FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 133: ATTITUDES TOWARD EVIL, Continued

Today we conclude the attitudes God wants us to have toward evil. We need courage to confute and reprove evil. Also, although God wants us to be a loving and fellowshipping people, He tells us about some people we must not fellowship with. Who are they?

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Good morning to you again, dear ladies, whatever time of the day it is that you are listening! Now this is No. 4 in our series of What Do We Do About Evil? And we're going to look at the last points of our 18 points of what God wants us to do about evil and the attitudes He wants us to have.

I didn't plan to do this in four sessions. In fact, when I did the third session the first time, I did it in one podcast, but when I had to do it again, I only got halfway through! My! I got talking too  much. So anyway, we'll finish it off this time.

So now today I believe you will get this on the 6^th of January. This is a very, very important day in our nation. I'm actually talking to you now on the last day of the year, so I don't know what's happening on the day that you're going to be listening.

Of course, it is the day when this election is coming before the Senate. I am praying that there will be courageous and brave senators who will stand up against this fraudulent election. I am hoping to be in DC for the rally. Up there to also stand against a fraudulent election, which would end America as we know it today if we allow this nation to go ahead. So I don't know what's going to happen. We'll wait and see.

OK, back to our points. We are up to. . .

No. 14. FLEE FROM EVIL

Or run away from it. When evil is around, we don't hang around it. We run from it.

1 Corinthians 6:18: “Flee fornication.” The Greek word is pheugo. It means “to run away, to shun, to escape.”

We also read this word in John 10:4-5: “The sheep follow him: for they know His voice. And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him (or will run away from him) for they know not the voice of strangers.”

Now dear mothers, we teach our children, don't we, to never go with a stranger. Never to get in a car with a stranger. That's something we drum into our children.

But are we also teaching our children never to listen to the strange voices of deception and humanism, that they hear all around them? These things that so easily come to their minds because the whole of the atmosphere is infiltrated with them.

We have to teach our children the difference between hearing God's Voice and just hearing the voice of all the humanistic values all around them. That's not an easy thing, but it's one of the big things that we must teach our children. We have to teach them that these voices of deception, and humanism, and feminism, and all these other “isms” that we have today, socialism and progressivism, and on and on it goes, that they are the voices of strangers.

GOD’S WORD IS THE ANTI-DOTE TO DECEPTION!

How are they going to learn the difference of the Voice of Jesus and the voice of strangers? How are we going to know the difference? I believe the only way that we can really know the difference is by being filled with the Word of God. The Word of God is the antidote to deception. If we don't know the Word, we will have nothing in us that exposes the deception and the voice of strangers.

So precious mothers, we've got to get filled with the Word ourselves. That's why it's so important to gather our families together and have Bible reading and prayer together every morning and every evening. We do this in our home, and they are the most important times of my day.

Yes, I have my own personal time in the Word, but we make time as a family, and whoever is living in our home at the time, that we gather morning and evening to open the Word. How I value those times! Just to sit, and listen, and hear the voice of God to my spirit, and filling my heart, so that I will know the difference between His voice and the voice of the stranger! Because the voices of these other things will be so strange when I am filled with His voice, which is the voice of Truth.

We have such a responsibility, dear mothers, to impart this intuition, this understanding, this wonderful, what could I call it? Attribute? I don't know what to call it. But there's something that discerns, it's a spirit of discernment that only comes through knowing the Word so that we discern, and we teach our children to discern between the clean and the unclean, between the good and the evil, between the voice of God and the voice of the stranger.

So when we hear this voice of the stranger, and we have the Word in us, we're, “Oh wow, that doesn't add up to God's Word! That's different.” And so, we run from it! We don't embrace it, we run from it! We teach our children to run from it.

If we don't do that, our children will grow up and the voices of the world around them will be bigger than the voice of God in them. And they will begin to live by the voice of deception, the voice of the stranger. The voice of the stranger will become normal to them and they won't know it's a stranger!

You see, we have to know that these voices of deception are the voices of the stranger. And the Word of God says that we are to flee from the voice of the stranger. Do you think you can do that?  One of the most powerful things that you can do as a mother.

1 Corinthians 10:14 says: “Flee from idolatry.” Run from it.

1 Timothy 6:11 tells us to run from the love of money and run “after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.” You see, in the Word, we talked last week about “putting off “and “putting on.” Now we're learning about “running from” and “running after.” We go two different directions. We run from the evil and we run after righteousness.

All right, next one.

No. 15. DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN EVIL

Ephesians 5:11 says: “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” Have no fellowship. If you're fellowshipping with someone, you're hanging out with them. You're friends with them. You love to talk with them.

But we don't do that with the unfruitful works of darkness, sin and evil. Instead, we reprove them. 1

 Corinthians 5, in the passage between 9-11, it says: “Do not keep company with fornicators.”

1 Corinthians 10:20-21: “You cannot be partakers of the Lord's Table, and the table of devils.”

2 Corinthians 6:14-18: “Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?  . . . Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive thee, and I will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters says the  Lord Almighty.”

2 Thessalonians 3: 6 and 14: “Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly . . . and have no company with them.” Whoo! Now that's a big one, ladies. We're talking about having no fellowship with sin and evil.

Now, of course, God loves fellowship. Oh, over and over again . . . In fact, I have found 38 “one anothers” in the Bible where God wants us to have fellowship with one another, and love one another, and have hospitality with one another, and be kind to one another, and on and on they go. The lifestyle of the Kingdom of God.

But in His Word, He also tells us about people we must not have fellowship with. Now, most people skip over those in the Bible, but as you know, I am one who seeks to search what God is saying, and not to leave out anything. And so I found 13 different kinds of people that God says we are NOT to fellowship with.

Wow. Do you want to hear them? Let me give them to you. I won't give you all the references because I know you're not going to remember them as you're just listening to them. But once again, we do transcripts. When the transcript comes out for this podcast, Number 134 I think we are on, I will have all the Scriptures for you.

1. Those who are talebearers. (Proverbs 20:19).

2. Those who cause division among you (Romans 16;17 and Titus 3:10, 11).

3. Those who are sexually immoral. Perhaps I'd better read this one. 1 Corinthians 5:9-13: “I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet, I certainly didn't mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or the coveters, or extortioners, or idolaters, since you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is a fornicator, not even to eat with such a person.”

Now, did you get that? It's saying, OK, of course, you're going to mingle with people in the world, if you go about, who may be living in sexual immorality. Half the time you don't know whether they are, or whether they are not. You'd have to go out of the world because there are so many who are living in the lifestyle,

But it says, if anyone is named a brother, if he confesses that he is a believer in Christ, then if he is living in sexual immorality, you must not even keep company with him. You're not to have fellowship with him. In fact, it goes on to say, you are not even to eat with that person.

Does anybody take any notice of this Scripture today? What a grievous thing, that there are so many in the Body of Christ who are living in sexual immorality. They come to church, and people hang out with them, and fellowship with them, and don't even take a stand against it. Where have we come to? This is the Word of God!

Why does God say that? Because of His love. Because He knows that when others do not fellowship, and hang out, and eat with that person, or that couple, that they will be brought to repentance. They cannot be brought to repentance when people say, “Oh, what's wrong with that? Oh yeah, we don't care. You can do what you like.”

No. The Bible says, “Don't even eat with them.”

4. Those who are covetous (1 Corinthians 5:11).

5. Those who are idolaters (1 Corinthians 11-13 (JBP). And it says of them also, “Do not even eat with them.”

6. Those who are abusive (1 Corinthians 5:11).

7. Those who are drunkards (1 Corinthians 5;11).

8. Those who are swindlers (1 Corinthians 5;11).

9. Those who are contentious, controversial, and stir up arguments (Proverbs 22:10 and Timothy 6:3-5).

10. Those who think religion is a way to make money (1 Timothy 6:5).

11. Those who have a form of godliness but deny God's power (2 Timothy 3:1-5).

12. Those who are undisciplined, lazy, and who will not work for their living. I think I'll read you this one, too. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-14. And The Living Bible says: “Stay away from any Christian who spends his days in laziness, and does not follow the idea of hard work we set up for you. For you will know that you ought to follow our example. You never saw us loafing. We never accepted food from anyone without buying it. We worked hard, day and night, for the money we needed to live on, in order that we would not be a burden to any of you. Notice who he is, and stay away from him, that he may be ashamed of himself.”

13. Those who seduce, deceive, and falsely lead God's people (2 John 1:5-11).

These different ones, the Bible tells us, we're not to fellowship with. So, OK, are we lining up with the Word of God, or are we doing our own thing?

All right, let's go to the next one.

No. 16. WE ARE TO REPROVE EVIL

Now Ephesians 5: 11 again: “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Now what is this word “reprove”? In the Greek, it's the word elegcho, and it means “to confute, to convince, to convict.” Now, what does “confute” mean? “Confute” means “to prove to be false, wrong, in error, to overthrow by evidence or stronger arguments”.

And so this is what we have to do with sin and evil. We reprove it. We confute it. Many times, I know all of us, we hate evil. Yes, I hope we're kind of getting all these verbs into us. We hate it, and we abhor it, and we will destroy it, and we will cast if off, and we will get rid of it, and so on.

Now it says we will confute it. That means we do something about it. When someone is in sin, we just, oh, we don't like to say anything. Well, they might not, they won't like us if we say anything to them.

But the Bible says that we are to confute evil, and even to confute deception. When people are believing a lie, we are to confute that lie. We're to show them where it is false, and we're to give them evidence, Biblical evidence, to show them.

So we read this word. It comes in quite a few Scriptures in the Word of God. It's translated “convince,” in Titus 1:9, and it's speaking to elders and  pastors here. It says that elders and pastors must know how “to convince,” or “confute” or “convict” the gainsayers.

When Paul was writing to Timothy in 1 Timothy 5:20, he says: “They that sin rebuke before all.” “Rebuke” is used this time, and that's interesting. We don't see that happening in churches today, do we? But that's what God told Timothy to do. Those that sin, rebuke, not hiding away so nobody will know about it, but “rebuke before ALL.”

