THE GOSPEL OF PEACE: July 2022

DO YOU RESIST THE DEVIL?

JAMES 4:6-8

BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE. WHEREFORE HE SAITH, GOD RESISTETH THE PROUD, BUT GIVETH GRACE UNTO THE HUMBLE. SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. DRAW NIGH TO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YE SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YE DOUBLE MINDED.

Are you proud or humble? Do you submit yourself to God? Do you resist the devil?

I ask these questions because we so often are proud, prideful, and boastful about anything and everything. We say, good job, to ourselves, and pat ourselves on the back. I have heard preachers say, that's good preaching brother when they don't think the congregation has said Amen enough or loud enough. Maybe we have false humility, we pretend to be humble. People say good preaching or teaching, and we say very humbly, thank you it was all God, then we swell our chests as we leave.

Do you truly submit to God? Do you receive The Word given to you by God or by it a person of your congregation? Or do you think that because of who you are, they couldn't possibly know more than you? I am the preacher or teacher and they are just someone I need to teach. When you read The Bible do you read it expecting a Word, or do you read knowing that you already understand all that it says?

When someone disagrees with you do you immediately think that the devil is working on them sowing discord and divisions? When there is a conflict, do you ask God if it is on your part? You should, because, don't you want to be absolutely sure to preach or teach The True Gospel? It doesn't hurt to ask God, am I correct on this? Tell God where I am wrong, please show me. Never assume, always know with certainty, that way you can help others see how they are in error, in love, not with pride in being right. Do you resist the devil?

Donna K Purifoy

7/31/2022

HELD CAPTIVE!

HELD CAPTIVE

I had a dream last night. I dreamed that I was in a small room with no windows, looked like the walls were made of dirt, and had a dirt floor. I was being held in this room and I was in torment, my chest was so heavy and troubled. I am being held against my will. I don't know how long I had been in there, but I felt doomed. I was without hope. Without any warning, the door opened and a bright light was shining, I walked toward the light, and the voice said that I was free! Jesus Opened The Door, The Light Is The Light Of Jesus, It Is His Light That Shines Through our darkness, The Voice Is The Voice Of Jesus, that says that we are Free! The room is the way we are under The Law, as long as I was in the room I would never be or even feel clean. I would never be enough to be Holy and Just. I was under the dominion of The Law, and would never be able to set myself free.

THE GRACE OF JESUS HAS SET US FREE!!!

WE ARE LONGER HELD CAPTIVE TO THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH!

ROMANS 7:1

KNOW YE NOT, BRETHREN, (FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT KNOW THE LAW,) HOW THAT THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE LIVETH?

ROMANS 7:6

BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN WE WERE HELD; THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER.

ROMANS 6:6-10,17

KNOWING THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED, THAT HENCEFORTH WE SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN. FOR HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN. NOW IF WE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST, WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL ALSO LIVE WITH HIM: KNOWING THAT CHRIST BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD DIETH NO MORE; DEATH HATH NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM. FOR IN THAT HE DIED, HE DIED UNTO SIN ONCE: BUT IN THAT HE LIVETH, HE LIVETH UNTO GOD.

[17] BUT GOD BE THANKED, THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, BUT YE HAVE OBEYED FROM THE HEART THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE WHICH WAS DELIVERED YOU.

ROMANS 6:14

FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU: FOR YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW BUT UNDER GRACE.

ROMANS 6:20-23

FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHAT FRUIT HAD YE THEN IN THOSE THINGS WHEREOF YE ARE NOW ASHAMED? FOR THE END OF THOSE THINGS IS DEATH. BUT NOW BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN, AND BECOME SERVANTS TO GOD, YE HAVE YOUR FRUIT UNTO HOLINESS, AND THE END EVERLASTING LIFE. FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

Good morning! PRAISE THE LORD!!

Donna K Purifoy

7/30/2022

HOW TO STAND!

I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY I STOOD MY GROUND! OR, I WILL STAND MY GROUND! WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? I THINK WHEN THEY KNOW PEOPLE ARE DISAGREEING WITH THEM, THEY HAVE TO BE RIGHT SO BAD THAT THEY HAVE TO THINK THAT STANDING THEIR GROUND, BY BEING DUG IN, UNMOVABLE, AND UNSHAKABLE. THAT MAKES THEM FEEL LIKE A SOLDIER IN THE LORD'S WORK. I HAVE TO SAY THAT IS NOT SCRIPTURAL.

GALATIANS 5:1

STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, AND BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE.

EPHESIANS 6:14

STAND THEREFORE, HAVING YOUR LOINS GIRT ABOUT WITH TRUTH, AND HAVING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS;

PHILIPPIANS 4:1

THEREFORE, MY BRETHREN DEARLY BELOVED AND LONGED FOR, MY JOY AND CROWN, SO STAND FAST IN THE LORD, MY DEARLY BELOVED.

1 CORINTHIANS 16:13-14

WATCH YE, STAND FAST IN THE FAITH, QUIT YOU LIKE MEN, BE STRONG. LET ALL YOUR THINGS BE DONE WITH CHARITY.

PHILIPPIANS 1:27

ONLY LET YOUR CONVERSATION BE AS IT BECOMETH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: THAT WHETHER I COME AND SEE YOU, OR ELSE BE ABSENT, I MAY HEAR OF YOUR AFFAIRS, THAT YE STAND FAST IN ONE SPIRIT, WITH ONE MIND STRIVING TOGETHER FOR THE FAITH OF THE GOSPEL;

EPHESIANS 1:17-23

THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF GLORY, MAY GIVE UNTO YOU THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM: THE EYES OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING BEING ENLIGHTENED; THAT YE MAY KNOW WHAT IS THE HOPE OF HIS CALLING, AND WHAT THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF HIS INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS, AND WHAT IS THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF HIS POWER TO US-WARD WHO BELIEVE, ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY POWER, WHICH HE WROUGHT IN CHRIST, WHEN HE RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, AND SET HIM AT HIS OWN RIGHT HAND IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES, FAR ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITY, AND POWER, AND MIGHT, AND DOMINION, AND EVERY NAME THAT IS NAMED, NOT ONLY IN THIS WORLD, BUT ALSO IN THAT WHICH IS TO COME: AND HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, AND GAVE HIM TO BE THE HEAD OVER ALL THINGS TO THE CHURCH, WHICH IS HIS BODY, THE FULNESS OF HIM THAT FILLETH ALL IN ALL.

EPHESIANS 6:10-13

FINALLY, MY BRETHREN, BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT. PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO STAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL. FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. WHEREFORE TAKE UNTO YOU THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND IN THE EVIL DAY, AND HAVING DONE ALL, TO STAND.

WE ARE TO STAND IN LIBERTY, LOINS GIRT WITH TRUTH, STAND FAST IN THE LORD, STAND FAST IN THE SPIRIT, ENDURE HARDNESS AS A GOOD SOLDIER.

WE ARE TO STAND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT, NOT OURS! WHEN WE SAY I STOOD MY GROUND, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PRIDEFUL STATEMENT AND THAT YOU STOOD IN YOUR OWN POWER. NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE WILL YOU FIND THAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER. NOT EVERYONE THAT DISAGREES WITH US IS AGAINST US SPIRITUALLY. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

2 TIMOTHY 2:3

THOU THEREFORE ENDURE HARDNESS, AS A GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST.

MATTHEW 11:29

TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS.

MATTHEW 10:16

BEHOLD, I SEND YOU FORTH AS SHEEP IN THE MIDST OF WOLVES: BE YE THEREFORE WISE AS SERPENTS, AND HARMLESS AS DOVES.

Donna K Purifoy

7/29/2022

YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!

ROMANS 7:7-8,11,17,22-24

What Shall We Say Then? Is The Law Sin? God Forbid. Nay, I Had Not Known Sin, But By The Law: For I Had Not Known Lust, Except The Law Had Said, Thou Shalt Not Covet. But Sin, Taking Occasion By The Commandment, Wrought In Me All Manner Of Concupiscence. FOR WITHOUT THE LAW SIN WAS DEAD.

[11] For SIN, Taking Occasion By The Commandment, Deceived Me, And By It Slew Me.

[17] Now Then It Is No More I That Do It, BUT SIN That Dwelleth In Me.

[22] For I Delight In The Law Of God After The Inward Man: BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS, Warring Against The Law Of My Mind, AND BRINGING ME INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS. O Wretched Man That I Am!

WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM The BODY OF THIS DEATH?

