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  12-01 Being Told What To Do 12-02 More Hope For a Fool 12-03 Discerning the Lord’s Body: Part One 12-04 Discerning the Lord’s Body: Part Two 12-05 You Are Evil 12-06 Humbling Ourselves To Work 12-07 Why Are You Where You Are? 12-08 Hating The Righteous 12-09 Putting Off Sackcloth 12-10 No Reason For Pride 12-11 The New Testament 12-12 Influence 12-13 The Breath of our Nostrils 12-14 Giving Place To Satan 12-15 Worth More Than Half 12-16 True Humility 12-17 Scourged . . . but Saved 12-18 Unwanted Blessings 12-19 Losing a Member 12-20 “Wine Is a Mocker” 12-21 Humility: the Mother of Learning 12-22 The Truth Can Become a Lie 12-23 Only What Was Created 12-24 God Is Not Old 12-25 Satan’s Messiah Is Coming 12-26 Knowing God 12-27 Understanding the Temptation 12-28 God Promised To Speak 12-29 Being Angry Is Not Sin 12-30 What God Sees 12-31 “Pinned and Wriggling on the Wall”

 

Random Thought
12-12

Influence

John:

I was thinking this morning about the greatest foes being “those of one’s own household” and I will add the words “household of faith”. These are some of my thoughts.

1. People who are obviously doing wrong are no danger because they are obvious. They can actually influence us in some cases to do right in the sight of God.

2. People who seem to be doing right but are not right with God can have much more influence and can influence you to do wrong. “Wrong” being anything but the perfect will of God for you at that moment or in the future. This could include in some cases someone doing “Good Deeds”.

3. If we are living to the standard Jesus is requiring, I think the more important question is, “What is our influence doing to others? Is it encouraging them to do the will of God for them?” Only if God helps each one of us will our influence be correct.

Every day now I see more of a need of God than ever. God help me do what is pleasing in your eyes! I think I finally understand partially at least why Jesus said, “Not my will but thy will be done.” What wisdom!

We will all give an account of every idle word.

Thanks:

Wendell Satterwhite

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Hi Brother Wendell:

Early in my walk with God, the Lord taught me this: The closer something comes to being right, without being right, the more evil it is, because it has more potential for influencing us to “come short of the glory of God”. That is similar to what you are saying, and that is why I cannot be content with people around me who are “almost there” with Jesus. I want every person who is “almost there” with Jesus to get away from me! They are the most dangerous people on earth.

May God help us not to come just a little short of righteousness in the sight of God. Jesus would rather we had not even started than to have started and then become content with being “almost there” in doing the perfect will of God.

jdc