Hebrews 11:1, ‘…faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.’ You’ve probably heard someone ask, ‘If God wants people to believe in Him, why not give us irrefutable proof?’ But that line of thinking misses the point entirely. The desire to have ‘proof’ is the desire to have specific […]
James 1:14-17, “But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down
Proverbs 5:3-4, “The lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.” It is true of all idolatry…
Psalm 106:37-38, “They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, who they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.” Make no mistake, THIS is abortion. The child sacrifices offered up to the god
James 4:4, “Adultresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” May the Lord give us grace to seek Him and not adorn ourselves with that for which He died.
Psalm 119:18, “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.” Psalm 119:37, “Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things…” Setting our eyes on worthless things is one of the surest ways to blind them to the wonder of God’s beauty in Christ. May God grant us grace to
Matthew 15:8, “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me…” Words, deeds, extravagant worship and everything else is hollow if God has not captivated our HEART in Christ. May He do so more and more.
Jeremiah 17:19, “to YOU shall the nations come…and say: ‘Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless things…’”
Mark 9:47 “And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out…” What our eyes drink shows where our hearts are aimed.
Ephesians 2:1-2, “…you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked…” Dead in pursuit of deceitful desire
Mark 4:19, “…desires for other things enter in and choke the word…” Most of U.S. culture runs on “desires for other things”
John 3:19, “…people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.”
Jeremiah 32:35, “They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech…” http://www.numberofabortions.com
Luke 20:25, “…render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s”
Jeremiah 16:19,”To you shall the nations come…and say,’our fathers inherited nothing but lies’” Christ exposes idols
Jeremiah 2:13, “…they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewed out cisterns for themselves…”
