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OUR BEHAVIOUR IN OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS, DIRECTIONS AND COMMANDS
I act really and truly as a son, as a child, of God, for He is kind to the unthankful and ungrateful and to those people who are very wicked, ungodly, sinful and evil.
Luke 6:35
I am kind to the unthankful and ungrateful and to those people who are very wicked, ungodly, sinful and evil. They come on strong, act and behave aggressively and assertively against God’s Laws in their thoughts, speech and actions.
Luke 6:35
I aim to like and love every other person as much as Jesus likes and loves me.
John 13:34
I aim to like and love other people as much as I like and love myself and just as much as Jesus likes and loves us. Our strong liking, love, warm affection and friendship for each other prove to the world, to the people of the world, that we are Jesus’ disciples and followers.
John 13:34-35
All of us, in Jesus Christ, are on the same level as brothers, brethren, partners and associates, companions, mates and friends.
Matthew 23:8
To measure love, liking, warm affection and friendship, the greatest love, liking, warm affection and friendship is shown when a person lays down and gives up his or her life for his or her friends.
John 15:13
I rebuke, blame gently, advise and reprove my brother or my sister if he or she sins and thinks, speaks and acts against God’s Laws. I forgive, pardon, excuse and acquit him or her if he or she is sorry. Even if he or she wrongs me seven times a day and each time turn round again and ask forgiveness, pardon, excuse and acquittal, I forgive, pardon excuse and acquit him or her.
Luke 17:3-4
I forgive, pardon, excuse and acquit a brother or a sister who sins and thinks, speaks and acts against God’s Laws and against me, seventy times seven, that’s 490 times!
Matthew 18:21-22
I really and truly forgive, pardon, excuse and acquit my brothers and my sisters, for if I refuse to do so, My Heavenly Father will send me to the torture chamber, until I have paid the last amount due.
Matthew 18:35-34
When a brother or a sister sins against me and thinks, speaks and acts against God’s Laws, I go to him or her privately and confront him or her with his or her fault. If he or she listens and confesses it, I have won back a brother or a sister. But, if not, then I take one or two other people with me and go back to him or her again, proving everything I say by these witnesses. If he or she still refuses to listen, then I take my case to the church and, if the church’s verdict and judgment favours me, but he or she won’t accept it, then the church should excommunicate him or her. Whatever I bind and tie on earth is bound and tied in heaven in God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care and whatever I free and liberate on earth will be freed and liberated in heaven.
Matthew 18:15-18
I obey Jesus, as I do as Jesus directs me. I don’t consider myself worthy of praise and acclamation, for I have simply done my duty and am doing my duty and obedience.
Luke 17:10
I know my duty and obedience and I do it.
Luke 12:47
I don’t worry about things – food, drink, money and clothes. For I already have life and a body and they are far more important than what to eat and wear.
Matthew 6:25
I don’t worry about things such as food, drink, money and clothes. I don’t worry about anything. I am not anxious about tomorrow, as God will take care of my tomorrow too. I live one day at a time.
Matthew 6:34
I don’t wish for what I don’t have.
Luke 12:15
I avoid the attractions of this world, the delights of wealth and affluence, cash, money, assets, goods and property, the search for success, fortune, prosperity and happiness, the lure and enticement of attractive things. I don’t allow these things to crowd out and to squeeze out God’s message, announcement and communication with information and advice, instructions and directions from my heart and mind, the centre of my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires.
Mark 4:18-19
I am not letting my faith, my firm relying trust, belief, assurance, confidence, reliance, dependence, expectation and hope be choked out by worry and riches and the responsibilities and pleasures of life.
Luke 8:14
I watch out that the sunshine isn’t blotted out in my soul, in my life, in my being and in myself. My eye lights up my inward being. A pure eye lets sunshine into my soul. A lustful and craving eye shuts out the light and plunges me into darkness.
Luke 11:35-34
If my eye is pure, there will be sunshine in my soul, in my life, in my being and in myself. But, if my eye is clouded with evil thoughts and desires, I am in deep spiritual darkness. And oh, how deep that darkness can be.
Matthew 6:22-23
I don’t forget about justice, equity, fairness, honesty, impartiality, integrity, justness, law, reasonableness, rectitude, moral uprightness and right and the liking, love, warm affection and friendship of God.
Luke 11:42
I remember justice and the liking, love, warm affection and friendship of God.
Luke 11:42
I tithe, that is I set aside one-tenth part of my income for specific use to/by the government and/or the church. I remember justice, mercy, sympathy, pity, compassion, kindness, tenderness and consideration to the poor, the weak and the sick and faith.
Matthew 23:23
I don’t ignore, overlook, neglect, disregard or reject the important things. I give attention to justice, mercy and faith. This is a firm relying trust, belief, assurance, confidence, reliance, dependence, expectation and hope. It concerns fidelity, allegiance, obedience, obligation, loyalty, truth and truthfulness.
Matthew 23:23
I never criticise, find faults and defects or condemn, censure, express disapproval and blame, otherwise it will all come back on me.
Luke 6:37
I don’t criticise, find faults and defects in other people and then I am not criticised, for other people will treat, think, speak and act towards me as I treat, think, speak and act towards them.
Matthew 7:1-2
I get rid of the board in my own eye and then perhaps I can see well enough to deal with another person’s speck in his or her eye. I don’t quibble about the speck in someone else’s eye, his or her little fault, when a board is in my own eye.
Luke 6:41-42
I don’t worry about the speck in the eye of a brother or sister, when I have a plank in my own eye.
Matthew 7:3
I first get rid of the plank in my own eye and then I can see to help my brother or sister.
Matthew 7:5
I am not angry, annoyed and indignant even in my own home. If I am angry, I am in danger of judgment. I don’t call my friend an idiot and a fool. If I do I am in danger of being brought before the court. I don’t curse my friend and wish him or her harm, punishment or destruction. If I do, I am in danger of the fires of hell, the home of the damned.
Matthew 5:21-22
I treat others, other people, as I wish and want them to treat me. I think about, speak to and act towards others, other people, as I wish and want them to think about, speak to and act towards me.
Luke 6:31
I do for others, for other people, what I wish and want them to do for me. I think about, speak to and act towards others, other people, as I wish and want them to think about, speak to and act towards me. This is the teaching of the Laws of Moses in a nutshell.
Matthew 7:12
I go easy on others, on other people, and then they will do the same for me, by going easy on me.
Luke 6:37
I don’t tempt, incite or entice anyone to sin, to think, speak and act against God’s Laws.
Luke 17:1
I live in peace, harmony and friendship with everyone.
Mark 9:50
When I am standing before the altar offering a gift to God and suddenly remember that a friend has something against me, I leave my gift beside the altar and I go and apologise to him or her and I am reconciled and reunited to him or her. Then I come and offer my gift to God. I come to terms quickly with my enemy before it is too late and he drags me into court and I am thrown into a debtor’s cell, for I will stay there until I have paid the last amount due.
Matthew 5:23-26
I am being honest and trustworthy in small matters, so that I will be honest and trustworthy in large matters.
Luke 16:10
I am being an honest and good-hearted person.
Luke 8:15
I am being trustworthy about worldly wealth, so that I may be trusted with the true, real and actual riches of Heaven, those of God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care.
Luke 16:11
I am being faithful and trustworthy, reliable and dependable with other people’s money and I can be entrusted with money of my own.
Luke 16:12
I am humble and gentle and I am given the Kingdom of Heaven, God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care and I am very fortunate and happy.
Matthew 5:3
I humble myself and become gentle as a little child and I am the greatest, the most important in the Kingdom of Heaven, in God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care.
Matthew 18:4
When I am invited to a wedding feast, I start at the foot in humility.
Luke 14:8
I am meek and lowly, humble and gentle. The whole world belongs to me and I am fortunate and happy.
Matthew 5:5
I keep my heart and mind pure. I keep my feelings, impulses, affections and desires, pure, godly and upright, according to God’s Laws. I shall see God and I am happy and fortunate.
Matthew 5:8
I long for justice, equity, fairness, honesty, impartiality, integrity, justness, law, reasonableness, rectitude, and moral uprightness and right in obedience to God’s Laws and I shall surely have it and I am happy and fortunate.
Matthew 5:6
I strive and struggle for agreement, harmony and peace and I shall be called a son, a child of God and I am happy and fortunate.
Matthew 5:9
I am poor, in poverty, in need and in low condition, without personal resources for recovery and the Kingdom of God, God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care, belongs to me and in this there is happiness and pleasure.
Luke 6:20
I weep and shed tears, but the time will come, when I shall laugh with joy and in this there is happiness and pleasure.
Luke 6:21
I mourn, lament and I am sad and I shall be comforted and I am fortunate and happy.
Matthew 5:4
I hunger and I am in an exhausted condition and I am going to be satisfied and in this there is happiness and pleasure.
Luke 6:21
I try to show as much compassion as my Heavenly Father does. I show sympathy, pity, mercy, compassion, kindness, tenderness and consideration to the poor, the weak and the sick.
Luke 6:36
I am merciful. I show sympathy, pity, compassion, kindness, tenderness and consideration to the poor, the weak and the sick.
Matthew 12:7
I am kind and merciful. I shall be shown mercy and I am happy and fortunate.
Matthew 5:7
I go and show some pity.
Luke 10:37
I don’t invite friends, brothers, relatives and rich neighbours to dinner, for they will return the invitation. I invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind to dinner at my house. At the resurrection, the rising to life again of the godly people at the last day, God will reward and repay me for inviting those people who can’t repay me.
Luke 14:12-14
I am a servant. I am a personal attendant, working for others, working for other people. The lowlier, humble and gentle my service for others, in my work for others, the greater and more important I am.
Matthew 23:11
The one who serves and assists us best is our leader. He is Jesus!
Luke 22:26
I am the least important, the servant, the personal attendant of all, of everyone, and I am the greatest and most important of all!
Mark 9:35
I am a servant, a personal attendant, as I want to be a leader.
Matthew 20:26
My attitude is like that of Jesus, for He, the Son of Mankind, did not come to be served, to be waited upon, but to serve, to attend on and wait upon others, other people and to give his life and vitality as a ransom for many people, a deliverance, a liberation, a release, a redemption for many people.
Matthew 20:28
I serve and assist like a captive and a slave, a person without freedom or personal rights. I want to be right at the top.
Matthew 20:27
I am a servant, a personal attendant, as I want to be great and important. I am the captive and slave of all people and I am without freedom or personal rights, as I want to be the greatest and most important of all people.
Mark 10:43-44
For Jesus, the Man from Heaven was not here to be served, to be waited upon, but to help others, to attend on and wait upon others, other people and to give his life and vitality as a ransom for many people a deliverance, a liberation, a release, a redemption for many people.
Mark 10:45
I wash the feet of others, of other people, as Jesus gave me an example to follow and commanded, instructed and directed that I do as he did, that is, I wash the feet of others, of other people.
John 13:14-15
I, a servant, a personal attendant, am not greater, am not more important than my Master, Jesus. I, a messenger, am not more important than the One, Jesus, Who sends me. I know these things and I now do them. This is the path of blessing. This is the path, the way of favours, kindnesses, advantages, benefits, assistance and support from God the Father.
John 13:16-17
I let the children come to Jesus. I never send little children away.
Luke 18:17
I don’t prevent little children coming to Jesus, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care is composed and made up of childlike people, who have the good qualities of children and are open, frank, upright, sincere, honest and truthful.
Matthew 19:14
I don’t send little children away, for the Kingdom of God, God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care belongs to such people as they are. Little children having the good qualities of children are happy, open, frank, upright, sincere, honest and truthful.
Mark 10:14
I don’t look down upon a single one of these little children. I respect every child.
Matthew 18:10
I don’t cause any of these little ones, who trust in Jesus, to lose his or her faith, his or her firm relying trust, belief, assurance, confidence, reliance, dependence, expectation and hope. If I did, it would be better for me to have a rock tied to my neck and that I be thrown into the sea and drowned.
Matthew 18:6
I welcome and gladly receive a little child like this in Jesus’ Name, and I welcome and gladly receive Jesus. As I welcome and gladly receive Jesus, I welcome and gladly receive His Father who sent Him!
Mark 9:37
I welcome and gladly receive a little child, because I belong to Jesus and I welcome and gladly receive Jesus and I care for Jesus.
Matthew 18:5
I take care of a little child and I am caring for Jesus. When I care for Jesus, I care for God who sent Jesus. My care for others, for other people, is the measure, the estimate, of my greatness and my importance.
Luke 9:48
I welcome and gladly receive the person Jesus sends and I welcome and gladly receive Jesus. To welcome and gladly receive Jesus is to welcome and gladly receive the Father, who sent Him.
John 13:20
Jesus is hungry and in an exhausted condition and I feed Him. Jesus is thirsty and I give Him water. Jesus is a stranger and I invite Him into my home and give Him hospitality. Jesus is naked and I clothe Him. Jesus is sick and in prison and I visit Him. For when I do these things to those around me, my brothers and sisters, I do these things to and for Jesus.
Matthew 25:34-40
I don’t refuse to help the least esteemed and respected by other people of these my brothers and sisters and in this I am not refusing to help and assist Jesus.
Matthew 25:45
Those people, who refused and continue to refuse to help and assist the least esteemed and respected of men, women and children, who are Jesus’ brothers and sisters, were refusing and are continuing in their refusal to help and assist Jesus. They will go away into eternal, everlasting and unceasing punishment. But the righteous, those people, who obeyed God and are in right standing with God, will go into eternal, everlasting and unceasing life and vitality.
Matthew 25:45-46
I demonstrate and show my moral purity and cleanliness, my freedom from moral pollution, by my generosity, my freedom in giving to other people and in making donations to them.
Luke 11:41
I take care and I don’t do my good deeds and actions publicly to be admired, for then I will lose the reward and compensation from my Father in Heaven, in His Home, Rule and Care.
Matthew 6:1
I don’t shout about it when I give a gift to a person who asks for a donation, a beggar, as the hypocrites, the pretenders do.
Matthew 6:2
I do a kindness to someone secretly. I don’t tell my left hand what my right hand is doing.
Matthew 6:3
I give to those people who ask.
Matthew 5:42
I give what I have to anyone who asks for it.
Luke 6:30
I don’t turn away from those people who want to borrow from me.
Matthew 5:42
I sell what I have and I give to those people in need, poverty and distress.
Luke 12:33
As I want to be perfect, faultless and complete, I go and sell what I can, the goods, possessions and property that I have and I give the money to the poor. For this I will have treasure, riches and wealth in Heaven, in God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care and I come and go and follow Jesus. I subscribe to and support Jesus’ plan and programme.
Matthew 19:21
I give and I get and I receive. My gift returns to me in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more and running over. Whatever measure I use to give, large or small, will be used to estimate and measure what is given back to me.
Luke 6:38
I don’t store my profits, gains, advantages and benefits here on earth where they can erode away or be stolen. I store them, my profits, gains, advantages and benefits in Heaven, in God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care, where they will never lose their value and are safe and secure from thieves. My profits, gains, advantages and benefits are in Heaven, out of sight and my heart, mind, feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires are there too.
Matthew 6: 19-21
I am not losing my flavour, as in salt, my seasoning power, and my ability to make things palatable, pleasant, agreeable and enjoyable, that is, to bring them into a sound condition. I try to live in peace, harmony and friendship with everyone around me.
