Saturday, January 30, 2021

Run-Away Rage or Imagination? God's Solution Gives Real Peace

Psalm 2:1-12
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Seek God's Son.

Sunday, January 10, 2021

When The World Agrees With God's Word, We All Should Listen

Throughout history and in the lives of, even, the most ardent of true believers in God and His ways, yet, too often we forget to listen to all the godly counsel around us, because our prejudice or ignorant treatment of the source of that counsel. Let this Bible passage be a lesson that we all need to learn, that we weigh and prove all counsel by the rest of what God has instructed us, that we not end up hurt, dead, or undermining the work that God has planned for our lives. Let us not, by our neglect or prejudice, damage and grieve others around us.

2 Chronicles 35:20-24
20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 
21  But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 
22  Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 
23  And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. 
24  His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 

Let us heed, for God has declared His only Savior.

Let us heed, for God has declared His only plan of salvation.

Live In Awe Of God, Not In Pride

 Job 9:13

13  If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.


Job 26:12
12  He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

Job 38:11
11  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Job 40:11
11  Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Job 40:12
12  Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Psalm 12:3
3  The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

Psalm 31:23
23  O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

Psalm 40:4
4  Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Psalm 86:14
14  O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

Psalm 94:2
2  Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

Psalm 101:5
5  Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Psalm 119:21
21  Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

Psalm 119:51
51  The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

Psalm 119:69
69  The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Psalm 119:78
78  Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Psalm 119:85
85  The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

Psalm 119:122
122  Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

Psalm 123:4
4  Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 124:5
5  Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

Psalm 138:6
6  Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

Psalm 140:5
5  The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Proverbs 6:17
17  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 15:25
25  The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

Proverbs 16:5
5  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 16:19
19  Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Proverbs 21:4
4  An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Proverbs 21:24
24  Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

Proverbs 28:25
25  He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

Ecclesiastes 7:8
8  Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Isaiah 2:12
12  For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Isaiah 13:11
11  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Isaiah 16:6
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

Jeremiah 13:15
15  Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

Jeremiah 43:2
2  Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

Jeremiah 48:29
29  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Jeremiah 50:29
29  Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:31
31  Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

Jeremiah 50:32
32  And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

Habakkuk 2:5
5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

Malachi 3:15
15  And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Malachi 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Luke 1:51
51  He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Romans 1:30
30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

1 Timothy 6:4
4  He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

2 Timothy 3:2
2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

James 4:6
6  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

1 Peter 5:5
5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Leviticus 26:19
19  And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

1 Samuel 17:28
28  And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

2 Chronicles 32:26
26  Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Job 33:17
17  That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

Job 35:12
12  There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Job 41:15
15  His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

Job 41:34
34  He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

Psalm 10:2
2  The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 10:4
4  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Psalm 31:20
20  Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Psalm 36:11
11  Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

Psalm 59:12
12  For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Psalm 73:6
6  Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

Proverbs 8:13
13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 11:2
2  When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Proverbs 13:10
10  Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Proverbs 14:3
3  In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Proverbs 16:18
18  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 29:23
23  A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Isaiah 9:9
9  And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

Isaiah 16:6
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

Isaiah 23:9
9  The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Isaiah 25:11
11  And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

Isaiah 28:1
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 28:3
3  The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

Jeremiah 13:9
9  Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 13:17
17  But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

Jeremiah 48:29
29  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Jeremiah 49:16
16  Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 7:10
10  Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

Ezekiel 16:49
49  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 16:56
56  For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

Ezekiel 30:6
6  Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

Daniel 4:37
37  Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Daniel 5:20
20  But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Hosea 5:5
5  And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

Hosea 7:10
10  And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

Obadiah 1:3
3  The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Zephaniah 2:10
10  This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

Zephaniah 3:11
11  In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

Zechariah 9:6
6  And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Zechariah 10:11
11  And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

Zechariah 11:3
3  There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

Mark 7:22
22  Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

1 Timothy 3:6
6  Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

1 John 2:16
16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.