THE GOSPEL OF PEACE: April 2023

THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD

THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.

Christianity is not walking from point A to point B; Christianity is about being planted together with Christ Jesus. You die to the old self and grow into the new. If you think that you can keep living the way that you did before Salvation, then you have a skewed knowledge of Christianity. After Salvation, The Holy Spirit grows us up as a baby into the mature adult God wants us to be, which means a change from the old to the new. The Holy Spirit Creates in us a New Spirit, New Heart, and New Mind. The Holy Scriptures will teach us what pleases God and what does not.

Do not let the world teach you about God,

WE NEED TO READ OUR BIBLE TO LET THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD GUIDE US INTO ALL TRUTH.

Romans 6:3-6

Know Ye Not, That So Many Of Us As Were Baptized Into Jesus Christ Were Baptized Into His Death? Therefore We Are Buried With Him By Baptism Into Death: That Like As Christ Was Raised Up From The Dead By The Glory Of The Father, Even So We Also Should Walk In Newness Of Life. For If We Have Been Planted Together In The Likeness Of His Death, We Shall Be Also In The Likeness Of His Resurrection: 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.

1 John 2:20

But Ye Have An Unction From The Holy One, And Ye Know All Things.

1 John 2:27-29

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. And Now, Little Children, Abide In Him; That, When He Shall Appear, We May Have Confidence, And Not Be Ashamed Before Him At His Coming. If Ye Know That He Is Righteous, Ye Know That Every One That Doeth Righteousness Is Born Of Him.

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.

John 17:16

THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.

Donna K Purifoy

4/30/2023

Faith In Jesus Christ Alone Is The Only Way To Be Righteous.

Romans 10:5-11

For Moses Describeth The Righteousness Which Is Of The Law, That The Man Which Doeth Those Things Shall Live By Them. But The Righteousness Which Is Of Faith Speaketh On This Wise, Say Not In Thine Heart, Who Shall Ascend Into Heaven? (That Is, To Bring Christ Down From Above:) Or, Who Shall Descend Into The Deep? (That Is, To Bring Up Christ Again From The Dead.) But What Saith It? The Word Is Nigh Thee, Even In Thy Mouth, And In Thy Heart: That Is, The Word Of Faith, Which We Preach; That If Thou Shalt Confess With Thy Mouth The Lord Jesus, And Shalt Believe In Thine Heart That God Hath Raised Him From The Dead, Thou Shalt Be Saved. For With The Heart Man Believeth Unto Righteousness; And With The Mouth Confession Is Made Unto Salvation. For The Scripture Saith, Whosoever Believeth On Him Shall Not Be Ashamed.

Moses Describeth The Righteousness Which Is Of The Law, That The Man Which Doeth Those Things Shall Live By Them,

But The Righteousness Which Is Of Faith Says, If Thou Shalt Confess With Thy Mouth The Lord Jesus, And Shalt Believe In Thine Heart That God Hath Raised Him From The Dead, Thou Shalt Be Saved. For With The Heart Man Believeth Unto Righteousness.

The Law Has Us Doing The Works Of The Law, Faith Has Us To Believe In Christ Jesus And His Finished Work On The Cross.

You Can Not Work For Your Righteousness, You Have Faith.

Righteousness Is Needed To Have A Relationship With The Holy God. God Is Righteous And You Have To Be Righteous To Come Before Him. Adam Had A Close Relationship With God Before He Sinned Because He Was Righteous, But After Adam Disobeyed God The Curse Came.

Death Came Upon All Men Because Of Adam And His Disobedience, But Eternal Life Came Because Of The Obedience Of Jesus Christ.

Faith In Jesus Christ Alone Is The Only Way To Be Righteous.

Romans 5:19

For As By One Man's Disobedience Many Were Made Sinners, So BY THE OBEDIENCE OF ONE SHALL MANY BE MADE RIGHTEOUS.

1 John 3:4-9

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.

Donna K Purifoy

4/28/2023

NOT BE ASHAMED BEFORE HIM AT HIS COMING

2 Timothy 2:1,3-8,14-16,19,21-26

Thou Therefore, My Son, Be Strong In The Grace That Is In Christ Jesus.

[3] Thou Therefore Endure Hardness, As A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ. No Man That Warreth Entangleth Himself With The Affairs Of This Life; That He May Please Him Who Hath Chosen Him To Be A Soldier. And If A Man Also Strive For Masteries, Yet Is He Not Crowned, Except He Strive Lawfully. The Husbandman That Laboureth Must Be First Partaker Of The Fruits. Consider What I Say; And The Lord Give Thee Understanding In All Things. Remember That Jesus Christ Of The Seed Of David Was Raised From The Dead According To My Gospel:

[14] Of These Things Put Them In Remembrance, Charging Them Before The Lord That They Strive Not About Words To No Profit, But To The Subverting Of The Hearers. Study To Shew Thyself Approved Unto God, A Workman That Needeth Not To Be Ashamed, Rightly Dividing The Word Of Truth. But Shun Profane And Vain Babblings: For They Will Increase Unto More Ungodliness.

[19] Nevertheless The Foundation Of God Standeth Sure, Having This Seal, The Lord Knoweth Them That Are His. And, Let Every One That Nameth The Name Of Christ Depart From Iniquity.

[21] If A Man Therefore Purge Himself From These, He Shall Be A Vessel Unto Honour, Sanctified, And Meet For The Master's Use, And Prepared Unto Every Good Work. Flee Also Youthful Lusts: But Follow Righteousness, Faith, Charity, Peace, With Them That Call On The Lord Out Of A Pure Heart. But Foolish And Unlearned Questions Avoid, Knowing That They Do Gender Strifes. And The Servant Of The Lord Must Not Strive; But Be Gentle Unto All Men, Apt To Teach, Patient, In Meekness Instructing Those That Oppose Themselves; If God Peradventure Will Give Them Repentance To The Acknowledging Of The Truth; And That They May Recover Themselves Out Of The Snare Of The Devil, Who Are Taken Captive By Him At His Will.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture Is Given By Inspiration Of God, And Is Profitable For Doctrine, For Reproof, For Correction, For Instruction In Righteousness: That The Man Of God May Be Perfect, Throughly Furnished Unto All Good Works.

1 John 2:27-29

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. And Now, Little Children, Abide In Him; That, When He Shall Appear, We May Have Confidence, And NOT BE ASHAMED BEFORE HIM AT HIS COMING. If Ye Know That He Is Righteous, Ye Know That Every One That Doeth Righteousness Is Born Of Him.

I write a lot of Scriptures because it is a Bible study that I post. Opinions do not matter when it comes to the guidance of The Church. The Word Of God Is Given By Inspiration Of God, And Is Profitable For Doctrine, For Reproof, For Correction, For Instruction In Righteousness: That The Man Of God May Be Perfect, Throughly Furnished Unto All Good Works.

You and I can have all kinds of discussions about a lot of different topics, but The Church Life is settled by The Word Of God. If The Church Would Study The Word Together We Could With One Spirit, One Body, One Mind And One Voice Glorify God And Not Be Ashamed At His Coming.

Romans 15:4-6

For Whatsoever Things Were Written Aforetime Were Written For Our Learning, That We Through Patience And Comfort Of The Scriptures Might Have Hope. Now The God Of Patience And Consolation Grant You To Be Likeminded One Toward Another According To Christ Jesus: That Ye May With One Mind And One Mouth Glorify God, Even The Father Of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 4:3-6

Endeavouring To Keep The Unity Of The Spirit In The Bond Of Peace. There Is One Body, And One Spirit, Even As Ye Are Called In One Hope Of Your Calling; One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God And Father Of All, Who Is Above All, And Through All, And In You All.

MATTHEW 24:35

HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY.

Donna K Purifoy

4/27/2023

FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD

FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD.

Romans 4:15

BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH: FOR WHERE NO LAW IS, THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION.

Just like breaking The Law makes you a criminal,

breaking The Law Of God Makes You A Sinner. Punishment comes when we break The Law of man and God.

Where there is no Law, you have done nothing illegal.

If you are in a store and take something without paying for it, you are breaking The Law, but if it is free and you take it, you have done nothing illegal.

Just like The Law Of God, WHERE NO LAW IS, THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION, And There Is No Sin. Breaking The Law Makes You A Sinner.

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.

When you are under The Law there is no way we are Justified In The Eyes Of God.

Matthew 5:18

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.

Matthew 5:17

Think Not That I Am Come To Destroy The Law, Or The Prophets: I AM NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL.

Jesus Christ kept all of The Law Perfectly. God not only has The Law to govern the world as a whole, but The Law for the personal government too. Jesus Christ kept them all as a Citizen and as a Godly Jewish Man. No man has been able to keep The Law Of God Perfectly, before or after Jesus Christ. We are all sinners in The Eyes Of God. The whole reason Jesus Christ came as a Jewish Man is to keep The Law Of God. Why did Jesus Christ Keep The Law Of God? He is already The Righteous Holy, God. Jesus Christ kept The Law for you and me. How did His keeping The Law Of God help us? Every person has to keep The Law Of God perfectly to go to Heaven. A sinner will not go to Heaven, only a Righteous person will. As Long As We Are On Earth The Law Of God Will Stand. The Law Of God Will Be Required To Be Kept By Everyone, Forever. Can You Keep The Law Of God Perfectly? Can you make it to Heaven on your own merit? No. That is why Jesus Christ came as a Man and Kept The Law Of God. We trust that He and His Sacrifice for sin is enough to please God for us. Our trust in Jesus Christ and His Perfect Sacrifice is called

Faith. Jesus Christ died for our sins. When did Jesus Christ take our sins on Himself? Jesus Christ Took Every One Of Our Sins On Himself When He Was On His Cross, We Do Not Have Them Anymore. We are crucified with Jesus Christ, by Faith we are in Him and He is in us. How did Jesus Christ taking our sins help? Jesus Christ died The Death required. Why did Jesus Christ have to Die for our sins? To be able to pay The Wages Of Death. How Did Jesus Christ Pay The Wages Of Sin? HE DIED, AND HE ALSO WENT INTO HELL FOR US. THE WAGES OF SIN HAVE BEEN PAID IN FULL. BUT WAIT! Jesus Christ Also Was Raised From The Death That We Owed! Why Was Jesus Christ Raised From The Death? So that He could be victorious over Death, Hell As Well As Our Sins. JESUS CHRIST DIED ONCE TO SIN, AND SO DID WE AT SALVATION!

THE LAKE OF FIRE IS THE SECOND DEATH FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS THE PAYMENT FOR THEIR SINS.

1 John 3:5-6

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.

Romans 6:23

For The Wages Of Sin Is Death; But The Gift Of God Is Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

Acts 2:27,31

Because Thou Wilt Not Leave My Soul In Hell, Neither Wilt Thou Suffer Thine Holy One To See Corruption.

