We have seen it many times, and I do believe that it bothers most of us, but we just don’t admit it. Then to top it off that persons receives an award or promotion behind it while the person that did the work sits on the sidelines and is only called on when someone needs their help to fix something they messed up. Isn’t this the way we do God on Christmas? Santa gets all the credit and is the all-knowing while we put God on the sideline because for some reason, we don’t want our Children to know the truth. Something is terribly wrong with that picture. We can take down statues that have been up for years because they represented something bad, but we keep this thing about Santa going every year that puts Gods on the Sidelines until you need Him. Jesus Be Praised!
Archive for the ‘deceitfully’ Category
Sometimes we hate to see someone else take the credit for what someone else has done.
Posted: December 16, 2020 in Christmas, deceitfully, Santa ClausTags: cheating, Christmas, pride, Santa
Mommy, is There Really a Santa Claus?
Posted: December 16, 2020 in Christmas, deceitfully, Santa ClausTags: Christmas, deceit, merry christmas, Santa Claus
A Christian parent must thoughtfully consider that Scripture is full of commands against deceiving others. Persistently proclaiming the existence of a man in a sleigh with flying reindeer as fact can only lead to deceit.
Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Psalm 101:7 He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house
Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, laying aside Falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.
1 Peter 2:1-3 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 3 If you have tasted the kindness of the Lord
Please understand that I am not saying there is no place for imagination, but the level of emphasis on Santa appears to cross the line. The active teaching of Santa as a real person who performs real miracles to reward children for acting a certain way, in full knowledge that he is a myth, can only be described as deceit.We all overheard parents using gifts from Santa to manipulate their children into behaving in a way that pleases the parent at the time. Such manipulation is entirely unbiblical. As Christians, we should discipline our children for sinful behavior because it is an offense against God, not because it is inconvenient or embarrassing for us. Using gifts from a fictitious figure can only serve to promote a form of moralism that is alien to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If our actions are done to earn rewards for ourselves, are we not acting selfishly? This is not an attitude we should seek to instill in our children.
Matthew 10:32-33 Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.
How can we take Jesus who we call on all year for prayer and kick Him to the curb on the very day we honor His birth and lie to our children when he charges us to teach our children about Him from a young age?
Jesus Be Praised!
Owning Your Choice
Posted: August 19, 2020 in Choices, deceitfully, disobedience, enticement, Grace, Healing, Repentance, restoration, UncategorizedTags: christianity, correct choices, first choice, foolish choices, Ownerships, wise choices
OWNING YOUR CHOICES
Rob Henry Notes on the Sermon Sunday. My notes do not do this message any justice. This is just a slice of the message that was dropped Sunday. Scroll across to about 31 to get right to the Sermon.
Worship Life Center Church
4930 E main Street Suite 10,11,12
Mesa, AZ 85205
Pastor Stan
We do not mind owning things, but there are very few people that own their choices.
The CHOICE is yours. Life is full of CHOICES, and sometimes we don’t make all the right CHOICES. Sometimes we must own the CHOICES we make to invoke God into our situation.
Flip Wilson use to say the devil made me do it. When really, he needed to OWN HIS CHOICE. When we make a bad CHOICES, we are going to have to OWN THAT CHOICE.
The power of CHOICE is a gift from God. We take it for granted and use and abuse that gift. The gift that God has afforded us is Christ, Salvation and then there is CHOICE. So, it is going to be up to you how you use it.
In a world like ours we must CHOOSE right over wrong. In a world like ours where once they were calling things wrong, are now being called right. Things that was once Un-Godly are now accepted.
We have a CHOICE of believing or not that there is a God.
So often we chose something outside of Christ and expect the reward that resides inside of Christ. So, CHOICEdetermines your position in life.
CHOICE is what dictate what you can and can not do. Our life is CHOICE driven. He gives us the right to CHOOSEhim or not. The most important thing to God is that you CHOOSE Him. Pastor Stan said that if you sit in the barbershop long enough, you will eventually get a haircut. So if you sit in Christ by way of CHOICE long enough, you don’t even have to know all about it, all you have to do is sit in it. God said “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature, old things have passed away and all things have become new.” Pastor Stan is talking about a lifestyle change, not just a verbal confession. It is you believing by faith in your CHOOSING to CHOOSE God. He said salvation is not just a say, it is a do. You got to walk saved, talk saved, and act saved. That others may see Jesus in you, and all that He is doing. You must OWN YOUR CHOICE. If you own it, then God has a legal right to help you find your way. Its only if you chose Him to help you.
