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!
Kelly Parker, Shreveport,La
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22 ESV
Debbie, Reno, Nevada
“Do not grieve. For the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Nehemiah 8:10 NIV
My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
Proverbs 2:1 NIV
Stephanie Hamburg Ar. Put on your new nature, created to be like God- truly righteous and holy. Ephesians 4:24 NLT
Rhonda – Houston, TX
And one called to another and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory. Isaiah 6:3 ESV
Brenda, Greenville SC
Eph. 3:16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being.
NIV
Brenda, Greenville SC
Eph. 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you being rooted and established in love
NIV
Brenda, Greenville SC
Eph. 3:18 may have power together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ
NIV
Brenda, Greenville SC
Eph. 3:19 may have power together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.
NIV
EPH. 3:19
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
NIV
I wrote the wrong verse in my previous post.
Caroline Hucks
Conway, SC
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil 4:13) NKJV
Kari White, Fulton, SD
“Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3:13 NIV
Lise Ode, Cumming, GA.
The Lord will give strength to His people; The Lord will bless His people with peace. Psalm 29:11 (NAS)
Jenni Johnson, Murray, KY
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,” 2 Corinthians 3:5 (ESV)
Allison Crook
Albuquerque, NM
“For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.”
2 Kings 18:6 NASB
Dede Mitchell Atlantic Beach Fl
Because of that cross my interest in this world has been crucified and the world’s interest in me has also died. Galatians 6:14 NLT
Laura Hall
Kyle Texas
“in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience – ”
Ephesians 2:2
“and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”
Colossians 3:10 ESV
“Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I believe in your commands.”
Psalm 119:66 NIV
Momence, IL
Kandy Hall, Huffman, TX
Hebrews 12:11 (ESV)
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.
Vicksburg, MS
Direct my footsteps according to your word;
let no sin rule over me.
Psalm 119:133
NIV
Kathy French, Austin
“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. ” Psalm 90:12 NIV
Hannah, CT- “But that is not the way you learned Christ.” Ephesians 4:20 (ESV)
Tammie Head, Houston, TX. “Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.” 2 Peter 1:15, NET
Melissa Magera
Rosenberg, TX
“Love never fails. But where there are prophesies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.”
1 Corinthians 13:8 NIV
Stephanie Murphy, College Station, TX
2Corinthians 12:9 ESV
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. “
Ceffie in West Virginia Psalm 18:1 NLT
I love you Lord: you are my strength
Cindee Johnson
Portageville, Mo
Trust in Him at all times; O people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us.
Psalm 62:8 ESV
Vikki Stemler, Jeffersonville, IN
“You are my portion, O Lord; I have promised to obey your words. I have sought your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise. I have considered my ways and have turned my steps to your statutes. I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.” Psalm 119:57-60, NIV
Cathy Clark, Colfax, LA- “Be of good courage, And He will strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lord. ” Psalm 31:24 NKJV
Cindy
Rising Sun In
For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God. (Hebrews 3:4 NLT)
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.” -Proverbs 3:3-4, NIV
Linda Gammon, Blue Springs, MO
Matthew 13:44 NIV
The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
Becky Purchase Euless, Texas
6:10 NIV
[10] Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4 (NIV)
Diane, Nowata, OK
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Ephesians 2:10 NIV
Christy McCreight Wylie, Tx
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, It is a gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.
Kirsten Pierce, Boones Mill, VA. “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, NIV
Caroline, Yukon, OK
“Be joyful in hope, patient in afflication, faithful in prayer” Romans 12;12 (NIV)
Melani Shock, Alexandria, LA
Psalm 91:5-6 (KJV)
5-“Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6-Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.”
Priscilla Nash
San Antonio, TX
He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.
Proverbs 21:21(NLT)
Danielle, Weymouth, MA
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Proverbs 31:30 ESV
Carol Lawrence, Poplar Bluff, MO
Jude verse 16 ESV
These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
Susan Thomson, Crockett TX (for 8/1)
I John 3:1
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of GOD. And that’s what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know HIM.”
Psalm 37:4 “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
Stephanie – Tampa, FL
Psalm 47:1 Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. NIV
Jennifer B
Plano, TX
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.
James 1:16 NIV
Deonne Collins-Hallsville Tx. “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.” Isaiah 41:10(a) NIV
Kirby Ray, Parsons, KS. “What, then shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31 NIV
Amber Woodard; Lumberton, TX:
“And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.”
2 Thessalonians 3:13 NIV
Amy, Fairview, TN, “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:21 NIV