“Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king,
nor in your bedroom curse the rich,
for a bird of the air will carry your voice,
or some winged creature tell the matter.” Ecclesiastes 10:20
Do nothing in secret of which you would be ashamed if others knew.
Sad fact; many Christians actually believe Kenneth Copeland/Joel Osteen & alike are sound teachers. One of the reasons for that is cuz they’re Bible illiterate & refuse to take the time to study the Bible to understand why their teachings are unbiblical.
2 Timothy 2:15
“…and whom he justified, them he also glorified.’
The very fact that we are told that we are already glorified is a guarantee that salvation is all the result of God‘s purpose and God‘s action.
So we cannot fall out of it; we cannot finally be lost…
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Women who want to be pastors want to be like Eve. They justify denying God’s Word like she did. Eve sinned by disobeying God and tried to justify her sin. She saw the tree was desirable and good for eating, so why would God say no to her? But He already had. She knew. She sinned.
Our prayer for our local pastors and for the men involved in global ministry should be that they would “contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
"Where he sees sin in those who are very dear to him, his fury burns not against them, but against their sin, and he will not stop until he has slain it. His rebukes are severe, not because of want of love, but because he loves them so much."
- Charles Spurgeon
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers. Whenever we begin to feel careless about our private prayers there is something very wrong in the condition of our souls. There are breakers ahead. We are in imminent danger of a shipwreck. -@JCRyle
Is it not undeniable that with the Bible in our houses, we are ignorant of its contents; and that hence, in a great measure, it arises, that the bulk of the Christian world know so little, and mistake so greatly, in what regards the religion which they profess?
But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm.