"And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. 25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."
The writer of Hebrews called upon the recipients of his letter to "exhort" one another. Exhortation is a big word with a big meaning. The meaning of exhortation is to encourage. It comes from the Greek verb, parakaleo. The word as a noun (paraklete) is used of the Holy Spirit. Jesus told His disciples that He would send the Paraklete, the "Comforter," to be with them when he departed. So we are encouraged to "parakaleo" one another. How do we do that? Like the Holy Spirit, we "come alongside of" each other to offer comfort and encouragement. Let's not forget that Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to live inside of us when we are saved. In the same way, we are to recognize that we are all together in the faith. We are to be there for each other through the good times and the bad. We are to be there for each other, even when we might disagree over this or that. To use today's vernacular, we are to "have each other's backs." What it all comes to is that we are to encourage each other instead of discouraging each other. When times are good, we can rejoice and praise God together. When times are difficult we are there for each other still rejoicing and praising God together. The fact is that God has given us to each other to have fellowship, to pray for one another, to pat one another on the back, to remind each other of right and wrong. We should be able to depend on our fellow Christians to help us to live the Christian life to the fullest. We should make sure that we are dependable Christian friends and help others live the Christian life to the fullest. I have never been in a church where the fellowship was perfect, nor have any of us. But I can tell you that I have had fellow church members that I could depend upon to pray for me, to give me a word of encouragement and to remind me when I needed to do better. That is what it means to "exhort one another," and to have real Christian fellowship with each other. I hope that this blog has been a reminder to you of what it means to be a good church member, and to be among those who "provoke unto love and good works." My prayer is that all of us will decide that we are going to be "exhorters," or encouragers. Bro. Joe
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“And it came to pass that, while they communed together, and reasoned, Jesus Himself drew near, and went with them.”
If you are at all acquainted with the New Testament, you probably guessed from the title what this article is about. After His resurrection, Jesus encountered two of His followers on the road to Emmaus, and they communed, or walked and talked with Him. They were not aware who Jesus was until they had eaten a meal with Him. Then we are told that their eyes were opened and they knew who He was. (You can read the whole story in Luke 24:13-35) Their walk with Jesus can tell us what it means to “take a walk with Jesus.” When we take a walk with Jesus, we have a new level of biblical knowledge. While they were on the road, Jesus explained the Old Testament scriptures concerning Himself. Verse 27: "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself.” If we want to understand the Bible, and understand the ministry of Jesus, we need to spend time with Him in His word. He promised that the Holy Spirit would guide us into all truth, but that guidance will not take place if we are not in close fellowship with Jesus. Jesus wants us to know His word, and He wants to teach it to us through the Spirit. We cannot separate our fellowship with Jesus, from reading, studying and digesting His word. When we take a walk with Jesus, we have a new level of spiritual fervor. We learn this from what the men said after Jesus expounded the scriptures concerning Himself to them and after they recognized Him: “And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures.” I have often wished as I read this that I could have had Bible study with Jesus while He was still on earth. Imagine the thrill in the hearts of these men when they realized that God Incarnate Himself had explained His mission from His scriptures. If we do not spend time in fellowship with Jesus in prayer and Bible study, we will not know the meaning of having “our hearts burn within us.” Too many people are spiritually dead because they spend more time reading things other than the Bible. They wonder why they don’t have spiritual victory. It is because they have not taken a walk with Jesus – so to speak. I can think back on periods in my ministry sojourn over the last sixty years, and remember that I was not spiritually “burning” because I was neglecting walking with Jesus through prayer and His word. There, you have my confession, now make yours and draw closer to Him. When we take a walk with Jesus, we have an obligation to tell others what we have experienced. In fact, people will know that you have walked with Jesus, and will want to know about it because it will make a difference in your life. Verses 33-35 tell us: “And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, 34. Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon. 35. And they told what things were done in the way, and how He was known of them in breaking of bread.” They were quick to tell about their walk with Jesus. When we walk with Jesus, there will always be a compulsion to tell others about Him. When you read this, consider your own walk with Jesus and walk with Him. It will change and enrich your life! Bro. Joe “And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: 19. Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20. My soul has them still in remembrance and is humbled in me. 21. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. 23. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul: therefore will I hope in Him. 25. The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeks Him.”
