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Proverbs 14, There is only one way!

Pro 14:7-8, GO FROM THE PRESENCE OF A FOOLISH MAN, WHEN YOU DO NOT PERCEIVE IN HIM THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE. THE WISDOM OF THE PRUDENT IS TO UNDERSTAND HIS WAY, …

Scripture tells us that he who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed, Pro 13:20.  Have no fellowship with foolish men/women! Not worth it!

Eph 5:10-11, FINDING OUT WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD. And HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS, but rather expose them.

Pro 14:12, There is a way that seems right to a man, BUT ITS END IS THE WAY OF DEATH. 

There is only one way that leads to life and that is JESUS! All other ways will lead to death!

Mat 7:13-14, “ENTER BY THE NARROW GATE; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. BECAUSE NARROW IS THE GATE AND DIFFICULT IS THE WAY WHICH LEADS TO LIFE, AND THERE ARE FEW WHO FIND IT. 

Pro 14:14, THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART WILL BE FILLED WITH HIS OWN WAYS, But a good man will be satisfied from above. 

So many people walk away from the path of the LORD just to fill their hearts with the pollution of this world! Like my pastor said, JUDAS HAD THE BEST TEACHER, THE WISES COUNSELOR, AND THE MOST LOVING FRIEND IN JESUS, YET STILL FELL AWAY! Take heed!

Heb 3:12, BEWARE, BRETHREN, LEST THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF IN DEPARTING FROM THE LIVING GOD; 

Pro 14:19, THE EVIL WILL BOW BEFORE THE GOOD, AND THE WICKED AT THE GATES OF THE RIGHTEOUS. 

The day is near when every knee will bow before JESUS proclaiming HIM to be LORD! But, we willingly do so now for we know who HE is! HE is the creator of heaven and earth, our LORD and SAVIOR! 

Php 2:10-11, that AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, OF THOSE IN HEAVEN, AND OF THOSE ON EARTH, AND OF THOSE UNDER THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.

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Psalm 119:1-16, Aleph/Beth, HIS word!

This psalm is divided in 22 sections in units of 8 verses; one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet! Aleph =  א

Psa 119:1, BLESSED ARE THE UNDEFILED IN THE WAY, WHO WALK IN THE LAW OF THE LORD!

Blessed are the undefiled, not polluted by the ways of the world! YET were all guilty of this very thing! We lived lives without GOD without caring who we hurt! But HE opened our eyes! A good example of this is Enoch!

Gen 5:22-24, After he begot Methuselah, ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD THREE HUNDRED YEARS, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE YEARS. And ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD; AND HE WAS NOT, FOR GOD TOOK HIM.

For 65 years Enoch walked in his own ways, But at the birth of his son he had an encounter with the living GOD! From that point on he walked with GOD, and GOD took him!

Psalm 119:2, BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO KEEP HIS TESTIMONIES, WHO SEEK HIM WITH THE WHOLE HEART!

Enoch pleased GOD because he kept HIS word and followed HIM for the rest of his life!

Heb 11:5, By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “AND WAS NOT FOUND, BECAUSE GOD HAD TAKEN HIM”; FOR BEFORE HE WAS TAKEN HE HAD THIS TESTIMONY, THAT HE PLEASED GOD. 

Beth = ב , 8-16

Psa 119:9, How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.

Keeping HIS word will keep you clean from the filth found in this world!

Joh 15:3, You are already clean BECAUSE OF THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU. 

Psa 119:11, 16, YOUR WORD I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You…. I will delight myself in Your statutes; I WILL NOT FORGET YOUR WORD.

How can we hide HIS word in our hearts if we don’t read HIS word? Scripture tells us that if we seek HIM with all of our hearts, we will find HIM! But the opposite is also true, if we don’t seek HIM we will never find HIM!

Jer 29:13, AND YOU WILL SEEK ME AND FIND ME, WHEN YOU SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART. 

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Psalm 118, He is the GATE, the DOOR!

Psa 118:1, Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. 

This Psalm begins and ends with the same way way! Israel sang this verse when the temple’s foundation was laid in place!

Ezr 3:11, And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD: “FOR HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER toward Israel.” Then all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, BECAUSE THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WAS LAID.

Psa 118:6-7, THE LORD IS ON MY SIDE; I will not fear. What can man do to me? THE LORD IS FOR ME among those who help me; THEREFORE I SHALL SEE MY DESIRE ON THOSE WHO HATE ME.

Our faith is in the LORD who has promised us many things in HIS word! Even though lawlessness is increasing we know that HE is with us and for us!

