Saturday, October 31, 2015

We have the Truth. 10/31/15


Day 303

The dangers of celebrating halloween:

http://www.hiskingdomprophecy.com/dangers-halloween/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHJgH6AKcsM

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Today's songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzCD_8KbjI

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https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Titus.1

Titus 1

Greeting

1 Paul, a servant[a] of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began[b] 3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

4 To Titus, my true child in a common faith:

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

Qualifications for Elders

5 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,[c] and his children are believers[d] and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer,[e] as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound[f] doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.[g] 11 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. 12 One of the Cretans,[h] a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”[i] 13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth. 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman
Our only resolve October 30th
“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants [or, resolves] to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” JAMES 4:4

James exposes the source of our struggles. The word “wants” in this verse is very significant. It means “resolves.” This same word is used by Paul in 1 Timothy 6:9-10, which sheds further light on our understanding: 9 “Those who desire [or, resolve] to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” The word “desire” in verse 9 is not merely an impulse to be rich. It is a resolve to be rich. It is the kind of decision one makes with a definite intention. So Paul speaks of resolving to be rich, and James speaks of resolving to be a friend of the world.

When we receive the Lord, He comes in to take over. All the rights to our life are gone. We belong to Him. We are under His headship. We are under His lordship. To have any resolve other than the resolve to follow Him, to know Him, and to live by Him is to have an evil eye (Matt. 6:23). The Lord tells us that our eye should be “single” (v. 22, ASV). This means that we should have only one goal, look at only one thing, and not tolerate a divided heart. To have a single eye means to have a single heart (vv. 21-23). When the Lord spoke of having a single eye, He did not contrast it with having double vision. Rather, He used the word “evil” as the contrasting wordfor“single.”ThisisbecauseinGod’sthoughthavinganything other than God Himself as our one goal is evil.


Any resolve in our life apart from the Lord Himself will lead us into trouble. There are serious consequences when we resolve to be a friend of the world or when we resolve to be rich. Even to resolve to “get rich for Jesus” is an error of the heart. We only need to have one resolve and that is, “Lord, I love You, and I am one with You. My only desire is to be under You and to follow You on the path of life” (cf. Matt. 7:14). In the New Testament, Paul uses the phrase “Jesus Christ our Lord.” This confession is very significant. It means that the Lord is not someone outside of us that we are observing from afar. No! He is the One who lives and rules in us. When we feel inwardly restrained from doing or saying something, we need to go along with that restraint. Jesus Christ is not just our Savior. He is our Lord! Our only resolve is to say “Amen” and “Yes” to Him.

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