FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 136: The Unmistakable Scent of Christ

How can we reveal the sweet perfume of Christ in our homes? How can we triumph in our challenging situations? How can we possess all that God has given to us?

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello ladies. Good to be with you. I am sharing this podcast on a Monday afternoon, so you will get it on Tuesday morning when it comes out each week. Although you may not listen to it when it comes out immediately, I know you listen to it at all different times.

Anyway, here we are together. Before I get onto the series that I want to talk about, I'd like to share with you a little revelation that I got as I was reading the Word the other morning. It's so good to share something that's fresh from the Word of God.

Well, actually, I find every single morning, when I come to the Word, when I get up, and get into the Word each morning, it's just so wonderful. Every morning I see something new, even though I've read the Word over and over again. There's always something new and fresh. That's the wonderful thing about God's Word, isn't it?

GOD HAS GIVEN US EVERYTHING WE NEED TO COPE WITH LIFE

I was reading in 2 Peter, chapter one, and noticing what God has given to us. Dear precious ladies, He has given us everything we need. We are so blessed. In 2 Peter 1:3, it says: “According as His divine power hath given unto us all things (not some things, but all things) that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.”

Isn't that wonderful? I've always loved this Scripture of how God has given us, not only everything we need for godliness, but for LIFE! To live life everyday life. Life in your kitchen, cooking your meals with little toddlers hanging around you. A baby needing you. The meals needing to be done. Everything sometimes all happening at once!

God has given us everything we need to cope with life. And not only just to cope with life, but to live a godly life. Isn't that amazing? Of course, we find it all in Christ. Because He has everything that we need, and He dwells in us.

So not only does it say He's given us everything, all things that pertain unto life and godliness, but the next Scripture, verse 4, says: “Whereby are given . . . “ (More giving from God! Because God is a giver! He just loves to give! “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.” God doesn't only say, “Look, I'm going to give you some promises.” No! They are “EXCEEDING GREAT and PRECIOUS promises!”

And as I've often mentioned to you, the Word of God is filled with adjectives. God is always “more than.” More than the average, more than the normal, more than the status quo. He uses adjectives to describe what He gives to us.

So we're given these “exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” And so God has given us everything we need to overcome the spirit of the world, to overcome lust, to overcome the temptations of worldly things, to live a godly and overcoming, abounding, abundant life, because that's what Jesus came to give us.

“I came to give you life, and to give it to you more ABUNDANTLY,” Jesus said in John 10:10. Isn't that wonderful? Oh, I love the Word of God.

But I noticed the other day, as I was reading, that after God says He's given us everything, you would think, “OK, praise the Lord, I can just sit back and relax! God has given it all to me. I don't have to do a thing!”

Well, of course, we don't have to do a thing for our salvation. I mean, we cannot do one thing to receive salvation, because Jesus did it by giving up His life, by shedding His blood, by dying upon the cross and taking our punishment for our sins. Jesus did it all, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,” Ephesians 2:8-9 says.

WE MUST POSSESS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN

But it goes on to say here, in 2 Peter 1:5: “And beside this, giving all diligence . . . ” OK. So although God has given us everything, we have to exert diligence to confess what He has given to us.

When God gave this land of Israel, the land of Canaan, the land of milk and honey, “A land flowing with milk and honey,” He promised them. And He said, “This land that I am giving to you, it's yours.” God gave it to them by a divine decree. And He said, “I'm giving it to you for an everlasting possession” (Genesis 17:8). And even today, the land of Israel belongs to His people. He gave it to them. He has never taken it from them. And look out anybody who does take it from them!

We read in Joel 3:2 how that there will be those who have divided up the land of Israel, how they will receive great judgment from God, because it's ultimately God's land, but He has given it to the people of Israel. So it's an everlasting possession.

But even when they went into the land, they had to possess it. They had to fight the giants. They had to overcome their enemies. They had to wipe them out. They had to fight. So even though it belonged to them, they had to fight to possess it. We also, we have everything we need, but God wants us to have diligence, to pursue, to possess all that He has given to us.

We read how He wants us “to add to our faith virtue, and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity,” and so on.

And then, we go down to verse ten, and He says again, “Give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.” So we have to have diligence.

Now that word “diligence,” in the Greek, it's spoudazo. Well, actually there's two different words. In verse five, the word is spoude, and it means “speed, to urge on, eagerness, earnestness.” So it's something we have to be urgent about, dear ladies. We don't just, “Oh, well, you know, someday, I'll just get really hot for God.” No! We've got to be urgent. We've got to use speed. We've got to urge one another on.

In verse ten, the word is a similar word, but it's spoudazo. And it also means, “to use speed, to make an effort, to be prompt, earnest, endeavor, labor, study.” It's the same word that's used in 2 Timothy 2:15: “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.”

I memorized that Scripture when I was a young person. Out of that Scripture, I took the goal that I had for my life. And it was the degree that I wanted to get. I never actually got a B.A. or an M.A,, but I wanted to get this one. And it's the A.U.G.

Have you ever heard of the A.U.G. before? Here it is in this Scripture. “Study to show thyself approved unto God.” A - approved, unto - U, G - God. There it is! I want to have those letters after my name: Approved Unto God. I think that's the best degree that we can encourage our children to have too. To pursue, to study, to be eager and earnest, and to have speed about getting that degree, Approved Unto God.

It's the same word (it’s amazing how these Greek words, when they're translated in the Bible, they're translated with different English words. So here it is, the same word in Hebrews 4:9-11; “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.” God has given us rest. Then it goes on to say, “Let us labor” (there's the word, spoudazo) “let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. “

So it's all given to us, but I'm reminded you today, as I was reminded as I read this, we've got to do our part. We've got to be diligent in possessing all that God has for us. As mothers at home, we have to do that because we are learning how to live in victory.

We're learning how to live an overcoming life, not just when we go out to church on Sunday, or when we go out visiting. No, we're learning how live it in our homes where it's all happening, where we face the trials, and the difficulties, and the challenges, and the frustrations, yes, that are there every day. But we're learning, as we have diligence, how to live this overcoming life that God has given to us.

THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

Another thing I noticed in these few Scriptures in this chapter, three times in this chapter it talks about the knowledge of God. In 2 Peter 1:2, it says: “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.” Dear mothers, if you want to live in grace in your circumstances, in your home, if you want to live in peace, knowing His peace all over you, even in dark times, even in difficult times, it's “through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus.”

Dear friends, we've got to pursue the knowledge of God. The more we know of Him, the more we know of Christ, the more we will live in this overcoming life that He has given to us. It comes through the knowledge of Him and the knowledge of His Word. If we don't have that, we don't really, we often don't know how to live in all that He has given to us.

I think of a true story. A dear friend of mine in England, she used to be the director of Above Rubies for a number of years. She originally came from New Zealand as I have. She told me about her brother. He had bought some land in New Zealand and he hoped that it would be land he could earn a living from. But sadly, he found that the land was really not up to scratch. It wasn't fruitful enough. It wasn't fertile enough to earn a living and provide for his family. So he just used it as a hobby farm and owned it for many years.

Well, the time came, and he thought, “Well, I don't know, I think I'll sell this land. It's just been a hobby farm.” So when he went to sell it, he found out that he had another ten acres that he didn't even know he had! And it was the most fertile land of all the land he owned. And all these years, he didn't even know he had it!

His neighbor, he was using the land and profiting from the land. He went to him, and he said, “How dare you use my land! This is my land!” The guy said, “Well, you never came and asked me or told me,” so he just kept on using it. That land would have enabled him to provide for his family, and he didn't know he had it.

But that's like us, ladies. Because we haven't got the knowledge of all the land that God has given to us. We don't live in it! We fall short. We never live in the fullness of all that God has for us. It comes through the knowledge of God.

Then we go down to verse three. Yes, we read this one before, how that He has given to us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. How? “Through the knowledge,” once again. We have to have the knowledge of God and His Word. “Through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue.” He's called us to glory! But half the time we never live in glory. We're meant to.

Now the next one, verse eight. Yes, and it tells us that if we pursue these things, that we will not be “barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.“ And so if we want to be fruitful (we don't want to be barren). I don't want to live a barren life, do you?  I don't want to live a shallow life. Oh my, how easy it is to not come into all that God has, into the sea of His blessing and fullness.

And we put our little toes in the water, or we maybe get to our ankles, and we just sort of splash around. But we never ever get out into the depths. It's like that chapter in Ezekiel 47  where it talks about the waters, and when it comes to the ankles and then to the knees, and then to the thighs. Then there are waters to swim in. That's what I long for, don't you? To get out there in the waters where you have to swim and to get into the depths.

So it all comes through the knowledge of God. There's many other Scriptures about pursuing the knowledge of God. I'll just take you to one more.

 2 Corinthians 2:14: “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ and maketh manifest the savor of His knowledge by us in every place.”

Really, ladies, there's so much in that Scripture. Later on, you need to go to the Word. Read it. Meditate on it and embrace every little part of it. Because here, it's telling us that God wants us to reveal, to show, that's the word “manifest” that we read, “to manifest.” That means “to reveal, to show,” “the savor of His knowledge.”

What we have learned of Him, how we've learned to experience Him in our lives, and to possess our possessions. To possess all that He has given us, and how to walk in victory, and in peace, and in longsuffering, and in patience, and in all the virtues that are in Christ, because He is in us. And we have to learn how to yield to His life and to Him rather than to this flesh. Then we learn how to live in the savor of His life.

IT BEGINS IN YOUR HOME

But this Scripture tells us that this is God's plan for us—that you are to be revealing the savor, the aroma of the knowledge of God. Where? In EVERY place. Say those words with me again. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, walking with your earphones, doing the dishes, or sitting quietly nursing your baby. Let's say those words: “in EVERY place, in EVERY place.”

Now, that means where you are now. That means in your home. That means proving this in your home. We cannot reveal the savor and the aroma of God when we go out amongst people if we can't do it in our homes. If we can't do it and show that to our husbands,  If we can't show that to our children, forget trying to do it anywhere else.

