The Basics

REVELATION 7:7-8 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Vs.8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

REVELATION 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

2. IDOLATRY

EXODUS 20:3-5 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Vs.4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Vs.5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

ACTS 17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

1 JOHN 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen

3. INTERCESSION

GENESIS 18:23-25 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Vs.24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Vs.25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

1 TIMOTHY 2:1-2 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

Vs.2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

4. INTEREST

EXODUS 22:25 If thou lend money to any of My people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

PSALMS 15:5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

PROVERBS 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

5. ISRAEL

ROMANS 9:3-4 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Vs.4. Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

ROMANS 10:1-3 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

Vs.2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Vs.3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Vs.4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

ROMANS 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

6. ITCHING EARS

2 TIMOTHY 4:2-4 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Vs.3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Vs.4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

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