PEACE, BE STILL

PEACE, BE STILL

Matthew 8:24-26 

And, Behold, There Arose A Great Tempest In The Sea, Insomuch That The Ship Was Covered With The Waves: But He Was Asleep. And His Disciples Came To Him, And Awoke Him, Saying, Lord, Save Us: We Perish. And He Saith Unto Them, Why Are Ye Fearful, O Ye Of Little Faith? Then He Arose, And Rebuked The Winds And The Sea; And There Was A Great Calm.

Mark 4:38-41 

And He Was In The Hinder Part Of The Ship, Asleep On A Pillow: And They Awake Him, And Say Unto Him, Master, Carest Thou Not That We Perish? And He Arose, And Rebuked The Wind, And Said Unto The Sea, PEACE, BE STILL. And The Wind Ceased, And There Was A Great Calm. And He Said Unto Them, Why Are Ye So Fearful? How Is It That Ye Have No Faith? And They Feared Exceedingly, And Said One To Another, What Manner Of Man Is This, That Even The Wind And The Sea Obey Him?

Are You Experiencing A Great Tempest In Your Life? Call Upon The Lord, And He Will Speak PEACE BE STILL Even To The Most Fearful Things In Your Life.

Donna K Purifoy 

11/20/2024

LOINS GIRT ABOUT WITH TRUTH

LOINS GIRT ABOUT WITH TRUTH

John 14:6 

Jesus Saith Unto Him, I Am The Way, THE TRUTH, And The Life: No Man Cometh Unto The Father, But By Me.

Luke 12:35 

Let Your LOINS BE GIRDED About, And Your Lights Burning;

Ephesians 6:10-18 

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: Praying Always With All Prayer And Supplication In The Spirit, And Watching Thereunto With All Perseverance And Supplication For All Saints;

1 Peter 1:13-16 

Wherefore GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND, Be Sober, And Hope To The End For The Grace That Is To Be Brought Unto You At The Revelation Of Jesus Christ; As Obedient Children, Not Fashioning Yourselves According To The Former Lusts In Your Ignorance: But As He Which Hath Called You Is Holy, So Be Ye Holy In All Manner Of Conversation; Because It Is Written, Be Ye Holy; For I Am Holy.

All Of The Pieces Of Armour Of God Are Through Faith In Jesus Christ 

STAND THEREFORE, HAVING YOUR LOINS Girt About With Truth

John 14:6 

Jesus Saith Unto Him, I Am The Way, The TRUTH, And The Life: No Man Cometh Unto The Father, BUT BY ME.

BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS;

Romans 3:21-22 

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:

FEET SHOD WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE

Romans 5:1-2 

Therefore BEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: BY WHOM ALSO WE HAVE ACCESS BY FAITH INTO THIS GRACE WHEREIN WE STAND, AND REJOICE IN HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD.

ABOVE ALL, TAKING THE SHIELD OF FAITH,

Romans 5:1-2 

THEREFORE BEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: BY WHOM ALSO WE HAVE ACCESS BY FAITH INTO THIS GRACE WHEREIN WE STAND, AND REJOICE IN HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD.

THE HELMET OF SALVATION,

Acts 4:12 

NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER: FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN, WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED.

Romans 1:16-17 

FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH; To The Jew First, And Also The Greek.

Romans 10:9-10 

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 THEREIN IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH: AS IT IS WRITTEN, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.

THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD

John 1:14 

AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, AND DWELT AMONG US, (AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER,) FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.

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.

John 3:6 

That Which Is Born Of The Flesh Is Flesh; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.

1 John 3:1-3 

Behold, What Manner Of Love The Father Hath Bestowed Upon Us, That We Should Be Called The Sons Of God: Therefore The World Knoweth Us Not, Because It Knew Him Not. BELOVED, NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF , And It Doth Not Yet Appear What We Shall Be: BUT WE KNOW THAT, WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS. AND EVERY MAN THAT HATH THIS HOPE IN HIM PURIFIETH HIMSELF, EVEN AS HE IS PURE.