[31] He Seeing This Before Spake Of The Resurrection Of Christ, That His Soul Was Not Left In Hell, Neither His Flesh Did See Corruption.

Revelation 20:14

And Death And Hell Were Cast Into The Lake Of Fire. This Is The Second Death.

1 Corinthians 15:13-14,16-18

But If There Be No Resurrection Of The Dead, Then Is Christ Not Risen: And IF CHRIST BE NOT RISEN, THEN IS OUR PREACHING VAIN, AND YOUR FAITH IS ALSO VAIN.

[16] FOR IF THE DEAD RISE NOT, THEN IS NOT CHRIST RAISED: AND IF CHRIST BE NOT RAISED, YOUR FAITH IS VAIN; YE ARE YET IN YOUR SINS. THEN THEY ALSO WHICH ARE FALLEN ASLEEP IN CHRIST ARE PERISHED.

ROMANS 6:10-11

FOR IN THAT HE DIED, HE DIED UNTO SIN ONCE: BUT IN THAT HE LIVETH, HE LIVETH UNTO GOD. LIKEWISE RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES TO BE DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

When we trust or have Faith that Jesus Christ Sacrificed Himself for our sins, we are saying He took our sins away. Remember Jesus Christ Kept The Law Of God and The Law Is Now Fulfilled. All we do now is have Faith in The Blood that washed us from all of our sins. We are dead to ourselves and now our lives are hidden in Christ Jesus.

Revelation 1:5

And From Jesus Christ, Who Is The Faithful Witness, And The First Begotten Of The Dead, And The Prince Of The Kings Of The Earth. Unto Him That Loved Us, AND WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD.

Colossians 3:3

FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD.

Romans 6:1-11,14,17-18

WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND? GOD FORBID. HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN? Know Ye Not, That So Many Of Us As Were Baptized Into Jesus Christ Were Baptized Into His Death? Therefore We Are Buried With Him By Baptism Into Death: That Like As Christ Was Raised Up From The Dead By The Glory Of The Father, Even So We Also Should Walk In Newness Of Life. For If We Have Been Planted Together In The Likeness Of His Death, We Shall Be Also In The Likeness Of His Resurrection: 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. Likewise Reckon Ye Also Yourselves To Be Dead Indeed Unto Sin, But Alive Unto God Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

[14] 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.

We Need To Know Who We Are In Christ Jesus! We Need To Know Why Jesus Christ Died! We Need To Know Who He Made Us To Be! We Are Righteous In The Eyes Of God, We Are Now A Child Of God. Heaven Is Now Our Destination!

ALL BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST CAME AS A JEWISH MAN, KEPT THE LAW OF GOD, AND DIED TO TAKE OUR SINS AWAY!

MANIFESTED: to appear in visible form

Donna K Purifoy

4/26/2023

DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE, IS BLASPHEMY AND SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN

Hebrews 10:26-29

FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, But A Certain Fearful Looking For Of Judgment And Fiery Indignation, Which Shall Devour The Adversaries. He That Despised Moses' Law Died Without Mercy Under Two Or Three Witnesses: Of HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE, SHALL HE BE THOUGHT WORTHY, WHO HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, AND HATH COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, WHEREWITH HE WAS SANCTIFIED, AN UNHOLY THING, AND HATH DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE?

Hebrews 6:4-6

FOR IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO WERE ONCE ENLIGHTENED, AND HAVE TASTED OF THE HEAVENLY GIFT, AND WERE MADE PARTAKERS OF THE HOLY GHOST, AND HAVE TASTED THE GOOD WORD OF GOD, AND THE POWERS OF THE WORLD TO COME, IF THEY SHALL FALL AWAY, TO RENEW THEM AGAIN UNTO REPENTANCE; SEEING THEY CRUCIFY TO THEMSELVES THE SON OF GOD AFRESH, AND PUT HIM TO AN OPEN SHAME.

Matthew 12:31-33

WHEREFORE I SAY UNTO YOU, ALL MANNER OF SIN AND BLASPHEMY SHALL BE FORGIVEN UNTO MEN: BUT THE BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN UNTO MEN. And Whosoever Speaketh A Word Against The Son Of Man, It Shall Be Forgiven Him: But Whosoever SPEAKETH AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST, IT SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN HIM, Neither In This World, Neither In The World To Come. Either Make The Tree Good, And His Fruit Good; Or Else Make The Tree Corrupt, And His Fruit Corrupt: For The Tree Is Known By His Fruit.

Hebrews 10:38-39

Now The Just Shall Live By Faith: But If Any Man Draw Back, My Soul Shall Have No Pleasure In Him. BUT WE ARE NOT OF THEM WHO DRAW BACK UNTO PERDITION; BUT OF THEM THAT BELIEVE TO THE SAVING OF THE SOUL.

1 John 5:16-18

If Any Man See His Brother Sin A Sin Which Is Not Unto Death, He Shall Ask, And He Shall Give Him Life For Them That Sin Not Unto Death. THERE IS A SIN UNTO DEATH: I Do Not Say That He Shall Pray For It. All Unrighteousness Is Sin: And There Is A Sin Not Unto Death. We Know That WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINNETH NOT; BUT HE THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF GOD KEEPETH HIMSELF, AND THAT WICKED ONE TOUCHETH HIM NOT.

Hebrews 10:35-36

Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence, Which Hath Great Recompence Of Reward. For Ye Have Need Of Patience, That, After Ye Have Done The Will Of God, Ye Might Receive The Promise.

James 4:7-8

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.

THERE IS A SIN UNTO DEATH, AND THAT SIN IS TO COMMIT DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE. DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE IS BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST AND SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN. DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE, IS THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. FOR YOU TO DO DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE, YOU WOULD HAVE TO TURN FROM CHRIST JESUS AFTER YOU KNOW HIM AS YOUR SAVIOR. IF YOU WERE TO COMMIT DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RENEW THEM AGAIN UNTO REPENTANCE, PUT HIM TO AN OPEN SHAME.

SO THE QUESTION IS ARE YOU BORN AGAIN?

JOHN 3:6-8

THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. MARVEL NOT THAT I SAID UNTO THEE, YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN. THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH, AND THOU HEAREST THE SOUND THEREOF, BUT CANST NOT TELL WHENCE IT COMETH, AND WHITHER IT GOETH: SO IS EVERY ONE THAT IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT.

1 John 3:9

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.

WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINNETH NOT; THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER THE GODLY OUT OF TEMPTATIONS.

Donna K Purifoy

4/23/2023

SHEW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM

Ephesians 5:18

And Be Not Drunk With Wine, Wherein Is Excess; But Be Filled With The Spirit;

1 Peter 2:2,5,9

As Newborn Babes, Desire The Sincere Milk Of The Word, That Ye May Grow Thereby:

[5] Ye Also, As Lively Stones, Are Built Up A Spiritual House, An Holy Priesthood, To Offer Up Spiritual Sacrifices, Acceptable To God By Jesus Christ.

[9] But Ye Are A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood, An Holy Nation, A Peculiar People; That Ye Should SHEW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM Who Hath Called You Out Of Darkness Into His Marvellous Light:

Ephesians 5:15-17,19-20

See Then That Ye Walk Circumspectly, Not As Fools, But As Wise, Redeeming The Time, Because The Days Are Evil. Wherefore Be Ye Not Unwise, But Understanding What The Will Of The Lord Is.

[19] Speaking To Yourselves In Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Singing And Making Melody In Your Heart To The Lord; Giving Thanks Always For All Things Unto God And The Father In The Name Of Our Lord Jesus Christ;

Donna K Purifoy

4/23/2023

WORTHY OF ME

Matthew 10:37-38

He That Loveth Father Or Mother More Than Me Is Not Worthy Of Me: And He That Loveth Son Or Daughter More Than Me Is Not Worthy Of Me. And He That Taketh Not His Cross, And Followeth After Me, Is Not Worthy Of Me.

Luke 9:62

And Jesus Said Unto Him, No Man, Having Put His Hand To The Plough, And Looking Back, Is Fit For The Kingdom Of God.

John 8:12

Then Spake Jesus Again Unto Them, Saying, I Am The Light Of The World: He That Followeth Me Shall Not Walk In Darkness, But Shall Have The Light Of Life.

Ephesians 5:11

And Have No Fellowship With The Unfruitful Works Of Darkness, But Rather Reprove Them.

1 John 2:15-29

Love Not The World, Neither The Things That Are In The World. If Any Man Love The World, The Love Of The Father Is Not In Him. For All That Is In The World, The Lust Of The Flesh, And The Lust Of The Eyes, And The Pride Of Life, Is Not Of The Father, But Is Of The World. And The World Passeth Away, And The Lust Thereof: But He That Doeth The Will Of God Abideth For Ever. Little Children, It Is The Last Time: And As Ye Have Heard That Antichrist Shall Come, Even Now Are There Many Antichrists; Whereby We Know That It Is The Last Time. They Went Out From Us, But They Were Not Of Us; For If They Had Been Of Us, They Would No Doubt Have Continued With Us: But They Went Out, That They Might Be Made Manifest That They Were Not All Of Us. But Ye Have An Unction From The Holy One, And Ye Know All Things. I Have Not Written Unto You Because Ye Know Not The Truth, But Because Ye Know It, And That No Lie Is Of The Truth. Who Is A Liar But He That Denieth That Jesus Is The Christ? He Is Antichrist, That Denieth The Father And The Son. Whosoever Denieth The Son, The Same Hath Not The Father: (But) He That Acknowledgeth The Son Hath The Father Also. Let That Therefore Abide In You, Which Ye Have Heard From The Beginning. If That Which Ye Have Heard From The Beginning Shall Remain In You, Ye Also Shall Continue In The Son, And In The Father. And This Is The Promise That He Hath Promised Us, Even Eternal Life. These Things Have I Written Unto You Concerning Them That Seduce You. 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. And Now, Little Children, Abide In Him; That, When He Shall Appear, We May Have Confidence, And Not Be Ashamed Before Him At His Coming. If Ye Know That He Is Righteous, Ye Know That Every One That Doeth Righteousness Is Born Of Him.