In Titus 2:15 Paul says: “These things SPEAK, and EXHORT, and REBUKE WITH ALL AUTHORITY.” Yes, that's when Paul was writing to Titus. That chapter in Titus starts off, let me read it for you here. Titus 2, here we go.

It starts off: “But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine.” And then the last verse in the chapter says: “These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke, with all authority.” And so it's all these things that are sound doctrine.

So if people are not walking in them, we are to show them that this is the way they are to walk, and to . . . well, help! We don't like to do this, do we? But  it says here to rebuke so that they will come into these things.

This whole chapter is writing to everybody. It starts out with the older men. Then it goes to the sound doctrine for the older women, who are to teach the younger women how to be keepers at home, and to love their husbands, and to love their children, and to be submissive to their husbands, and all these things, which the Bible calls “sound doctrine.”

Then it goes on to the young men, and how they are meant to live. Then to the servants, and how they are meant to live. And then it ends. “OK, all these things, Titus, you've got to speak, and exhort, and rebuke, or confute, and convince, with all authority, to make sure that the people of God are walking in these ways of sound doctrine.”

Often, ladies, we are a little fearful to rebuke evil, or to expose evil, or to reprove evil. But I believe we need courage because this is what God says we're to do. Because people have not exposed evil, and have not reproved it, we have so much evil and sin lurking in the church.

The church of God today, on the whole, is not a church of God's holy set-apart people, walking in righteousness, but it's filled with sin and tolerance of sin. Why? Because evil has not been rebuked. Sin has not been confuted. And so we have to rise up.

I've been thinking lately about that Scripture in Revelation 21: 8: It's a very, very challenging Scripture. Let me go to it. Revelation 21:8 and it talks about, it gives a list of those who will have their part in the lake of fire, which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. So who are these people?

It says: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the whoremongers, and the sorcerers, and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” That's scary.

But what's even more scary, help! . . . is that at the top of the list is the fearful. Most translations translate the word “the coward.” Oh, help! Does that get to you? “The coward?” Do you mean to say, cowards are just as sinful as murderers? Well, that's what the Scripture says.

In fact the Amplified (AMPC) says: “But as for the cowards, and the ignoble, and the contemptible, and the cravenly lacking in courage, and the cowardly submissive.” Dear ladies, it seems that the church of God has come to that fate today. Not only the people of the world, but the people in the church have cowardly submitted to tyranny without even one little question.

They have listened to the fake media. They have listened to the voice of the stranger, and they have said, “Yes Sir! We will lock down. We will wear masks. We will socially distance. We will do everything that the elite will tell us to do.”

They have listened to the voice of the stranger. They have been cowardly submissive. They have not stood up for what God says in His Word, and the way God created us to live, because this way of life is totally antithesis to the Word of God. It is absolutely opposite to how God created us to live as families, and as extended families, and as people in our communities. And in our nation, IT IS THE OPPOSITE!

We have to rise up. We must begin to be brave. We must begin to be courageous. And I'm thinking of that Scripture in 2 Peter. It's in that passage of the letter of virtue. Do you remember that in 2 Peter, chapter 1:5-8?

It starts off: “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge” and so on. We go up the ladder. You can read it later. We stop at virtue. Now virtue, virtue we think, “Oh that sounds a glorious, wonderful word!”

IT’S TIME FOR COURAGE!

But what does it really mean? Well, in the Greek, the word is arete and it means “excellent, God's excellence, but also excellence in man.” But it also means, it means (and this is where it's so great to go back to the full understanding of the Greek, to know what it's talking about), it means “courage, fortitude, resolution, manliness, valor.”

Now, it's interesting. Men . . . of course, although this word is for all of us, it's for us ladies, it's for children, it's for every person. But the meaning of it is “courage, manliness.” Now it's an interesting thing that men, instinctively, are meant to have courage.

In the Knox Translation of the Bible, everywhere in the King James where it says: “Be of good courage,” and wherever it talks about having courage, the Knox Translation translates it “Play the man.” It's quite a great translation. “Play the man.” In fact, one time in the King James, it also says, “Play the man.”

So we're going out to the war  and they say: “Let us play the man, for our people,” and what they're meaning is, “Let's have courage!” So courage is a very manly thing. That's what makes me sad, when I see so many big strapping men, and they wear masks. They've cowardly submitted to tyranny! Help! These are men who should be having courage to stand for their freedom.

Well this word, virtue, arete, is the same word that's used back in the story in the Maccabees. Now the Maccabees is not part of the Canon of Scripture. It is part of the Apocrypha. Now the Apocrypha were books that were not chosen to go into the Canon of Scripture, but they are also good reading, and give us wonderful history, especially Maccabees 1 and 2. It gives the history of the Maccabees, which is a powerful thing to read.

We've just been celebrating Hanukkah, which is the story of how the Maccabees regained the nation of Israel, and reclaimed the Temple, and dedicated it back to God. Even Jesus Himself, He celebrated the Feast of Hanukkah in Jerusalem when He was on this earth.

But just, can I just tell you this little story? Wow, hope I can fit it in. It's found in 2 Maccabees, chapter 6, and it's a time when Antiochus Epiphanes, he sent his senator to force the Jews to abandon the laws of their ancestors. They filled the Temple with debauchery and prostitutes, and oh, anyone who would not give up their Jewish ways was put to death.

It was, they were trying to totally annihilate the Jewish nation. In fact, this is terrible. It talks about two women who were arrested  for circumcising their babies. And they publicly paraded them around the city with their babies dangling from their breasts, and then they threw them down from the top of the city wall. Oh, such atrocities!

And then it talks about Eleazar. Eleazar was a scribe, and he was an older man of God. He was apparently about 90 years of age. And they forced him to eat pork. Well, some people eat pork today, but back then the Jews, of course, they would not eat pork. To them, that was a terrible thing to do.

So many of these Jews, they were assimilating to this Greek way of life, just to, just to hang onto their lives. They cowardly submitted! But  Eleazar wouldn't. And these people, they were his friends. And they said, “Hey,  Eleazar, look, go and get some of your meat that you're allowed, and we'll let you do that. And you can eat that, and pretend you're eating the pork, so they won't kill you. Because we don't want you to be killed.”

But Eleazar, he was a MAN OF COURAGE. This is what he, can I read it to you? I'll read it to you straight from the Maccabees. “But Eleazar made a decision worthy of his gray hair and advanced age. All his life, he had lived in perfect obedience to God's holy laws. So he replied, 'Kill me here and now. Such deception is not worthy of a man of my years. Many young people would think that I had denied my faith after I was 90 years old. If I pretended to eat this meat just to live a little while longer, it will bring shame and disgrace on me and lead many young people astray. For the present, I might be able to escape what you can do to me, but whether I live or die, I cannot escape almighty God. If I die bravely now, it will show that I deserved my long life. It will also show a good example of the way young people shall be willing and glad to die for our sacred laws'. And as soon as he said those things, he went off to be tortured.”

And then it says, when they had beaten him almost to the point of death, he groaned and said: “The Lord possesses all holy knowledge. He knows I could have escaped these terrible sufferings and death. Yet He also knows that I gladly suffer these things because I fear Him. So Eleazar died. But his courageous (and there's that word, arete) his courageous death was remembered as a glorious example, not only by young people, but by the entire nation as well.”

You see, this was taken obviously from the Septuagint, which is the version of the Bible translated from Hebrew into Greek. So this Greek word is here used, “virtue,” but meaning “courage.” And here it talks about his courageous death. Courage. It's time for us, isn't it, to rise up in courage and begin to reprove evil!

I'm thinking today, the 6^th of January, that you will listen to this, most probably. We know already of one, Josh Hawley, Senator Josh Hawley, who is going to stand up against this fraudulent election. I pray that he'll have courage today, and many others will stand with him to reprove evil. To reprove evil. We cannot accept a stolen election.

All right, dear ladies. Oh goodness me, what am I going to do? We're running out of time, and I see here that I've been telling you I have 18 points. But you know what? I've actually got 20! I think I found two more and added them. So now we have 20! So will I have time to get through them?

No. 17. DO NO LOOK AT EVIL

David said in Psalm 101:3: “I will refuse to look at anything vile or vulgar.” That's the New Living Translation. King James says: “I will set no wicked thing before my eyes.”

No. 18. RESIST EVIL

James 4:7: “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

No. 19. CLEANSE YOURSELF FROM ALL EVIL

2 Corinthians 7:1: “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

Number 20, yes, the last one!

No. 20. RID THE NATION OF EVIL

Let me take you to Psalm 144, as we close. Psalm 144, and here David is praying. He's praying for the nation. Let's read his prayer. Psalm 144: 7 and verse 11. He prays this prayer two times in this Psalm. “Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children.”

Again in verse 11: “Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children.” Once again, we're talking about the voice of strangers. That which is foreign to God's Holy Word, that which is foreign to His Heart, that which is foreign to our Holy God, “whose mouth speak vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.”

And so David is praying, “Lord, God, deliver me! Deliver this nation from evil!” This is the prayer that we should be praying.

This is another attitude that not only will we be delivered personally, not only will our children and our families be delivered personally, but the nation will be delivered from evil and from the voice of the stranger! Why? Why? Because of this powerful vision that David had, and it comes right back to us, dear mothers.

It comes back to the home. Back to the family, and what does it say? “That our sons may be as plants growing up their youth; that our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace.” David cried out for the nation to be delivered of the deception, and the evil, and the voice of the strange doctrine so that we could grow up a people, young people, our children. That our sons will grow up and become mature, even in their youth. That our daughters will be pure and holy like princesses in a palace, living lives that are worthy of royalty because they belong to the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords.

Sons and daughters who are not walking in sin but walking in holiness.

 Sons and daughters who know how to combat the evil one.

Sons and daughters who know the voice of God and will run from the voice of the stranger.

Yes. Make that your prayer, dear precious mother.

