Marching Into March- God is Breaking His Church

Critic of the movie "Unstoppable"

Galentians 5:6  The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
(A child loving their father, A Man Loving his Creator God)

     




          So, we went to opening night of Kirk Cameron's movie Unstoppable. First off, the movie contained a lot  special effects that were very professional and more real to life than any movie I have seen in the past describing "events" in the Bible.  On the other hand, the people I went with were all Bible believing Christians and we all agreed that the theology portrayed was a bit off.  We all left kinda scratching our heads. Now, why would I put out a critic of a Christian movie? I back and support all Christians who put the Gospel out there in a sincere manner. We were so moved by Cameron's first movie, Monumental, that we took a family pilgrimage to Plymouth just to see it! However, Unstoppable, with all it's special effects, left a gaping hole at the end of it. The  message conveyed was that   bad things happen to good people and we have to trust God had a plan and he will use it for good. This in and of itself is not entirely off base, but it continued to say that every bad thing that happens to good people is really just a good seed the Lord will use. Almost like God intended for the bad thing to happen just so He would be glorified. We rarely, if ever, see any bad thing happen to a good person specifically for the glory of God, and even then, when we do in the Gospel of John, God the Father is glorified in healing, not death or sickness.

John 9 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

    This one man was born blind for the glory of God to be revealed in his HEALING. He was a seed planted so the Gospel of God- healing and health- would be spread far and wide. 

      "Unstoppable" was made mostly for Christians, ie, the narrator calls his friends "good people," and tries to explain why a young boy died a long and drawn out death when parents were devote Christians and loved God. 

     The narrator was not able to give scripture references so his reasoning is not Biblically sound. Anyone in the Bible who truly loved God and was in the will of God was saved somehow, except for martyrs. Now, if they are saying this young boy was martyr for Christ, that he and his family stood for the Gospel and some outside source killed them for their faith, that would be a movie right there. 

Instead, when talking about sickness, like cancer, we need to see that there are other, perhaps evil forces (sin and sickness go hand in hand as we just read in John 9- "who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?), that are at play.

But when talking about the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, those who follow him always seem to find a way out. Examples:

Job, Daniel in the lion den, Shadrach Meshach and Abednego were saved in the firey furnance, the Isrealites were led out of Egypt an into the Promised Land. I could go on and on. They all had a common denominator: They LOVED GOD WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS

          
        I have found recently that there is nothing more powerful than the first Commandment.  “Love God.”  
   

     It isn't hard to love God.  God is love and to love God is to Love loving God, Jesus, everyone.  For faith works by “Love”. all things work together for good for those who "Love God"

With every thought I first “think”, “I love God”, or I think “I love Jesus”.

If you want to talk to God you have to first Love him.

       

            The movie stated their purpose was to answer  the question,”Why do bad things happen to good people, or anyone.”  The movie never answered the question.

         Jesus said bad things happen to people because of their own sin or the sin of others. The movie doesn't mention Jesus talking about “Go and sin no more so the sickness doesn't come back.”  

       

      The movie didn't mention Jesus, being a hero, coming and rescuing, saving, (Savior),  people like a fireman.   Jesus coming and healing a problem, situation or brokenness.

I could get the same message from any “worldly psychologist.”  The movie gave a worldly answer which is no answer.  But go see the movie yourself.  If it comforts you OK.  We all need peace even if it is from the world because we have lost our connection to God through  disobeyingGod; the first Commandment “Love God with all that is in you!”

         Get everyhing and everyone out of your heart that exalts itself above God. 2 Corinthians  10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 

 You have to   think with every thought “I love God” "I love Jesus," to be healed, saved, broken hearts healed, mended, fear vanquishes in the presence of Loving God. 

 

       So Love God, stay connected to the vine, for you are just a branch and you are lost without being connected to God through Loving him.  Peoplewho ask people to do things for them but do not love the person with God's love whom they  are asking a favor of: are just “using others”.  You can not use God, or manipulate him.  There is nothing you can do; going to church, tithing, singing in the choir, teaching Sunday school, feeding the poor.  None of that will get God to “answer” your prayers.  Only “loving” God will be your faith and your faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains..   Just think: 

                         I Love God!                                 

Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who  have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, [neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4: 16 God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Faith in Action

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for.

3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

Hebrews 11:33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.

Galatians 2:16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails.

Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy

Matthew 17:14 When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him.15 “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. 16 I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

17 “You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” 18 Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. [ ” 21 

Freedom in Christ

Galentians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.

2 Corinthians  10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

Healthy Children Part I of II

Isaiah 58 Ministries                                                                   August 13, 2013

Pastor: Leah Svensson

Scriptures: Proverbs 22:6, Matthew 19:14-15, John 3:6, 45, 63, Romans 8:5-8, 12-14, Romans 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 14-18, Ephesians 2:1-3, Ephesians 4:11-24, Ephesians 5:6-11, Ephesians 6:1-4,  Galatians 5:1, 7-9, 16-17, Colossians 3:20-21, 1 Timothy 3:1-7, 1 Timothy 3:9-15, 1 John 5:20-21, Revelations 18:4-5

Everything written has a scripture reference listed at the bottom of the blog.  see: small numbers (1),(2),(3).

                                      

                                   Preface

I never wanted to go to public school, but I always enjoyed learning. As a child I would drink in new knowledge like a sponge. Children are sponges and what they soak up is what they will ring out. The Bible says to "Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart." Prov. 22:6

The one thing that I hated most about school was the need to sit... and sit... and sit... for ending hour upon hour. Running out to recess to the open fresh air was like escaping from prison every single day- only we were still in prison for prison is a place you do not want to be, are forced to be there, and cannot leave of your own free will.

Someone, somewhere along the line, found that they could only teach a large group of mismatched children by making them sit down. How many times as a child did you here "hurry up and sit down?" If you were like me it was a lot.

Children should not be rushed in the morning to hurry up for school.(11) When they get to school they are taught for 13 years, 5 days a week to basically sit for 7 to 8 hours.(3)(5)(13)(14)

This is horrible training! To deny this doesn't have a detrimental effect on children is to lie to yourself and others! Being taught to sit every day will be in that child for life! (7.)(11)(12)(13)(14)



This is what causes most weight problems, health problems, dysfunctionalism in adults today.(11)(13)(14)

Many people look at their children today and say "Hey, my kids aren't overweight. They are involved in sports. They are healthy." However, when I look at these same adults, they are not healthy, they are not involved in the same gratuitous sports their kids are, and they struggle with their weight and self image everyday of their lives. And quite frankly- for the most part their marriages are not great.



       Being a child is EASY! It's the easiest job in the world- at least it should be. No child should ever have to worry about their weight, their clothes size or what they eat. A child's metabolism is a wonderful thing! That is, unless  you are abused or brainwashed like most children today- like I was. Look around you and you can't help but see the result of the "hurry up for the bus and sit for 8 hr.a day" brainwashing going on all over the world, but mostly in America.

       Everyone has something they blame: automobiles, television, video games but all those things result from the very thing we make kids do ALL DAY LONG... sit, sit, SIT!!! 
Harvard University on sedentary kids



    For myself, I am a stander... at least since I reached adulthood. I could sit NO MORE! I stand in a room full of people. I stand when on the computer (like now). I stand when I paint. I do sit to pee... most of the time- like not in public restrooms- have you ever squatted over a toilet  Hey, that's exercise my friends!!


That is prison not a happy childhood.(7.)(11)(12.)(14)(16)

Adults raised in schools have no way of leading themselves, living free.(14)(16) 

  (Unless: they love to sin, like lust, greed, shopping, selfishness, sin is their master.) (7.)(12)(14)(15)




Many of us rebel against this forced bodily harm but it can be sooo hard! I love my garden. It makes me feel healthy and happy but sometimes I have to work through that public school American mindset that says "wouldn't you just rather... sit?" Now many of us say "I go go go all the time, my kids and I are always moving." Really? What are you go go going to? If you were home all...day... long... what would you do? What would your kids do? 