Colossians 3:1-10,12-17

If Ye Then Be Risen With Christ, Seek Those Things Which Are Above, Where Christ Sitteth On The Right Hand Of God. Set Your Affection On Things Above, Not On Things On The Earth. For Ye Are Dead, And Your Life Is Hid With Christ In God. When Christ, Who Is Our Life, Shall Appear, Then Shall Ye Also Appear With Him In Glory. Mortify Therefore Your Members Which Are Upon The Earth; Fornication, Uncleanness, Inordinate Affection, Evil Concupiscence, And Covetousness, Which Is Idolatry: For Which Things' Sake The Wrath Of God Cometh On The Children Of Disobedience: In The Which Ye Also Walked Some Time, When Ye Lived In Them. But Now Ye Also Put Off All These; Anger, Wrath, Malice, Blasphemy, Filthy Communication Out Of Your Mouth. Lie Not One To Another, Seeing That Ye Have Put Off The Old Man With His Deeds; [10] And Have Put On The New Man, Which Is Renewed In Knowledge After The Image Of Him That Created Him:

[12] Put On Therefore, As The Elect Of God, Holy And Beloved, Bowels Of Mercies, Kindness, Humbleness Of Mind, Meekness, Longsuffering; Forbearing One Another, And Forgiving One Another, If Any Man Have A Quarrel Against Any: Even As Christ Forgave You, So Also Do Ye. And Above All These Things Put On Charity, Which Is The Bond Of Perfectness. And Let The Peace Of God Rule In Your Hearts, To The Which Also Ye Are Called In One Body; And Be Ye Thankful. Let The Word Of Christ Dwell In You Richly In All Wisdom; Teaching And Admonishing One Another In Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Singing With Grace In Your Hearts To The Lord. And Whatsoever Ye Do In Word Or Deed,

DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM.

Donna K Purifoy

4/21/2023

BY THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOR EVER

For Those Who Believe That God Is Just Sitting In Heaven Shaking His Head And Fist At All The Goings On Here On Earth, You Do Not Know God Is Omniscience.

Omniscience Means All-knowing. Omni Means All And Science Means Knowledge.

Isaiah 46:8-10

Remember This, And Shew Yourselves Men: Bring It Again To Mind, O Ye Transgressors. Remember The Former Things Of Old: For I Am God, And There Is None Else; I Am God, And There Is None Like Me, Declaring The End From The Beginning, And From Ancient Times The Things That Are Not Yet Done, Saying, My Counsel Shall Stand, And I Will Do All My Pleasure:

Isaiah 48:3

I Have Declared The Former Things From The Beginning; And They Went Forth Out Of My Mouth, And I Shewed Them; I Did Them Suddenly, And They Came To Pass.

Jeremiah 32:27

Behold, I Am The Lord, The God Of All Flesh: Is There Any Thing Too Hard For Me?

2 Timothy 2:19

Nevertheless The Foundation Of God Standeth Sure, Having This Seal, The Lord Knoweth Them That Are His. And, Let Every One That Nameth The Name Of Christ Depart From Iniquity.

2 Timothy 3:13-14

But Evil Men And Seducers Shall Wax Worse And Worse, Deceiving, And Being Deceived. But Continue Thou In The Things Which Thou Hast Learned And Hast Been Assured Of, Knowing Of Whom Thou Hast Learned Them;

Ephesians 2:10

For We Are His Workmanship, Created In Christ Jesus Unto Good Works, Which God Hath Before Ordained That We Should Walk In Them.

John 3:15-21

That Whosoever Believeth In Him Should Not Perish, But Have Eternal Life. For God So Loved The World, That He Gave His Only Begotten Son, That Whosoever Believeth In Him Should Not Perish, But Have Everlasting Life. For God Sent Not His Son Into The World To Condemn The World; But That The World Through Him Might Be Saved. He That Believeth On Him Is Not Condemned: But He That Believeth Not Is Condemned Already, Because He Hath Not Believed In The Name Of The Only Begotten Son Of God. And This Is The Condemnation, That Light Is Come Into The World, And Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light, Because Their Deeds Were Evil. For Every One That Doeth Evil Hateth The Light, Neither Cometh To The Light, Lest His Deeds Should Be Reproved. But He That Doeth Truth Cometh To The Light, That His Deeds May Be Made Manifest, That They Are Wrought In God.

1 Peter 1:18-23

Forasmuch As Ye Know That Ye Were Not Redeemed With Corruptible Things, As Silver And Gold, From Your Vain Conversation Received By Tradition From Your Fathers; But With The Precious Blood Of Christ, As Of A Lamb Without Blemish And Without Spot: Who Verily Was Foreordained Before The Foundation Of The World, But Was Manifest In These Last Times For You, Who By Him Do Believe In God, That Raised Him Up From The Dead, And Gave Him Glory; That Your Faith And Hope Might Be In God. Seeing Ye Have Purified Your Souls In Obeying The Truth Through The Spirit Unto Unfeigned Love Of The Brethren, See That Ye Love One Another With A Pure Heart Fervently: BEING BORN AGAIN, NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED, BUT OF INCORRUPTIBLE, BY THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOR EVER.

Donna K Purifoy

4/20/2023

WATCH AND BE SOBER

Galatians 6:7-8

Be Not Deceived; God Is Not Mocked: For Whatsoever A Man Soweth, That Shall He Also Reap. For He That Soweth To His Flesh Shall Of The Flesh Reap Corruption; But He That Soweth To The Spirit Shall Of The Spirit Reap Life Everlasting.

1 Corinthians 5:6-13

Your Glorying Is Not Good. Know Ye Not That A Little Leaven Leaveneth The Whole Lump? Purge Out Therefore The Old Leaven, That Ye May Be A New Lump, As Ye Are Unleavened. For Even Christ Our Passover Is Sacrificed For Us: Therefore Let Us Keep The Feast, Not With Old Leaven, Neither With The Leaven Of Malice And Wickedness; But With The Unleavened Bread Of Sincerity And Truth. I Wrote Unto You In An Epistle Not To Company With Fornicators: Yet Not Altogether With The Fornicators Of This World, Or With The Covetous, Or Extortioners, Or With Idolaters; For Then Must Ye Needs Go Out Of The World. But Now I Have Written Unto You Not To Keep Company, If Any Man That Is Called A Brother Be A Fornicator, Or Covetous, Or An Idolater, Or A Railer, Or A Drunkard, Or An Extortioner; With Such An One No Not To Eat. For What Have I To Do To Judge Them Also That Are Without? Do Not Ye Judge Them That Are Within? But Them That Are Without God Judgeth. Therefore Put Away From Among Yourselves That Wicked Person.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

Be Ye Not Unequally Yoked Together With Unbelievers: For What Fellowship Hath Righteousness With Unrighteousness? And What Communion Hath Light With Darkness? And What Concord Hath Christ With Belial? Or What Part Hath He That Believeth With An Infidel? And What Agreement Hath The Temple Of God With Idols? For Ye Are The Temple Of The Living God; As God Hath Said, I Will Dwell In Them, And Walk In Them ; And I Will Be Their God, And They Shall Be My People. Wherefore Come Out From Among Them, And Be Ye Separate, Saith The Lord, And Touch Not The Unclean Thing ; And I Will Receive You, And Will Be A Father Unto You, And Ye Shall Be My Sons And Daughters, Saith The Lord Almighty.

Revelation 18:4

And I Heard Another Voice From Heaven, Saying, Come Out Of Her, My People, That Ye Be Not Partakers Of Her Sins, And That Ye Receive Not Of Her Plagues.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-9

Ye Are All The Children Of Light, And The Children Of The Day: We Are Not Of The Night, Nor Of Darkness. Therefore Let Us Not Sleep, As Do Others; But Let Us WATCH AND BE SOBER. For They That Sleep Sleep In The Night; And They That Be Drunken Are Drunken In The Night. But Let Us, Who Are Of The Day, Be Sober, Putting On The Breastplate Of Faith And Love; And For An Helmet, The Hope Of Salvation. For God Hath Not Appointed Us To Wrath, But To Obtain Salvation By Our Lord Jesus Christ,

Donna K Purifoy

4/20/2023

WATCH YE THEREFORE, AND PRAY ALWAYS

Luke 21:33-36

Heaven And Earth Shall Pass Away: But My Words Shall Not Pass Away. And Take Heed To Yourselves, Lest At Any Time Your Hearts Be Overcharged With Surfeiting, And Drunkenness, And Cares Of This Life, And So That Day Come Upon You Unawares. For As A Snare Shall It Come On All Them That Dwell On The Face Of The Whole Earth. WATCH YE THEREFORE, AND PRAY ALWAYS, THAT YE MAY BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE ALL THESE THINGS THAT SHALL COME TO PASS, AND TO STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN.

2 Peter 3:1-11

This Second Epistle, Beloved, I Now Write Unto You; In Both Which I Stir Up Your Pure Minds By Way Of Remembrance: That Ye May Be Mindful Of The Words Which Were Spoken Before By The Holy Prophets, And Of The Commandment Of Us The Apostles Of The Lord And Saviour: Knowing This First, That There Shall Come In The Last Days Scoffers, Walking After Their Own Lusts, And Saying, Where Is The Promise Of His Coming? For Since The Fathers Fell Asleep, All Things Continue As They Were From The Beginning Of The Creation. For This They Willingly Are Ignorant Of, That By The Word Of God The Heavens Were Of Old, And The Earth Standing Out Of The Water And In The Water: Whereby The World That Then Was, Being Overflowed With Water, Perished: But The Heavens And The Earth, Which Are Now, By The Same Word Are Kept In Store, Reserved Unto Fire Against The Day Of Judgment And Perdition Of Ungodly Men. But, Beloved, Be Not Ignorant Of This One Thing, That One Day Is With The Lord As A Thousand Years, And A Thousand Years As One Day. The Lord Is Not Slack Concerning His Promise, As Some Men Count Slackness; But Is Longsuffering To Us-ward, Not Willing That Any Should Perish, But That All Should Come To Repentance. But The Day Of The Lord Will Come As A Thief In The Night; In The Which The Heavens Shall Pass Away With A Great Noise, And The Elements Shall Melt With Fervent Heat, The Earth Also And The Works That Are Therein Shall Be Burned Up. Seeing Then That All These Things Shall Be Dissolved, What Manner Of Persons Ought Ye To Be In All Holy Conversation And Godliness,

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

But Of The Times And The Seasons, Brethren, Ye Have No Need That I Write Unto You. For Yourselves Know Perfectly That The Day Of The Lord So Cometh As A Thief In The Night. For When They Shall Say, Peace And Safety; Then Sudden Destruction Cometh Upon Them, As Travail Upon A Woman With Child; And They Shall Not Escape. But Ye, Brethren, Are Not In Darkness, That That Day Should Overtake You As A Thief. Ye Are All The Children Of Light, And The Children Of The Day: We Are Not Of The Night, Nor Of Darkness. Therefore Let Us Not Sleep, As Do Others; But Let Us Watch And Be Sober. For They That Sleep Sleep In The Night; And They That Be Drunken Are Drunken In The Night. But Let Us, Who Are Of The Day, Be Sober, Putting On The Breastplate Of Faith And Love; And For An Helmet, The Hope Of Salvation. For God Hath Not Appointed Us To Wrath, But To Obtain Salvation By Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who Died For Us, That, Whether We Wake Or Sleep, We Should Live Together With Him. Wherefore Comfort Yourselves Together, And Edify One Another, Even As Also Ye Do.