It begins in the home. And it starts right here, in every place. And ALWAYS, notice those words, always, every place. No, we've got no way out, because it's always and in every place. Yes, and how are we meant to do it in every place?

TRIUMPHING

Triumphing! Did you get that word? Triumphing in Christ! Triumphing in Christ. Not down in the dumps. Not filled with self-pity. Not morbidly filled with depression. Oh, dear mums, I know. I've been there until I learned how to walk in victory.

But it's so easy to get into a state of self-pity. Did you know? Well, you do know, don't you? You don't even have to try. It's so easy. You don't have to try and make yourself get into self-pity. Wow! It can just happen. You have to have diligence to keep yourself out of it! Have you found that? Yes, you have to have diligence. You've got to take it by the scruff of the neck and throw it out! Is that what you do with it?

Yes, I remember as a young mum, starting off with, you know, I have times of feeling filled with self-pity, and sorry for myself. Poor me! But I had to learn that that was utter junk, and that was just totally opposite to the life Jesus wants to live in me. So I had to be diligent, you see. We've got to use diligence. And we get that thing by the scruff of the neck and we throw it out! We will not have it in our lives!

Instead, we are going to triumph in Christ. Triumph in Christ. Oh, don't you love this Word? I mean, this is just one Scripture! And it's just filled and packed with power of how He wants us to live! Oh, I love it.

Let me read it to you in another translation. I love the King James, but I love to look at other translations too. The Holman's translation says: “But thanks be to God, Who always puts us on display in Christ, and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.” Amen?

The New Living Translation says: “Now wherever we go, He uses us . . . ” He uses us, He wants to reveal Himself in the earth. Jesus wants you to reveal Him to your husband, to your children, to those nearest and dearest to you, even before you start doing it when you go out of the home. And so He uses you to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, “like a sweet perfume.”

WE SHOULD HAVE THE UNMISTAKABLE SCENT OF CHRIST

Are you a sweet perfume in your home?

And then there's the J. B. Phillips translation. I read this translation of this Scripture years and years ago, and I've always loved it. It says: “We should have about us the unmistakable scent of Christ.” Isn't that wonderful? So ladies, this Scripture is talking about manifesting, showing the beautiful savor, aroma, the perfume of Christ.

Now, I'll give you a little secret here. You can't do it with a mask on! No. Doesn't work. God created our faces to be where we mostly reveal His glory, His sweet perfume, and savor. Yes, we do it with our actions, but even when we're using our actions, our feet, our hands, we still need our face.

Imagine a faceless person trying to minister to someone. It does not work. We minister through our faces. And so, it doesn't really work with a mask on, of course. You know, the devil loves masks. He loves to cover us up. God wants us to reveal His image.

All right. Those were the little thoughts I had the other morning and I wanted to share them with you. So today, Monday, tomorrow Tuesday. This podcast will go out Wednesday, help! Wednesday will be Inauguration Day.

WE MUST ALWAYS SIDE WITH TRUTH

I don't know what is going to happen. But, dear ladies, this is one thing I have to say to you, because I've got to say this because we're facing this in our nation right now. We are in one of the most critical, in fact, terrible times in our nation. Maybe you're not aware of it. Maybe you are, but we are facing a stolen, fraudulent election, which is actually treason. Treason has been committed in this nation.

If you only listen to fake news, of course, you won't be understanding this, because you will have been brainwashed that this is not true. But I'm sorry, the fake news is fake news. It is lies, propaganda. It is the spirit of the false prophet. It is absolutely untrue.

In fact, the information is so overwhelming that it keeps coming out more and more. They have now got down to the bottom of these Dominion voting machines and found out what really happened.

There were millions, yes, not a few hundred, not a few thousand, but millions of votes that were taken from President Trump. They have proved now, through these voting machines, that he won in 49 states. The only state he didn't win was New York. Even California was red  according to those voting machines.

But this election was not only fraudulent here in this nation, but there was international interference, from Italy, from China. China mostly paid for that. Most of the parts of the machines, of course, were from China. Other countries were involved, Germany, others.

In fact, this is another devastating thing, that the Italian government wrote an affidavit confessing their part in this election. It was brought to the House just before they made their final decision to go ahead and put Biden in. We know that Ted Cruz and some others were objecting, but our vice-president did not accept them, sadly.

Anyway, it's amazing that actually, our whole, our whole, everything that this country is founded upon, really, committed treason. Treason, because we have three branches of government, as you know, the legislative, executive, and judicial.

Now the legislative branch of government, they committed treason. The democrats, they know they stole it, of course. They know that. And of course, many republicans have stood with them.

Sadly, in fact, Joe Biden said, well, I think a couple of years ago he actually said this, and you could find it on YouTube. It's in writing. He said these words, “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” He spoke those words a couple of years ago. It was all planned.

And so, not only through the most, according to even Joe Biden, “the most inclusive voter fraud in the history of American politics.” So not only the democrats, but even many, as I said, republicans, stood with them. So many in the legislative branch have committed treason.

Even in the judicial, the Supreme Court would not accept the cases. Not because they were not valid, but they did not want to get involved. They were so wimpy. Chief Justice Roberts himself belongs to the swamp.

Even the executive! Can you believe it? Which is, of course, the president, who is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and the head of state. But the vice-president, and the cabinet, the State Department, the Defense Department, and other executive departments, they are all under the executive branch. Many of them, and of course, our vice-president, also sided with this stolen election. Treason.

So I don't know what's going to happen, dear ladies, but we cannot side with it. We cannot, because it's not truth. And we must always side with truth. God is truth. Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” When it's not truth, it's lies. The Bible says that the devil is the liar from the beginning. He is the father of lies.

It is sad. I hear many, even Christian people, saying, “Well, this happened. We've just got to get with it. You know, you can't do . . . you've just got to accept.” No! No, you cannot accept treason. You cannot accept a totally stolen election.

I mean, let's get with what God says. I am, look, I keep saying I'm starting this series off, and I want to do a few different subjects on, OK, who are we listening to? Who do we really listen to? Do we listen to what everyone is saying in society? Or do we listen to the Word of God? I mean, listen to what God says about fraud.

FRAUD IS AN ABOMINATION TO GOD

2 Chronicles 19:7, New Living Translation: “The Lord our God does not tolerate perverted justice.”

Proverbs 11:1: “A false balance . . . (that’s fraud, stealing, lies, just what has been happening here) is abomination to the Lord.” Abomination. That's what God uses.

Proverbs 20:10: “Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are abominable to the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 25:15, 16: “But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee. For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously are (guess what, here's the word again) an abomination unto the Lord thy God.”

So, do we side with an abomination? No. We do not.

Micah 6:11 says: “Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances (Dominion voting machines?) and with a bag of deceitful weights?” That word “deceitful” there means “fraudulent, false, treachery.” There it is. This is an abomination. It is treason. It is treachery.

So, dear lovely ladies, I didn't even start my new series. Well, I did in a way, because this is one of the things where, who are we listening to? Are you listening to society, or are you listening to the fake news? Or are you listening to God? We've got to learn to be on God's side. God's side.

I always think of that Scripture in Romans, Romans, let me go to it here. Romans, I think I actually mentioned it the other day, but I've got to come back to it. Romans 3:4: “God forbid, yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.” Am I prepared to listen to what God says? His truth?  Even though everyone else is saying something different.

So I don't know what's going to happen. Here we are, so close. I don't know. I am holding onto this promise. I'll close now, because as I mentioned, our time is gone. I'll just close. This is the promise I'm hanging onto. This is the promise that can only happen through a miracle of God.

But I believe we are at the Red Sea. It's like a Red Sea situation. We have nowhere to go. What do we do? Without God, without God, what is going to happen to this nation? Because not only are we accepting something that only happens in the third world, a treasonous election, but if it continues, it will take us down a communist route. This is their plan. Joe Biden is totally, absolutely, sold out to China. He is a puppet of China. They will take control in every area of our nation if we continue.

But this is what I'm hanging onto. You can join with me. It has to be a miracle. And when they were at the Red Sea, they had nowhere to go. The sea was in front of them, the Egyptians were coming behind them. And Moses said unto the people because he had a word from God: “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you today: for the Egyptians, whom you have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace”(Exodus 14:13, 14).

PRAYER

“Oh, Father, we come to You in the Name of Jesus. We cannot believe what we are facing in our nation. But dear Father, oh God, we know, Lord, that You have plans for this nation. Lord, we acknowledge we're at the Red Sea. Lord. What can we do, except You come?

But You are the Lord of hosts, the Lord of the armies of heaven. We ask that You will send Your warring angels, oh God, to war against these wicked spirits, Lord, these demonic spirits that are seeking to control DC and all that is happening there.

We pray that You will come, that You will show forth Your mighty right arm, that You will do a miracle, Lord, that no man could do. We ask, because we cry out for this precious nation, Lord God. Oh, Father, we cry out to You that all wickedness will be overthrown, because we know it's not just the treasonous election, Lord. There is so much wickedness in the swamp, going on behind the scenes. The wickedness, the wickedness, that's going on in these high places. The wickedness of many of these people involved in child trafficking and child sacrifice. Lord God, it is just so grieving to our hearts, and we pray that You will expose it all, Lord God.

And that You will come with Your power, and your mighty right arm, and that you will show us victory. We look to You, Lord God, that You will move by Your Spirit, Lord, and we trust You. In Jesus' Name, Amen.”         

Transcribed by Darlene Norris

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FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 135: WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING?

Sharing about our day at the Trump Rally in Washington, DC, and discussing the dilemma we are currently facing in our nation.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello ladies. Well, here I am in my lounge, and I'm looking out the window. In the spring and in the summer, I look out to these beautiful green trees all around me, and, of course, in the fall, with their beautiful colors.

But right now I' m looking out to white branches. We woke up this morning to another snowfall which we are always excited about here in Tennessee because we don't live in snow in the winter. But we hope to always get three or four, or maybe more, snowfalls. Well, this is our third snowfall this year, so that's exciting.

In fact, our second snowfall was just last Thursday, and that was when Colin and I were coming home from Washington, DC from the Trump rally. We were getting home about 11 o'clock at night and driving in the snow. It was really pretty sloshy.

