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  1. Love never stops. You love what you loved..always. You are a spirit inside of your body. Your spirit will love your beloved ones always. Your character does not change but it is able to be perfect if you will die to sins daily to be like the Son of God to be transformed into His image.
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    Healed, my beloved sis, A today's picture for you:
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    Burnt offerings God's command reads: Outside of the Holy Temple we may not offer any sacrifices. It is, in fact, forbidden to bring sacrifices, since there is no Temple. God said through the prophet Hosea: 'Forgive all sin and accept the good we do. We will offer prayer instead of animals" (Hosea 14:3).
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    The fourth of the ten commandments is “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” Remember. This is the only command of the ten that starts with the word remember. Keeping of the Sabbath was a sign of the covenant between Israel and the Lord: “You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come” (Exodus 31:13). As Israel kept the Sabbath set apart, they were reminded that they were also being set apart: “So you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy” (verse 13). Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it. (1) "Remember the Sabbath day" (2) "Keep it holy" Exodus 31:12–13: And the Lord said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you." The Sabbath is a sign. It points to a truth that we are never to forget. Summary: Exodus 20:11 and Deuteronomy 5:15 and Exodus 31:13 teach that the Sabbath is a way of remembering and expressing the truth that God Jesus is our Creator and Deliverer and Sanctifier. Ponder those ho have minds.
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    I love your comment here. But I want to add: When people are saved, the Holy Spirit will begin the work in them of changing their lives into conformity with God’s Word (Philippians 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:13). Changing people on the inside is God’s work through the Holy Spirit. God wants a person to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9) and then to obey His commands out of reverence and love (1 John 5:3). That is what I teach in my thread here. And this is the TRUE Christianity NOT taught in our churches today!!!! But TAUGHT by God Himself in His HOLY Scripture!
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    Healed hi, Sazie is a man and a navy officer. He preaches for Muslims. He is my co-worker.
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    Show Your Faith by Your Works!!!! Lesson Text: James 2:14-26 Background Scripture: James 2:14-26 James 2:14-26 (KJV) 14. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16. And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17. Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22. Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23. And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. 24. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Genuine or Counterfeit? Have you noticed how much paper money (currency) has changed in the last few years? Designs have become more complex, colors have been added, special marks have been included. All these changes have one purpose: to make counterfeiting more difficult. But even with all these changes, a skilled counterfeiter can still create a fake that can fool many people. It still takes experts to distinguish the genuine from some phonies. One becomes an expert in spotting counterfeit currency by studying the real thing. Skilled experts can see the subtle differences because they know the real article so well. A parallel problem faced the Christians to whom James wrote. How could they identify true faith? While God alone can know what is in a person's heart, James says that we can identify true faith in ourselves by what it produces. The Old Testament prophets commonly condemned those who confessed faith but acted with disobedience to God (Isaiah 29:13; Ezekiel 33:31). Jesus famously condemned religious leaders of His time for their hypocrisy; they claimed to be faithful to God, but they disobeyed Him habitually (Matthew 6:2, 5, 16; 23:13-33). Paul pointed out at length that all claims to standing with God are empty without deeds directed by godly love (1 Corinthians 13). The Bible is filled with disturbing examples of those who claimed faith in God, but failed to put it into practice. The context of today's passage gives us a clue about the circumstances that prompted James' discussion of faith and works. James' readers struggled to reflect God's mercy toward the poor (James 2:1-13, last week's lesson). The readers' faith in the God who graciously met their needs was not being expressed in their meeting the needs of others (compare 1 John 3:17, 18). Such a problem cannot go unaddressed! 1. What does James mean by “faith” (James 2:14)? “Faith” (James 2:14) is a key word in James. “Faith” primarily refers to a person’s belief or trust in God. On the other hand, Faithless faith is mere belief in a creed. Right beliefs about things considered crucial and nonnegotiable are all some people think is required for a person to be right with God. God has never accepted loveless worship. Evidently, some among the readership of this letter boasted about their “faith,” but failed to demonstrate it through loving acts to the disadvantaged. For James, faith in the Son expressed itself in displays of charity toward the needy. The idea is not that people are saved by doing good works. Rather, the reality of their faith is proven by living uprightly and ministering to the disadvantaged. In the absence of these two factors, claims to faith are suspect. Genuine faith that leads to salvation obeys the scriptural injunction to love others unstintingly. 