Donna K Purifoy

4/19/2023

STEDFAST IN THE FAITH, BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT

1 Peter 5:7-11

Casting All Your Care Upon Him; For He Careth For You. Be Sober, Be Vigilant; Because Your Adversary The Devil, As A Roaring Lion, Walketh About, Seeking Whom He May Devour: Whom RESIST STEDFAST IN THE FAITH, Knowing That The Same Afflictions Are Accomplished In Your Brethren That Are In The World. But The God Of All Grace, Who Hath Called Us Unto His Eternal Glory By Christ Jesus, After That Ye Have Suffered A While, Make You Perfect, Stablish, Strengthen, Settle You. To Him Be Glory And Dominion For Ever And Ever. Amen.

Ephesians 6:10-17

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. Stand Therefore, Having Your Loins Girt About With Truth, And Having On The Breastplate Of Righteousness; And Your Feet Shod With The Preparation Of The Gospel Of Peace; Above All, Taking The Shield Of Faith, Wherewith Ye Shall Be Able To Quench All The Fiery Darts Of The Wicked. And Take The Helmet Of Salvation, And The Sword Of The Spirit, Which Is The Word Of God:

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

For Though We Walk In The Flesh, We Do Not War After The Flesh: (FOR THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL, BUT MIGHTY THROUGH GOD TO THE PULLING DOWN OF STRONG HOLDS;) Casting Down Imaginations, And Every High Thing That Exalteth Itself Against The Knowledge Of God, And Bringing Into Captivity Every Thought To The Obedience Of Christ;

Our Afflictions And Cares start in the mind working against us. Our minds are under attack every single day, by satan. Our minds are thinking all of the time, whether we know it or not. We are thinking when we watch t.v., listen to music, or even just hearing to others talk. We are absorbing knowledge both good and evil. That is why it is so important to be careful with your mind not to take in the evil that makes your Imagination grow into action. Everything evil is against Against The Knowledge Of God. The Knowledge Of God is how we know Good and evil. The more you read your Bible the more Good Knowledge you gain. The more you read your Bible the more you understand that you are in a Spiritual battle, you are not warring with the flesh. Satan is after your Living Soul, Which Is Spiritual. Our strength is in our Faith In Jesus Christ, His Spirit Is The One Who Is Casting Down Imaginations, And Every High Thing That Exalteth Itself Against The Knowledge Of God, And Bringing Into Captivity Every Thought To The Obedience Of Christ. We can only win through The Holy Spirit.

Jude 1:20-21

BUT YE, BELOVED, BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST, KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD, LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE.

Donna K Purifoy

4/18/2023

BEFORE FAITH CAME, AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME

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.

Romans 10:1-5

Brethren, My Heart's Desire And Prayer To God For Israel Is, That They Might Be Saved. For I Bear Them Record That They Have A Zeal Of God, But Not According To Knowledge. For They Being Ignorant Of God's Righteousness, And Going About To Establish Their Own Righteousness, Have Not Submitted Themselves Unto The Righteousness Of God. For Christ Is The End Of The Law For Righteousness To Every One That Believeth. For Moses Describeth The Righteousness Which Is Of The Law, That The Man Which Doeth Those Things Shall Live By Them.

Galatians 3:21

Is The Law Then Against The Promises Of God? God Forbid: For If There Had Been A Law Given Which Could Have Given Life, Verily Righteousness Should Have Been By The Law.

Galatians 3:22-27

But The Scripture Hath Concluded All Under Sin, That The Promise By Faith Of Jesus Christ Might Be Given To Them That Believe. But BEFORE FAITH CAME, We Were Kept Under The Law, Shut Up Unto The Faith Which Should Afterwards Be Revealed. Wherefore The Law Was Our Schoolmaster To Bring Us Unto Christ, That We Might Be Justified By Faith. But AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME, We Are No Longer Under A Schoolmaster. For Ye Are All The Children Of God By Faith In Christ Jesus. For As Many Of You As Have Been Baptized Into Christ Have Put On Christ.

John 1:17

For The Law Was Given By Moses, But Grace And Truth Came By Jesus Christ.

Righteousness Is Our Treasure That We Receive From Christ Jesus At Salvation. Jesus Christ Took Our Sins And Gave Us His Righteousness.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For He Hath Made Him To Be Sin For Us, Who Knew No Sin; That We Might Be Made The Righteousness Of God In Him.

Romans 3:22

Even The Righteousness Of God Which Is By Faith Of Jesus Christ Unto All And Upon All Them That Believe: For There Is No Difference:

Galatians 2:16,20-21

[20] I Am Crucified With Christ: Nevertheless I Live; Yet Not I, But Christ Liveth In Me: And The Life Which I Now Live In The Flesh I Live By The Faith Of The Son Of God, Who Loved Me, And Gave Himself For Me.

I Do Not Frustrate The Grace Of God: For If Righteousness Come By The Law, Then Christ Is Dead In Vain.

Don't Let The Death Of Christ Jesus Be In Vain.

Donna K Purifoy

4/17/2023

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH

2 Timothy 3:1-7

This Know Also, That In The Last Days Perilous Times Shall Come. For Men Shall Be Lovers Of Their Own Selves, Covetous, Boasters, Proud, Blasphemers, Disobedient To Parents, Unthankful, Unholy, Without Natural Affection, Trucebreakers, False Accusers, Incontinent, Fierce, Despisers Of Those That Are Good, Traitors, Heady, Highminded, Lovers Of Pleasures More Than Lovers Of God; Having A Form Of Godliness, But Denying The Power Thereof: From Such Turn Away. For Of This Sort Are They Which Creep Into Houses, And Lead Captive Silly Women Laden With Sins, Led Away With Divers Lusts, Ever Learning, And Never Able To Come To The Knowledge Of The Truth.

James 1:5-8

If Any Of You Lack Wisdom, Let Him Ask Of God, That Giveth To All Men Liberally, And Upbraideth Not; And It Shall Be Given Him. But Let Him Ask In Faith, Nothing Wavering. For He That Wavereth Is Like A Wave Of The Sea Driven With The Wind And Tossed. For Let Not That Man Think That He Shall Receive Any Thing Of The Lord. A Double Minded Man Is Unstable In All His Ways.

Romans 6:4-11,17-18,20,22-23

Therefore We Are Buried With Him By Baptism Into Death: That Like As Christ Was Raised Up From The Dead By The Glory Of The Father, Even So We Also Should Walk In Newness Of Life. For If We Have Been Planted Together In The Likeness Of His Death, We Shall Be Also In The Likeness Of His Resurrection: 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. Likewise Reckon Ye Also Yourselves To Be Dead Indeed Unto Sin, But Alive Unto God Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

[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.

[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.

If Any Of You Lack Wisdom, Let Him Ask Of God, be careful who you go to for THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. Not everyone knows the answer. If they have not Prayed, Searched The Holy Scriptures and sought God for the answer, don't fully trust their answers. There are a lot of so-called Preachers and Teachers of The Gospel, that are hirelings, they are in it for the money and notoriety.

JOHN 10:11-14

I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD: THE GOOD SHEPHERD GIVETH HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP. BUT HE THAT IS AN HIRELING, AND NOT THE SHEPHERD, WHOSE OWN THE SHEEP ARE NOT, SEETH THE WOLF COMING, AND LEAVETH THE SHEEP, AND FLEETH: AND THE WOLF CATCHETH THEM, AND SCATTERETH THE SHEEP. THE HIRELING FLEETH, BECAUSE HE IS AN HIRELING, AND CARETH NOT FOR THE SHEEP. I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD, AND KNOW MY SHEEP, AND AM KNOWN OF MINE.

Donna K Purifoy

4/16/2023

NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS

Romans 3:1-2

What Advantage Then Hath The Jew? Or What Profit Is There Of Circumcision? Much Every Way: Chiefly, Because That Unto Them Were Committed The Oracles Of God.

Romans 9:4-5

Who Are Israelites; To Whom Pertaineth The Adoption, And The Glory, And The Covenants, And The Giving Of The Law, And The Service Of God, And The Promises; Whose Are The Fathers, And Of Whom As Concerning The Flesh Christ Came, Who Is Over All, God Blessed For Ever. Amen.

Romans 11:11-36

I Say Then, Have They Stumbled That They Should Fall? God Forbid: But Rather THROUGH THEIR FALL SALVATION IS COME UNTO THE GENTILES, For To Provoke Them To Jealousy. Now If The Fall Of Them Be The Riches Of The World, And The Diminishing Of Them The Riches Of The Gentiles; How Much More Their Fulness? For I Speak To You Gentiles, Inasmuch As I Am The Apostle Of The Gentiles, I Magnify Mine Office: If By Any Means I May Provoke To Emulation Them Which Are My Flesh, And Might Save Some Of Them. For If The Casting Away Of Them Be The Reconciling Of The World, What Shall The Receiving Of Them Be, But Life From The Dead? For If The Firstfruit Be Holy, The Lump Is Also Holy : And If The Root Be Holy, So Are The Branches. And If Some Of The Branches Be Broken Off, And Thou, Being A Wild Olive Tree, Wert Graffed In Among Them, And With Them Partakest Of The Root And Fatness Of The Olive Tree; Boast Not Against The Branches. But If Thou Boast, Thou Bearest Not The Root, But The Root Thee. Thou Wilt Say Then, The Branches Were Broken Off, That I Might Be Graffed In. Well; Because Of Unbelief They Were Broken Off, And Thou Standest By Faith. Be Not Highminded, But Fear: For If God Spared Not The Natural Branches, Take Heed Lest He Also Spare Not Thee. Behold Therefore The Goodness And Severity Of God: On Them Which Fell, Severity; But Toward Thee, Goodness, If Thou Continue In His Goodness: Otherwise Thou Also Shalt Be Cut Off. And They Also, If They Abide Not Still In Unbelief, Shall Be Graffed In: For God Is Able To Graff Them In Again. For If Thou Wert Cut Out Of The Olive Tree Which Is Wild By Nature, And Wert Graffed Contrary To Nature Into A Good Olive Tree: How Much More Shall These, Which Be The Natural Branches, Be Graffed Into Their Own Olive Tree? For I Would Not, Brethren, That Ye Should Be Ignorant Of This Mystery, Lest Ye Should Be Wise In Your Own Conceits; That Blindness In Part Is Happened To Israel, Until The Fulness Of The Gentiles Be Come In. And So All Israel Shall Be Saved: As It Is Written, There Shall Come Out Of Sion The Deliverer, And Shall Turn Away Ungodliness From Jacob: For This Is My Covenant Unto Them, When I Shall Take Away Their Sins. As Concerning The Gospel, They Are Enemies For Your Sakes: But As Touching The Election, They Are Beloved For The Fathers' Sakes. For The Gifts And Calling Of God Are Without Repentance. For As Ye In Times Past Have Not Believed God, Yet Have Now Obtained Mercy Through Their Unbelief: Even So Have These Also Now Not Believed, That Through Your Mercy They Also May Obtain Mercy. For God Hath Concluded Them All In Unbelief, That He Might Have Mercy Upon All. O The Depth Of The Riches Both Of The Wisdom And Knowledge Of God! How Unsearchable Are His Judgments, And His Ways Past Finding Out! For Who Hath Known The Mind Of The Lord? Or Who Hath Been His Counsellor? Or Who Hath First Given To Him, And It Shall Be Recompensed Unto Him Again? For Of Him, And Through Him, And To Him, Are All Things: To Whom Be Glory For Ever. Amen.

