gen 28:11  And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

 

Deu 14:22  Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

 

 

Mat 6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

 

                        Tithing

 

Mathematically it is a tenth. “…and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee” (Gen_28:11).

Scripturally it is a law. “Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase” (Deu_14:22).

Morally it is a debt. “…Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings” (Mal_3:8).

Economically it is an investment. “But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven” (Mat_6:20). “Give, and it shall be given unto you” (Luk_6:38).

Spiritually it is a blessing. “I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it” (Mal_3:10).

 

Giving to God

Years ago it was the custom for the people to bring their gifts to the front of the church. A well-known preacher was making an appeal to the people to give for a good cause. Many came to present their offerings of love. Among them was a little crippled girl who hobbled along at the end of the line. Pulling a ring from her finger, she placed it on the table and made her way back up the aisle.

After the service an usher was sent to bring her to the preacher’s study. The preacher said, “My dear, I saw what you did. It was beautiful. But the response of the people has been so generous that we have enough to take care of the need. We don’t feel right about keeping your treasured ring, so we have decided to give it back to you.”

To his surprise the little girl vigorously shook her head in refusal. “You don’t understand,” she said. “I didn’t give my ring to you, I gave it to God!” Lovely.

“Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2Co_9:7).

 

A Better Kind of Indian Giver

An Indian one day asked Bishop Whipple to give him two one-dollar bills for a two-dollar note. When asked why, the Indian replied, “One dollar for me to give to Jesus, and one dollar for my wife to give.” The Bishop asked him if it was all the money he had. He said, “Yes.” The Bishop was about to tell him it was too much, when an Indian clergyman who was standing by whispered, “It might be too much for a white man to give, but not too much for an Indian who has this year heard for the first time of the love of Jesus.”

 

Three Kicks in Every Dollar

William Allen White, a famous newspaper editor in Emporia, Kansas, once gave a 50 acre tract of land to the city for a park. At the dedication, he made the strange statement that there are “Three kicks in every dollar.” He explained, “One kick is when you make it-and how I love to make a dollar! One is when you save it-and I have the Yankee lust for saving. The third kick is when you give it away-and the biggest kick of all is the last one.”

It seems Mr. White discovered on his own what Jesus taught 20 centuries earlier: “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Act_20:35). Do you believe that? Want a big kick? Make a lot of money! Want an even bigger kick? Give your money to a worthy cause.

There is a “kick” in seeing needy people helped. There is a “kick” in seeing your money carry the good news everywhere. There is a “kick” in seeing your church touch the spiritual needs of the unsaved.

You, too, can get three “kicks” out of every dollar.

 

Church Is Cheaper

A woman took her two small boys and a daughter to see Peter Pan at the matinee one Saturday afternoon. The tickets were two dollars and fifty cents each. The young daughter watched as the mother pushed ten one dollar bills under the window and received four tickets.

The next day the same mother and daughter were at church. When the collection was taken the child saw her mother open her purse, take out a quarter, and put it in the plate as it passed them.

The little girl looked up at her mother and in a clear stage whisper which everyone around could hear said, “Mother, church is a lot cheaper than a movie, isn’t it?”

 

A Tithing Testimony

Many years ago a lad of 16 was obliged to leave home because his father was too poor to support him any longer. So he trudged away with all worldly possessions in a bundle dangling from his hand, resolving as he journeyed to set up in business as a soapmaker in New York.

When the country boy arrived in the big city, he found it hard to get work. Remembering the last words of his mother and also the godly advice given him by the captain of a canal boat, the youth dedicated his life to God, determining to return to his Maker an honest tithe of every dollar he earned.

So, when his first dollar came in, the young man sacredly dedicated ten cents of it to the Lord. This he continued to do. And the dollars rolled in! Soon this young man became partner in a soap business; and when his partner died a few years later, he became sole owner of the concern.