ROMANS 7:25

I Thank God Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. So Then With The Mind I Myself Serve The Law Of God; BUT WITH THE FLESH THE LAW OF SIN

ROMANS 7:6

BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN WE WERE HELD; THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER.

ROMANS 7:4

WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY THE BODY OF CHRIST; THAT YE SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO HIM WHO IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THAT WE SHOULD BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD.

JOHN 3:5-6

JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.

LUKE 6:43

FOR A GOOD TREE BRINGETH NOT FORTH CORRUPT FRUIT; NEITHER DOTH A CORRUPT TREE BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT.

ROMANS 6:18,20,22-23

BEING THEN MADE FREE FROM SIN, YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

[20] FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS.

[22] BUT NOW BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN, AND BECOME SERVANTS TO GOD, YE HAVE YOUR FRUIT UNTO HOLINESS, AND THE END EVERLASTING LIFE. FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

GALATIANS 5:22-25

BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH, MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE: AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW. AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS. IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT.

Donna K Purifoy

7/28/2022

SANCTIFIED!!! PERFECTED FOREVER!!!

HEBREWS 9:7,10-12

BUT INTO THE SECOND WENT THE HIGH PRIEST ALONE ONCE EVERY YEAR, NOT WITHOUT BLOOD, WHICH HE OFFERED FOR HIMSELF, AND FOR THE ERRORS OF THE PEOPLE:

[10] WHICH STOOD ONLY IN MEATS AND DRINKS, AND DIVERS WASHINGS, AND CARNAL ORDINANCES, IMPOSED ON THEM UNTIL THE TIME OF REFORMATION.

BUT CHRIST BEING COME AN HIGH PRIEST OF GOOD THINGS TO COME, BY A GREATER AND MORE PERFECT TABERNACLE, NOT MADE WITH HANDS, THAT IS TO SAY, NOT OF THIS BUILDING; NEITHER BY THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND CALVES, BUT BY HIS OWN BLOOD HE ENTERED IN ONCE INTO THE HOLY PLACE, HAVING OBTAINED ETERNAL REDEMPTION FOR US.

HEBREWS 9:13-15

FOR IF THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND OF GOATS, AND THE ASHES OF AN HEIFER SPRINKLING THE UNCLEAN, SANCTIFIETH TO THE PURIFYING OF THE FLESH:

HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT OFFERED HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO GOD, PURGE YOUR CONSCIENCE FROM DEAD WORKS TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD? AND FOR THIS CAUSE HE IS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, THAT BY MEANS OF DEATH, FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE TRANSGRESSIONS THAT WERE UNDER THE FIRST TESTAMENT, THEY WHICH ARE CALLED MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL INHERITANCE.

HEBREWS 9:22,24-26

AND ALMOST ALL THINGS ARE BY THE LAW PURGED WITH BLOOD; AND WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD IS NO REMISSION.

[24] FOR CHRIST IS NOT ENTERED INTO THE HOLY PLACES MADE WITH HANDS, WHICH ARE THE FIGURES OF THE TRUE; BUT INTO HEAVEN ITSELF, NOW TO APPEAR IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD FOR US: NOR YET THAT HE SHOULD OFFER HIMSELF OFTEN, AS THE HIGH PRIEST ENTERETH INTO THE HOLY PLACE EVERY YEAR WITH BLOOD OF OTHERS; FOR THEN MUST HE OFTEN HAVE SUFFERED SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: BUT NOW ONCE IN THE END OF THE WORLD HATH HE APPEARED TO PUT AWAY SIN BY THE SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF.

HEBREWS 10:1-3,11-12,14-23

FOR THE LAW HAVING A SHADOW OF GOOD THINGS TO COME, AND NOT THE VERY IMAGE OF THE THINGS, CAN NEVER WITH THOSE SACRIFICES WHICH THEY OFFERED YEAR BY YEAR CONTINUALLY MAKE THE COMERS THEREUNTO PERFECT. FOR THEN WOULD THEY NOT HAVE CEASED TO BE OFFERED?

BECAUSE THAT THE WORSHIPPERS ONCE PURGED SHOULD HAVE HAD NO MORE CONSCIENCE OF SINS. BUT IN THOSE SACRIFICES THERE IS A REMEMBRANCE AGAIN MADE OF SINS EVERY YEAR.

[11] AND EVERY PRIEST STANDETH DAILY MINISTERING AND OFFERING OFTENTIMES THE SAME SACRIFICES, WHICH CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY SINS:

BUT THIS MAN, AFTER HE HAD OFFERED ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS FOR EVER, SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD;

[14] FOR BY ONE OFFERING HE HATH PERFECTED FOR EVER THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED. WHEREOF THE HOLY GHOST ALSO IS A WITNESS TO US:

FOR AFTER THAT HE HAD SAID BEFORE, THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAITH THE LORD, I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR HEARTS, AND IN THEIR MINDS WILL I WRITE THEM; AND THEIR SINS AND INIQUITIES WILL I REMEMBER NO MORE.

NOW WHERE REMISSION OF THESE IS, THERE IS NO MORE OFFERING FOR SIN. HAVING THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BOLDNESS TO ENTER INTO THE HOLIEST BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS, BY A NEW AND LIVING WAY, WHICH HE HATH CONSECRATED FOR US, THROUGH THE VEIL, THAT IS TO SAY, HIS FLESH; AND HAVING AN HIGH PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD; LET US DRAW NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART IN FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH, HAVING OUR HEARTS SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL CONSCIENCE, AND OUR BODIES WASHED WITH PURE WATER. LET US HOLD FAST THE PROFESSION OF OUR FAITH WITHOUT WAVERING; (FOR HE IS FAITHFUL THAT PROMISED;)

JOHN 17:19

AND FOR THEIR SAKES I SANCTIFY MYSELF, THAT THEY ALSO MIGHT BE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE TRUTH.

HEBREWS 2:11

FOR BOTH HE THAT SANCTIFIETH AND THEY WHO ARE SANCTIFIED ARE ALL OF ONE: FOR WHICH CAUSE HE IS NOT ASHAMED TO CALL THEM BRETHREN,

1 CORINTHIANS 6:11

AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: BUT YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD

ACTS 26:18

TO OPEN THEIR EYES, AND TO TURN THEM FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, AND FROM THE POWER OF SATAN UNTO GOD, THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, AND INHERITANCE AMONG THEM WHICH ARE SANCTIFIED BY FAITH THAT IS IN ME.

ACTS 20:32

AND NOW, BRETHREN, I COMMEND YOU TO GOD, AND TO THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, WHICH IS ABLE TO BUILD YOU UP, AND TO GIVE YOU AN INHERITANCE AMONG ALL THEM WHICH ARE SANCTIFIED.

ROMANS 15:16

THAT I SHOULD BE THE MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE GENTILES, MINISTERING THE GOSPEL OF GOD, THAT THE OFFERING UP OF THE GENTILES MIGHT BE ACCEPTABLE, BEING SANCTIFIED BY THE HOLY GHOST.

ROMANS 8:1-4,9

THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND FOR SIN, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH: THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT.

[9] BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS.

Donna K Purifoy

7/25/2022

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT YOU HAVE BEEN PURGED FROM YOUR SINS?

2 Peter 1:9

But He That Lacketh These Things Is Blind, And Cannot See Afar Off,

AND HATH FORGOTTEN THAT HE WAS PURGED FROM HIS OLD SINS.

Hebrews 10:1-2

For The Law Having A Shadow Of Good Things To Come, And Not The Very Image Of The Things, Can Never With Those Sacrifices Which They Offered Year By Year Continually Make The Comers Thereunto Perfect. For Then Would They Not Have Ceased To Be Offered?

BECAUSE THAT THE WORSHIPPERS ONCE PURGED SHOULD HAVE HAD NO MORE CONSCIENCE OF SINS.

Why do you think that The Scriptures above say, ~"That They Have Forgotten That They Were Purged From Their Old Sins"~ and ~"Because Once You Have Been Purged From Your Sins You Should Not Even Have Any More Conscience Of Sins"~?

BECAUSE, AT SALVATION, you are Born Again Of The Spirit Of Christ. You are now Spirit, A New Creation In Christ Jesus, you are no longer that old wretched man, the sinner man, who is still in the flesh. BEHOLD ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW!!! You Are Now A Child Of God!!! You Have Been Sealed With The Holy Spirit Of Promise Unto The Day of Redemption! Jesus Christ has washed you clean with His Blood, and Sealed you with His Spirit!!! At Salvation, we confess that we are sinners in need of forgiveness from God by His Holy Savior, Jesus Christ! BEFORE SALVATION WE ALL HAVE SINS!! BUT WHEN WE CONFESSED OUR SINS, HE FORGAVE AND CLEANSED US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, FROM ALL OF THE SINS THAT ARE IN OUR PAST!!! WE NO LONGER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SIN!!! WE HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN!!!