The book of Lamentations, written by Jeremiah after the fall of Jerusalem and the exile of the Israelite people in Babylon, is exactly what the title implies – it is a lament about the suffering of God’s people in exile. It is not what one would call a “happy read.” It is filled with doom and gloom. Yet in the midst of this gloom and doom, eight verses rise up as from the ashes and reveal the hope and faith that Jeremiah still had in those dark times. Like everything else in the Bible, it is a word of hope for us as well in the midst of our crises. Verse 19 tells us of Jeremiah’s suffering: “Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.” (Wormwood and gall refer to his bitterness.) Yet even as Jeremiah lamented Israel’s pitiable condition at the time, there arose in his heart and mind the hope that only God, as we know Him in Christ, can give. He wrote: “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.” In the midst of his gloom, Jeremiah had a thought, I think from God, that because of God there was still hope. In verse 22, he wrote of the “mercies” and “compassion” of God He recalled that the people of God were defeated, but they were not consumed. After all, Jeremiah himself had written of the hope of post-exilic times that God’s people would rise from the ashes and again rejoice. This is the same Lord that we worship. He is still merciful and compassionate. He has not stopped loving us, though we might be going through dark times. In the midst of whatever gloom we may face, the radiance of God shines forth in our hearts and reminds that we are still loved by our merciful and compassionate God. The Babylonians had the temporary victory, but Jeremiah’s, and our, hope lies in the hands of the eternal God who loves us and is compassionate towards us. These verses are especially relevant today. As I write this there is a worry about the dreaded Covid19 virus. There is the incessant news about "wars and rumors of wars." Besides these things, there are the earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods that have always been bad news for people. But the message of the Bible is that these dreadful things that we face today, and whatever dreadful things will be in the future, are not surprising or unbeatable as far as the eternal God is concerned. We have to remember that we live in a fallen world. We have never been promised a utopia on this side of heaven. We do have, however, the promise that God is aware of all of the things that are happening and that in the midst of it all, He is present with mercy and compassion. Our hope lies, not in the fallen world, but in the eternal God who created it all and oversees it all. It is still true that, “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are (still) new every morning: great is (His) faithfulness.” Remember the words of the Lord Jesus in Matthew 11:28: “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” Whatever is weighing heavy on your mind today let the reality of the Living Lord lift the weight and give you the freedom to rejoice in His great name. Do it! Bro. Joe “Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope.”