Heb 13:6, So we may boldly say: “THE LORD IS MY HELPER; I WILL NOT FEAR. WHAT CAN MAN DO TO ME?” 

Psa 118:8-9, IT IS BETTER TO TRUST IN THE LORD THAN TO PUT CONFIDENCE IN MAN. IT IS BETTER TO TRUST IN THE LORD THAN TO PUT CONFIDENCE IN PRINCES.

People will generally fail you for we are imperfect creatures! Our leaders, who profess to be wise, have failed us!

Rom 1:22, PROFESSING TO BE WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS, 

YET HE, THE LORD IS OUR ROCK OUR STABILITY OUR STRENGTH TRUST IN HIM RATHER THAN ANY MAN OR FAKE LEADER!

Psa 118:19-20, OPEN TO ME THE GATES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; I WILL GO THROUGH THEM, And I will praise the LORD. THIS IS THE GATE OF THE LORD, THROUGH WHICH THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL ENTER.

THAT GATE IN WHICH ONLY THE RIGHTEOUS MAY ENTER IS JESUS! FOR HE IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE! NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH HIM ALONE!

Psa 118:22, THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.

JESUS IS THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED, HE IS THE GATE OF THE RIGHTEOUS! HE IS COMING BACK AND WE SHALL SEE HIM FACE TO FACE! BE READY, LOOK UP FOR HE DRAW NEAR!

Luk 13:24, “STRIVE TO ENTER THROUGH THE NARROW GATE, FOR MANY, I SAY TO YOU, WILL SEEK TO ENTER AND WILL NOT BE ABLE. 

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Psalm 85, HE is the way!

Psa 85:2-3, YOU HAVE FORGIVEN THE INIQUITY OF YOUR PEOPLE; You have COVERED ALL THEIR SIN. Selah YOU HAVE TAKEN AWAY ALL YOUR WRATH; You have turned from the fierceness of YOUR ANGER.

The Psalmist is looking back at the work of GOD! HE brought them back from captivity, forgiven their sins and turned from HIS wrath!

Psa 85:4-6, RESTORE US, O God of our salvation, And cause Your anger toward us to cease. Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger to all generations? WILL YOU NOT REVIVE US AGAIN, That Your people may rejoice in You?

LORD RESTORE AND REVIVE US AGAIN AS YOU DID IN THE PAST! THIS IS A PRAYER FOR A REVIVAL, A PRAYER FOR HIS PRESENCE! GOING TO CHURCH WITHOUT HIS PRESENCE MEANS NOTHING!

Psa 85:7, Show us Your mercy, LORD, And grant us Your salvation. 

We are all guilty in HIS eyes and don’t deserve salvation for HE is JUST!  HE being a Righteous and Just JUDGE must condemn us all sinners, including you and me!

Dan 5:27, … You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; 

Psa 62:9, Surely men of low degree are a vapor, Men of high degree are a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They are altogether lighter than vapor. 

Psa 85:10, Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed. 

Mercy is what we seek, but the truth will convict us! HIS righteousness, HIS justice will not bring peace to the sinner! YET BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD THAT WAS SHED ON CALVARY WE HAVE PEACE!

Col 1:20, AND BY HIM TO RECONCILE ALL THINGS TO HIMSELF, … HAVING MADE PEACE THROUGH THE BLOOD OF HIS CROSS. 

Psa 85:13, RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL GO BEFORE HIM, AND SHALL MAKE HIS FOOTSTEPS OUR PATHWAY. 

1Jn 2:6, HE WHO SAYS HE ABIDES IN HIM OUGHT HIMSELF ALSO TO WALK JUST AS HE WALKED. 

JESUS IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, OUR EXAMPLE AND THE PATH TO FOLLOW!

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2Chronicles 6, HE is the way!

2Ch 6:12-13, Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD … and spread out his hands 

… he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven; 

Solomon’s knelt down with his hand spread out before the Altar of GOD and prayed!

2Ch 6:14, and he said: “LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THERE IS NO GOD IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH LIKE YOU, WHO KEEP YOUR COVENANT AND MERCY WITH YOUR SERVANTS WHO WALK BEFORE YOU WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS. 

Psa 89:8, O LORD God of hosts, WHO IS MIGHTY LIKE YOU, O LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. 

There is no one like our GOD for HE is the creator of all that is in Heaven and Earth; And HE is faithful to HIS Promises! 