AFTER SALVATION WE ARE NO LONGER A SINNER!!! HAVE YOU CONFESSED THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD? IF YOU HAVE, THEN JESUS DWELLS IN YOU!!!

1 CORINTHIANS 6:11

AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: BUT YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.

1 JOHN 1:7-9

BUT IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT, AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT, WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN. IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NO SIN, WE DECEIVE OURSELVES, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN US. IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.

1 JOHN 3:1-2,4-9

[4] WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN TRANSGRESSETH ALSO THE LAW: FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. AND YE KNOW THAT HE WAS MANIFESTED TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS; AND IN HIM IS NO SIN. WHOSOEVER ABIDETH IN HIM SINNETH NOT: WHOSOEVER SINNETH HATH NOT SEEN HIM, NEITHER KNOWN HIM. LITTLE CHILDREN, LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU: HE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS, EVEN AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS. HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; FOR THE DEVIL SINNETH FROM THE BEGINNING. FOR THIS PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD.

1 JOHN 4:15-17

WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD. AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HATH TO US. GOD IS LOVE; AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD, AND GOD IN HIM. HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT, THAT WE MAY HAVE BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.

Donna K Purifoy

7/24/2022

JESUS MADE US ACCEPTABLE TO THE MOST HOLY GOD!

THE LAW IS HOLY, JUST, AND GOOD, GIVEN BY THE HOLY GOD FOR MAN TO LIVE BY, SO MAN CAN HAVE ACCESS TO HIM.

ONCE A YEAR THE PRIEST HAD TO GO BY THE RULES TO BE CONSIDERED CLEAN ENOUGH TO COME BEFORE THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE HOLY GOD, TO OFFER ATONEMENT FOR SIN OFFERING.

LEVITICUS 16:34

AND THIS SHALL BE AN EVERLASTING STATUTE UNTO YOU, TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FOR ALL THEIR SINS ONCE A YEAR. AND HE DID AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES.

THAT IS WHY JESUS CAME, HE KEPT THE LAW PERFECTLY, ALL OF THE LAW, THE WASHINGS, ALL OF THE CEREMONIAL RITES, EVERYTHING PERFECTLY! WHEN HE SACRIFICED ON HIS CROSS, HE HAD FULFILLED EVERY JOT AND TITTLE OF THE LAW. THERE IS NOTHING ELSE THAT HAS TO BE DONE, HE DID ALL!!! AFTER WE ARE BORN AGAIN OF THE SPIRIT, WE HAVE THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT INSIDE OF US. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS HOW WE HAVE ACCESS AND THE ABILITY TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IN THE FIRST PLACE!

NOW WE ARE ABLE TO COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE. TO COME BEFORE THE MOST HOLY GOD, OURSELVES, AND MAKE OUR PETITIONS KNOWN. WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT CEREMONIAL CLEANSING, BECAUSE WE ARE CLEAN, BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST! WE ARE WASHED CLEAN AND SEALED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT! JESUS IMPUTED HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO US AT OUR SALVATION! HE TOOK OUR SINS AWAY AND GAVE US HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND MADE US A CHILD OF THE MOST HOLY GOD!!!

MATTHEW 5:17-18

THINK NOT THAT I AM COME TO DESTROY THE LAW, OR THE PROPHETS: I AM NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL.

FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE SHALL IN NO WISE PASS FROM THE LAW, TILL ALL BE FULFILLED

JOHN 17:4

I HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH: I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK WHICH THOU GAVEST ME TO DO.

JOHN 3:3-6

JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. NICODEMUS SAITH UNTO HIM, HOW CAN A MAN BE BORN WHEN HE IS OLD? CAN HE ENTER THE SECOND TIME INTO HIS MOTHER'S WOMB, AND BE BORN? JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.

HEBREWS 4:16

LET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE, THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY, AND FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED.

EPHESIANS 4:30

AND GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, WHEREBY YE ARE SEALED UNTO THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.

PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST!!!

Donna K Purifoy

7/24/2022

DO YOU DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST?

PSALM 37:4-5

DELIGHT THYSELF ALSO IN THE LORD; AND HE SHALL GIVE THEE THE DESIRES OF THINE HEART. COMMIT THY WAY UNTO THE LORD; TRUST ALSO IN HIM; AND HE SHALL BRING IT TO PASS.

MATTHEW 7:7-8

ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU; SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU: FOR EVERY ONE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH; AND HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH; AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SHALL BE OPENED.

LUKE 11:9-10

AND I SAY UNTO YOU, ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU; SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU. FOR EVERY ONE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH; AND HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH; AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SHALL BE OPENED.

JOHN 4:10,13-14

JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER, IF THOU KNEWEST THE GIFT OF GOD, AND WHO IT IS THAT SAITH TO THEE, GIVE ME TO DRINK; THOU WOULDEST HAVE ASKED OF HIM, AND HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEE LIVING WATER.

[13] JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER, WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THIS WATER SHALL THIRST AGAIN: BUT WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL NEVER THIRST; BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL BE IN HIM A WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE.

JOHN 16:23-28

AND IN THAT DAY YE SHALL ASK ME NOTHING. VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME, HE WILL GIVE IT YOU. HITHERTO HAVE YE ASKED NOTHING IN MY NAME: ASK, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE, THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE FULL. THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU IN PROVERBS: BUT THE TIME COMETH, WHEN I SHALL NO MORE SPEAK UNTO YOU IN PROVERBS, BUT I SHALL SHEW YOU PLAINLY OF THE FATHER. AT THAT DAY YE SHALL ASK IN MY NAME: AND I SAY NOT UNTO YOU, THAT I WILL PRAY THE FATHER FOR YOU: FOR THE FATHER HIMSELF LOVETH YOU, BECAUSE YE HAVE LOVED ME, AND HAVE BELIEVED THAT I CAME OUT FROM GOD. I CAME FORTH FROM THE FATHER, AND AM COME INTO THE WORLD: AGAIN, I LEAVE THE WORLD, AND GO TO THE FATHER.

ROMANS 6:16-18

KNOW YE NOT, THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES SERVANTS TO OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YE ARE TO WHOM YE OBEY; WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS? BUT GOD BE THANKED, THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, BUT YE HAVE OBEYED FROM THE HEART THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE WHICH WAS DELIVERED YOU. BEING THEN MADE FREE FROM SIN, YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

1 JOHN 4:9,15-17

IN THIS WAS MANIFESTED THE LOVE OF GOD TOWARD US, BECAUSE THAT GOD SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON INTO THE WORLD, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH HIM.

[15] WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD. AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HATH TO US. GOD IS LOVE; AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD, AND GOD IN HIM. HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT, THAT WE MAY HAVE BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.

1 JOHN 5:1

WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST IS BORN OF GOD: AND EVERY ONE THAT LOVETH HIM THAT BEGAT LOVETH HIM ALSO THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF HIM.

1 JOHN 5:13

THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN UNTO YOU THAT BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD; THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, AND THAT YE MAY BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD.

1 JOHN 5:20

AND WE KNOW THAT THE SON OF GOD IS COME, AND HATH GIVEN US AN UNDERSTANDING, THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM THAT IS TRUE, AND WE ARE IN HIM THAT IS TRUE, EVEN IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. THIS IS THE TRUE GOD, AND ETERNAL LIFE.

Donna K Purifoy

7/22/2022

HOW CAN WE KNOW?

HEBREWS 7:24-28

BUT THIS MAN, BECAUSE HE CONTINUETH EVER, HATH AN UNCHANGEABLE PRIESTHOOD. WHEREFORE HE IS ABLE ALSO TO SAVE THEM TO THE UTTERMOST THAT COME UNTO GOD BY HIM, SEEING HE EVER LIVETH TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR THEM. FOR SUCH AN HIGH PRIEST BECAME US, WHO IS HOLY, HARMLESS, UNDEFILED, SEPARATE FROM SINNERS, AND MADE HIGHER THAN THE HEAVENS; WHO NEEDETH NOT DAILY, AS THOSE HIGH PRIESTS, TO OFFER UP SACRIFICE, FIRST FOR HIS OWN SINS, AND THEN FOR THE PEOPLE'S: FOR THIS HE DID ONCE WHEN HE OFFERED UP HIMSELF. FOR THE LAW MAKETH MEN HIGH PRIESTS WHICH HAVE INFIRMITY; BUT THE WORD OF THE OATH, WHICH WAS SINCE THE LAW, MAKETH THE SON, WHO IS CONSECRATED FOR EVERMORE.

