James

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James
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• For if we sin wilfully after that we have
  received the knowledge of the truth, there
  remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, but a
  certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a
  fierceness of fire which shall devour the
  adversaries. (Hebrews 1026-27 ASV)

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• But what about people who turn away after they
  have already seen the light and have received the
  gift from heaven and have shared in the Holy
  Spirit? What about those who turn away after they
  have received the good message of God and the
  powers of the future world? There is no way to
  bring them back. What they are doing is the same
  as nailing the Son of God to a cross and
  insulting him in public! (Hebrews 64-6 CEV)

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• We are well aware that no one who is a child of
  God sins, because he who was born from God
  protects him, and the Evil One has no hold over
  him. (1 John 518 NJB)

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• For if we sin wilfully after that we have
  received the knowledge of the truth, there
  remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, but a
  certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a
  fierceness of fire which shall devour the
  adversaries. (Hebrews 1026-27 ASV)
• For if we go on deliberately and willingly
  sinning after once acquiring the knowledge of the
  Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice left to
  atone for our sins. (Hebrews 1026
  Amplified)

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• But what about people who turn away after they
  have already seen the light and have received the
  gift from heaven and have shared in the Holy
  Spirit? What about those who turn away after they
  have received the good message of God and the
  powers of the future world? There is no way to
  bring them back. What they are doing is the same
  as nailing the Son of God to a cross and
  insulting him in public! (Hebrews 64-6 CEV)
• For when people have once been enlightened,
  tasted the heavenly gift, become sharers in the
  Holy Spirit, and tasted the goodness of Gods
  Word and the powers of the future world and
  then have fallen away it is impossible to renew
  them so that they turn from their sin, as long as
  for themselves they keep executing the Son of God
  on the stake all over again and keep holding him
  up to public contempt. (Hebrews 64-6 JNT)

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• We are well aware that no one who is a child of
  God sins, because he who was born from God
  protects him, and the Evil One has no hold over
  him. (1 John 518 NJB)
• We know that no children of God keep on sinning,
  for the Son of God keeps them safe, and the Evil
  One cannot harm them. (1 John 518 GN)

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James
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• My friends, consider yourselves fortunate when
  all kinds of trials come your way, for you know
  that when your faith succeeds in facing such
  trials, the result is the ability to endure. Make
  sure that your endurance carries you all the way
  without failing, so that you may be perfect and
  complete, lacking nothing. (James 12-4 GN)

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• But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray
  to God, who will give it to you because God
  gives generously and graciously to all. (James
  15 GN)

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• My child, learn what I teach you and never
  forget what I tell you to do. Listen to what is
  wise and try to understand it. Yes, beg for
  knowledge plead for insight. Look for it as hard
  as you would for silver or some hidden treasure.
  If you do, you will know what it means to fear
  the LORD and you will succeed in learning about
  God. It is the LORD who gives wisdom from him
  come knowledge and understandingIf you listen to
  me, you will know what is right, just, and fair.
  You will know what you should do. You will become
  wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure.
  (Proverbs 21-6 GN)

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• To be wise you must first have reverence for the
  LORD. If you know the Holy One, you have
  understanding. (Proverbs 910 GN)
• But God has brought you into union with Christ
  Jesus, and God has made Christ to be our
  wisdom... As the scripture says, Who knows the
  mind of the Lord? Who is able to give him
  advice? We, however, have the mind of Christ.
  (1 Corinthians 130 216 GN)

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• And so I say to you Ask, and you will receive
  seek, and you will find knock, and the door will
  be opened to you. For those who ask will receive,
  and those who seek will find, and the door will
  be opened to anyone who knocks. (Luke 119-10
  GN)
• As bad as you are, you know how to give good
  things to your children. How much more, then,
  will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to
  those who ask him! (Luke 1113 GN)

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• Are there any of you who are wise and
  understanding? You are to prove it by your good
  life, by your good deeds performed with humility
  and wisdom. But if in your heart you are jealous,
  bitter, and selfish, dont sin against the truth
  by boasting of your wisdom. Such wisdom does not
  come down from heaven it belongs to the world,
  it is unspiritual and demonic. Where there is
  jealousy and selfishness, there is also disorder
  and every kind of evil. But the wisdom from above
  is pure first of all it is also peaceful,
  gentle, and friendly it is full of compassion
  and produces a harvest of good deeds it is free
  from prejudice and hypocrisy. And goodness is the
  harvest that is produced from the seeds the
  peacemakers plant in peace. (James 313-18 GN)