2. Why is faith that does not result in good works described as being dead? (James 2:15-17 James moves to a hypothetical but very realistic situation. In this case, the person in need required food and clothing (James 2:15). If the religious individual merely left the destitute with a pious greeting, it did the person no good (v. 16). James points out the emptiness of words of faith that lack the deeds of faith. “Depart in peace” is a standard farewell in Jewish culture. It is a brief prayer that a person will continue to experience the harmony and wholeness that God gives. But where is the sincerity in that statement when the one making it has the means to relieve hunger but offers nothing but words? We see sarcasm in the phrase “be ye warmed and filled.” Such words express a prayer that God will provide. The person claims faith, even prays that God will provide, but this person of “faith” takes no action to do God's will “in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). Is that real trust in God's promise? Now James draws a contrast with a different point of view to make his point clearer still. He invites us to imagine two people. One has already said something like, “I am not really much of a ‘works person.’ I am more of a ‘faith person.’ Works are other people’s gift, not mine.” Then the second person speaks, the one whom James describes in this verse. That person says, “Really? You have faith, while I have works? Fine. Show me your faith without works. Then I will show you my works, and they will prove that I have faith.” Of course, there is no demonstrating of faith without works. Faith is invisible in and of itself, but the works that James describes are the necessary product of valid faith. Such actions really do speak louder than words. The person who claims faith without works makes an absurd, empty claim. James offers a second contrast that lays out the absurdity of claiming faith without works. The confession that “there is one God” (James 2:19). James affirms that the confession is correct. But then he points out that merely believing in the existence of God by itself does not result in eternal life. After all, the devils (or demons) believe the same thing! They know who God is; they recognized Jesus’ identity (Matthew 8:28, 29; compare Acts 16:16, 17). And even demons react properly regarding their belief about God: they tremble in fear of their coming destruction. We might paraphrase James’ point with the common saying, “Talk is cheap.” Saying that we have faith is of no significance at all if we do not act in faith. If demons—who know who God is but refuse to submit to Him—can at least tremble, should not those who claim to belong to God act in ways that please Him? 3. What biblical examples did James use to reinforce his point (James 2:20-24)? Does this matter require more proof? Are we not yet convinced that faith without works is dead? James reemphasized his original premise that “faith without works is dead” (v. 20). To lock down his argument further, James now begins a different approach to the problem: examples from the Scriptures. James presented illustrations from the lives of two prominent Old Testament characters-Abraham the patriarch and Rahabthe harlot (prostitute) James introduced each example by means of a rhetorical question with which his readers were expected to give full and hearty agreement. In the case of Abraham, he committed himself to sacrifice his son Isaac as God directed (Genesis 22:1-10). God intervened to stop the proceedings (vs. 11, 12), but even before that point Abraham expressed his faith in God's promise when he told his servant that he and Isaac would go to the mountain and return (v. 5). Abraham trusted God's promise that through Isaac a great nation would come to be, so he held to the belief that if God commanded that Isaac be sacrificed, then God would raise him up again (Hebrews 11:19). Only faith could produce a response like this. Consequently, Abraham’s faith was “imputed unto him for righteousness.” Expressed differently, the Lord considered the patriarch’s response of faith as proof of his genuine commitment and evidence of his steadfast loyalty. 4. What did James say about Rahab’s faith (James 2:25, 26)? James' first biblical example was Abraham, a man and the father of the nation of Israel. Now he turns to Rahab, a woman and a Gentile. Rahab we know as a prostitute from ancient Jericho. Having heard of Israel's triumphs in earlier battles, she had come to believe that the true God was with Israel. She was therefore not only afraid of Israel's army, she was ready to assist Israel in its conquest of her city. That meant taking the dangerous step of hiding the Israelite spies who came to Jericho to assess its defenses (Joshua 2:1-13). In the end, she became a part of the Israelite people and an ancestor of King David and Jesus himself (Matthew 1:5). A pagan prostitute became part of God's people by her faith in Israel's God. But her faith certainly was a faith that resulted in action, action that put Rahab's own life on the line (compare Hebrews 11:31). Without such actions, she would not have become part of Israel and the saga of salvation. James offers a final illustration to drive home his point. Every human being is a unity of body (what can be seen) and spirit (what cannot be seen). When the two are separated, there is death. The same is true of faith