Facts about Neighbors

Facts about Neighbors

Eating crops of

Deuteronomy 23:25 If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.

Smiting secretly 

Deuteronomy 27:24 

“Cursed is the man who kills his neighbor secretly.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”
Righteous treatment of

Psalms 15:1-3  

1 LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill?

2 He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart

3 and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,

Private slander of  

Psalms 101:5 

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, him will I put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure.

Deception of, forbidden

Proverbs 3:28 

Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow”— when you now have it with you.

Devise not against 

Proverbs 3:29 

Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you.

Despising 

Proverbs 11:12 

A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue.

Poor neighbors 

Proverbs 14:20 

The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

Proverbs 19:4 

Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man's friend deserts him.

Children - the Bible Says of Children That

They are a gift which comes from God:

Genesis 33:5 

Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

They are a heritage from God:

Psalms 127:3 

Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.

Children’s children are crown of old men:

Proverbs 17:6 

Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

They are known by their doings:

Proverbs 20:11 

Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right.

Teach them diligently the Word of God time and again:

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 

6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 

7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Teach them to fear God:

Deuteronomy 31:12-13 

12 Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the aliens living in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law. 

13 Their children, who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Teach them the Scriptures from their infancy:

2 Timothy 3:15  

And how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Quotes

"What I hear I forget. What I see I remember. What I do, I know." - Chinese Proverb

"I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you." - Blaise Pascal

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi

"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it." - W. Somerset Maugham

Words from the Bible

James 5:16b

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Thoughts on this verse:

So many hearts, hopes, and homes are broken by sin. This brokenness infects our culture and invades our lives. God has provided both a deterrent to sin and a means of forgiveness for its guilt: honest and genuine confession of our sin. At the heart of confession is a passion to see sin for what it is in the eyes of God and to be anguished for our participation in it. No wonder confession is so healing (cf. 1 John 1:5-2:2). No wonder God wants us to confess our sin to each other and then come to him for each other's healing from sin and its damage. No wonder God grants such power to the praye! r of a righteous person interceding for one led to confess. Let's confess our sin and leave it behind.

Evangelism 

"There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience." 
- Charles G. Finney

"A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy." - Thomas Brooks

"'Where there is no vision, the people perish' (Prov. 29:18). Where there is no vision of ETERNITY, there is no prayer for the PERISHING." - David Smithers 

The King Is Coming

Psalms 24:7 Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. 8 who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

The King is coming:

1. To claim his own

2. To heal the brokenhearted

3. To reward the faithful

Inspirational Quotes from Famous People

~ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. …Emile Zola

~   I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. … Thomas Jefferson

~ Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. … Robert Orben

 ~ Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. … Theodore Roosevelt

Chorus - Jesus

He’s wonderful Savior to me,

He’s wonderful Savior to me;

And since that blest day I’ve singing,

He’s wonderful Savior to me.

Colossians 4:5-6

5 Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. 
6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Thoughts on Today's Verse....

There are no random acts of kindness, only intentional acts given the opportunity to happen. We have thought about kindnesses we can do. We have committed ourselves to acting in ways that are kind and beneficial. We have prayed for an opportunity to be kind. Then the opportunity presents itself and bingo! We act with kindness. Nothing random about that! This is true not just in deeds, but in words as well. More than trying to avoid poor speech, we are urged to use our speech to bless and help others to come to know Christ.

Bible Passages

Bible Passages on Depending on God to Live a Victorious, Overcoming Life

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

1 Peter 5:8-10

Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

1 John 2:12-15 

I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

1 John 3:8

He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.

1 John 4:4

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 5:3-5

This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

Revelation 3:21

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Revelation 12:11

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

Judas said- “I have betrayed innocent blood”

Scripture: Matthew 27:1-10

Key verse – 4 “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”

Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crimes when they commit them, but they must answer for them all. In the fullest manner Judas acknowledged to the chief priests that he had sinned, and betrayed an innocent person. This was full testimony to the character of Christ; but the rulers were hardened. Casting down the money, Judas departed, and went and hanged himself, not being able to bear the terror of Divine wrath, and the anguish of despair. 

There is little doubt but that the death of Judas was before that of our blessed Lord. But was it nothing to them that they had thirsted after this blood, and hired Judas to betray it, and had condemned it to be shed unjustly? Thus do fools make a mock at sin. Thus, many make light of Christ crucified. 

And it is a common instance of the deceitfulness of our hearts, to make light of our own sin by dwelling upon other people's sins. But the judgment of God is according to truth. Many apply this passage of the buying the piece of ground, with the money Judas brought back, to signify the favor intended by the blood of Christ to strangers, and sinners of the Gentiles. It fulfilled a prophecy, Zech. 11:12. Judas went far toward repentance, yet it was not to salvation. He confessed, but not to God; he did not go to him, and say, I have sinned, Father, against heaven. Let none be satisfied with such partial convictions as a man may have, and yet remain full of pride, enmity, and rebellion.

Evangelism

"I find it a good thing to fast. I do not lay down rules for anyone in this matter, but I know it has been a good thing for me to go without meals to get time for prayer. So many say they have not sufficient time to pray. We think nothing of spending an hour or two in taking our meals." - D. E. Hoste

"If I am concerned that my flock be men and women of prayer, then, as their pastor, I must lead the way; apathy in me will produce apathy in them. The church prayer meeting ought to be the best attended in the week, and if it is, success will follow the ministry of the Word at the weekends. I would rather a thousand times set men and women to pray than teach them to preach." “- J. D. Drysdale

Words from the Bible

James 4:7  

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Thoughts on this verse:

Let's admit it. Most of us would like for spiritual growth to be easy. We want our ability to withstand tempation to require little effort. We want the Holy Spirit to do the work and God to protect us from too much stress and strain. Thankfully, God does empower us through his Holy Spirit. However, he does remind us that for the Spirit to work powerfully in our lives, we must intentionally submit our wills to God and we must resist the devil. If we will put up a fight against him and his temptations, he will flee from us. Let's do our part, trusting that God will more than uphold his promises!

Faith Quotes

Unknown - “If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.”

Unknown – “Weave in faith and God will find the thread.”

Unknown – “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”

Shoemaker, Samuel M. – “Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.”

Examples of Younger Chosen

Isaac

Genesis 17:15-19 

15 God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. 

16 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” 

18 And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”

19 Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Jacob

Genesis 25:30 

He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

Malachi 1:2 

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob's brother?” the LORD says. “Yet I have loved Jacob,

Romans 9:9-13 

9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

10 Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. 
11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God's purpose in election might stand: 

12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 
13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Joseph

Genesis 37:5-11 

5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 

6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 

7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

8 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” 

11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.