WHEREFORE GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND, Be Sober, And Hope To The End For The Grace That Is To Be Brought Unto You At The Revelation Of Jesus Christ.

Donna K Purifoy 

11/17/2024

WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD

WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD

Isaiah 1:18 

Come Now, And Let Us Reason Together, Saith The LORD: Though Your Sins Be As Scarlet, They Shall Be As White As Snow; Though They Be Red Like Crimson, They Shall Be As Wool.

1 Corinthians 6:11 

And Such Were Some Of You: But Ye Are Washed, But Ye Are Sanctified, But Ye Are Justified In The Name Of The Lord Jesus, And By The Spirit Of Our God.

Ephesians 2:13 

But Now In Christ Jesus Ye Who Sometimes Were Far Off Are Made Nigh By The Blood Of Christ.

Hebrews 10:14-23 

For By One Offering He Hath Perfected For Ever Them That Are Sanctified. Whereof The Holy Ghost Also Is A Witness To Us: For After That He Had Said Before, This Is The Covenant That I Will Make With Them After Those Days, Saith The Lord, I Will Put My Laws Into Their Hearts, And In Their Minds Will I Write Them; And Their Sins And Iniquities Will I Remember No More. Now Where Remission Of These Is, There Is No More Offering For Sin. Having Therefore, Brethren, Boldness To Enter Into The Holiest By The Blood Of Jesus, By A New And Living Way, Which He Hath Consecrated For Us, Through The Veil, That Is To Say, His Flesh; And Having An High Priest Over The House Of God; Let Us Draw Near With A True Heart In Full Assurance Of Faith, Having Our Hearts Sprinkled From An Evil Conscience, And Our Bodies Washed With Pure Water. Let us Hold Fast The Profession Of Our Faith Without Wavering; (For He Is Faithful That Promised;)

1 John 1:7 

But If We Walk In The Light, As He Is In The Light, We Have Fellowship One With Another, And The Blood Of Jesus Christ His Son Cleanseth Us From All Sin.

Hebrews 10:2 

For Then Would They Not Have Ceased To Be Offered? Because That The Worshippers Once Purged Should Have Had No More Conscience Of Sins.

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,

Revelation 12:11 

And They Overcame Him By The Blood Of The Lamb, And By The Word Of Their Testimony; And They Loved Not Their Lives Unto The Death.

Revelation 7:14 

And I Said Unto Him, Sir, Thou Knowest. And He Said To Me, These Are They Which Came Out Of Great Tribulation, And Have Washed Their Robes, And Made Them White In The Blood Of The Lamb.

Hebrews 9:11-15 

But Christ Being Come An High Priest Of Good Things To Come, By A Greater And More Perfect Tabernacle, Not Made With Hands, That Is To Say, Not Of This Building; Neither By The Blood Of Goats And Calves, But By His Own Blood He Entered In Once Into The Holy Place, Having Obtained Eternal Redemption For Us. For If The Blood Of Bulls And Of Goats, And The Ashes Of An Heifer Sprinkling The Unclean, Sanctifieth To The Purifying Of The Flesh: How Much More Shall The Blood Of Christ, Who Through The Eternal Spirit Offered Himself Without Spot To God, Purge Your Conscience From Dead Works To Serve The Living God? And For This Cause He Is The Mediator Of The New Testament, That By Means Of Death, For The Redemption Of The Transgressions That Were Under The First Testament, They Which Are Called Might Receive The Promise Of Eternal Inheritance.