It was beautiful, but the trees were just covered in snow, and weighed down with the snow. I love seeing them like that. It's so beautiful. In fact, quite a number of trees had come down with the weight of the snow upon them. We were having to drive around and over trees to try and get home late at night. That's a snowfall that we still had some of that snow on the ground and then it snowed again this morning. So we are enjoying that. We always love to have some snow.

I mentioned that we were coming home from the Trump rally. That was such a wonderful privilege to be there. Just at the very last minute, Colin and I felt this real urge to go. We wondered how on earth we could do it and how we could make it happen. But at the very last minute, we were able to put it together. We went up there on Wednesday, the 6^th. It was just such an amazing day.

I'm so sorry that if you weren't there, the only news you most probably got was what came over the media. “All these terrible Trump supporters, mobbing and storming the Capitol building!” But of course, that was so far from the truth. That was something, I believe, that was staged, because my husband and I, we were right there, at apparently the time it was happening, and saw nothing. (We have now found out that this storm on the capital happened toward the end of Trump’s speech before people ever began walking to the Capitol. It was staged by Antifa and Black Lives Matter and the doors were opened for them to come in by complicit police).

Of course, the day started out with the rally, which was wonderful. Some say there were thousands there, but I was talking to a lady later on. She had been at the last two Trump rallies in DC and she said that there'd been about a million at both of them. But she said this far exceeded them. She said, “I think there's about three million here.”

Well, that maybe a bit exaggerating, but I think there could have been at least two million. When I looked back to the crowd, I could not see with my little eye the end of the crowd. It was just beyond what my eye could see.

It was so amazing, just to be there, and a beautiful atmosphere of people who love this country, and many of them love God. I guess there were those who maybe weren't really Christian, but they were patriotic anyway. It was so great.

There were speeches from different ones, and then eventually Trump spoke. He spoke mainly about the fraudulent election, giving numbers and things of what had actually happened. It was very interesting.

And then the plan was for everyone to go up and just be at Capitol Hill because that day they were deciding on what they would do about this election, this very fraudulent, stolen election. And so it was a beautiful thing to be walking up there.

I remember Trump at the end of his speech saying, “You can walk up Pennsylvania Avenue.” I love the way he said, “I love Pennsylvania Avenue.” I think I loved it too. As we were walking up, there were crowds in front and behind.

And then as we passed a side road, we could see Constitution Avenue on the right, and crowds walking up that road. And then another road on the left, and crowds walking up that road. It was amazing. And people singing as they walked, it was so beautiful. Nothing like the storming, mobbing crowd. It was just so wonderful.

And then we got to the Capitol, and everybody, because there were so many people, began to surround the Capitol, even right up to the walls and the doors. We were pretty close, really. We were right up there. Of course, not storming in, or even trying to get in, or even thinking about such a thing.

But being there, just being there, there was something about the fact of being there. Yes, I was just reading, actually, was it yesterday? I never did get to see any footage on the TV, since we haven't really looked at it. Then I thought, I'd better read something of what they were saying.

I was reading this article in the Washington Post. It was saying at ten past two, these people stormed the Capitol building. So I thought, well, look at my photos. I was taking pictures, took pictures while we were up there at the Capitol.

So I have one picture at 2:09, and I was right up there. Just a picture of everybody around, not even aware of any such thing happening. So I mean, apparently it took place. We know that, because there's footage. But we were not aware of anything happening at all amongst the people.

Of course, most people now say that it was a staged thing with BLM and Antifa. So anyway, then, I have other photos, a little bit later, and a little bit later. We all, everybody happy, and just that beautiful spirit, with people singing The Star Spangled Banner just outside the Capitol building.

So obviously there was a something that happened, of course, but we were not aware of it. Never saw anything, and no mention was made of it. I mean, if something was really happening with the Trump crowd, there would have been police coming out and dispersing everyone to go. But we were there for over a couple of hours, just milling around with everybody.

So we have to. . . . Really, can we trust what we see? Can you? I think it was something, really, that was done, obviously from the inside, because apparently from many sources, police opened the doors to these people.

In fact, I saw one article where someone was speaking, on YouTube or something like that, saying the police had told him that he was to go home for the day. He wasn't needed. Then when he heard on the TV, wow, all this was happening, so he went back. But he wasn't called. No one called him.

So it was not what it was made out to be. In fact, it was interesting. We got calls from home, saying, “Oh, are you OK?” They had seen all this on the TV, and here we were there. We said, “What are you talking about? We don't even know what you are talking about!”

So  that's just coming from me, who was there. It was such an amazing historic and incredible day. Sadly, it was spoiled to most of the people around the world, I guess, by this footage, which was shown, but was not really from the Trump supporters at all.

Again, we had to walk back to our hotel. That took us quite some time. I think we were about three miles away. Colin and I, we left the hotel at 9.00 am. We actually didn't even get time . . . were so caught up with the day, we never really got time, or thought about going to the bathroom all day! I don't know how we survived, and not thinking about it, because that could never ever happen to me on a usual day! Oh, I don't know, I wouldn't get through the day! But we did!

And we didn't get back to the hotel to well after five. We just survived all day. We didn't really get a drink, and we didn't go to the bathroom. And we didn't even notice!  It was just so amazing.

But walking home down Pennsylvania Avenue, on the right, about halfway down, I saw this amazing . . . These words, I couldn't believe them. I looked up, and thought, “Hey, that's the First Amendment!” There it was, on this huge building, written in great big letters.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

And there it was, in huge letters at Number 555 Pennsylvania Avenue. I thought, “That is amazing!” I was so blessed to see it, and think, “Well, this is why we are here! Here we are, standing up for freedom, standing up against a stolen election, which in the eyes of God is an abominable thing. Here we are, standing up for all, everything that's in the First Amendment.”

There it was, written right there. And yet it's being taken away from us! When I got home, I thought, I  must check it out and that's when I found out that it was actually 555 Pennsylvania  Avenue. I also found out that it's being sold to someone else, this building. This person who's buying it wants to take that down, The First Amendment.

So there is now a petition available which I have signed myself since I found this out. You can go to the internet. Of course, don't go to Google, please. Go to Duck Duck Go. Have you changed to Duck Duck Go? That is a better one to go to. We don't really want to support Google. But you can go, and check it out, and put in “Keep the First Amendment on Pennsylvania Ave.” The petition will come up. You can sign. So there you go. That's something you can do.

Now, on this day that I'm actually sharing this now, it will go out to you in the morning. In fact, in some ways, I just can't wait to get back to talking to you about the things I need to talk to you about regarding motherhood and the home.

But I've got to talk about what's happening, because how can you go on with your life, when we are facing, at this moment, the biggest coup in the history of this nation? When now, and really perhaps as a result of the media blowing up . . . I think it was all a plan, those people who went into the Capitol building. Now Trump has been made out to be this, this dictator who incited the people to go and storm Capitol building. Those are the biggest lies in history! The biggest lies in history.

We were never . . .  there was nothing like that. It was the opposite. Most people who were there would not have known anything was going on. Here we are now, here we are.

What are we, Monday night, the 11th of January, and our President, who is still the President, is in hiding. He has been taken down. He is not allowed any free speech. He's been taken down from all internet and all social media. He's had to go into hiding.

They've been wanting to impeach him, right at this very last. I mean, this is a coup to take down our nation. These people have already stolen an election. They've stolen it off 75 - 79 million people who voted for Trump.

And over six million fraudulent votes . . . They say that there's at least six million votes that were fraudulent through different means. Through them, you know, dead people voting, and people voting more than once, and all these late votings which were back-marked to the date.

Then of course, through the Dominion machines, which they have now found out really what happened there. There was international interference, we already know from Italy and China. This is already treason. This whole thing is treason! It 's a coup which we have never seen the likes of in our nation.

Right at this moment, we don't even know what's going to happen. Maybe by tomorrow morning we might know what is happening, but there's a couple of scenarios, or maybe quite a few scenarios.

Anyway, well, number one scenario: the President stays in hiding and fades out. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris come in and are inaugurated. That would be a terrible day for this nation. From that moment, we are already influenced by China.

China has already sought to bring down this nation this last year with this virus, causing the lockdowns and the downturn of our economy, which had never been so great in the history of the US. They, of course, Joe Biden is a puppet of China. He is controlled by the Chinese. He's been bought by them.

Kamala Harris, of course, is a committed communist. We will go into communism. Dear precious ladies, are you aware, are you really aware of what's happening? I mean, when in this nation, this free nation, has a President has been taken off all social media and is not allowed to speak to the nation? This is like a communist take down already and they haven't even got in!

Big tech, which is all in this with media, big tech, and the swamp, they're  all in this together. Big tech has already taken down not only the president, but 60,000 conservative people on social media. They have already been taken down. Anybody who is a voice for conservativeness has been already taken down.

I mean, if this is happening now, well, what do you think's going to  happen if Biden and Kamala Harris get in? This would only be the beginning. And if the President of the United States is censored from free speech, do you think that you would have any free speech when this new government comes in? No. You'd have none.

And they would begin the persecution of those who are conservative and those who are Christian. We've already been seeing that in this last year, when they have been seeking to put down churches, and put down Christians, and stop people from going to church, and not allowing them to sing. To bring down our economy, which is communism, to bring it all down. Of course, the big companies, they've just got a law. But they want to bring down the middle class, and  bring down the small businesses, and  bring us to poverty so they can take control. So that they would bring in the Great Reset, and the New Economic Forum.

The first mandate they have was already posted. I've seen it on my iPhone. I've got it there.

Number one project of The Great Reset is: “You will own nothing and you will be happy.” I'm not sure how you'll be happy. But that is their plan.

Or is there still a chance in this eleventh hour for God to do something mighty and save us from this take down of our nation, this free nation which will no longer be a free nation? I'm still believing for a miracle. I don't know what's going to happen but I'm believing for a miracle. Keep praying, keep believing.