Dear Father, we thank You , Lord God, for showing us Your attitude toward evil. Help us, help us to have Your same attitude. We pray, Lord, that we will walk in deliverance, even in our homes and our families, from all deception, and all the voices of the stranger, and that which is foreign to Your plan for our lives.

And Lord, that we will raise young men, mature in their youth, who will be set apart for You, Lord, God. And who will, Lord, stand against all evil. And that our daughters will be pure and holy, and set apart unto You.

Oh, God, we ask, Lord, that we will live in the fullness of all that you have planned in this time for us. I pray Your blessing upon every mother and child and family who are represented by those listening today. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.

Transcribed by Darlene Norris

 

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 133: ATTITUDES TO EVIL Continued

We continue talking about the 20 different words God uses in His Word to show us how to resist evil. Don't miss learning about each one. God does  not want us to tolerate evil, but to drive it out.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Good morning, ladies! Well, it's good morning here in Tennessee, but you may be listening at another time. I'm so sorry this podcast is late getting to you. It was meant to come out at six o'clock on Tuesday morning. However, although I had recorded it, we just could not get the sound to come. So I'm now starting all over again, recording it for you again now.

Now it is Thursday, and it is the last day of 2020. Isn't that amazing? What a year it has been! In fact, I must read to you a poem. I just got it this morning and it's from a dear friend of mine in England. She has written about this last year and I think it's pretty cool. She pretty well sums it up, what has been happening.

GOODBYE TO 2020,

THE YEAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Twenty, twenty, what a year!

A rollercoaster built on fear.

Bats were blamed as sickness spread,

We’d no idea what lay ahead.

Dead bodies lay on China’s roadside,

Caught on film and shared worldwide.

The Chinese guided us with care,

Taught world leaders everywhere

How to lock their nation down,

How to silence every town.

Our leaders gently took our hands,

Led us gently as was planned.

They made it fun, we clapped and danced,

Our eyes on screens, quite entranced.

We learnt to Zoom, we didn’t mind,

Not seeing Granny now was kind.

Shaming people next was taught,

Granny killers must be caught!

Beaches filled with families playing,

Home was where they should be staying!

Protesting was quite accepted,

If black lives should be protected.

But dare to speak of lockdown’s pain

Your voice was silenced, all in vain.

Masks were next to keep the pace,

To keep us focused on the race.

To find the vaccine was the mission,

We had to share this global vision.

Then testing came to raise the fear,

And keep us locked up for the year.

Testing ramped up, cases grew,

False positives were not a few.

Healthy people were no more,

Silent carriers ‘caused’ this war.

Healthy people stayed inside,

Touch and love all were denied.

Until our lives became a shell,

Each day for many, living hell.

As days wore on and winter dwelt,

The toll of lockdown could be felt.

No more dancing or doorstep clapping,

Now tempers fray with families snapping.

Desperate people, broken now,

Looking to the sacred cow—

The vaccine is their promised Saviour,

Let’s add it to the new behaviour.

They’ve said we’ll have to keep the mask,

Still keep our distance, they have asked.

Add the vaccine, we need all three

To make the COVID trinity.

So what lies ahead in this new year?

More of the same for those who fear.

BUT GOD HAS BETTER PLANS AHEAD

FOR THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM INSTEAD.

Yes, how true! When we see what we have faced this year, and how people in our nation here in America, and all over the world, have come under tyranny, for that is what it is. And we have now come to understand that this virus is not much more than like a flu. In fact, it has a 99.99% recovery rate. Even for those who are older, it's still about a 90% recovery rate.

And yet we have still been told to lock down. Thanksgiving, Christmas, we could only have a few people in our home. Of course, we didn't keep to that at all. I mean, for Thanksgiving, I made a sit-down meal for our family. I think I wrote about 109 name places for our family.

I mean, where is the reality? Were they going to expect me to get all my beloved grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and, of course, our own children and spouses, line them all up, and say, “OK, which eight of you will I have for Thanksgiving? And who will I have for Christmas dinner? Let me choose which eight. The rest of you are discarded.”

I mean, how ridiculous! This is not even normality. This is beyond, beyond even, beyond common sense. It's gone ridiculous. And that even family, there's so many families that have with eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve children! Goodness me! And they can only have so many in their house. Oh, what narrow minds these people have.

But it's all just for tyranny, and lockdown, and the precursor of what is to come. For their whole aim, and I have shared this before, is to bring in The Global  Reset, and the World Economic Forum, which is, when we read it, and they've already posted it. Just recently they posted the eight projections for the World Economic Forum. The very first one is:

Number one: “YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, BUT YO WILL BE HAPPY!” I'm not sure how. But it's pure Communism.

And so I pray that as we go into this New Year, dear precious folks who are listening, that you will not bow to this tyranny. As you face a New Year that you will claim your freedom and walk in the lifestyle that God created you to live in! Amen?

Well, let's carry on. For this, today, is the third session of 18 different verbs (actually 20) or attitudes, that God gives us, of what we are to do about evil. God doesn't just give one word. I found 18 (actually 20) different verbs, and I believe that when we read the Word, that we can't just take one little thing. We have to know fully what God says. When I'm studying a subject, I don't want to know one little aspect of it. I want to know the fullness of what God is saying.

So I have to find every ne. Maybe I've missed one, I don't know, but I've found 18 different verbs (actually 20). I think it's important for us to hear what they are. We've got to know what God says in His Word. As we go into this New Year, dear precious ones, we've got to be women of the Word.

Oh, we've got to know what God says! Because we will live our lives accordingly. Even now, we are living our lives either according to what we constantly hear daily on the fake media, or we are living our lives according to the truth of the Word of God.

Now, by which standard are you living your life? Are you listening to the fears, and the tyranny, and the deceptions of this fake media? And all that the elite are trying to put on us? Or are you living by the Word of God? Matthew 4:4 says: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

If we are believers, we've got to live by the Book! This is our Book! This is our letter that God has given to us to live in the world, even if it's not easy. Right through history, people have lived by the Word, even in the face of persecution and everything that's different around them. We don't live according to the standards of this world. We live according to the Word. In fact, I think I'm going to do some sessions on this in the coming year.

But let's get . . . I mustn't get carried away now! We are currently up to number nine.

9.  GUARD YOURSELF FROM EVIL

God wants us to guard ourselves. We read in 2 Samuel, it's David speaking. Let's read his confession, shall we? 2 Samuel 22, verses 22-24: David said, “I have kept the way of the Lord . . . ” The word “kept” there is the Hebrew word shamar. Oh it's a beautiful word, I love the word shamar. It means, “to guard, to protect, to watch.”

God Himself shamars over us. He guards us. He protects us. But He wants us to also guard our lives, Here David confesses, I have kept, shamar, the way of the Lord. I have guarded it. “And have not wickedly departed from my God. For all His judgments were before me: and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.”

Do we walk by His statutes? Or does not fitting in with society's way drive us apart from them? That's a big question, ladies. Do we continue walking by God's statutes even if they are so opposite to the ways of the world?

“For all His judgments were before me: and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. I was also upright before him, and have kept myself (there it is again, guarded, myself from mine iniquity.” So there we have it.

That word shamar, the very first time it is used is in Genesis, Genesis chapter two, verse 15. It's very important to always go back to the very first time a word is used. It is the Law of the First Principle. That's very important in the Word of God. When God uses a word the very first time, He is laying a principle for that word. He will build on it as we continue reading. But we will never get away from that foundation.

So what is Genesis 2:15? It is where God put Adam into the garden. And it says here, “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it, and to keep it.”

He gave him two things to do:

One, to work in it. The word there is “work,” and it means “to work hard by the sweat of your brow.” Isn't that interesting? This is before the fall.

When I was a little girl, I had this notion that work came in after the fall of man, and that it was a curse upon people after the fall and after they had sinned. I guess I didn't like work very much when I was a little girl.

But of course, as I grew, I found out that was not true, and that God gave the principle of work before the fall. It was God's plan for us. Ladies, God gave work as something to bless us. Yes! Work is a wonderful thing. We do a good day's work and then we're ready to go to sleep. We earn our sleep.

As we work, we benefit our bodies and our minds. As we do things, we learn how to do them better. This is how all the great inventions that we have in the world today have come, because as people are working, and they're doing something, they think, “I can do this a better way. I can invent something that can do this better.”

So things get better and better. It all comes out of work. Work is therapeutic. So don't deride work, dear ladies, even as you work in your home. You have to manage your home. You have to keep it clean. You keep the laundry up to date. You keep all those dishes done, and cook your meals, and scrub your floors, and look after your little ones.

Yes, work, work, work! But don't despise it. Embrace it! It's God-given.

So God put the man in the garden, to work and to guard it. Two things, work and guard. In fact, they are also given to us in the New Testament. We go over to Titus. Titus, chapter two, and if you are familiar with the Word of God, you will know Titus, chapter two, verses 3-5, is that wonderful passage where it speaks to older women to teach the younger women. One of the things that it teaches the younger women is to be “keepers at home.”

That word also is the word that means “to guard, to watch over.” It's a picture of the keeper of a castle who holds the keys. He will not allow anything into that castle, or any person who was not allowed to come in. He guarded it.

And God has given to us, precious ladies, precious mums, the guardianship of our homes. And just as God put the man and the woman in the garden to work in it, and to guard it, yes, it goes over to the New Testament and we have the same parallel. We are in our homes to work in them, and to guard them. To guard them from evil. To watch over them with our beady eyes.

We are the watchdogs of the home. We are watching. We are watching that no evil comes into our homes. Oh, it can come in so subtly, so easily. That's why we have to keep our spiritual eyes, and even our physical eyes, wide open, so that we are always in a state of watching and praying. Because we are the guardians.

So we guard over our own lives, as David was speaking here. We guard over our lips. We guard over our thoughts. We guard over our emotions that we do not give in to self-pity and depression and despondency, which women can get into so easily.

