TRAIN YOURSELF
Where are those who are truly seeking first the Kingdom of God? Where are the night watchers, those who stand by night in the house of the Lord, lifting their hands in the sanctuary blessing the name of the Lord? Where are the people with the high praises of God in their mouth and a double edged sword in their hands? Where are those who go into all the world and preach the gospel? Where are those who lay hands on the sick, raise the dead, set the captives free, and heal the broken hearted?
Where are those who are living a life of love? Where are those who hate what is evil and do what is good? Where are the older ones who are supposed to be teaching the younger generation? Where are those who are declaring the faithfulness of their God? Where are those who are diligently seeking to know Him who knows all things? Where are those who visit the orphan and widow? Where are the ones who remember prisoners as if they themselves were imprisoned?
Where are the ones who will not shrink back? Where are they who count it all joy when going through trials of many kinds? Where are those who overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, not loving their lives unto death? Where is the one who trembles at the Word of God?
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. (I Timothy 4)
Where are those who are living a life of love? Where are those who hate what is evil and do what is good? Where are the older ones who are supposed to be teaching the younger generation? Where are those who are declaring the faithfulness of their God? Where are those who are diligently seeking to know Him who knows all things? Where are those who visit the orphan and widow? Where are the ones who remember prisoners as if they themselves were imprisoned?
Where are the ones who will not shrink back? Where are they who count it all joy when going through trials of many kinds? Where are those who overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, not loving their lives unto death? Where is the one who trembles at the Word of God?
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. (I Timothy 4)
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