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!
Kim B. – Orlando, Florida
“Brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admiral- if anything
is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things. ” Ephesians 4:8
That should have said….Philippians 4:8 (typo!)
Connie, Iowa, 1 Chron. 29:12NKJV Both riches and honor come from You, And You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; In Your hand it is to make great And to give strength to all. I Chron. 29:12
Cathy from Orofino, ID
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better.
EPH.1:17 NIV
Alegra bishop new mexico
Proverbs 3:5-6English Standard Version (ESV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead fix your attention on God. Romans12:2 MSG
Sally, Sturgis, MI
Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.—Proverbs 3:3 (NIV)
Lee Ann Wimer, Norman, OK
“the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,” Ephesians 1:18 NKJV
Donna Alsop, Bakersfield, CA
“I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” – Colossians 2:1-3
Patricia from Richmond,Tx.
“that you may be blameless and innocent children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights of the world.”
Phil.2:15. ESV
Ginger S Lowe
Wetumpka, AL
The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. Zeph. 3:17 NIV
Michelle C., Chesapeake,VA
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 5:1 (NIV)
Thanks for sharing this message, perfect timing. I so needed the remind when I’ve been “wronged” – ” – that is not the way you learned Christ & NOT to be “ugly” back, I know better”
Patty Lincoln, Columbia, SC: “But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.” Is. 65:18 NIV
Dottie Morrow, Mansfield, TX
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.”
Proverbs 3:5 NKJV
Karen Karker, New Holland, PA
“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
Tessa from Nacogdoches TX
Psalm 25:5 NASB
Lead me in Your truth and teach me;
For You are the God of my salvation;
For You I wait all the day.
Kendra from Fort Wayne, IN “… So that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all” Rom 4:16b NASB
Cara from Houston Texas
Jude 1:20 ESV
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit
Melisse, Slippery Rock, PA
Isaiah 26:3 NLT
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Ephesians 4:2 NLT
Laura, Englewood. For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. James 2:26 NET
Gina Campbell, Katy, TX.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalms 51:10-11 NASB
Carol Givens McAlisterville, PA
Romans 8:38-39 (NIV)
For I am convinced that neither life nor death, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Andrea Larmer, Hephzibah, GA
“The Lord deserves praise! Day after day he carries our burden, the God who delivers us. (Selah)” Psalm 68:19 (NET)
Tempa BABINGTON , Palm Bay, Fl
“So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.”
II Corinthians 5: 9,10 NIV
Sierra. Wyoming, MI.
The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. -Habakkuk 3:19 NIV
Kim
New Port Richey, FL
Psalm 119:172 ESV
“Let you hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.”
Marsha Lees Summit, MO
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ; Ephesians 2:13 NKJ
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NIV
Regina Orr
Floydada, Texas
~ “We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.” ~ 1 John 4:19-21 ESV
Love, love, loved the window into your week. Thank you! Taking my verse from Annabeth!
Beth, Toronto: “March on, my soul, be strong!” Judges 5:21b (NIV)
Amy Andrews, Bellaire, TX.
In the day when I cried out, you answered me, And made me bold with strength and my soul. Psalm 138:3. NKJV
Jill Hill in Houston, TX – James 1:16-17 NIV – Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but GOD is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26 (NIV)
Beth B. Houston, NIV 1 John 4:7 & 8
7. Dear Friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
8. Whoever does not love does not know God, because
God is love.
Jen from Wyoming
But that is not the way you learned Christ.
Ephesians 4:20 ESV
Kelly, Spanish Fort, AL
” So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” Matthew 7:12, NIV
Kathy, Missouri City, TX Psalm 33:12 NIV
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance.
Bonny Hansen, Mitchell SD
“That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.”
Ephesians 4:20-21 NIV
“But that is not the way you learned Christ!—”
Ephesians 4:20 ESV
Brenda Zabriskie
Lindon, Utah
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by FAITH in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Judy Williams, Round Hill, Virginia
“But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.”
Jeremiah 17:7 NIV
Rhonda Rowe, Kingston, OK:
“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV)
“And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
Romans 8:28 NLT
Yates Center, KS
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.”
James 3:17 NKJV
Barbara Ford – Troy, MO
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10 (ESV)
Lee from IN says; ESV Psalms 91:13 “You will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.”
Ginger, Charlotte, NC
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.”
Psalm 116:15 (NIV)
Berni, Albuquerque
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and
good works,” Hebrews 10:24 ESV
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8
ESV
Dana Jennings, Inola, OK “Because we know that this extraordinary day is just ahead, we pray for you all the time- pray that our God will make you fit for what he’s called you to be, pray that he’ll fill your good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy so that it all amounts to something.” 2 Thess. 1:11 The Message