Remove Malice & Evil

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To meet our responsibility to clean out the old leaven of malice and evil, God provides us Bible tools, Jesus Christ’s words & life, the Holy Spirit, and the community of believers, so we can speak and live in sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 (ESV):

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Pointed Ponder: Holy Spirit Infilling

Ask God the Father for a generous infilling of the Holy Spirit.

Luke 11:11-13

11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

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Pointed Ponder: Holy Spirit To Peoples

God bestows the gift of the Holy Spirit along with repentance leading to eternal life to those in all nations, peoples, and races who believe in Jesus Christ sincerely.

Acts 11:16-18

16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?” 18 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

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Pointed Ponder: Reasonable Bible

The Bible is reasonable and our reasoning skills work with the Holy Spirit and others, so we understand better what God is teaching us, informed by Jesus’ shocking life example and accompanying teachings.

James 3:17

17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

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Pointed Ponder: Holy Spirit Reveals Truths

Search and follow the Bible’s teachings to prepare to learn what more
the Holy Spirit plans to reveal, building on truths Jesus Christ
revealed, knowing many related truths were undisclosed, being too much
to handle at first.

John 16:12-13

12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them
now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the
truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he
hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to
come.

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