There are some people who have different YouTubes, and I guess you might listen to a load yourself. People are saying different things. Some say that Trump has already signed the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would bring in martial law, but would save us from this ultimate going down this communist route.

Some say he hasn't signed it. Maybe it's too late to sign. We don't know. We don't know yet. I think we'll know pretty soon, one way or the other. But let's keep in faith, in hope, trusting God. No matter what happens, we trust God, of course. But we do want to continue believing for the continuing of the freedom of this great nation, USA, the last bastion of freedom in this world. The whole world is looking on, because what happens here, what is going to happen here, is going to affect the whole world.

I was just listening to a YouTube just a while ago of some people sharing and believing that, yes, maybe this martial law will come in, but they believe that it will not only be here in America, but this thing will go global, because it does affect China, the communist party of China. They are so involved and they will, I don't know, somehow they've got to be pushed back too. So we'll just wait and see what is going to happen. But let's just keep trusting God.

In the meantime, many people are saying that we know that Parler has already been taken down. Parler was a new social media which was allowing free speech. And Amazon, they were using Amazon servers, has taken it down. I mean, this is no longer free America! It's hard to believe. Can you really believe what's happening? It's just about impossible.

But I was listening to one guy and he was suggesting a few sites that you could go to that may be more secure. I don't know for how long, but can I give them to you, just in case you would like to do something about it? Gab.com. They say that's a good one to go to.

They also say that you should get the app called Telegram. And you should be able to hear information through that Telegram. You can also Trumpet to 555-8888. Put that in, and text the 555-8888 to Trumpet. There's BlazingPress.com. There's Trumpet News. Another is Brighteon.com.

Now some of those, they say, could be places that you can go to get information. Anyway, I just put it out there for you. I also heard that you shouldn't, you should turn off, and I haven't even done that myself yet, I forgot about it. You should turn off the automatic thing of updating your iPhone so that they could take that away, the opportunity for you to hear news. So don't do that.

Yes. And then others are saying, well, just in case it happens, we don't know, I'm not saying anything, precious ladies, because I don't know. I haven't got a clue what is going to happen, but they say if martial law did come in, it would be good to have food for a couple of weeks, and water and cash and your car filled with gas. Just a few measures like that. So anyway, we'll just trust the Lord for what is going to happen.

WHO ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

Now before we were facing all that, because really, it's just come to it. Suddenly, we're facing this thing in our nation. We never believed that we would. But I was going to talk to you on a subject of, WHO ARE WE LISTENING TO?

I'll just start, as I know I'll have more to say in the next podcast. But we'll get started on it, because I think this is a very important thing in this hour. Because what we listen to is usually what we will believe and begin to live our lives by. It's how we'll live our lives according to what we listen to.

So, WHAT are you listening to? WHO are you listening to? I believe, of course, and I'm sure you will agree, that the most important thing that we can listen to is God speaking to us through His Word. We've got to get into His Word. We've got to become filled with His Word.

What does the Word of God say? That we are to be richly filled with His Word (Colossians 3:16). Not just shallowly filled, not just knowing one or two Scriptures (you know, hearing a message at church), but personally getting filled with the Word so our mind is filled with it and our heart is filled with it.

And because it's in our minds, and it's in our hearts, what's in your heart comes out in your mouth. So you're speaking it out of your mouth. That's a very important one. It's not just getting it in your head, not just getting it in your heart. No, that is not enough. You've got to be speaking it. Speaking it out, because when you speak it, that's when it becomes part of you. And it is true, you will be speaking about what's in your heart.

So just make sure, dear one, that you are in the Word. Make sure your family are in the Word, that your children are in the Word, that you are giving the Word to them. That you make time every morning, every evening, to read the Word to them. You have your family Bible time, or devotions, or whatever you like to call it in your home. But make it a priority, so you yourself are filled.

I love to have my personal time in the Word when I wake up each morning. I usually wake early, and I have my time in the Word. But then, we also, after breakfast, we have our family time. Whoever's in our home, and we have our family devotions, where we, my husband, reads the Word, and we talk about it, and then we pray together.

THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE WORD

I'm thinking of that wonderful Scripture in Isaiah 59: 21, a marvelous Scripture for us as mothers. It's a mandate to parents. God is speaking, and He says: “As for Me, this is My covenant with them, saith the Lord (It's God speaking and what does He say? )“My Spirit, that is upon thee, and My Words . . . “

I love the way that God always puts these two together, the Holy Spirit and the Word. We need both. We need the enlightening, and the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon the Word to reveal it to us, to open it up to us, because the Word, the Word of God is not a static thing. No, it's not something you just read and there it is. No!

When you read the Word, it is, it's like a diamond. It's like a precious stone that is multi-faceted. It's every sided dimension. There is different revelation. Oh, you know, you read the Word, and you can read it literally, and it can be a story, or it can be something about a person, or something about Israel. It's literal, yes, literal. It's for that person, or about that person .Or about Israel. There's so much about Israel in the Word of God. Israel is there, from Genesis from Revelation. That's why, wow, Israel better be very close to our hearts too. And that's why the devil wants to get rid of Israel. He hates it, because it's God's Land and His People are there.

But we've got to realize that there's often more than just on the surface, and that every word is written for our learning “upon whom the ends of the world have come” it tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:11. So every word, every word can bring revelation. You can read a word and get understanding. And then a few years later, you read it again, and you get something totally different and amazing, because that's what you're getting at that time.

So let me carry on with the Scripture: “My Spirit that is upon thee, and My Words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed” (meaning thy children) Nor out of the mouth of thy children's children, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.”

This is God's mandate to us, to get His Word into our hearts, but coming out of our mouths. So we're speaking it, and getting it into our children, so it's coming out of their mouths. And getting into our children's children, so it's coming out of their mouths. Now that's a big challenge, ladies.

Is the Word of God coming out of your children's mouths? What do they talk more about? Sports? The TV programs? This? That? Everything but the Word of God? I believe, in this hour, and what we're going to face, we don't know which way things are going to go. But whatever way, whatever we're going to face, we have to face it with the Word of God.

We've got to listen to Jesus, listen to God speaking to us. Forget that stupid TV. It’s all fake news. If you are listening (I don't even think you would be . . . I can't imagine that you would be), but there are Christians who do listen to fake news. I can't believe it. Wow!

We were talking to some Christians the other night. Met them at the grocery store. We began talking, sharing how we'd been to the Trump rally. Wow! They rose up in quite a spirit of anger. They could not believe that we were even there! “You didn't go into that building, did you?” Could you even imagine it? Ha, ha. Could we even have thought of the thought?

But that's how they were thinking because they had been watching the fake news. That's what they watch. I mean, if you watch lies, and deceit, and fake news, that's how you're going to live your life, according to those lies. And we dare not live according to lies.

We have to live according to the truth. So in this hour, we've got to get the Word into us, and live by it, and be filled with it. As we are, then we will know the truth. And we'll live by it, and we won't be affected by the lies.

Isaiah 55, you know this Scripture so well, don't you? But let's read it again. Verses 8 and 9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Sometimes because of what we listen to, or read, we think our thoughts are superior to God's thoughts. Oh my, we would never say that, would we? But, the way we live, and the words we say, that's what we are really doing. We are thinking we are superior to what God says. Because God's words are usually so opposite to society, and the way of the world, and the way everybody else is doing.

LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR

Are we prepared to live by His words? I'm always challenged by that chapter, that verse in Romans 3:4, here it is! 

God said this: “Yea, let God be true but every man a liar.” I've always been challenged by that. “Let God be true, but every man a liar.” Am I prepared to live by what God says, even though man is saying something else? And every man, everybody around me is saying something else. But am I prepared to live by what God says?

Well, we've come to the end of our time, so we'll look into some of these specific things in our next podcast. May the Lord abundantly bless you.

Dear Father, as we pray together, I bring everyone before You who is listening at this moment. And,  Lord God, we are not sure what is going to happen in these next few days or week or so, and what is going to unfold.

But, Lord, at this moment, we are here in a most strategic time in our nation, where we are facing a coup, and a takeover of all of our freedoms, the takeover of free speech. Lord God, we're facing a coup when our President is in hiding. This is unprecedented.

But Lord God, our trust is in You. We believe You, Lord God, and we believe that at this eleventh hour, Lord, that You can come. We have been praying, and we continue to pray and believe, Lord God, for this great nation, that this nation, Lord, will be kept free.

And, Lord God, we ask that You will show Your mighty right arm, Lord. As Moses and the people of Israel came to the Red Sea, they had nowhere to go. The sea was in front of them, the Egyptians were coming after them. But Lord, You parted the sea, You opened the way.

We pray that You will open the way. You will open the door. You will come and do a mighty miracle, Lord God. We ask it in the Name of Jesus. We look to You, our miracle-working God. Lord, I pray for every person listening, Lord, mothers, children, whoever's listening, grandmothers. Lord, we thank You that we can put our trust in You.

Lord God, we pray that You will be with us in the coming days, and we will walk with you by faith, that we will trust in You. We thank You for Your Word in Isaiah 26:3-4, “Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength”

We thank You, Lord, oh, that we trust in You, the Everlasting God. In You is everlasting strength. We praise You, and Lord, I pray Your blessing, and Your protection, and Your anointing on every precious soul listening today. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

Transcribed by Darlene Norris

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EPISODE 133: ATTITUDES TOWARD EVIL, Continued

Today we conclude the attitudes God wants us to have toward evil. We need courage to confute and reprove evil. Also, although God wants us to be a loving and fellowshipping people, He tells us about some people we must not fellowship with. Who are they?

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Good morning to you again, dear ladies, whatever time of the day it is that you are listening! Now this is No. 4 in our series of What Do We Do About Evil? And we're going to look at the last points of our 18 points of what God wants us to do about evil and the attitudes He wants us to have.

I didn't plan to do this in four sessions. In fact, when I did the third session the first time, I did it in one podcast, but when I had to do it again, I only got halfway through! My! I got talking too  much. So anyway, we'll finish it off this time.

So now today I believe you will get this on the 6^th of January. This is a very, very important day in our nation. I'm actually talking to you now on the last day of the year, so I don't know what's happening on the day that you're going to be listening.

