Teaching (no posting) Spiritually guided messages.

[Victor E.]

"Blessed is anyone who meditates on wisdom, and reasons with intelligence,

who studies her ways in his heart, and ponders her secrets.

He pursues her like a hunter, and lies in wait by her path;

he peeps in at her windows, and listens at her doors;

he lodges close to her house, and fixes his peg in her walls;

he pitches his tent at her side, and lodges in an excellent lodging;

he sets his children in her shade, and camps beneath her branches;

he is sheltered by her from the heat, and in her glory he makes his home.

Whoever fears the Lord will act like this, and whoever grasps the Law will obtain wisdom.

She will come to meet him like a mother, and receive him like a virgin bride.

She will give him the bread of understanding to eat, and the water of wisdom to drink.

He will lean on her and will not fall, he will rely on her and not be put to shame.

She will raise him high above his neighbours, and in full assembly she will open his mouth.

He will find happiness and a crown of joy, he will inherit an everlasting name.

Fools will not gain possession of her, nor will sinners set eyes on her.

She stands remote from pride, and liars cannot call her to mind.

Praise is unseemly in a sinner's mouth, since it has not been put there by the Lord.

For praise should be uttered only in wisdom, and the Lord himself then prompts it.

Do not say, 'The Lord was responsible for my sinning,' for he does not do what he hates.

Do not say, 'It was he who led me astray,' for he has no use for a sinner.

The Lord hates all that is foul, and no one who fears him will love it either." Sirach 14:20-Sirach 15:13

 

[Victor E.]

"Wisdom consists entirely in fearing the Lord, and wisdom is entirely constituted by the fulfilling of the Law

Being learned in evil, however, is not wisdom, there is no prudence in the advice of sinners.

There is a cleverness that is detestable; whoever has no wisdom is a fool.

Better be short of sense and full of fear, than abound in shrewdness and violate the Law.

There is a wickedness which is scrupulous but nonetheless dishonest, and there are those who misuse kindness to win their case.

There is the person who will walk bowed down with grief, when inwardly this is nothing but deceit:

he hides his face and pretends to be deaf, if he is not unmasked, he will take advantage of you.

There is the person who is prevented from sinning by lack of strength, yet he will do wrong when he gets the chance.

You can tell a person by his appearance, you can tell a thinker by the look on his face.

The way a person dresses, the way he laughs, the way he walks, tell you what he is" Ecclesiasticus 19: (20)22-30

 

[Victor E.]

"A woman's spite changes her appearance and makes her face as grim as a bear's.

When her husband goes out to dinner with his neighbours, he cannot help heaving bitter sighs.

No spite can approach the spite of a woman, may a sinner's lot be hers!

Like the climbing of a sandhill for elderly feet, such is a garrulous wife for a quiet husband.

Do not be taken in by a woman's beauty, never lose your head over a woman.

Bad temper, insolence and shame hold sway where the wife supports the husband.

Low spirits, gloomy face, stricken heart: such is a spiteful wife. Slack hands and sagging knees: such is the wife who does not make her husband happy.

Sin began with a woman, and thanks to her we must all die.

Do not let water find a leak, nor a spiteful woman give free rein to her tongue.

If she will not do as you tell her, get rid of her." Ecclesiasticus 25:17-26

 

[Victor E.]

"One way of talking is like death, let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob since devout people have nothing to do with that: they will not wallow in sin.

Do not get into the habit of using coarse and foul language since this involves sinful words.

Remember your father and mother when you are sitting with the great, for fear you forget yourself in their presence and behave like a fool, and then wish you had not been born and curse the day of your birth.

No one in the habit of using shameful language will break himself of it as long as he lives.

There are two types of people who commit sin after sin and a third who attracts retribution-

desire, blazing like a furnace, will not die down until it has been sated- the man who lusts after members of his own family is not going to stop until he is quite burnt out; every food is sweet to the promiscuous, and he will not desist until he dies;

and the man who sins against the marriage bed and says to himself, 'Who can see me? There is darkness all round me, the walls hide me, no one can see me, why should I worry? The Most High will not remember my sins.'

What he fears are human eyes, he does not realise that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, observing every aspect of human behaviour, seeing into the most secret corners.

All things were known to him before they were created, and are still, now that they are finished.