John 15:1-17 

I Am The True Vine, And My Father Is The Husbandman. Every Branch In Me That Beareth Not Fruit He Taketh Away: And Every Branch That Beareth Fruit, He Purgeth It, That It May Bring Forth More Fruit. Now Ye Are Clean Through The Word Which I Have Spoken Unto You. Abide In Me, And I In You. As The Branch Cannot Bear Fruit Of Itself, Except It Abide In The Vine; No More Can Ye, Except Ye Abide In Me. I Am The Vine, Ye Are The Branches: He That Abideth In Me, And I In Him, The Same Bringeth Forth Much Fruit: For Without Me Ye Can Do Nothing. If A Man Abide Not In Me, He Is Cast Forth As A Branch, And Is Withered; And Men Gather Them, And Cast Them Into The Fire, And They Are Burned. If Ye Abide In Me, And My Words Abide In You, Ye Shall Ask What Ye Will, And It Shall Be Done Unto You. Herein Is My Father Glorified, That Ye Bear Much Fruit; So Shall Ye Be My Disciples. As The Father Hath Loved Me, So Have I Loved You: Continue Ye In My Love. If Ye Keep My Commandments, Ye Shall Abide In My Love; Even As I Have Kept My Father's Commandments, And Abide In His Love. These Things Have I Spoken Unto You, That My Joy Might Remain In You, And That Your Joy Might Be Full. This Is My Commandment, That Ye Love One Another, As I Have Loved You. Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends. Ye Are My Friends, If Ye Do Whatsoever I Command You. Henceforth I Call You Not Servants; For The Servant Knoweth Not What His Lord Doeth: But I Have Called You Friends; For All Things That I Have Heard Of My Father I Have Made Known Unto You. Ye Have Not Chosen Me, But I Have Chosen You, And Ordained You, That Ye Should Go And Bring Forth Fruit, And That Your Fruit Should Remain: That Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask Of The Father In My Name, He May Give It You. 

These Things I Command You, That Ye Love One Another.

Donna K Purifoy 

11/12/2024

OF HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE,

OF HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE, 

Romans 14:23 

And He That Doubteth Is Damned If He Eat, BECAUSE HE EATETH NOT OF FAITH: FOR WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN.

Hebrews 10:26-39 

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? For We Know Him That Hath Said, Vengeance Belongeth Unto Me, I Will Recompense, Saith The Lord. And Again, The Lord Shall Judge His People. It Is A Fearful Thing To Fall Into The Hands Of The Living God. But Call To Remembrance The Former Days, in which, after ye were illuminated, Ye Endured A Great Fight Of Afflictions; Partly, Whilst Ye Were Made A Gazingstock Both By Reproaches And Afflictions; And Partly, Whilst Ye Became Companions Of Them That Were So Used. For Ye Had Compassion Of Me In My Bonds, And Took Joyfully The Spoiling Of Your Goods, Knowing In Yourselves That Ye Have In Heaven A Better And An Enduring Substance. 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. For Yet A Little While, And He That Shall Come Will Come, And Will Not Tarry. 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.

DESPISED 

1. To regard with contempt or scorn: 

2. To dislike intensely; loathe

Hebrews 10:29 

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.

Romans 6:1-23 

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. 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.

Donna K Purifoy

11/10/2024

ASK IN FAITH

ASK IN FAITH

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.

Hebrews 11:1,3 

Now Faith Is The Substance Of Things Hoped For, The Evidence Of Things Not Seen. 

[3] Through Faith We Understand That The Worlds Were Framed By The Word Of God, So That Things Which Are Seen Were Not Made Of Things Which Do Appear.

God knew that when He spoke "Let There Be" what He Willed was going to come to pass. 

Genesis 1:3 

And God Said, Let There Be Light: And There Was Light.

Genesis 1:6-7 

And God said, Let There Be A Firmament In The Midst Of The Waters, And Let It Divide The Waters From The Waters. And God Made The Firmament, And Divided The Waters Which Were Under The Firmament From The Waters Which Were Above The Firmament: And It Was So.

Genesis 1:9 

And God Said, Let The Waters under The Heaven Be Gathered Together Unto One Place, And Let The Dry Land Appear: And It Was So.

Genesis 1:11-12 

And God Said, Let The Earth Bring Forth Grass, The Herb Yielding Seed, And The Fruit Tree Yielding Fruit After His Kind, Whose Seed Is In Itself, Upon The Earth: And It Was So. And The Earth Brought Forth Grass, And Herb Yielding Seed After His Kind, And The Tree Yielding Fruit, Whose Seed Was In Itself, After His Kind: And God Saw That It Was Good.