EPHESIANS 2:8,10

FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD:

[10] FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH BEFORE ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM.

JOHN 10:27-30

MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME: AND I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE, AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH, NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND. MY FATHER, WHICH GAVE THEM ME, IS GREATER THAN ALL; AND NO MAN IS ABLE TO PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY FATHER'S HAND. I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE.

JOHN 10:3-4

TO HIM THE PORTER OPENETH; AND THE SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE: AND HE CALLETH HIS OWN SHEEP BY NAME, AND LEADETH THEM OUT. AND WHEN HE PUTTETH FORTH HIS OWN SHEEP, HE GOETH BEFORE THEM, AND THE SHEEP FOLLOW HIM: FOR THEY KNOW HIS VOICE.

JOHN 10:14-15

I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD, AND KNOW MY SHEEP, AND AM KNOWN OF MINE. AS THE FATHER KNOWETH ME, EVEN SO, KNOW I THE FATHER: AND I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.

JOHN 14:17

EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT SEETH HIM NOT, NEITHER KNOWETH HIM: BUT YE KNOW HIM; FOR HE DWELLETH WITH YOU, AND SHALL BE IN YOU.

ROMANS 8:9

BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS.

1 CORINTHIANS 3:16

KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU?

1 JOHN 4:13,15-17

HEREBY KNOW WE THAT WE DWELL IN HIM, AND HE IN US, BECAUSE HE HATH GIVEN US OF HIS SPIRIT.

[15] WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD. AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HATH TO US. GOD IS LOVE, AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD, AND GOD IN HIM. HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT, THAT WE MAY HAVE BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.

ROMANS 8:16

THE SPIRIT ITSELF BEARETH WITNESS WITH OUR SPIRIT, THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD:

ROMANS 8:26-31

LIKEWISE THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPETH OUR INFIRMITIES: FOR WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE SHOULD PRAY FOR AS WE OUGHT: BUT THE SPIRIT ITSELF MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US WITH GROANINGS WHICH CANNOT BE UTTERED. AND HE THAT SEARCHETH THE HEARTS KNOWETH WHAT IS THE MIND OF THE SPIRIT, BECAUSE HE MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR THE SAINTS ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD. AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW, HE ALSO DID PREDESTINATE TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN. MOREOVER WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE, THEM HE ALSO CALLED: AND WHOM HE CALLED, THEM HE ALSO JUSTIFIED: AND WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, THEM HE ALSO GLORIFIED. WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY TO THESE THINGS? IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?

{NOW SOME SAY THAT YOU HAVE TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST WITH THE EVIDENCE OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES, HUMM, I CAN NOT SEEM TO FIND THAT SCRIPTURE, THEY QUOTE THOSE WORDS LIKE IT IS A HOLY SCRIPTURE IN THE HOLY BIBLE, BUT IT IS NOT.}

THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT BEING BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST.

MARK 1:8

I INDEED HAVE BAPTIZED YOU WITH WATER: BUT HE SHALL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST.

ACTS 1:5

FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED WITH WATER; BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST NOT MANY DAYS HENCE.

ACTS 11:16

THEN REMEMBERED I THE WORD OF THE LORD, HOW THAT HE SAID, JOHN INDEED BAPTIZED WITH WATER; BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST.

THESE ARE THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ABOUT THE HOLY GHOST COMING TO MAN THE PROMISE THAT JESUS MADE BEFORE HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN.

ACTS 2:1-11

AND WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST WAS FULLY COME, THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN ONE PLACE. AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN AS OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND, AND IT FILLED ALL THE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING. AND THERE APPEARED UNTO THEM CLOVEN TONGUES LIKE AS OF FIRE, AND IT SAT UPON EACH OF THEM. AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES, AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE. AND THERE WERE DWELLING AT JERUSALEM JEWS, DEVOUT MEN, OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN. NOW WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD, THE MULTITUDE CAME TOGETHER, AND WERE CONFOUNDED, BECAUSE THAT EVERY MAN HEARD THEM SPEAK IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE. AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND MARVELLED, SAYING ONE TO ANOTHER, BEHOLD, ARE NOT ALL THESE WHICH SPEAK GALILAEANS? AND HOW HEAR WE EVERY MAN IN OUR OWN TONGUE, WHEREIN WE WERE BORN? PARTHIANS, AND MEDES, AND ELAMITES, AND THE DWELLERS IN MESOPOTAMIA, AND IN JUDAEA, AND CAPPADOCIA, IN PONTUS, AND ASIA, PHRYGIA, AND PAMPHYLIA, IN EGYPT, AND IN THE PARTS OF LIBYA ABOUT CYRENE, AND STRANGERS OF ROME, JEWS AND PROSELYTES, CRETES AND ARABIANS, WE DO HEAR THEM SPEAK IN OUR TONGUES THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD.

{THE HOLY GHOST CAME WITH "CLOVEN TONGUES" WHICH MEANS DIVIDED, THE WORDS SPOKEN CAME OUT IN MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE. EVERYONE THERE HEARD THESE HEBREW MEN SPEAKING THEIR LANGUAGE. NO ONE WAS LEFT OUT! EVERYONE HEARD THEM SPEAKING THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD!!!}

THIS IS WHERE THE GENTILES, RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST,

ACTS 10:44-47

WHILE PETER YET SPAKE THESE WORDS, THE HOLY GHOST FELL ON ALL THEM WHO HEARD THE WORD. AND THEY OF THE CIRCUMCISION WHICH BELIEVED WERE ASTONISHED, AS MANY AS CAME WITH PETER, BECAUSE THAT ON THE GENTILES ALSO WAS POURED OUT THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES, AND MAGNIFY GOD. THEN ANSWERED PETER, CAN ANY MAN FORBID WATER, THAT THESE SHOULD NOT BE BAPTIZED, WHICH HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST AS WELL AS WE?

ACTS 19:1-7

AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, WHILE APOLLOS WAS AT CORINTH, PAUL HAVING PASSED THROUGH THE UPPER COASTS CAME TO EPHESUS: AND FINDING CERTAIN DISCIPLES, HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE BE ANY HOLY GHOST. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, UNTO WHAT THEN WERE YE BAPTIZED? AND THEY SAID, UNTO JOHN'S BAPTISM. THEN SAID PAUL, JOHN VERILY BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE, SAYING UNTO THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE ON HIM WHICH SHOULD COME AFTER HIM, THAT IS, ON CHRIST JESUS. WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS. AND WHEN PAUL HAD LAID HIS HANDS UPON THEM, THE HOLY GHOST CAME ON THEM; AND THEY SPAKE WITH TONGUES, AND PROPHESIED. AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE.

{THIS IS WHERE THE RUB BEGINS WITH SOME, BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT -YOU- HAVE TO SPEAK IN TONGUES, WHEN -YOU- ARE BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST. THE PEOPLE IN THE SCRIPTURES ABOVE WERE JEWS, THEY ARE CALLED "THE CIRCUMCISION" THEY BELIEVED IN JESUS. THEY BELIEVED THAT THE GENTILES RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST BECAUSE THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK IN TONGUES MAGNIFYING GOD. THOSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION UNDERSTOOD AND BELIEVED BECAUSE THEY HEARD THE GENTILES SPEAK IN THE LANGUAGE OF HEBREW. THE SECOND GROUP OF THE TWELVE, DID NOT KNOW JESUS. THEY ONLY KNEW WHAT JOHN HAD SAID, SO WHEN PAUL CAME TO THEM THEY RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST AS WELL AS THE OTHERS. THESE MEN SPOKE IN TONGUES AND PROPHESIED. PAUL BEING HEBREW, THESE MEN WERE OF CORINTH, THEY SPOKE GREEK, A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE THAN PAUL'S HEBREW, BUT PAUL HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD THEM AND UNDERSTOOD THEM AS THEY GLORIFIED GOD AND PROPHESIED. PAUL KNEW THAT THESE GREEK MEN HAD RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, BECAUSE THEY SPOKE IN THE SAME LANGUAGE OF TONGUE THAT HE SPOKE. MOST OF US TODAY ALL GATHER TOGETHER WITH PEOPLE WHO SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE, SO THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANOTHER TONGUE, LANGUAGE AT SALVATION. WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE PROOF. MOST HAVE HEARD OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE HOLY GHOST HERE IN AMERICA. EVEN IF SOME HAVE A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, THE ONE THAT IS SPEAKING TO THEM WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM MAGNIFYING GOD AT THEIR SALVATION! IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, DON'T WE WITNESS TO THOSE THAT HAVE THE SAME LANGUAGE AS OUR OWN?}

1 CORINTHIANS 14:22

WHEREFORE TONGUES ARE FOR A SIGN, NOT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT: BUT PROPHESYING SERVETH NOT FOR THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT, BUT FOR THEM WHICH BELIEVE.