Ephesians 2:4-22

But God, Who Is Rich In Mercy, For His Great Love Wherewith He Loved Us, Even When We Were Dead In Sins, Hath Quickened Us Together With Christ, (By Grace Ye Are Saved;) And Hath Raised Us Up Together, And Made Us Sit Together In Heavenly Places In Christ Jesus: That In The Ages To Come He Might Shew The Exceeding Riches Of His Grace In His Kindness Toward Us Through Christ Jesus. For By Grace Are Ye Saved Through Faith; And That Not Of Yourselves: It Is The Gift Of God: Not Of Works, Lest Any Man Should Boast. For We Are His Workmanship, Created In Christ Jesus Unto Good Works, Which God Hath Before Ordained That We Should Walk In Them. Wherefore Remember, That Ye Being In Time Past Gentiles In The Flesh, Who Are Called Uncircumcision By That Which Is Called The Circumcision In The Flesh Made By Hands; That At That Time Ye Were Without Christ, Being Aliens From The Commonwealth Of Israel, And Strangers From The Covenants Of Promise, Having No Hope, And Without God In The World: But Now In Christ Jesus Ye Who Sometimes Were Far Off Are Made Nigh By The Blood Of Christ. For He Is Our Peace, Who Hath Made Both One, And Hath Broken Down The Middle Wall Of Partition Between Us; Having Abolished In His Flesh The Enmity, Even The Law Of Commandments Contained In Ordinances; For To Make In Himself Of Twain One New Man, So Making Peace; And That He Might Reconcile Both Unto God In One Body By The Cross, Having Slain The Enmity Thereby: And Came And Preached Peace To You Which Were Afar Off, And To Them That Were Nigh. For Through Him We Both Have Access By One Spirit Unto The Father. Now Therefore Ye Are NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, But Fellowcitizens With The Saints, And Of The Household Of God; And Are Built Upon The Foundation Of The Apostles And Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself Being The Chief Corner Stone; In Whom All The Building Fitly Framed Together Groweth Unto An Holy Temple In The Lord: In Whom Ye Also Are Builded Together For An Habitation Of God Through The Spirit.

Donna K Purifoy

4/15/2023

NOW IT IS HIGH TIME TO AWAKE OUT OF SLEEP.

1 Corinthians 15:33-34

Be Not Deceived: Evil Communications Corrupt Good Manners. Awake To Righteousness, And Sin Not; For Some Have Not The Knowledge Of God: I Speak This To Your Shame.

Romans 13:11-14

And That, Knowing The Time, That NOW IT IS HIGH TIME TO AWAKE OUT OF SLEEP: For Now Is Our Salvation Nearer Than When We Believed. The Night Is Far Spent, The Day Is At Hand: Let Us Therefore Cast Off The Works Of Darkness, And Let Us Put On The Armour Of Light. Let Us Walk Honestly, As In The Day; Not In Rioting And Drunkenness, Not In Chambering And Wantonness, Not In Strife And Envying. But Put Ye On The Lord Jesus Christ, And Make Not Provision For The Flesh, To Fulfil The Lusts Thereof.

Ephesians 5:1-20

Be Ye Therefore Followers Of God, As Dear Children, And Walk In Love, As Christ Also Hath Loved Us, And Hath Given Himself For Us An Offering And A Sacrifice To God For A Sweetsmelling Savour. But Fornication, And All Uncleanness, Or Covetousness, Let It Not Be Once Named Among You, As Becometh Saints; Neither Filthiness, Nor Foolish Talking, Nor Jesting, Which Are Not Convenient: But Rather Giving Of Thanks. For This Ye Know, That No Whoremonger, Nor Unclean Person, Nor Covetous Man, Who Is An Idolater, Hath Any Inheritance In The Kingdom Of Christ And Of God. Let No Man Deceive You With Vain Words: For Because Of These Things Cometh The Wrath Of God Upon The Children Of Disobedience. Be Not Ye Therefore Partakers With Them. For Ye Were Sometimes Darkness, But Now Are Ye Light In The Lord: Walk As Children Of Light: (For The Fruit Of The Spirit Is In All Goodness And Righteousness And Truth;) Proving What Is Acceptable Unto The Lord. And Have No Fellowship With The Unfruitful Works Of Darkness, But Rather Reprove Them. For It Is A Shame Even To Speak Of Those Things Which Are Done Of Them In Secret. But All Things That Are Reproved Are Made Manifest By The Light: For Whatsoever Doth Make Manifest Is Light. Wherefore He Saith, Awake Thou That Sleepest, And Arise From The Dead, And Christ Shall Give Thee Light. See Then That Ye Walk Circumspectly, Not As Fools, But As Wise, Redeeming The Time, Because The Days Are Evil. Wherefore Be Ye Not Unwise, But Understanding What The Will Of The Lord Is. And Be Not Drunk With Wine, Wherein Is Excess; But Be Filled With The Spirit; Speaking To Yourselves In Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Singing And Making Melody In Your Heart To The Lord; Giving Thanks Always For All Things Unto God And The Father In The Name Of Our Lord Jesus Christ;

Galatians 5:19-25

Now The Works Of The Flesh Are Manifest, Which Are These ; Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanness, Lasciviousness, Idolatry, Witchcraft, Hatred, Variance, Emulations, Wrath, Strife, Seditions, Heresies, Envyings, Murders, Drunkenness, Revellings, And Such Like: Of The Which I Tell You Before, As I Have Also Told You In Time Past, That They Which Do Such Things Shall Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God. 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.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Know Ye Not That The Unrighteous Shall Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God? Be Not Deceived: Neither Fornicators, Nor Idolaters, Nor Adulterers, Nor Effeminate, Nor Abusers Of Themselves With Mankind, Nor Thieves, Nor Covetous, Nor Drunkards, Nor Revilers, Nor Extortioners, Shall Inherit The Kingdom Of God. 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.

Donna K Purifoy

4/13/2023

DIE, TO LIVE

1 Corinthians 15:16-24

For If The Dead Rise Not, Then Is Not Christ Raised: And If Christ Be Not Raised, Your Faith Is Vain; Ye Are Yet In Your Sins. Then They Also Which Are Fallen Asleep In Christ Are Perished. If In This Life Only We Have Hope In Christ, We Are Of All Men Most Miserable. But Now Is Christ Risen From The Dead, And Become The Firstfruits Of Them That Slept. For Since By Man Came Death, By Man Came Also The Resurrection Of The Dead. For As In Adam All Die, Even So In Christ Shall All Be Made Alive. But Every Man In His Own Order: Christ The Firstfruits; Afterward They That Are Christ's At His Coming. Then Cometh The End, When He Shall Have Delivered Up The Kingdom To God, Even The Father; When He Shall Have Put Down All Rule And All Authority And Power.

1 Corinthians 15:35-36

But Some Man Will Say, How Are The Dead Raised Up? And With What Body Do They Come? Thou Fool, That Which Thou Sowest Is Not Quickened, Except It Die:

Galatians 2:16-21

Knowing That A Man Is Not Justified By The Works Of The Law, But By The Faith Of Jesus Christ, Even We Have Believed In Jesus Christ, That We Might Be Justified By The Faith Of Christ, And Not By The Works Of The Law: For By The Works Of The Law Shall No Flesh Be Justified. But If, While We Seek To Be Justified By Christ, We Ourselves Also Are Found Sinners, Is Therefore Christ The Minister Of Sin? God Forbid. For If I Build Again The Things Which I Destroyed, I Make Myself A Transgressor. For I Through The Law Am Dead To The Law, That I Might Live Unto God. I Am Crucified With Christ: Nevertheless I Live; Yet Not I, But Christ Liveth In Me: And The Life Which I Now Live In The Flesh I Live By The Faith Of The Son Of God, Who Loved Me, And Gave Himself For Me. I Do Not Frustrate The Grace Of God: For If Righteousness Come By The Law, Then Christ Is Dead In Vain.

Romans 6:6-23

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. Likewise Reckon Ye Also Yourselves To Be Dead Indeed Unto Sin, But Alive Unto God Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Let Not Sin Therefore Reign In Your Mortal Body, That Ye Should Obey It In The Lusts Thereof. Neither Yield Ye Your Members As Instruments Of Unrighteousness Unto Sin: But Yield Yourselves Unto God, As Those That Are Alive From The Dead, And Your Members As Instruments Of Righteousness Unto God. For Sin Shall Not Have Dominion Over You: For Ye Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace. What Then? Shall We Sin, Because We Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace? God Forbid. 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. I Speak After The Manner Of Men Because Of The Infirmity Of Your Flesh: For As Ye Have Yielded Your Members Servants To Uncleanness And To Iniquity Unto Iniquity; Even So Now Yield Your Members Servants To Righteousness Unto Holiness. 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.

John 3:3-7

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. Marvel Not That I Said Unto Thee, Ye Must Be Born Again.

Romans 8:6-14

For To Be Carnally Minded Is Death; But To Be Spiritually Minded Is Life And Peace. Because The Carnal Mind Is Enmity Against God: For It Is Not Subject To The Law Of God, Neither Indeed Can Be. So Then They That Are In The Flesh Cannot Please God. 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. But If The Spirit Of Him That Raised Up Jesus From The Dead Dwell In You, He That Raised Up Christ From The Dead Shall Also Quicken Your Mortal Bodies By His Spirit That Dwelleth In You. Therefore, Brethren, We Are Debtors, Not To The Flesh, To Live After The Flesh. For If Ye Live After The Flesh, Ye Shall Die: But If Ye Through The Spirit Do Mortify The Deeds Of The Body, Ye Shall Live. For As Many As Are Led By The Spirit Of God, They Are The Sons Of God.

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.

Romans 3:20-22

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. BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS; EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE: FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE:

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.

CRUCIFY YOUR FLESH WITH CHRIST JESUS; BE BORN AGAIN OF THE SPIRIT TO LIVE ETERNALLY! HONOR GOD! KNOW THAT CHRIST JESUS IS YOUR SAVIOR! DIE, TO LIVE!