This man will be punished in view of the whole town, and will be seized when he least expects it.

Similarly the woman unfaithful to her husband, who provides him with an heir by another man:

first, she has disobeyed the Law of the Most High; secondly, she has been false to her husband; and thirdly, she has gone whoring in adultery

and conceived children by another man. She will be led before the assembly, an enquiry will be held about her children.

Her children will strike no root, her branches will bear no fruit.

She will leave an accursed memory behind her, her shame will never be wiped out.

And those who survive her will recognise that nothing is better than fearing the Lord, and nothing sweeter than adherence to the Lord's commandments." Ecclesiasticus 23:12-27

 

[Victor E.]

"If you pursue virtue, you will attain it and put it on like a festal gown.

Birds consort with their kind, truth comes home to those who practise it.

The lion lies in wait for its prey, so does sin for those who do wrong.

The conversation of the devout is wisdom at all times, but the fool is as changeable as the moon.

When visiting stupid people, choose the right moment, but among the thoughtful take your time.

The conversation of fools is disgusting, raucous their laughter in their sinful pleasures.

The talk of hard-swearing people makes your hair stand on end, their brawling makes you stop your ears.

A quarrel between the proud leads to bloodshed, and their insults are embarrassing to hear.

A betrayer of secrets forfeits all trust and will never find the kind of friend he wants

Be fond of a friend and keep faith with him, but if you have betrayed his secrets, do not go after him any more;

for, as one destroys a person by killing him, so you have killed your neighbour's friendship,

and as you let a bird slip through your fingers, so you have let your friend go, and will not catch him.

Do not go after him -- he is far away, he has fled like a gazelle from the snare.

For a wound can be bandaged and abuse forgiven, but for the betrayer of a secret there is no hope.

Someone with a sly wink is plotting mischief, no one can dissuade him from it.

Honey-tongued to your face, he is lost in admiration at your words; but behind your back he has other things to say, and turns your words into a stumbling-block.

I have found many things to hate, but nothing as much as him, and the Lord hates him too.

Whoever throws a stone in the air, throws it on to his own head; a treacherous blow cuts both ways.

The man who digs a pit falls into it, whoever sets a snare will be caught by it.

On anyone who does evil, evil will recoil, without his knowing where it comes from.

Sarcasm and abuse are the mark of the arrogant, but vengeance lies in wait like a lion for such a one.

The trap will close on all who rejoice in the downfall of the devout, and pain will eat them up before they die.

Resentment and anger, these are foul things too, and a sinner is a master at them both." Ecclesiasticus 27:8-30

 

[Victor E.]

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[Victor E.]

No one can serve two masters. It is either God, or it is Satan. There is no in between. Where God is, sin cannot exist. God cannot tolerate a blemished creature in His kingdom. If you say you are a new creation, you must live as a new creation and be striving for perfection in heart and mind. This is love, not legalism.

Lying includes lying against God's Word.

Hell/Hades is the holding place, before the Lake of Fire (The Second Death). Do not be deceived by any 'GRACE' preacher (Romans 1-3).

"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" 2 Corinthians 13:5

"Be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect" Matthew 5:48. Christ commanded this.

"yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes" James 4:14

"No one sews a patch of unshrunk (new) cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse. No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the wineskins. But new wine MUST be put into new wineskins." Mark 2:21-22

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God" Galatians 5:19-21

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were SANCTIFIED, but you were JUSTIFIED in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God" 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" Revelations 20:11-15

 

[Victor E.]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154538970996523

 

[Victor E.]

THANK YOU. This video is a GOLD MINE. Please leave the feelings with the dead man, learn to operate logically and rationally. You can be 60+ years old in the ministry and STILL be a spiritual BABY. Stop equating maturity with AGE, 'SPIRITUALITY', and CREDENTIALS. There is NO FELLOWSHIP with LIGHT and DARKNESS, PERIOD. Ministry is not a popularity contest, people's praise and responses have LITTLE RELEVANCE to the quality.

"Why can't we just all get along?

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"I have come to cast fire (judgment) on the earth; and how I wish that it were already kindled! I have a baptism [of great suffering] with which to be baptized, and how [greatly] I am distressed until it is accomplished! Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division [between believers and unbelievers]; for from now on five in one household will be divided [over Me], three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” Luke 12:49-53/Matthew 10:34-36

 

[Victor E.]

