BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Proverbs 2
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7 He holds victory in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.9 Then you will understand what is right and just
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12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from men whose words are perverse,
My Utmost For His Highest - The Awareness of the Call
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The call of God does not come like that; it is much more supernatural. The realization of the call in a person’s life may come like a clap of thunder or it may dawn gradually. But however quickly or slowly this awareness comes, it is always accompanied with an undercurrent of the supernatural— something that is inexpressible and produces a "glow."
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You are not called to preach the gospel because you are sanctified; the call to preach the gospel is infinitely different. Paul describes it as a compulsion that was placed upon him.
My Utmost For His Highest - The "Go" of Preparation
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preparation is not suddenly accomplished. In fact, it is a process that must be steadily maintained. It is dangerous to become settled and complacent in our present level of experience. The Christian life requires preparation and more preparation.
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The "go" of preparation is to allow the Word of God to examine you closely. Your sense of heroic sacrifice is not good enough. The thing the Holy Spirit will detect in you is your nature that can never work in His service. And no one but God can detect that nature in you.
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If there is sin in your life, don’t just admit it— confess it. Are you willing to obey your Lord and Master, whatever the humiliation to your right to yourself may be?
BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Proverbs 1
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2 for attaining wisdom and discipline;
for understanding words of insight;3 for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life,
doing what is right and just and fair;4 for giving prudence to the simple,
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10 My son, if sinners entice you,
do not give in to them.11 If they say, "Come along with us;
let's lie in wait for someone's blood,
let's waylay some harmless soul;12 let's swallow them alive, like the grave, [b]
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;13 we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder;14 throw in your lot with us,
and we will share a common purse"-15 my son, do not go along with them,
do not set foot on their paths;16 for their feet rush into sin,
they are swift to shed blood.17 How useless to spread a net
in full view of all the birds!18 These men lie in wait for their own blood;
they waylay only themselves!19 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
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32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them;33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety
and be at ease, without fear of harm."
BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Psalm 1
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1 Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
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6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Psalm 150
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6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD.
My Utmost For His Highest - The Missionary’s Goal
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n our natural life our ambitions change as we grow, but in the Christian life the goal is given at the very beginning, and the beginning and the end are exactly the same, namely, our Lord Himself
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A missionary is useful and he does win the lost, but that is not his goal. His goal is to do the will of his Lord
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In our Lord’s life, Jerusalem was the place where He reached the culmination of His Father’s will upon the cross, and unless we go there with Jesus we will have no friendship or fellowship with Him.
My Utmost For His Highest - The Missionary’s Master and Teacher
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Having a master and teacher means that there is someone who knows me better than I know myself, who is closer than a friend, and who understands the remotest depths of my heart and is able to satisfy them fully.
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Our Lord never takes measures to make me do what He wants. Sometimes I wish God would master and control me to make me do what He wants, but He will not.
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In the Bible, obedience is based on a relationship between equals; for example, that of a son with his father.
My Utmost For His Highest - The Missionary’s Predestined Purpose
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The first thing that happens after we recognize our election by God in Christ Jesus is the destruction of our preconceived ideas, our narrow-minded thinking, and all of our other allegiances— we are turned solely into servants of God’s own purpose.
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And when we are born again we are brought into the realization of God’s great purpose for the human race, namely, that He created us for Himself.
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The first thing God will do is force the interests of the whole world through the channel of our hearts.
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We must continually keep our soul open to the fact of God’s creative purpose, and never confuse or cloud it with our own intentions. If we do, God will have to force our intentions aside no matter how much it may hurt.
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He demands absolute righteousness from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God.
BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Romans 8
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1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,[a] 2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
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5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6The mind of sinful man[e] is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the sinful mind[f] is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
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11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
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For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
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18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
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the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
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26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.
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28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,[j] who[k] have been called according to his purpose.
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31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
My Utmost For His Highest - The Divine Commandment of Life
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Beware of living according to your natural affections in your spiritual life. Everyone has natural affections— some people we like and others we don’t like. Yet we must never let those likes and dislikes rule our Christian life. "If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another" ( 1 John 1:7 ), even those toward whom we have no affection.
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simply show to the other person what God has shown to you.
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Jesus says, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" ( John 13:34-35 ).
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If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit divine characteristics in your life, not just good human characteristics.