The Greek word that is normally translated as hope, and is true of our text, is “elpis” and it means to have a great expectation of something that is certain. We usually use the word “hope” to mean something like, “Gosh, I hope so and so happens, but it might not.” The basis of our hope should be certain – not maybe. In the beginning of his letter to Timothy, Paul wrote of “Christ Jesus” as our “hope.” Jesus is the real eternal basis for our hope. I love the opening words of the old hymn, The Solid Rock: “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame but wholly lean on Jesus’ name.” I’m not sure what a “sweetest frame” is, but I think it is something, or someone, in this world that we might lean on instead of Jesus. I’m not saying that there is nothing in this world to lean on. What I am saying is that the basis of our hope, and the One to whom we should entrust all of life and all of eternity to is Jesus Christ. This is what Paul meant in 1 Timothy 1:1 and what I mean when I ask you what is the basis of your hope? If your hope is built on anything less than Jesus, you are leaning on a weak hope. There is no other basis of hope that has lived from “everlasting to everlasting,” gave up a home in heaven, died on the cross to save you from sin, arose the third day, ascended to the “right hand of the Father,” is making intercession for you and has promised to return to take you home to heaven. (Wow, that was a long sentence.) Some people put their hope in politics. Be sure that I have my political opinions and I could bore you to death for hours discussing them, but my hope is not in politics. I have lived long enough (from FDR to DT) to know that politics is too tenuous to be a basis of hope. Who is in control in Washington is too tenuous to be a basis for hope. I have seen the political spectrum switch from “pillar to post” in my years on this earth. We Americans are really fickle when it comes to who is to be in control in Washington. We will try one party for eight years and then try another - ad infinitum. You can be deliriously happy that your candidate won, but the years will go by and the delirium will turn to dismay, then the other party will be in control. I just can’t put my hope in politics. I read a lot about politics and there are people on all ends of the spectrum who really and truly put their hope there, but I don’t want to be one of them. I do not want my hope to be on something that the fickleness of human beings can destroy. We will just live our lives, and be happy or grin and bear it, until the next election. Politics cannot take the place of Jesus. Some people put their hope in their bank accounts. That’s why some rich people committed suicide at the beginning of “the Great Depression” in 1929. They just could not take not being rich. Hey, I want my fair share, so to speak, but I can’t put my hope in it. There are any number of things that can serve as the basis of your hope, but if the basis of your hope is not Jesus, you are leaning on something, or someone, that is a poor basis for hope. If Jesus is not your hope, put your faith in Him now, and trust Him here and for all eternity. Do it! Bro. Joe “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man has found, he hides, and for joy thereof goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.”
This verse comes in the middle of series of parables that Jesus was using to describe the kingdom of heaven. It portrays a man who came across treasure that someone had hidden in a field. He hid the treasure, then went and sold all that he had to buy that field. Jesus does not tell us what the treasure was, but it was surely precious for the man to put his whole livelihood on the line for it. However, we know what the treasure was that Jesus was illustrating. It was the kingdom of heaven. In this case, I will say that the treasure was the gospel of Jesus, which is our entryway into the kingdom of heaven. There are some good lessons for us in this verse. The first thought that came to mind was that the gospel, good news, about Jesus coming to earth is the hidden treasure of God's kingdom. Therefore, it is important that we share the “hidden treasure” of the gospel with a world that is oblivious to the salvation offered by Jesus. We need to tell them that the “hidden treasure” is not about religion; rather it is about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Those of us who know about this “hidden treasure” should uncover it for the multitudes around the world. The second thought that came to mind was that the gospel of Jesus Christ is worth everything that we have. After he discovered the treasure in the field, the man went and sold everything that he had and went and bought that field. That was a valuable piece of property for the man to lay everything on the line. This means that the gospel of Jesus Christ is worth everything that we have as. Jesus told the “rich young ruler” that what he needed to do was sell all that he had, give it to the poor and follow Him. We will not have to sell everything that we have, but we need to surrender to the Lord whatever it is that is holding us back from either finding the gospel or sharing it with the world. I think that the crux of the matter is, what are you willing to surrender in order to discover and share the “hidden treasure”? Bro. Joe "What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 4. In God I will praise His word, in God, I have put my trust; I will not fear what man can do to me.” (verses 3-4)
