Monday, October 20, 2008

Who you ARE and who you are NOT

Here are some Scriptures that remind me of who I am and who I am not. I know I need to be reminded. Hopefully they will encourage you too.

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Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

-2 Corinthians 5:17

No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.

-1 Corinthians 10:13

Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.

-1 Peter 5:8-9

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

-James 4:7

Therefore we have been buried in Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.

Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

Having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

-Romans 6:4-7, 11-14, 18

Therefore, gird your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."

-1 Peter 1:13-16

...if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

-1 John 1:7-8

Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.

-1 Peter 2:16

All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.

-1 Corinthians 10:23

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

-2 Corinthians 10:5

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

-Psalm 103:12

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Watch out for the worry of the world

And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

-Matthew 13:22

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