This is what I love about Pastor Stan, He will always come back with Scripture to back up what he is preaching.
Joshua 24:15 And if it seems evil unto you to serve God, choose for yourself this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. If you do not CHOOSE God, weather you know it or not, you are serving the enemy. So, the devil does not care about you calling him a liar because you are serving him.
Next Pastor Stan speaks about giving the devil credit when he does not deserve any. Pastor Stan said we have a tendency to say “The devil is coming after my finances” when everyone at Macys knows you. So, the devil did not do it, we make conscious decisions to spend our bill or rent money. We do not want to OWN OUR CHOICES. When we own it, we can get God to help us. We will say the devil is coming after my health, but we will not eat nothing healthy. We say the devil is coming against my marriage, when we are spending more time with our single girl friends at the club. We got to OWN OUR CHOICES.
Pastor Stan said, that when we are influence by the devil in every kind of evil way, by the authority given to us in heaven, we can CHOOSE not to.
Pastor Stan testified that it was not until he OWNED his CHOICE back in the day when he got the help he needed. It was not until he took total responsibility for his action when he received his help. Pastor Stan said he ask God why you did not help me when I was crying out. He said he heard a small voice say, YOU DID NOT CHOOSE FOR ME TO HELP. God gave us the right to CHOOSE,, and he will not violate it. So, you hold your issue until you CHOOSEHim. We have a free will and a legal right to CHOOSE what we want. The enemy will try to coach you in making a bad decision.
James 1:12-15 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God, for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. 16 Do not deceived, my beloved brethren.
He is driven away by His own CHOICE; you are going to have to own it. But Bless is the man who chooses right. We are driven away by our own nature. We are going to have to choose our spirit over our flesh. You got be mindful over people who CHOOSES for you. Because its still your CHOICE to allow them to choose.
Genesis 3:6 When the women saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
1 Timothy 2:14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
The Bible says that Adam was with Eve. Adam made a CHOICE. There was nothing the enemy could say to make Adam sin. He made a CHOICE. It doesn’t matter how good it looks, If you are not CHOOSING God, you are CHOOSING the enemy.
Genesis 3:7-12 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they know that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. 8 They heard the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” 11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
- Whenever you make a bad decision, you are going to have to own it, and if you don’t own it, the first thing you are going to do is try to cover up what God designed to be good by CHOICE, and you cover it up and make it bad.
- When you do not OWN YOUR CHOICE, the CHOICE that you made, you separate yourself from God.
Adam said that I heard your voice, but I did not see you. Jesus was coming to set him free if he would have own it. Adam blamed God and the Woman.
We got to OWN THE CHOICES we made. If we do not own it, you got to hold it. If you made a bad CHOICE, own it so you can invoke the power of God.
Judgement on the United States of America
Posted: October 8, 2018 in Battle Focus, Beliefs, Bible Study, Blinded by Hate, debauchery, deceitfully, decisions, dishonesty, disobedience, Drinking and getting Drunk, evil men, Evil People, great power, hate, Isaiah, Judges, Uncategorized, wickednessTags: day of judgment, judgment, truth
Under Gods Command
Life Application Study Bible Named this Chapter
Judgement on Jerusalem and Judah
but I call it
Judgement on the United States of America
Isaiah 3:1-15 NIV
[1] See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water, [2] the hero and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, [3] the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter. [4] “I will make mere youths their officials; children will rule over them.” [5] People will oppress each other—man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the nobody against the honored. [6] A man will seize one of his brothers in his father’s house, and say, “You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!” [7] But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house; do not make me the leader of the people.” [8] Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. [9] The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves. [10] Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. [11] Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done. [12] Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path. [13] The Lord takes his place in court; he rises to judge the people. [14] The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: “It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses. [15] What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
Love the Commentary Notes
Jerusalem besieged, her leaders destroyed—this unhappy picture would soon become a reality. Disobedience would bring serious affliction and great destruction, as God had warned (Deuteronomy 28).
3:4-9 This section describes what happens when a nation loses its leadership.
