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May 5, 2024 18 mins
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    Ephesians 4:8;11-12   8 Wherefore HE saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.   11 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;   12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:   💥💥💥   Comments by Joan Boney:   It is so important for each of us who have been called by Jesus to protect the ministry to which we have been called.   And it is important for each person called to be a Christian to protect that calling.   Ephesians 1:4 According as HE (God) hath chosen us in HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before HIM in love:   💥💥💥   We must keep ourselves from things that would cause us to speak as this world speaks.  We cannot allow ourselves to be polluted by wisdom of men of this world.  We must not take in their wisdom.  We must be very careful to keep our wisdom to be from God, agreeing at all times with the Holy Bible. Rejecting this world when it goes in a way opposite to the wisdom from God.  Filling our minds with the ideas presented by God in the Holy Bible.   💥💥💥   I had a Catholic friend who loved to visit me.  She would often tell me wisdom of this world.  I would say:  "What you just said is not in the Bible.  I want to build my house on the Word from God."   So why would I be subject to watching the evening, "News of the World"?   💥💥💥   On the first day of Donald Trump's "Hush Money" trial, I started to turn on the news to see what happened.  Then I woke up.  "Why would I want to see humans judging a human"?   Concerning Nineveh: God sent Jonah to Nineveh to say:  "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be destroyed." The king and people were terrified and repented.  Jonah sat on a hill nearby to see what would happen.  After they repented, God did not destroy Nineveh and Jonah was bitter and mad because God did not destroy Nineveh.   Jonah 4:10:11  Then said the LORD, Thou (Jonah) hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:   11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?   God will judge rightly.   💥💥💥   I'm not of this world.  I obey the laws of this world as I can, so long as they don't keep me from obeying laws of God.  Some of the world's laws I do not agree with.  But I stay out of the controversy and do not try to make the World to be godly when they do not have the Spirit of God.   My kingdom is not of this world.  (John 18:36)  Like Jesus there is another place God has prepared for me and for HIS people.  I'm truly a stranger here on this earth.   💥💥💥   Romans 12:1-2  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.   2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.   It is my responsibility to find out what pleases God and to do that, conforming my thinking to the Holy Bible.  This is what I want to do.  Building my personal life on the Word from God.   💥💥💥   Galatians 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,   20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,   21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.   As a Christian, born of the Spirit of God ... Not participating in things which make me consider it is "normal" to commit the works of the flesh, thereby excusing these works as just being "normal".  These works are "normal" if you are not a born again Christian.  But being born again by God, we are given by God HIS heart and HIS Spirit thereby we live differently to this world.  And I find it not good to hear or focus on ways of this world but to keep my mind and focus on ways of God for Now  we belong to God.  So why would I want to know what this world is doing today, feeding myself with the way of this world?   I decided this is not the way for me to go, feeding myself with news of what they are doing.  It could cause me to pollute the ministry and way of God.   We live in a "strange country".   We are "peculiar people" to that country.   1 Peter 2:9-10  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of HIM who hath called you out of darkness into HIS marvellous light:   10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the p
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