When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel.(Acts 19:28-29) Paul's experience at Ephesus…
Read MorePsalms 109:1-5 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise! (2) For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. (3) They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. (4) In return for…
Read More1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. (8) Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Most of you know that RASNs (revilers, abusers, sociopaths, narcissists) are…
Read MoreHave 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)…
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