                                   Jesus said my yoke is easy my burden is light. 

    

       Sermon

A wholesome life leads to Brilliant Healthy children.

       God has a plan for how a child should be raised.  For thousands of years almost every parent raised their children the same.(5.)

 There were good parents and bad. 

The "Good" parents were known to be good by how their children behaved.(5.)(6.)(15)

                                                                                                                                            The "bad" parents were known to be bad according to how their children behaved. (7.)(14)(17)

            A healthy wholesome day for a child:(6.)

 1)To get up early clean up get dressed and ready for the day and spend time in prayer, meditation before God is how a child's day should begin. (5.)(6.)(15)(18)

2) Chores, feeding and watering animals, bringing in firewood, collect eggs, milk the cow,helping to prepare breakfast. Learning God provides the food on our table and we must always be thankful to him. We must always take care of the animals they are dependent on us.(5.)(8.)(15)(19)

3) Working in the garden, harvesting vegetables, making butter, canning, working with wood,hunting, fishing, etc. Work is good, easy, especially when you have others around working with you. Many hands makes for light work. (Love one another)(15)(19)(23)(24)

 4) Help prepare lunch, learning God provides the food on our table and we must always be thankful to him.(15)(19)(24) 

 5) Afternoon should be a time of learning, studying, refreshing one's mind.  Seeking what God has laid on their hearts and spirits to learn. This is a time to seek God's perfect ways, God's will in math, science, language, answering and doing what God has called the individual child to do.(15)(18)

 A child's exercise of the Freedom Christ has bought him to be totally lead by God's voice only.  With the aid, counsel, support of his parent.(16)(18)(19)

6)Helping prepare supper.  Learning God provides the food on our table and we must always be thankful to him. (a child needs to learn it is their part of being alive to provide for themselves through making meals, doing dishes, etc.)(15)(19)(24)

7) Evening of quiet, yet communing with family members, time together as a family. Preparing, settling down for bed. Prayers, scripture reading, studying about God, writing about the day in a journal. (Ends nightmares, you dream about God, faith, love, the wonderful love of God, peaceful sleep.)(8.)(15)(18)(19)

And yes,I know you don't want to hear it.  Girls should be lead to be women, feminine, ladies, pure, holy, mothers, playing with doll babies, light weight work, duty.(21)  Boys should be lead to be men, masculine, "gentle" men, not fighting, fathers: responsible for everyone, head of the household. if something is right he is doing a good job, if something is wrong in the house, he is completely responsible for those in his home.(20) Boys should be raised to do the lifting and  harder labor, playing with bows and arrows, wood work, horses for  toys.(15)(18)

  The above is a perfect wholesome life, with education and exercise for the physical bodies sake. This is the way the mind the spirit and the body work correctly together fully as one, made whole through repentance and healed through love and redemption of Jesus Christ.(6.)(8)(16)(18) the redemption of Jesus Christ saving the child's mind/soul

The child is set free from sinful desires; receives the Holy Spirit from God to lead the child, instead of being left alone with sinful desires being their master.(4.)(6.)(8.)(16)(18)

 The Spirit of God gives every child,(human being), the strength of "self-control".  So our bodies don't lead us but "a sound mind", through he gift of the Holy Spirit full of love and God's power leads our physical bodies.(4.)(6.)(18)

In order for any parent to send their children to school they have to turn their backs on the advice of God's chosen men(17) {turn their backs on the whole Bible, and the founding fathers (the rightful government), the truth: just a few scriptures presented at the bottom of the blog. [(Many people are forced into this position through corruption in the economy.(17))]} and follow the "world and the ways of the world." You are no longer following  Jesus Christ, " his Holy Spirit", but worldly people, The "Spirit of the Anti-Christ".(1)(7.) (8.)911)(12)(13)(14)(15)(17)(18)