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• These are the solemn words of Agur son of Jakeh
  God is not with me, God is not with me, and I am
  helpless. I am more like an animal than a human
  being I do not have the sense we humans should
  have. I have never learned any wisdom, and I know
  nothing at all about God. (Proverbs 301-3 GN)

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• My friends, what good is it for one of you to
  say that you have faith if your actions do not
  prove it? Can that faith save you? Suppose there
  are brothers or sisters who need clothes and
  don't have enough to eat. What good is there in
  your saying to them, God bless you! Keep warm
  and eat well!---if you don't give them the
  necessities of life? So it is with faith if it
  is alone and includes no actions, then it is
  dead. But someone will say, One person has
  faith, another has actions. My answer is, Show
  me how anyone can have faith without actions. I
  will show you my faith by my actions. (James
  214-18 GN)

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• Do you believe that there is only one God? Good!
  The demons also believe---and tremble with fear.
  You fool! Do you want to be shown that faith
  without actions is useless? How was our ancestor
  Abraham put right with God? It was through his
  actions, when he offered his son Isaac on the
  altar. Can't you see? His faith and his actions
  worked together his faith was made perfect
  through his actions. And the scripture came true
  that said, Abraham believed God, and because of
  his faith God accepted him as righteous. And so
  Abraham was called God's friend. You see, then,
  that it is by our actions that we are put right
  with God, and not by our faith alone. It was the
  same with the prostitute Rahab. She was put right
  with God through her actions, by welcoming the
  Israelite spies and helping them to escape by a
  different road. So then, as the body without the
  spirit is dead, also faith without actions is
  dead. (James 219-26 GN)

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• For we conclude that a person is put right with
  God only through faith, and not by doing what the
  Law commands.God is one, and he will put the
  Jews right with himself on the basis of their
  faith, and will put the Gentiles right through
  their faith. (Romans 328-30 GN)
• Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean
  that we can forget about the law? Of course not!
  In fact, only when we have faith do we truly
  fulfill the law. (Romans 331 NLT)

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• Through him God gave me the privilege of being
  an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to
  lead people of all nations to believe and obey.
  (Romans 15 GN)
• What counts is whether we really have been
  changed into new and different people.
  (Galatians 615 NLT)
• We know that we have left death and come over
  into life we know it because we love others.
  Those who do not love are still under the power
  of death. (1 John 314 GN)

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• Be under obligation to no one---the only
  obligation you have is to love one another.
  Whoever does this has obeyed the Law. The
  commandments, Do not commit adultery do not
  commit murder do not steal do not desire what
  belongs to someone else---all these, and any
  others besides, are summed up in the one command,
  Love your neighbor as you love yourself. If you
  love others, you will never do them wrong to
  love, then, is to obey the whole Law. (Romans
  138-10 GN)

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• You will be doing the right thing if you obey
  the law of the Kingdom, which is found in the
  scripture, Love your neighbor as you love
  yourself. (James 28 GN)

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• All of us often make mistakes. But if a person
  never makes a mistake in what he says, he is
  perfect and is also able to control his whole
  being. We put a bit into the mouth of a horse to
  make it obey us, and we are able to make it go
  where we want. Or think of a ship big as it is
  and driven by such strong winds, it can be
  steered by a very small rudder, and it goes
  wherever the pilot wants it to go. So it is with
  the tongue small as it is, it can boast about
  great things. Just think how large a forest can
  be set on fire by a tiny flame! And the tongue is
  like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying
  its place in our bodies and spreading evil
  through our whole being.

