Building your house on the word from God

Sin causes a person to want to hide

(This podcast was previously published on August 10, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Genesis 3
 
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
 
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
 
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
 
(Now they knew sin.  And they no longer wanted to be around anyone who might see their sin.)
 
9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
 
10 And he said, I heard THY voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
 
11 And HE (God) said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
 
12 And the man said, The woman whom THOU gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
 
13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
 
Penalties come because of sin:
 
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
 
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
 
16 Unto the woman HE said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
 
17 And unto Adam HE said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
 
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
 
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
 
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We can't hide from God.
 
Hebrews 4
 
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
 
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in HIS sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of HIM with whom we have to do.
 
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When we are in peace and joy, we know we are at rest in God.
 
When we are troubled and grieved, we need to be restored by God to a state of peace and joy.
 
David prayed:
 
Psalms 51
 
10   Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
 
11 Cast me not away from THY presence; and take not THY Holy Spirit from me.
 
12 Restore unto me the joy of THY salvation; and uphold me with THY free spirit.
 
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The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth.
 
The Holy Spirit unravels situations and guides us into all truth and teaches us all things.
 
John 14:26   (Jesus says)  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
 
John 16:13   Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God) , that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
 
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Psalm 139
 
3 THOU compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
 
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, THOU knowest it altogether.
 
5 THOU hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me.
 
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
 
7 Whither shall I go from THY spirit? or whither shall I flee from THY presence?
 
8 If I ascend up into heaven, THOU art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, THOU art there.
 
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
 
10 Even there shall THY hand lead me, and THY right hand shall hold me.
 
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
 
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from THEE; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to THEE.
 
13 For THOU hast possessed my reins: THOU hast covered me in my mother's womb.
 
14 I will praise THEE; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are THY works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
 
15 My substance was not hid from THEE, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
 
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in THY book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
 
17 How precious also are THY thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
 
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with THEE.
 
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1 John 1
 
5 This then is the message which we have heard of HIM, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in HIM is no darkness at all.
 
6 If we say that we have fellowship with HIM, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
 
7 But if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ HIS Son cleanseth us from all sin.
 
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
 
9 If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
 
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make HIM a liar, and HIS word is not in us.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

When truth is mixed with lies

(This podcast was previously published on August 9, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
The serpent came to Eve and presented a very twisted statement.
 
Genesis 3
 
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
 
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
 
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
 
(Eve added to that which God said.  God did not say, "Neither shall ye touch it.")
 
The following is what God commanded to Adam:
 
Genesis 2
 
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
 
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
 
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
 
When a person adds to the Word of God, he weakens that Word of God.  Because that person who does this knows he added something and therefore it becomes difficult for that person to believe the actual Word from God because he knows only part of what he said is actually the Word from God.
 
We must be very careful in handling the Word of God.
 
If we have the Word of God in writing, we must return to that which God said and be certain of that which God actually said, and we must look at the Word many times.
 
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 Genesis 3
 
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
 
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
 
(People want to be "as gods", being wise in their own eyes.)
 
Those who are really godly know they can do nothing of themselves, as Jesus said of Himself in John 5:30.
 
Jesus said:  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear (from God), I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent ME.
 
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Genesis 3
 
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
 
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Proverbs 3
 
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
 
6 In all thy ways acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy paths.
 
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
 
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The apostle Paul describes antichrist as follows:
 
II Thessalonians 2:4   Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
This is what they were teaching us at Word of Faith when I attended this church.  (1977-1982)
 
We were being taught to be "as god" ... looking for scripture to justify what we wanted and claiming that scripture daily until we got that which we wanted.  We were even being taught that we could take "authority" over the devil and stop things such as hail from damaging our house.  And we were supposed to be able to stop the devil from bringing illness to us and to those in our family by taking "authority" as believers over the devil.
 
Many people want to be as gods, controlling everything as God does.
 
This is not trusting in God or turning in prayer to God but rather trying to be god.
 
And we were never told to seek the will of God at Word of Faith church.  We were supposed to know the will of God and look for scripture, basically to justify that which we desired for ourselves.
 
This is exactly how Paul described antichrist in II Thessalonians 2:4.
 
(Word of Faith is not the only antichrist church but just one of many churches of the apostasy.  For many churches fall away from portions of scripture and set up doctrines opposite from those doctrines of the Holy Bible.)
 
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John 5   (Jesus says)
 
39 (Ye) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of ME.
 
40 And ye will not come to ME, that ye might have life.
 
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The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth.
 
The Holy Spirit who is in us will unravel the lies and set our doctrines straight again.
 
There is much deception in today's church, in the teachings and doctrines.
 
II Timothy 3
 
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of WHOM thou hast learned them;
 
(God teaches us by HIS Spirit.)
 
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
 
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

The first man, Adam, turns from the commandment of God and disobeys The Word from God, bringing sin upon all men

(This podcast was previously published on August 8, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Romans 5
 
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
 
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
 
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
 
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
 
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
 
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
 
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
 
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
 
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The commandment of God to Adam
 
Genesis 2
 
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
 
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there HE put the man whom HE had formed.
 
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
 
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
 
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
 
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
 
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
 
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
 
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
 
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
 
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In the apostate church of the New Testament, before Jesus returns to gather the elect of God, those churches will show a desire "to be God" as they sit in the "temple of God" and cast aside portions of scripture and set up doctrines contrary to the New Testament Bible.
 
The apostle Paul says Jesus cannot return for the elect of God until this falling away from scripture takes place in those churches of the end time apostasy.
 
