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Grace Church will be moving in September to Kamehameha School Campus. Date to Remember. First Sunday of September September 7 th 10 am Kamehameha School Campus . TRUTH. Jonah, James and Johari. Have you ever taken a SURVEY ?. About Products or Services. Take our Survey.
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Grace Church will be moving in September to Kamehameha School Campus
Date to Remember First Sunday of September September 7th 10 am Kamehameha School Campus
TRUTH Jonah, James and Johari
Have you ever taken a SURVEY ? About Products or Services
Take our Survey • How was your Experience? • Did you get Satisfaction? • Would you use our Service again? • Would you recommend it to Others?
Survey for Assessment • Are you truthful? • Do you Love God? • Do you love others as yourself? • Are you a servant? • Are you Unselfish?
Who is the “Father of Lies” ? • You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. • John 8:44
Do we use the correct reference when we look at ourselves ? • “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.” • Jonah 2:8
“lying vanities” • Flattery • Self-delusion • The World’s values • Temporal things and • Fads
Mirror of the Soul • Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirrorand, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • James 1:22-24
“Living and Active” For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. • Hebrews 4:12
What is the Difference? • Soul and Spirit • Thoughts and Intentions
Don’t cut yourself when using the Word of God • "You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? You who say, "Do not commit adultery," do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?” • Romans 2:21-22
Remember what James said • “Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirrorand, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets…”
Survey for Assessment • Are you truthful? • Are you Unselfish? • Do you Love God? • Do you love others as yourself? • Are you a servant?
Five Very Destructive LIES: • God does not love you • God will not forgive you • You are not important • God plans for you will not come true • You are not worthy of love