Donna K Purifoy

4/13/2023

IF YE THEN BE RISEN WITH CHRIST

Colossians 3:1-17

IF YE THEN BE RISEN WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST SITTETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. SET YOUR AFFECTION ON THINGS ABOVE, Not On Things On The Earth. FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. When Christ, Who Is Our Life, Shall Appear, Then Shall Ye Also Appear With Him In Glory. MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS Which Are Upon The Earth; Fornication, Uncleanness, Inordinate Affection, Evil Concupiscence, And Covetousness, Which Is Idolatry: For Which Things' Sake The Wrath Of God Cometh On The Children Of Disobedience: In The Which Ye Also Walked Some Time, When Ye Lived In Them. But Now Ye Also Put Off All These; Anger, Wrath, Malice, Blasphemy, Filthy Communication Out Of Your Mouth. Lie Not One To Another, Seeing That YE HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS; And HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM: Where There Is Neither Greek Nor Jew, Circumcision Nor Uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, Bond Nor Free: But Christ Is All, And In All. Put On Therefore, As The Elect Of God, Holy, And Beloved, Bowels Of Mercies, Kindness, Humbleness Of Mind, Meekness, Longsuffering; Forbearing One Another, And Forgiving One Another, If Any Man Have A Quarrel Against Any: Even As Christ Forgave You, So Also Do Ye. And ABOVE ALL THESE THINGS PUT ON CHARITY, Which Is The Bond Of Perfectness. And LET THE PEACE OF GOD RULE IN YOUR HEARTS, To The Which Also Ye Are Called In One Body; AND BE YE THANKFUL. LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU RICHLY IN ALL WISDOM; Teaching And Admonishing One Another In Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Singing With Grace In Your Hearts To The Lord. AND WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED, DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM.

SET YOUR AFFECTION ON THINGS ABOVE, FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS, YE HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS. YE HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM. LET THE PEACE OF GOD RULE IN YOUR HEARTS, AND BE YE THANKFUL. LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU RICHLY IN ALL WISDOM, AND WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED, DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM.

Donna K Purifoy

4/14/2023

DON'T BE UNSKILFUL IN THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Galatians 6:6-9

Let Him That Is Taught In The Word Communicate Unto Him That Teacheth In All Good Things. Be Not Deceived; God Is Not Mocked: For Whatsoever A Man Soweth, That Shall He Also Reap. For He That Soweth To His Flesh Shall Of The Flesh Reap Corruption; But He That Soweth To The Spirit Shall Of The Spirit Reap Life Everlasting. And Let Us Not Be Weary In Well Doing: For In Due Season We Shall Reap, If We Faint Not.

Ephesians 5:1-20

Be Ye Therefore Followers Of God, As Dear Children; And Walk In Love, As Christ Also Hath Loved Us, And Hath Given Himself For Us An Offering And A Sacrifice To God For A Sweetsmelling Savour. But Fornication, And All Uncleanness, Or Covetousness, Let It Not Be Once Named Among You, As Becometh Saints; Neither Filthiness, Nor Foolish Talking, Nor Jesting, Which Are Not Convenient: But Rather Giving Of Thanks. For This Ye Know, That No Whoremonger, Nor Unclean Person, Nor Covetous Man, Who Is An Idolater, Hath Any Inheritance In The Kingdom Of Christ And Of God. Let No Man Deceive You With Vain Words: For Because Of These Things Cometh The Wrath Of God Upon The Children Of Disobedience. Be Not Ye Therefore Partakers With Them. For Ye Were Sometimes Darkness, But Now Are Ye Light In The Lord: Walk As Children Of Light: (For The Fruit Of The Spirit Is In All Goodness And Righteousness And Truth;) Proving What Is Acceptable Unto The Lord. And Have No Fellowship With The Unfruitful Works Of Darkness, But Rather Reprove Them. For It Is A Shame Even To Speak Of Those Things Which Are Done Of Them In Secret. But All Things That Are Reproved Are Made Manifest By The Light: For Whatsoever Doth Make Manifest Is Light. Wherefore He Saith, Awake Thou That Sleepest, And Arise From The Dead, And Christ Shall Give Thee Light. See Then That Ye Walk Circumspectly, Not As Fools, But As Wise, Redeeming The Time, Because The Days Are Evil. Wherefore Be Ye Not Unwise, But Understanding What The Will Of The Lord Is. And Be Not Drunk With Wine, Wherein Is Excess; But Be Filled With The Spirit; Speaking To Yourselves In Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Singing And Making Melody In Your Heart To The Lord; Giving Thanks Always For All Things Unto God And The Father In The Name Of Our Lord Jesus Christ;

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, Be Not Children In Understanding: Howbeit In Malice Be Ye Children, But In Understanding Be Men.

Hebrews 5:12-14

For When For The Time Ye Ought To Be Teachers, Ye Have Need That One Teach You Again Which Be The First Principles Of The Oracles Of God; And Are Become Such As Have Need Of Milk, And Not Of Strong Meat. For Every One That Useth Milk Is UNSKILFUL IN THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: For He Is A Babe. But Strong Meat Belongeth To Them That Are Of Full Age, Even Those Who By Reason Of Use Have Their Senses Exercised To Discern Both Good And Evil.

Ephesians 4:11-15

And He Gave Some, Apostles; And Some, Prophets; And Some, Evangelists; And Some, Pastors And Teachers; For The Perfecting Of The Saints, For The Work Of The Ministry, For The Edifying Of The Body Of Christ: Till We All Come In The Unity Of The Faith, And Of The Knowledge Of The Son Of God, Unto A Perfect Man, Unto The Measure Of The Stature Of The Fulness Of Christ: That We Henceforth Be No More Children, Tossed To And Fro, And Carried About With Every Wind Of Doctrine, By The Sleight Of Men, And Cunning Craftiness, Whereby They Lie In Wait To Deceive; But Speaking The Truth In Love, May Grow Up Into Him In All Things, Which Is The Head, Even Christ:

Donna K Purifoy

4/12/2023

ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD

2 Corinthians 6:4-7
But In All Things Approving Ourselves As The Ministers Of God, In Much Patience, In Afflictions, In Necessities, In Distresses, In Stripes, In Imprisonments, In Tumults, In Labours, In Watchings, In Fastings; By Pureness, By Knowledge, By Longsuffering, By Kindness, By The Holy Ghost, By Love Unfeigned, By The Word Of Truth, By The Power Of God, By The Armour Of Righteousness On The Right Hand And On The Left,

Ephesians 6:11-18
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. Stand Therefore, Having Your Loins Girt About With Truth, And Having On The Breastplate Of Righteousness; And Your Feet Shod With The Preparation Of THE GOSPEL OF PEACE; Above All, Taking The Shield Of Faith, Wherewith Ye Shall Be Able To Quench All The Fiery Darts Of The Wicked. And Take The Helmet Of Salvation, And The Sword Of The Spirit, Which Is The Word Of God: Praying Always With All Prayer And Supplication In The Spirit, And Watching Thereunto With All Perseverance And Supplication For All Saints;

The Word Of God Is being twisted and discredited, not just by the so-called Christian entertainers, but by so-called preachers and teachers.
Be aware and beware of who you believe! Any person saying The Word Of God is not needed or is not true is a liar and is a false Christian. The Word Of God is how we know about God, His Creation, Jesus Christ, His Sacrifice, His Atonement, His Resurrection, His Ascension, His Return, His Catching Us Up To Heaven, and Eternal Life. The Bible Is also how we know about satan the devil, evil, sin, disobedience to God, and The Eternal Lake Of Fire.
That is why satan does everything he can to discredit The Holy Bible.
These so-called preachers are saying that we need to forget about The Bible and tether our whole message to The Resurrection Only. I have to ask how would you even know or be able to talk about The Resurrection without The Holy Bible. What would be next forget about The Resurrection, because you have no way of proving that The Resurrection happened. If you throw away The Holy Bible you might as well just quit Christianity now. I think that is the whole plan of the devil, don't you? I heard a woman so-called preacher say that God Had You Tattooed in The Palm Of His Hand, so she got two tattoos one of a Cross, and another that says love. First, she took the Holy Scripture and twisted The Word to fit her worldly views. I do not know what version of the Bible she uses but she needs to throw it away if that is what it says. This is what The True And Holy Word Of God says in Isaiah 49:16
"BEHOLD, I HAVE GRAVEN THEE UPON THE PALMS OF MY HANDS; THY WALLS ARE CONTINUALLY BEFORE ME".
THIS SCRIPTURE IS TALKING ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, HAVING NAIL-SCARED HANDS.
Psalm 22:16-18
FOR DOGS HAVE COMPASSED ME: THE ASSEMBLY OF THE WICKED HAVE INCLOSED ME: THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET. I MAY TELL ALL MY BONES: THEY LOOK AND STARE UPON ME. THEY PART MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND CAST LOTS UPON MY VESTURE.
JOHN 20:25-28
THE OTHER DISCIPLES THEREFORE SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE SEEN THE LORD. BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, EXCEPT I SHALL SEE IN HIS HANDS THE PRINT OF THE NAILS, AND PUT MY FINGER INTO THE PRINT OF THE NAILS, AND THRUST MY HAND INTO HIS SIDE, I WILL NOT BELIEVE. AND AFTER EIGHT DAYS AGAIN HIS DISCIPLES WERE WITHIN, AND THOMAS WITH THEM: THEN CAME JESUS, THE DOORS BEING SHUT, AND STOOD IN THE MIDST, AND SAID, PEACE BE UNTO YOU. THEN SAITH HE TO THOMAS, REACH HITHER THY FINGER, AND BEHOLD MY HANDS; AND REACH HITHER THY HAND, AND THRUST IT INTO MY SIDE: AND BE NOT FAITHLESS, BUT BELIEVING. AND THOMAS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, MY LORD AND MY GOD.
So if she wants to get particular about tattoos, she should have carved them into her skin, not tattooed them. If you believe that you are The Temple Of God then are you defiling it by marring The Temple with tattoos?
1 Corinthians 3:17
IF ANY MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY; FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YE ARE.

graven - cut into a desired shape
Pierced - having a hole or opening made by something sharp that penetrates or punctures
Defile - mar, or spoil
Marring - impair the appearance of; disfigure, to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of.

THE WORD OF GOD IS HOLY! READ YOUR BIBLE!

BE AWARE AND BEWARE SO THAT YOU WILL NOT BE DECEIVED!

2 Timothy 3:13-17
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE, DECEIVING, AND BEING DECEIVED. BUT CONTINUE THOU IN THE THINGS WHICH THOU HAST LEARNED AND HAST BEEN ASSURED OF, KNOWING OF WHOM THOU HAST LEARNED THEM; AND THAT FROM A CHILD THOU HAST KNOWN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, WHICH ARE ABLE TO MAKE THEE WISE UNTO SALVATION THROUGH FAITH WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS. ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS: THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE PERFECT, THROUGHLY FURNISHED UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS.

Donna K Purifoy
4/11/2023

UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH BELIEVE HE IS PRECIOUS

UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH BELIEVE HE IS PRECIOUS.