II Thessalonians 2:3-4   Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
(In 1982, God said to me:  "The falling away are not individuals leaving the church groups.  The falling away are the church groups leaving the scriptures.)
 
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In 2017, God brought the following word to my attention:  "restrains"
 
I recalled this word being in the following version of the Bible.
 
II Thessalonians 2   NASB  (New American Standard Bible)
 
6 And you know what restrains him now, so that he will be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only HE who now restrains will do so until HE is removed.
 
I asked God, "Who is it that restrains antichrist?"
 
Immediately I knew the answer:  The Word, Jesus, restrains antichrist until HE, The Word, is removed, and then antichrist moves into the churches.
 
At that time, I knew why it was I had been seeing pastors add things to the Bible and misuse the Bible. And I knew the reason they felt no shame when I called this to their attention.
 
They were antichrist of the end times.
 
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Hebrews 10
 
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
 
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
 
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
 
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
 
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
 
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
 
30 For we know HIM that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge HIS people.
 
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
 
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2 Peter 2
 
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
 
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
 
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
 
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Hebrews 6
 
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
 
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
 
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put HIM to an open shame.
 
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We are saved from our sins by the blood of Jesus and it is the Holy Spirit of God showing us our sins.
 
But after we have been shown our sins, if we return to those sins where we have been enlightened by God to those sins, there is no more sacrifice for those sins, for Jesus paid for them once and if we need to have Jesus pay again for our sins it will be to require Jesus to be crucified again and that will not be possible.
 
Hebrews 9
 
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
 
25 Nor yet that HE should offer HIMSELF often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
 
26 For then must HE often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath HE appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of HIMSELF.
 
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
 
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for HIM shall HE appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
 
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So we are forgiven our sins.  But if we return again to those same sins, there is no more sacrifice for those same sins for we have been forgiven once and to return to those sins would require us to crucify Jesus again.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God creates man and woman

(This podcast was previously published on August 7, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Genesis 2
 
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
 
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
 
(The naming of an animal gives you a type of dominance over that animal.)
 
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
 
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and HE took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
 
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made HE a woman, and brought her unto the man.
 
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
 
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
 
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
 
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Mark 10
 
2 And the Pharisees came to HIM (to Jesus), and asked HIM, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting HIM.
 
3 And HE (Jesus) answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
 
4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
 
5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
 
(Jesus shows them their own sin against their wives. Moses wrote the bill of divorcement.  They hardened their hearts against their wives, thus they sinned against their wives.)
 
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Mark 10   (Jesus says)
 
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
 
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
 
(Only by death can you divide one flesh.)
 
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
 
10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.
 
11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
 
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
 
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The apostle Paul shows us that at the time of sexual intercourse the two become one flesh.
 
I Corinthians 6
 
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
 
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.
 
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
 
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
 
Fornication is a sin that is different from all other sins.
 
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Matthew 5:32   (Jesus says)
 
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
 
*  The faithful wife, who has been divorced by her husband, will commit adultery if she remarries, but her husband who divorced the faithful wife will be the cause of her adultery.
 
*  The man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
 
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I Corinthians 7
 
10-11  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
 
39  The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
 
(This is the law of God for the New Testament church presented by the apostle Paul in the New Testament Bible.)
 
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The following is the law of God for the New Testament church.
 
Romans 7:2-3   For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
 
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
 
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At the time of sexual intercourse, the two become one flesh.
 
Only by death can you separate one flesh.
 
This is the way God created them.
 
There is a serious unstated penalty to that person who would divorce his mate and to the woman also who would leave her husband and marry another man while her husband still lived.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God rests from all HIS work

(This podcast was previously published on August 6, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Genesis 2
 
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
 
2 And on the seventh day God ended HIS work which HE had made; and HE rested on the seventh day from all HIS work which HE had made.
 
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it HE had rested from all HIS work which God created and made.
 
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The New Testament Sabbath
 
Presented here will be both the New Testament sabbath and the Old Testament sabbath.
 
I will present the New Testament sabbath first because after you read what the Bible says about the Old Testament sabbath, I believe you will be greatly relieved that we today do not have to follow that sabbath but we have another type of sabbath in the New Testament church.
 
Hebrews 4
 
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into HIS rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
 
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
 
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as HE said, As I have sworn in MY wrath, if they shall enter into MY rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
 
4 For HE spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all HIS works.
 
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into MY rest.
 
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
 
7 Again, HE limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts.
 
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would HE not afterward have spoken of another day.
 
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
 
10 For he that is entered into HIS rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from HIS.
 
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
 
For the New Testament church, the "sabbath" is a continual ceasing from our own fleshly works and doing the Works of God daily by the Spirit of God.
 
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The Old Testament Sabbath
 
Exodus 31
 
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily MY sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between ME and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
 
14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
 
(They could not even light a fire in their "tent" to cook their food.)
 
In the wilderness they had to gather a double portion of food on the day before the Sabbath for no one was allowed to gather food on the Sabbath.
 
Exodus 16:23   And he (Moses) said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
 
(They could not gather food on the Sabbath, neither could they cook food on the Sabbath.  They had to prepare all food the day before the Sabbath.)
 
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I was in the grocery store on a Sunday and a woman in front of me at the check out area was chastising the cashier who was working at the store.  Apparently they attended the same church group.
 
This woman said, "I can't believe you are working on a Sunday."
 
The cashier replied,  "Another woman became ill and they called me to come in to take her place."
 
The first woman said, "But I can't believe you would do this thing!"
 