“In God will I praise His word: in the Lord will I praise His word. 11. In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid of what man can do unto me.” (verses 10-11) It is worth noting that David did not claim to be fearless. We usually think of him as the “fearless warrior” who took on the giant Goliath when he was very young. But in this psalm, he simply states “what time I am afraid…” This means that David had to face his fears, just like we have to face our fears. Fear is an integral part of life, and we have to deal with it. We can fear the weather, especially when we see what hurricanes and tornadoes can do. We can fear for the future, especially when we think of what might happen, and in the case of those of us who are older, we fear for the future for our children and grandchildren. Come to think of it, there is a lot to be afraid of, but David is going to teach us in these verses how to deal with whatever fears we have to face. David could face his fears because he trusted in God. He made the bold assertion, “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.” We are saved from sin by trusting in Jesus as our Savior, but we are sustained in life by that same trust. We need to remember that God is always with us, and when we face trying and fearful times, He is with us. He illustrated this in Psalm 23:4: “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” We need to realize that no matter what we face, whether it is sickness, nature’s wrath, or people, God is with us and will see us through whatever it is that we have to face. I don’t know what you are dealing with at the present time that would make you afraid, but I do know that God is aware of it and will be with you through all of it. Many times He will deliver you from whatever it is that you fear, but at other times, He will deliver you through whatever it is that you fear. FDR was right when he told the citizens of our country as we faced a world war, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Fear will ruin our lives if we will let it. It will cripple us in our creativity and in our relationships with people if we give in to it. I remember back in 1969 when we were thinking about cutting loose from the security of a good church and school teaching job and going to the seminary. We simply had to face it in faith and do it, because God willed it. I am glad that we knew that He would be with us. Whatever you are afraid of now, release into the powerful hands of God. David referred to another thing that helped him in his fear – God’s word. In verse 4 he wrote: “In God I will praise His word…” Again in verse 10 he wrote: “In God will I praise His word…” Of course, David’s word from God was the Pentateuch, which recorded what God did for His people Israel. In our case, we have the whole Old Testament and New Testament. We know the complete story of salvation history. What a comfort it is to know that when we are afraid, we have the Bible that we can turn to that will reassure us of the presence of God. There is power in the word of God that can help us transcend our earthly fears. There have been many times in my life when I rushed to the word of God for comfort in trying times. There have also been many times when I would have been better off if I had rushed to the word of God. No doubt, you have a Bible. Read it and let its inspired passages remind you of the love of God for you and the power of God in your life. Don’t be upset that there are things that make you afraid; just be glad that you have God and His word to lean on when you are afraid. Bro. Joe “And they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Behold, are not all of these which speak Galileans?”
The people who heard the disciples speaking in their native languages were amazed. This is just one example of people being amazed at what God was doing among them. We sing “I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene…” But do we really mean it? When is the last time Jesus amazed you? This really made we stop and think about my own life. I realized that I am amazed that I am still able to write this article after two cancers and a stroke. There are other things that I could share with you, but I want you to concentrate on yourself. If you think back over your life, you can find things that are amazing. This would be a good exercise. After visiting the past, you and I should start looking for ways that Jesus amazes us in our lives. That would sure be better than bemoaning things that are going on in the world. (Just saying! And I’m preaching to myself as well.) We might find amazement in our daily lives. When is the last time Jesus amazed you in your church. People often complain about boring services. We might ask ourselves why worship is boring instead of amazing. It could have something to do with the attitude that we take into the service. Someone was told that “so and so died in the service.” The question was: “Was it in the morning service or the evening service?” (OK, that’s an old joke, which is about the only kind I know these days.) We might start with our own attitudes. Why don’t we try getting excited about the hymns, or choruses that we sing? Why don’t we try getting excited about the teaching and preaching of the word of God? Why don’t we try to expect Jesus to amaze us in all of this? We might be surprised if we will expect to be amazed. It is at least worth a try! When is the last time Jesus amazed you in your personal worship? If you do not have a time of personal worship start now, and use whatever time you have to do it. Try to find amazement in the reading of your Bible! Hey, there is some good stuff in there!!! Try to find amazement in your prayers. Ask Jesus to amaze you in His answer to your prayers, or in the changes that He makes in your life. Let’s really mean it when we sing: “I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene.” Bro. Joe “18. And I said, my strength and my hope is perished from the Lord.” “21. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. 23. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
