Let Them Go - Friends, Past, Family Flashcards
“And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber.
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.”
2 Chronicles 20:35-37
DON’T JOIN WITH THE WICKED.
“Every friend saith, I am his friend also: but there is a friend, which is only a friend in name.
Is it not a grief unto death, when a companion and friend is turned to an enemy?”
Ecclesiasticus 37:1-2
BE CAREFUL OF THE “FRIEND” who is only there for his own benefit. He/she will turn on you in the end.
“O wicked imagination, whence camest thou in to cover the earth with deceit?
There is a companion, which rejoiceth in the prosperity of a friend, but in the time of trouble will be against him.
There is a companion, which helpeth his friend for the belly, and taketh up the buckler against the enemy.”
Ecclesiasticus 37:3-5
THIS “FRIEND” will PRETEND to be happy for you in good times but will leave you in your time of tribulations and affliction. He/she stand by your side and even fight with you against your enemy.
“Every counsellor extolleth counsel; but there is some that counselleth for himself.
Beware of a counsellor, and know before what need he hath; for he will counsel for himself; lest he cast the lot upon thee,
And say unto thee, Thy way is good: and afterward he stand on the other side, to see what shall befall thee.
Consult not with one that suspecteth thee: and hide thy counsel from such as envy thee.”
Ecclesiasticus 38:7-10
BEWARE of who you receive counsel from.
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:13-14
FORGET THE THINGS OF THE PAST. What you USE to do is what you USE to do when you repent and keep the laws. Look ahead and don’t look back.
“For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.”
Proverbs 5:21-23
YOU WILL BE BOUND UP in your SINS by HOLDING ONTO THEM. The sins that you hold onto and continue to do will hinder you.
Precept for Proverbs 5:23
“Woe be unto them that are bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities like as a field is covered over with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!
It is left undressed, and is cast into the fire to be consumed therewith.”
2 Esdras 16:77-78
“Let go from thee mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,
And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee, and haste thee to flee from these times.
2 Esdras 14:14-15
Precept for 2 Esdras 14:14-15
THE MORTAL THOUGHTS
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Galatians 5:19-21