"For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God; not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation]" Ephesians 2:8-9

 

[Victor E.]

Keep in mind, if doctrine is perverted by pride, envy, or jealousy it can create a liar when those three voices go wild and completely uncontrolled.

 

[Victor E.]

"Hear now, senseless man," saith he, "How sorrow crusheth out the Holy Spirit, and again saveth it.

When the man of doubtful mind sets his hand to any action, and fails in it owing to his doubtful-mindedness, grief at this entereth into the man, and grieveth the Holy Spirit, and crusheth it out.

Then again when angry temper cleaveth to a man concerning any matter, and he is much embittered, again sorrow entereth into the heart of the man that was ill-tempered, and he is grieved at the deed which he hath done, and repenteth that he did evil.

This sadness therefore seemeth to bring salvation, because he repented at having done the evil. So both the operations sadden the Spirit; first, the doubtful mind saddens the Spirit, because it succeeded not in its business, and the angry temper again, because it did what was evil. Thus both are saddening to the Holy Spirit, the doubtful mind and the angry temper.

Put away therefore from thyself sadness, and afflict not the Holy Spirit that dwelleth in thee, lest haply He intercede with God [against thee], and depart from thee.

For the Spirit of God, that was given unto this flesh, endureth not sadness neither constraint.

"Therefore clothe thyself in cheerfulness, which hath favor with Cod always, and is acceptable to Him, and rejoice in it. For every cheerful man worketh good, and thinketh good, and despiseth sadness;

but the sad man is always committing sin. In the first place he committeth sin, because he grieveth the Holy Spirit, which was given to the man being a cheerful spirit; and in the second place, by grieving the Holy Spirit he doeth lawlessness, in that he doth not intercede with neither confess unto God. For the intercession of a sad man hath never at any time power to ascend to the altar of God."

"Wherefore," say I, "doth not the intercession of him that is saddened ascend to the altar?" "Because," saith he, "sadness is seated at his heart. Thus sadness mingled with the intercession doth not suffer the intercession to ascend pure to the altar. For as vinegar when mingled with wine in the same (vessel) hath not the same pleasant taste, so likewise sadness mingled with the Holy Spirit hath not the same intercession.

Therefore cleanse thyself from this wicked sadness, and thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all they shall live unto God, who shall cast away sadness from themselves and clothe themselves in all cheerfulness."

 

[Victor E.]

This is an excellent article, very long read, but I highly recommend it! It's from the writings of the early Church Fathers.

The Shepherd of Hermas (Lightfoot translation)

 

[Victor E.]

A raucous voice does not make it the right voice. The quieter voice is usually the right voice to listen to.

 

[Victor E.]

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." Ecclesiastes 12:13 OT

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Love God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." Ecclesiastes 12:13 NT

 

[Victor E.]

"There is one that is wise and teacheth many, and yet is unprofitable to himself" Sirach 37:19

 

[Victor E.]

"As his ways are plain unto the holy; so are they stumblingblocks unto the wicked" Sirach 39:24

 

[Victor E.]

"Listen, my children, to instruction concerning the mouth;
the one who observes it will never be caught.
Sinners are overtaken through their lips;
by them the reviler and the arrogant are tripped up.
Do not accustom your mouth to oaths,
nor habitually utter the name of the Holy One;
for as a servant who is constantly under scrutiny
will not lack bruises,
so also the person who always swears and utters the Name
will never be cleansed from sin.
The one who swears many oaths is full of iniquity,
and the scourge will not leave his house.
If he swears in error, his sin remains on him,
and if he disregards it, he sins doubly;
if he swears a false oath, he will not be justified,
for his house will be filled with calamities." Sirach 23:7-11

 

[Victor E.]

"Whoever keeps the law controls his thoughts,
and the fulfillment of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.
The one who is not clever cannot be taught,
but there is a cleverness that increases bitterness." Sirach 21:11-12

 

[Victor E.]

"A lie is an ugly blot on a person;
it is continually on the lips of the ignorant.
A thief is preferable to a habitual liar,
but the lot of both is ruin.
A liar’s way leads to disgrace,
and his shame is ever with him" Sirach 20:24-26