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night he would go out and spend the night on what is called the Mount of Olives.

38.  And all the people would get up early in the morning to listen to him in the temple.

Heaven must receive him until the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through the voice of his holy prophets.

Acts 3:21

Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood. I know that when I'm gone savage wolves will come among you and not spare the flock. Indeed, some of your own men will come forward and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them. So be alert! Remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped warning each of you with tears. "I am now entrusting you to God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified. I never desired anyone's silver, gold, or clothes. You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who were with me. In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" When he had said this, he knelt down and prayed with all of them. All of them cried and cried as they put their arms around Paul and kissed him with affection. They were especially sorrowful because of what he had said-that they would never see his face again. Then they took him to the ship.

Acts 20:28~38

Such people are false apostles, dishonest workers who are masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their doom will match their deeds! I will say it again: No one should think that I am a fool. But if you do, then treat me like a fool so that I can also boast a little. When I talk as a confident boaster, I am not talking with the Lord's authority but like a fool.

Since many people boast in a fleshly way, I will do it, too. You are wise, so you will gladly put up with fools. You put up with anyone who makes you his slaves, devours what you have, takes what is yours, orders you around, or slaps your face! I am ashamed to admit it, but we have been too weak for that. Whatever anyone else dares to claim-I am talking like a fool-I can claim it, too.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham's descendants? So am I. Are they Christ's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with a stick, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, and I drifted on the sea for a day and a night. I have been involved in frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the open country, dangers at sea, dangers from false brothers, in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, through many periods of fasting, through coldness and nakedness. Besides everything else, I have a daily burden because of my anxiety about all the churches. Who is weak without me being weak, too? Who is caused to stumble without me becoming indignant?

If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show how weak I am. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas put guards around the city of Damascus to catch me, but I was let down in a basket through an opening in the wall and escaped from his hands.

II Corinthians 11:13~23