Gary Patton's List: Christian

• “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^{a]" class="footnote">}
• ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^{b]" class="footnote">}

• James 4:2-3
• When you ask, you do not receive,^{B)" class="crossreference">} because you ask with wrong motives,^{C)" class="crossreference">} that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

• Matthew 16:20-25
• Matthew 16:20-25
• Matthew 16:20-25
• “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.^{J)" class="crossreference">} ²⁵ For whoever wants to save their life^{a]" class="footnote">[a]} will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

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• John 12:20-25

• What is the Significance of the New Testament's use of the Word "Ekklesia?"
• at the beginning of the Tribulation

• Romans 11:17-21
• do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches
• Do not be arrogant,^{E)" class="crossreference">} but tremble.^{F)" class="crossreference">} ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

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• 2 Peter 3:15-17
• our beloved brother Paul, ^{C)" class="crossreference">}according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you
• ^{E)" class="crossreference">}in which are some things hard to understand
• the untaught and ^{F)" class="crossreference">}unstable distort, as they do also ^{G)" class="crossreference">}the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction

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• The Spirit of truth will come and guide you in all truth. He will not speak His own words to you; He will speak what He hears, revealing to you the things to come and bringing glory to Me.

• Ephesians 5:11-14
• Don’t get involved with the fruitless works of darkness; instead, expose them to the light of God.

• Matthew 3 (The Voice)
• Jesus is the living Branch, the branch of David that extends the reach of the tree of Israel eventually to foreigners and outsiders.
• a man called John^{a]" class="footnote">[a]} began to travel, preach, and ritually wash people through baptism in the wilderness of Judea. John preached a stern but exciting message.
• Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is near.

• John’s proclamation fulfilled a promise made by the ancient prophet Isaiah, who had said, “There will be a voice calling from the desert, saying,

  Prepare the road for the Eternal One’s journey
• The Anointed One, whose way John comes to prepare, will call humanity away from comfort and status; He will call His followers to challenge their assumptions and the things they take for granted.
• But John is not exactly warm to all those who come to him seeking cleansing.
•  If you think that simply hopping in the Jordan will cleanse you, then you are sorely mistaken.
• God can adopt as daughters and sons anyone He likes
• To be made right with God, one must truly repent. It means to turn completely away from sin and completely toward God.
• I ritually cleanse you through baptism^{d]" class="footnote">[d]} as a mark of turning your life around. But someone is coming after me, someone whose sandals I am not fit to carry, someone who is more powerful than I. He will wash^{e]" class="footnote">[e]} you not in water but in fire and with the Holy Spirit. ¹² He carries a winnowing fork in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor; He will gather up the good wheat in His barn, and He will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.
• then, the One of whom John spoke—the all-powerful Jesus—came to the Jordan from Galilee to be washed^{f]" class="footnote">[f]} by John

• Jesus emerged from His baptism;^{h]" class="footnote">[h]} and at that moment heaven was opened, and Jesus saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him, alighting on His very body.

  Voice from Heaven: ¹⁷ This is My Son, whom I love; this is the Apple of My eye; with Him I am well pleased.

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• Turning from sinful violations of God's commands is the key to eternal life ...not, baptism, sitting in a church building regularly or reading the Bible!
  
  Only Jesus can empower a person to do what's needed for salvation from the coming horrible wrath of God against sinners on earth or at the door to heaven if you die first! - Gary Patton on 2013-06-07

• God (to humanity): ²⁹ Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant that grows on the earth and every fruit-bearing tree. They will be your food and nourishment.

• Revelation 21
•  And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride on her wedding day, adorned for her husband and for His eyes only.