The prosperous businessman now instructed his bookkeeper to open an account with the Lord and to credit to it one tenth of all his income. The business grew miraculously. The honest proprietor now dedicated two-tenths of his earnings; and then three-tenths, four-tenths; and finally, five-tenths. It seemed as if his sales increased in exact proportion to his generosity, so that soon his brand of soap became a household word throughout the world.

The late William Colgate was this man whom God so singly prospered in return for his faithfulness to his Maker.

 

HeavenNotices a Penny

It was Christmas time, and the bell tinkled. Many people had passed by the Salvation Army kettle on the busy corner.

Then a small boy-six perhaps-looked into the kettle and asked, “Mister, what is that money for?” The tall man ringing the bell leaned over and quietly replied, “It is for girls and boys like you. But they are children that need food and clothing and toys for Christmas. The money will buy those things. Do you see?”

The tiny lad with face aglow plunged his hand deep into his pocket. Then, reenacting the Miracle of Christmas, he placed his gift-a penny-in the kettle with the rest.

“Only a penny?” you say. But it was a gift straight from a little boy’s heart. If it did not go unnoticed on the busy street corner, surely it did not go unnoticed in heaven.

 

More Than a Tithe

On his tenth birthday, a sensitive boy received 10 shiny silver dollars from a thoughtful uncle. The child was very appreciative. He immediately sat down on the floor and spread the coins before him. Then he began to plan how to use the money. He set aside the first dollar saying, “This one is for Jesus.” He then went on to decide what to do with the second, and so on until he came to the last dollar. “This one is for Jesus,” he said. The boy’s mother interrupted, “But I thought you gave the first dollar to Jesus.” “I did,” the boy replied. “The first one really belongs to Him, but this one is a gift to Him from me.”

 

Willing to Give All I Don’t Have

A new convert declared his determination to give all that he had for the Master. He said, “Pastor, if I had fifty pigs, I’d give twenty-five of them to the Lord.” “That’s very nice,” said the pastor. “If you had thirty would you give fifteen to the Lord?” “Of course I would,” said the new Christian. “If you had ten would you give five of them?” asked the pastor again. “You know I would,” he answered. Then the pastor said, “If you had two, would you give one to the Lord?” “Now Pastor, don’t ask me that. You know I have only two pigs.”

  As a minster of Jesus Christ, I can see the way the Church is headed, what I have seen is heart breaking. In this year 2007, we have seen evangelists on TV begging for money, yet they live like rock stars having many homes that range in the millions, although they have tax free monies, they continue to beg for more to feed the poor. Who do they serve God or money? 

Jesus said In Matthew 24:4&5:

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

 We have all seen their lies, yet we still run to throw our hard earned money at these salivating false prophets every time they say give it to me.

I have been a Christian for 28 years and in those years I have seen the hypocrisy and greed in the television evangelist. Marjoe Gunther an evangelist in the early ‘60s filmed a auto biography about himself as a child evangelist up to the day he quit preaching hypocrisy.  That film with its honesty and mind numbing truth shows the corruption in the love of money. Nowhere in the scriptures has Jesus or God the father told us to seek riches. It does however say in the Bible, God’s written word, not lay up silver or gold, but to lay up riches in Heaven were rust cannot touch it.

In the last 20 years those of us who have been watching the news have seen the downfall of mega churches as they crumble over either the love of money or lust.

In Matthew 24 Jesus talks about the last days there will be perilous times and the hearts of many will wax cold.  Are we not seeing that today in the New Age movement, the Muslim, and gay rights movements?  It’s legal to murder our unborn children.  Are we not living in the last days as it says in revelations’ that God would that you be either be cold or hot but because we are lukewarm he will spew us out of his mouth? 

It’s time that we as Christians fall on our faces before God and repent of our sins of wicked ways and complacency.

 Let’s do something in the year 2008, and remember what it is that the Lord would have you do. Repent of laziness, being lukewarm, and cowardice.  Let’s remember our soldiers, their families and the civilians in Iraq. Pray for all of them.  Also, remember Revival fires Ministries in your prayers.

