Be Holy Podcast

Be careful when listening to people talk about God...God gives us discernment to be able to know the difference between all messages/words that people use to help us or to trick us.

Some of us believe that if we can just obey and quote the laws written in the bible...we can escape condemnation from God...but God already set it up for everybody to escape His condemnation...He removed us from under the law and placed us under Himself. (Christ) He fixed it to where every human being has the opportunity to escape the Judgement of God on the last day.

Most times we attend and join a church because we are pushed into doing so...or  maybe Grandma wanted her family to attend church...and because we don't want to feel as if we are disobeying Grandma...we start attending church religiously. Over time, we begin to search for God's will in our lives and then we "take off for Jesus"...and that's good. But later we learn that we should simply love God a...

Paul Changed   2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. James 1:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Numbers 23:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes   God is not...

Jesus Or Barabbus   Matthew 27:16-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes   And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have...

Judas   Psalm 41:9 ESV / 135 helpful votes   Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. Mark 14:43-45 ESV / 107 helpful votes   And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “...

Raised From The Dead   Jude 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Revelation 20:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. Hebrews 2...

Healed   1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 53 helpful votes   He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 43 helpful votes   But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. Jeremiah 17:...

Living In The Light   1 John 2:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. Matthew 5:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes   “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 1 John 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes   This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darknes...

Do Whats Right   1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes   If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. James 4:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes   So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. Colossians 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, Colossians 3:17...

Prayed That They Receive The Holy Spirit   Acts 8:15-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Acts 19:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes   And it happened that while Apollos...

Peace With God Through Jesus Christ   Romans 5:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:14-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes   For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances,...

The Kingdom   Galatians 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes   It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, Romans 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For the Lord himself will des...

Love One Another   John 13:34 ESV / 792 helpful votes   A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 1 John 4:20 ESV / 533 helpful votes   If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 490 helpf...

See Jesus   John 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes   “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for...

Alabaster   Luke 7:36-50 ESV / 10 helpful votes   One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with...

Gods Time   2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 144 helpful votes   But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 125 helpful votes   For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 115 helpful votes   He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has...

Spiritual Gifts   Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 587 helpful votes   Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfuln...

No Fruit   John 15:1-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes   “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in t...

Fig Tree   Matthew 21:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes   And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once. Mark 11:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes   And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” Mark 11:12-14 ESV / 7 helpful v...

True Vine John 15:1-27 ESV / 13 helpful votes “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the...

Preparing A Place   John 14:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes   “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am g...

Gods Voice   John 10:27 ESV / 1,672 helpful votes   My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. Romans 10:17 ESV / 1,488 helpful votes   So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1,361 helpful votes   Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. John 5:30 ESV / 1,339 helpful votes   “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I...

The Light Of Jesus   John 8:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes   Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Matthew 5:14-16 ESV / 8 helpful votes   “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives ligh...

Unity   1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 3,249 helpful votes   I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. 1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 2,967 helpful votes   Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Psalm 133:...