Step Up or
Spit
Up
(And I don't mean to the Baptist Buffet plate, either)
Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his
face evermore.
Psalm 105:4
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart
said unto thee,
Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Psalm 27:8
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness,
but unto holiness.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth
not man, but God,
who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
I Thessalonians 4:7,8
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ARE
YOU READY TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE?
Not for "sin" - you have no sin in
your life - see notes on "Sin
Is Not the Issue"
But you do have "wrong" in your
life and you will pay for it at the Judgment Seat of Christ!
I Corinthians 3:11-16
II Corinthians 5:1-10
Colossians 3:24,25
IF
IT ISN'T YOUR PITCH, THEN DON'T SWING!
Some pitchers (preachers) can get
you to swing at anything!
If you are not sure, then check
with your 'coach' - or your 'joy helper!'
Don't just swing at everything
the preacher throws at you!
The easiest way to hit, is to toss
your own ball up and hit it!
NOT
READY TO STEP UP YET? NOT INTERESTED? DON'T WANNA?
You are rejecting / ignoring the goodness
of God!
Romans 2:4b
- ...the goodness of God leadeth
thee to repentance?
You are either 'unlearned' or you
are a typical modern ungrateful, selfish, proud and spoiled brat!
See Notes & Comments on Spoiled
Brats!!!
Paul is glad to have the privilege
to preach to you... In regards to the marvelous goodness of God in regards
to sin, etc. read II Corinthians 7:1-10.
His "preaching" produced repentance in your life... Having
therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from
all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear
of God. verse
1
Don't
reject the call to holiness...
Romans 6:15-23
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.
I Thessalonians 4:7 For
God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Ephesians 4:24 And
that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness
and true holiness.
Aged
Women Should Stand Up at the Plate, too!
And you aged ladies, God isn't done
with you, either - you can still stand up to the plate... Titus
2:3-5 The
aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not
false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they
may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love
their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient
to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Some of our younger ladies struggle
because you older ladies aren't there doing your job - teaching the young
women... Psalm
71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation,
and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalm 55:19 God shall hear, and afflict
them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have
no changes, therefore they fear not God. Ecclesiastes
4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child
than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Don't
reject the call to godliness...
I Timothy 2:1,2 I
exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that
are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness
and honesty.
I Timothy 4:7,8
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto
godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable
unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which
is to come.
I Timothy 6:3-6
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the
words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according
to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions
and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth,
supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness
with contentment is great gain.
Reject
UNgodliness
II Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
II Timothy 3:5 Having
a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Titus 2:11-15
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that
blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour
Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man
despise thee.
Make no provision for the flesh!
(Read Devils Baggage)
Romans 13:14 But
put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh,
to fulfil the lusts thereof.
At
least STAND up to the Plate!!!!!!!!
We have been invaded!
WE
ARE NOT THE INVADERS!
We will not go into them neither
will we let them come into us! Stonewall
Jackson
We have been invaded - they have
chosen civil war - we are not invading them!
We left the land of tyranny
together, now we are shooting at each other!
General Lee lost the big battle
at Gettysburg - he was in the Union territory!
Jude 3,4 Beloved,
when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it
was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there
are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this
condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I John 2:19 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.
They accuse US of sowing discord
when in all reality,
THEY are the ones who brought
in this poison!
...perverted bibles
...devils music
...damnable heresies
...twisted application to truth
...lower moral standards
...worldliness
...ungodliness
...Old Testament Holiness
...New Testament holiness wrongly
divided
...wrong division period!
...perverted & doubtful disputations
THEY sow discord, not us!
These six things doth the
LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying
tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth
wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false
witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Proverbs 6:16
A marvelous warning - you couldn't
be more specific in application!
But there were false prophets
also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that
bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall
be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned
words make merchandise of you:
For when they speak great
swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through
much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption:
for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For
if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge
of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein,
and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
II Peter 2:1-3; 18-20
By the way,
have you ever read the Jesuit Oath that documents truth regarding the infiltration
into OUR pulpits from the Catholic Church? You must read this
and then consider if Christians have even taken on their same philosophy!
This is totally worth your complete
read... Jesuit
Oath Exposed
Modern
Christians reject HIS COUNSEL!
Jeremiah 23:22,23
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my
words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from
the evil of their doings.
Am I a God at hand, saith
the LORD, and not a God afar off?
We just are
trying to stand!
Pastors need to stand in the door
of the church!
Pastors need to stand in front
of the piano!
Pastors need to stand in their
pulpits!
Dad's need to stand in the gate
to their property!
Dad's need to stand between their
wife and the world!
Dad's need to stand between their
kids and the world!
Mom's need to stand with their
husbands!
Mom's need to stand for their husbands
when they are absent during the day!
Kids need to stand behind these
doors until they are ready to stand themselves!
STAND
There are three ways to stand...
1.
Gazing up waiting for the rapture!
Acts 1:11
Which also said, Ye men of
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is
taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have
seen him go into heaven.
2.
Standing in there for Him, with Him & because of Him!
(because of His goodness, etc)...
(take your swing at wrong - check with your coaches
if you need to, but hey, you are in the major leagues now -
you are KJV. The coaches are there to help
you, but...)
Watch ye, stand fast in the
faith, quit you like men, be strong.
I Corinthians 16:13
Stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again
with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:1
Put on the whole armour of
God,
that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil.
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;
Ephesians 6:11,13,14
For now we live, if ye stand
fast in the Lord.
I Thessalonians 3:8
Fight the good fight of
faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called,
and hast professed a good
profession before many witnesses.
I Timothy 6:12
How excellent is thy name...
Psalm 8:1 -
Psalm 8:9
Psalm 36:7
Psalm 148:13
Psalm 150:2
Isaiah 12:5
3.
Make Jesus stand at your door and keep knocking!
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door,
and knock:
if any man hear my voice,
and open the door,
I will come in to him, and
will sup with him, and he with me.
Make Your Choice!
Gaze, Stand or hide - or just spit in His face!
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