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Hello my friends:

The title of today’s episode is: “FEEL GOOD QUOTES THAT ARE NOT BIBLICAL”

Our society has a variety of sayings that are on t-shirts, notebooks, mugs etc.  People say them all the time. We often say things without thinking about them.

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The first one is “Follow your heart.” At first, this sounds like good advice. Often, when making a decision, we need to know how we feel about it. But more importantly, we need to know what God feels about it. God doesn’t say follow your heart.  He says, follow me. If we follow him, we will never go wrong. He has promised to lead and guide us.

The word says, Jer. 17:9-10  (9) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (10)  I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

The word says the heart is deceitful. We don’t want to follow our hearts for this reason.

Matt 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Now, knowing the things that come from the heart, do we really want to follow our heart?  Every one of those things will lead us down a bad road to troubles and destruction in this life and the life to come.

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The second one is, “If you believe its true then its true for you.”  This is one of the worst attitudes that has been planted into our society. What makes it worse is it has taken root in some congregations across America. Have we forgotten the meaning of the word truth or true. The definition of truth is “that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality, actual fact.” The statement “If you believe it’s true then it’s true for you.”  doesn’t really make sense.  Things are fact or they are fiction. What I think about it doesn’t change it to fact if it is not a fact.  On the other hand, if it is a fact, my thinking about it, what I feel will not make it fiction.

A friend of mine recently met a guy with this attitude.  He said Satan wasn’t real because he didn’t believe it; it wasn’t part of his truth.  I pray he changes his mind and makes things right with God or he will find out the hard way that the devil is real. 

(3) The third quote is a new-age thing that has worked its way into our culture, “Karma will come around and bite you.”  Karma is the way the new age explains the good and bad that happens in our lives. There is not a thing in the universe that controls the good and bad.  God’s word, however, says, “We reap what we sow.”  God makes the rain fall on the just and the unjust.

(4) “God will not put more on you than you can bear.”  How many times have you hear Christian’s say this: This is man made scripture that worked it’s way into the church culture. The verse says, 1 Cor 10:13 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. It says God will not allow us to be tempted above what we can stand. He will make a way for us to escape.

(5) “You Only Live Once.”  This buys into a you may as well do what you want and enjoy your life, even if it is sinful. Because you only live once.  But this is not true; we only have one life to walk in this flesh.  But after it comes the judgment and eternity in one of two places: heaven or hell.  Where you go depends on how you use the life you are given. So don’t buy into the You only live once attitude.

I want to change the meaning of this one and say you only live once, so you have to get it right. Only a life lived for Jesus Christ is a life worth living.

The words we speak have power in our lives.  Think about what you are saying, are you speaking life and positivity or are you speaking negatively? We will have to do an in-depth study about the power of our words.  Are your statements popular quotes or are they truth?

Take time to watch what you say,

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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