After a few more rounds of chastising by the first woman, I spoke up and said to the woman who was berating the cashier:  "If you want to live by Old Testament law, then what are you doing buying groceries on a Sunday for to keep the Sabbath you would have to remain in your tent all day.  You would certainly not be permitted to do shopping on the Sabbath."
 
The first woman said no more, paid for her groceries and left the store.
 
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Exodus 31
 
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
 
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
 
17 It is a sign between ME and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day HE rested, and was refreshed.
 
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Isaiah 58
 
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on MY holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour HIM, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
 
(If we go by Old Testament Sabbath rules, we could not do any of our own pleasures on the Sabbath:  that would mean no TV shows, no secular book reading, no shopping.  We would have to stay in our own tents and rest on the "Sabbath".  We couldn't even speak our own words about secular things.)
 
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
 
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Exodus 20
 
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
 
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
 
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
 
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
 
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Exodus 35
 
1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
 
2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
 
3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.  (no food preparation)
 
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Deuteronomy 5
 
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
 
13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
 
14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
 
15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
 
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Numbers 15
 
32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
 
33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
 
34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
 
35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
 
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
 
(Are you sure that you want to keep the "Sabbath" by Old Testament laws?)
 
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Mark 3:2  And they watched HIM (Jesus), whether HE would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse HIM.
 
When we read these Old Testament scriptures concerning keeping the Sabbath, we see how hard it would be for them to transfer their thinking from the laws of the Old Testament to the way of the New Testament.
 
In the New Testament, we keep the Sabbath continually, each day, by ceasing from our own works and by doing HIS works.  (Hebrews 4)
 
Nehemiah 13
 
15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
 
16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
 
17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
 
18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
 
19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
 
(This was correctly done by Old Testament law.)
 
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Nehemiah 13:21   Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
 
Matthew 12:10   And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked HIM (Jesus) , saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse HIM.
 
Matthew 12:11   And HE (Jesus) said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
 
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Exodus 35:2   Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
 
Leviticus 25:2   Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
 
Luke 13:15   The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
 
Exodus 31:14   Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
 
Exodus 16:29   See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore HE giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
 
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A question:  Is the Sabbath on a Saturday or on a Sunday?
 
Also consider this:  If you want to live by the Old Testament law, you have to do all of the Old Testament law.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God created the heaven and the earth and man

(This podcast was previously published on August 5, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Genesis 1
 
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
 
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
 
(From the beginning, the Holy Spirit of God was present in the creation of God.)
 
3 And God said,  Let there be light: and there was light.
 
God spoke The Word, and it was created.  Everything that was created was created by HIM, by The Word, by Jesus:
 
John 1:1-3   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  2 The same was in the beginning with God.  3  All things were made by HIM (The Word); and without HIM (The Word) was not any thing made that was made.
 
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
 
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Genesis 1
 
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
 
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
 
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
 
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Genesis 1
 
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
 
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called HE Seas: and God saw that it was good.
 
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
 
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
 
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
 
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Genesis 1
 
14  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
 
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
 
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: HE made the stars also.
 
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
 
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
 
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
 
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Genesis 1
 
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
 
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
 
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
 
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
 
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Genesis 1
 
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
 
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
 
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
 
27 So God created man in HIS own image, in the image of God created HE him; male and female created HE them.
 
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
 
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
 
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
 
31 And God saw every thing that HE had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
 
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Everything God created was good.
 
The heaven stayed in place according to God's Word.  The sun, moon, and stars stayed in place and did according to God's word.  The animals, the fowl, the fish did as God commanded them.
 
But man did not continue in that Word given to him, and man and woman turned from God's commandment and did evil and tried to be as God in their own wisdom.
 
And for this, man brought destruction upon himself and upon all the earth in the days of Noah.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God speaks to the elect of God, HIS children, by HIS Spirit

(This podcast was previously published on August 4, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
God puts HIS own Spirit into HIS children so HE can communicate constantly with us, guiding us, teaching us, showing us what to do as we live in this present world.
 
God's Spirit is HOLY and true and comforts us in every way in everything we do.
 
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus HIMSELF.
 
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Jesus says:
 
John 14:26   But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
 
John 16:13   Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
 
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The apostle Paul says:
 
I Corinthians 2
 
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
 
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and HIM crucified.
 
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
 
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
 
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
 
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM.
 
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
 
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
 
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
 
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
 
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Galatians 5:22-23   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: 
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Going forward in the Word of God. The key to success through God.

(This podcast was previously published on August 3, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Joshua 1
 
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
 
God says:
 
9 Have not I commanded thee?
 
(Did God tell you to do this thing?  That's all that matters.)
 
Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
 
Other verses in Joshua 1:
 
(Which I have found valid today.)
 
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
 
6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
 
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses MY servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
 
We overcome all people and all things through that Word which God gives us concerning the issue of this life.
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Psalm 1
 
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
 
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in HIS law doth he meditate day and night.
 
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
 
4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
 
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
 
6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
 
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Deuteronomy 28
 
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all HIS commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
 
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
 
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
 
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
 
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
 
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
 
7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
 
8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and HE shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
 
(The land God has given me is:  radio, books, blog, Podcast.  What land has God given you?  Stay in THAT LAND.)
 
9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto HIMSELF, as HE hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in HIS ways.
 
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
 
11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
 
12 The LORD shall open unto thee HIS good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in HIS season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
 
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
 
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
 
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Romans 8:28
 
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Building your house on the word from God: The foundation

(This podcast was previously published on August 2, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
John 5:30   Jesus says:
 
I can of Mine own self do nothing: as I hear (from God) , I judge: and MY judgment is just; because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent ME.
 
