Flourishing in Faith: The Strength of the Righteous
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "The Bible says the word is light and the word of God brings light upon my life. It corrects the error in my thinking. It straightens out the errors in my walking. It instructs me as to what true righteousness is, what true enlightenment ought to be. It saves me from the foolish, shabby definition of morality which has afflicted our society and even today's church. That's with a little c. It's about time we get back to reading God's word and get a fresh glimpse of that old fashioned morality. Thank God for it." [42:53]
2. "If we pretend righteousness and conceal unrighteousness, we pay a penalty that we bring upon ourselves. It doesn't do any good to avoid the light. Are you trying to avoid it? Don't. Walk in the light. Follow the light. Walk in the light that He sheds on your path. Walk in the fellowship of God and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us of every sin. Walk in His light. Walk with God. You have a light problem? Come to the Son. Jesus is our light. Claim Him right now. And His light will light up your life." [48:48]
3. "Don't go any further! Because if you go any further, you're going to walk against God's light in a very dangerous way. If we say we have fellowship with God and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." [37:16]
4. "The greatest source of energy in our universe is the sun. The greatest source of energy in the spiritual realm is the son. The son of God who is light. In him is no darkness at all. Yet we have to frankly admit that on occasion that something is wrong with our spiritual energy. Spiritually speaking, we should be strong and we find ourselves weak. We should have moral character, strength and dependability and we find ourselves soft and vacillating and filled with compromise." [41:13]
5. "The righteous flourish like a palm tree. In spite of the storms of life, in spite of the things happening around us and to us, those winds blow and the storm rages, You live within and provide whatever we need and produce fruit that is sweet for those around us to receive. Thank You for the light. Lord, how we need brighter in our congregation, in our communities, in our families, in the world in which we live." [50:26]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Another way we avoid the light is by comparison. Gee, I look pretty good compared to so and so. And we always pick the worst example around to compare ourselves to. That's a terrible way to look good. We walk against the light when we compare ourselves to anyone except Jesus. How do I compare to Jesus? How do I compare to the Word? How do I compare to the way my conscience is working as God's Holy Spirit speaks to my life? Like right now. The only light authorized by the Word that can measure us and tell us how we are doing is the light of God's Word and the light of Jesus' life. We are not to measure ourselves by others or by the prevailing standards of our society. Our culture today is dead wrong." [45:41]
2. "It's about time we get back to reading God's word and get a fresh glimpse of that old fashioned morality. Thank God for it. Folks say, I don't like to read the Bible. It's too old fashioned. It's too square. I'd rather read some of these new modern authors who sort of make everybody feel good. Written by Dr. Feelgood and Sister Bless Your Heart. Folks, get back to the written word of God. Written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and it brings light and reveals our shortcomings. It shows us our sin. It brings us face to face with the righteous demands of God and it shows us where to get the power to live by those righteous demands of God which are given for our own sake. For our own good." [43:31]
3. "John's ministry is that of John, John the mender. John, are you a mender? John the mender. And you can foresee his ministry in when Jesus first came to him, because what was he doing? He was mending nets. John the mender. John spent all of his ministry, it seems like, calling people back to the fundamentals, getting things fixed. In this hour, we are in the midst of a time of spiritual weakness and a lack of dynamic power in the church. We need John the mender to call us back to the fundamentals on which our faith is founded. John is experienced. He's the right man to call us back to the fundamentals, because John's tenure in the ministry, every kind of persecution that could be imagined, was being hurled at the church. And John was a personal target of it. John was one who knew how to live in difficult days, but John also knew that the greatest threat to the church was not the emperor of his day, but the greatest danger to the church in his generation was the subtle compromises that continued to creep into the church. Those slow, and gentle, departures from the truth of God. Those gentle turnings and leanings away from dynamic, centered, Christian concepts. John waved the red flag, and he said, Halt! Stop!" [34:50]
4. "The righteous flourish like a palm tree. A palm tree? Yes. I want you to think for just a few moments about a palm tree. Some of the attributes associated with the palm tree. I learned that palm trees not only produce coconuts, but there is a palm tree that produces dates. Not boy-girl dates. Kind of dates that some people eat. And a palm tree date as it ages produces more and more fruit. Until sometimes a palm tree date tree produces as much as 300 pounds of dates in one year. Now think of that physical attribute. Okay? Palm tree coconut that we associate with palm trees, most of us, coconuts. A palm tree as it ages and develops and lives through the storms of life can actually produce coconuts that weigh 60 pounds a piece. Something else about a palm tree, those dates, that coconut. The older a palm tree gets, the sweeter the fruit. The righteous flourish like a palm tree." [24:26]
5. "The righteous flourish like a palm tree. See how much fruit I'm now producing, and how sweet it is for my wife. The righteous flourish like a palm tree. Ok, a palm tree grows in a lot of different ways than from a what we consider a regular tree. The palm tree grows from the outside, from the inside out. Most trees around here the light is is right under the bark, like on the outside. So if you hit that bark enough and all around that tree, you can actually kill that tree. It will die, ultimately, from being damaged, because that's where the life is. But that's not the way for a palm tree. The life of a palm tree works from the inside out. So it can take a lot of beatings still keep right on standing and producing. The righteous are supposed to be like a palm tree." [26:34]
