Picking back up where we left off with the warnings of retaining a worldly mindset and its warning against such action on our part.
Warning against a Worldly Mindset, continued
(Deuteronomy 32:15 of 15-18 "But Jeshurun (Israel or any such likeness of mans fleshly, worldly religions) grew fat, and kicked; and grew fat, stout, and sleek; then they forsook GOD Who made him and scoffed at (scorned) the Rock of his salvation. They stirred Him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger. (look at Genesis 19:12-13 of 12-14, as this relates to 2Corinthians 6:11-7:4 and Revelation 17-18, 18:4 of 4-8.) They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded. You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the GOD Who gave you birth.")
Psalm 17:10 of 6-12; Jeremiah 5:28 of 20-29, 50:11 of 11-16 "I call upon You, for You will answer me, O God; incline Your ear to me; hear my words. Wondrously show Your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at Your right hand. Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings, from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me. They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak (proudly, boastfully) arrogantly. They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground. He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush."
Jeremiah 5:28 of 20-29 "Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah: 'Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not. Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD. 'Do you not tremble before Me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it. But this people have a stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away. They do not say in their hearts, "Let us fear the LORD our God, Who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest." Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you. For wicked men (the elders of religious men) are found among My people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy. Shall I not punish them for these things?' declares the LORD, 'and shall I not avenge Myself on a nation such as this?'"
Jeremiah 50:11-12a of 11-16 "'Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of My heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions, your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. (look at Jeremiah 51:43, 45 of 41-44, 45-48 with Revelation 18:4 of 4-8) Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds. Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD. Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done. Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.'"
Ezekiel 16:49 of 42-43, 44-52 "'So will I satisfy My wrath on you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head,' declares the LORD God. 'Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?'
'Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.' You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. As I live,' declares the LORD God, 'your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abominations before Me. So I removed them, when I saw it. Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.'"
Luke 6:25 of 20-26 "Jesus lifted up His eyes on His disciples, and said: 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of GOD. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name (Christ) as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.'"
Revelation 3:17 of 14, 15-22 "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of GOD's creation.
'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot (today we might call these of the left, liberals, of this mindset). Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him, and he with Me (this is to be in agreement or to be harmony with GOD). The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also conquered and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"
The LORD willing next time we will look at "evil perils."
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