tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48103064527789290312023-11-15T10:08:16.564-08:00The Word of God is The Sword of the SpiritFor the word of God is active, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 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.
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. Hebrews 4:12-13La Espada De Dioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813315554568171764noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810306452778929031.post-53308492519386243182009-07-01T11:26:00.000-07:002009-07-01T11:36:23.724-07:00Disobedience to parents and their harmful consequences<span style="font-weight: bold;">And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exodus 21:15</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exodus 21:17</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leviticus 21:9</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 21:18-21</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 27:16</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Proverbs 20:20</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Proverbs 30:11</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Proverbs 30:17</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Isaiah 1:2</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And he said unto them, Full well all of you reject the commandment of God, that all of you may keep your own tradition.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For Moses said, Honour your father and your mother; and, Whoso curses father or mother, let him die the death:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But all of you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever you might be profited by me; he shall be free.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And all of you suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark 7:9-12</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Honour your father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ephesians 6:1-3</span>La Espada De Dioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813315554568171764noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810306452778929031.post-45264054018995057082009-05-23T10:31:00.000-07:002009-05-23T10:44:19.562-07:00Two thoughts, only one decision<span style="font-weight: bold;">See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 30:15,19-20</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom all of you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land all of you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joshua 24:15</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And she said, Behold, your sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return you after your sister in law.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And Ruth said, Implore me not to leave you, or to return from following after you: for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people, and your God my God.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ruth 1:15-16</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt all of you between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 Kings 18:21</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the low of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Kings 17:32-33</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Kings 17:41</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Isaiah 29:13</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD; Go all of you, serve all of you every one his idols, and hereafter also, if all of you will not hearken unto me: but pollute all of you my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ezekiel 20:39</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hosea 7:8</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. All of you cannot serve God and mammon.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew 6:24</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will all of you also go away?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">John 6:66-68</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and all of you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that all of you cannot do the things that all of you would.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galatians 5:16-17</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">James 1:8</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, all of you sinners; and purify your hearts, all of you double minded.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">James 4:8</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable shift, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Peter 3:16</span>La Espada De Dioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813315554568171764noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810306452778929031.post-72517504667573502362009-05-20T09:35:00.000-07:002009-05-20T09:56:50.019-07:00False prophets and false teachers<span style="font-weight: bold;">If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether all of you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 13:1-3</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Isaiah 56:10-11</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, All of you shall not see the sword, neither shall all of you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their heart.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah 14:13-14</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, All of you shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah 23:16-17</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to go astray by their lies, and by their levity; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah 23:25-27,31-32</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which all of you cause to be dreamed.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah 29:8-9</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not discovered yours iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have seen for you false burdens and causes of banishment.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lamentations 2:14</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thus says the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">All of you have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD says: and the LORD has not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Have all of you not seen a vain vision, and have all of you not spoken a lying divination, whereas all of you say, The LORD says it; although it be I have not spoken?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because all of you have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and all of you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ezekiel 13:3-9</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wherefore by their fruits all of you shall know them.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Not every one that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, all of you that work iniquity.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew 7:15,20-23</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew 24:11</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew 24:24</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But there was a certain man, called Simon, which in time past in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Acts 8:9-11,18-19</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Corinthians 11:13-15</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Thessalonians 2:9-12</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Peter 2:1</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 John 4:1</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For there are certain men crept in unexpectedly, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jude 4</span>La Espada De Dioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813315554568171764noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810306452778929031.post-80225518335023091082009-05-19T12:53:00.000-07:002009-05-20T09:29:08.837-07:00Divine protection<span style="font-weight: bold;">And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?<br />And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.<br />And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray you, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.<br />2 Kings 6:15-17<br /><br />The angel of the LORD camps round about them that fear him, and delivers them.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Psalms 34:7</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Though an host should camp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Psalms 27:3</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Romans 8:31</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Psalms 118:6</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When I cry unto you, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Psalms 56:9</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah 20:11</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come nigh you.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Only with yours eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Because you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, your habitation.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Psalms 91:7-9</span>La Espada De Dioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813315554568171764noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810306452778929031.post-71547345072593511612009-03-25T15:24:00.000-07:002009-03-25T15:36:04.618-07:00Own denial<span style="font-weight: bold;">And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Luke 9:23-24</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">John 12:25</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 Corinthians 3:18</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">We are fools for Christ's sake, but all of you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but all of you are strong; all of you are honourable, but we are despised.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Being defamed, we implore: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the waste of all things unto this day.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 Corinthians 4:10-13</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 Corinthians 9:19</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 Corinthians 10:24</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 Corinthians 10:33</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Three times was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, three times I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beside those things that are without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2 Corinthians 11:23-28</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Galatians 6:14</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Philippians 2:4</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Philippians 2:20-21</span>La Espada De Dioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813315554568171764noreply@blogger.com1