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Jesus, the Son of God, could do nothing without hearing from God the Father.
 
Certainly I can do nothing unless I hear from God the Father.
 
God gives me information and direction and I simply do that which I hear to do.
 
This is the foundation of:  Building your house on the word from God.
 
(Examples given in this podcast)
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Assurance of salvation for the elect of God as we endure to the end through HIM

(This podcast was previously published on July 16, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Matthew 24:12-13   And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 
We, the elect of God, endure by following that which is brought to our mind by the Holy Spirit.
 
Remember the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and HE will:  teach us all things, remind us of all that Jesus has said, guide us into all truth, and show us things to come. (John 14:26 & John 16:13)
 
Also God will not fail us nor forsake us.  (Joshua 1:5 & Hebrews 13:5)
 
Jesus says:
 
John 6
 
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to ME shall never hunger; and he that believeth on ME shall never thirst.
 
39-40 And this is the Father's will which hath sent ME, that of all which HE hath given ME I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
 
40 And this is the will of HIM that sent ME, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on HIM, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
 
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on ME hath everlasting life.
 
48 I am that bread of life.
 
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
 
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
 
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever:
 
We eat the "bread" by believing the Word that is carried to us by the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit.  We do this as long as God leaves us on this earth.  The elect of God hear the voice of Jesus by HIS Spirit and we follow HIM and will not follow the voice of a stranger.  John 10
 
John 10  Jesus says:
 
4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
 
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
 
27  My sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME:
 
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of MY hand.
 
29 My Father, which gave them ME, is greater than all; and no (none) is able to pluck them out of MY Father's hand.
 
30 I and MY Father are one.
 
John 6  Jesus says:
 
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink HIS blood, ye have no life in you.
 
Every time God sends HIS Word to us and we eat and drink that Word, believing on that Word, we eat the flesh of Jesus and drink HIS blood and have HIS life by HIS Word which was sent to us by God.
 
They received manna and ate it and lived.
 
But we receive Jesus by that Word that comes down to us from God and we eat that Word and live by HIM and life is in us each time we receive HIS Word ... I've always thought it is like receiving a blood transfusion.
 
Jesus says:
 
54 Whoso eateth MY flesh, and drinketh MY blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
 
55 For MY flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
 
56 He that eateth MY flesh, and drinketh MY blood, dwelleth in ME, and I in him.
 
57 As the living Father hath sent ME, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth ME, even he shall live by ME.
 
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
 
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
 
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We overcome ... each time we hear that which the Holy Spirit brings to our mind and each time we focus on "that" Word and follow HIM.
 
Jesus says:
 
Revelation 3:5   He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels.
 
We go though this life depending on HIM, not on our own selves.
 
We hear HIS voice, HIS word which God brings to us by the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit.
 
And we follow what HE tells us concerning the issue of life at that exact point in time.
 
Thus we depend on HIM for our salvation and we know HE will never fail us.
 
(HE won't fall short and HE won't be late in sending HIS WORD to us.)
 
We are the elect of God, born of HIS Spirit by God speaking to us and by God changing us into a new creature.
 
2 Corinthians 5:17   Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
 
Thus we are HIS workmanship.  (Ephesians 2:10)
 
We follow HIM ... Hearing HIS Word and doing HIS word.
 
And knowing we can do all things through HIM who strengthens us as Paul said.
 
Philippians 4:13  I can do all things through Christ (The Word) which strengtheneth me.
 
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We must live in peace.
 
If we are disturbed by someone we must not just assume everything will be OK.  We must commit that situation to God.  We might need to withdraw ourselves from that person.  I know I could not have continued with God and been around my cousin who was trying to turn me from the assignment I have been given by God.  I just stopped writing to her.  I was opening the door by writing to her.
 
We must be sober, alert, but not living in fear.  Instead we trust in God but we also follow the warnings that God gives us, for when we do choose to go among people who are dangers to us and we are concerned by them, we must settle it with God doing what we need to do to continue in the faith.
 
But we also go forth in the assurance of the salvation promised by Jesus for those elect of God who follow HIM.
 
Peace and joy ... but staying alert also!
 
And we must live in truth.  We can't live in our imaginations.  We can't try to think what we want to think about people.  We must live in truth.  The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth.
 
Wise as serpents ... but harmless as doves ... but "wise".
 
We always focus on: "What has God told me about this."
 
And if God has told you nothing, there is nothing for you to think on in this matter.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Answer to prayer

(This podcast was previously published on May 3, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Jesus said:  And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.  (Matthew 10:36)
 
So it is not unusual when you speak the Word from God to have a relative or the church people fight against that Word.
 
In 1977, my cousin, Church of Christ member, once said to me, "Well ... I believe you are a Christian ... I just don't see how you can be one."
 
She did not understand being born again.
 
For the next 40-years, she fought me and tried to get me to quit the work I believe God gave me to do.
 
In 2019, she waged her last battle against me.  It was by exchange of letters for by this time she had gone totally deaf and could not hear by phone and the only communication I could have with her was by letter.  (She didn't know how to do email so we sent US mail to each other.)  She lived in another city from me, about 500 miles away.
 
She was 97-years-old at that time.
 
My prayer was that God would reveal to her before she died that I was of HIM and I was just trying to do that which HE told me to do.
 
(Then she could be saved and go to the new heaven, new Jerusalem.  But if she died fighting against me, that would be same as fighting against God.)
 
On May 31, 2021, God gave me a dream showing me this cousin now knows I was doing HIS work and we were at peace with one another.
 
