Monday, February 28, 2011

Dearly Beloved:

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Dearly beloved, choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.  Esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt.  Greater riches than all the treasures this world can offer.

Dearly beloved, come out from among them, be ye separate.

Dearly beloved, desire a better country, an heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called your God, for He hath prepared you a city.

Dearly beloved, be persuaded of the great and precious promises the Lord has given and will give, embrace them, confess that you are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Dearly beloved, don't despise the riches of His goodness and forebearance and longsuffering. Don't you know that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?  

Dearly beloved, do not let thy heart be hardness and impenitent, treasuring up unto yourself the wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Dearly beloved, know that the Lord will render to every man according to his deeds; unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.  There will be tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil in the day of judgment.

Dearly beloved, believe when God's Word says, to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory, honour and immortality will receive eternal life.

Dearly beloved, many will seek to enter in but shall not be able.

Dearly beloved, if you are crucified with Him you shall also be raised with Him.

Dearly beloved, you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation, manner of life, received by the traditions of your fathers.

Dearly beloved, you were redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb, without blemish and without spot.

Dearly beloved,  if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. 

Dearly beloved, if thou be lukewarm He will spew you out of His mouth, as many as He love He chasten, be zealous therefore and repent.

Dearly beloved, if a man abide not in Jesus, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Dearly beloved, you were born again by incorruptible seed.

Dearly beloved, His Word declares, the righteous are scarcely saved.

Dearly beloved, cleave to Him, the Author and Perfecter of your faith.

Dearly beloved, set no wicked thing before your eyes.

Dearly beloved, forget not all His benefits.

Dearly beloved, praise His great and terrible Name; for it is holy.

Dearly beloved, be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

Dearly beloved, put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.

Dearly beloved,  pure religion, undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 

Dearly beloved, I beseech you, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Dearly beloved, be not as Nadab and Abihu who worshiped God in a way He did not command them to.  The offering was what He commanded, but the way in which they offered it was not as He instructed.  So He consumed them with fire.  

Dearly beloved,  exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  

Dearly beloved, 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 marvelous light.

Dearly beloved, live soberly, godly and righteously in this present age, not loving the things of this world.

Dearly beloved, worship Him in the way He commands in the Word of God, no other way.

Dearly beloved, thou shalt have no other gods before Him.

Dearly beloved, it is the GRACE OF GOD that teaches us to deny ungodly and worldly lusts.

Dearly beloved, without the Holy Spirit in you this is impossible.  No good thing lies in your flesh, only death. 

Dearly beloved, if you have been crucified with Christ: nevertheless you live; yet not you, but Christ liveth in you: and the life which you now live in the flesh you live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved you, and gave himself for you.

Dearly beloved, walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.  Walk in love, as Christ has loved us.

Dearly beloved, for ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.

Dearly beloved, walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.

Dearly beloved, redeem the time, because the days are evil.

Dearly beloved, do you look like the world?  Oh how this grieves the Spirit of God, how is quenches His Spirit.  Let this not be so.  Be not leavened, for a little leaven, a little compromise, leavens the whole lump.  I plead with you to put away the old man, crucify the old man in Christ Jesus, confess, repent to the Lord and King of kings, come out and be ye separate, child of God, not looking like the world.  Seek ye the Lord.  Forsake your ways and your thoughts.  For His thoughts are so much higher than yours.  Turn from idols to serve the Living God.  The time is short.  Seek Him in truth.

 

Luke 13:24; Romans 2:3-10; Hebrews 11:16, 25, 26; 1 Peter 2:11, 1 Peter 1; John 15; James 1:27; Revelation 3:16,19; Psalm 103;  Psalm 101; Psalm 99; Ephesians 4:23; Romans 12; Ephesians 5:2,8; Leviticus 10; Exodus 20:3; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:9; Hebrews 3:13

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