{HAVE PATIENCE WITH ME WHILE I REITERATE, WITH THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS,}

ROMANS 8:9

BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS.

{NOW, THIS IS THE SCRIPTURES ON SPEAKING IN TONGUES IN THE CHURCH MEETINGS. AS YOU SEE IT ALL IS TO EDIFY THE WHOLE CHURCH NOT JUST YOURSELF.}

1 CORINTHIANS 14:3-9

BUT HE THAT PROPHESIETH SPEAKETH UNTO MEN TO EDIFICATION, AND EXHORTATION, AND COMFORT. HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE EDIFIETH HIMSELF; BUT HE THAT PROPHESIETH EDIFIETH THE CHURCH. I WOULD THAT YE ALL SPAKE WITH TONGUES, BUT RATHER THAT YE PROPHESIED: FOR GREATER IS HE THAT PROPHESIETH THAN HE THAT SPEAKETH WITH TONGUES, EXCEPT HE INTERPRET, THAT THE CHURCH MAY RECEIVE EDIFYING. NOW, BRETHREN, IF I COME UNTO YOU SPEAKING WITH TONGUES, WHAT SHALL I PROFIT YOU, EXCEPT I SHALL SPEAK TO YOU EITHER BY REVELATION, OR BY KNOWLEDGE, OR BY PROPHESYING, OR BY DOCTRINE?

AND EVEN THINGS WITHOUT LIFE GIVING SOUND, WHETHER PIPE OR HARP, EXCEPT THEY GIVE A DISTINCTION IN THE SOUNDS, HOW SHALL IT BE KNOWN WHAT IS PIPED OR HARPED? FOR IF THE TRUMPET GIVE AN UNCERTAIN SOUND, WHO SHALL PREPARE HIMSELF TO THE BATTLE? SO LIKEWISE YE, EXCEPT YE UTTER BY THE TONGUE WORDS EASY TO BE UNDERSTOOD, HOW SHALL IT BE KNOWN WHAT IS SPOKEN? FOR YE SHALL SPEAK INTO THE AIR.

Re-read - 1CORINTHIANS 14:9

SO LIKEWISE YE, EXCEPT YE UTTER BY THE TONGUE WORDS EASY TO BE UNDERSTOOD, HOW SHALL IT BE KNOWN WHAT IS SPOKEN? FOR YE SHALL SPEAK INTO THE AIR.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:22

WHEREFORE TONGUES ARE FOR A SIGN, NOT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT: BUT PROPHESYING SERVETH NOT FOR THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT, BUT FOR THEM WHICH BELIEVE.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:39-40

WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, COVET TO PROPHESY, AND FORBID NOT TO SPEAK WITH TONGUES. LET ALL THINGS BE DONE DECENTLY AND IN ORDER.

{THESE ARE THE SCRIPTURES ABOUT THE "UNKNOWN TONGUE" WHICH IS A PRAYER BETWEEN YOU AND GOD ALONE, BUT AS YOU ALSO WILL SEE IF YOU DO THIS IN THE CHURCH MEETING THE RULES STILL APPLY.}

1 CORINTHIANS 14:14-15

FOR IF I PRAY IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYETH, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL. WHAT IS IT THEN? I WILL PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL PRAY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO: I WILL SING WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL SING WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:19

YET IN THE CHURCH I HAD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WORDS WITH MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT BY MY VOICE I MIGHT TEACH OTHERS ALSO, THAN TEN THOUSAND WORDS IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:2

FOR HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE SPEAKETH NOT UNTO MEN, BUT UNTO GOD: FOR NO MAN UNDERSTANDETH.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:28

BUT IF THERE BE NO INTERPRETER, LET HIM KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCH; AND LET HIM SPEAK TO HIMSELF, AND TO GOD.

{SOME SAY THEY ARE TALKING TO GOD, WHEN THY ARE TALKING AND THERE IS NO INTERPRETER, BUT I SAY IF I CAN HEAR YOU THEN IT IS NO LONGER JUST BETWEEN YOU AND GOD, IT IS NOW BETWEEN YOU, GOD, AND ME.}

1 CORINTHIANS 14:4

HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE EDIFIETH HIMSELF; BUT HE THAT PROPHESIETH EDIFIETH THE CHURCH.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:13

WHEREFORE LET HIM THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE PRAY THAT HE MAY INTERPRET.

BUT KNOW,

PHILIPPIANS 2:11

AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.

ROMANS 14:11

FOR IT IS WRITTEN, AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.

1JOHN 5:12-15

HE THAT HATH THE SON HATH LIFE; AND HE THAT HATH NOT THE SON OF GOD HATH NOT LIFE. THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN UNTO YOU THAT BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD; THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, AND THAT YE MAY BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD. AND THIS IS THE CONFIDENCE THAT WE HAVE IN HIM, THAT, IF WE ASK ANY THING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, HE HEARETH US: AND IF WE KNOW THAT HE HEAR US, WHATSOEVER WE ASK, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE PETITIONS THAT WE DESIRED OF HIM.

Donna K Purifoy

7/22/2022

YOU KNOW, I GET CONCERNED WHEN I HEAR SOME SO-CALLED PREACHERS PREACH.

I think am heartbroken about their knowledge of The Word Of God. They say that they are spiritual and spirit-filled and that they desire everyone to be like them, speaking and praying in tongues, being slain in the spirit, and laughing. But to hear their sermons makes me wonder how can they be spiritual when they don't even understand Spiritual things. They claim to be Born Again, but say that they are still in the flesh. They say that they are saved by Grace, but they think that you can lose your Salvation. They say that they speak in tongues but they don't understand why and what the tongues are for. As I write this I realize how sad this is, that this is actually happening in The Church. This is so sad. Now that he has been rebuked Scripturally, he has said that he is not going to leave. He thinks that because the number of his followers outnumbers the original members of the Church, he doesn't have to worry. I'm not concerned about that too much, because had the ones that voted him in, had known what all his beliefs were, he would have never been voted in the first place. The original members are from the Baptist denomination. We are all well acquainted with the Baptists and their beliefs. I have been a Christian for over forty years and twenty of those years were in the Baptist denomination. I have been all over going to revivals, ladies retreats, and tent meetings, and not one of them ever spoke in tongues, never did they start laughing uncontrollably, and never was anyone slain in the spirit. The Baptists didn't really want you to raise your hands, they will say Amen, but never ever did they do anything near those things that I have mentioned. He knew that all of our backgrounds were Baptist when he came in view of a call. He never once mentioned that he believes that you are Baptized in The Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. That is the Holiness, Assembly of God, or Pentecostal beliefs, not Baptist. What some of us call reserved and reverence, he calls dead. He made a point to tell everyone on Facebook that we were dead when he got there and he brought The Holy Spirit to us. I have to ask, is one person more spiritual than another, because one runs around the room shouting, or one falls out in the floor laughing, are either of those more Spiritual than the one that just sits there with their head bowed and cries when The Holy Spirit is moving in them? There can always be an outward show and not a real heart change. I feel like he was deceptive from the very beginning. He talked about Spirit-filled Baptist, which is almost an oxymoron in itself. Had he expounded on the word Spirit-filled we could have asked more questions, we could have gotten his full definition, and we could have let him that day that he was not a good fit for us and we wouldn't be in this position today. I get back to how very sad this all is because we are the people who are supposed to know what True Love Is because we know The Love That God Has by His Sending His Loving Son To Die For Us. I know that I can leave because I know the truth and will be able to do fine without hearing him preach ever again. I can not help but wonder about those though, that I would leave behind. What about them? Should I stay and fight the good fight of Faith, or just walk away? If I walk away from them, who will be there to help them along their way? I do know though that the people that I'm concerned about, did come from the same Church that he came from, they know him and his beliefs they may even share in them. Even knowing this, I can't just leave the sheep under the wolf's control. I have a certain and clear understanding of The Word of God, and I know what he is doing is flat-out wrong. I also am a woman and therein lies my dilemma, as a woman, I am to learn in silence and keep quiet in the Church. I don't resent my position because this is the way that God has created me to be. This is all His design for His Devine Purpose. When I say fight the good fight of Faith, I mean Prayer! I Pray for The Lord to open the eyes of all of the people concerned. Beseech God for them for His protection, on their behalf, because they truly don't know that what he is doing is wrong. Pray, Pray, Pray because this is going to take The Mighty Work Of God To Fix This!