Javanotes 5.0, Section 2.2 -- Variables and the Primitive Types
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Names are fundamental to programming
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According to the syntax rules of Java, a name is a sequence of one or more
characters. It must begin with a letter or underscore and must consist entirely of letters,
digits, and underscores. ("Underscore" refers to the character '_'.) For example, here are some legal
names:N n rate x15 quite_a_long_name HelloWorld
No spaces are allowed in identifiers; HelloWorld is a legal identifier,
but "Hello World" is not.
Upper case and lower case letters are considered to be different, so that
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reserved words include: class,
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Unicode character set, which
includes thousands of characters from many different languages and different
alphabets, and many of these characters count as letters or digits. However, I
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it is customary for names of classes to begin with
upper case letters, while names of variables and of subroutines begin with
lower case letters; you can avoid a lot of confusion by following the same
convention in your own programs. Most Java programmers do not use underscores in names,
although some do use them at the beginning of the names of certain kinds
of variables. When a name is made up of several words, such
as HelloWorld or interestRate, it is customary
to capitalize each word, except possibly the first; this is sometimes
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Finally, I'll note that things are often referred to by compound names
which consist of several ordinary names separated by periods. (Compound names
are also called qualified names.) You've already
seen an example: System.out.println. The idea here is that things in
Java can contain other things. A compound name is a kind of path to an item
through one or more levels of containment. The name System.out.println
indicates that something called "System" contains something called "out" which
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In a high-level language such as Java, names are
used instead of numbers to refer to data. It is the job of the computer to keep
track of where in memory the data is actually stored; the programmer only has
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You
should think of a variable as a container or box where you can store data that
you will need to use later. The variable refers directly to the box and only
indirectly to the data in the box. Since the data in the box can change, a
variable can refer to different data values at different times during the
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In Java, the only way to get data into a variable -- that
is, into the box that the variable names -- is with an assignment statement.
An assignment statement takes the
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The variable in this assignment statement is
rate, and the expression is the number
0.07. The computer executes this assignment statement by putting the number
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There are eight so-called primitive types built
into Java. The primitive types are named byte, short,
int, long, float, double, char,
and boolean. The first four types hold integers (whole numbers such as
17, -38477, and 0). The four integer types are distinguished by the ranges of
integers they can hold. The float and double types hold real
numbers (such as 3.6 and -145.99). Again, the two real types are distinguished
by their range and accuracy. A variable of type char holds a single
character from the Unicode character set. And a variable of type
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the byte data type refers to a single byte of
memory. A variable of type byte holds a string of eight bits, which
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- short corresponds to two bytes (16 bits). Variables of type
short have values in the range -32768 to 32767.
int corresponds to four bytes (32 bits). Variables of type
int have values in the range -2147483648 to 2147483647.
long corresponds to eight bytes (64 bits). Variables of type
long have values in the range -9223372036854775808 to
9223372036854775807.
- short corresponds to two bytes (16 bits). Variables of type
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The float data type is represented in four bytes of memory, using a
standard method for encoding real numbers. The maximum value for a
float is about 10 raised to the power 38. A float can have
about 7 significant digits. (So that 32.3989231134 and 32.3989234399 would both
have to be rounded off to about 32.398923 in order to be stored in a variable
of type float.) A double takes up 8 bytes, can range up to
about 10 to the power 308, and has about 15 significant digits. Ordinarily, you
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A variable of type char occupies two bytes in memory. The value of
a char variable is a single character such as A, *, x, or a space
character. The value can also be a special character such a tab or a carriage
return or one of the many Unicode characters that come from different
languages. When a character is typed into a program, it must be surrounded by
single quotes; for example: 'A', '*', or 'x'. Without the quotes, A would be an
identifier and * would be a multiplication operator. The quotes are not part of
the value and are not stored in the variable; they are just a convention for
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A name for a constant value is called a literal.
A literal is what you have to type in a program to
represent a value. 'A' and '*' are literals of type char, representing
the character values A and *. Certain special characters have special literals
that use a backslash, \, as an "escape character". In particular, a tab is
represented as '\t', a carriage return as '\r', a linefeed as
'\n', the single quote character as '\'', and the backslash
itself as '\\'. Note that even though you type two characters between
the quotes in '\t', the value represented by this literal is a single
tab character. -
Any numerical literal that contains a decimal point or exponential is a literal
of type double. -
You can make a literal of type
long by adding "L" as a suffix. For example: 17L or 728476874368L. As
another complication, Java allows octal (base-8) and hexadecimal (base-16)
literals.