One does not normally think of going to Lamentations for encouragement, since it is as its name implies, lamentations of Jeremiah over the destruction of Jerusalem. Yet in the middle of his lamentation, Jeremiah sees a glimmer of hope. Jeremiah is the Old Testament’s version of “chicken little” who went about saying “the sky is falling, the sky is falling.” (Except that, in a sense, it really was.) He is like the watchman who says, “All if lost, all is lost.” At this time in Judah’s history it would certainly seem that all was lost. Look at what has happened: (1) The king has been taken into exile, (2) The walls of Jerusalem are either being torn down at this time, or have already been torn down. (3) The temple at Jerusalem has been destroyed. (4) People are being carried everyday into exile in Babylon, or being killed. It would certainly seem that all is lost. In one sense, all was lost. A whole civilization, which had been ordained by God, was being torn down person by person and brick by brick. There was death and destruction on every hand. No wonder that Jeremiah said, “My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord.” Don’t you think that if we saw all of our great institutions being destroyed, and our people being either killed or taken into exile, that we would think that all was lost? But then, Jeremiah has a thought: “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.” The Lord was letting Jeremiah see all of the death and destruction around Him, but He was also working in Jeremiah’s mind the hope that is always ours in Him. Here is what the Lord put on Jeremiah’s mind: “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” In the midst of all of the negativity, to put it mildly, Jeremiah saw a glimmer of hope, not in the situation, but in Yahweh, the great God of Israel and the world. Jeremiah knew that all was not lost because God was not dead. In the midst of his great depression, Jeremiah fell back on some things about Yahweh that he knew he could depend on. First, he remembered that God is a God of mercy and grace. Just because God allows us to be disciplined for disobedience, does not mean that He does not love us anymore, or that He is no longer the God of love and mercy. Whatever you are going through it might not be discipline from the Lord, but it is at least allowed by the Lord. This doesn’t mean that God has ceased to be whom and what He is in His very nature. He has not stopped loving you and He will show His mercy in His time. No matter what is going on around us, God has not ceased to be the God of mercy and hope. Second, Jeremiah remembered that Yahweh is the compassionate God. This means that not only does God love us, He feels deeply for us and His actions show the great agape (ahgahpay) love that was eventually revealed in Jesus Christ. The temple being torn down, did not mean that God’s compassion had been torn down. Our circumstances can, and must change, but God does not. Take great joy in that. Third, Jeremiah remembered the faithfulness of God. His love, mercy and compassion for us are new every morning and in all things, He will prove to be faithful. Isn’t this what the coming of Jesus meant in the economy of the whole Bible? Take heart! This God described in Lamentations, is at work in your life through the Holy Spirit. Praise Him! Bro. Joe Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
The 23rd Psalm is about God being our shepherd and always being with us. It concludes with the verse that is printed above. I once read that we have two guardian angels, and they are called "goodness and mercy." There is probably more to the guardian angel concept than that, but it is nevertheless true that we who believe are accompanied by God's goodness and Mercy all of the time. What a comfort this is to me, and I hope it is a comfort that you have and that you enjoy & appreciate. This verse tells us that we are covered now and for all eternity. It is obvious life on this earth is nowhere near like life in heaven, but we have been visited from heaven and we have a little bit of it here and now. In this present life we are followed by God's goodness. Among other possible interpretations of this text, I think that it means that God is good to us. He doesn't always make life easy for us, but, even in the hard times, He is good to us. No matter what, we can know that God's goodness is with us 24/7. Then we are followed by God's mercy. Thank God for His mercy. If God practiced judgment without mercy, we would all be in great trouble. We can know that God loves us, even if we don't always measure up to His standards. This means that we have been forgiven by an eternal God who loves us. This love is shown through Jesus, who came to save us. Closely associated with mercy is grace. God's grace says to us that we don't deserve what God/Jesus