Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?(Galatians 4:16) "If you want to be respected, then stop getting angry when you are told the truth." That is a great quote I heard recently in a video about Winston Churchill. His wife, Clementine, had passed on some constructive…
Read MoreThey make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.(Galatians 4:17) Revilers, abusers, sociopaths, and narcissists never give, they always take. Just as the Apostle Paul warned the Galatians, RASNs flatter, but only so that they can…
Read MoreBut a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. (Acts 5:1-2) I want to warn everyone about…
Read MoreColossians 4:6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. The RASNs (reviler, abuser, sociopath, narcissist) words are anything but gracious. In sooo many ways they are, as Paul puts it in Romans, the poison of asps,…
Read MoreMalachi 1:1-2a The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. (2) “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” Malachi 1:6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is…
Read MoreWhoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. (Proverbs 26:24-26) Those verses nail it! When…
Read MoreAnd this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. (John 3:19-20)…
Read More2 Corinthians 11:13-15 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. (14) And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. (15) So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will…
Read MoreYou have heard this kind of teaching so many times, I am sure: God loves you no matter who you are or what you have done. God loves everyone. You need to do the same thing. If your spouse is abusive to you, if they have committed adultery on you,…
Read MoreJohn 8:43-45 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. (44) You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the…
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