I think self-pity and despondency are some of the easiest things we can fall into. We're prone to it. But we guard, you see? We guard. Yes! Self-pity and despondency, they're not just nice little things that we can play around with. NO! They're sins! They're sins. And we have to guard them, watch that we don't fall into these things.

So, we're watching over our own lives. We're bringing every thought into captivity to Christ. Now that doesn't just happen. You have to be on the warfare, to make that happen. But this is how we live as we guard over our lives, and we're guarding over our homes, and over our children's lives, God wants us to guard, to guard ourselves, and our homes. Amen?

10. DRIVE OUR AND DESTROY ALL EVIL

We don't play around with evil. We destroy it. We drive it out.

 Now let's go to a Scripture in the Old Testament. I'll give you two or three Scriptures here. These are Scriptures where God is speaking to the children of Israel about what they have to do about all those enemies and those evil people who were in the Promised Land, that was waiting for them.

The people of Canaan were an evil people. God wanted them driven out. He said, Numbers 33:52-53: “Then shall you drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and pluck down all their high places. And you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess.”

Did you get the spirit of that Scripture? Did you get those words?

Destroy.

Drive out.

Dispossess.

You know, that was speaking about a literal enemy that they had to face back then. But dear precious ladies, everything that was written in the Old Testament was a type for us today. There was not one thing that was written that does not relate to us right in our lives, right now, even in our homes.

We look at 1 Corinthians 10:11 and it says: “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples.” That word “ensamples” in the Greek is the Greek work tupos and it means “a type, a pattern, a symbol, an emblem of what is higher.”

And so everything, every story, every word, every line, it was a type for us, a pattern of how we are to live today, and what we are to do.

These Israelites, they had to go and actually destroy these people. Now, we're not going around destroying people, but we are having to destroy evil in our lives, in our homes, and around about us. We have to have this attitude toward evil. You see, we're talking about the different attitudes toward evil.

This one is to destroy it. That's the kind of attitude we have to have. You don't toy, you don't play with it. We just, OK, when we face it, we're going to destroy it. We're going to drive it out. We drive it out of our own lives, we drive it out of our homes, and we see where we can, to drive it out of our own communities, and cities, and nations.

Because everything starts with the home, ladies. It all starts with the home. We can't have a righteous nation if we don't have righteous homes. It all starts in the home.

“So now all these things happened unto them for ensamples, (for a pattern, for a type) and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world have come.” Right for us today.

We go to Romans 15:4 and it says again: “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience (that word literally means “cheerful endurance”) and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”

So all these stories that happened in the Old Testament, they are a pattern for us today and for our learning for us today. I love that old saying which says, “The New (that's the New Testament) the New is in the Old concealed; the Old is in the New revealed.” Do you like that?

All right. Here's another one. Deuteronomy 7:2 and onward to about verse six says: “Thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them . . . You shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.” Are you getting the picture?

These are the words, the attitudes, the action words that God wants us to have about evil. You'll notice in the Numbers passage, it says that when they have destroyed and driven out their enemies, that then they will possess the land. Dear ladies, we cannot possess all that God has for us until we drive out the evil that's in our own lives, and in our homes, and, of course, ultimately, the nation.

All the greatest blessings come to us and we begin to live in all the fullness of what God wants us to possess when we drive out the evil first. So few of us live in all the fullness of all that God has for us. Often, because we still have evil lurking around. Maybe just a little bit! But He wants us to drive it all out.

I noticed in Numbers it says: “Then shall you drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and pluck down all their high places.” And so on. It wasn't, “Oh well, we'll get rid of a few of them.” NO! A-L-L!

All right. Deuteronomy 12:2-3: “You shall utterly destroy . . . and ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.”

Wow! Are you getting the picture? And remember, these Scriptures are for us today. Yes! Today! Right now!

All right. Remember David's testimony again in Psalm 101? I talked about this last time, where David said, “Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, wiping out all evildoers from the Lord's city.” Well David did that literally, but of course, we don't even think about doing that today.

But we have this attitude about evil. We don't make friends with it. We destroy it.

1 John 3:8: “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that  He might destroy the works of the devil.” Jesus now lives in us to accomplish this same thing, for when He came into this world, He came to destroy the works of the devil.

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” But yes, Christ in you, destroying the works of the devil! All right?

Well, let's look at number eleven:

11. LET NO EVIL REMAIN

Now, we're going to read of what Joshua did when he went into the Promised Land. Joshua 10:33-40: “So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and the vale, and the springs ,and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.”

Joshua 11:8-12: “He smote them and chased them until they left none remaining. They smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was not any left to breathe.”

You see, OK, that sounds pretty horrific. But it's a type, it's a type. It's a type for us to understand the attitude God wants us to have toward sin. I think we're living in a day where we don't really hate sin. People embrace sin today.

TOTAL ANNIHILATION

But God wants us to have the attitude that we will so drive it out that there will be none left. None left remaining. Nothing left to breathe. Woo! Wow! That's what God intends. Now this is the thing. It's total annihilation. We deal ruthlessly with sin and evil. No tolerance. Not one vestige remaining.

We live today in a church, well, in America, where many churches could be called the Church of Tolerance. In fact, I think that's the new name for many churches today. They tolerate sin. They've become lukewarm.

I wrote this little quote sometime back:

“If we don't know God's Word, we'll be a tolerating Christian.

If we know God's Word, we'll be a trembling Christian.”

Remember what God says in Isaiah 66: “God looks for those who tremble at His Word.” 

So, we're either doing one of two things. We're either a person who says, “Yes, I love God, but um, you know, well, you know, I wouldn't do that, but well, I can't really say anything about it to that person who's doing it. I mean, you know, that's just them.”

And so, we take a very sort of passive attitude towards sin.

But God doesn't tolerate it, and He doesn't want us to tolerate it either. And if we really know His Word, and what He says, we will tremble before Him. Do we even have a trembling spirit? A trembling heart? I don't know whether we have this very much. But that's who God is looking for, the one who trembles at His Words.

So let's see, what's our time? Thirty? Woo. Thirty, that was thirty a while ago. OK. All right. I think we've got time for number 12.

12. PUT AWAY EVIL FROM THE MIDST OF YOU

 Now the word “put away evil” is the Hebrew word ba'ar and it means, “to consume, especially by fire, to burn.” It's a total consuming of it. So we could even call this “consume evil.” That's a better title for this point. Consume evil.

Now we see this phrase, “so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.” We read this phrase over and over again in Deuteronomy, chapters 13-24. So if you get to read those sometime, right throughout those chapters you'll see that  phrase, “so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.” Or consume it.

I won't give you all the Scriptures. You can read those in your own time, although Deuteronomy 21:18-21 is, wow, I'm always so kind of wowed by this Scripture where it says: “If any man have a stubborn or rebellious son which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not harken unto them...All the men of the city shall stone him with stones, so that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.”

Wow! That's rather incredible, isn't it? They took a strong stand against rebellion. Yet today, we have a generation of rebellious and stubborn young people. Well, today, we don't live as they did in the Old Testament. We wouldn't be doing such things. But it just shows us what kind of an attitude we should have to rebellion and stubbornness.

As we know, the Word says that “rebellion and stubbornness is as witchcraft” (1 Samuel 15:22, 34). We deal with these things dear parents when our children are young. We don't wait until it grows and grows when they are teenagers, and they are these rebellious teenagers.

This is not a word that's even in the Word of God. In fact, the Word of God doesn't even accommodate a teenage stage. The Word of God speaks about children, and children growing into maturity (Psalm 144:12). Even from a very young age, we have allowed the teenage years now to become a certain era of a person's life when God does not. He never ever envisioned that at all.

Children are to be constantly growing into maturity, so that by the time they are reaching even the ages of 13 and upwards, they are beginning to do, to live maturely, to take on responsibility, and to do great things as we read in the Word of God.

We even read in history, and we even read of the early fathers of our nation, the things they were doing when they were in their early teens. They were doing what men do today.

So we need to be training our children right from young, dealing severely with stubbornness and with rebellion because this is the thing that God hates. It turns to . . . it’s as witchcraft. So we don't ever want our children to get to this stage. We want to make sure that we are driving it out before they ever do.

Chapter 22, that chapter has a lot about sexual sins. Every time it says “so shalt thou put away evil from among you.” In chapter 24:7, it talks about kidnapping, and how you have to put that evil away from among you.

We go to the New Testament, and in 1 Corinthians 5:13 it says: “Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.” Yes, God doesn't want evil in the midst.

All right.

13. CAST OFF EVIL

Romans 13:12. By the way, ladies, I am giving you so many Scriptures, that this podcast is filled with Scriptures. Now I give you the reference and if you're washing the dishes as you're listening to this, or you're going for a walk with your headphones on, or you're doing something else, well, you're going to forget the reference, of course.

But I do transcripts. And in about a couple of weeks, the transcripts will come out. And I will have all the references, and if you really want to dig into these Scriptures and read them again, you can go to the transcripts, and look them up, and study them more.

So here we go. Romans 13:12: “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.”

Now, that word, “cast off,” what does it really mean? Well, let's just look here, look at some . . . yes, let's look at some other translations. They may help us to understand.

The Amplified says: “Fling away the works of darkness.”

The Passion Translation says: “Strip away.”

The New Living Translation says: “Get rid of all the filth and evil from your lives.” So “casting off” literally means “to get rid of.”

Do you have here in America, I'm sure you do, that saying, “Good riddance to bad rubbish” ? Well, I grew up in New Zealand, and we often used to say that phrase. We had a couple of phrases, actually. Sometimes we'd say, “Goodbye and good riddance!” Do you say that?

Well, that's really what this Scripture is saying. Because that phrase literally means, it's an expression of pleasure actually, but pleasure that you've got rid of something you don't want, something undesirable and unwanted. You've got rid of it!

So this is the attitude we have to have about sin, and about evil. We get rid of it, and then we can say, “Hallelujah! Good riddance to bad rubbish! I'm finished with that!” Isn't that good? Yes! Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Let’s read Ephesians 4:22. Same Greek word, and here it says in the New Living Translation: “Throw off” (or you could say, get rid of)“your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit bring you your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God.”