Donna K Purifoy

7/22/2022

SOME THINK THEY CAN LOSE THEIR SALVATION, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THEY READ A SCRIPTURE.

John 15:7

IF YE ABIDE IN ME, AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, YE SHALL ASK WHAT YE WILL, AND IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO YOU.

They read "If Ye Abide In Me" that certain few words make them believe that it is up to them, by their work to stay Saved. They believe that it is up to them to continue or abide in Jesus to be Saved. Evidently, they think that they can come and go inside Jesus as they please. They can abide, live, and dwell when they want to.

I have to ask them, Have You Confessed That Jesus Is The Son Of God?

1 John 4:15

WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD.

I have to ask them, Have You Been Born Again Of The Spirit Of God?

John 3:3,5-6

JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

[5] JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.

I have to ask them, Have You The Spirit Of Christ In You?

Romans 8:9

BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS.

I also have to ask them, Have You Been Sealed With The Holy Spirit?

Ephesians 4:30

AND GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, WHEREBY YE ARE SEALED UNTO THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.

I have to ask them is Salvation of yourself?

Ephesians 2:8

FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD:

I have to ask them, has your sin debt been paid for? Have you received The Gift Of Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ?

Romans 6:23

FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

I have to ask them, Are You A Child Of God?

Romans 8:16

THE SPIRIT ITSELF BEARETH WITNESS WITH OUR SPIRIT, THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD:

I have to ask them, Are You Of God?

1 John 4:4-6

YE ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM: BECAUSE GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD. THEY ARE OF THE WORLD:

THEREFORE SPEAK THEY OF THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD HEARETH THEM. WE ARE OF GOD: HE THAT KNOWETH GOD HEARETH US; HE THAT IS NOT OF GOD HEARETH NOT US. HEREBY KNOW WE THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, AND THE SPIRIT OF ERROR.

I have to ask them, Are You Truly In The Faith?

2 Corinthians 13:5

EXAMINE YOURSELVES, WHETHER YE BE IN THE FAITH; PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES. KNOW YE NOT YOUR OWN SELVES, HOW THAT JESUS CHRIST IS IN YOU, EXCEPT YE BE REPROBATES?

1 John 3:1-10

BEHOLD, WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HATH BESTOWED UPON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD: THEREFORE THE WORLD KNOWETH US NOT, BECAUSE IT KNEW HIM NOT. BELOVED, NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD, AND IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE: BUT WE KNOW THAT, WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS. AND EVERY MAN THAT HATH THIS HOPE IN HIM PURIFIETH HIMSELF, EVEN AS HE IS PURE. WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN TRANSGRESSETH ALSO THE LAW: FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. AND YE KNOW THAT HE WAS MANIFESTED TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS; AND IN HIM IS NO SIN. WHOSOEVER ABIDETH IN HIM SINNETH NOT: WHOSOEVER SINNETH HATH NOT SEEN HIM, NEITHER KNOWN HIM. LITTLE CHILDREN, LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU: HE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS, EVEN AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS. HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; FOR THE DEVIL SINNETH FROM THE BEGINNING. FOR THIS PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: WHOSOEVER DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER.

PLEASE STOP LISTENING TO PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT!

Donna K Purifoy

7/21/2022

HOW SHALL NOT THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT BE RATHER GLORIOUS?

2 CORINTHIANS 3:11-18

FOR IF THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY WAS GLORIOUS, MUCH MORE THAT WHICH REMAINETH IS GLORIOUS. SEEING THEN THAT WE HAVE SUCH HOPE, WE USE GREAT PLAINNESS OF SPEECH: AND NOT AS MOSES, WHICH PUT A VAIL OVER HIS FACE, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL COULD NOT STEDFASTLY LOOK TO THE END OF THAT WHICH IS ABOLISHED: BUT THEIR MINDS WERE BLINDED: FOR UNTIL THIS DAY REMAINETH THE SAME VAIL UNTAKEN AWAY IN THE READING OF THE OLD TESTAMENT; WHICH VAIL IS DONE AWAY IN CHRIST. BUT EVEN UNTO THIS DAY, WHEN MOSES IS READ, THE VAIL IS UPON THEIR HEART. NEVERTHELESS WHEN IT SHALL TURN TO THE LORD, THE VAIL SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY. NOW THE LORD IS THAT SPIRIT: AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY. BUT WE ALL, WITH OPEN FACE BEHOLDING AS IN A GLASS THE GLORY OF THE LORD, ARE CHANGED INTO THE SAME IMAGE FROM GLORY TO GLORY, EVEN AS BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:3-8

FORASMUCH AS YE ARE MANIFESTLY DECLARED TO BE THE EPISTLE OF CHRIST MINISTERED BY US, WRITTEN NOT WITH INK, BUT WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD; NOT IN TABLES OF STONE, BUT IN FLESHY TABLES OF THE HEART. AND SUCH TRUST HAVE WE THROUGH CHRIST TO GOD-WARD: NOT THAT WE ARE SUFFICIENT OF OURSELVES TO THINK ANY THING AS OF OURSELVES; BUT OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD; WHO ALSO HATH MADE US ABLE MINISTERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT; NOT OF THE LETTER, BUT OF THE SPIRIT: FOR THE LETTER KILLETH, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIFE. BUT IF THE MINISTRATION OF DEATH, WRITTEN AND ENGRAVEN IN STONES, WAS GLORIOUS, SO THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL COULD NOT STEDFASTLY BEHOLD THE FACE OF MOSES FOR THE GLORY OF HIS COUNTENANCE; WHICH GLORY WAS TO BE DONE AWAY: HOW SHALL NOT THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT BE RATHER GLORIOUS?

MATTHEW 11:13

FOR ALL THE PROPHETS AND THE LAW PROPHESIED UNTIL JOHN.

LUKE 16:16

THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN: SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT.

ROMANS 8:1-5,9-10

[9] BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS. AND IF CHRIST BE IN YOU, THE BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN; BUT THE SPIRIT IS LIFE BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

1 CORINTHIANS 2:12-16

NOW WE HAVE RECEIVED, NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, BUT THE SPIRIT WHICH IS OF GOD; THAT WE MIGHT KNOW THE THINGS THAT ARE FREELY GIVEN TO US OF GOD. WHICH THINGS ALSO WE SPEAK, NOT IN THE WORDS WHICH MAN'S WISDOM TEACHETH, BUT WHICH THE HOLY GHOST TEACHETH; COMPARING SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH SPIRITUAL. BUT THE NATURAL MAN RECEIVETH NOT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD: FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS UNTO HIM: NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. BUT HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL JUDGETH ALL THINGS, YET HE HIMSELF IS JUDGED OF NO MAN. FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT HIM? BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.

1 JOHN 4:1-19

BELOVED, BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT, BUT TRY THE SPIRITS WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD: BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD. HEREBY KNOW YE THE SPIRIT OF GOD: EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH IS OF GOD: AND EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH NOT THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH IS NOT OF GOD: AND THIS IS THAT SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, WHEREOF YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT SHOULD COME; AND EVEN NOW ALREADY IS IT IN THE WORLD. YE ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM: BECAUSE GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD. THEY ARE OF THE WORLD: THEREFORE SPEAK THEY OF THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD HEARETH THEM. WE ARE OF GOD: HE THAT KNOWETH GOD HEARETH US; HE THAT IS NOT OF GOD HEARETH NOT US. HEREBY KNOW WE THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, AND THE SPIRIT OF ERROR. BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER: FOR LOVE IS OF GOD; AND EVERY ONE THAT LOVETH IS BORN OF GOD, AND KNOWETH GOD. HE THAT LOVETH NOT KNOWETH NOT GOD; FOR GOD IS LOVE. IN THIS WAS MANIFESTED THE LOVE OF GOD TOWARD US, BECAUSE THAT GOD SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON INTO THE WORLD, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH HIM. HEREIN IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US, AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS. BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT ALSO TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD DWELLETH IN US, AND HIS LOVE IS PERFECTED IN US. HEREBY KNOW WE THAT WE DWELL IN HIM, AND HE IN US, BECAUSE HE HATH GIVEN US OF HIS SPIRIT. AND WE HAVE SEEN AND DO TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER SENT THE SON TO BE THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD. WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD. AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HATH TO US. GOD IS LOVE; AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD, AND GOD IN HIM. HEREIN IS OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT, THAT WE MAY HAVE BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE; BUT PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR: BECAUSE FEAR HATH TORMENT. HE THAT FEARETH IS NOT MADE PERFECT IN LOVE. WE LOVE HIM, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US.