Mark 9:50
I make use of the Light and Illumination, while there is still time and I am a light bearer producing light and illumination to and for other people.
John 12:36
I am not hiding my light and illumination. I am letting my light and illumination shine and radiate for all people to see. I am letting my good deeds and actions glow, shine out and radiate for all people to see, so that they will praise and honour my Heavenly Father.
Matthew 5:14-16
I don’t hinder, restrain, forbid or prevent a man, a person, using the Name of Jesus, to cast out demons, evil spirits. For no one, no person doing miracles, deeds and actions in Jesus’ Name will quickly turn against Him. Anyone who isn’t against Jesus and his disciples and followers is for Jesus and his disciples and followers.
Mark 9:38-40
I am helping and assisting Jesus, not harming Him.
Matthew 12:30
I am for Jesus, not against Him. I am helping and assisting Jesus, not hurting or harming his cause and enterprise.
Luke 11:23
I am wary, cautious and careful of and avoid and decline to have anything to do with some teachers of religion, these experts in religion.
Mark 12:38 Luke 20:46
I watch out and avoid the yeast, the stirring agent and wrong teaching, instructions and directions of some religious leaders. They appear to be self-righteous and think that they are totally correct and morally superior to anyone else.
Matthew 16:6
More than anything else, I avoid certain religious leaders and the way they pretend to be good, when they are not.
Luke 12:1
I am wary, cautious and careful of and avoid and decline to have anything to do with false teachers who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are wolves and will tear me and us apart. I detect them, and discover the existence and presence of them by the way they act, just as, in the same way, I can identify a tree by its fruit. I can identify a tree or a person by the kind of fruit produced, that is, by what they say and do.
Matthew 7:15-20
A good man or woman produces good ideas, deeds and actions from a good heart, mind, feeling, impulse, inclination, affection and desire. An evil and ungodly man or woman produces evil and ungodly ideas, deeds and actions from his or her hidden wickedness, evil and ungodliness. Whatever is in the heart and mind, a person’s real internal nature and disposition for good or evil, overflows into speech, deeds and actions.
Luke 6:44-45
I ignore, refuse to take notice of, disregard, overlook and reject blind guides leading the blind. They both will fall into a ditch.
Matthew 15:13-14
I ignore, refuse to take notice of, disregard, overlook and reject every plant not planted, set or established by the Father of Jesus.
Matthew 15:13
I don’t resist violence, evil and ungodliness. When I am slapped on one cheek, I turn the other cheek too. When my shirt is taken, I give my coat as well. When the military demand that I carry their gear for one sector, I carry it for two sectors.
Matthew 5:39-41 Luke 6:29
I don’t worry about getting things back, when they are taken from me.
Luke 6:30
I am not afraid.
Luke 12:32
Because I follow Jesus and I subscribe to and support Jesus’ plan and program, when I am reviled, abused, persecuted and pursued with enmity, hatred, hostility, injury, harassment and being lied about – Wonderful! Marvellous! I am happy about it! I am very glad and pleased about it for tremendous rewards, repayment, recompense and compensation await me up in Heaven, in God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care. I remember and call to mind that the ancient prophets, God’s spokesmen, were persecuted too.
Matthew 5:11-12
Because I belong to Jesus and I am owned by and possessed by Jesus, when others hate me and exclude me and insult me and smear my name, in this there is happiness and pleasure. I rejoice! Yes, I leap for joy, pleasure and happiness. For I will have a great reward, repayment, recompense and compensation awaiting me in Heaven, in God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care. I will be in good company. The ancient prophets, belonging to times long past, the inspired teachers, revealers and interpreters of God’s will, God’s spokesmen, were treated that way to.