So, we put off and then we put on. Colossians 3:8: “Put off,” and it tells you all the sins to put off. And then it goes on to say, “and put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of Him that created us.”

One more Scripture as we close. Hebrew 12:1: “Let us lay aside every weight,” (or once again, let us get rid of) “every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Amen?

So, lovely darling ladies, we get rid of these things in our lives, and then we can say, “Good riddance to bad rubbish! I'm finished with that! I'm free! Hallelujah! I can walk in the fullness of the new man of Christ Jesus, Who now fills my life, and I'm living His life. I'm not giving into the old flesh, and the old life. I'm yielding to the new life of Christ Who dwells within me.”

Dear Father, we just thank You for Your Word. We've just been, oh, God, just confessing your Word. I pray that Your Word will become part of these, each precious lady listening, Lord God. You will help us, Lord, to think like You think, to have the attitude You have, and to see evil and sin like You, Lord. And that we will truly be those who do not tolerate it, that we will never become tolerating Christians, but we will be those, Lord God, who get rid of all evil in our lives, and in our homes. We ask this in the Precious Name of Jesus. Amen.

 

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 132: DO YOU HATE EVIL?

Evil is so abhorrent to God that He sent His only beloved Son to die on the cross to take the judgment of our sins upon Him. God hates evil, and He wants His people to hate evil. He also hates injustice, which is an abomination to Him.

I found 20 different verbs that God wants us to do about evil. Come on in and find out what they are.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Blessings to you today, each one who is listening! I'm back to my second session about talking of all the different words that God gives us in His Word about what we are to do about evil. Last week, we mentioned number one, depart from evil.

 1.    DEPART FROM EVIL (Check last week’s transcript).

 2.    ABHOR EVIL

Romans 12: 9: “Abhor what is evil; cleave to that which is good.” Now the word “abhor” is also not a word that we use a lot today. It's a very powerful word. In the Greek, the word is apostugeo. I hope that's how you pronounce it. It means “to shudder with horror, to detest evil.”

I wonder whether we really, really have the attitude that God wants us to have about evil. I wonder whether I do. I mean, we can get used to evil, can't we? But God wants us to absolutely abhor it. That means to shudder, to actually shudder.  It makes us shudder. We're just so appalled.

Abortion should make us shudder. I mean, what is abortion? We get used to

 the word. And yet it is the murdering of a precious life being created by God in the womb. That should make us shudder!

Especially the fact that we have politicians who want babies to be murdered right up to the time of birth! Even this person who wants to be president, Joe Biden, he believes in murdering babies up to the time of birth, and afterwards! If they have been designated for abortion, and they survive, well, they'd better be killed! I mean, doesn't that make you shudder?

How can there be Christians who would vote for this?  Or who did vote for this? It's rather unbelievable. Well, let's move on.

3.    REJECT EVIL

We are to reject evil. Psalm 36:4 tells us how the wicked do not reject evil. That means if we're righteous, we will reject it.

4.    HATE EVIL

The word means “to hate violently.” I'll give you just a few Scriptures. Once again, there are so many.

Amos 5:14-15: “Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.”

Now, ladies, look at the three promises that we will receive when we hate evil.

Number one: Justice will be established in the gates of the city and the nation. We don't have that at the moment. We don't have justice. What does it say in Isaiah 59, yes, verses . . . Let's see, where will we start? Maybe verse 12.

“For our transgressions are multiplied before Thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them. In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backwards, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street. And equity cannot enter. Yes, truth fails, and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment. And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore His arm brought salvation unto Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him.”

We are seeing this today, even in our, this election. I mentioned it last session, and I must mention it again, because this is exactly what is happening. Truth has fallen in the street. Justice is afar off.

We are currently facing a fraudulent election where they have sought to steal it. There have literally been hundreds and hundreds of people who have come forward to expose the fraud. There have been literally hundreds and thousands of votes that are illegal. Votes from dead people . . . I saw one YouTube of this guy, and he was showing one of the voting things and said, “Look, here it is, here's the person. Here's their voting card. OK, here's their death certificate. They died in 1984.” And that was just one of hundreds! In one state, there were 200,000 illegal votes!

I mean, what does God think about this? You see, God is a God of justice. Justice surrounds His throne. He is justice. This is what God talks about, things like this election. In Deuteronomy 25:15,16. It says: “But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. (That's a good promise for long life, isn't it?) For all who do such things, and all who do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God”

See, this is how God sees injustice. He says that when we hate evil, and when we hate injustice, that justice will come back to our gates! The gates speak of where our laws are made in our cities, and in the nation, in Washington, DC. These are the gates.

So we've got to get back. We can't just turn a blind eye and say, “Oh, well, this has happened. It's just, you know, it'll all pan out.” No! We have to have the same attitude God has, to see it as an abomination.

2 Chronicles 19:7 in the New Living Translation says: “The Lord our God does not tolerate perverted justice.”

Proverbs 11:1: “A false balance is an abomination to the lord, but a just weight is his delight.” And so, when we hate this kind of thing, God says, yes, that He will establish justice in the gates. Don't we long for that?

And secondly, the God of hosts, the Lord of the armies of heaven, will be with us. And thirdly, He will be gracious to us, and show us His favor. All because we hate evil!

Even in the church, evil has been allowed to mix amongst the people. There are people sitting in churches who are actually living in adultery. They're in idolatry. They're doing all kinds of different sins, and the church is allowing it. It's not speaking out against things. We're not hating evil.

Talking about this injustice, I came across this beautiful passage just the other day. It's in 2 Chronicles 19:4-11. I'd love you to read it later, when you get a chance. It's talking about King Jehoshaphat, who went through the land to bring the people back to God. Then he appointed judges throughout all the cities, and then he told them how God wanted them to judge. So, here we get principles of the way God wants us to judge.

Now this is important for every judge who is a judge in any court. In a little town, or a big town, or a city, or in the land, and up to the Supreme Court judges. All judges must judge according to these principles.

And also us, as parents. Did you know, dear mother, that we also are to be judges? Well, we do it every day! We're judging our children. We are seeking to have justice in our home. In fact, if we don't, well, we won't have a very peaceful home! You only have peace when you have justice.

Let's look at these things, shall we? Number one. Oh, before I do, yes, I want to take you to a Scripture, because I'm saying how this relates to us as parents, too. Let's go to Genesis, Genesis chapter 18. This is speaking about Abraham, who was the pattern father.

Verse 18 says: “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him.” Did you notice those words? Abraham commanded his children, and his household after him. He didn't leave them to, “OK, just whatever seems right, you do it. I can just trust you.” No! He commanded! He took control.

“And they shall keep the way of the Lord.” And what is the way of the Lord? To do justice and judgment. So this is how Abraham conducted his household. He commanded them in the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment.

So dear ones, because God is a God of justice. He wants us to parent our children with justice. Now that's not all religiosity and law. It's with fairness, and just balances, and just measures, and that which is right. And so, we have to seek the Lord for that which is right and begin to judge righteously.

So OK, here we go, for these points. These are for judges, and for us, as parents.

Number 1: You must take heed to judge according to God's judgment, not man's.

Number 2: God is involved with you in judging, for God is a God of judgment. Judgment ultimately belongs to Him.

Number 3: You must judge in the fear of God. Two times, in that passage, it says, “In the fear of God.” All these points are coming from this passage in 2 Chronicles 19.

Number 4: You must take action on the verdict, and don't let it slide. Now, that's a wake-up for us, as parents, isn't it? Sometimes we can, we can just let things slide. We don't deal with them. And when we don't deal with them, what happens? They just get bigger and bigger, and then we've got more to deal with! The Scripture says: “Take heed and do it!”

Number 5: You must not have respect of persons in judgment. Never show partiality.

Number 6: You must not take bribes. Deuteronomy 16:19, in the New Living Translation says: “Never accept a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise, and corrupt the decisions of the godly.”

Number 7: You must judge faithfully.

Number 8: You must judge with a perfect, undivided heart.

Number 9: You must warn the guilty not to sin against the Lord. If you fail to do this, God will be angry with you.

Number 10: You must judge courageously. That's good, isn't it? Sometimes it takes courage to execute the justice that we know that we should. We hold back. We don't want to do it, but we must have courage. The Hebrew words for this phrase are asah chazaq; asah meaning “to do” and chazaq meaning “to be strong, courageous, valiant.” And so we put them together. We are to do valiantly.

Now, those are all the points in that one passage. But there are more principles in the Word of God, so let's carry on and find them in other places.

Number 11: You must judge righteously (Proverbs 31:9).

Number 12: You must judge fairly (Deuteronomy 1:16.)

Number 13: You must not be afraid of the face of man (Deuteronomy 1:17). That's a good one, isn't it? We're not to fear man. We fear God because He's the God of justice. We fear Him. We do what He wants us to do and we don't fear the face of man, and what they think.

Number 14: You must never twist justice (Deuteronomy 16:19).

Number 15: You must pursue justice (Deuteronomy 16:20). You have to run after it, to chase after it.

Number 16: You must investigate thoroughly before making judgment. That's a good one, isn't it? We have to do that with our children too, don't we? Have you found that someone will come, and they'll tell on the other one? But then you've got to find out, really, who did it, and why, and what happened. We have to investigate thoroughly. We read about that in Deuteronomy 13:13-15 and chapter 19:18.

Number 17: You must judge according to God's judgment, and the statutes in His Word (Ezekiel 44:24).  .

Number 18: You must bring justice to all who are oppressed.

So there were 18 points about justice. Let's move on. Oh, no? We're going to give you a few more Scriptures about hating evil.

Psalm 97:10: “He that loves the Lord hates evil.”

