22:55 Minutes

"The building up of the body of Christ. If you point someones' mistakes out to them, if you bring up someones shortcomings you are not building that person up. It's two distinct differences. Even in training in the armed forces these two actions are seperated. The first act is to tear someone down the second act is to build them up. They're not the same. But in religion it seems to get confused. That's why we don't teach religion we teach what God's Word says. "

"If a person is working in love it doesn't matter what their title is, if they have a title at all."

"No one can guide the body of Christ better than God and Jesus Christ. Nobody can, nobody. This is why when we all look to God we get the right direction. And when we carry it out we're carrying it out in love and we get the proper result that God would have us to get. Which is deliverance, which is answer to prayer, whatever is needed."

"If I decide I know what God wants me to have without cracking open the book, the Bible, then I am speaking out of the hardness of my heart. I'm not allowing God to tell me what He would have me to ask for."

"He said not what I will, not what I want which would have been greedy. No matter how sincere it sounds it would have been greedy. Not what I will but what Thou wilt. That was his prayer. That's what He wanted to know that's what he wanted to do."

"We're to speak that which is good to the use of edifying. The words do the building up you just speak them, and you have to choose to speak them and then do it."

"Again in the context to grieve the Holy Spirit of God would be to not do these things he's just mentioned. Would be to close the book, go away and come back again. Let it go right out your ear."

"Because a lot of people believe that it's their just claim to bring retribution or justice to a person who's caused them hurt. God says to let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you. Society is not made for us to do this. ...and be ye kind one to another. Tenderhearted, forgiving one another"

"You know many times when someone has hurt you they've forgotten about and have continued to live. and that person which is hurt continues to hold onto that and remain bitter for days and days and days. Well who's getting the bad end of the deal? The person that got hurt and remembers this stuff. The other person forgot about it, maybe they're not even aware of it. So in order to make the most of your time, of your days and your years be ye kind to one another. Tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you and certainly if anyone has a reason to remain bitter it would be God."

"How can we benefit from the mystery and this is how by walking in love by forbearing one another in love by speaking the truth in love and growing uop in him which is the head even Christ."

THE IMPORTANCE OF A WORD

Caroline Doran

Was Paul called to preach to the Gentiles or was he called to preach to everyone? If he was called to preach to everyone, was Paul’s ministry any different than the original 12 apostles? This article will answer these questions.

21:32 Minutes

"At the time this was written there were just as many things to complain about and mourn about and be sorrowful over and agitated about as at any other time in history."

"During this time of many reasons to be sorrowful God told him to write this down, told him what was important. And that's what we have written and contained in the book of Ephesians."

"So yes there are still apostles and prophets. 'Revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets.' Why? So they could make it known. Not to keep to themselves but to make it known, that's what they do."

"The task he was given was to make this information known."

"God will not give you something to make you miserable. There may be a hard task that He's assigned you to do. But He does not give you something that will make you miserable. Something that is against your will. He will give you something that will bless you and that you are able to do. God is not cruel."

"Paul was less than the least of all saints because he occasioned the murder of Christians. Nevertheless this grace, God's divine favor was given to him by God's will. So he could preach, make known among nations the untrackable riches of Christ and to make all see, all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, fellowship of it; that all nations share in it."

"...that God would make of a person of body, soul and dust someone that is absolutely righteous and could stand in the face of any devil spirit, any devil principality or power, any evil presence in this world and back them down. Because you and I have been given the authority based on the righteousness of God made available by Jesus Christ."

"This is what gives us deliverance and the proper perspective on life in these times because we see God as being; First: What He's done for us in the past and therefore [Second] what can't God do for you now. What can He not deliver you from? He delivered you and I from a spiritual death, He raised Christ up from the dead when he was dead. There was no breath in him. What can't God do for you now?"

"Again this is what God wants us to know. In the midst of all hell breaking loose in the world either at the time that this was written or today, this is what God would have us to know. And what it clearly points to is to go and look and rely upon God. Solely. There is none other that can deliver. There is no one else who is able to give above what you can understand or I. There's no one else who can do for you what God can do. So it doesn't matter what's going on in the world. If our focus is on what God can do and how much He's done for us already and how much He loves us what else do you need to know?"

23:16 Minutes

"It takes a lot of guts to accept that the work is done for you, standing righteous before God, by another man. 'How can I accept work done by another man! I accept no man's charity.' Well you're not going to go very far are you? God so loved the world He gave His only begotten son. Is that charity? I'll say it is!"

"How many good works can an eight year old do compared to a forty-eight year old? A lot more. Well then by virtue of works that would make the forty-eight year old more righteous before God wouldn't it?. But the truth is the eight year old is just as righteous as the forty-eight year old. The gift of God not of or from works lest any man, woman, child should boast; brag about his works."

"For he, Jesus Christ, is our peace. Not a piece of paper, not an agreement between two governments or four or five or six. Not a league of many gentile nations. 'He', one singular, Jesus Christ; 'is' present tense 'our' collectively 'peace'. Lack of conflict. 'Who hath made both' judean and all the nations of the world, hath made both one."

"After his resurrection and ascension, then God could reveal what His ultimate plan was. That is to give all the benefits of this hard work. That the wall of separation between man and God was torn down. And anyone who wills to come before God can come. That's why God kept it a mystery. Otherwise it says in Corinthians the adversary would never have crucified the lord of glory. He'd rather have one tribe to deal with than all nations of the world to deal with walking with Christ within them members of the body of Christ, all things under their feet. So God kept it a secret, kept it a mystery so that could take place"

"For through him we both, Israel and all the nations, have access by what? One spirit unto The Father. The singular Father. There is one God who is The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone of us has access."

"Not only are you members, citizens of the country but you're within the very household of God. Within the house, close."

"No need to be stressful. You talk to God God talks to you. That's the way its supposed to be. That is the way it is. God has how many favorites? None. None! We're all members of the household of God."