I've always believed God could save a person at the time of that person's last breath on this earth.
 
Just speak the truth and hold fast to the truth when speaking to another person.  And quit worrying and have faith in God.
 
If we pray according to the will of God, our prayer will be answered.
 
I John 5:14-15   And this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to HIS will, HE heareth us:  And if we know that HE hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of HIM.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God helps us continually by the Holy Spirit of Jesus

(This podcast was previously published on May 9, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
God knows the future and HE leads us through this current "wilderness" by bringing to our mind ideas showing us what to do.
 
Or sometimes God will plant in our heart the truth of the situation and by that truth we know what to do.
 
Many things are coming upon this world because of the sins of the world and because of the sins of the apostate church groups who have fallen away from specific scriptures.
 
But in all troubles, God helps the elect of God, those who are born again and given the Holy Spirit.
 
For the Holy Spirit is used by God in guiding the New Testament church. Each person who belongs to God has the Holy Spirit.
 
The apostle Paul tells us this:
 
I Corinthians 3:16   Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
 
And Jesus tells us what the Holy Spirit does for each of us.
 
John 14:26  Jesus says:  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
 
John 16:13  Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of HIMSELF; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God's yoke is easy and HIS burden is light. If your yoke is hard, you have yoked yourself to something that is not of God

(This podcast was previously published on July 17, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
In 1975, after I was born again, God began teaching me how to recognize ideas that are from God so I could go in the way of God on this present earth.
 
One of the first things God taught me is this:
 
Matthew 11:30   Jesus said:  MY yoke is easy, and MY burden is light.
 
If something was overly expensive, I knew I did not have God's plan.  If it was very difficult to do, I knew I did not have God's plan so I stopped and began praying again, asking God for HIS wisdom.
 
Promise from the Bible:
 
James 1:5   If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
 
Recognizing the wisdom that is from God:
 
James 3:17   But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 
Examples of wisdom from God given in this Podcast:
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Lk. 12:40 Jesus says: Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not

(This podcast was previously published on August 31, 2024)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
The important thing for each of us is not so much "when" Jesus comes, the day and such, but that which is important for each human is staying ready for the coming of Jesus.
 
God has clearly shown us the following:
 
2 Peter 3:14  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
 
Luke 21:33-36   Jesus says:  Heaven and earth shall pass away: but MY words shall not pass away.
 
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (over indulgence), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
 
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
 
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

When Jesus returns, all nations of the earth will "mourn". Why?

(This podcast was previously published on April 10, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
The people of this world build treasure for themselves while they live on this earth.  They seek after reputations among other people, empires of possessions, lands of this earth, buildings and all manner of things that we can see with our natural eyes.
 
When Jesus returns through the clouds, all these things will be destroyed by God at the end of this world.
 
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In the Bible, the coming of Jesus is described as a thief coming in the night.
 
2 Peter 3:10-12  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
 
So to the people of this world, the coming of Jesus will signal the end of all they have worked for in this life and all they have accumulated and they will grieve greatly for they know it will all be gone, destroyed ... thus the coming of Jesus is like a thief in the night to the people of this world and all nations of this world will "mourn" when they see Jesus coming in the clouds!
 
But the elect of God look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness!
 
13  Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
 
(We will never be able to make this current world righteous.)
 
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Jesus says:
 
Matthew 6:19-21  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
 
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So what do you look for when you go out at night and look at that sky?
 
I'm rarely out at night, but recently we had to take one of the dogs to an emergency hospital.  As we sat at night in the car waiting for the doctor to work on the dog, I looked into the sky and I saw a very bright light in the sky on top of the nearby mountain.  I thought, "Is that a sign in the sky as Jesus said would come in the last days?"  As I continued to look, the light moved slightly to the right and then disappeared from view behind the mountain.  I was a little disappointed that it was not one of the signs in the sky spoken of in the Bible.
 
Luke 21:25-27   And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
 
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
 
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
 
What do you look for when you go out at night and look into the sky?
 
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When we leave our house and drive down the street and I see the nearby Rocky Mountains, I often say to them, "I see you are still here!"  I know the time will come when the mountains will be moved out of their places.
 
Revelation 6
 
12 And I beheld when HE had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
 
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
 
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
 
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
 
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of HIM that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
 
17 For the great day of HIS wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
 
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Hebrews 11
 
9 By faith he (Abraham) sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
 
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
 
I was in France in the 1980's.  As I sat on a park bench by the river in Paris, and people passed by talking to one another, I found it to be so peaceful.  Then the Holy Spirit reminded me:  "You don't know the language."
 
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Hebrews 11:13-16
 
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
 
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
 
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
 
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for HE hath prepared for them a city.
 
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Jesus comes "as a thief".   What does this mean?
 
I Thessalonians 5:2-3  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
 
Every thing they cherish and work for on this earth will be gone.  And to them who love this world it will be as if a thief in the night struck when Jesus comes.  Thus the people of this world will mourn when they see Jesus coming through the air!
 
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Matthew 24:1-2   And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and HIS disciples came to HIM for to shew HIM the buildings of the temple.
 
2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
 
Do you marvel at the buildings made by humans hands?  or do you remember what Jesus said about all these things we can see with our natural eyes!
 
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When Jesus comes through the air, every eye will see HIM and all the tribes of the earth will mourn.
 
But those who are the elect of God will rejoice for they know their redemption draweth nigh!
 