Proverbs 18:13: “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil”

Oh, Psalm 101 is an amazing psalm. Read the whole psalm sometime, and you'll understand how David looked upon evil. So many things he says that he hates in the psalm. Let's read it from the New English Translation. David says: “I hate doing evil. I will have no part of it. I will have nothing to do with a perverse person. I will not permit evil. Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.”

Wow! Did you get what he's saying there? Wow! You can hardly believe it. Here's David . . . he gets up every morning. This is what he says every morning. “I will go out, and I will destroy every wicked person. I will get rid of every evildoer from the city of my God.”

Wooo! We couldn't imagine anyone doing that today! Well, they would never get away with it, would they? But that's what David did because he hated evil, and he wanted the city of Jerusalem to be a city of holiness.

But I believe we can take that Scripture, because when we read the Scriptures, we read them literally, but we also take them spiritually. This is a type of the attitude that we should have toward evil.

So every morning when we get up, if there's any evil thing in our hearts or in our minds, we don't go through the day with it. What do we do? We get rid of it! We destroy it! We remove it from our minds! We come against it in the Name of Jesus. And we resist the enemy, and we resist evil.

So that's the attitude we should have. And if there's any evil lurking in our home, or any evil that's crept into our home without our realizing it, and we become aware of it, we will deal with it. We'll cast it out of our home. We will deal with wickedness and evil.

So even though we would not do what David did, go round killing off every evil person, we're going to kill off every subtle evil attitude. That's the attitude we should have toward evil, the kind of hatred we should have.

5.    TURN BACK FROM EVIL

2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, who are called by my Name, shall humble themselves and pray, and turn from their wicked ways (here we've got it. This is what we do this time) “Turn from their wicked ways.” It's a turning away from, and a turning back to God. That's what the word means.

The Message Bible. Some people don't like to read the Message Bible, it's more like a paraphrase. But many times, it says such powerful things. It says in this translation: “turning their backs on their wicked lives.”

So that is part of our getting revival in the nation. Yes, we've got to humble ourselves. We've got to pray, which I trust we are all doing. I'm sure you are also praying every day against this fraudulent election. You're crying out to God to bring truth, to bring clarity, to expose the evil, and that which is an abomination. So we need to be praying for these things.

How we need a revival in our nation, a turning back to God! Oh, there is such evil, and we need to have such a turning back. But when we do that, not only pray, not only humble ourselves, but turn from our wicked ways, then God says, “He will hear from heaven and will heal us, and heal our land. “That's what we long for, isn't it?

6.    AVOID EVIL

Proverbs 4:14-15: “Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.” And so, when we encounter evil, we need to, well, when we see it, we're not going to get involved in it. We're going to avoid it. We're going to pass from it, turn from it.

That reminds me of these Scriptures in Proverbs. Proverbs 13:20 says that “He that walks with wise men will be wise: but a companion of fools will be destroyed.” What a powerful Scripture! And it is so true! I raised my children on this Scripture. I raised my teens on this Scripture. They all knew it by heart. Because it is so true, isn't it, ladies?

I find, especially as our children get into the teen years, that it's their peers that have such influence upon them. Teens love to have friendships. They love to get in the groove and hang out with friends. It is so important that they hang out with the right company, with friends who are wise, and who are godly, and who are walking in the ways of the Lord.

Pray much about the friendships of your children, dear mothers. It's such a powerful, important thing. I have seen many young people go astray, even from godly parents, and you wonder, wow, they were godly parents, how did their children go astray?

Well it wasn't the fault of their parents; it was the fault of their peers. Well, maybe their parents allowed them to get in with those peers. Dear parents, this is one of the biggest things we have to watch is who our children are hanging out with.

I think it's very important to get into a good church fellowship. It doesn't have to be a big church, but make sure it's a church where, hopefully, you can find other families with children round about the ages of your children, so they can establish those friendships, even while they are young. So they go into their teen years with these friendships from other godly families. That's a very beautiful thing.

I had that blessing with our children. We were pastoring in New Zealand when our children were growing up. There were so many beautiful godly families with children the ages of our children. And I fostered those friendships. We showed so much  hospitality. We would invite these families into our home. The children became friends.

Often, they would stay at their home, or they would come and stay at our home, because we trusted these families. It was such a blessing for our children. They grew into their teen years with these friendships. These were who they hung around with. They didn't have to get pulled away by evil friendships.

Another thing we have to watch is if children are in the public school system. Oh, my. This is another area where they can find these ungodly friends. We have to watch that. That's one of the great blessings of home schooling, that you are taking them out from that influence of ungodly influences. And many have been pulled away, just because they've been in public schools, and got into the wrong company.

Of course, I mean, it can happen, even in homeschoolers. You've got to watch. It's not just, “Oh, they're homeschooling. They'll be fine.” No, you have got to get to know the families of the children your children associate with.

You have to know their parents. You have to be part of their lives. It's not just, “Oh, I know them.” No. Do you really know them? Have you sat around their table? Have you invited them to sit around your table? There are many times they've sat around your table. You've opened your home, and had barbeques, and you've had celebrations, and they've been part of it. And so you've got to know them.

Get to know the parents of the children your children are friends with, because it's so true. “He that walks with wise men will be wise, but a companion of fools will be destroyed.” Yes, destroyed. They can be totally destroyed by wrong company.

Even we as adults, we are influenced by our company. And therefore, we should always be seeking out godly company, that we inspire one another, and encourage one another. There's so many Scriptures in the Word of God. Maybe I'll have to, oh, I think I have done a session with you about all the “one another’s,” and how we're to love one another, and be kind to one another, and show hospitality to one another. That's all part of a real, living lifestyle, the lifestyle that God wants us to live in. We are, as we're doing that, our children will be blessed, because they'll be growing up in that lifestyle of godly friendships, which is such a blessing.

Proverbs 14:7 says: “Go from the presence of  a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.” Teach your children these Scriptures. Make them memory verses. Teach them. You know, if they find they're in the presence of other young people, they may even be homeschoolers, they may even be children or young people who are in the church, but if they perceive that they don't have wisdom, and they don't have the lips of knowledge, and they're not walking in righteousness, well, you remind your children, “You leave. You go. You don't stay hanging out with them.”

7.    PURGE OUT EVIL

We're going to the New Testament here. 1 Corinthians 5:7: “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump.” Back in the Old Testament, at the  time of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and of Passover, the first thing they had to do, the mother would go through the house to check if there was anything leavened, if there was any leavened bread. That means bread that's made with yeast. Because yeast speaks of sin. It's a type of sin. Because when you put yeast in bread, it makes it spread and puff out, and that's what sin does. It never stays on its own. It always spreads, and that's why we have to get rid of it.

And so, God had them do very tangible things so they could understand truth. So they would go through the house, and if there was any bread lying around made with yeast, or even if there were any crumbs, they would have to gather them up and get rid of them!

In fact, in Jewish families today, the mothers will put breadcrumbs around the house. Then they will take the children with them, and, oh, when the children see the breadcrumbs, they will bring them into the little pan. So they're going to throw them away. It speaks of getting rid of the leaven of sin so there will be no sin in the house.

So here Paul is writing to the Corinthians because they understood what he was talking about. They were used to doing this every year. He says to them: “Purge out (it just means to clear out, get rid of) the old leaven, that there may be a new lump.” So we have to keep getting rid of the old stuff. Amen?

8.    ABSTAIN FROM EVIL IN EVERY FORM

Now, 1 Thessalonians 5:22 in the KJV says: “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” Although most translations say: “Stay away from every form of evil.”

Or “Steer clear of evil in any form.”

The Amplified says: “Abstain from evil, shrink from it, and keep aloof from it, in whatever form, or whatever kind it may be.”

So these Scriptures bring out the fact that it doesn't matter what form it is, you've got to stay away from it and steer clear of it.

But in the King James, it says: “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” I think that is an important fact also, because sometimes you may not be doing anything evil, but it could give the appearance of evil.

That's why I am against young people who go out and they get apartments. They will . . .  maybe they're at college, or something like that, or working in a different city. And they'll get an apartment, and they'll get others in to help them pay the rent. And they are not using wisdom in only having the same sex, but a guy may get in some girls, or a girl may get in a guy. That is wrong.

Now there may not be anything sinister going on behind the scenes, but it has the appearance of evil. If a guy and a girl are living in the same apartment, well, what do you think? I mean, it gives the appearance of evil.

And as the people of God, we don't want to give any appearance of evil. We don't want to give any room for the enemy at all, to say anything derogatory against God's people. And so we have to teach our children these things.

I remember when we were first married, Colin and I actually went out full time for God when we were engaged. And then from there we were married, and we went into fulltime, well, OK. I'll start there. While we were engaged even, and then, yes, when we were married, we were blessed to be part of Tell New Zealand Crusade, taking the Gospel of John to every home in the nation, and then later, Tell the Nations Crusade, going out to the Philippine Islands.

But we were blessed that the leader of this vision was a man named Campbell McAlpine, a very godly man. He was a man that when you were around him, you didn't just talk lightly. You were aware of the fear of God. It was a great blessing to know him and to be part of his vision.

I remember him speaking to those who were involved in our mission, because there were many involved, and saying how important it was (he spoke to the men particularly, as those who would be leaders in God's service, and say), “Now never counsel a woman on your own. It may be completely fine, you have no problem with it, but others can look on and see. You are behind closed doors with a woman who is not your wife, and it also can lead to temptation.”

And he said, “You may be walking down the street. It is pouring with rain. Someone from your church stops. It's a lady. 'Hey, get in, get a ride!'” He says, “No, don't accept the ride. What if someone sees you riding in a car with another woman? Now, you may have had no kind of ulterior motives, but others can see things. It's an appearance of evil.”

So he gave these very important things to look out for, throughout our lives. I must close this session, but I must let you know, there were others who listened to those same godly words of advice. And didn't hear them. I think of one man, a beautiful couple that were working with us. He didn't listen to those words. As the years went by, he did counsel women. He was a counselor. He counseled women on his own. And he fell into adultery.

