Be Imitators of ME!

Solomon’s Wisdom

NASV 1 Kings 3:16  Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him. 17  The one woman said, GW"Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.  18  "It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.  19  "This woman's son died in the night, because she lay on it.  20  "So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.  21  "When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne."  22  Then the other woman said, BW"No! For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." But the first woman said, "No! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.  23  Then the king said, "The one says, `This is my son who is living, and your son is the dead one´; and the other says, `No! For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.´"  24  The king said, "Get me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king.  25  The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other."  26  GWThen the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred over her son and said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him."  But the other said, BW"He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!"  27  Then the king said, "Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother."

Cut up the church!

When ungodly people don’t get what they want, they are ready to CUT THE CHURCH INTO PIECES. Causing the weak to fall!  Matt.18:7-10
Ephesians 4:1  I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,  2  with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;  3  giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.  4  There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;  5  one Lord, one faith, one baptism,  6  one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

Some Men put themselves First:

3 John 1:9  I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.  10  Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth and casteth them out of the church.  11  Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Are You Looking down on Yourself or Others?

1Cor.12:14  For the body is not one member, but many.  15  If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.  16  And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.  17  If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?  18  But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.  19  And if they were all one member, where were the body?  20  But now they are many members, but one body.  21  And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

There will always be competition between TRUTH and Tradition.

Gal.4:16 Have I become your enemy because I tell you the TRUTH?

Mark 7:6  And He said to them, "Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: `THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.  7  `BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.´  8  "Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men."  9  He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

Presumptuous Sin

Psalms 19:13  Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Psalms 119:97  Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day. 98  Thy commandments make 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. 100  I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts. 101  I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I might observe thy word. 102  I have not turned aside from thine ordinances; For thou hast taught me. 103  How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104  Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way. 105  Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.

John 8:31  Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples; 32  and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Acts 2:42  And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Colossians 3:16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

1 Corinthians 4:6  Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

2 John 1:9  Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son. 10  If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and give him no greeting: 11  for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.

 Deuteronomy 17:8  If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose; 9  and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou shalt inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. 10  And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee: 11  according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12  And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13  And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Deuteronomy 18:20  But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.

Numbers 15:30  But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.  31  Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

Numbers 15:37  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  38  Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:  39  And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:  40  That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.  41  I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 1:42  And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.  43  So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.  44  And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.  45  And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

2 Peter 2:10  But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

Leviticus 10:1  And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.  2  And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

1 Samuel 13:8  And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.  9  And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.  10  And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.

1 Samuel 13:13  And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.  14  But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.

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