Pastor David's teaching references for 09/07/2006

Ruth 2

Life Lesson (verse Ruth 2:12)

God will bless those who care for His people.

Life Lesson (verse Ruth 2:16)

God blesses the small things we do for Him in big ways.

Life Lesson (verse Ruth 2:20)

What a difference a day can make.

Life Lesson (verse Ruth 2:21)

We interested in changing our circumstances, God is interested in changing us.

2 Thess 3:10-13 NLT

10 Even while we were with you, we gave you this rule: "Whoever does not work should not eat." 11 Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and wasting time meddling in other people's business. 12 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we appeal to such people--no, we command them: Settle down and get to work. Earn your own living. 13 And I say to the rest of you, dear brothers and sisters, never get tired of doing good.

James 2:20 NLT

Fool! When will you ever learn that faith that does not result in good deeds is useless?

Lev 19:10 NKJV

And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

Deut 24:21 NKJV

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.

Rom 5:8 NKJV

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Heb 6:10 NLT

For God is not unfair. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other Christians, as you still do.

1 Cor 3:8 NKJV

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Col 3:23-24 NKJV

23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

Lev 25:25 NKJV

'If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold.

Lev 25:47-50 NKJV

47'Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger's family,48 after he is sold he may be redeemed again. one of his brothers may redeem him;49 or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself.

John 3:14-16 NKJV

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Jer 29:11 NKJV

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Rom 8:28 NKJV

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

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