I am thankful that my husband has always kept to these words of advice, because although they can be a sacrifice to make sure you don't do them, they avoid the appearance of evil. If we are people who truly hate and abhor evil, we won't even want to give the appearance of evil.

Well, time has gone again. So let us pray.

“Dear Father, we love You. We thank You that You are so concerned about our lives. You want us to live lives of holiness. And Lord, You show us what we are to do about evil, because evil only brings destruction.

“And Lord, You want to save us from evil, because all You want is our good. You want us to live a long life, and a good life.

“And, Lord God, we pray that, as we are looking at all these different verbs about what we are to do about evil, we pray that You will help us to take action. And that You will put in us, Lord, these attitudes, that we will not condone it, and we will not get used to it; but we will truly hate evil, and abhor it, Lord God. And avoid it, and resist it, and cast it out. We ask this in the precious Name of Jesus. Amen.”

Transcribed by Darlene Norris

Continuing the rest of the points next week.

 

 

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 131: NEVER COWER IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY

Which do you like to celebrate? Hanukkah or Christmas, or both? We are the “both” family. Join with me as I talk about what we do. This year is a strategic time to remember the Feast of Dedication, and the story of the brave Maccabees who defied Antiochus Epiphanes and led a revolt against the Seleucid armies. Their bravery inspires us to never cower in the face of tyranny!

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Wonderful to be with you. It's wintertime here in Tennessee, but, oh, we are having the most beautiful day today! We've had cold weather, but now it's like summer weather. We seem to be going from summer to winter. But we just love every day, love the warm days, and we love the cold days. We've had one snowfall so far, just a small one. And we hope we'll have some more.

This morning I was making my homemade bread again. I always love to make my bread. In fact, when I run out of bread, well, I just don't eat any bread at all until I make my own bread again. I use sourdough starter, so it's a sourdough bread. It's not a white fluffy bread.

We make it with . . . I use rye and spelt. Sometimes I use kamut, but I'm using spelt at the moment. So, it's quite a dense loaf, but it's so delicious, and so healthy.

Another thing I've been doing lately is making pancakes from my sourdough starter. I only recently found out I could do this. I'm so enjoying it. All I do is I use one egg and one cup of my sourdough starter and a little bit of salt. I just cook it in the pan, and then have it with whatever we like, berries, or whatever. It's so delicious!

So that's my breakfast at the moment. I find that I have seasons of breakfasts. Do you? You get onto one thing, and you enjoy that for a while, and then you change to another thing.

Recently I have also been having oat groats, not rolled oats, not even steel-cut oats, but the oat groats, right from the very grain. I soak, well I don't soak them, I just put them into the crockpot overnight. In the morning they are all soft and ready to eat. And so delicious!

It says that you should put one cup of oats to three cups of water, but I find that I need more than that. I usually use at least four cups, sometimes more. It seems to come to a lovely consistency. I don't usually like eating rolled oats for some reason, but I enjoy steel-cut. But now I enjoy the oat groats even better.

Another breakfast dish that I love, and that's using barley, too. Soaking barley . . . And Serene, she loves to soak it for about two or three nights in whey, or in kefir, or something like that. And then, cook it up, and it's so beautiful. So, these wonderful breakfast grains are so great in their real original state.

I have to confess that one thing that I do not have in my pantry and that is boxes of cereal. I NEVER ever buy them. I always think, “Well, you might as well eat the cardboard, as much as the cereal inside,” because it's so changed. It doesn't even resemble the original grain at all. And it has so many added things. I mean, most are filled with sugar, but you can get some healthy ones. But even then, those are not as healthy as having those original grains. That's what I love to start the day on!

Anyway, well, today is, what is the day? I can't even remember the date. But when you get this podcast, it will be the fifth day of Hanukkah. There are eight days in the Hanukkah celebration.

We in our family love to celebrate. So, we love to celebrate the feasts of the Lord. We love to celebrate Hanukkah. And we love to celebrate Christmas. We celebrate everything!

Hanukkah is one of my favorites. It's the time when we remember the story of the Maccabees. I'm sure you’ve heard about the Maccabee family and how God, I know it was God, who raised them up to save the Jewish nation.

It actually all happened when, one day, Antiochus Epiphanes, who was ruling over Israel at that time, he sent one of his men to this little town of Modin. This is where the Maccabee family lived.

Antiochus Epiphanes, he was seeking to totally annihilate Jewish life, and all their religious rites. He wanted to get rid of everything. He wanted to get rid of the Jewish people. He was trying to get them to renounce their way of life, and to practice pagan observances, and to live like the Greeks.

Anyway, so he came to this town of Modin, and his officials were trying to get Mattathias to influence the people of his town, because he was the priest in that town. So, they were trying to use him to get the people to turn away from God. But I love his reply. You can read it in the Apocrypha.

It's the books of the Maccabees in the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha was not chosen to be part of the canon of Scripture. However, it is good history, and especially the books of the Maccabees. Here we can read about their history and it's a very powerful history.

This was his answer: “Mattathias said in a loud voice, 'What do I care if everyone in the king's entire kingdom turns away from their own religion, and starts obeying his lords? My family and I will always keep the promises our ancestors made to God. WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP O UR FAITH, or disobey even one of God's laws. We will not obey Antiochus!'”

That's what he replied. Well, he was making this great reply, when one cowardly Jew stepped forward to obey the king and offer a sacrifice. Well, Mattathias, he was so furious, he rushed over, killed the man, destroyed the altar, and killed the official who ordered the sacrifice!

After that, he and his sons ran to the hills, leaving behind everything they owned, because they knew that they would be killed. But from that they began to start their revolts. They gradually gathered an army. They began to conduct continual battles against Antiochus Epiphanes and his army.

After many years, they eventually delivered Israel and Jerusalem, and God's Temple, which had been desecrated. This is what the story of the Hanukkah is all about. Actually, it's the story of the Maccabees, but it's the commemorating of them rededicating the Temple.

When they eventually were able to deliver Israel from the power of this evil man, they got the Temple back. They rededicated the Temple, because Hanukkah is the Hebrew word for “dedication.” In fact, the word, chanak, the verb for Hanukkah, is used in Proverbs 22:6, where it says: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will never turn from it.”

That word, “to train up a child,” is the word chanak, coming from Hanukkah, “dedication.” So, when you are training your children, you are actually dedicating them to the Lord. Wow! That's makes a wonderful difference, doesn't it, in understanding how we are to train our children.

We're not just training them as we think each day and teaching them to obey. Of course, those are all important things. But everything we do in the raising and the training of our children is always a vision of dedicating them to the service of the Lord.

We're raising them in a way that they will be set apart for God's service. We are training them to be ready, and prepared for God's service, and to be totally dedicated to Him. That makes a big difference to our parenting.

We're not content to allow our children to get taken up with the status quo of this world. Because we're dedicating them to God! We're not like the status quo families down the street, who, maybe they're very good families. But they don't have the same vision for their children that we have. Our vision is above the normal vision. It's to dedicate them to God Himself.

That is what Hanukkah is all about. And when they were dedicating the Temple, and getting it all back together, because most of it had all been desecrated, they went to light the lamps, because they started to get everything back.

The Maccabee families were priests, so they knew the ways and the laws of the priesthood, and how everything should be conducted in the Temple. Of course, they had to make the bread once a week, and put it on the Table, the Table of Showbread. They had to light the Menorah. They had to light the Altar of Incense.

I guess by this time, they had got the brazen altar for the sacrifices all going again. But when they came to light the Menorah, they only had found enough oil for one day. But the story, history, tells us that there was a miracle.

While they had to make the anointing oil for the Menorah, they could only use the oil according to God's specifications. They couldn't use just any old oil. It had to be the right recipe. So, the miracle took place, and the light just continued, even though they only could light it for one day, it continued to shine for eight days, until they had the oil ready to light the lamps again.

That's why Hanukkah is an eight-day celebration, remembering that miracle. Jesus Himself went up to Jerusalem to commemorate, and to join in the festivities of the Feast of Dedication, as it was called. It also had another name. It was called the Festival of Lights. You can read about how Jesus went up to Jerusalem for that in John, chapter 10, verse 22.

So, what we do on the eight days of Hanukkah? I have a list of Scriptures for every day, under different subjects about the Light, about God being the Source of Light, but Jesus being the Light of the world. Scriptures about us shining the Light of Jesus to the world, and so on. A different theme about Light for the eight days. We read these Scriptures in our morning and our evening devotions. We really enjoy that.

Then we usually take one night of Hanukkah to make it a dedication night, because that's what it's all about. It was the rededication of the Temple. But we don't have a Temple today. There's no Temple in Jerusalem. We are now the Temples of God, the Temples of the Holy Spirit.

We also need to keep rededicating our Temples (our bodies). So, it's a good thing, we find at least once a year, I think we should do it more, but at least during the time of Hanukkah, we'll take a night where we will each one around the table, we will dedicate our lives anew to the Lord. It's so meaningful.

So, we are enjoying Hanukkah at this time. Then it will soon be Christmas, and we will enjoy that too. We are not one of those families who say no, we won't celebrate Christmas. I know that there are many who feel that it's pagan, but we don't look upon it as a pagan festival. We don't get involved with all the pagan stuff. We just want to remember the birth of Jesus.

Now, it's most likely that Jesus was not born at this Christmas time. No one knows exactly when He was born. I guess the majority would think that he was born during the Feast of Tabernacles, during the time of the fall, which means that Jesus would have been conceived during this Christmas time.

What an amazing thing! The Incarnation, that God Himself comes to this earth, as a seed in a woman, and is conceived by the Holy Ghost. This is so powerful! It's so glorious to remember.

I feel sad, because I think if Christians don't celebrate this time, when do they rejoice and celebrate the birth? Or the Incarnation of Jesus?

We just love to sing the Christmas carols from Thanksgiving on. We love the play the carols, and have them playing in our homes, to sing them. Then on Christmas day, we love to meet as a family. To us, it's just a family time. We meet as a family. We have a lovely big Christmas dinner and gather together. We just love the gathering together in celebrating as a family.