Of course, it is the day when this election is coming before the Senate. I am praying that there will be courageous and brave senators who will stand up against this fraudulent election. I am hoping to be in DC for the rally. Up there to also stand against a fraudulent election, which would end America as we know it today if we allow this nation to go ahead. So I don't know what's going to happen. We'll wait and see.

OK, back to our points. We are up to. . .

No. 14. FLEE FROM EVIL

Or run away from it. When evil is around, we don't hang around it. We run from it.

1 Corinthians 6:18: “Flee fornication.” The Greek word is pheugo. It means “to run away, to shun, to escape.”

We also read this word in John 10:4-5: “The sheep follow him: for they know His voice. And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him (or will run away from him) for they know not the voice of strangers.”

Now dear mothers, we teach our children, don't we, to never go with a stranger. Never to get in a car with a stranger. That's something we drum into our children.

But are we also teaching our children never to listen to the strange voices of deception and humanism, that they hear all around them? These things that so easily come to their minds because the whole of the atmosphere is infiltrated with them.

We have to teach our children the difference between hearing God's Voice and just hearing the voice of all the humanistic values all around them. That's not an easy thing, but it's one of the big things that we must teach our children. We have to teach them that these voices of deception, and humanism, and feminism, and all these other “isms” that we have today, socialism and progressivism, and on and on it goes, that they are the voices of strangers.

GOD’S WORD IS THE ANTI-DOTE TO DECEPTION!

How are they going to learn the difference of the Voice of Jesus and the voice of strangers? How are we going to know the difference? I believe the only way that we can really know the difference is by being filled with the Word of God. The Word of God is the antidote to deception. If we don't know the Word, we will have nothing in us that exposes the deception and the voice of strangers.

So precious mothers, we've got to get filled with the Word ourselves. That's why it's so important to gather our families together and have Bible reading and prayer together every morning and every evening. We do this in our home, and they are the most important times of my day.

Yes, I have my own personal time in the Word, but we make time as a family, and whoever is living in our home at the time, that we gather morning and evening to open the Word. How I value those times! Just to sit, and listen, and hear the voice of God to my spirit, and filling my heart, so that I will know the difference between His voice and the voice of the stranger! Because the voices of these other things will be so strange when I am filled with His voice, which is the voice of Truth.

We have such a responsibility, dear mothers, to impart this intuition, this understanding, this wonderful, what could I call it? Attribute? I don't know what to call it. But there's something that discerns, it's a spirit of discernment that only comes through knowing the Word so that we discern, and we teach our children to discern between the clean and the unclean, between the good and the evil, between the voice of God and the voice of the stranger.

So when we hear this voice of the stranger, and we have the Word in us, we're, “Oh wow, that doesn't add up to God's Word! That's different.” And so, we run from it! We don't embrace it, we run from it! We teach our children to run from it.

If we don't do that, our children will grow up and the voices of the world around them will be bigger than the voice of God in them. And they will begin to live by the voice of deception, the voice of the stranger. The voice of the stranger will become normal to them and they won't know it's a stranger!

You see, we have to know that these voices of deception are the voices of the stranger. And the Word of God says that we are to flee from the voice of the stranger. Do you think you can do that?  One of the most powerful things that you can do as a mother.

1 Corinthians 10:14 says: “Flee from idolatry.” Run from it.

1 Timothy 6:11 tells us to run from the love of money and run “after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.” You see, in the Word, we talked last week about “putting off “and “putting on.” Now we're learning about “running from” and “running after.” We go two different directions. We run from the evil and we run after righteousness.

All right, next one.

No. 15. DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN EVIL

Ephesians 5:11 says: “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” Have no fellowship. If you're fellowshipping with someone, you're hanging out with them. You're friends with them. You love to talk with them.

But we don't do that with the unfruitful works of darkness, sin and evil. Instead, we reprove them. 1

 Corinthians 5, in the passage between 9-11, it says: “Do not keep company with fornicators.”

1 Corinthians 10:20-21: “You cannot be partakers of the Lord's Table, and the table of devils.”

2 Corinthians 6:14-18: “Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?  . . . Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive thee, and I will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters says the  Lord Almighty.”

2 Thessalonians 3: 6 and 14: “Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly . . . and have no company with them.” Whoo! Now that's a big one, ladies. We're talking about having no fellowship with sin and evil.

Now, of course, God loves fellowship. Oh, over and over again . . . In fact, I have found 38 “one anothers” in the Bible where God wants us to have fellowship with one another, and love one another, and have hospitality with one another, and be kind to one another, and on and on they go. The lifestyle of the Kingdom of God.

But in His Word, He also tells us about people we must not have fellowship with. Now, most people skip over those in the Bible, but as you know, I am one who seeks to search what God is saying, and not to leave out anything. And so I found 13 different kinds of people that God says we are NOT to fellowship with.

Wow. Do you want to hear them? Let me give them to you. I won't give you all the references because I know you're not going to remember them as you're just listening to them. But once again, we do transcripts. When the transcript comes out for this podcast, Number 134 I think we are on, I will have all the Scriptures for you.

1. Those who are talebearers. (Proverbs 20:19).

2. Those who cause division among you (Romans 16;17 and Titus 3:10, 11).

3. Those who are sexually immoral. Perhaps I'd better read this one. 1 Corinthians 5:9-13: “I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet, I certainly didn't mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or the coveters, or extortioners, or idolaters, since you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is a fornicator, not even to eat with such a person.”

Now, did you get that? It's saying, OK, of course, you're going to mingle with people in the world, if you go about, who may be living in sexual immorality. Half the time you don't know whether they are, or whether they are not. You'd have to go out of the world because there are so many who are living in the lifestyle,

But it says, if anyone is named a brother, if he confesses that he is a believer in Christ, then if he is living in sexual immorality, you must not even keep company with him. You're not to have fellowship with him. In fact, it goes on to say, you are not even to eat with that person.

Does anybody take any notice of this Scripture today? What a grievous thing, that there are so many in the Body of Christ who are living in sexual immorality. They come to church, and people hang out with them, and fellowship with them, and don't even take a stand against it. Where have we come to? This is the Word of God!

Why does God say that? Because of His love. Because He knows that when others do not fellowship, and hang out, and eat with that person, or that couple, that they will be brought to repentance. They cannot be brought to repentance when people say, “Oh, what's wrong with that? Oh yeah, we don't care. You can do what you like.”

No. The Bible says, “Don't even eat with them.”

4. Those who are covetous (1 Corinthians 5:11).

5. Those who are idolaters (1 Corinthians 11-13 (JBP). And it says of them also, “Do not even eat with them.”

6. Those who are abusive (1 Corinthians 5:11).

7. Those who are drunkards (1 Corinthians 5;11).

8. Those who are swindlers (1 Corinthians 5;11).

9. Those who are contentious, controversial, and stir up arguments (Proverbs 22:10 and Timothy 6:3-5).

10. Those who think religion is a way to make money (1 Timothy 6:5).

11. Those who have a form of godliness but deny God's power (2 Timothy 3:1-5).

12. Those who are undisciplined, lazy, and who will not work for their living. I think I'll read you this one, too. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-14. And The Living Bible says: “Stay away from any Christian who spends his days in laziness, and does not follow the idea of hard work we set up for you. For you will know that you ought to follow our example. You never saw us loafing. We never accepted food from anyone without buying it. We worked hard, day and night, for the money we needed to live on, in order that we would not be a burden to any of you. Notice who he is, and stay away from him, that he may be ashamed of himself.”

13. Those who seduce, deceive, and falsely lead God's people (2 John 1:5-11).

These different ones, the Bible tells us, we're not to fellowship with. So, OK, are we lining up with the Word of God, or are we doing our own thing?

All right, let's go to the next one.

No. 16. WE ARE TO REPROVE EVIL

Now Ephesians 5: 11 again: “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Now what is this word “reprove”? In the Greek, it's the word elegcho, and it means “to confute, to convince, to convict.” Now, what does “confute” mean? “Confute” means “to prove to be false, wrong, in error, to overthrow by evidence or stronger arguments”.

And so this is what we have to do with sin and evil. We reprove it. We confute it. Many times, I know all of us, we hate evil. Yes, I hope we're kind of getting all these verbs into us. We hate it, and we abhor it, and we will destroy it, and we will cast if off, and we will get rid of it, and so on.

Now it says we will confute it. That means we do something about it. When someone is in sin, we just, oh, we don't like to say anything. Well, they might not, they won't like us if we say anything to them.

But the Bible says that we are to confute evil, and even to confute deception. When people are believing a lie, we are to confute that lie. We're to show them where it is false, and we're to give them evidence, Biblical evidence, to show them.

So we read this word. It comes in quite a few Scriptures in the Word of God. It's translated “convince,” in Titus 1:9, and it's speaking to elders and  pastors here. It says that elders and pastors must know how “to convince,” or “confute” or “convict” the gainsayers.

When Paul was writing to Timothy in 1 Timothy 5:20, he says: “They that sin rebuke before all.” “Rebuke” is used this time, and that's interesting. We don't see that happening in churches today, do we? But that's what God told Timothy to do. Those that sin, rebuke, not hiding away so nobody will know about it, but “rebuke before ALL.”

In Titus 2:15 Paul says: “These things SPEAK, and EXHORT, and REBUKE WITH ALL AUTHORITY.” Yes, that's when Paul was writing to Titus. That chapter in Titus starts off, let me read it for you here. Titus 2, here we go.

It starts off: “But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine.” And then the last verse in the chapter says: “These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke, with all authority.” And so it's all these things that are sound doctrine.

So if people are not walking in them, we are to show them that this is the way they are to walk, and to . . . well, help! We don't like to do this, do we? But  it says here to rebuke so that they will come into these things.

This whole chapter is writing to everybody. It starts out with the older men. Then it goes to the sound doctrine for the older women, who are to teach the younger women how to be keepers at home, and to love their husbands, and to love their children, and to be submissive to their husbands, and all these things, which the Bible calls “sound doctrine.”

