Luke 16:14-15
More Warnings about the Pharisees
16:14 The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.
16:15 But Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
Deuteronomy 8:2
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he
has brought you these forty years through the desert
so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Jude 1:15-16
1:15 to execute judgment on
all, and to convict every person
of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds
that they have committed,
and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
1:16 These people are grumblers and
fault-finders who go
wherever their desires lead them,
and they give bombastic speeches,
enchanting folks
for their own gain.
Matthew 12:24-35
12:24 But when the Pharisees
heard this they said, “He does not cast out demons except by the power of Beelzebul,
the ruler
of demons!”
12:25 Now when Jesus
realized what they were thinking, he said to them,
“Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed,
and no town or house divided against itself will stand.
12:26 So if
Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
12:27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons
cast them
out? For this reason they will be your judges.
12:28 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God
has already overtaken
you.
12:29 How
else can someone enter a strong man’s
house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.
12:30 Whoever is not with me is against me,
and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
12:31 For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy,
but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
12:32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven.
But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven,
either in this age or in the age to come.
Trees and Their Fruit
12:33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
12:34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
12:35 The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
John 8:42-47
8:42 Jesus replied,
“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here.
I
have not come on my own initiative,
but he
sent me.
8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept
my teaching.
8:44 You people
are from
your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires.
He
was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth,
because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies,
he speaks according to his own nature,
because he is a liar and the father of lies.
8:45 But because I am telling you
the truth, you do not believe me.
8:46 Who among you can prove me guilty
of any sin?
If I am telling you
the truth, why don’t you believe me?
8:47 The one who belongs to
God listens and responds
to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond,
because you don’t belong to God.”
John 15:22-24
15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.
But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
15:23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.
15:24 If I had not performed
among them the miraculous deeds
that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin.
But now they have seen the deeds
and have hated both me and my Father.
Acts 8:21-23
8:21 You have no share or part
in this matter
because your heart is not right before God!
8:22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord
that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.
8:23 For I see that you are bitterly envious
and in bondage to sin.”
Acts 8:1
8:1 And Saul agreed completely with killing
him.
Saul Begins to Persecute the Church
Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.
Colossians 1:19
1:19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Colossians 2:19
2:19 He has not held fast
to the head from whom the whole body, supported
and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.