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At the end comes the judgment seat of Christ:
 
2 Corinthians 5:9-10  Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of HIM. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Repetition of the Word of God

(This podcast was previously published on May 17, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Philippians 3:1  Paul says:  Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
 
II Corinthians 13:1  Paul says:  This is the third time I am coming to you.  In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
 
Romans 12:2   And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
 
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2 Timothy 3:16-17   All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
 
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I Thessalonians 4:13-18  But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
 
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.
 
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep.
 
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
 
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
 
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2 Peter 3:10-14   But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
 
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
 
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
 
13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
 
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
 
Philemon v. 6   That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Work out your own salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12)

(This podcast was previously published on February 18, 2022) 
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Matthew 24   Jesus says:
 
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
 
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
 
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
 
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Titus 3:9-11  But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.  A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;  Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
 
The apostle Paul tells each of us:
 
Philippians 2:12 ... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
 
This is a very dangerous time in this world and also in the churches which have denied certain scriptures and teach another doctrine other than scriptures, apostasy in the churches of the end times as Paul told us would happen in II Thessalonians 2.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
 
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
In 1982, God said to me, concerning the above scripture:  "The falling away, are not the people leaving the churches ... The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."
 
This is what we are seeing today in churches, the apostasy of the end times.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

The voice of one crying in the wilderness

(This podcast was previously published on July 11, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
As the wickedness increases we know Jesus comes soon and the judgment of God and the complete destruction of the heaven and earth by God.
 
On July 10, 2021,  I was watching on NFL channel the replay of a football game from 2020.
 
A commercial appeared on screen.  It was obvious to me this commercial was extremely high level advertisement.
 
Total black screen ... with one word at a time in white letters in the center of the screen.
 
NFL ... is ... for ... (several words) then ... Gays ... Lesbians ... etc ...
 
Who speaks what the Bible says?
 
(Even most churches won't do this today.)
 
The Bible says:
 
Romans 1:26-27
 
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;
 
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Luke 21
 
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
 
29-30 And HE (Jesus) spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;  When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
 
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
 
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Before Jesus came the first time in the flesh, John the Baptist was crying in the wilderness as follows:
 
Luke 3
 
1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
 
2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
 
3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
 
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make HIS paths straight.
 
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
 
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
 
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Matthew 24   Jesus says:
 
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
 
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
 
(They mourn because all their properties and their fame and their reputations of men will be destroyed by God with the destruction of the present heavens and with the destruction of this earth.)
 
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
 
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2 Peter 3:10-14
 
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
 
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
 
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
 
13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
 
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
 
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I Thessalonians 4:13-18
 
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
 
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.
 
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go ahead of) them which are asleep.
 
16 For the Lord HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
 
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Save yourself from this untoward generation

(This podcast was previously published on April 27, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Dream given to Pam Padgett  2/27/2020
 
There had been an explosion. Somehow it was known that the person responsible for this explosion had setup another explosion for a specific day. We even knew the approximate time.
 
I started to leave the building where I was working on the sixth floor before the second explosion was to take place, but just a few steps down the stairs I remembered my purse and that all my identification was in it. I ran to where my purse was and got it.
 
Then I proceeded to leave, going down the stairs very quickly. I counted each floor as I passed by it descending down the stairs.
 
Some people were standing along the stairs, talking. I could tell by their talk that they knew the explosion was supposed to be coming, but they seemed to feel no sense of urgency. I didn’t stop to try to persuade them to get out right away. Instead, I went around them and continued getting to the first floor so I could leave the building.
 
I got out of the building and continued quickly on my way to leave the area.
 
At one point I was aware the explosion had happened. There was a wall of glass doors in the outside area where I was. I went through one of the doors to the other side, getting as far away from the destruction as I could. I kept walking as quickly as possible.
 
At one point I saw a woman walking around with a dazed look. She was carrying a recording device. I heard her say she was interviewing people who had been hurt or raped during this event.
 
I kept walking as quickly as possible toward the parking lot so I could leave.
 
When I awoke from this dream, I heard, “Save yourself from this untoward generation”
 
Acts 2:40  And with many other words did he (Peter) testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
 
Untoward: inappropriate, offensive, perverse, willful, crooked
 
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Pam says:
 
During the last several years of their lives, my parents lived near my niece, Michelle, and her husband, Jared, and their family in a small town in far southern Oklahoma.
 
One day Michelle called to tell me that my mom was very sick and had been taken to a hospital in Oklahoma City.  My mom's kidneys had stopped functioning and she was in intensive care.
 
Immediately I started thinking of going to Oklahoma City, which is about 600 miles from where I live.
 
But then I stopped and turned to God and asked HIM: "What do YOU want me to do?"
 
The Holy Spirit brought the following concept to me:  To go there would be like stepping into a hill of fire ants ... and that my mom had all the help she needed.
 
Both of my sisters and most of their grown children live in Oklahoma and would surely be at the hospital.  I have found that much of what they do and say is very much like the poison of fire ants, and I knew this was a warning to me of the danger of going there.
 
I did not go to Oklahoma City to be with my mom, but I kept in touch by telephone with my dad and Michelle.
 
Mom recovered enough to be released from the hospital a week or two later.  I spoke with her on the telephone after she returned home.
 
She told me of the people who had come to the hospital to see her, including my sisters and their children.  I was so glad to have been spared by God from being there with them.
 
Mom also told me what wonderful care she had received at the hospital and that all she had needed had been provided.
 
All of this was exactly as the Holy Spirit had told me.
 
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A couple years later each of my sisters called to tell me that my dad was extremely ill and not expected to live more than a couple days.  They were each on their way to be with him and told me that I needed to go there and talk with my dad as well.
 