Genesis 1:20-22 

And God Said, Let The Waters Bring Forth Abundantly The Moving Creature That Hath Life, And Fowl That May Fly Above The Earth In The Open Firmament Of Heaven. And God Created Great Whales, And Every Living Creature That Moveth, Which The Waters Brought Forth Abundantly, After Their Kind, And Every Winged Fowl After His Kind: And God saw that it was good. And God blessed Them, Saying, Be Fruitful, And Multiply, And Fill The Waters In The Seas, And Let Fowl Multiply In The Earth.

Genesis 1:14-15 

And God Said, Let There Be Lights In The Firmament Of The Heaven To Divide The Day From The Night; And Let Them Be For Signs, And For Seasons, And For Days, And Years: And Let Them Be For Lights In The Firmament Of The Heaven To Give Light Upon The Earth: And It Was So.

Genesis 1:24 

And God Said, Let The Earth Bring Forth The Living Creature After His Kind, Cattle, And Creeping Thing, And Beast Of The Earth After His Kind: And It Was So.

Genesis 1:26-31 

And God Said, Let Us Make Man In Our Image, After Our Likeness: And Let Them Have Dominion Over The Fish Of The Sea, And Over The Fowl Of The Air, And Over The Cattle, And Over All The Earth, And Over Every Creeping Thing That Creepeth Upon The Earth. So God Created Man In His Own Image, In The Image Of God Created He Him; Male And Female Created He Them. And God Blessed Them, And God Said Unto Them, Be Fruitful, And Multiply, And Replenish The Earth, And Subdue It: And Have Dominion Over The Fish Of The Sea, And Over The Fowl Of The Air, And Over Every Living Thing That Moveth Upon The Earth. And God Said, Behold, I Have Given You Every Herb Bearing Seed, Which Is Upon The Face Of All The Earth, And Every Tree, In The Which Is The Fruit Of A Tree Yielding Seed; To You It Shall Be For Meat. And To Every Beast Of The Earth, And To Every Fowl Of The Air, And To Every Thing That Creepeth Upon The Earth, Wherein There Is Life, I Have Given Every Green Herb For Meat: And It Was So. And God Saw Every Thing That He Had Made, And, Behold, It Was Very Good. And The Evening And The Morning Were The Sixth Day.

1 John 5:11-15 

And This Is The Record, That God Hath Given To Us Eternal Life, And This Life Is In His Son. He That Hath The Son Hath Life; And He That Hath Not The Son Of God Hath Not Life. These Things Have I Written Unto You That Believe On The Name Of The Son Of God; That Ye May Know That Ye Have Eternal Life, And That Ye May Believe On The Name Of The Son Of God. And This Is The Confidence That We Have In Him, That, If We Ask Any Thing According To His Will, He Heareth Us: And If We Know That He Hear Us, Whatsoever We Ask, We Know That We Have The Petitions That We Desired Of Him.

Are You In Need? Believe God Can Do Whatever You Ask According To His Will. 

Donna K Purifoy 

11/02/2024

WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN

WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN

Romans 6:14 

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

Titus 1:15-16 

Unto The Pure All Things Are Pure: But Unto Them That Are Defiled And Unbelieving Is Nothing Pure; But Even Their Mind And Conscience Is Defiled. They Profess That They Know God; But In Works They Deny Him, Being Abominable, And Disobedient, And Unto Every Good Work Reprobate.