People who do not know God do not do the things that are pleasing to God.  It is impossible to obey God without the Holy Spirit.(2)(7.)(12)(13)(14)(18)

          I was overweight as a child. I hated myself everyday. I knew it was not me!! I knew I needed to eat, sleep, and learn at a more natural pace. I needed to wake up and start my day- RESTED, with enough sleep. I needed to eat a wholesome breakfast that was not a poptart. I needed to exercise upon waking and needed a job to do. I needed to be able to spend extra time on subjects I loved. I needed to see OUTSIDE and in PERSON what I was reading about in a book. Public schools today are mere libraries where all the children read the same material and are forced to spew it all back out- not retain it, not enjoy it- just remember it long enough for a test. I wanted someone to SHOW me, HANDS ON, what the different leaves of trees looked like. I needed to go OUTSIDE and identify birds. This, schools today cannot do for they are not in the education business but in the "remove a child from their parents so we can brainwash them business." Every child should be given the opportunity to learn to read and write and do math- everything else should be the child's inclination of learning.

        I learned more in 3 hrs of homeschooling- getting up a bit later, taking my time to eat, getting TONS of exercise- then I did in 8 hrs of public school- plus bus rides. Children don't need organized sports when they are just kids- they only need football and gymnastics or dance to keep them active when their lifestyle is that inactive one of their parents. Eventually these parents grow into adults- and the obese ones we have today- because we were taught to SIT SIT SIT in pubic school and the only way to get ourselves up and moving is to make ourselves get out and "exercise" or go to the gym.

   If, instead, we moved all day as kids, we would move all day as adults and have no desire for tv or only very little. Grown men play video games because of this public school brainwashing. Grown women have to go on Weight Watchers and research every new weight loss fad because they were brainwashed to sit sit sit- and only get up when someone tells you to. It's a never ending cycle that leads to horrible horrible self image and nation wide divorce rates off the charts.  Only very very self-centered men and women today are even remotely at peace with the way they look. Everyone is looking to others besides their spouse for pleasure. People pretend to be happy but when honest- they are not.

     True fulfillment comes from moving all day. Meditating on the Word of God and being at peace. You don't have to buy this kind of health. You can't find it at yoga class. You probably won't find it at a church building either. You're only going to find it when the life you live is also your means of health and exercise. And this, my friends, it the opposite of what the public school teaches you.

References:

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

1.)  Revelations 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“ ‘Come out of her, my people,’ 

so that you will not share in her sins,

so that you will not receive any of her plagues;

5 for her sins are piled up to heaven,

and God has remembered her crimes.

Warning Against Idolatry

2.) 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial  ? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will live with them

and walk among them,

and I will be their God,

and they will be my people.” 

17 Therefore,

“Come out from them

and be separate,

says the Lord.

Touch no unclean thing,

and I will receive you.” 

18 And,

“I will be a Father to you,

and you will be my sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.”

(3.) Matthew 19:14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” 15 When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.

(4.)John 3: 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit  gives birth to spirit. 

(5.)John  6:45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’

(6.)John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit  and life.

(7.)Romans 8:5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

(8.)Romans 8:12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

A Living Sacrifice

(9.) Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Made Alive in Christ

10.) Ephesians 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh  and following its desires and thoughts. 

11.)Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Instructions for Christian Living

12.)Ephesians 4:17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. 

13.)Ephesians 4:27 and do not give the devil a foothold.

14.)Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. 7 Therefore do not be partners with them.

8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

15.)Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” 4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

16.)Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

17.) Ephesians 5:7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. 9 “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.” 

18.) Galatians 5:16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. 

19.) Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

21 Fathers,  do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

20.)1 Timothy 3:1 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full  respect. 5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. 7 He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.

21.)1 Timothy 5:9 No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband, 10 and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord’s people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.

11 As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry. 12 Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge. 13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to. 14 So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. 15 Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.

22.) 1John 5:20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.

God’s Love and Ours

23.) 1John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

24.) Collossians 3:15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.