Encouraging scriptures for the day

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KalebOutWest

EasyPrompt:
Jesus is alive.
Oh yeah?
Prove it.
EasyPrompt

@Duran - since you don't believe in prophecy, why are you asking me about it? If you have already closed your heart to the possibility that there is a person more intelligent than you who you cannot see, then nothing I say can change your mind. Some people are open to the idea of intelligent life forms elsewhere in the universe, but can't comprehend the idea that those intelligent life forms would have morals higher than most humans. Some people are open to the idea that intelligent life forms elsewhere in the universe can make a space ship but not write a book. 🤣🤣🤣

Whatever.

@nicolaou, if you are not in any pain because of your conscience, then why are you here on a thread about "Encouraging Scriptures"? Did you get bored of cowardly attacking Lloyd Evans from the shadows on the other thread? Maybe he's a bully and maybe he's not, but if he is, why would you want to imitate him? Bullies typically only want to pick on people who can't defend themselves or those they perceive to be weaker than them. Was it time for you to go pick on "the Bible Thumpers" because you needed some more "supply"? Kosonen's never done anything to hurt you. You have no desire to learn about the scriptures. Why don't you back off?

Genesis is historical. You weren't there. Jesus was there.

John 8:54-58

"Jesus answered: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, the one who you say is your God. Yet you have not known him, but I know him. And if I said I do not know him, I would be like you, a liar. But I do know him and am observing his word. Abraham your father rejoiced greatly at the prospect of seeing my day, and he saw it and rejoiced.” Then the Jews said to him: “You are not yet 50 years old, and still you have seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to you, before Abraham came into existence, I have been.”"

Duran said: "@EasyPrompt
Other than saying, 'you believe', 'you think', 'you feel', what proof is there that Jesus is alive or ever even existed at all?"
EasyPrompt said: "Jesus is alive."
KalebOutWest said: "Oh yeah? Prove it."

I am shy by nature. When I see you picking on people, it isn't of my own self that I get strength to speak up. It's from Jesus that I get strength. You can believe what you want. He is my friend and my companion. He's been there for me when I had to deal with oppressive hypocritical elder bullies, when I've had to deal with physical abuse, and he's there for me when I see intellectual bullies trying to crush Jehovah's friends for no reason except that they delight in attempting to take away something that they don't have.

2 Corinthians 12:9,10

"Most gladly, then, I will boast about my weaknesses, in order that the power of the Christ may remain over me like a tent. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in times of need, in persecutions and difficulties, for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am powerful."

You would be wise to turn around and stop harassing Jesus' friends.
Duran

since you don't believe in prophecy, why are you asking me about it?
@EasyPrompt
What do you know about what I believe or not? And regardless of what I believe, what does that have to do with you telling me if a said prophecy was fulfilled or not?
Has this prophecy ever been fulfilled, yes or no?
Isaiah 17:1 A pronouncement against Damascus:“Look! Damascus will cease to be a city, And it will become a heap of ruins.
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If you have already closed your heart to the possibility that there is a person more intelligent than you who you cannot see, then nothing I say can change your mind.
Who says anything about closing off my heart or not to such a thing? I merely asked you what proof you have for the basis of what you said...
Jesus is alive. If you want to follow some dead guys, you have free will. Do what you want. I am 100% confident that Jesus is alive.
Other than saying, 'you believe', 'you think', 'you feel', what proof is there that Jesus is alive or ever even existed at all?
KalebOutWest

