If you are unable to watch the video, here is Beth’s message:
Hey girls! You have to know I really love you if I’m going to get on here with all this sunscreen, and with all this sweat, and in the middle of all this beach goings on. But I do love you and want to keep my commitment to you and to the Lord Jesus, and make sure that you know I am still with you in the scripture memory.
I am still memorizing out of the book of Ephesians and I’m in the most interesting verse in Ephesians 4:20. Right before it in verse 19, Paul is talking about the fact that there are people that give themselves over to the flesh. They give themselves over to greed, to callousness of heart, and to every kind of impurity. But he says something in verse 20 that I think is so profound. Ephesians 4:20 says, “But that is not the way you learned Christ.” And I thought about all the opportunities we have for that verse, when someone’s been unloving to us, unkind, or we really want so much to be ugly back to somebody. We’re reminded over and over again “but that is not the way we learned Christ.” That is not what He taught us to do.
I cannot think of a limit to the opportunities that we would have to tuck that verse in our hearts, to be able to say I know better than this. This is not the way I learned Christ. When I depart into the flesh, when I know that I am in an area, maybe even a gray area, maybe it’s not all the way in the ditch, just a gray area. But I can say to myself that’s not the way I learned Christ. I know how I learned Christ. I know what He calls for from me.
Beth, Houston TX
Ephesians 4:20 (ESV) But that is not the way you learned Christ.
We learned Christ in the love and grace and mercy of God the Father who gave Him in our behalf. I’m just crazy about you. Stay with it. It is August 1st and it is a glorious time to celebrate what God has already done in 2015! Have a great day everybody and make sure to put in your verses!
Malinda Hiles, Hurst, TX
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Hebrews 11:6
Valerie ~ Shawnee, Oklahoma
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21 NIV
Ariana McKee, Boise ID. Now it is God that makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us. 2 Corinthians 1:21 NIV.
( my apologies for being late)
Rhonda Beck Winston Salem, N.C.
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14 (NIV)
Karen Bingham Lake, MN
Hebrews 4:15(ESV)
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Michone, Butte, MT.
….You will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings. Is. 58:12b NIV
Marie Franse, Albuquerque, NM. May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance. 1 Thess 3:5
James 3:8 (NIV)
but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
Ginger K. ~ Shelby Twp, MI ~ II Timothy 4:1 (NIV) ~ “In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge:”
Sheilah, Melbourne, FL
Acts 20:32 (NLT)
“And now I entrust you to God and the message of his grace that is able to build you up and give you an inheritance with all those he has set apart for himself.
Paige Storlie, Amarillo, TX
“Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
strengthen your stakes.” Isaiah 54:2 (NIV)
Rebecca, Murfreesboro, Tn,
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you! Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!” Psalm 122:6 ESV
Ashley williams
Macungie pa
Matthew 6:1 NIV
“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. if you do, you will have no reward from your father in heaven”
Kim Williams Colmesneil, TX
May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who loved us and by His grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope. 2 Thessalonians 2:16. (NIV)
“that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,”
Philippians 2:15 NKJV
Pam Hendersonville, NC
“For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.” Ephesians 2:8 KJV
La Grande, Oregon
Jeremiah 31:14
I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the Lord.
Thank you, Beth, for coming to Boise and teaching on this verse!
Terri McKeever, Katy, Tx
Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips.
Psalm 141:3 NLT
Dena K from Columbus, OH:
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Luke 6:38 NIV
Sonya Ryder, Baton Rouge, LA: “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” – Hebrews 12:11 (ESV)
Marcie
Concordia, Kansas
But you did not learn Christ in this way. Ephesians 4:20
Valerie, Ontario ( Mansfield ), OH
And now out of His fullness we are fulfilled! And from Him we receive grace heaped upon more grace! John 1 : 16 ( tPt ).
Dione H., Moore, OK, – For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 2 Corinthians 4:17 NKJV
Karen Todd Beech Island, SC
Ephesians 4:20 (ESV) But that is not the way you learned Christ.
Michelle, Warner Robins, GA
“But that is not the way you learned Christ.” Ephesians 4:20 ESV
Lori, Pueblo West CO: “Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get on your feet.” ~ James 4:10 MSG
Melanie Groff, Katy, Tx, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6 ESV
Mindy – McDonough, GA
Ephesians 4:20 (ESV)
But that is not the way you learned Christ.
JulieB
Sharpsburg, Ga.
Psalm 25:9 NIV
“He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.”
Ellen, Fort Worth, TX
Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.
Psalm 2:11 NIV
Westerville, Ohio
James 1:22 (NIV)
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Kenora, ON For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. Rom. 8:19 (NIV)
Catherine Lisle, Albuqueque NM. 1 Corinthians 13:5 “or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;” ESV.
Rose Coulter. Orange, Texas
Matthew 10:31 b
You are more than sparrows.
Faye from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips. Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.
(Psalms 141:3-4 NLT)
Stephanie from Houston, TX: “A fool vents all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back.” Proverbs 29:11 (NKJV)
Dena Bibb, Stockton, CA
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”John 4:13-14 NIV
Melissa ~ Black Creek, GA
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”
1 John 3:1 NIV
Christine of media pa(esv)Ephesians 2:14a,For HE himself is our peace”
Brenda McGurk, Medina,Ohio
And to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to the
Measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:19 (NIV)
Stephanie, Paris, TX. “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9, NIV.
Terri from College Station, TX
Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
l things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. John 1:3
Lu, Garner NC, 1 Peter 3:15 NET
But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.
Karen-Greer,SC: “Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens. May your glory shine over all the earth.” Psalm 108:5 (NLT)
Valerie Bynum, Valrico, FL
so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ.
Philippians 1:10 NIV
from Mountain House, CA
“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
Psalm 34:1 (NASB) memorizing Psalm 34
Port Lions, Alaska
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work in us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever ! Amen. ( Ephesians 3: 20-21 NIV )
Lynn from Lucas Kansas. “Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.””
Psalm 126:2 ESV
“The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.”
Proverbs 16:33 NIV