Then it goes on to the young men, and how they are meant to live. Then to the servants, and how they are meant to live. And then it ends. “OK, all these things, Titus, you've got to speak, and exhort, and rebuke, or confute, and convince, with all authority, to make sure that the people of God are walking in these ways of sound doctrine.”

Often, ladies, we are a little fearful to rebuke evil, or to expose evil, or to reprove evil. But I believe we need courage because this is what God says we're to do. Because people have not exposed evil, and have not reproved it, we have so much evil and sin lurking in the church.

The church of God today, on the whole, is not a church of God's holy set-apart people, walking in righteousness, but it's filled with sin and tolerance of sin. Why? Because evil has not been rebuked. Sin has not been confuted. And so we have to rise up.

I've been thinking lately about that Scripture in Revelation 21: 8: It's a very, very challenging Scripture. Let me go to it. Revelation 21:8 and it talks about, it gives a list of those who will have their part in the lake of fire, which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. So who are these people?

It says: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the whoremongers, and the sorcerers, and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” That's scary.

But what's even more scary, help! . . . is that at the top of the list is the fearful. Most translations translate the word “the coward.” Oh, help! Does that get to you? “The coward?” Do you mean to say, cowards are just as sinful as murderers? Well, that's what the Scripture says.

In fact the Amplified (AMPC) says: “But as for the cowards, and the ignoble, and the contemptible, and the cravenly lacking in courage, and the cowardly submissive.” Dear ladies, it seems that the church of God has come to that fate today. Not only the people of the world, but the people in the church have cowardly submitted to tyranny without even one little question.

They have listened to the fake media. They have listened to the voice of the stranger, and they have said, “Yes Sir! We will lock down. We will wear masks. We will socially distance. We will do everything that the elite will tell us to do.”

They have listened to the voice of the stranger. They have been cowardly submissive. They have not stood up for what God says in His Word, and the way God created us to live, because this way of life is totally antithesis to the Word of God. It is absolutely opposite to how God created us to live as families, and as extended families, and as people in our communities. And in our nation, IT IS THE OPPOSITE!

We have to rise up. We must begin to be brave. We must begin to be courageous. And I'm thinking of that Scripture in 2 Peter. It's in that passage of the letter of virtue. Do you remember that in 2 Peter, chapter 1:5-8?

It starts off: “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge” and so on. We go up the ladder. You can read it later. We stop at virtue. Now virtue, virtue we think, “Oh that sounds a glorious, wonderful word!”

IT’S TIME FOR COURAGE!

But what does it really mean? Well, in the Greek, the word is arete and it means “excellent, God's excellence, but also excellence in man.” But it also means, it means (and this is where it's so great to go back to the full understanding of the Greek, to know what it's talking about), it means “courage, fortitude, resolution, manliness, valor.”

Now, it's interesting. Men . . . of course, although this word is for all of us, it's for us ladies, it's for children, it's for every person. But the meaning of it is “courage, manliness.” Now it's an interesting thing that men, instinctively, are meant to have courage.

In the Knox Translation of the Bible, everywhere in the King James where it says: “Be of good courage,” and wherever it talks about having courage, the Knox Translation translates it “Play the man.” It's quite a great translation. “Play the man.” In fact, one time in the King James, it also says, “Play the man.”

So we're going out to the war  and they say: “Let us play the man, for our people,” and what they're meaning is, “Let's have courage!” So courage is a very manly thing. That's what makes me sad, when I see so many big strapping men, and they wear masks. They've cowardly submitted to tyranny! Help! These are men who should be having courage to stand for their freedom.

Well this word, virtue, arete, is the same word that's used back in the story in the Maccabees. Now the Maccabees is not part of the Canon of Scripture. It is part of the Apocrypha. Now the Apocrypha were books that were not chosen to go into the Canon of Scripture, but they are also good reading, and give us wonderful history, especially Maccabees 1 and 2. It gives the history of the Maccabees, which is a powerful thing to read.

We've just been celebrating Hanukkah, which is the story of how the Maccabees regained the nation of Israel, and reclaimed the Temple, and dedicated it back to God. Even Jesus Himself, He celebrated the Feast of Hanukkah in Jerusalem when He was on this earth.

But just, can I just tell you this little story? Wow, hope I can fit it in. It's found in 2 Maccabees, chapter 6, and it's a time when Antiochus Epiphanes, he sent his senator to force the Jews to abandon the laws of their ancestors. They filled the Temple with debauchery and prostitutes, and oh, anyone who would not give up their Jewish ways was put to death.

It was, they were trying to totally annihilate the Jewish nation. In fact, this is terrible. It talks about two women who were arrested  for circumcising their babies. And they publicly paraded them around the city with their babies dangling from their breasts, and then they threw them down from the top of the city wall. Oh, such atrocities!

And then it talks about Eleazar. Eleazar was a scribe, and he was an older man of God. He was apparently about 90 years of age. And they forced him to eat pork. Well, some people eat pork today, but back then the Jews, of course, they would not eat pork. To them, that was a terrible thing to do.

So many of these Jews, they were assimilating to this Greek way of life, just to, just to hang onto their lives. They cowardly submitted! But  Eleazar wouldn't. And these people, they were his friends. And they said, “Hey,  Eleazar, look, go and get some of your meat that you're allowed, and we'll let you do that. And you can eat that, and pretend you're eating the pork, so they won't kill you. Because we don't want you to be killed.”

But Eleazar, he was a MAN OF COURAGE. This is what he, can I read it to you? I'll read it to you straight from the Maccabees. “But Eleazar made a decision worthy of his gray hair and advanced age. All his life, he had lived in perfect obedience to God's holy laws. So he replied, 'Kill me here and now. Such deception is not worthy of a man of my years. Many young people would think that I had denied my faith after I was 90 years old. If I pretended to eat this meat just to live a little while longer, it will bring shame and disgrace on me and lead many young people astray. For the present, I might be able to escape what you can do to me, but whether I live or die, I cannot escape almighty God. If I die bravely now, it will show that I deserved my long life. It will also show a good example of the way young people shall be willing and glad to die for our sacred laws'. And as soon as he said those things, he went off to be tortured.”

And then it says, when they had beaten him almost to the point of death, he groaned and said: “The Lord possesses all holy knowledge. He knows I could have escaped these terrible sufferings and death. Yet He also knows that I gladly suffer these things because I fear Him. So Eleazar died. But his courageous (and there's that word, arete) his courageous death was remembered as a glorious example, not only by young people, but by the entire nation as well.”

You see, this was taken obviously from the Septuagint, which is the version of the Bible translated from Hebrew into Greek. So this Greek word is here used, “virtue,” but meaning “courage.” And here it talks about his courageous death. Courage. It's time for us, isn't it, to rise up in courage and begin to reprove evil!

I'm thinking today, the 6^th of January, that you will listen to this, most probably. We know already of one, Josh Hawley, Senator Josh Hawley, who is going to stand up against this fraudulent election. I pray that he'll have courage today, and many others will stand with him to reprove evil. To reprove evil. We cannot accept a stolen election.

All right, dear ladies. Oh goodness me, what am I going to do? We're running out of time, and I see here that I've been telling you I have 18 points. But you know what? I've actually got 20! I think I found two more and added them. So now we have 20! So will I have time to get through them?

No. 17. DO NO LOOK AT EVIL

David said in Psalm 101:3: “I will refuse to look at anything vile or vulgar.” That's the New Living Translation. King James says: “I will set no wicked thing before my eyes.”

No. 18. RESIST EVIL

James 4:7: “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

No. 19. CLEANSE YOURSELF FROM ALL EVIL

2 Corinthians 7:1: “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

Number 20, yes, the last one!

No. 20. RID THE NATION OF EVIL

Let me take you to Psalm 144, as we close. Psalm 144, and here David is praying. He's praying for the nation. Let's read his prayer. Psalm 144: 7 and verse 11. He prays this prayer two times in this Psalm. “Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children.”

Again in verse 11: “Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children.” Once again, we're talking about the voice of strangers. That which is foreign to God's Holy Word, that which is foreign to His Heart, that which is foreign to our Holy God, “whose mouth speak vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.”

And so David is praying, “Lord, God, deliver me! Deliver this nation from evil!” This is the prayer that we should be praying.

This is another attitude that not only will we be delivered personally, not only will our children and our families be delivered personally, but the nation will be delivered from evil and from the voice of the stranger! Why? Why? Because of this powerful vision that David had, and it comes right back to us, dear mothers.

It comes back to the home. Back to the family, and what does it say? “That our sons may be as plants growing up their youth; that our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace.” David cried out for the nation to be delivered of the deception, and the evil, and the voice of the strange doctrine so that we could grow up a people, young people, our children. That our sons will grow up and become mature, even in their youth. That our daughters will be pure and holy like princesses in a palace, living lives that are worthy of royalty because they belong to the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords.

Sons and daughters who are not walking in sin but walking in holiness.

 Sons and daughters who know how to combat the evil one.

Sons and daughters who know the voice of God and will run from the voice of the stranger.

Yes. Make that your prayer, dear precious mother.

Dear Father, we thank You , Lord God, for showing us Your attitude toward evil. Help us, help us to have Your same attitude. We pray, Lord, that we will walk in deliverance, even in our homes and our families, from all deception, and all the voices of the stranger, and that which is foreign to Your plan for our lives.

And Lord, that we will raise young men, mature in their youth, who will be set apart for You, Lord, God. And who will, Lord, stand against all evil. And that our daughters will be pure and holy, and set apart unto You.

Oh, God, we ask, Lord, that we will live in the fullness of all that you have planned in this time for us. I pray Your blessing upon every mother and child and family who are represented by those listening today. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

Transcribed by Darlene Norris

 

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 133: ATTITUDES TO EVIL Continued

We continue talking about the 20 different words God uses in His Word to show us how to resist evil. Don't miss learning about each one. God does  not want us to tolerate evil, but to drive it out.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Good morning, ladies! Well, it's good morning here in Tennessee, but you may be listening at another time. I'm so sorry this podcast is late getting to you. It was meant to come out at six o'clock on Tuesday morning. However, although I had recorded it, we just could not get the sound to come. So I'm now starting all over again, recording it for you again now.

Now it is Thursday, and it is the last day of 2020. Isn't that amazing? What a year it has been! In fact, I must read to you a poem. I just got it this morning and it's from a dear friend of mine in England. She has written about this last year and I think it's pretty cool. She pretty well sums it up, what has been happening.

GOODBYE TO 2020,

THE YEAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Twenty, twenty, what a year!

A rollercoaster built on fear.

Bats were blamed as sickness spread,

We’d no idea what lay ahead.

Dead bodies lay on China’s roadside,

Caught on film and shared worldwide.

The Chinese guided us with care,

Taught world leaders everywhere

How to lock their nation down,

How to silence every town.

Our leaders gently took our hands,

Led us gently as was planned.

They made it fun, we clapped and danced,

Our eyes on screens, quite entranced.

We learnt to Zoom, we didn’t mind,

Not seeing Granny now was kind.

Shaming people next was taught,

Granny killers must be caught!

Beaches filled with families playing,

Home was where they should be staying!

Protesting was quite accepted,

If black lives should be protected.

But dare to speak of lockdown’s pain

Your voice was silenced, all in vain.

Masks were next to keep the pace,

To keep us focused on the race.

To find the vaccine was the mission,

We had to share this global vision.

Then testing came to raise the fear,

And keep us locked up for the year.

Testing ramped up, cases grew,

False positives were not a few.

Healthy people were no more,

Silent carriers ‘caused’ this war.

Healthy people stayed inside,

Touch and love all were denied.

Until our lives became a shell,

Each day for many, living hell.

As days wore on and winter dwelt,

The toll of lockdown could be felt.

No more dancing or doorstep clapping,

Now tempers fray with families snapping.

Desperate people, broken now,

Looking to the sacred cow—

The vaccine is their promised Saviour,

Let’s add it to the new behaviour.

They’ve said we’ll have to keep the mask,

Still keep our distance, they have asked.

Add the vaccine, we need all three

To make the COVID trinity.

So what lies ahead in this new year?

More of the same for those who fear.

BUT GOD HAS BETTER PLANS AHEAD

FOR THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM INSTEAD.

Yes, how true! When we see what we have faced this year, and how people in our nation here in America, and all over the world, have come under tyranny, for that is what it is. And we have now come to understand that this virus is not much more than like a flu. In fact, it has a 99.99% recovery rate. Even for those who are older, it's still about a 90% recovery rate.

And yet we have still been told to lock down. Thanksgiving, Christmas, we could only have a few people in our home. Of course, we didn't keep to that at all. I mean, for Thanksgiving, I made a sit-down meal for our family. I think I wrote about 109 name places for our family.

I mean, where is the reality? Were they going to expect me to get all my beloved grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and, of course, our own children and spouses, line them all up, and say, “OK, which eight of you will I have for Thanksgiving? And who will I have for Christmas dinner? Let me choose which eight. The rest of you are discarded.”

I mean, how ridiculous! This is not even normality. This is beyond, beyond even, beyond common sense. It's gone ridiculous. And that even family, there's so many families that have with eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve children! Goodness me! And they can only have so many in their house. Oh, what narrow minds these people have.

But it's all just for tyranny, and lockdown, and the precursor of what is to come. For their whole aim, and I have shared this before, is to bring in The Global  Reset, and the World Economic Forum, which is, when we read it, and they've already posted it. Just recently they posted the eight projections for the World Economic Forum. The very first one is:

Number one: “YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, BUT YO WILL BE HAPPY!” I'm not sure how. But it's pure Communism.

And so I pray that as we go into this New Year, dear precious folks who are listening, that you will not bow to this tyranny. As you face a New Year that you will claim your freedom and walk in the lifestyle that God created you to live in! Amen?

Well, let's carry on. For this, today, is the third session of 18 different verbs (actually 20) or attitudes, that God gives us, of what we are to do about evil. God doesn't just give one word. I found 18 (actually 20) different verbs, and I believe that when we read the Word, that we can't just take one little thing. We have to know fully what God says. When I'm studying a subject, I don't want to know one little aspect of it. I want to know the fullness of what God is saying.

So I have to find every ne. Maybe I've missed one, I don't know, but I've found 18 different verbs (actually 20). I think it's important for us to hear what they are. We've got to know what God says in His Word. As we go into this New Year, dear precious ones, we've got to be women of the Word.

Oh, we've got to know what God says! Because we will live our lives accordingly. Even now, we are living our lives either according to what we constantly hear daily on the fake media, or we are living our lives according to the truth of the Word of God.

Now, by which standard are you living your life? Are you listening to the fears, and the tyranny, and the deceptions of this fake media? And all that the elite are trying to put on us? Or are you living by the Word of God? Matthew 4:4 says: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

If we are believers, we've got to live by the Book! This is our Book! This is our letter that God has given to us to live in the world, even if it's not easy. Right through history, people have lived by the Word, even in the face of persecution and everything that's different around them. We don't live according to the standards of this world. We live according to the Word. In fact, I think I'm going to do some sessions on this in the coming year.

But let's get . . . I mustn't get carried away now! We are currently up to number nine.

9.  GUARD YOURSELF FROM EVIL

God wants us to guard ourselves. We read in 2 Samuel, it's David speaking. Let's read his confession, shall we? 2 Samuel 22, verses 22-24: David said, “I have kept the way of the Lord . . . ” The word “kept” there is the Hebrew word shamar. Oh it's a beautiful word, I love the word shamar. It means, “to guard, to protect, to watch.”

God Himself shamars over us. He guards us. He protects us. But He wants us to also guard our lives, Here David confesses, I have kept, shamar, the way of the Lord. I have guarded it. “And have not wickedly departed from my God. For all His judgments were before me: and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.”

Do we walk by His statutes? Or does not fitting in with society's way drive us apart from them? That's a big question, ladies. Do we continue walking by God's statutes even if they are so opposite to the ways of the world?

“For all His judgments were before me: and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. I was also upright before him, and have kept myself (there it is again, guarded, myself from mine iniquity.” So there we have it.

That word shamar, the very first time it is used is in Genesis, Genesis chapter two, verse 15. It's very important to always go back to the very first time a word is used. It is the Law of the First Principle. That's very important in the Word of God. When God uses a word the very first time, He is laying a principle for that word. He will build on it as we continue reading. But we will never get away from that foundation.

So what is Genesis 2:15? It is where God put Adam into the garden. And it says here, “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it, and to keep it.”

He gave him two things to do:

One, to work in it. The word there is “work,” and it means “to work hard by the sweat of your brow.” Isn't that interesting? This is before the fall.

When I was a little girl, I had this notion that work came in after the fall of man, and that it was a curse upon people after the fall and after they had sinned. I guess I didn't like work very much when I was a little girl.

But of course, as I grew, I found out that was not true, and that God gave the principle of work before the fall. It was God's plan for us. Ladies, God gave work as something to bless us. Yes! Work is a wonderful thing. We do a good day's work and then we're ready to go to sleep. We earn our sleep.

As we work, we benefit our bodies and our minds. As we do things, we learn how to do them better. This is how all the great inventions that we have in the world today have come, because as people are working, and they're doing something, they think, “I can do this a better way. I can invent something that can do this better.”

So things get better and better. It all comes out of work. Work is therapeutic. So don't deride work, dear ladies, even as you work in your home. You have to manage your home. You have to keep it clean. You keep the laundry up to date. You keep all those dishes done, and cook your meals, and scrub your floors, and look after your little ones.

Yes, work, work, work! But don't despise it. Embrace it! It's God-given.

So God put the man in the garden, to work and to guard it. Two things, work and guard. In fact, they are also given to us in the New Testament. We go over to Titus. Titus, chapter two, and if you are familiar with the Word of God, you will know Titus, chapter two, verses 3-5, is that wonderful passage where it speaks to older women to teach the younger women. One of the things that it teaches the younger women is to be “keepers at home.”

That word also is the word that means “to guard, to watch over.” It's a picture of the keeper of a castle who holds the keys. He will not allow anything into that castle, or any person who was not allowed to come in. He guarded it.

And God has given to us, precious ladies, precious mums, the guardianship of our homes. And just as God put the man and the woman in the garden to work in it, and to guard it, yes, it goes over to the New Testament and we have the same parallel. We are in our homes to work in them, and to guard them. To guard them from evil. To watch over them with our beady eyes.

We are the watchdogs of the home. We are watching. We are watching that no evil comes into our homes. Oh, it can come in so subtly, so easily. That's why we have to keep our spiritual eyes, and even our physical eyes, wide open, so that we are always in a state of watching and praying. Because we are the guardians.

So we guard over our own lives, as David was speaking here. We guard over our lips. We guard over our thoughts. We guard over our emotions that we do not give in to self-pity and depression and despondency, which women can get into so easily.

I think self-pity and despondency are some of the easiest things we can fall into. We're prone to it. But we guard, you see? We guard. Yes! Self-pity and despondency, they're not just nice little things that we can play around with. NO! They're sins! They're sins. And we have to guard them, watch that we don't fall into these things.

So, we're watching over our own lives. We're bringing every thought into captivity to Christ. Now that doesn't just happen. You have to be on the warfare, to make that happen. But this is how we live as we guard over our lives, and we're guarding over our homes, and over our children's lives, God wants us to guard, to guard ourselves, and our homes. Amen?

10. DRIVE OUR AND DESTROY ALL EVIL

We don't play around with evil. We destroy it. We drive it out.

 Now let's go to a Scripture in the Old Testament. I'll give you two or three Scriptures here. These are Scriptures where God is speaking to the children of Israel about what they have to do about all those enemies and those evil people who were in the Promised Land, that was waiting for them.

The people of Canaan were an evil people. God wanted them driven out. He said, Numbers 33:52-53: “Then shall you drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and pluck down all their high places. And you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess.”

Did you get the spirit of that Scripture? Did you get those words?

Destroy.

Drive out.

Dispossess.

You know, that was speaking about a literal enemy that they had to face back then. But dear precious ladies, everything that was written in the Old Testament was a type for us today. There was not one thing that was written that does not relate to us right in our lives, right now, even in our homes.

We look at 1 Corinthians 10:11 and it says: “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples.” That word “ensamples” in the Greek is the Greek work tupos and it means “a type, a pattern, a symbol, an emblem of what is higher.”

And so everything, every story, every word, every line, it was a type for us, a pattern of how we are to live today, and what we are to do.

These Israelites, they had to go and actually destroy these people. Now, we're not going around destroying people, but we are having to destroy evil in our lives, in our homes, and around about us. We have to have this attitude toward evil. You see, we're talking about the different attitudes toward evil.

This one is to destroy it. That's the kind of attitude we have to have. You don't toy, you don't play with it. We just, OK, when we face it, we're going to destroy it. We're going to drive it out. We drive it out of our own lives, we drive it out of our homes, and we see where we can, to drive it out of our own communities, and cities, and nations.

Because everything starts with the home, ladies. It all starts with the home. We can't have a righteous nation if we don't have righteous homes. It all starts in the home.

“So now all these things happened unto them for ensamples, (for a pattern, for a type) and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world have come.” Right for us today.

We go to Romans 15:4 and it says again: “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience (that word literally means “cheerful endurance”) and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”

So all these stories that happened in the Old Testament, they are a pattern for us today and for our learning for us today. I love that old saying which says, “The New (that's the New Testament) the New is in the Old concealed; the Old is in the New revealed.” Do you like that?

All right. Here's another one. Deuteronomy 7:2 and onward to about verse six says: “Thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them . . . You shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.” Are you getting the picture?

These are the words, the attitudes, the action words that God wants us to have about evil. You'll notice in the Numbers passage, it says that when they have destroyed and driven out their enemies, that then they will possess the land. Dear ladies, we cannot possess all that God has for us until we drive out the evil that's in our own lives, and in our homes, and, of course, ultimately, the nation.

All the greatest blessings come to us and we begin to live in all the fullness of what God wants us to possess when we drive out the evil first. So few of us live in all the fullness of all that God has for us. Often, because we still have evil lurking around. Maybe just a little bit! But He wants us to drive it all out.

I noticed in Numbers it says: “Then shall you drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and pluck down all their high places.” And so on. It wasn't, “Oh well, we'll get rid of a few of them.” NO! A-L-L!

All right. Deuteronomy 12:2-3: “You shall utterly destroy . . . and ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.”

Wow! Are you getting the picture? And remember, these Scriptures are for us today. Yes! Today! Right now!

All right. Remember David's testimony again in Psalm 101? I talked about this last time, where David said, “Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, wiping out all evildoers from the Lord's city.” Well David did that literally, but of course, we don't even think about doing that today.

But we have this attitude about evil. We don't make friends with it. We destroy it.

1 John 3:8: “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that  He might destroy the works of the devil.” Jesus now lives in us to accomplish this same thing, for when He came into this world, He came to destroy the works of the devil.

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” But yes, Christ in you, destroying the works of the devil! All right?

Well, let's look at number eleven:

11. LET NO EVIL REMAIN

Now, we're going to read of what Joshua did when he went into the Promised Land. Joshua 10:33-40: “So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and the vale, and the springs ,and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.”

Joshua 11:8-12: “He smote them and chased them until they left none remaining. They smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was not any left to breathe.”

You see, OK, that sounds pretty horrific. But it's a type, it's a type. It's a type for us to understand the attitude God wants us to have toward sin. I think we're living in a day where we don't really hate sin. People embrace sin today.

TOTAL ANNIHILATION

But God wants us to have the attitude that we will so drive it out that there will be none left. None left remaining. Nothing left to breathe. Woo! Wow! That's what God intends. Now this is the thing. It's total annihilation. We deal ruthlessly with sin and evil. No tolerance. Not one vestige remaining.

We live today in a church, well, in America, where many churches could be called the Church of Tolerance. In fact, I think that's the new name for many churches today. They tolerate sin. They've become lukewarm.

I wrote this little quote sometime back:

“If we don't know God's Word, we'll be a tolerating Christian.

If we know God's Word, we'll be a trembling Christian.”

Remember what God says in Isaiah 66: “God looks for those who tremble at His Word.” 

So, we're either doing one of two things. We're either a person who says, “Yes, I love God, but um, you know, well, you know, I wouldn't do that, but well, I can't really say anything about it to that person who's doing it. I mean, you know, that's just them.”

And so, we take a very sort of passive attitude towards sin.

But God doesn't tolerate it, and He doesn't want us to tolerate it either. And if we really know His Word, and what He says, we will tremble before Him. Do we even have a trembling spirit? A trembling heart? I don't know whether we have this very much. But that's who God is looking for, the one who trembles at His Words.

So let's see, what's our time? Thirty? Woo. Thirty, that was thirty a while ago. OK. All right. I think we've got time for number 12.

12. PUT AWAY EVIL FROM THE MIDST OF YOU

 Now the word “put away evil” is the Hebrew word ba'ar and it means, “to consume, especially by fire, to burn.” It's a total consuming of it. So we could even call this “consume evil.” That's a better title for this point. Consume evil.

Now we see this phrase, “so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.” We read this phrase over and over again in Deuteronomy, chapters 13-24. So if you get to read those sometime, right throughout those chapters you'll see that  phrase, “so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.” Or consume it.

I won't give you all the Scriptures. You can read those in your own time, although Deuteronomy 21:18-21 is, wow, I'm always so kind of wowed by this Scripture where it says: “If any man have a stubborn or rebellious son which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not harken unto them...All the men of the city shall stone him with stones, so that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.”

Wow! That's rather incredible, isn't it? They took a strong stand against rebellion. Yet today, we have a generation of rebellious and stubborn young people. Well, today, we don't live as they did in the Old Testament. We wouldn't be doing such things. But it just shows us what kind of an attitude we should have to rebellion and stubbornness.

As we know, the Word says that “rebellion and stubbornness is as witchcraft” (1 Samuel 15:22, 34). We deal with these things dear parents when our children are young. We don't wait until it grows and grows when they are teenagers, and they are these rebellious teenagers.

This is not a word that's even in the Word of God. In fact, the Word of God doesn't even accommodate a teenage stage. The Word of God speaks about children, and children growing into maturity (Psalm 144:12). Even from a very young age, we have allowed the teenage years now to become a certain era of a person's life when God does not. He never ever envisioned that at all.

Children are to be constantly growing into maturity, so that by the time they are reaching even the ages of 13 and upwards, they are beginning to do, to live maturely, to take on responsibility, and to do great things as we read in the Word of God.

We even read in history, and we even read of the early fathers of our nation, the things they were doing when they were in their early teens. They were doing what men do today.

So we need to be training our children right from young, dealing severely with stubbornness and with rebellion because this is the thing that God hates. It turns to . . . it’s as witchcraft. So we don't ever want our children to get to this stage. We want to make sure that we are driving it out before they ever do.

Chapter 22, that chapter has a lot about sexual sins. Every time it says “so shalt thou put away evil from among you.” In chapter 24:7, it talks about kidnapping, and how you have to put that evil away from among you.

We go to the New Testament, and in 1 Corinthians 5:13 it says: “Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.” Yes, God doesn't want evil in the midst.

All right.

13. CAST OFF EVIL

Romans 13:12. By the way, ladies, I am giving you so many Scriptures, that this podcast is filled with Scriptures. Now I give you the reference and if you're washing the dishes as you're listening to this, or you're going for a walk with your headphones on, or you're doing something else, well, you're going to forget the reference, of course.

But I do transcripts. And in about a couple of weeks, the transcripts will come out. And I will have all the references, and if you really want to dig into these Scriptures and read them again, you can go to the transcripts, and look them up, and study them more.

So here we go. Romans 13:12: “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.”

Now, that word, “cast off,” what does it really mean? Well, let's just look here, look at some . . . yes, let's look at some other translations. They may help us to understand.

The Amplified says: “Fling away the works of darkness.”

The Passion Translation says: “Strip away.”

The New Living Translation says: “Get rid of all the filth and evil from your lives.” So “casting off” literally means “to get rid of.”

Do you have here in America, I'm sure you do, that saying, “Good riddance to bad rubbish” ? Well, I grew up in New Zealand, and we often used to say that phrase. We had a couple of phrases, actually. Sometimes we'd say, “Goodbye and good riddance!” Do you say that?

Well, that's really what this Scripture is saying. Because that phrase literally means, it's an expression of pleasure actually, but pleasure that you've got rid of something you don't want, something undesirable and unwanted. You've got rid of it!

So this is the attitude we have to have about sin, and about evil. We get rid of it, and then we can say, “Hallelujah! Good riddance to bad rubbish! I'm finished with that!” Isn't that good? Yes! Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Let’s read Ephesians 4:22. Same Greek word, and here it says in the New Living Translation: “Throw off” (or you could say, get rid of)“your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit bring you your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God.”

So, we put off and then we put on. Colossians 3:8: “Put off,” and it tells you all the sins to put off. And then it goes on to say, “and put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of Him that created us.”

One more Scripture as we close. Hebrew 12:1: “Let us lay aside every weight,” (or once again, let us get rid of) “every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Amen?

So, lovely darling ladies, we get rid of these things in our lives, and then we can say, “Good riddance to bad rubbish! I'm finished with that! I'm free! Hallelujah! I can walk in the fullness of the new man of Christ Jesus, Who now fills my life, and I'm living His life. I'm not giving into the old flesh, and the old life. I'm yielding to the new life of Christ Who dwells within me.”

Dear Father, we just thank You for Your Word. We've just been, oh, God, just confessing your Word. I pray that Your Word will become part of these, each precious lady listening, Lord God. You will help us, Lord, to think like You think, to have the attitude You have, and to see evil and sin like You, Lord. And that we will truly be those who do not tolerate it, that we will never become tolerating Christians, but we will be those, Lord God, who get rid of all evil in our lives, and in our homes. We ask this in the Precious Name of Jesus. Amen.