HOUSE CLEANING CHECK TIME

Bible Study by Pastor Janice L Williams

 REVELATION 19:13 KJV * His {JESUS} name is called THE WORD OF GOD.   

THE GODHEAD IS THE HOLY TRINITY OF

GOD THE FATHER

GOD THE SON

&

GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT

  REVELATION 21:6 NKJV

THE BEGINNING AND THE END

BIBLE STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15th-22nd to 29th-September 5th, 2012 

 Luke 1:78, 79 * John 8:12 * John 9:5

 Although Jesus has gone back to Heaven, He shall return to Earth for us from Heaven.  We must keep ourselves prepared for His return.  The closest we will ever come to seeing Almighty God is through seeing JESUS WHO WAS AND IS THE PHYSICAL EMBODIMENT OF GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE WORD/SON, & GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT.  

Colossians 2:9 NKJV For in Him {JESUS} dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

 John 1:14NKJV And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

  John 14:9 NKJV "He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father"?

John 10:30 NKJV "I and My Father are one." 

1 Timothy 6:15-16 (NLT) 15/ For at just the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only almighty God, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords. 16/ He alone can never die, and he lives in light so brilliant that no human can approach him. No human eye has ever seen him, nor ever will. All honor and power to him forever! Amen

COLOSSIANS 1:15 NKJV

15/ HE {JESUS} IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD

MATTHEW 5:8 NKJV

8/ BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.

NOTE: QUITE OFTEN I PURPOSELY USE A LOWER CASE s FOR THE PROPER NAME OF THE devil/satin. JUST DON'T LIKE TO DIGNIFY his name WITH A CAPITAL LETTER. I BREAK ESTABLISHED GRAMMAR RULES AND MAKE MY OWN RULES REGARDING THIS. 

House Cleaning Definitions:

1/ house cleaning - the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted practices, conditions, personnel, or people from your life 

2/ house cleaning - the act of cleaning the room and furnishings of a house 

LET'S LOOK AT SOME OTHER DEFINITIONS WITH COMMENTARY FOR THIS BIBLE STUDY:

1/ occult * The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret),  referring to "knowledge of the hidden." Occultism is the study of occult or hidden wisdom (forbidden knowledge). It can involve such subjects as magic, alchemy, extra-sensory perception, astrology, spiritualism, and numerology.  Occult practices are associated with evil powers of darkness that God our Heavenly Father instructed mankind not to seek after or partake of; beginning with forbidding the first man Adam, to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden. Genesis 2:16-17 NKJV * 16/ And the LORD God  commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17/ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in  the day that you eat of it you  shall surely die.

 Pictured above: In the Garden of Eden by Katherine Roundtree

Before Adam and Eve disobeyed God, all they knew was God the Heavenly Father's Spiritual nature. They were innocent of any other way. When they became knowledgeable of good and evil by eating from the tree Father God forbid them to eat from, their innocence and spiritual nature died.  

Our Heavenly Father wants us to seek after knowledge of Him {Goodness & Light}, and not be preoccupied with knowledge of satin {evil & darkness}.

When we seek our Heavenly Father for knowledge,  He teaches us His WORD. By the power of the Holy Spirit, He reveals His will and His way for our lives.  Father God gives us knowledge of our enemy satin's evil devices.  He empowers us to have victory over satin and over all powers of darkness.

LUKE 10:17-19 KJV * 17/LORD EVEN THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT UNTO US THROUGH THY

NAME (THE NAME JESUS).  18/ AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN.  19/ BEHOLD, I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER TO TREAD ON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS, AND OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY: AND NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT  YOU.



1st CHRONICLES 16:21, 22KJV * 21/ HE (GOD) SUFFERED (ALLOWED) NO MAN TO DO THEM WRONG YEA, HE           REPROVED KINGS FOR THEIR SAKES, 22/ SAYING TOUCH NOT MINE ANOINTED AND DO  MY PROPHETS NO HARM.

·ISAIAH 54:17 KJV * NO WEAPON THAT IS FORMED AGAINST THEE SHALL PROSPER.

