Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ "
Monday, April 28, 2025
Pretenders and Their Rules
Many pretenders make rules God never made and then treat us as if we were in rebellion when it is they who ignore God to follow their own ways while ignoring the ways of God.
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ "
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ "
Narcissists who Cause Trouble and Blame others for the Result
No one plays the victim better than the one who does the damage.
Ignoring the Bible is the Same as Ignoring Christ
Legalism is following man's rules that God never commanded; obedience to God is obeying His principles and commands. It is not love to say we follow Christ and then ignore His principles; it is the same as ignoring Him.
John 14:15-31
15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
The Holy Spirit
16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever;
17 The Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
19 After a little while, the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to see Me; because I live, you also will live.
20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you.
21 The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what has happened that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.
24 The one who does not love Me does not follow My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
25 “These things I have spoken to you while remaining with you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you."
When we live according to Christ's principles and commands, His ways are not burdensome but a blessing. Those who twist the Bible to make it say what they want to believe are walking in disobedience, the opposite of what Christ told us to do, to walk in obedience.
The born-again believer is grieved when they offend God, the pretender who claims to be a Christian but does not obey God is not grieved when they sin, they defend it or deny that it is not sin. They have no love in them and fight against those who authentically love God.
1 John 2:3-5
"By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:"
2 John 1:6
"And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love."
Matthew 22:37-40
"Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ "
Galatians 5:22-23 - "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Those who love Christ have the fruit of the Spirit and the first character quality of the fruit is Love. All the fruit of the Spirit flows out of that first character trait of Christ, love.
Love encompasses many things: support for doing what is right, discipline for doing what is wrong, and returning a believer to obedience when they fail.
All the demonstrations of love are the foundation for all the rest of the fruit. joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control, all come out of that first quality of Love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth."
Romans 8:6
"The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,"
Colossians 3:12-14
"Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity."
James 3:17-18
"But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness."
Hallelujah!!!
John 14:15-31
15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
The Holy Spirit
16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever;
17 The Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
19 After a little while, the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to see Me; because I live, you also will live.
20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you.
21 The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what has happened that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.
24 The one who does not love Me does not follow My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
25 “These things I have spoken to you while remaining with you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you."
When we live according to Christ's principles and commands, His ways are not burdensome but a blessing. Those who twist the Bible to make it say what they want to believe are walking in disobedience, the opposite of what Christ told us to do, to walk in obedience.
The born-again believer is grieved when they offend God, the pretender who claims to be a Christian but does not obey God is not grieved when they sin, they defend it or deny that it is not sin. They have no love in them and fight against those who authentically love God.
1 John 2:3-5
"By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:"
2 John 1:6
"And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love."
Matthew 22:37-40
"Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ "
Galatians 5:22-23 - "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Those who love Christ have the fruit of the Spirit and the first character quality of the fruit is Love. All the fruit of the Spirit flows out of that first character trait of Christ, love.
Love encompasses many things: support for doing what is right, discipline for doing what is wrong, and returning a believer to obedience when they fail.
All the demonstrations of love are the foundation for all the rest of the fruit. joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control, all come out of that first quality of Love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth."
Romans 8:6
"The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,"
Colossians 3:12-14
"Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity."
James 3:17-18
"But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness."
Hallelujah!!!
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