Thank you, May God bless you and your family richly in 2008,

In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, Jim

2 Peter 2:1

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.

KJV

 

Hab 2:18-20

 

18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

 

19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

 

20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

KJV

 

Rom 1:15-3:1

 

15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

 

Romans 2

 

2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

 

 

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Nowadays it’s hard to show any affection to anyone without it looking evil.

The most common showing of affection is that outstretched hand in the closest anyone gets is about 4ft. between them. In today’s society a minister or clergy shows the affection to any one is perceived perverted.

 

Main book 2 Tim 3.

 

1 Chron 29:3

 

3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

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Rom 1:31

 

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

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Col 3:2

 

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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Col 3:5

 

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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2 Tim 3:3

 

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

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Rom 16:16

 

16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

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1 Cor 16:20

 

20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.

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2 Cor 13:12

 

12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.

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1 Thess 5:26

 

26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

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2 Timothy 3:1

 

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

[In the last days] This often means the days of the Messiah, and is sometimes extended in its signification to the destruction of Jerusalem, as this was properly the last days of the Jewish state. But the phrase may mean any future time, whether near or distant.

 

2 Timothy 3:2

 

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

[For men shall be] The description in this and the following verses the Papists apply to the Protestants; the Protestants in their turn apply it to the Papists; Schoettgen to the Jews; and others to heretics in general. There have been both teachers and people in every age of the church, and in every age of the world, to whom these words may be most legitimately applied. Both Catholics and Protestants have been lovers of their own selves, etc.; but it is probable that the apostle had some particular age in view, in which there should appear some very essential corruption of Christianity.

[Lovers of their own selves] Philautoi. Selfish, studious of their own interest, and regardless of the welfare of all mankind.

[Covetous] Philarguroi. Lovers of money, because of the influence which riches can procure.

[Boasters] Alazones. Vainglorious: self-assuming; valuing themselves beyond all others.

[Proud] Hupereephanoi. Airy, light, trifling persons; those who love to make a show-who are all outside; from huper, above, and phainoo, to show.

[Blasphemers] Blaspheemoi. Those who speak impiously of God and sacred things, and injuriously of men,

[Disobedient to parents] Goneusin apeitheis. Head-strong children, whom their parents cannot persuade.

[Unthankful] Acharistoi. Persons without grace, or gracefulness; who think they have a right to the services of all men, yet feel no obligation, and consequently no gratitude.

[Unholy] Anosioi. Without piety; having no heart reverence for God.

 

2 Timothy 3:3

 

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

[Without natural affection] Astorgoi. Without that affection which parents bear to their young, and which the young bear to their parents. An affection which is common to every class of animals; consequently, men without it are worse than brutes.

[Truce-breakers] Aspondoi. From a, the alpha negative, and spondee, a libation, because in making treaties libations both of blood and wine were poured out. The word means those who are bound by no promise, held by no engagement, obliged by no oath; persons who readily promise anything, because they never intend to perform.

[False accusers] Diaboloi. Devils; but properly enough rendered false accusers, for this is a principal work of the Devil. Slanderers; striving ever to ruin the characters of others.

[Incontinent] Akrateis. From a, the alpha negative, and kratos, power. Those who, having sinned away their power of self-government, want strength to govern their appetites; especially those who are slaves to uncleanness.

[Fierce] Aneemeroi; From a, the alpha negative, and heemeros, mild or gentle. Wild, impetuous, whatever is contrary to pliability and gentleness.

[Despisers of those that are good] Aphilagathoi. Not lovers of good men. Here is a remarkable advantage of the Greek over the English tongue, one word of the former expressing five or six of the latter. Those who do not love the good must be radically bad themselves.

 

2 Timothy 3:4

 

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

[Traitors] Prodotai. From pro, before, and didoomi, to divide up. Those who deliver up to an enemy the person who has put his life in their hands; such as the Scots of 1648, who delivered up into the hands of his enemies their unfortunate countryman and king, Charles the First; a stain which no lapse of ages can wipe out.

