• How can someone go through Bible college...
• and hate the KJB?
• wrongly divide the KJB?
• OT / Gospels / GC / Paul / Tribulation
• not see to follow Paul?
• not see the depth of the English Language for the Scriptures?
• not see what is going on today - have their eyes opened / enlightened, etc.
• how do they miss the scene in America today
• NWO
• preparations for those against what is being done
• laws
• culture change
• old America gone
• liberties being 'given' away
• money system towards world
• political system going global
• religious system going global
• families
• education
• fun - vs learning
• What it means to follow Paul...
• unlearn, not just add to your bag...
• sacrifice in order to please the Risen Christ
• what will you be willing to give up?

• Romans 7:20 - it still has sin dwelling in me
• But we can't forget, the mind is also at issue!

You can not fight the battle 'their way' - scholarship, education, etc..

• You can not SHOW them, you must BE that change - and then tell them how and why!
• Faith in that Book stops them in their tracks!
• Scholarship is not faith!
• But having faith gives you a scholarship and an education but it is of the Bible itself!

How about those others that we try to show what we believe to be the obvious?

• with a darkened understanding!
• of being alienated from God because of their ignorance!
• with a blind heart! (always being led by their 'heart' - conscience (remembered... seared today!)
• where you have given yourself over unto lasciviousness because you are past feeling!
• working all uncleanness with greediness! (love of money...)

• Philippians 4:9
• Galatians 2:20,21 - we must include 19, and then heed what He told Paul to tell us!
• Acts 22:14,15
• Acts 26:16b
• Our testimony is from our 'doing' what Paul teaches us from the Risen Saviour
• I Thessalonians 4:1,2
• Philippians 1:9-11
• It is our choice!

• Before, we were a servant to unrighteousness!
• Now, we must choose to whom we will yield our members to!
• Or we can live the same life as a lost person... (Gentile - we are church of God!)
• with a darkened understanding!
• of being alienated from God because of their ignorance!
• with a blind heart! (always being led by their 'heart' - conscience - remember... seared today!)
• where you have given yourself over unto lasciviousness because you are past feeling!
• working all uncleanness with greediness! (love of money...)
• There goes our testimony - we have to say something to make someone think we are a Christian instead of being that Christian!
• I Thessalonians 1:9
• Philemon 6

I.  Minds be Evil Affected
Acts 14:2 - But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

• The world is stirred up against Christianity - even towards the false Christianity of today!
• The lost are stirred up against the saved
• Christians are stirred up against Christians in whatever fashion... judgment, etc. (unless it is done properly in I Thessalonians 3 - still not an enemy by us, anyway...)
• Acts 13:50 - holy and devout women - women are stirred up against the leadership and authority of the male and Scriptures
• The Great Commission folks are stirred up against Paul!
• Baptists are stirred up against non-Baptists - non baptizers - former baptists
• Some are actually stirred against those leaning towards Hollywood but also those leaning towards rightly divided truth!

• Not meaning original ones from birth or childhood, but those that choose to be like one.
• Never comforted; no joy; no peace; tense; somebody is always out to  get / hurt them; afraid of others even offering to help or offer some input.
• GROW UP!
• and you can ONLY do that with Paul!
• I Corinthians 13:11
•  Ephesians 4:14
• Put away childish things...
• ...be a man - an adult in your understanding...
• ...let the winds of doctrine blow you around no more!




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Continued in Part I