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1. "The Bible says the word is light and the word of God brings light upon my life. It corrects the error in my thinking. It straightens out the errors in my walking. It instructs me as to what true righteousness is, what true enlightenment ought to be. It saves me from the foolish, shabby definition of morality which has afflicted our society and even today's church. That's with a little c. It's about time we get back to reading God's word and get a fresh glimpse of that old fashioned morality. Thank God for it." [42:53]
2. "If we pretend righteousness and conceal unrighteousness, we pay a penalty that we bring upon ourselves. It doesn't do any good to avoid the light. Are you trying to avoid it? Don't. Walk in the light. Follow the light. Walk in the light that He sheds on your path. Walk in the fellowship of God and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us of every sin. Walk in His light. Walk with God. You have a light problem? Come to the Son. Jesus is our light. Claim Him right now. And His light will light up your life." [48:48]
3. "Don't go any further! Because if you go any further, you're going to walk against God's light in a very dangerous way. If we say we have fellowship with God and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." [37:16]
4. "The greatest source of energy in our universe is the sun. The greatest source of energy in the spiritual realm is the son. The son of God who is light. In him is no darkness at all. Yet we have to frankly admit that on occasion that something is wrong with our spiritual energy. Spiritually speaking, we should be strong and we find ourselves weak. We should have moral character, strength and dependability and we find ourselves soft and vacillating and filled with compromise." [41:13]
5. "The righteous flourish like a palm tree. In spite of the storms of life, in spite of the things happening around us and to us, those winds blow and the storm rages, You live within and provide whatever we need and produce fruit that is sweet for those around us to receive. Thank You for the light. Lord, how we need brighter in our congregation, in our communities, in our families, in the world in which we live." [50:26]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Another way we avoid the light is by comparison. Gee, I look pretty good compared to so and so. And we always pick the worst example around to compare ourselves to. That's a terrible way to look good. We walk against the light when we compare ourselves to anyone except Jesus. How do I compare to Jesus? How do I compare to the Word? How do I compare to the way my conscience is working as God's Holy Spirit speaks to my life? Like right now. The only light authorized by the Word that can measure us and tell us how we are doing is the light of God's Word and the light of Jesus' life. We are not to measure ourselves by others or by the prevailing standards of our society. Our culture today is dead wrong." [45:41]
2. "It's about time we get back to reading God's word and get a fresh glimpse of that old fashioned morality. Thank God for it. Folks say, I don't like to read the Bible. It's too old fashioned. It's too square. I'd rather read some of these new modern authors who sort of make everybody feel good. Written by Dr. Feelgood and Sister Bless Your Heart. Folks, get back to the written word of God. Written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and it brings light and reveals our shortcomings. It shows us our sin. It brings us face to face with the righteous demands of God and it shows us where to get the power to live by those righteous demands of God which are given for our own sake. For our own good." [43:31]
3. "John's ministry is that of John, John the mender. John, are you a mender? John the mender. And you can foresee his ministry in when Jesus first came to him, because what was he doing? He was mending nets. John the mender. John spent all of his ministry, it seems like, calling people back to the fundamentals, getting things fixed. In this hour, we are in the midst of a time of spiritual weakness and a lack of dynamic power in the church. We need John the mender to call us back to the fundamentals on which our faith is founded. John is experienced. He's the right man to call us back to the fundamentals, because John's tenure in the ministry, every kind of persecution that could be imagined, was being hurled at the church. And John was a personal target of it. John was one who knew how to live in difficult days, but John also knew that the greatest threat to the church was not the emperor of his day, but the greatest danger to the church in his generation was the subtle compromises that continued to creep into the church. Those slow, and gentle, departures from the truth of God. Those gentle turnings and leanings away from dynamic, centered, Christian concepts. John waved the red flag, and he said, Halt! Stop!" [34:50]
4. "The righteous flourish like a palm tree. A palm tree? Yes. I want you to think for just a few moments about a palm tree. Some of the attributes associated with the palm tree. I learned that palm trees not only produce coconuts, but there is a palm tree that produces dates. Not boy-girl dates. Kind of dates that some people eat. And a palm tree date as it ages produces more and more fruit. Until sometimes a palm tree date tree produces as much as 300 pounds of dates in one year. Now think of that physical attribute. Okay? Palm tree coconut that we associate with palm trees, most of us, coconuts. A palm tree as it ages and develops and lives through the storms of life can actually produce coconuts that weigh 60 pounds a piece. Something else about a palm tree, those dates, that coconut. The older a palm tree gets, the sweeter the fruit. The righteous flourish like a palm tree." [24:26]
5. "The righteous flourish like a palm tree. See how much fruit I'm now producing, and how sweet it is for my wife. The righteous flourish like a palm tree. Ok, a palm tree grows in a lot of different ways than from a what we consider a regular tree. The palm tree grows from the outside, from the inside out. Most trees around here the light is is right under the bark, like on the outside. So if you hit that bark enough and all around that tree, you can actually kill that tree. It will die, ultimately, from being damaged, because that's where the life is. But that's not the way for a palm tree. The life of a palm tree works from the inside out. So it can take a lot of beatings still keep right on standing and producing. The righteous are supposed to be like a palm tree." [26:34]
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