GALATIANS 5:24-25

AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS. IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT.

Donna K Purifoy

7/17/2022

READ YOUR BIBLE FOR YOURSELF!!!

Hebrews 4:12

For The Word Of God Is Quick, And Powerful, And Sharper Than Any Twoedged Sword, Piercing Even To The Dividing Asunder Of Soul And Spirit, And Of The Joints And Marrow, And Is A Discerner Of The Thoughts And Intents Of The Heart.

Romans 8:29

For Whom He Did Foreknow, He Also Did Predestinate To Be Conformed To The Image Of His Son, That He Might Be The Firstborn Among Many Brethren.

Romans 8:9

But Ye Are Not In The Flesh, But In The Spirit, If So Be That The Spirit Of God Dwell In You. Now If Any Man Have Not The Spirit Of Christ, He Is None Of His.

Romans 9:21

Hath Not The Potter Power Over The Clay, Of The Same Lump To Make One Vessel Unto Honour, And Another Unto Dishonour?

Just because you are Saved does not mean that God has finished working in you. At Your Salvation Is When He Starts His Work! Now That The Holy Spirit has moved into you, He then is able to The Word of God to divide and cut out the ways in you that are wrong and against Him. You are His clay and He is making and molding you into what He wants you to be. He is conforming you into the image of Jesus Christ, By The Very Spirit That Is In Jesus Christ. The Spirit Of Christ Is using The Word Of God that you read and hear to conform you into the vessel that is pleasing to God.

BEWARE!!! YOU MUST READ YOUR BIBLE AND BE VERY SELECTIVE OF THE PREACHERS AND TEACHERS THAT YOU LISTEN TO. DON'T BE MISLED BY SOMEONE THAT IS TEACHING AND PREACHING IN ERROR. SOME ARE JUST UNLEARNED, SOME ARE WILLFULLY IGNORANT, SOME ARE JUST HIRELINGS THAT ARE IN IT FOR THE MONEY, BUT SOME ARE WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING!!! JUST REMEMBER IT IS ALL ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND HIS PERFECT SACRIFICE!!!

1 JOHN 2:20,27

BUT YE HAVE AN UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE, AND YE KNOW ALL THINGS.

[27] BUT THE ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU, AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU: BUT AS THE SAME ANOINTING TEACHETH YOU OF ALL THINGS, AND IS TRUTH, AND IS NO LIE, AND EVEN AS IT HATH TAUGHT YOU, YE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM.

READ YOUR BIBLE FOR YOURSELF!!!

Donna K Purifoy

7/9/2022

AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS!!!

GALATIANS 5:24

AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS.

1 John 4:15-18

Whosoever Shall Confess That Jesus Is The Son Of God, God Dwelleth In Him, And He In God. And We Have Known And Believed The Love That God Hath To Us. God Is Love; And He That Dwelleth In Love Dwelleth In God, And God In Him. Herein Is Our Love Made Perfect, That We May Have Boldness In The Day Of Judgment: Because As He Is, So Are We In This World. There Is No Fear In Love; But Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear: Because Fear Hath Torment. He That Feareth Is Not Made Perfect In Love.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God Hath Not Given Us The Spirit Of Fear; But Of Power, And Of Love, And Of A Sound Mind.

Romans 8:14-17

For As Many As Are Led By The Spirit Of God, They Are The Sons Of God. For Ye Have Not Received The Spirit Of Bondage Again To Fear; But Ye Have Received The Spirit Of Adoption, Whereby We Cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Itself Beareth Witness With Our Spirit, That We Are The Children Of God: And If Children, Then Heirs; Heirs Of God, And Joint-heirs With Christ; If So Be That We Suffer With Him, That We May Be Also Glorified Together.

Galatians 4:3-7

Even So We, When We Were Children, Were In Bondage Under The Elements Of The World: But When The Fulness Of The Time Was Come, God Sent Forth His Son, Made Of A Woman, Made Under The Law, To Redeem Them That Were Under The Law, That We Might Receive The Adoption Of Sons. And Because Ye Are Sons, God Hath Sent Forth The Spirit Of His Son Into Your Hearts, Crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore Thou Art No More A Servant, But A Son; And If A Son, Then An Heir Of God Through Christ.

Galatians 4:9-11

But Now, After That Ye Have Known God, Or Rather Are Known Of God, How Turn Ye Again To The Weak And Beggarly Elements, Whereunto Ye Desire Again To Be In Bondage? Ye Observe Days, And Months, And Times, And Years. I Am Afraid Of You, Lest I Have Bestowed Upon You Labour In Vain.

Galatians 5:1-8

Stand Fast Therefore In The Liberty Wherewith Christ Hath Made Us Free, And Be Not Entangled Again With The Yoke Of Bondage. Behold, I Paul Say Unto You, That If Ye Be Circumcised, Christ Shall Profit You Nothing. FOR I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN THAT IS CIRCUMCISED, THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO DO THE WHOLE LAW. Christ Is Become Of No Effect Unto You, Whosoever Of You Are Justified By The Law; Ye Are Fallen From Grace. For We Through The Spirit Wait For The Hope Of Righteousness By Faith. For In Jesus Christ Neither Circumcision Availeth Any Thing, Nor Uncircumcision; But Faith Which Worketh By Love. Ye Did Run Well; Who Did Hinder You That Ye Should Not Obey The Truth? This Persuasion Cometh Not Of Him That Calleth You.

Romans 6:14,17-18

For Sin Shall Not Have Dominion Over You: For Ye Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace.

[17] But God Be Thanked, That Ye Were The Servants Of Sin, But Ye Have Obeyed From The Heart That Form Of Doctrine Which Was Delivered You. Being Then Made Free From Sin, Ye Became The Servants Of Righteousness.

COME ON PEOPLE, LET'S UNDERSTAND WHAT THESE HOLY SCRIPTURES ARE SAYING, IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN, THEN YOU ARE SPIRIT!!! HAVE THAT MIND AND HEART SET!!! STOP VACILLATING, STOP GOING BACK AND FORTH, YOU ARE NO LONGER FLESH!!! MAKE UP YOUR MIND AND HEART NOW, AND BE SETTLED AND ROOTED IN THE FAITH, NOT THE LAW!!!

Donna K Purifoy

7/9/2022

ARE YOU STILL THE OLD WRETCHED MAN, OR ARE YOU RIGHTEOUS?

Romans 4:15

Because The Law Worketh Wrath: For Where No Law Is, There Is No Transgression.

1 John 3:4

Whosoever Committeth Sin Transgresseth Also The Law: For Sin Is The Transgression Of The Law.

1 Corinthians 15:56

The Sting Of Death Is Sin; And The Strength Of Sin Is The Law.

Romans 3:20

Therefore By The Deeds Of The Law There Shall No Flesh Be Justified In His Sight: For By The Law Is The Knowledge Of Sin.

Romans 7:8-21

But Sin, Taking Occasion By The Commandment, Wrought In Me All Manner Of Concupiscence. For Without The Law Sin Was Dead. For I Was Alive Without The Law Once: But When The Commandment Came, Sin Revived, And I Died. And The Commandment, Which Was Ordained To Life, I Found To Be Unto Death. For Sin, Taking Occasion By The Commandment, Deceived Me, And By It Slew Me. Wherefore The Law Is Holy, And The Commandment Holy, And Just, And Good. Was Then That Which Is Good Made Death Unto Me? God Forbid. But Sin, That It Might Appear Sin, Working Death In Me By That Which Is Good; That Sin By The Commandment Might Become Exceeding Sinful. For We Know That The Law Is Spiritual: But I Am Carnal, Sold Under Sin. For That Which I Do I Allow Not: For What I Would, That Do I Not; But What I Hate, That Do I. If Then I Do That Which I Would Not, I Consent Unto The Law That It Is Good. Now Then It Is No More I That Do It, But Sin That Dwelleth In Me. For I Know That In Me (That Is, In My Flesh,) Dwelleth No Good Thing: For To Will Is Present With Me; But How To Perform That Which Is Good I Find Not. For The Good That I Would I Do Not: But The Evil Which I Would Not, That I Do. Now If I Do That I Would Not, It Is No More I That Do It, But Sin That Dwelleth In Me. I Find Then A Law, That, When I Would Do Good, Evil Is Present With Me.

