Behavior: The good, the bad, the ugly

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Behavior: The good, the bad, the ugly.

Definition of behavior: the way in which one acts or conducts themselves especially toward others; self-constraint.

 

Phil:1,27-29 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

 

Col:1-10  That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

 

 Phil:2,14-16 14

 

Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain

 

Matt:7,13-14  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

 

 

God's Warning:

 

Is:34-1 
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

 

 Ezekiel 3:18 |

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

 

Behavior: the good, the bad, and the ugly, all three happened in the first six days of creation.

1, The Good: God looked and saw everything he made was very good. Gen:1-31

2, The Bad: Satan's deception in the garden separated man from God, and deceived the whole world Gen:3,1-6

3, The ugly: Adam killed mankind by not protecting him from his adversary THE DEVIL, now it's appointed for every man to die Gen:3,9-12

Rom:10,9-10 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

 

Titus:2:11;13 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

God expects the behavior of his church to be according to his word and not of the world. Why?

 

We are to be examples to the world by letting our (Matt:5-16) light shine that they may see our good works and question how are you able to live as you do: this gives us an opportunity to tell them about Jesus that the Father may be glorified in Heaven

 

Israel developed a pattern of rebellion and disobedience after meeting with God on mount Sinai. They build a graven image of the gold and silver they got from the Egyptians and said this is the God that brought us out of Egypt. Ex:32,1-5

Then Israel fired God and said to Samuel we want a King like the other nations. 1Sam:8,1-5,7  Love not the world, 1Jn:2,15-16

 

Psalms 5:10

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

 

Is:1,2-4,15-20

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

 5 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it

1Jn:2,15-16
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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.

Ja:3-6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.

Our tongue will set on fire the course of nature our life will follow if you are not led by the word of God to control your behavior.

If we allow the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us as the word say's we'll have a good chance of becoming who God has called us to be.

 

Jn:16-13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

 

Ps:119,97-99,101,105,158-160: behavior of a righteous man

O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Josh:1,7-8
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success

Col:1-10 That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increase in the knowledge of God.

As we follow Jesus and abide in his word we will begin to see the promises of God manifest in our lives, even the working of miracles.

2Corth:9,8-9

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
 

1Corth:6-18....Flee Fornication!!! 

1Corth:10-13 there hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above ye are able but will with temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it: (The spoken word of God is our way 0f escape)

1Corth:9-27 But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means when I have preach to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Phil:3,13-14 Brethren I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
 

Rom:7:14-24 read it!!!

Grace is not magic that dissolves your sins, past present and future, it is the free gift to every man that will walk in God's word of righteousness and keep his law, the Ten Commandments. I know, you have been told the Ten Commandments are done away with. Wrong!!! they are forever. Ps:111,7-8

 

Luke 24:44 |

And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 

  

Matt:5,17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

 Rom:13-10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
 

 

Let us look at the biblical definition of sin. Why? Because most preachers and so-called Christians don't know what it is.

1Jn;3-4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

You can't sin except you break God's law, anything else is a behavior or discipline problem that can be fixed with the help of the Lord.

 

Most Grace pastors have taught you the law is done away with but didn't tell you which law. Without the law, there is no legal right or document to judge a man of sin.

Here it is, the animal sacrificial law. It was our schoolmaster until Jesus came to sacrifice himself for the sins of the world one time and it was done. Rom:3,16-27

Anywhere you read about the law being weak, this clue identifies the animal sacrificial law, it could not deliver you from sin, it only covered sin, and you were forgiven to keep you from dieing, but it could not put sin away, Neither could the A-S-L deliver you from the penalty of death or give you eternal life.

The lesson to be learned from this is when you sin something have to die, if you sin and don't confess it, the wages of sin is death which is the lake of fire.

The question, do men yet sin after Jesus became our sacrifice for sin: answer is Yes, but God gave us a way out: to the sinner, you must repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of your sins that are past. Rom:3-25. To those in Christ, 1Jn1-9 If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins.....

 Ez:18,18-24,31-32
As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, even he shall die in his iniquity.
19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

 
31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Rom:3,24-25 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Acts:2-38 tell you how to put yourself under the blood of Jesus; 

2Corth:5-17 says if any man be in Christ he is a new creature in, old things are past away and behold all things are become new. All our past sins are gone and now you stand righteous and justified before God, being made the righteousness of God in Christ. (2Corth:5-21)

But if you sin after you come to Christ, you must confess the sin or bear it. If you die bearing sin you didn't confess, the wages of sin is death which is the lake of fire.

1Pet:4,18-19 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinners appear. wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their soul to him in well doing, as unto a faithful creator. (Count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations) your faith must be tried!!!

Heb:10-36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

 

2Corth:7-1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Prov:14-12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

The Good:

Jn:14-6 I am the way the truth and the life

Gen:12,1-3, God's promise to Abraham, in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Caleb # 14,22-24 Fully followed me

The Bad:

Satan and Eve Gen:3,1-6

Adam received the lies of Satan, Gen:3,9-13
Cain and Abel: Gen:4,1-10


The Ugly:

Is:53,3-5,10: The agony and pain Jesus went through

Moses hit the rock: #:20,10-11
Haman hung on his own gallows: Esther7-10

Rom:8,1-9
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: this is the animal sacrificial law
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. As you walk in either of these, your behavior will be exposed
6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The carnal mind does not believe the word of God, it follows after the flesh.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. The Spirit of Christ in you is his word

Heb12,1-2  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking 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.

Prov:1-7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Deut:5-29  O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

Lev:11-44
44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall, therefore, sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
45 For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall, therefore, be holy, for I am holy.

You must have the right mindset, thinking Godly thoughts can change your life.

Phil:4,8-9 
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

Rom:12-2,3 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

1Pet:2,1-3, Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

Eph:5,1-2 Be ye, therefore, followers of God, as dear children;
2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

1Corinth:6,9-11
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

2Tim:4,1-5
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry

1Cor:13,1-13, (on love) 2Pet:1-8, (God's character) 1Cor:10,1-12, (God's warning) Titus 2:11, (How we should live) 1Corinthians 6:9, (These will not enter the Kingdom of God)

Bro James Stearn's