2Ch 6:24,26, “Or if Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy BECAUSE THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST YOU…  “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain BECAUSE THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST YOU, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, AND TURN FROM THEIR SIN BECAUSE YOU AFFLICT THEM,

Psa 32:8, I WILL INSTRUCT YOU AND TEACH YOU IN THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO; I WILL GUIDE YOU WITH MY EYE. 

2Ch 6:27, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, THAT YOU MAY TEACH THEM THE GOOD WAY IN WHICH THEY SHOULD WALK; …

The Father is always guiding HIS Children in the way that they should walk! HIS SON JESUS IS THE WAY! FOLLOW HIM AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATH!

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2Chronicles 4, The furnishings of God!

2Ch 4:1, Moreover he made A BRONZE ALTAR: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height. 

Just as in the tabernacle, the altar was the first thing we see as we enter the temple! Before we can enter the Temple GOD dealt with our sins through HIS SON on the cross of calvary!

Heb 13:10, 13, WE HAVE AN ALTAR FROM WHICH THOSE WHO SERVE THE TABERNACLE … Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

2Ch 4:2,4  Then he made the Sea of cast bronze…IT STOOD ON TWELVE OXEN: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward.

The Sea of cast bronze was a place for PRIEST to wash before entering the temple of GOD and it was set on twelve oxen!  OUR TWELVE OXEN ARE THE TWELVE APOSTLES, WHO WENT OUT OF JERUSALEM SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS THAT CLEANSES THE PEOPLE! JESUS

1Peter 2:9, But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people…

Heb 8:5, who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “SEE THAT YOU MAKE ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.

There is a reason that GOD told Moses to make everything according to the pattern! BECAUSE ALL OF IT POINTS DIRECTLY TO HIS SON JESUS! HE IS THE WAY!

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1Chronicles 22, Preparing the way!

1Ch 22:2, So David commanded to gather the ALIENS WHO WERE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL; AND HE APPOINTED MASONS TO CUT HEWN STONES TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF GOD. 

The building of the house of God was the work of JEW and GENTILE. For we were grafted in!

Rom 11:17, And if some of the branches were broken off, AND YOU, BEING A WILD OLIVE TREE, WERE GRAFTED IN AMONG THEM, AND WITH THEM BECAME A PARTAKER OF THE ROOT AND FATNESS OF THE OLIVE TREE, 

1Ch 22:7-8, And David said to Solomon: “My son, as for me, IT WAS IN MY MIND TO BUILD A HOUSE TO THE NAME OF THE LORD MY GOD; but the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘YOU HAVE SHED MUCH BLOOD AND HAVE MADE GREAT WARS; YOU SHALL NOT BUILD A HOUSE FOR MY NAME…

David wanted to build the LORD’s house yet couldn’t! So he prepared the materials needed!

1Ch 22:14, Indeed I have taken much trouble to prepare for the house of the LORD…

David did all he could to make sure the house of the LORD is built. YET, the foundation of the true house of GOD was laid by the work of JESUS ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY!

Eph 2:20-21, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE, IN WHOM THE WHOLE BUILDING, BEING FITTED TOGETHER, GROWS INTO A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD,

JESUS LAID THE PATH THAT WE NEED TO FOLLOW; FOR HE IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHT. FOR JEW OR GENTILE!

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2Kings 9, FOLLOWING IN HIS STEPS!

2Ki 9:5-6, … “I have a message for you, Commander.” Jehu said, “For which one of us?” And he said, “For you, Commander.” Then he arose and went into the house. And he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL: ‘I HAVE ANOINTED YOU KING OVER THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD, OVER ISRAEL. 

An un-named prophet came to Jehu with a message from the LORD!

2Ki 9:11-12, Then Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? WHY DID THIS MADMAN COME TO YOU?” And he said to them, “YOU KNOW THE MAN AND HIS BABBLE.” And they said, “A lie! Tell us now.” So he said, “Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I have anointed you king over Israel.

The world believes that were crazy, madmen who believe in an invisible GOD! In their eyes were foolish, wasting time in fairytales!

Hos 9:7, The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL, THE SPIRITUAL MAN IS INSANE, BECAUSE OF THE GREATNESS OF YOUR INIQUITY AND GREAT ENMITY.

EVEN JESUS WAS THOUGHT TO BE OUT OF HIS MIND! WE FOLLOW A GREAT KINGS FOOTSTEPS! FOR HE IS THE WAY!

Mar 3:21, But when HIS OWN people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, “HE IS OUT OF HIS MIND.” 

EVEN IF FAMILY OR FRIENDS THINK WERE FOOLISH FOR FOLLOWING JESUS; TIME WILL SHOW THAT WE HAVE CHOOSEN WISELY!