does for us, but He does it anyway. In this life we have God's presence with us all of the time. He showers His goodness and mercy upon us all of the time. We don't always realize that, but it is true. But that is not all that is in store for us. Through His goodness and mercy, God has made it possible for us to spend eternity with Him. Think about eternity for a moment. Eternity is a long, long time. It just goes on forever. When we believe in Jesus, we are visited by heaven daily through God's goodness and mercy, and when this life is over we will be with Jesus forever. In the 14th chapter of John's Gospel, verses 2-3, Jesus said: "In my Father's house are many mansions (dwelling places); if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also." It is through faith in Jesus that we have this kind of life and this kind of eternity. Which leads me to ask you: "Are you being followed?" I pray that you are, but if you aren't Jesus is availabe to you. Just call on Him, and He will hear you. This is a good deal - take it! You will find it to be a wonderful experience. Bro. Joe “There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.” KJV
“Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” NIV I sometimes feel like David when he wrote Psalm 57:4: “My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.” This is not because of sharp words said to me necessarily, but because I hear so many wicked things said about other people. Sharp-tongued “lions” are all around us. Being a man who makes his living primarily using his tongue to speak to people, I want to be real careful that I do not “speak with a forked tongue.” I want to be careful that my words do not cut a negative swath through people’s hearts. I think that you should feel the same no matter what your occupation. Let me explain what I mean. We speak with “healing tongues" when we say positive things to people. Think about it for a minute: Don’t you like it when people say nice and kind things to you? In my preaching I try to speak positively to people. This doesn’t mean that I never say negative things. (More about this later) What it means is that I want my words to help bring healing to the hearts of the people who hear me preach. But this does not just apply to preaching; rather, it applies to all of our relationships in life. We need to be careful that we do not say hurtful words to people. All you have to do before you say a hurtful thing is to ask yourself if you would want such a thing said to you. There are some people who are so negative, and their tongues so “piercing” that we would really prefer not to be around them. We speak with healing tongues when we say negative things to people in a positive way. Are you confused by this? Well, I’m going to explain what I mean. Paul gave us some direction on this in Colossians 4:6: “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” I think that “seasoned with salt” means that we should not be mealy-mouthed when we speak to people, nor should we give false flattery. Speaking with grace, means that we want to be careful not to hurt the other person’s feelings by what we say. If your purpose is to hurt someone’s feelings, you are wrong from the outset. Let me give you an example of speech not done with grace and not seasoned with salt: “Preacher, that’s about the worst sermon I’ve ever heard.” Or you might say: “Jane where in the world did you get that tacky hat?” Now let’s see speech given with grace and seasoned by salt: “Preacher, that sermon gave me some things that I need to think about.” You didn’t say “I enjoyed the sermon,” you just told him the truth that he did say some things that you need to think about. If he didn’t, just don’t say anything. As for Jane with her “tacky” hat, you might say: “Jane it is good to see you today.” You notice that the hat was not even mentioned. The point: If what you are going to say is going to ruin someone’s day, keep your mouth shut. Jesus said both positive and negative things to people. He took the self-righteous Pharisees to task, and He let the people who were making the temple into a “den of thieves” know that He was not pleased with them. We need to remember, however, when we talk to people that we are not Jesus. But we also need to remember that sometimes we need to just tell people the truth and let the chips fall where they may. But we don’t need to do this in a nasty, judgmental way, and make it seem that we are looking down our noses at them. Even negative things that we say should be with “grace, seasoned with salt.” We just need to remember that too much salt is worse than not enough salt. Even when we are correcting people, we need to be redemptive, and not just negative or mean-spirited. I know that it is not always easy to do this, but if we want to be effective witnesses for Jesus, we will certainly be aware of the impression that we leave. If our purpose is to give “a piece of our mind,” we need to remember that we don’t have the mind to spare. If our purpose is to help keep someone from the error of their way, then we will have healed and not hurt. Keep in mind that not everyone will appreciate even speech given with grace, but you will know that you have said the right thing in the right way. My closing advice here is that if you are not sure what the motives of your heart are when you are speaking with other people; just don’t say anything – kyms (keep your mouth shut). Bro. Joe |
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