Battling Slander

Psalms 42:10 (KJV)

[10] As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

Pain from Words Often Hurt More Than Stones...

Being Misquoted and Mis- Represented Often Creates Great Pain and Anxiety!

To Not Care Is The Preferable

But Often As Not Harder To Accomplish!

But This Simple Exercise Will Accomplish More-

*Silence to man and prayer to God are the best cures for the evil of slander.

Try It Today!

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1 Peter 4:11

But Who Can Stand Before Envy?

Proverbs 27:4 (KJV)

[4] Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Envy is just another word for Jealousy....

Which Is Far More Dangerous Than Wrath and Anger!

Envy/Jealousy Will Destroy and Destruct More Than These Other Seemingly Very Bad Evils...

Because Envy/Jealousy is not so easily detected, as it hides in the heart among your feelings...

It can hibernate for years and then rise up and bite with the venom of a cobra...

It can reside and hide on the pew and even the platform at church...

You see, it not only destroys those that have what you want but it poisons the host-(you)...

If Left Unchallenged If Can Wipe Out Your Family and Your Church!

Who Can Stand Before Envy-(Jealousy)?

No One...

Don't Let This Spirit Be In You!

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1 Peter 4:11

Between The Dead and The Living

Numbers 16:47-48 (KJV)

[47] And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

[48] And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

Too Many These Days Feel They Don't Need A Pastor...

Or A Man of God-

. A Good Advisor

. A Golfing Buddy

. A Mentor

. A Friend

These Are Sufficient...

But Are They?

Only A True Pastor/Man of God

Would Stand Between a Rebellious People and an Angry God...

Those Others Can Be Bought, Hired and Favored In,

I'd Rather Have A Man of God Stand Between Me and an Angry God When I Have Done Foolishly!

Also-A Hireling Will Flee When The Wolf Comes...

But A Shepherd Will Risk His Own Life to Protect The Sheep!

Who's Standing for You?

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1 Peter 4:11

When God Can't Forget You

Jeremiah 31:20 (KJV)

[20] Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Ephraim had received some of the strongest rebukes and coming judgments from God in the Old Testament...

And Yet We Find God Pausing In A Weak Moment Relating His Love and Mercy Toward Him!

How Is That?

Who Knows... It Would Take Someone Who Understood God's Infinite Immeasurable Depths of "Hope"

That Somehow In The Final Moments Before Axe Falls Into Its Final Descent of Death-

God Pauses With "Hope"

That You Might Repent At The Last Moment?

"When God Can't Forget You"

God Is Hoping for You...

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1 Peter 4:11

You Need To Do One Thing

Philippians 3:13-14 (KJV)

[13] Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before

Paul was saying I haven't quite got there yet...

In other words, until I do-

There Is One Thing I Do...

Forgetting The Past and Reaching for The Future!

Don't Let The Past Make a Prisoner Out of You!

You Need To Let Go of The Past-Today!

Until You Let Go You Can Never Move Forward...

. The Past Is A Ball and Chain

. The Future Is A Jet-stream!

Paul Said "Forgetting"

That Means To No Longer Think About It!

But He Didn't Say "Erase"

There is a Difference!

Don't Get Caught In The Web of Not Understanding The Difference!

You Can't Erase A Bad Incidente

But You Can Leave It In The Past...

So Like Paul, Until You Get There-

You Need To Do One Thing...

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1 Peter 4:11

Let God Be God

Isaiah 1:18 (KJV)

[18] Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

. Self Help Books Don't Fix

. Self Medicating Doesn't Heal

. Self Discovery Doesn't Find Peace

. Self Love Doesn't Satisfy

There Are Some Things You Cannot Fix...

Let God Do The Impossible...

You Do The Possible...

*God - Can Take A Heart That Is Black Wash It With Red Blood and Make It Whiter Than Snow!

Just-Let God Be God...

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1 Peter 4:11

Corrected Too Often

Proverbs 29:1 (KJV)

[1] He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Corrections Often Produce A Condition Called-

(Hardness of Neck)...

*When Corrected You Worry More About Enduring The Pain Than Changing Your Behavior...

This Condition Produces a Far Worse Consequence: God Destroys You Without Remedy...

Once This Happens There Is No Cure!

Ask Yourself This Question:

Are You (Bracing for The Pain)-(hardening your neck)When God Corrects You?

Or

Because of The Pain In Correction You Change Your Ways?

Thus We Become The Architect of Our Own Future...

Too Much Too Often...

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牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

1 Peter 4:11