Monday, November 17, 2014

True Conversion Bears Good Fruit

If you have been genuinely converted, then your first concern must be to form all the details of your life-in the home, in the church, in the world-so as to please God. And in the actual bringing of this to pass, the order will be "cease to do evil; learn to do well" (Isa. 1:16-17); "Depart from evil, and do good" (Ps. 34:14 and cf. 37:27). There has to be a breaking down before there can be a building up (Eccl. 3:3). There has to be an emptying of self before there is the filling of the Spirit. There has to be an unlearning before there is a true learning. And there has to be a hating of ‘evil" before there is a loving of the "good" (Amos 5:15 and cf. Rom. 12:9).

~AWPink Practical Godliness

Jas 1:18  Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 
Jas 1:19  Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 
Jas 1:20  for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 
Jas 1:21  Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 
Jas 1:22  But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 


2Th 2:10  and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 

1Co 15:10  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 

2Ti 2:19  But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity." 

True agape love:  1Co 13:6  it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth

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