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• It sets on fire the entire course of our
  existence with the fire that comes to it from
  hell itself. We humans are able to tame and have
  tamed all other creatures---wild animals and
  birds, reptiles and fish. But no one has ever
  been able to tame the tongue. It is evil and
  uncontrollable, full of deadly poison. We use it
  to give thanks to our Lord and Father and also to
  curse other people, who are created in the
  likeness of God. Words of thanksgiving and
  cursing pour out from the same mouth. My friends,
  this should not happen! (James 31-10)

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• Do not criticize one another, my friends. If you
  criticize or judge another Christian, you
  criticize and judge the Law. If you judge the
  Law, then you are no longer one who obeys the
  Law, but one who judges it. God is the only
  lawgiver and judge. He alone can save and
  destroy. Who do you think you are, to judge
  someone else? (James 411-12 GN)

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• The tongues of those who are upright and in
  right standing with God are as choice silver the
  minds of those who are wicked and out of harmony
  with God are of little value. (Proverbs 1020 -
  Amplified)

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• If you would bear in mind that whatever measure
  you mete to others it shall be meted to you
  again, you would be more cautious in your speech,
  milder and more forgiving in your disposition.
  Christ came into the world to bring all
  resistance and authority into subjection to
  Himself, but He did not claim obedience through
  the strength of argument or the voice of command
  He went about doing good and teaching His
  followers the things which belonged to their
  peace. He stirred up no strife, He resented no
  personal injuries, but met with meek submission
  the insults, the false accusations, and the cruel
  scourging of those who hated Him and condemned
  Him to death. Christ is our example. His life is
  a practical illustration of His divine teachings.
  His character is a living exhibition of the way
  to do good and overcome evil.

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• You have nursed your resentment against your
  husband and others who have wronged you, but have
  failed to perceive wherein you have erred and
  made matters worse by your own wrong course. Your
  spirit has been bitter against those who have
  done you injustice, and your feelings have found
  vent in reproaches and censure. This would give
  momentary relief to your burdened heart, but it
  has left a lasting scar upon your soul. The
  tongue is a little member, but you have
  cultivated its improper use until it has become a
  consuming fire. (4T 138,139)

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• Both of you need to guard against a hasty spirit,
  which prompts hasty words and actions.
  Resentment, which is indulged because you think
  you have been misused, is the spirit of Satan and
  leads to great moral evil. When you are
  controlled by a hasty spirit you deprive your
  reason, for the time, of the power of regulating
  your words and your conduct, while you make
  yourselves responsible for all the evil
  consequences. That which is done in haste and
  anger is not excusable. The action is bad. You
  may, by a single word spoken in haste and
  passion, leave a sting in the hearts of friends
  which may never be forgotten. Unless you exercise
  self-control you will be a most unhappy couple.
  You each ascribe your unhappy life to the faults
  of the other but do this no more. Make it a rule
  never to speak a word of censure to each other,
  but commend and praise whenever you can. 4T
  242.3

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• Some think it is a virtue to be unrestrained, and
  they will speak in praise of their outspoken
  habit of talking out disagreeable things which
  are in the heart. They let an angry spirit
  exhaust itself in a torrent of reproach and
  faultfinding. The more they talk, the more
  excited they become, and Satan stands by to help
  on the work, for it suits him. The words irritate
  the one to whom they are spoken, and they will be
  thrown back, giving provocation for still harder
  words, until a little matter has blazed into a
  great flame. Both of you feel that you have all
  the trials that you can possibly endure and that
  your lives are most unhappy. Resolutely commence
  the work of controlling your thoughts, your
  words, your actions. When either of you feels the
  rising of resentment, make it a rule to go by
  yourself and humbly pray to God, who will hearken
  to the prayer which goeth not forth from feigned
  lips. 4T 243.1

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• And now, you rich people, listen to me! Weep and
  wail over the miseries that are coming upon you!
  Your riches have rotted away, and your clothes
  have been eaten by moths. Your gold and silver
  are covered with rust, and this rust will be a
  witness against you and will eat up your flesh
  like fire. You have piled up riches in these last
  days. (James 51-3 GN)

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Revelation

• Jesus is a lamb
• Jesus comes back with a sword in his mouth
• Horns
• Beasts
• A dragon
• Two olive trees
• Seven lampstands, seven stars, seven seals, seven
  trumpets
• A great prostitute
• Three frogs
• Mark of the beast and a seal of God
• Fire