without works. As the visible body is dead without the invisible spirit, so also invisible faith is dead without visible works. POINTS TO PONDER The Letter of James is primarily concerned with the practical outworking of Christian conduct. The emphasis is not on doctrine or theology per se, but on how the Christian faith should be applied on a day-to-day basis. James’ purpose was to provide his readers with concrete instruction on how to grow in Christian maturity and how to live a holy life. In short, James wanted his audience to know how to become doers of the Word, not just hearers of it. CONCLUSION Living, Working Faith James takes his readers to school on genuine faith. He teaches them thoroughly what the real article looks like. Real faith, living faith, always works. It is always active. It never leaves a person or the world around the person the same. If we want to recognize genuine faith, we should first look at ourselves. The assessment of genuine faith is a self-assessment. What actions flow from my faith? Is my life different from what it was before I came to faith in Christ? Do I make excuses about my lack of actions? Perhaps we should remember that one of the works of genuine faith is prayer. We pray to God only if we know that we need His power to help, only if we believe that He can and will help. We begin by asking God to strengthen our faith and enable us to put it into action. Then we trust Him to sustain us in the adventure that follows. PRAYER O God, we praise You for Your patience with us, Your often workless people. Increase our faith, Lord! Gird us for action in Your world. Make us alive in our faith and works together. We pray in the name of Jesus, the faithful one, amen. THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: A workless faith is a worthless faith. Genuine or Counterfeit? THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: A workless faith is a worthless faith. Illustrating Genuine Faith (James 2:20-26). Remember that faith that does not result in GOOD works was described in the Bible as being DEAD (James 2:15-17). As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James 2:26 Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that COUNTS is FAITH expressing itself through LOVE. James 2:17 ...faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. James 2:20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? The SON of God is our JUDGE and He WARNS us: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are DEAD. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. Revelation 3 You have a name that you are alive, but you are DEAD. Remember what you heard, hold fast and repent. Be WATCHFUL. Strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. Or HOW are you going to escape your Judgement?!
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    What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. "The poison of vipers is on their lips.” “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. Let's read the context again: All Have Sinned (Rom 3: 9-20). God’s Righteousness Through Faith (Rom 3:21-26): God imputes us the righteousness of His Son (who is the Creator of the universe) through our FAITH in Him/the Son of God: 21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through FAITH in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Should we continue to live in sins confessing our FAITH in the Son of God? NO! If we will live in sins, we will die in sins and God will judge us for our sins. "He (JESUS) himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so that we might DIE to sins and live for RIGHTEOUSNESS; "by his wounds you have been healed." 1 Peter 2: 24 Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Romans 6:2 By no means! We are those who have DIED to sin; how can we LIVE in it any longer? Romans 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves DEAD to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 1 Peter 4:2 As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. The God of Israel COMMANDED us: Be HOLY for I am HOLY. Hebrews 10:10 And by that will, we have been made HOLY through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. It is our responsibility to live in sins or with God. If we will live in sins then God does not live with us. He abandons sinners (sexual immoral people..) If we live in sins, we will die in sins and after death God will judge us for our sins. That is CLEAR. What is the result of such sins/life style? All Sexual immoral people do NOT inherit the Kingdom of God like unbelievers/in-the name-only believers. That is why it is OUR responsibility to COOPERATE with God and ABANDON our sins in repentance to live with God... Or we have the second option: the ungodly life, leading us to the Lake of Fire. "Then shall we know, if we press on to know the Lord." Hosea 6:3 The expression, "press on," implies that there are many sins, difficulties, obstacles and hindrances in a man's way, which keep him back from "knowing the Lord." Now the work of the Spirit l is to carry him on in spite of all these obstacles—to lead him forward—to keep alive in him the fear of God—to strengthen him in his inner man—to drop in those hopes—to communicate that inward grace—so that he is compelled to press on. Sometimes he seems driven, sometimes drawn, sometimes led, and sometimes carried, but in one way or another the Spirit of God so works upon him that, though he scarcely knows how—he still "presses on." His very burdens make him groan for deliverance—his very temptations cause him to cry for help—the very difficulty and ruggedness of the road make him want to be carried every step—the very intricacy