(This podcast was previously recorded and published on June 4, 2020)
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
On May 30, 2020, I was dealing with a scripture and I spent several minutes with that scripture, but by evening I wanted to avoid an evil and couldn't recall that scripture. I was amazed at how fast that scripture had left me. I couldn't even think of a key word in the 3 verses of that scripture. So I returned to that scripture that night and got a "key word" into me concerning the subject.
The following morning, I thought about the troubling subject and immediately part of this scripture arose in my mind. (Proverbs 1 "Their feet run to evil.")
That scripture had begun growing inside my heart!
But there are 3 verses in the concept and I knew I would need to spend more time on all the verses to really have this planted deeply in me so I could actually do these instructions in my life.
I need to alert us to this subject for I know we often deceive ourselves concerning scripture.
Here are specific, detailed examples of getting the word of God deeper in us so we can withstand the temptations and problems that would carry us away from the way of God in the matter at hand and bring destruction to us, to our souls.
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The subject I was trying to break away from had to do with the evil concepts that were coming to me through watching television news.
The scriptures that would uproot this are as follows:
Proverbs 1
10 If sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
15 Walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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First, there is an enticement: Our flesh is tickled someway by the subject. Many people love to watch movies which have "spicy" scenes between a man and a woman.
I have a strong sense of "justice" inside me ... where you want to see issues put right. But often both sides are wrong in these worldly matters and you can bring no real judgment.
To help me with this, God brought to me the following scripture several months ago:
II Peter 3
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
We want to see righteousness on this present earth. But that will never happen. It is in at the new heavens and the new earth "wherein dwelleth righteousness."
So by this concept, God showed me I must not frustrate myself by the unrighteousness of this world for this world can never be righteous.
(Often both sides are evil though both sides try to justify themselves.)
For example: In the March 2020 killing of the black man by a police officer in Minneapolis, we witnessed evil done by the police.
And in the protestors we also witnessed evil as some sought vengeance by their own methods, while vengeance belongs to "The Lord".
Also protestors began burning buildings and looting businesses and carrying away merchandise for themselves which was evil from their own hearts.
And the newscasters "ran to the evil", delighting in telling the story and showing the evils of both sides, though they often called the evil of the protestors "grief". (a lie)
The protestors were venting evil in multiple ways. And the politicians and newscasters were tying to justify the evil of the protestors by calling it "grief".
Malachi 3:17 Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and HE delighteth in them;
If we call evil good, as did these politicians and newscasters over the protestors, it is a grief to the righteous and even more a grief to God.
These protestors all over the USA didn't even know this man who was killed. It was just an evil in the hearts of the protestors.
(To me all this was a preview of the evils that will come from man when God brings the great torments of the end time great tribulations, the various plagues. The men of this world did not repent. Revelation 8-16)
But above all, I have to keep my own heart with all diligence, and as I saw the various evils from both the police and the protestors, I was tormented. So the viewing of this had the potential of harming me. It all had to be uprooted from my heart in a spiritual way.
Proverbs 1 had the power to uproot this and settle me and keep my heart in the way of God. But I must get the script