Patience, love and self control versus bursts of anger and cutting words that you can't take back. Those emotions that go through our senses every day without us even realizing it, because we're engaged in conversations with people in our daily walk in life. All day we are sowing to the flesh, seeds that will produce a harvest.
1Corinthians 3:1-3 says "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual (ethereal, heavenly, supernatural), but as unto carnal (pertaining to the flesh, bodily, temporal), even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat (solid food): for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Ezekiel 36:27 | "And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."
Romans 8:1-9 "1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Three buddies were discussing the resurrection, and they asked each other what they wished would be said of them at their funerals. One said, "He was a helper of the weak and the poor." Another said, "He was a good husband and father." The third said, "Look, he is moving!"
One particular sect among the Jews was the Sadducees, which was a sect of fewer numbers than other Jewish sects, but generally a party of more power and money.
Proverbs 3:5-7 says, "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. (6) In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (7) Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil." This week, we will continue our series on the heart of man.
Read 1Kings 2:1-4. King David, on his deathbed, told his son Solomon to be a man; to keep God's judgments, commandments, statutes and testimonies and walk in His ways in truth with all his heart and soul. Today, we are going to discuss "All the heart".
I found in an ancient Eastern Christian text this simple definition of the heart: "Not simply the physical organ, but the spiritual center of man's being, man as made in the image of God, his deepest and truest self, "I called with my whole heart ...
"41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation:the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matthew 26:41
In Romans 7:14-25 Paul said "14 For we know that the law is spiritual:but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not:for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
"Now I make known to you brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures...(I Corinthians 15:1-3).
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Each year, during the Lenten Season, the Blanco Ministerial Alliance has lunches on Thursdays at different churches. Everyone in the community is invited. The schedule is below. The "Free Will Offering" is used by the Alliance to help those who are passing through Blanco and have difficulty getting to their destination.
Proverbs 25:28 says, "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." Cicero said, in all ages "fewer men are found who conquer their own lusts than that overcome the armies of enemies.'' A Christian who does not practice self control, leaves himself completely exposed to every attack and deception of Satan.