Javanotes 5.0, Section 2.1 -- The Basic Java Application
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A program is a sequence of instructions that a
computer can execute to perform some task. A simple enough idea, but for the
computer to make any use of the instructions, they must be written in a form
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This means that programs have to be written in
programming languages. Programming languages
differ from ordinary human languages in being completely unambiguous and very
strict about what is and is not allowed in a program. The rules that determine
what is allowed are called the syntax of the
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So, to be a successful programmer, you have to develop a detailed knowledge
of the syntax of the programming language that you are using. However, syntax
is only part of the story. It's not enough to write a program that will
run -- you want a program that will run and produce the correct result! That is, the
meaning of the program has to be right. The meaning of a
program is referred to as its semantics. A
semantically correct program is one that does what you want it to.
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a good program has "style." It is written
in a way that will make it easy for people to read and to understand.
It follows conventions that will be familiar to other programmers.
And it has an overall design that will make sense to human readers.
The computer is completely oblivious to such things, but to a human
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Here is a Java program to display the message "Hello World!". Don't expect
to understand what's going on here just yet -- some of it you won't really
understand until a few chapters from now:// A program to display the message
// "Hello World!" on standard output
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
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The command that actually displays the message is:
System.out.println("Hello World!");This command is an example of a subroutine call statement.
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Everything else in the program is required by the rules of Java syntax. All
programming in Java is done inside "classes." The first line in the above
program (not counting the comments) says that this is a class named HelloWorld. "HelloWorld," the
name of the class, also serves as the name of the program. Not every class is a
program. In order to define a program, a class must include a subroutine named
main, with a definition that takes the form:public static void main(String[] args) {
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When you tell the Java interpreter to run the program, the interpreter calls
the main() subroutine, and the statements that it contains are
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The word "public" in the first line of main() means that this
routine can be called from outside the program. This is essential because the
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As noted above, a subroutine can't exist by itself. It has to be part of a
"class". A program is defined by a public class that takes the form:public class program-name {
optional-variable-declarations-and-subroutines
public static void main(String[] args) {
statements
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The name on the first line is the name of the program, as well as the name
of the class. If the name of the class is HelloWorld, then the class must be
saved in a file called HelloWorld.java. When this file is compiled,
another file named HelloWorld.class will be produced. This class file,
HelloWorld.class, contains the Java bytecode that is executed by a
Java interpreter. HelloWorld.java is called the source code
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The layout of the program on the page, such as the use of blank lines
and indentation, is not part of the syntax or semantics of the language.
The computer doesn't care about layout -- you could run the entire program
together on one line as far as it is concerned. However, layout is important
to human readers, and there are certain style guidelines for layout that
are followed by most programmers.
Javanotes 5.0, Section 1.6 -- The Modern User Interface
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Today, of course, most people interact with computers in a completely
different way. They use a Graphical User Interface,
or GUI. The computer draws interface components on the
screen. The components include things like windows, scroll bars, menus,
buttons, and icons. Usually, a mouse is used to
manipulate such components. Assuming that you have not just been teleported in
from the 1970s, you are no doubt already familiar with the basics of graphical user
interfaces!
BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Romans 7
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4So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. 5For when we were controlled by the sinful nature,[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. 6But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
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For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."[b] 8But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. 9Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
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12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. 13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
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14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
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I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
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22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
My Utmost For His Highest - Are You Going on With Jesus?
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Many of us turn back from going on with Jesus from the very moment we have an experience of what He can do. Watch when God changes your circumstances to see whether you are going on with Jesus, or siding with the world, the flesh, and the devil. We wear His name, but are we going on with Him?
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It is God who engineers our circumstances, and whatever they may be we must see that we face them while continually abiding with Him in His temptations. They are His temptations, not temptations to us, but temptations to the life of the Son of God in us.
My Utmost For His Highest - His Temptation and Ours
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Until we are born again, the only kind of temptation we understand is the kind mentioned in James 1:14, "Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed."
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Through regeneration, the Son of God is formed in us (see Galatians 4:19 ), and in our physical life He has the same setting that He had on earth. Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things— he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration,
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Temptation means a test of the possessions held within the inner, spiritual part of our being by a power outside us and foreign to us. This makes the temptation of our Lord explainable.
My Utmost For His Highest - Is There Good in Temptation?
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Is There Good in Temptation?
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day, but we tend to use the word in the wrong way. Temptation itself is not sin; it is something we are bound to face simply by virtue of being human. Not to be tempted would mean that we were already so shameful that we would be beneath contempt. Yet many of us suffer from temptations we should never have to suffer, simply because we have refused to allow God to lift us to a higher level where we would face temptations of another kind.


