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It Matters How You Live: · The Bible Bit Podcast

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  Welcome back. This is Kimmy Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries bringing
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  you another Bible bit for you to enjoy.
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  It matters how you live. Today as we walk through the scriptures,
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  looking at the importance of our witness, we see that how we live not only impacts
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  our witness, but also impacts our relationship with God.
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  James 4.4 says, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship
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  of the world is enmity with God.
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  Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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  As Christians, how we live is our testimony to the world of what we think of God and his son Jesus.
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  It displays to others our version of his character, and God has some very important
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  thoughts about how we should live.
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  In fact, he said, Be ye holy, for I am holy. 1 Peter 1.16.
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  James 4.4 tells us that those who are flirting with the world are breaking their vow to God.
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  They are like unfaithful wives having an illicit affair with the world and breaking
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  their marriage vows to God.
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  Being a friend to the world, loving the things of this world,
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  makes you an enemy with God.
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  Reflect carefully upon your life, because how you live truly matters.
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  If you are choosing to live after the flesh and to follow worldly fame,
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  praise, and worldly ways, then you are choosing to stand with the devil and
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  make yourself an enemy of God.
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  John tells us in 1 John 2.15, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
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  If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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  Be careful to what you give your time, energy, and finances.
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  These are the things that reveal your true heart these measure your true love and devotion.
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  These are the things you treasure, and what you treasure reveals your true desires, Matthew 6, 21.
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  What you treasure is without a doubt what you center your life around.
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  Make sure you treasure Jesus, because he said, And thou shalt love the Lord
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  thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,
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  and with all thy strength.
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  This is the first commandment, Mark 12, 30.
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  God is a jealous God, Exodus 34, 14, and he demands to be first and foremost in your life.
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  What does your life say about your relationship with Jesus?
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  It is easy to say you are a Christian. It is easy to speak the right words,
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  play the part, and look religious.
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  However, religion will not get you to heaven and won't truly change you.
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  Salvation through and by Jesus is the only way to get to heaven, John 14, 6.
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  And salvation changes you from the inside out, 2 Corinthians 5, 17.
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  Your godly witness is a result of the condition of your heart.
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  When you live for God, walk in His ways, and demonstrate the characteristics
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  of God, you are revealing a heart that is pure.
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  You are displaying a life that is committed to God. Oh, my friend,
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  be like David and cry out to God.
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  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
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  Psalm 51.10 It matters how you live, because how you live reveals the condition of your heart.
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  A true born-again believer doesn't have to work at being godly.
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  Being holy and walking in the ways of God is the desire of everyone who truly loves the Lord.
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  Though we live in this sinful world we do not have to partake of the sins of the world.
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  Jesus gives us the strength to do as he asks.
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  Philippians 4.13 We can rest in him knowing that he is in control.
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  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace.
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  In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer.
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  I have overcome the world. John 16.33 Choose to follow Jesus and let your light
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  shine to a lost and dying world.
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  Light the path of others so they can see the way to Jesus. Remember you are loved.
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  Jesus loves you. Please visit Woman at the Well Ministries at watwm.org for
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  more resources, podcasts, and to connect with us.