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• I saw heaven standing open. There was a white
  horse, and its rider is named Faithful and True.
  With integrity he judges and wages war. His eyes
  are flames of fire. On his head are many crowns.
  He has a name written on him, but only he knows
  what it is. He wears clothes dipped in blood, and
  his name is the Word of God. The armies of
  heaven, wearing pure, white linen, follow him on
  white horses. A sharp sword comes out of his
  mouth to defeat the nations. He will rule them
  with an iron scepter and tread the winepress of
  the fierce anger of God Almighty. On his clothes
  and his thigh he has a name written King of
  kings and Lord of lords. I saw an angel standing
  in the sun. He cried out in a loud voice to all
  the birds flying overhead, Come! Gather for the
  great banquet of God. Eat the flesh of kings,
  generals, warriors, horses and their riders, and
  all free people and slaves, both important or
  insignificant people.

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• I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and
  their armies gathered to wage war against the
  rider on the horse and his army. The beast and
  the false prophet who had done miracles for the
  beast were captured. By these miracles the false
  prophet had deceived those who had the brand of
  the beast and worshiped its statue. Both of them
  were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning
  sulfur. The rider on the horse killed the rest
  with the sword that came out of his mouth. All
  the birds gorged themselves on the flesh of those
  who had been killed. (Revelation 1911-21 GODS
  WORD)

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• For evil was burning like a fire the
  blackberries and thorns were burned up the thick
  woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of
  smoke. (Isaiah 918 GN)
• The LORD Almighty is going to send disease to
  punish those who are now well-fed. In their
  bodies there will be a fire that burns and burns.
  God, the light of Israel, will become a fire.
  Israels holy God will become a flame, which in a
  single day will burn up everything, even the
  thorns and thistles. (Isaiah 1016,17 GN)

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• You defiled your sanctuaries with your many sins
  and your dishonest trade. So I brought fire from
  within you, and it consumed you. I let it burn
  you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all
  who were watching. (Ezekiel 2818, NLT)

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• But the LORD says, Now I will do something and
  be greatly praised. Your deeds are straw that
  will be set on fire by your very own breath. You
  will be burned to ashes like thorns in a fire.
  Everyone, both far and near, come look at what I
  have done. See my mighty power! (Isaiah
  3310-13 CEV)

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• The sinners in Zion are terrified trembling
  grips the godless Who of us can dwell with the
  consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with
  everlasting burning? He who walks righteously
  and speaks what is right (Isaiah 3314-15
  NIV)

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• As wax melts in front of the fire, so do the
  wicked perish in his presence. But the righteous
  are glad and rejoice in his presence they are
  happy and shout for joy. (Psalms 682 GN)

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• Another angel, a third one, followed them, and
  said in a loud voice, Whoever worships the beast
  or its statue, whoever is branded on his forehead
  or his hand, will drink the wine of Gods fury,
  which has been poured unmixed into the cup of
  Gods anger. Then he will be tortured by fiery
  sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the
  lamb. The smoke from their torture will go up
  forever and ever. There will be no rest day or
  night for those who worship the beast or its
  statue, or for anyone branded with its name.
  (Revelation 149-11 GODS WORD)

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• We are not to regard God as waiting to punish
  the sinner for his sin. The sinner brings the
  punishment upon himself. His own actions start a
  train of circumstances that bring the sure
  result. Every act of transgression reacts upon
  the sinner, works in him a change of character,
  and makes it more easy for him to transgress
  again. By choosing to sin, men separate
  themselves from God, cut themselves off from the
  channel of blessing, and the sure result is ruin
  and death. (Letter 96, 1896)

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• God does not stand toward the sinner as an
  executioner of the sentence against
  transgression but He leaves the rejectors of His
  mercy to themselves, to reap that which they have
  sown. (GC, page 36)

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• This is not an act of arbitrary power on the
  part of God. The rejecters of His mercy reap that
  which they have sown. God is the fountain of
  life and when one chooses the service of sin, he
  separates from God, and thus cuts himself off
  from life. He is alienated from the life of
  God. Christ says, All they that hate Me love
  death. Ephesians 418 Proverbs 836. God gives
  them existence for a time that they may develop
  their character and reveal their principles. This
  accomplished, they receive the results of their
  own choice. By a life of rebellion, Satan and all
  who unite with him place themselves so out of
  harmony with God that His very presence is to
  them a consuming fire. The glory of Him who is
  love will destroy them. (DA, 784)