I turned to God, asking if this is what HE wanted me to do.
 
The Holy Spirit brought the following to me:  "You have shared everything needed with your dad.  There is no need to go there."
 
I told each of my sisters I would not be going, and that Dad and I have talked on the telephone many times and there was nothing more we needed to say.  They were upset with me and told me how wrong I was to not go to be with my dad.
 
But my dad did not die at that time.  I spoke with my mom a couple weeks later.  She told me my dad was fully recovered and was out mowing the lawn!
 
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When my dad died in 2018, he had not been ill.  He simply died in his sleep.
 
After learning that he had died, I asked God if HE would somehow let me know whether my dad was born again before he died.
 
A few days later I was given a dream.  In the dream my dad was my "brother", and he told me that I had always been there for him.
 
I believe this dream showed that my dad was born again, my brother in Christ, and that I had done what was needed where he was concerned.
 
I was so grateful to God for showing me this.
 
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In 2019 my mom began to sound so different when I spoke with her on the telephone.  Whereas in the past she talked a lot about what other people were doing, she now spoke of how much she was enjoying reading the Bible.
 
One day she told me that she knew it was God who had led my dad and her to live near Michelle and Jared and how perfect this had been for them and how grateful she was to God for this.
 
On 11/25/2020 I was given a dream ... In this dream my mom was standing at a small table on which were several things. She looked in good condition, standing upright and having on a nice dress. She was calmly moving some things on the table around as if putting them in order. I asked if she knew that the EMT’s (emergency medical technicians) were here to put up cameras. She said she had seen them, but didn’t know what they were doing. She just kept focused on what she was doing, putting in order the things that were in front of her, not asking questions or getting excited.
 
I believed I was being shown that my mom was about to die, but she was in good condition and was getting her life in order.
 
A couple weeks later my niece, Michelle, called to tell me that my mom had been put in hospice care by her doctor.  They would simply try to keep her comfortable at home for whatever time she continued to live on this earth.
 
I prayed about whether I should go be with my mom, whether there was anything I could do, but was not led to do this.
 
I did send the 11/25/20 dream to Michelle and told her of the changes I had seen in Mom over the past several months showing she was born again, wanting to help Michelle with the things God had given me to help me.  As I was writing these things for Michelle,  I was reminded of the following scripture:
 
2 Corinthians 1:3-4  Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
 
A few days after sending this, my mom died.
 
I was so glad that God had shown me the change in Mom's life, that she was born again before she died.  And also the dream HE had given me in late November was a help and comfort to me.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another Romans 14:19

(This podcast was previously published on April 20, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Staying connected to God daily, second by second, as we live on this earth as we wait for the return of Jesus is critical to us.  We must take every care to God in prayer when the problem arises.  And we settle the matter with God in prayer.  For we do not know the day or hour that Jesus returns and staying connected to God through prayer like this makes us worthy to escape that which is coming upon this world.
 
Philippians 4:6   Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
 
Luke 21:33-36  Jesus says:
 
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but MY words shall not pass away.
 
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (over indulgence), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
 
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
 
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
 
It is that prayer that connects us to God in all the troubles and cares of this life and the connecting to God makes us accounted worthy to escape that which is coming upon this earth and causes us to stand before the Son of man.
 
Philippians 2:12   Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
 
II Corinthians 5:10-11  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.  Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
 
Romans 14:19  Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
 
2 Peter 3:14  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
 
You cannot live in peace with some people.  You know who they are.
 
You cannot appease devils.
 
You have to come away from them.
 
Matthew 13:44-46  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
 
45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:  Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
 
You cannot be around them.  When you are with them and a disturbing subject arises, take a Bible and read aloud that scripture brought to your mind by the Holy Spirit.
 
You will get free one way or another.  Either they will depart from you or they will believe the scripture and turn to God and be saved.
 
You tell them.
 
Don't just send them what I write.  You tell them.  They will just throw away what I say to them.  They already think I am your problem.  We both know that is not true.  God is your problem! for He has led you in His way but they are pulling you back to themselves.
 
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Most churches today are apostate for they fell away from specific scriptures

(This podcast was previously published on July 18, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
A pastor in Colorado Springs, Colorado (USA), sent me an email with the following requests:
 
He would like to know this from me:
 
1. Your word of exhortation on today's churches.2. How God has led you to where you live with Pam in Colorado Springs?
 
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E-mail to this pastor from Joan Boney:
 
7-4-2021
 
Dear Pastor:
 
First concerning the churches today in the end times.
 
I have been shown by God many things about this subject.
 
Starting in 1982,
 
I was reading II Thessalonians 2:3-4
 
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
God said to me at that time, in 1982, "The falling away are not the people leaving the church groups ... The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."
 
In 2017, God said to me the word: "restrains"
 
I found this word in II Thessalonians 2  (NASB)  as follows:
 
6-8   And you know what restrains him now, so that he will be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only HE who now restrains will do so until HE is removed. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will eliminate with the breath of HIS mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of HIS coming;
 
I said to God, "Who is it that restrains antichrist?"
 
And instantly I knew the answer from God.
 
The scriptures restrain antichrist.  Jesus the Word restrains antichrist.  But many churches remove portions of scriptures and that removes "Jesus, The Word."  And when that happens antichrist moves into that church group.
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Most churches today are already antichrist for they no longer teach such things as follows:
 
Matthew 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
 
* The divorced woman commits adultery when she remarries but her husband who divorced her will be the cause of her adultery.
 