 MORE DEFINITIONS CONTINUED 

Omen definition: something that is considered to be a sign of a future event that will take place or a sign  or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen. For example it's believed to be a bad omen if a black cat crosses your path or if it rains on your wedding day {these are ungodly, superstitious, irrational, unfounded, beliefs}.

witchcraft * is the use of supernatural or magical powers.  Historically, it was widely believed that witchcraft involved the use of these powers to inflict harm upon members of a community or their property.

sorcery * witchcraft: the supposed use of magic, mind control of others

divination*  Divination (from Latin divinare) to foresee, to be inspired by a god, related to divinus, divine, is the attempt to gain insight into a question  or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. It is a part of witchcraft and has been used in various forms for thousands of years. Diviners ascertain their interpretations through alleged contact with a supernatural agency, most often described as an angel or a god but VIEWED BY CHRISTIANS, AND JEWS AS A FALLEN ANGEL OR DEMON.

medium*  A person thought to have the power to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension. Also called a psychic.

 

SCRIPTURE CONDEMNS

OCCULT PRACTICES

Deuteronomy 18:9-15 NIV

9/ When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10/ Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11/ or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12/Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD; because of these same detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. 13/ You must be blameless before the LORD your God. 14/The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. 15/The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to  him.

In Deuteronomy 18:15 NIV {above}, God promised to raise up a prophet from among the people like Moses. The apostles saw the final and decisive fulfillment of this prophecy in Jesus Christ.

 {Acts 3:22-26 KJV}

22/ For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

 23/ And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

 24/ Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

 25/ Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

 26/ Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every  one of you from his iniquities.

REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #34

"GOD'S GRACE"

 Anyone who constantly preoccupies their mind with evil actions, including reading seemingly harmless books, watching certain television shows, movies and even playing  games centered on evil and occult practices, is subtly being taken over, often times unconsciously, by the very evil they give their time and attention to. Their spiritual nature gradually starves to death as they begin to reject the WORD OF GOD feeling more and more comfortable with darkness, ungodliness and evil; shunning the light and goodness of God.

REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #85 "ARE YOU ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL  OF JESUS CHRIST?"

JOHN 3:17-21 NKJV

17/  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.  18/ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  19/And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.  20/ For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.  21/ But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.

John 10:10 King James Version (KJV) 10/ The thief [satin] cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

To those who have gone away from the light and love of God, won't you come back? It is not the will of Our Heavenly Father for your soul {your mind} to perish. 

2 Timothy 1:7 King James Version (KJV)   7/ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

 PHILIPPIANS 4:8 NKJV 

8/ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,whatever things are noble, whatever things arejust, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.  

 

 HOUSE CLEANING TIME 

 Acts 19:11-20 NKJV

11/ Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands   of Paul, 12/ so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. 13/ Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14/Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. 15/And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” 16/ Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17/ This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.  18/ And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.  

19/Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight  of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.  20/So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.

Isaiah 53:1 NKJV

1 /Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord  been revealed?

REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #65

"COMING TO KNOW JESUS"

 Scripture indicates that when many of the new Christian converts of Ephesus, heard the Word Of God, concerning the occult, they believed the report of God our heavenly Father, that those who practice such things are detestable to Him.

 With the desire to be pleasing to God and in right standing with Him, they confessed and repented of occult practices; making a public statement denouncing them by cleaning their houses of occult materials, destroying them publicly for  all to see.

WE ALL NEED TO DO INVENTORY OF OURSELVES, PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, AND OF OUR PLACE OF RESIDENCE [HOUSE, APARTMENT, ROOM, TENT, ETC]; TO SEE IF WE HAVE STORED ANYTHING IN OUR HOMES, OR IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS, PERTAINING TO EVIL, OR UNGODLINESS ACCORDING TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

  

1 CORINTHIANS 11:28 NKJV

 28/BUT LET A MAN EXAMINE    HIMSELF

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 REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #15 "THE LORD'S SUPPER

HOLY COMMUNION" 

1 John 1:8-10 NKJV

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9/ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10/ If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him [God] a liar, and His word is not in us.

UNGODLY TANGIBLE THINGS LIKE OCCULT BOOKS, GAMES, TAROT  CARDS, PORNOGRAPHY, ILLEGAL DRUGS, ETC. WE CAN CLEAN OUT OF OUR DWELLING PLACES; AS WE ASK OUR HEAVENLY FATHER FOR HIS HELP TO CLEANSE OUR BODY, SOUL {MIND, WILL, EMOTIONS} & SPIRIT.

 

PSALM 139:23-24 NKJV

  23/ Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
24/ And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.

2 TIMOTHY 2:21-22 NLT21/ If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work. 22/ Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts. 

MATTHEW 10:14-15 NKJV

 14/ And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.  15/Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that city!