Romans 8:1-4,9-10

There Is Therefore Now No Condemnation To Them Which Are In Christ Jesus, Who Walk Not After The Flesh, But After The Spirit For The Law Of The Spirit Of Life In Christ Jesus Hath Made Me Free From The Law Of Sin And Death. For What The Law Could Not Do, In That It Was Weak Through The Flesh, God Sending His Own Son In The Likeness Of Sinful Flesh, And For Sin, Condemned Sin In The Flesh: That The Righteousness Of The Law Might Be Fulfilled In Us, Who Walk Not After The Flesh, But After The Spirit.

Romans 6:14,17-18,20,22-23

For Sin Shall Not Have Dominion Over You: For Ye Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace.

[20] For When Ye Were The Servants Of Sin, Ye Were Free From Righteousness. But Now Being Made Free From Sin, And Become Servants To God, Ye Have Your Fruit Unto Holiness, And The End Everlasting Life. For The Wages Of Sin Is Death; But The Gift Of God Is Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

1 John 3:5-9

And Ye Know That He Was Manifested To Take Away Our Sins; And In Him Is No Sin. Whosoever Abideth In Him Sinneth Not: Whosoever Sinneth Hath Not Seen Him, Neither Known Him. Little Children, Let No Man Deceive You: He That Doeth Righteousness Is Righteous, Even As He Is Righteous. He That Committeth Sin Is Of The Devil; For The Devil Sinneth From The Beginning. For This Purpose The Son Of God Was Manifested, That He Might Destroy The Works Of The Devil. Whosoever Is Born Of God Doth Not Commit Sin; For His Seed Remaineth In Him: And He Cannot Sin, Because He Is Born Of God.

Donna K Purifoy

7/6/2022

ARE YOU MORE EXCITED ABOUT THE CREATION, INSTEAD OF THE CREATOR?

ROMANS 1:25

WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN

People get excited over things that God does and not God.

For instance, The Day Of Pentecost, the tongues instead of The Holy Spirit Himself. The Holy Spirit came and made men understand in their own tongue the Words Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ. Jesus said that The Holy Spirit speaks what He Hears. The Holy Spirit was cloven tongues. (Cloven means split or divided in two). Peter was speaking in Hebrew and other nationalities heard in their natural tongue or language, yet tongues is what everyone is excited about. The Holy Spirit came into men to live inside of men, so that men could teach Jesus for the first time to every nation, yet the method of cloven tongues, the manner that GOD used, is most important to some. That's all they preach about when they preach The Book Acts, Chapter 2.

What about the feeding of five thousand or more, yes that is also a true miracle of GOD, but look at The Miracle Maker, not the result of it.

What about stilling the troubled waters, He Made The Water, He Made The Wind. He can control them because He Created them.

Translation, is also something He does, a boat, other people, or Himself to other places, He Created time, earth, space, air, motion, gravity, everything.

What about healing the sick, raising the dead, of course, He can Heal, Raise The Dead, He Created All The People, He Created All Life. Those that can do these, HAVE RECEIVED THE POWER TO DO SO, BY GOD, IT IS NOT OF YOU.

Look at THE GOD, not the result. We have to understand that THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE THE FULLNESS OF GOD! WHEN JESUS CAME HE TAUGHT US ABOUT THE FATHER, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES HE TEACHES US ABOUT JESUS. WHEN WE LEARN ABOUT ALL THREE, WE KNOW THE FULLNESS OF GOD. WHEN JESUS CAME IF HE ONLY TAUGHT ABOUT HIMSELF, WE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE FATHER. IF THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME AND TALKED ONLY OF HIMSELF THEN WE WOULD NOT KNOW ABOUT JESUS. IT IS ALL IN ORDER SO THAT WE CAN KNOW THE FULLNESS OF GOD, NOT IN JUST PART.

SAME WITH THE GIFTS OF GOD, PEOPLE FOCUS ON THE GIFTS AND NOT THE GIFT GIVER! IT IS ALL ABOUT GOD! IT IS ALL ABOUT GLORIFYING HIM AND MAKING US CLOSER TO HIM. IT IS NOT ABOUT MAKING OURSELVES SHINE OR BECOMING FULL OF PRIDE. GIFTS ARE JUST THAT, GIFTS. THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS DIFFERENT, WE GROW THE FRUIT INSIDE OF US BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS DOING HIS WORK IN US. THE FRUIT IS THE CHANGE THAT GOD MAKES INSIDE OF US, ETERNALLY.

GIFTS ARE TO HELP OTHERS GROW IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FULLNESS OF GOD! GIFTS ARE TO EDIFY THE CHURCH. IT IS NOT SO OTHERS WILL THINK THAT -WE- ARE SPIRITUAL, BUT, IT IS TO SHOW THE POWER OF GOD! IT IS ALL ABOUT HIM, NOT YOU. ANYTIME YOU SAY "I" YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF, WE ARE TO TEACH AND PREACH GOD FOR ALL TO BE EDIFIED!!!

JOHN 16:13-14

HOWBEIT WHEN HE, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, IS COME, HE WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH: FOR HE SHALL NOT SPEAK OF HIMSELF; BUT WHATSOEVER HE SHALL HEAR, THAT SHALL HE SPEAK: AND HE WILL SHEW YOU THINGS TO COME. HE SHALL GLORIFY ME: FOR HE SHALL RECEIVE OF MINE, AND SHALL SHEW IT UNTO YOU.

GALATIANS 5:22-25

BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH, MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE: AGAINST SUCH, THERE IS NO LAW. AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS. IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT.

EPHESIANS 5:9-10

(FOR THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS IN ALL GOODNESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH;) PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD.

1 CORINTHIANS 12:4-7

NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT THE SAME SPIRIT. AND THERE ARE DIFFERENCES OF ADMINISTRATIONS, BUT THE SAME LORD. AND THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF OPERATIONS, BUT IT IS THE SAME GOD WHICH WORKETH ALL IN ALL. BUT THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT IS GIVEN TO EVERY MAN TO PROFIT WITHAL.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:12

EVEN SO, YE, FORASMUCH AS YE ARE ZEALOUS OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS, SEEK THAT YE MAY EXCEL TO THE EDIFYING OF THE CHURCH.

ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE ZEALOUS OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS,

YOU EXCEL BY THE POWER OF GOD, FOR HIS GLORY AND

YOU EXCEL TO THE EDIFYING OF THE CHURCH, NOT YOURSELF!

DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT TO EDIFY

1 CORINTHIANS 14:1-3

FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY, AND DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT RATHER THAT YE MAY PROPHESY. FOR HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE SPEAKETH NOT UNTO MEN, BUT UNTO GOD: FOR NO MAN UNDERSTANDETH HIM; HOWBEIT IN THE SPIRIT HE SPEAKETH MYSTERIES. BUT HE THAT PROPHESIETH SPEAKETH UNTO MEN TO EDIFICATION, AND EXHORTATION, AND COMFORT.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:19-20

YET IN THE CHURCH I HAD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WORDS WITH MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT BY MY VOICE I MIGHT TEACH OTHERS ALSO, THAN TEN THOUSAND WORDS IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. BRETHREN, BE NOT CHILDREN IN UNDERSTANDING: HOWBEIT IN MALICE BE YE CHILDREN, BUT IN UNDERSTANDING BE MEN.

Donna K Purifoy

7/3/2022

THE GOSPEL OF PEACE

DO YOU RESIST THE DEVIL?

HELD CAPTIVE!

HOW TO STAND!

YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!

SANCTIFIED!!! PERFECTED FOREVER!!!

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT YOU HAVE BEEN PURGED FROM YOUR SINS?

JESUS MADE US ACCEPTABLE TO THE MOST HOLY GOD!

DO YOU DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST?

HOW CAN WE KNOW?

YOU KNOW, I GET CONCERNED WHEN I HEAR SOME SO-CALLED PREACHERS PREACH.

SOME THINK THEY CAN LOSE THEIR SALVATION, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THEY READ A SCRIPTURE.

HOW SHALL NOT THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT BE RATHER GLORIOUS?

READ YOUR BIBLE FOR YOURSELF!!!

AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS!!!

ARE YOU STILL THE OLD WRETCHED MAN, OR ARE YOU RIGHTEOUS?

ARE YOU MORE EXCITED ABOUT THE CREATION, INSTEAD OF THE CREATOR?

THE LAW, ISRAEL, AND FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS

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