* The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
 
I Corinthians 7:10-11  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
 
Romans 7:2-3 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
 
I Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
 
We no longer go by the Law of Moses where we sacrifice animals for sin ... But we do go by the Law of God as set forth in the New Testament Scriptures.
 
Mark 10 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
 
5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
 
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
 
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
 
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
 
10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.
 
11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
 
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
 
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Concerning Homosexuals & Lesbians:
 
Romans 1:26-28  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;
 
A homosexual or lesbian can be saved if such sees this scripture and recognizes their sin and repents and turns from sexually perverted acts.
 
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John 8 ... Jesus to woman taken in adultery ... "go ... and sin no more."
 
Sinners cannot continue in sins after they are enlightened, for to go back to their sins is to crucify Jesus afresh.
 
Hebrews 10:26-29  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
 
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
 
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
 
The apostle Peter says:
 
2 Peter 2:19-22  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
 
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
 
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
 
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
 
Hebrews 6:4-8 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
 
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
 
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put HIM to an open shame.
 
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
 
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
 
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There is not 1 antichrist ... the apostle John tells us there are "many" antichrists.
 
I John 2:18-19  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
 
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
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The apostle Paul speaking to the elders of the church at Ephesus:
 
Acts 20:29-30
 
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
 
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
 
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So after the time of Paul, men started their own denominations and cast away scripture as they saw fit, and divided the body of Christ.
 
2 Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
 
Antichrist in today's churches ... these apostate churches will be destroyed by Jesus when HE returns to gather the elect of God.
 
II Thessalonians 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:
 
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This shows you the report I have given many times on our blog, on Books on Amazon, and on our Podcasts.
 
I will send you a second email concerning how God moved me to Pam's house to live when I was 82 years old in 2019, and crippled, and in very bad physical condition.
 
Joan
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On July 5, 2021, I sent a second email to this pastor warning him concerning his plan to build a new church building.
 
Dear Pastor:
 
I must tell you that I have concerns about your building a new church building.
 
In my initial response to hearing you were doing this, I asked you how God showed you to do this. You did not choose to share that with me. So I have no evidence concerning whether or not your project is from God.
 
However today I was praying about this project and I was reminded of the following scripture by the Holy Spirit:
 
Luke 17:28-29  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
 
And I have been reminded several times of Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
 
As a prophet I must warn you and ask you to reexamine this project through prayer and by considering these scriptures which show us the wisdom from God.   James 3:17 and Matthew 11:30
 
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 
Matthew 11:30 Jesus says: For MY yoke is easy, and MY burden is light.
 
I'm just telling you my concern and what I believe is from God to you.
 
Joan Boney
 
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God will not allow us to be tempted above that which we are able. God saves us and stops us as needed.

(This podcast was previously published on August 1, 2021)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
If something would be harmful to us, to our salvation, God will stop us!
 
When a stop sign appears in the highway, don't be afraid to stop.
 
God will sort through it and restore our souls.
 
I Corinthians 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
 
The elect of God are kept by God.  Something will stop us when we need to be stopped.
 
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In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise (Proverbs 10:19)

(This podcast was previously published on March 6, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Humans love to be wise in their own eyes.  They love to give "their opinions".
 
The apostle Paul warns us:
 
I Corinthians 15:33-34  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.  Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God:
 
When we share what God has said to us, we glorify God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
 
Ephesians 4:29-30   Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
 
edifying:  building another person in the faith in God
 
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
 
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I Corinthians 2:4-5  Paul said:  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:  That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
 
When we share our own opinions, often we are trying to bring glory to ourselves and to have other humans praise us.
 
Psalm 111:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do HIS commandments: HIS praise endureth for ever.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Faith in God

(This podcast was previously published on May 21, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Faith is one of my favorite subjects and one of the most wonderful, and simple.
 
Words, often instructions, which are given to us by God, are usually brought directly to our minds by HIS Holy Spirit.
 
The first time this happened to me was in approximately 1975.  I owned a small business in Dallas, Texas.  A woman filed a lawsuit against me.  I heard an instruction which I believed to be from God.  These words were brought to my mind by what I believed to be God, by HIS Holy Spirit:  "Don't testify."
 
As I obeyed this instruction, many unexpected things happened!
 
(I share this story on this Podcast.)
 
Our examples are Noah and Abraham.  And with both, it is the same, God speaks and they obeyed!
 
Until God speaks, we can't have faith in God.
 
For faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God!  Romans 10:17
 
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Concerning Noah:
 
Hebrews 11:7  By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
 
Noah condemned the world, because Noah believed God and the world did not believe God.
 
And because Noah believed God, Noah built an ark.  Noah heard what to do when God spoke to him and Noah did that thing.
 
Genesis 6
 
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
 
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.
 
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.
 
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
 
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
 
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth.
 
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before ME; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
 
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
 
God told Noah how to build the ark and exactly what to do, and Noah obeyed what God said to him.
 
And that is faith in God.  We hear when God speaks and we obey God because we believe what God has said.
 
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Concerning Abraham:
 
James 2
 
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.
 
26  For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
 
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Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward HIS name

(This podcast was previously published on May 6, 2022)
 
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
2 Corinthians 5:9-11  Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of HIM.For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.   Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
Hebrews 6:10  For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward HIS name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
 
Each of us "serve" (minister) in the way God has shown us.
 
Pam Padgett has been given by God the spiritual gift of "helps".
 
I Corinthians 12:28  And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
 
I have been given a spiritual gift of "exhortation".
 
Romans 12:8  Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
 
We work in that spiritual gift or office to which we are placed by God, but we share equally in the body of Christ and will receive for that which we do in our assignment!
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog