Category: BELIEVERS

Bowling is like Life:
Everyone has just so many frames to get the best score possible.
Some get good frames but mostly we get bad ones.
Why are some better than others?
— PRACTICE— PRACTICE— PRACTICE
To succeed as a Believer, we must PRACTICE.

Paul compares the life of a Believer to a runner.

1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
Paul rebukes the Believers in Galatia.
Galatians 5:7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
Paul reminds to keep trying. Practice!
Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
And to believing Jews (applies to all believers).
Hebrews 12:1 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,
Paul, knowing his ministry is coming to an end, reminds Timothy:
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
And reminds him (and us) the results of practicing a good life.
2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

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The perfect motherwould first of all be the good wife. 1 Peter 3 Peter gives the qualities of a Good wife and writes of Sarah, who called Abraham, lord.
Ephesians 5:22-24 Paul gives instructions for wives. The perfect mother must be a good wife.
The perfect mother would respect (love) her in-laws. Ruth the example.
Ruth 1:15-17
The perfect mothershould desire to have and love children (how many mothers are only biological moms). Rachel desired to be a mother Genesis 30:1 She pleaded “give me children or else I die”. Genesis 30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
The perfect mother would give her children to God and pray for them.
1 Samuel 1:27-28 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him: Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
The perfect motherwould teach her child about God. Give them something, someone to believe in.Paul was impressed with Lois and Eunice who gave their child faith. 2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
The perfect motherwould desire the best for her child. The mother of James and John Matthew 20:20-21. Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
The perfect mother would believe God. Luke 1:27-38 Mary, the mother of our Lord, she believed the impossible, she believed God.
How about it Mom? Are YOU The Perfect Mother?
Are you ….. A good wife?
Do you ….. desire children, really want them?
Have you ….. given the ones you have to God?
Do you ….. pray for, with them?
Are you ….. teaching them God’s word?
Are you ….. giving them a real faith … someone, something to believe in.
Do you ….. desire the best for them?
Are you ….. going to God for them?
MOM ….. do you believe in God? The death Burial and Resurrection of Christ?

Dad, replace mother with father, Are YOU The Perfect Father?

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WEDDING PRACTICES AROUND THE WORLD … strange and varied.
Religion or their association with religion always came as a second thought to these customs, NEVER did religion initiate the customs … Prevalent in small nomadic tribes as the practice of group marriage … the men of the tribe married the women of the tribe … this is still practiced today … even in civilized and educated countries (remember Charles Manson …)
TREE MARRIAGE … customs indicate the younger son could not marry until the older brother had taken a wife … The older would therefore marry a tree, a bush or even animal … legally. In India a third marriage was considered bad luck … so to avoid this they would marry a tree, a bush or even animal and then proceed on to the fourth marriage.
INFANT BETROTHAL … still practiced in parts of the world today.
Children being entered into marriage contracts by their parents … sometimes even before birth.
In Australian tribes, girls are promised to someone in the tribe without regards to the age of the man … She might be promised to someone as old as her father or even her grandfather. She may even be betrothed to several men, in case one of them were to die. A man might have several girls betrothed to him for the same reason.
In parts of India a girl 15 years old and not married is considered an old maid and will often be despised by others. Some girls are married by the time they are 8, although the normal age is 12.
Religion has stated they should be married by the time puberty set in.
Early marriages resolve many religious problems:

1. Girls are to be married before they mature.
2. Men must have a son to fulfill his ordained mission of continuing the lie of unbroken descendants.
   The souls of his ancestors cannot remain in heaven unless there is a male descendant to continue sacrifices.
   There are many marriages customs around the world and these a just a few of them. The Bible tells of weddings at the time of Christ. Christ in his parables relate weddings in His time on Earth. However, it is difficult to state:
   THIS IS THE WAY IT WAS! But a few facts are revealed.
   FORMAL BETHROAL – The engagement.
   Usually took place several years before the actual wedding. Usually arranged by parents. This betrothal had to be broken by a paper of divorce from a Rabbi.
   Matthew 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
   The Wedding …
   After a time of festivity and customary rites, which lasted several days (or longer), the Bride began a procession which took her from her home to the house of the Groom. Her trousseau, bridal gifts, as well as musicians and dancers (and sometimes horsemen preforming wild feats) preceded her through the streets. Upon her arrival she was escorted into the best room in the house, which was beautifully decorated as the bridal chamber.
   The groom was absent from the house, but late that same evening (!! Or12) the bridegroom procession began. From the house of a friend his procession came through the streets where women would squeal with delight, “HE IS COMING”. As he neared the house the maidens-in-waiting would go out to the porch and light his way with their lamps … Once the groom and his party were in the house the doors were shut and no-one else could enter. This event sometimes lasted up to 7 days. In most instances the groom provided wedding garments for all the guests and they were required to wear them. Read Matthew 22:1-14 and Matthew 25:1-13 And the marriage of the Lamb Revelation 19:7-9

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Leviticus 18:22-23 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

Romans 1:18-32 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Genesis 19 The story (and sin) of Sodom and Gomorra.
Jude 7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
Matthew 10:15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

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Peter gives good advice:
1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them (wives) according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Paul also has instructions for Husbands:
Ephesians 6:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 6:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 6:33 Nevertheless let every one of you (Husbands) in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
For a good marriage:
1 Corinthians 7:2-4 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Good Church Leaders:
Titus 1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

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Proverbs 31:10-31 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

The chart, “What’s a stay-at-home Mom worth?”, gives a general Dollar and Cents value. But the Scripture puts a higher value, “her price is far above rubies”. It then lists all that she is valued for. Yes, a good wife cannot be equaled.
Men, practice these:
You are the HEAD, but she is the neck that turn’s the head.
She is the hand that does the work, YOU are the glove that protects the hand.
Happy Wife Happy Life.
“her price is far above rubies”

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