https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/Brief exposition of thought in regard to a scripture verse or passage I read.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/829542James 4:3--"You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures." Some people have the false notion that prayers are like a wish list. In this, they reduce God to a foot servant to fulfill all of their desires and requests. But such a way to pray is to ask...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/828520James 3:13-17--"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his words are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/827512James 1:14-15--"But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin,and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death." Sin begins in the heart and in the thoughts. It is important therefore to turn one's thoughts...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/827483Hebrews 13:18--"Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably." Many people live, striving after materialistic wealth--and many of these people, too, are miserable, particularly if they have to cheat or cut corners at other people's...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/827434Hebrews 12:25--"See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven." Israel had the distinguished privilege of hearing Christ Jesus, the Son of God, in person--in...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/827394Hebrews 11:6--"But without faith it is imposssible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." God calls the people, and yet many do not come. First of all, many do not even believe there is a God. They are too busy...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/827342Hebrews 10:10-23--"Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a heart in full assurance of faith,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/827306Hebrews 9:18-19--"Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people."...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/827262Hebrews 8:1-2--"Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens." Each of the Jewish Levitical high priests were fallible, each and everyone who eventually would succumb to death. So it...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Against4WindsOn2Flam7898/827230Hebrews 7:28--"For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever." Part of God's purpose in handing the administration of the law to human beings was not only to demonstrate that everyone...