Luke 6:22-23
Jesus told us many things, while He was on earth, so that we would be filled with his joy, with his intense feeling of pleasure, his gladness, his happiness. Jesus gave us the Father’s commands, instructions and directions. The world, that is the people of the world in the present evil and ungodly disorder and disarrangement of things, actively dislikes and hates us, because we don’t fit in with it and them, just as Jesus doesn’t fit in with it and them. We are not part of this world any more than Jesus is. Holy Father, keep us safe and secure from Satan’s power, from the Evil One’s power. Make us morally pure and clean, holy and godly, honest and upright, through teaching, instructing and directing us in your words of truth, fact and reality.
John 17:13-17
I like and love every other person on earth. I get enough active dislike, ill will and hatred from the world of unregenerate, evil and ungodly people, who continue to think, speak, and act against God’s Laws. But then, it and they actively disliked and hated Jesus before it and they actively disliked and hated me.
John 15:17-18
The world of unregenerate, evil and ungodly people, who continue to think, speak and act against God’s Laws, would like and love us if we belonged to them, but we don’t belong to them. Jesus choose us to come out of the world of people who think, speak and act against God’s Laws and so they dislike, despise and hate us. They have a strong dislike towards us and they have and bear malice towards us, that is, they bear an active ill will towards us and detest us all the time. They have a desire to tease and irritate us and cause trouble and distress to us whenever possible. Since they persecuted Jesus, they pursued Him with enmity, hatred, hostility, injury and harassment and they will persecute us too. If they had listened to Jesus, they would have listened to us. The unregenerate, evil and ungodly people of the world, who continue to think, speak and act against God’s Laws, will persecute us too. They will pursue us with enmity, hatred, hostility, injury and harassment, because we belong to Jesus, that is we are owned and possessed by Jesus, for they, the ungodly, don’t know and recognise God who sent Jesus.
John 15:19-21
I am not concerned about what to say in my defence. The Holy Spirit gives me the right words even as I am standing there, if and when I am brought to trial before various rulers and authorities.
Luke 12:11-12
Jesus has told me these things, so that I won’t be staggered by all that lies ahead. I could be dismissed from some civil or religious community and indeed the time is coming when those who wish to kill me will think that they are doing God a service. This is because they have never known, recognised properly or fully acknowledged the Father or Jesus.
John 16:1-3
I like and love my enemies, rivals and opponents.
Luke 6:27
I do well in giving and conferring benefits and advantages on my enemies, rivals and opponents. I am not concerned about the fact that my enemies, rivals and opponents won’t repay the good turns and kindnesses that I do to them.
Luke 6:35
I do well in giving and conferring benefits and advantages and doing good turns and kindnesses to those people who dislike and hate me.
Luke 6:27
I implore and earnestly request God’s blessings, favours, kindnesses, advantages, benefits, assistance and support on those people who hurt me and do me harm.
Luke 6:28
I pray, request and ask God to confer happiness and well being on those people who curse me, who wish me harm, punishment and destruction.
Luke 6:28
I pray, request and ask God to bring happiness and well being to and for those people who persecute me, who annoy, pester, worry, hunt, pursue, molest, harass, distress, afflict, oppress and injure me.
Matthew 5:44
I don’t wilt, droop, lose heart and become depressed under persecution.
Mark 4:17
I am not afraid of those people who want to murder me. They can only kill the body. They have no power over my soul, my being and myself.
Luke 12:4
Jesus gives me a gift – peace agreement and harmony of mind and heart in the centre of my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires. The peace isn’t weak, feeble, fragile, limited and temporary, like the peace the world gives. I am not troubled or afraid.
John 14:27
I have peace of heart and mind. I have peace, agreement and harmony in the centre of my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires. Here on earth I will have many trials and sorrows. But I take courage and I am fully confident, for Jesus has overcome the world. Jesus has overcome everyone and everything that goes against God’s Laws and has deprived them of their powers to harm. Jesus has overcome, conquered and thoroughly defeated the present evil and ungodly disorder and disarrangement of things for us.
John 16:33