3:9-11 The people would be proud of their sins, parading them out in the open. But sin is self-destructive. In today’s world, sinful living often appears glamorous, exciting, and clever. But sin is wrong, regardless of how society perceives it, and, in the long run, sin will make us miserable and destroy us. God tries to protect us by warning us about the harm we will cause ourselves by sinning. Those who are proud of their sins will receive the punishment from God they deserve. Having rejected God’s path to life (see Psalm 1), they had only one alternative—the path to destruction.
3:10, 11 In the middle of this gloomy message, God gives hope: Eventually the righteous will receive God’s reward, and the wicked will receive their punishment. It is disheartening to see the wicked prosper, while we struggle to obey God and follow his plan. But let us keep holding on to God’s truth and take heart! God will bring about justice in the end, and he will reward those who have been faithful.
3:14 The elders and rulers were responsible to help people, but instead they stole from the poor. Because they were unjust, Isaiah said the leaders would be the first to receive God’s judgment. Leaders will be held accountable for how they lead. If you are in a position of leadership, you must lead according to God’s just commands. Put the needs of others before your own. Fulfill the purpose God intended. Don’t seek your own advantage. Corruption will bring God’s wrath, especially if others follow your example.
3:14 Why is justice so important in the Bible? (1) Justice is part of God’s nature; it is the way he runs the universe. (2) It is a natural desire in every person. Even as sinners, we all want justice for ourselves. (3) When government and church leaders are unjust, the poor and powerless suffer. Thus, they are hindered from worshiping God. (4) God holds the poor in high regard. They are the ones most likely to turn to him for help and comfort. Injustice, then, attacks God’s children.
Lets Bring it Home: Its time we take our eyes off the television and point them to God. Stop worrying about how corrupt our Government is, and keep or start praying about it. Lets be sure we keep focus on ourselves also. We do want our prayers to be heard. When we do nothing to help the oppressed, we are, in fact, joining with the oppressor. Because we follow a just God, we must uphold justice. Don’t stop fighting for Justice. In the end God will have the Victory.
Proverbs 28:20 Wisdom for the Soul
Posted: July 28, 2016 in cheaters, Cheating, deceitfully, decisions, Going along with the crowd, Honesty, honor, lust, Money, Money and the Church, Money Issue, Proverbs 28, Truth, UncategorizedTags: cheating, eager, faithfulness, Money Problems, riches
Under Gods Command
Proverbs 28:20 “A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.”
Blessings are the product of honest labor. Just as Abraham was rich in gold, silver, and cattle because he was blessed of God, God will bless you abundantly if you have the faith of Abraham. Abraham was saved and blessed by faith. We are blessed and saved by; faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Someone in a hurry to get rich is taking short cuts. His ways are not pleasing to God, because they are not honest. God will hold him responsible for the way he made his money. Wealth in itself is not evil. Our attitude toward the wealth can be very evil.
Spiritual Training 17 April 2015 (Leviticus)
Posted: April 16, 2015 in deceitfully, Guilt, leviticusTags: bearing false witness, Bible Study, christianity, church, Encourgment, Forgiveness, god of heaven
Under Gods Command (Book of Leviticus)
Leviticus 6:1-7 (The Guilt Offering)
1-7 The LORD said to Moses: 2“If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the LORD by deceiving a neighbor about something entrusted to them or left in their care or about something stolen, or if they cheat their neighbor, 3or if they find lost property and lie about it, or if they swear falsely about any such sin that people may commit— 4when they sin in any of these ways and realize their guilt, they must return what they have stolen or taken by extortion, or what was entrusted to them, or the lost property they found, 5or whatever it was they swore falsely about. They must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner on the day they present their guilt offering. 6And as a penalty they must bring to the priest, that is, to the LORD, their guilt offering, a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. 7In this way the priest will make atonement for them before the LORD, and they will be forgiven for any of the things they did that made them guilty.”
Here we discover that stealing involves more than just taking from someone. Finding something and not returning it or failing to return something borrowed are other forms of stealing. These are sins against God and not just your neighbor, a stranger, or a large business.
Lets Bring it Home: If you have gotten something deceitfully, then confess your sin to God, apologize to the owner, and return the stolen items—with interest.
Under Gods command 