EasyPrompt says:
You would be wise to turn around and stop harassing Jesus' friends.
It's you who have been harassing me all these days.
First, you said I wasn't Jewish on another thread. Remember that?
Then you made fun of me for being Jewish.
Then you acted as if you didn't know that you were making antisemitic remarks.
Then you, a few days later, I caught you admitting to another person that you had indeed let your emotions get the best of yourself and you had really said things on this site that you should have never said--just as I had pointed out. I then pasted and cut those comments out and showed them to you--remember?
Then on this thread you have repeatedly insulted me (though you probably don't care or won't admit it) regarding my Jewish culture and how I live it--calling it an "oxymoron"--declaring your interpretation of things more authoritative than the way we've been living it for centuries, insulting our great sages and teachers.
You are doing the harassing--and in the name of your Jesus!
Is this what I will be like if I become a Christian--LIKE YOU?! Then forget it!
And besides, you can't prove anything. Where is your Jehovah? Can't Jehovah give you the spirit to enlighten you to prove to us that Jesus is alive? Or is he too busy going to the restroom and pooping? Remember, that is what Elijah said to the prophets of Baal when he teased them about their belief in a false god--they could not produce results either. If Jehovah is real, why can't he give you the spirit and fill you with the ability to prove to us that Jesus is alive?

Why can't your Jehovah produce the equivalent of "spiritual fire" in your heart and mind and produce evidence equivalent to that of what happened in the story of Elijah and the Baal worshipers? Either your Jehovah is not real or you are not a good enough servant for Jehovah to give spirit to.
"Jehovah" is just an invention of the Watchtower, not the real God of Abraham.
Either way, this is evidence for us not to listen to YOU ever again.
wantingtruth

Scripture for the day:
~~~ Above everything guard your heart ! - Why? ~~~
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Proverbs 4: 23
Above everything else guard your heart,
because from it flow the springs of life.
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Mark 7 :
18. And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding?
Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?
19. For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated.” (As a result, He made all foods clean.)
20. Then He said, “What comes out of a person—that defiles him.
21. For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
22. adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
23. All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”
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1 Thessalonians 4 :
2. For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3. For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,
4. so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
5. not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.
6. This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.
7. For God has not called us to impurity but to sanctification.
8. Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.
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Hebrews 10 :
26. For if we sin deliberately
>>> after receiving the knowledge of the truth,
>>> there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27. but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.
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Hebrews 3: 12
Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.
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James 1: 21
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil,
>>> humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.
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Questions for study:
1) Why should a man guard his heart ?
2) From what kind of heart do the evil things listed by Jesus come out?
3) What is God's will for us?
4) What does "holy" (holiness) mean in accordance with God's word?
5) Is there still a "sacrifice for sins" if we sin willingly after receiving the knowledge of the truth?
6) How can we obtain salvation?
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Please study God's Prophetic Word which foretells what is to happen within His people during the "latter days" :
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https://www.facebook.com/Seeker4GodsKingdom/posts/1596983540587058
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Duran

@EasyPrompt
1 Kings 18:27 At noon Elijah began to tease them. “Shout louder!” he said. “I’m sure Baal is a god! Perhaps he has too much to think about. Or maybe he has gone to the toilet. Or perhaps he’s away on a trip. Maybe he’s sleeping. You might have to wake him up.”
1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
EasyPrompt

Duran said: "Other than saying, 'you believe', 'you think', 'you feel', what proof is there that Jesus is alive or ever even existed at all?"

I already told you, but you aren't listening because you'd rather ridicule the only true God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbRq_tPOft0
EasyPrompt

KalebOutWest said: "It's you who have been harassing me all these days."

@KalebOutWest, I see you have memory problems. That's okay. Jesus can fix it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e7vfZIC_U0

Matthew 16:2-4

"In reply he said to them: “When evening falls, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is fire-red,’ and in the morning, ‘It will be wintry, rainy weather today, for the sky is fire-red but gloomy.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot interpret. A wicked and adulterous generation keeps seeking a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Joʹnah.” With that he went away, leaving them behind."

(Goodnight, sweethearts.😘)
Duran

you'd rather ridicule the only true God.
Who is the only true God and how have I ridiculed him?
EasyPrompt

Exodus 5:2

"But Pharʹaoh said: “Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice to send Israel away? I do not know Jehovah at all, and what is more, I will not send Israel away."

Duran said: "Who is the only true God and how have I ridiculed him?"

You answered well, Duran, when you asked "who is the only true God" because you do not know him, and neither do you want to right now, just like Pharaoh didn't want to know Him.

Good night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrU8LZHJnak

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