[Heady] Propeteis. From pro, forward, and piptoo, to fall; headstrong, precipitate, rash, inconsiderate.

[High-minded] Tetuphoomenoi. From tuphos, smoke; the frivolously aspiring; those who are full of themselves, and empty of all good.

[Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God] This is nervously and beautifully expressed in the Greek, phileedonoi mallon ee philotheoi, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; i.e. pleasure, sensual gratification, is their god; and this they love and serve; God they do not.

 

2 Timothy 3:5

 

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

[Having a form of godliness] The original word morphoosis signifies a draught, sketch, or summary, and will apply well to those who have all their religion in their creed, confession of faith, catechism, bodies of divinity, etc., while destitute of the life of God in their souls; and are not only destitute of this life, but deny that such life or power is here to be experienced or known. They have religion in their creed, but none in their hearts. And perhaps to their summary they add a decent round of religious observances. From such turn away-not only do not imitate them, but have no kind of fellowship with them; they are a dangerous people, and but seldom suspected, because their outside in fair.

 

2 Timothy 3:6

 

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

[For of this sort are they] He here refers to false teachers and their insinuating manners, practising upon weak women, who, seeing in them such a semblance of piety, entertain them with great eagerness, and at last become partakers with them in their impurities. Among the Jews there are remarkable cases of this kind on record, and not a few of them among the full fed monks of the Romish church. But in what sect or party have not such teachers been occasionally found? yet neither Judaism, Protestantism, nor Roman Catholicism makes any provision for such men.

 

2 Timothy 3:7

 

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

[Ever learning] From their false teachers, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, because that teaching never leads to the truth; for, although there was a form of godliness, which gave them a sort of authority to teach, yet, as they denied the power of godliness, they never could bring their votaries to the knowledge of the saving power of Christianity.

There are many professors of Christianity still who answer the above description. They hear, repeatedly hear, it may be, good sermons; but, as they seldom meditate on what they hear, they derive little profit from the ordinances of God. They have no more grace now than they had several years ago, though hearing all the while, and perhaps not wickedly departing from the Lord. They do not meditate, they do not think, they do not reduce what they hear to practice; therefore, even under the preaching of an apostle, they could not become wise to salvation.

 

2 Timothy 3:8

 

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith.

[Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses] This refers to the history of the Egyptian magicians, given in Ex 7, where see the notes, and particularly the concluding observations at the end of that chapter, where several things are said concerning these two men.

[Men of corrupt minds] It appears as if the apostle were referring still to some Judaizing teachers who were perverting the church with their doctrines, and loudly calling in question the authority and doctrine of the apostle.

[Reprobate concerning the faith.] Adokimoi. Undiscerning or untried; they are base metal, unstamped; and should not pass current, because not standard. This metaphor is frequent in the sacred writings.

 

2 Timothy 3:9

 

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

[But they shall proceed no further] Such teaching and teachers shall never be able ultimately to prevail against the truth; for the foundation of God standeth sure.

[Their folly shall be manifest] As the Scriptures, which are the only role of morals and doctrine, shall ever be preserved; so, sooner or later, all false doctrines shall be tried by them: and the folly of men, setting up their wisdom against the wisdom of God, must become manifest to all. False doctrine cannot prevail long where the sacred Scriptures are read and studied. Error prevails only where the book of God is withheld from the people. The religion that fears the Bible is not the religion of God. Is Popery or Protestantism this religion?

 

2 Timothy 3:10

 

But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

[Thou hast fully known my doctrine] And having long had the opportunity of knowing me, the doctrine I preached, my conduct founded on these doctrines, the object I have in view by my preaching, infidelity to God and to my trust, my long-suffering with those who walked disorderly, and opposed themselves to the truth, and did what they could to lessen my authority and render it suspected, my love to them and to the world in general, and my patience in all my adversities; thou art capable of judging between me and the false teachers, and canst easily discern the difference between their doctrines, conduct, motives, temper, spirit, etc., and mine.