1 Timothy 1:3-19 

As I Besought Thee To Abide Still At Ephesus, When I Went Into Macedonia, That Thou Mightest Charge Some That They Teach No Other Doctrine, Neither Give Heed To Fables And Endless Genealogies, Which Minister Questions, Rather Than Godly Edifying Which Is In Faith: So Do. Now The End Of The Commandment Is Charity Out Of A Pure Heart, And Of A Good Conscience, And Of Faith Unfeigned: From Which Some Having Swerved Have Turned Aside Unto Vain Jangling; Desiring To Be Teachers Of The Law; Understanding Neither What They Say, Nor Whereof They Affirm. But We Know That The Law Is Good, If A Man Use It Lawfully; Knowing This, That The Law Is Not Made For A Righteous Man, But For The Lawless And Disobedient, For The Ungodly And For Sinners, For Unholy And Profane, For Murderers Of Fathers And Murderers Of Mothers, For Manslayers, For Whoremongers, For Them That Defile Themselves With Mankind, For Menstealers, For Liars, For Perjured Persons, And If There Be Any Other Thing That Is Contrary To Sound Doctrine; According To The Glorious Gospel Of The Blessed God, Which Was Committed To My Trust. And I Thank Christ Jesus Our Lord, Who Hath Enabled Me, For That He Counted Me Faithful, Putting Me Into The Ministry; Who Was Before A Blasphemer, And A Persecutor, And Injurious: But I Obtained Mercy, Because I Did It Ignorantly In Unbelief. And The Grace Of Our Lord Was Exceeding Abundant With Faith And Love Which Is In Christ Jesus. This Is A Faithful Saying, And Worthy Of All Acceptation, That Christ Jesus Came Into The World To Save Sinners; Of Whom I Am Chief. Howbeit For This Cause I Obtained Mercy, That In Me First Jesus Christ Might Shew Forth All Longsuffering, For A Pattern To Them Which Should Hereafter Believe On Him To Life Everlasting. Now Unto The King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, The Only Wise God, Be Honour And Glory For Ever And Ever. Amen. This Charge I Commit Unto Thee, Son Timothy, According To The Prophecies Which Went Before On Thee, That Thou By Them Mightest War A Good Warfare; Holding Faith, And A Good Conscience; Which Some Having Put Away Concerning Faith Have Made Shipwreck:

Romans 14:11-23,15:1-7

For It Is Written, As I Live, Saith The Lord, Every Knee Shall Bow To Me, And Every Tongue Shall Confess To God. So Then Every One Of Us Shall Give Account Of Himself To God. Let Us Not Therefore Judge One Another Any More: But Judge This Rather, That No Man Put a Stumblingblock Or An Occasion To Fall In His Brother's Way. I Know, And Am Persuaded By The Lord Jesus, That There Is Nothing Unclean Of Itself: But To Him That Esteemeth Any Thing To Be Unclean, To Him It Is Unclean. But If Thy Brother Be Grieved With Thy Meat, Now Walkest Thou Not Charitably. Destroy Not Him With Thy Meat, For Whom Christ Died. Let Not Then Your Good Be Evil Spoken Of: For The Kingdom Of God Is Not Meat And Drink; But Righteousness, And Peace, And Joy In The Holy Ghost. For He That In These Things Serveth Christ Is Acceptable To God, And Approved Of Men. Let Us Therefore Follow After The Things Which Make For Peace, And Things Wherewith One May Edify Another. For Meat Destroy Not The Work Of God. All Things Indeed Are Pure; But It Is Evil For That Man Who Eateth With Offence. It Is Good Neither To Eat Flesh, Nor To Drink Wine, Nor Any Thing Whereby Thy Brother Stumbleth, Or Is Offended, Or Is Made Weak. Hast Thou Faith? Have It To Thyself Before God. Happy Is He That Condemneth Not Himself In That Thing Which He Alloweth. And He That Doubteth Is Damned If He Eat, Because He Eateth Not Of Faith: FOR WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN.

We Then That Are Strong Ought To Bear The Infirmities Of The Weak, And Not To Please Ourselves. Let Every One Of Us Please His Neighbour For His Good To Edification. For Even Christ Pleased Not Himself; But, As It Is Written, The Reproaches Of Them That Reproached Thee Fell On Me. 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. Wherefore Receive Ye One Another, As Christ Also Received Us To The Glory Of God.

Donna K Purifoy 

11/01/2024