Ephesians 2:4-10

But God, Who Is Rich In Mercy, For His Great Love Wherewith He Loved Us, Even When We Were Dead In Sins, Hath Quickened Us Together With Christ, (BY GRACE YE ARE SAVED;) And Hath Raised Us Up Together, And Made Us Sit Together In Heavenly Places In Christ Jesus: That In The Ages To Come He Might Shew The Exceeding Riches Of His Grace In His Kindness Toward Us Through Christ Jesus. For By Grace Are Ye Saved Through Faith; And That Not Of Yourselves: It Is The Gift Of God: Not Of Works, Lest Any Man Should Boast. FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH BEFORE ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM.

1 Peter 2:1-12

Wherefore Laying Aside All Malice, And All Guile, And Hypocrisies, And Envies, And All Evil Speakings, As Newborn Babes, Desire The Sincere Milk Of The Word, That Ye May Grow Thereby: If So Be Ye Have Tasted That The Lord Is Gracious. To Whom Coming, As Unto A Living Stone, Disallowed Indeed Of Men, But Chosen Of God, And Precious, YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES, ARE BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE, AN HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD BY JESUS CHRIST. Wherefore Also It Is Contained In The Scripture, Behold, I Lay In Sion A Chief Corner Stone, Elect, Precious: And He That Believeth On Him Shall Not Be Confounded. UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH BELIEVE HE IS PRECIOUS: But Unto Them Which Be Disobedient, The Stone Which The Builders Disallowed, The Same Is Made The Head Of The Corner, And A Stone Of Stumbling, And A Rock Of Offence, Even To Them Which Stumble At The Word, Being Disobedient: Whereunto Also They Were Appointed. But Ye Are A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood, An Holy Nation, A Peculiar People; That Ye Should Shew Forth The Praises Of Him Who Hath Called You Out Of Darkness Into His Marvellous Light: Which In Time Past Were Not A People, But Are Now The People Of God: Which Had Not Obtained Mercy, But Now Have Obtained Mercy. Dearly Beloved, I Beseech You As Strangers And Pilgrims, Abstain From Fleshly Lusts, Which War Against The Soul; Having Your Conversation Honest Among The Gentiles: That, Whereas They Speak Against You As Evildoers, They May By Your Good Works, Which They Shall Behold, Glorify God In The Day Of Visitation.

Is Jesus Christ Precious to you? Is Precious how you describe your Lord?

Donna K Purifoy

4/10/2023

THE LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST JESUS

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou Art Of Purer Eyes Than To Behold Evil, And Canst Not Look On Iniquity: Wherefore Lookest Thou Upon Them That Deal Treacherously, And Holdest Thy Tongue When The Wicked Devoureth The Man That Is More Righteous Than He?

Matthew 27:45-46

Now From The Sixth Hour There Was Darkness Over All The Land Unto The Ninth Hour. And About The Ninth Hour Jesus Cried With A Loud Voice, Saying, Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani? That Is To Say, My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Acts 2:27,31-32,38

Because Thou Wilt Not Leave My Soul In Hell, Neither Wilt Thou Suffer Thine Holy One To See Corruption.

[31] He Seeing This Before Spake Of The Resurrection Of Christ, That His Soul Was Not Left In Hell, Neither His Flesh Did See Corruption. This Jesus Hath God Raised Up, Whereof We All Are Witnesses.

John 10:17-18

Therefore Doth My Father Love Me, Because I Lay Down My Life, That I Might Take It Again. No Man Taketh It From Me, But I Lay It Down Of Myself. I Have Power To Lay It Down, And I Have Power To Take It Again. This Commandment Have I Received Of My Father.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For He Hath Made Him To Be Sin For Us, Who Knew No Sin; That We Might Be Made The Righteousness Of God In Him.

Isaiah 52:14

As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

Psalm 22:14-18

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

Isaiah 53:5,9-12

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

[9] And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Mark 15:15-20

And So Pilate, Willing To Content The People, Released Barabbas Unto Them, And Delivered Jesus, When He Had Scourged Him, To Be Crucified. And The Soldiers Led Him Away Into The Hall, Called Praetorium; And They Call Together The Whole Band. And They Clothed Him With Purple, And Platted A Crown Of Thorns, And Put It About His Head, And Began To Salute Him, Hail, King Of The Jews! And They Smote Him On The Head With A Reed, And Did Spit Upon Him, And Bowing Their Knees Worshipped Him. And When They Had Mocked Him, They Took Off The Purple From Him, And Put His Own Clothes On Him, And Led Him Out To Crucify Him.

Romans 4:25

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

So many Christians have no idea of what Jesus Christ came for, or what He went through. So many don't know why Jesus Christ came to be The Sacrifice. You can ask what did He accomplish and how, and they will have no answer. Why? We see pictures of a small trickle of blood on His forehead and of Him on a cross, but we have no real concept of the torture, the humiliation, the vile treatment, and the complete degradation that He experienced.

He was separated from His Righteousness for us to receive Salvation. He took our sins and gave us His Righteousness. He was beaten so badly that they saw His bones out of joint. They spit on Him and pulled His beard. They hit Him in His face and said for Him to prophecy who hit Him. They stripped Him naked in front of the army and made Him put on a purple robe. He was tortured in hell to pay for all of our sins. He Was Raised Again To Prove That He Is The Son Of The Only Living God. Hallelujah! Glory To God In The Highest!

HE DID ALL OF THAT FOR US TO LIVE A SPIRIT-FILLED AND SPIRIT-FILLED LED LIFE ON THIS EARTH AND TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. IF HE COULD GO THROUGH THAT, CAN YOU LIVE FOR HIS HONOR AND GLORY?

Donna K Purifoy

4/8/2023

DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN

Galatians 2:20-21

I Am Crucified With Christ: Nevertheless I Live; Yet Not I, But Christ Liveth In Me: And The Life Which I Now Live In The Flesh I Live By The Faith Of The Son Of God, Who Loved Me, And Gave Himself For Me. I Do Not Frustrate The Grace Of God: For If Righteousness Come By The Law, Then Christ Is Dead In Vain.

Galatians 6:14

But God Forbid That I Should Glory, Save In The Cross Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, By Whom The World Is Crucified Unto Me, And I Unto The World.

Galatians 5:24

And They That Are Christ's Have Crucified The Flesh With The Affections And Lusts.

Romans 6:6-8

Galatians 5:18-22,25

But If Ye Be Led Of The Spirit, Ye Are Not Under The Law. Now The Works Of The Flesh Are Manifest, Which Are These; Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanness, Lasciviousness, Idolatry, Witchcraft, Hatred, Variance, Emulations, Wrath, Strife, Seditions, Heresies, Envyings, Murders, Drunkenness, Revellings, And Such Like: Of The Which I Tell You Before, As I Have Also Told You In Time Past, That They Which Do Such Things Shall Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God. But The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith,

[25] If We Live In The Spirit, Let Us Also Walk In The Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

For I Delivered Unto You First Of All That Which I Also Received, How That Christ Died For Our Sins According To The Scriptures; And That He Was Buried, And That He Rose Again The Third Day According To The Scriptures:

Romans 6:10-11,23

FOR IN THAT HE DIED, HE DIED UNTO SIN ONCE: BUT IN THAT HE LIVETH, HE LIVETH UNTO GOD. LIKEWISE RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES TO BE DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, But Alive Unto God Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

[23] For The Wages Of Sin Is Death; But The Gift Of God Is Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

Christ Jesus did indeed die to sin once, and He was raised on the third day. Now I ask have you died unto sin once, with Him?

Donna K Purifoy

4/8/2023

IT IS FINISHED

Before Salvation we were flesh, but when The Holy Spirit came into us and Sealed us we became Spirit. That is why Jesus Christ said he who is flesh, is flesh, But He Who Is Born of The Spirit, Is Spirit. The Law Of God Is Righteous and God Commands His people to keep all of His Law to be Righteous. Keeping The Law is something we can not do because of our flesh. So Jesus Christ came and kept The Law Of God perfectly for us. We keep the Law Of God when we have Faith In Christ Jesus And His Finished Work. Keeping The Righteousness Law Of The Law Was The Work He Came To Do. Because He Is Righteous And He Is The Only One Who Could. Jesus Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh, But He Stayed Sinless, He Kept The Law Of God Perfectly. When Jesus Christ took all of the punishment that He took, it was for us. He Was Still Sinless Until He Was On His Cross, When The World Went Dark, And He Cried Out My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me. That was the exact moment that every sin of the whole world was placed on Him. He went into hell and paid for every sin ever committed. God Raised Him Again Triumphant Over Sin, Death, And Hell For Us. Jesus Christ did everything so we don't have to. We have faith in Him and His Finished Work. That's why Jesus Christ said on His Cross "IT IS FINISHED" BECAUSE IT IS.

We were born sinful fleshly, but when we were Born Again We Became Spirit. We died to our flesh with The Body Of Jesus On His Cross. The Bible says those who are Christs' are those who have Faith in the crucifixion, the sacrifice of Christ Jesus. have crucified their flesh and their lusts, Because, we have died to our flesh with The Flesh Of Jesus Christ on His Cross. That is the only way to become A Child Of God is through His and our Crucifixion.

Romans 7:4-8

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. For When We Were In The Flesh, The Motions Of Sins, Which Were By The Law, Did Work In Our Members To Bring Forth Fruit Unto Death. 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. 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.

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

Romans 6:14-18

For Sin Shall Not Have Dominion Over You: For Ye Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace. What Then? Shall We Sin, Because We Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace? God Forbid. 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 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.

Romans 8:1-4

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.

John 3:5-7

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. Marvel Not That I Said Unto Thee, Ye Must Be Born Again.

Romans 8:9-10

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.

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.

Matthew 27:45-46

NOW FROM THE SIXTH HOUR THERE WAS DARKNESS OVER ALL THE LAND UNTO THE NINTH HOUR. AND ABOUT THE NINTH HOUR JESUS CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? THAT IS TO SAY, MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?

John 19:30

When Jesus Therefore Had Received The Vinegar, He Said, IT IS FINISHED: And He Bowed His Head, And Gave Up The Ghost.

Acts 2:27,31-32

BECAUSE THOU WILT NOT LEAVE MY SOUL IN HELL, NEITHER WILT THOU SUFFER THINE HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION. HE SEEING THIS BEFORE SPAKE OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, THAT HIS SOUL WAS NOT LEFT IN HELL, NEITHER HIS FLESH DID SEE CORRUPTION. THIS JESUS HATH GOD RAISED UP, WHEREOF WE ALL ARE WITNESSES.

I SERVE A RISEN SAVIOR!!!

Donna K Purifoy

4/5/2023

PROVE WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD

Romans 5:19

For As By One Man's Disobedience Many Were Made Sinners, So By The Obedience Of One Shall Many Be Made Righteous.