of the path compels him to cry out for a guide—so that the Spirit working in the midst of, and under, and through every difficulty and discouragement, still bears him through, and carries him on—and thus brings him through every trial and trouble and temptation and obstacle, until He sets him in glory. It is astonishing to me how our souls are kept alive. The Christian is a marvel to himself. Carried on, and yet so secretly—worked upon, and yet so mysteriously—and yet led on, guided, and supported through so many difficulties and obstacles—that he is a miracle of mercy as he is carried on amid all difficulties, obstacles, trials, and temptations. Let me add: "Now the work of the Spirit l is to carry him on in spite of all these obstacles—to lead him forward". Our life is like a flight to the Kingdom of God. We are flying through mountains (difficulties, obstacles and hindrances in a man's way, which keep him back from "knowing the Lord). In the poor visibility conditions, pilots use navigation systems which enable them to fly in spite of all obstacles—to lead them forward and survive. The Spirit of God helps us to fly forward. Some of us will be crashed by our sins in mountains because it is our responsibility too to follow and use the navigation system or not. Some of us will land safely in the Kingdom of God, being safe and saved, if we will OBEY God and LIVE WITH Him IMPLEMENTING what He commands and says in the Holy Bible. But only one gets the prize! We do it to get a crown that will last forever! Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown! "Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge (JESUS), will give to me on that Day (the DAY of HIS RETURN to our PLANET), and not to me only but also to all who have loved his appearing." (2 Timothy 4:8) (1 Corinthians 9:24-27) REMEMBER: ...fight the good fight, keeping FAITH and a GOOD conscience, which some have rejected and suffered SHIPWRECK in regard to their faith. 1 Timothy 1:19 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 1 Timothy 1:5 1 Timothy 3:9 They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a CLEAR conscience. Many of us are backsliders. But do we know that if we live in sins then we approach a POINT of NO RETURN?! Hebrews 6:4-8 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned. I saw the WRATH of God against my sins when He was going to kill me by hands of criminals because I lived in sins..... Before death I repented and God saved me immediately.... If I would not repent before that moment of my possible death, I would be dead already and God would send me to hell for my sins. I stood before the POINT of NO RETURN. Only door separated me from my death, hell, the Lake of Fire, torture, flames and suffering (the criminals were going to burn me and put my family to fire...)... and ONLY God saved me from that IMMEDIATELY, when I repented of my sins and talked to Him in a prayer... If there would be NO repentance then I would face DEATH..and eternal separation from God and the second death in the Lake of Fire. Let me remind you that the 9/11 hijackers screamed “Allah Akbar!” before crashing their planes to kill people. The attacks resulted in the deaths of 2,996 people, including the 19 hijackers and 2,977 victims. This is a POINT of no return for Muslims...and we call it DEATH.... God is full of compassion to let us survive the DEATH...But if we kill ourselves then HOW to live?! Many of us kill themselves following and living in sins. Many of us kill themselves taking drugs etc. what intoxicates us and kill us. God gives us lifetime but some of us kill ourselves not using it... How to live if we kill ourselves? Sins kill us, unbelievers explode us, drugs and smoking destroy our bodies, people kill us.... ONLY God lets us live....and sets us FREE from death. Who will survive? Those who will LIVE with God and NOT against Him. Those who will be safe and saved.... Those who are NOT victims but WINNERS!!!! Many run the race but ONE is the winner. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 1 Corinthians 9:24 Fight the GOOD fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 1Timothy 6
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    My beloved bro and friends, go and have a rest from me. Tomorrow i will torture u more..lol by my preaching...bye guys thank u for reading and watching my show.
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    I said: both. Not the third one. Lol let her love anyone else. I am a very straightforward person. If i say that i love smb then there is no flattery believe me.
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    Hon thank u. But i can be bulling anyone too...lol i just love them both. But i definitely love ur personality and words u know. Wow. It seems u r a perfect man.
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    Lady. Mocking for me is not allowed by my brother. Go to drink coffee. I am happy that u were with me and read me. Thank u.
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    Ok hon. I obey u. No mocking..just my jewish humor. Ok?
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    One more lady is added into my target audience. Lol That is great, my Brother in Christ. 200 views will be done by her soon..lol i hope they all three are not too old and able to read my posts? I am not an american sorry but i still hope they can understand my accent through my errors in english. Uh?
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    My brother, in Christ, i am not mocking. I just talk to my 2 beloved friends. Relax. Do not worry. Mocking will be later....
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