Category Archives: Be Encouraged
“Beware …”
“Beware
of
half truths;
YOU
MAY HAVE THE WRONG HALF!”
Golden Nugget
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Es ist leichter, das letzte Wort zu haben, als den ersten Schritt zu tun. – Ernst Reinhardt
“Know it before you need it”
That is the message on the advertisement I am looking at (Coffee News, Vol 156:5).
The ad tells us that the Red Cross is training people in FIRST AID. It says there also that the Red Cross leads the world in First Aid Training.
“Know it before you need it.”
We cannot know enough and we cannot learn enough.
But there is one thing we really need to know and learn and that is the Teaching of the Bible.
The Bible tells us that THE DUTY OF THE PARENTS is training the children in THE WAY THEY SHOULD GO.
In John 14:6 the Lord Jesus Christ says that he is the WAY. He is not only the Way, he is also the TRUTH and the LIFE.
Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”
You may never need your First Aid Training, but you need the Lord Jesus Christ.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. – William James
SPIRITS
We must be careful what we believe.
There are many spirits calling for our attention. The question is, are they from God or are they not from God? We are told in the Bible to test them.
RIGHT TEACHING
There is the Spirit of truth. The Spirit of truth is also the Spirit of God.
The Spirit of truth believes in the Virgin Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.
One purpose why the Lord Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem was to reveal God. Another to become the mediator between God and man. Another to save us. Another to rescue the whole creation.
Let us make sure that we don’t only teach this wonderful truth at Christmas, but every day of the year.
Right Teaching, Right Living.
WRONG TEACHING
But there is also the spirit of error.
The spirit of error is the spirit of the antichrist. We have heard that the spirit of the antichrist is coming, but the fact is that he is here already.
The spirit of error is proclaimed by the false prophets. There are quite a good number in this world.
The spirit of error does not believe in the Virgin Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Wrong Teaching, Wrong Living.
Are you listening to the right teaching, or are you listening to the wrong teaching?
Remember:
Wrong Teaching, Wrong Living!
Right Teaching, Right Living!
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Please read First John 4:1-6
FOODIE
“So, you care about what goes into your body?” it says on the back of the packet of potato crisps.
What a good question!
Another good question is, “So, you care about what goes into your mind?”
Food for the body and food for the mind.
Since I am more familiar and more interested in the food that provides mental nourishment or stimulus, I want to tell you about what I know about the food for the mind.
In “THE BOOK OF BOOKS” we read, “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”
How do we do that?
I am reading the Good Book from cover to cover usually in the morning at least one chapter a day. Yesterday I read Deuteronomy chapter 13. Chapter 13 is all about “Worshiping other Gods”.
But I read also Devotional Books. The authors are Billy Graham, C. H. Spurgeon and others.
And yes, I care about what goes into my body.
But I care even more about what goes into my mind.
I hope you do too.
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Colossians 3:2



