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!
Ephesians 4:29 (NIV)
29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Angie Wilt, Kansas City, Missouri. But that is not the way you learned Christ! Ephesians 4:20 ESV
Connie Johnson, Pittsboro, NC
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
19 When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought me joy.
Psalm 94:18-19New International Version (NIV)
Lindsay Loper, Chattanooga, TN
“to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
Ephesians 3:21, ESV
Psalm 119:60 (NLT)
60 I will hurry, without delay,
to obey your commands.
Danielle from Cedar Park, TX
And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Isaiah 58:11 (ESV)
Libby Martin. Eutawville, SC
For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18 ESV
A good name is to be more desired than great wealth, Favor is better than silver and gold. Proverbs 22:1
Teri Wymore, Millington TN
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.
James 1:19 NIV
Jennifer, Etowah, NC
For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead. Psalm 143:3 ESV
“He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our offenses.” Psalm 103:10 HCSB
Sara Martin, Houston, TX: “We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 NIV
Kathy, Los Gatos, CA, Psalm 25:4-5 (NIV) Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Psalm 121:5-6 NKJV
“The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade at your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night.”
Abbey Le Roy, Bluefield, West Virginia. “And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.” Psalm 9:10 (ESV)
Psalm 33:4-5
For the word o the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. The Lord loves righteousness and justice, the earth is full ofhis unfailing love. NIV
Susan Chung, Long Island, NY
Matthew 11:28-30 NIV
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Susan
Tyler, TX
August 1, 2015; 9:33 a.m.
“And these are but the outer fringe of His works; how faint the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
Job 26:14 (NIV)
Psalm 73:26 (HCSB) “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart, my portion forever.”
Milan, MI
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
(Matthew 7:7, NKJV)
Franklin, Tn
“Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you,” Psalm 25:5 NLT
Kelly, Missouri City , TX- “But you are to hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have until now.” Joshua 23:8 NIV
Gretchen, Gahanna, Ohio– We are assured and know that God, being a partner in their labor, all things work together and are fitting into a plan for good to and for those who love God and are called according to His design and purpose. Romans 8:28 AMP
Mallory, Fort Smith, AR
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”
Colossians 3:23-24 NIV
Sherry Winston-Salem, NC
The one who says he remains in Him should walk just as He walked.
1 John2:6
HCSB
Teresa. Orange City. Ephesians 3:17 …so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, beihng rooted and grounded in love… (ESV)
Robin Byrd, Columbia, SC
“Lord, How (many) are they increased
That trouble me! Many are they that
Rise up against me..”
Psalms 3:1. KJV
Kelly, Merritt Island, FL:
“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
Leigh Clemmons; Shorter, Alabama
Do everything without complaining and arguing. Philippians 2:14 NLT
Brenda, Crosby, TX
Psalm 16:6 HCSB
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed I have a beautiful inheritance.
Wanda Calderwood, Crofton, Maryland
“For those who follow godly paths will rest in peace when they die.”
Isaiah 57:2 NLT
Carol Rice Deer Park, Texas
Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — His good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Jennifer, Fort Worth
“forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” 1 Tim. 4:3, NKJV
Diane from RSM, CA: “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Rom. 12:2 NIV
Christy Kirby, Plano, TX:
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.
O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up
You understand my thought afar off.
Psalm 139:1 & 2
Kristie Lovely, Van Alstyne, TX
“Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.” Romans 12:11 ESV
Kira Chaloupka; Auburn, AL
And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth of things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Colossians 1:18-20 (NIV)
“You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you. Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.”
Romans 8:9-12
Susannah Maddox Folsom ca
Louise – Irvine, CA – 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV) – For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Isaiah 40:31 NIV
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strenth.They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Gayla Dean, Fullerton, CA, “He will call upon me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Psalm 91:15-16. NIV
Judy of Marietta,GA: I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. Psalm 86:12
Lisa Curtis
Jackson, MO
March on, my soul, be strong. Judges 5:21b
“Do not repay evil with evil, or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.” 1 Peter 3:9, NIV
Terri Lundskow, Hughesville, Maryland
Psalm 23:4 (ESV) – Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Ann Thiede, Searcy, Arkansas: Daniel 3:28
28 Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.”
Cassia, Spring, TX
Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear: Forget your people and your father’s house. Ps 45:10 NIV
Martha, Georgetown, TX, “Pursue righteousness and a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.” 1 Timothy 6:11 NLT
Angie Gates, Wiggins, Ms, “For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.” 2 Chron 16:9 NIV