Colossians 3:1-10,12-17

If Ye Then Be Risen With Christ, Seek Those Things Which Are Above, Where Christ Sitteth On The Right Hand Of God. Set Your Affection On Things Above, Not On Things On The Earth. For Ye Are Dead, And Your Life Is Hid With Christ In God. When Christ, Who Is Our Life, Shall Appear, Then Shall Ye Also Appear With Him In Glory. [Mortify Therefore Your Members Which Are Upon The Earth; Fornication, Uncleanness, Inordinate Affection, Evil Concupiscence, And Covetousness, Which Is Idolatry: For Which Things' Sake The Wrath Of God Cometh On The Children Of Disobedience: In The Which Ye Also Walked Some Time, When Ye Lived In Them. But Now Ye Also Put Off All These; Anger, Wrath, Malice, Blasphemy, Filthy Communication Out Of Your Mouth. Lie Not One To Another, Seeing That Ye Have Put Off The Old Man With His Deeds. And Have Put On The New Man, Which Is Renewed In Knowledge After The Image Of Him That Created Him:

[12] Put On Therefore, As The Elect Of God, Holy And Beloved, Bowels Of Mercies, Kindness, Humbleness Of Mind, Meekness, Longsuffering;

Forbearing One Another, And Forgiving One Another, If Any Man Have A Quarrel Against Any: Even As Christ Forgave You, So Also Do Ye. And Above All These Things Put On Charity, Which Is The Bond Of Perfectness. And Let The Peace Of God Rule In Your Hearts, To The Which Also Ye Are Called In One Body; And Be Ye Thankful. Let The Word Of Christ Dwell In You Richly In All Wisdom; Teaching And Admonishing One Another In Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Singing With Grace In Your Hearts To The Lord. And Whatsoever Ye Do In Word Or Deed, Do All In The Name Of The Lord Jesus, Giving Thanks To God And The Father By Him.

Ephesians 5:1-20

Be Ye Therefore Followers Of God, As Dear Children; And Walk In Love, As Christ Also Hath Loved Us, And Hath Given Himself For Us An Offering And A Sacrifice To God For A Sweetsmelling Savour. But Fornication, And All Uncleanness, Or Covetousness, Let It Not Be Once Named Among You, As Becometh Saints; Neither Filthiness, Nor Foolish Talking, Nor Jesting, Which Are Not Convenient: But Rather Giving Of Thanks. For This Ye Know, That No Whoremonger, Nor Unclean Person, Nor Covetous Man, Who Is An Idolater, Hath Any Inheritance In The Kingdom Of Christ And Of God. Let No Man Deceive You With Vain Words: For Because Of These Things Cometh The Wrath Of God Upon The Children Of Disobedience. Be Not Ye Therefore Partakers With Them. For Ye Were Sometimes Darkness, But Now Are Ye Light In The Lord: Walk As Children Of Light: (For The Fruit Of The Spirit Is In All Goodness And Righteousness And Truth;) PROVING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD. And Have No Fellowship With The Unfruitful Works Of Darkness, But Rather Reprove Them. For It Is A Shame Even To Speak Of Those Things Which Are Done Of Them In Secret. But All Things That Are Reproved Are Made Manifest By The Light: For Whatsoever Doth Make Manifest Is Light. Wherefore He Saith, Awake Thou That Sleepest, And Arise From The Dead, And Christ Shall Give Thee Light. See Then That Ye Walk Circumspectly, Not As Fools, But As Wise, Redeeming The Time, Because The Days Are Evil. Wherefore Be Ye Not Unwise, But Understanding What The Will Of The Lord Is. And Be Not Drunk With Wine, Wherein Is Excess; But Be Filled With The Spirit; Speaking To Yourselves In Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Singing And Making Melody In Your Heart To The Lord; Giving Thanks Always For All Things Unto God And The Father In The Name Of Our Lord Jesus Christ;

Donna K Purifoy

4/4/2023

IN UNDERSTANDING BE MEN

1 CORINTHIANS 14:26-29

HOW IS IT THEN, BRETHREN? WHEN YE COME TOGETHER, EVERY ONE OF YOU HATH A PSALM, HATH A DOCTRINE, HATH A TONGUE, HATH A REVELATION, HATH AN INTERPRETATION. LET ALL THINGS BE DONE UNTO EDIFYING.

Have you ever been to a real Bible Church Assembly? Wait, before you say yes, read The Bible Scriptures below and then answer.

1 Corinthians 12:8-12,25,27-28

For To One Is Given By The Spirit The Word Of Wisdom; To Another The Word Of Knowledge By The Same Spirit; To Another Faith By The Same Spirit; To Another The Gifts Of Healing By The Same Spirit; To Another The Working Of Miracles; To Another Prophecy; To Another Discerning Of Spirits; To Another Divers Kinds Of Tongues; To Another The Interpretation Of Tongues: But All These Worketh That One And The Selfsame Spirit, Dividing To Every Man Severally As He Will. For As The Body Is One, And Hath Many Members, And All The Members Of That One Body, Being Many, Are One Body: So Also Is Christ.

[25] That There Should Be No Schism In The Body; But That The Members Should Have The Same Care One For Another.

[27] Now Ye Are The Body Of Christ, And Members In Particular. And God Hath Set Some In The Church, First Apostles, Secondarily Prophets, Thirdly Teachers, After That Miracles, Then Gifts Of Healings, Helps, Governments, Diversities Of Tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:22-34,40

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. If Therefore The Whole Church Be Come Together Into One Place, And All Speak With Tongues, And There Come In Those That Are Unlearned, Or Unbelievers, Will They Not Say That Ye Are Mad? But If All Prophesy, And There Come In One That Believeth Not, Or One Unlearned, He Is Convinced Of All, He Is Judged Of All: And Thus Are The Secrets Of His Heart Made Manifest; And So Falling Down On His Face He Will Worship God, And Report That God Is In You Of A Truth. How Is It Then, Brethren? When Ye Come Together, Every One Of You Hath A Psalm, Hath A Doctrine, Hath A Tongue, Hath A Revelation, Hath An Interpretation. Let All Things Be Done Unto Edifying. If Any Man Speak In An Unknown Tongue, Let It Be By Two, Or At The Most By Three, And That By Course; And Let One Interpret. But If There Be No Interpreter, Let Him Keep Silence In The Church; And Let Him Speak To Himself, And To God. Let The Prophets Speak Two Or Three, And Let The Other Judge. If Any Thing Be Revealed To Another That Sitteth By, Let The First Hold His Peace. For Ye May All Prophesy One By One, That All May Learn, And All May Be Comforted. And The Spirits Of The Prophets Are Subject To The Prophets. For God Is Not The Author Of Confusion, But Of Peace, As In All Churches Of The Saints. Let Your Women Keep Silence In The Churches: For It Is Not Permitted Unto Them To Speak; But They Are Commanded To Be Under Obedience, As Also Saith The Law.

[40] Let All Things Be Done Decently And In Order.

1 Corinthians 14:1-6,9-20

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. 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? [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. There Are, It May Be, So Many Kinds Of Voices In The World, And None Of Them Is Without Signification. Therefore If I Know Not The Meaning Of The Voice, I Shall Be Unto Him That Speaketh A Barbarian, And He That Speaketh Shall Be A Barbarian Unto Me. Even So Ye, Forasmuch As Ye Are Zealous Of Spiritual Gifts, Seek That Ye May Excel To The Edifying Of The Church. Wherefore Let Him That Speaketh In An Unknown Tongue Pray That He May Interpret. 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. Else When Thou Shalt Bless With The Spirit, How Shall He That Occupieth The Room Of The Unlearned Say Amen At Thy Giving Of Thanks, Seeing He Understandeth Not What Thou Sayest? For Thou Verily Givest Thanks Well, But The Other Is Not Edified. I Thank My God, I Speak With Tongues More Than Ye All: 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.

Now answer. I know that I have never been in an assembly that had Prophesy To Edify All, Or Any Other Of Theses Given By The Spirit, The Word Of Wisdom, The Word Of Knowledge, Faith, The Gifts Of Healing, The Working Of Miracles, Discerning Of Spirits, Different Kinds Of Tongues, The Interpretation Of Tongues. I have seen some used, but not all. I have seen some worshiped even, but not used correctly. I have seen people trying to push you down and call it The Power Of God. I have seen people laugh and layout on the floor causing a scene. (which I can find absolutely no Scripture for). I have heard singing and a Preacher Preach, but with no joy. I have seen healing services and heard their Prayers, which some prayed in tongues that were totally unedifying. and I have never been in a Spirit-filled service where the women were silent. I guess what I Am saying is, if you have, then you are Blessed because I have been a Christian for over 44 years and I have never been to one. I know we will never be The Perfect Body Of Christ, but shouldn't we at least have a few assemblies that resemble The Holy Scriptures? The exhortation from The Lord and His Children is so important, especially in this day and time, let's try to get it right. Let's be editing, not confusing. The next time you go to your assembly, look and see what your services truly are.

1 Corinthians 13:1,4-8

Though I Speak With The Tongues Of Men And Of Angels, And Have Not CHARITY, I Am Become As Sounding Brass, Or A Tinkling Cymbal.

[4] CHARITY SUFFERETH LONG, AND IS KIND; CHARITY ENVIETH NOT; CHARITY VAUNTETH NOT ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP, DOTH NOT BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY, SEEKETH NOT HER OWN, IS NOT EASILY PROVOKED, THINKETH NO EVIL; REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICETH IN THE TRUTH; BEARETH ALL THINGS, BELIEVETH ALL THINGS, HOPETH ALL THINGS, ENDURETH ALL THINGS. CHARITY NEVER FAILETH: But Whether There Be Prophecies, They Shall Fail; Whether There Be Tongues, They Shall Cease; Whether There Be Knowledge, It Shall Vanish Away.

HEBREWS 10:25

NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES TOGETHER, AS THE MANNER OF SOME IS; BUT EXHORTING ONE ANOTHER: AND SO MUCH THE MORE, AS YE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING.

LET US BE WHO WE ARE CALLED TO BE.

Donna K Purifoy

4/3/2023

THE GOSPEL OF PEACE

THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD

Faith In Jesus Christ Alone Is The Only Way To Be Righteous.

NOT BE ASHAMED BEFORE HIM AT HIS COMING

FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD

DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE, IS BLASPHEMY AND SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN

SHEW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM

WORTHY OF ME

BY THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOR EVER

WATCH AND BE SOBER

WATCH YE THEREFORE, AND PRAY ALWAYS

STEDFAST IN THE FAITH, BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT

BEFORE FAITH CAME, AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH

NO MORE STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS

NOW IT IS HIGH TIME TO AWAKE OUT OF SLEEP.

DIE, TO LIVE

IF YE THEN BE RISEN WITH CHRIST

DON'T BE UNSKILFUL IN THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD

UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH BELIEVE HE IS PRECIOUS

THE LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST JESUS

DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN

IT IS FINISHED

PROVE WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD

IN UNDERSTANDING BE MEN

THE LAW, ISRAEL, AND FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS

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