Pastor Ford
Good day my beloved congregation, I'm so glad that you could join me for today's reading.
Let us pray...
Congregation,
please open your Bibles
and join me as we read about
The Fruit of the Spirit
Open to
23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Amen. Notice that the fruit of the Spirit is singular, indicating a crop of nine qualities produced by the Spirit in those who walk in dependence on Him. Since they also depict our Lord, it should be obvious that He should be seen in our everyday lives, amen.
Meekness = gentleness
longsuffering = patience
faith = faithfulness - trustworthiness
temperance = Here it means " self-control "
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Until tomorrow then, have a blessed and peaceful Monday and, remember, just as food is health to the body, the Word of God is health to the soul.
Pastor Ford
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The 10 Commandments of the Bible
1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me
2 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
3 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
4 Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy
5 Honor thy father and thy mother
6 Thou shalt not kill
7 Thou shalt not commit adultery
8 Thou shalt not steal
9 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
10 Thou shalt not covet
The Children Of God creed
What do we believe
1 The Bible is the inspired Word of God.
2 God is the absolute and sole creator of the universe, and that creation was by divine command.
3 God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for man, sent Christ into the world to save sinners.
4 We have all sinned and fallen short of the kingdom.
5 Jesus Christ was both God and man and that He was born to a virgin and that He lived a sinless life. He taught and performed mighty miracles as revealed in the four gospels and was crucified for our sins and raised bodily from the dead on the third day.
6 Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and is seated at the Father's right hand, where He is the head of the church and intercedes for believers and ALL who call on Him.
7 Christ will return to the earth to receive His own.
8 It is the goal of every Christian to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling Spirit.
9 The Holy Spirit dwells in all believers.
10 Salvation is a free gift from God that is not deserved nor can it be earned. We are saved by God's grace, which we accept by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. Because we believe in Jesus, we show obedience through repentance, confession of our faith to those around us, Christian baptism, and living a Christian life.
11 To love ALL of G-d's creation and to approach others of different spiritual beliefs with kindness, so that they might see that the Holy Spirit dwells within me, amen and amen.
Pastor Ford and TCOG members
Jesus Christ loves us ALL and it brings warmth and mercy to His heart when we cry out to Him.
Pastor Ford
Now is the time to surrender your life to Jesus Christ that you may assure yourself eternal life. All have sinned and fallen short of His glory but the heavenly Father loved us so much that He sent His only begotten Son Jesus that we might be washed clean of our sin and be saved.
Repeat the following prayer from your heart and, as you do, I come into agreement with you with every each word:
That's it my beloved, you are now a new creature in Christ and, one day, will spend eternity in heaven. Write down todays date and know that you were born again as a child of God.
Now, go forth and share your new found faith. Get a King James Bible (Old English Version) and start learning all the awesome things of God. Get together with other Christians and commune with them daily.
Whether you make TCOG your daily, on-line Church site or not, just make sure you join a Church, be it on-line or in your community. Scrutinize it and make sure that the Holy Spirit dwells there and that they teach from the original king James Version of the Bible. This is known as the Old English Version KJV and NOT the New King James Version, which has been changed to modern English.
and let me know the date and time you accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior
Pastor Ford
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This Months Daily Bible Readings
12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
Amen. Let us, daily, continue to grow in love toward all human beings, and always have a good word to share with all who wish to hear about the awesome Truth of eternal Salvation that is our Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11Give us this day our daily bread.
12And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
14For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Amen. Here, a cloud of witnesses refers to those great heroes of faith mentioned in detail throughout the Bible and condensed in Hebrews 11 4 through 39. We are to lay aside every weight (= encumbrance) that hinders us from being a winner, amen.
ye = you
him = Jesus
contradiction = opposition
the sin which doth so easily beset us = unbelief
despising the shame = nothing entailed more shame than crucifixion.
February 4, 2010
9To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Amen. All of us are given at least one gift from the Spirit (the Holy Spirit) while others are given many. It is vital that we spend our lives finding out what our gift or gifts are and then using it / them to draw all people that we come in contact with unto the Father that they, too, might have eternal life through Christ Jesus, amen and amen.
19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Amen. Here "they are without excuse" means that the things that are made by God (His creation) reveal to all of us His eternal power and Godhead (= divinity of the one and only true God), so, the rejection of this truth makes us without excuse when, on Judgment Day, we stand before Him. Godhead = Characteristics that distinguish God from all others, amen.
2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Amen. Just as physical light shined in the creation, so spiritual light shines in the hearts of those who become new creations in Christ, amen.
dishonesty = shame - shameful
hidden things = handling (adulterating) the Word of God deceitfully
the god of this world = satan - *note* "god" is lower case meaning a "false god"
4He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
5After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
6Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?
7Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
8Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
9Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
10Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
11For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.
Amen. This dramatic scene of the foot-washing is an acted out parable, a lesson in humility, and a vivid portrayal of Christ's self-humiliation. Normally a servant performed this lowly task, further highlighting Christ's coming to serve mankind (see Mark 10:45), amen.
Ye are not all clean = Judas, who would betray Jesus to the Romans
Pastor LS Ford
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