So, our Christmas day is pretty much like Thanksgiving, really. It's just a great big dinner, festival celebration in the day, where we also will have speeches and toasts. And then we'll have another big celebration in the evening with our dessert, because we can never eat everything at once! We like to have our turkey and lamb and whatever we're cooking, and all these things in the day. Then, oh, when we're feeling a little more like it, we'll have our dessert in the evening.

It's just a beautiful day of family celebration. So that's what we're doing. I guess you'll all be doing different things in your home. Everybody has their different traditions and their different ways. But the main thing is to celebrate with family, isn't it?

But I'm also getting back to Hanukkah, I'm really feeling this year, oh, that it's such a powerful remembrance. Because these Maccabees, the father and his five brave, amazing, courageous sons, they rose up against incredible tyranny that they were facing.

I mean, this Antiochus Epiphanes, he wanted to completely take away their whole lifestyle, and change it. Now, we're not facing exactly what the Maccabees faced back then, or what the Jewish people were facing then.

But we're beginning to face it, because it's coming if we continue to give in, because already we have tyranny happening in our beautiful free nation of America. Could you have imagined at the beginning of the year, that here we are, all these months later, and we are looking out upon a whole nation of masked people? Now that is beyond what we could ever have thought up in our brains!

And why is that happening? I trust that you understand that it's not because of this plandemic. This has been used for tyranny, to get us to be submissive, to come under their leftist liberal ideologies, because their plan is a global reset. It is globalism.

They are wanting to bring in a new economic world order. This is all the precursor. All the lockdowns, and all the social distancing, all this is just a precursor, and preparing us for the tyranny that is coming. For when this new economic world order comes, and we pray that it is going to be pushed back, and will not come as soon as they want to get it in.

Because well, there's only one person, and those who are standing with him, who are stopping this. This is why our President Trump is hated, not only hated in this country, but hated around the world, of those who are planning this new world order. He is a wrench in the spokes of what they are trying to do, because he does not believe in it. He believes in being a patriot and keeping this nation free. I think we have to come to understand this because there is this whole elite who are bringing in this tyranny.

What about churches? There are some churches that are still not back together. There are others who are still not singing in church. How come they have obeyed and submissively given in to this tyranny? Because this is tyranny. This is nothing else but that.

Can you imagine the Maccabees giving in? Goodness me, wow! I mean, they would have not given in to such things. These were men who were brave and courageous, and they would not give up anything of the lifestyle that God had given to them. These Maccabees, they teach us that we are NEVER TO COWER IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY. I think it's a great thing to remember at this time.

I was reading the other day in Revelation, Revelation chapter 21:8. It gives a list of those who will be thrown into the lake of fire. At the top of the list is “the fearful.” Now, OK, we've been told that's OK, because we all fear things. Fear can be a good thing if it's protecting us from something that's going to happen.

But the real meaning of the word is “the cowards.” Most translations translate it “the coward.” The Amplified is very powerful. It says: “But as for the coward, and the ignoble, and the contemptible, and the cravenly lacking in courage, and the cowardly submissive.” And then it goes on to mention the whoremongers and the sorcerers and the adulterers and so on.

I'm amazed that “cowardly” is put alongside those other evil things! In fact, it's at the TOP OF THE LIST! I believe, dear ladies, we need to get the spirit of the Maccabees in this hour, and rise up against tyranny, and claim our freedoms. Our freedom that is given to us by the Constitution, our freedoms that are given to us by God.

Oh, by the way, that's another thing I must tell you about. We have some other Christmas traditions. Actually, this week, we will be having one, no, two of our book parties. Because we also have Christmas book parties.

It started years ago when our children were raising their children. We'd come together for Christmas, and it would be such a racket with all the little children, you know. I thought, “Oh, these mums and dads just need one night when they can come and have a beautiful restful evening.”

So, I decided we'd have a book party. It would be just the couples. We'd come together, and we'd have a beautiful meal together. Then we'd have this book party. Well, we play the white elephant game, but none of us want junk, or stuff, or anything extra in our homes. We're trying to eliminate junk, not get it!

But we all love to read, so we just buy books. We wrap them up, and we put them in the middle of the floor. And then we have the numbers, and when it comes to a number, you choose.

We like to play it really radically. We encourage each other to get books that everyone will just die for, and they'll fight for! So, when it's their turn, instead of just, “Oh, going and unwrapping another book,” they'll be fighting for a book that someone else has! It usually turns into a real fight, and a real . . . It gets really exciting. But we just love it, for the fun of it.

So, we do that, but then we got too big, and then all the young, the new generation of young couples began to come. Now there's so many of them that we can't all fit together! We'd be going until midnight. So, we have a separate one for the young couples, and actually even the young girls, the singles. They actually have their own book party, because they all love reading too. So, we all love to do that too.

But why I was saying that, is that this year, I've already ordered my books for the book parties, because we'll be involved in two of them. Colin and I love to host the young couples one, as well as the older couples.

I have purchased, this year, all books about the Revolutionary War, because I've been thinking much back to that time, of when the people of this nation had to rise up against the tyranny of Britain. They were rising up against the greatest army in the world at that time.

Here they were, just farmers, and this and that, never been trained in war. Yet, because they so desired freedom, they could not take all their lockdowns, and all their tyranny that was put upon them. So, they rose up, and against all odds, they won! They won, because it was so strong in them to have their freedom.

So, I think we need to get back to a bit of this spirit, don't we? There were so many who lost their lives. They lost their lives for the freedom of this country! And now we're allowing our freedoms to be given away! How come? How can we do that?

We need to perhaps read about the Maccabees again and read some more about the Revolutionary War. Or perhaps get some good DVDs on it, and remind ourselves of the sacrifices that took place for our freedoms in this country that we will NOT give them away! Amen?

Oh well. That was my little introduction, because I'm planning to speak today, and will have to go on to next time, about 20different words of what God wants us to do about evil. I mentioned a few of these in a podcast a few weeks ago. I just got started and didn't have time to finish, and then I got on to different other podcasts. But I feel I do need to give it to you fully. So, I'll start again, so you can get back with me, of where we're going.

I found as I said, 20 different words, verbs, doing words, because, dear ladies, the Bible is a doing Book. It's a verbing Book. It's an action Book. It's the Hebrew word asah Book, which means “to do, to take action.”

Everything God writes in this Book, He doesn't write it for us to just enjoy reading it. “Oh, that is so lovely . . .” NO! He gives it to us for us to DO! Oh, just read through Deuteronomy, and read how over and over and over and over again that Moses speaks, God speaking through him: “I want you to keep and DO these words that I am giving you. I want you to keep and DO these statutes I am giving you.” And so it's all do, do, do, asah, asah, asah, which is the Hebrew word.

I was reading that in Deuteronomy and just seeing the power there. So then I thought, and I got onto the points about evil, because I thought, “Well, what does God want us to do about evil?” I found 20, can you believe it, of these. God doesn't just mention things, does he? He really gives them to us.

So, let’s look at them.

Number one: DEPART FROM EVIL

Psalm 34:14: “Depart from evil, and do good.”

Proverbs 3:7: “Fear the Lord, and depart from evil.”

Proverbs 14:16: “A wise son feareth and departs from evil.”

Proverbs 16:6: “By the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil.” This word, it means “to turn aside from, to shun, to rebel from it, revolt from it, remove.”

But it's not only translated “depart.” This is the amazing thing. When you read a word, you're reading “depart from evil.” If you go back and check the Hebrew word, and then you look up all the other places where that Hebrew word is used, you find so many different words! It's amazing.

I'm not going to give you all of them today, but here's a couple. This same Hebrew word for “depart” is also translated “beheaded.” Wow! In 2 Samuel 4:6-7, it talks about two guys who beheaded Ishbosheth. That was one of Jonathan's sons. And they took it to David.

They thought David would be pleased because Saul, his enemy was now dead. But, oh, was David pleased? No! He was absolutely indignant that they should do such a thing and should cut off a man's head in peace while he's lying on his bed. Not even in war? So, he then turned around and ordered that these two men should be killed.

But “beheaded.” Well, that really sort of gives it to us, doesn't it? And shows us what a powerful word it is. So, when we depart from evil, we are actually going to behead that evil. “That's it, I'm beheading it! I'm finished with it! It's gone, completely gone!” So, just remember that, that's a good word, “beheaded.” That's what you are doing about evil.

With all these words that we're going to talk about, we can relate them to what is happening now in our nation. The evil that is happening, and even the evil of our current election, where there has been so much fraud, just cheating, and stealing. This is what they plan to do, to steal this election. It is evil. Therefore, we should depart from it, shouldn't we?

Oh, here's another word, “eschew.” Have you ever heard that word before? Well, I don't blame you if you haven't, because it's an old word. It's found in the King James Bible. I don't think it will be in many other translations.

But it's the same word we're talking about, the same Hebrew word,” to depart from evil, to behead it.” But here, in Job, they translate it “eschew.” Isn't it interesting, how they use different words in different places, and it's exactly the same Hebrew word?

But let’s look at the one in Job 1:1: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” In other words, he departed from evil, he shunned it, he rebelled against it.

We go down to verse 8. This is where Satan and the Lord are conferring together. “The Lord said unto Satan, 'Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?'” Or rebels against it.

And one more time it uses it. Yes, it's in Job 2:3 where God speaks again and says, there's no one like Job: “one that feareth God  and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity.” So, there it is.

I'm sorry, ladies, here we've come to the end of this session, and I'm only given you the first point! Anyway, we've got lots of interesting ones to come. So don't forget to check in for the next session.

I won't be giving you a Christmas podcast. I'll be talking about ways to come against evil. I hope you don't mind, but I think it's important, because there's so much about it in the Word. OK, so come back next week.

“Dear Father, we thank You for this beautiful time of being near. Lord, I pray that You will save all these lovely, darling wives and mothers from rushing about too much, Lord, and just making life hectic for themselves. But Lord, they will rest, and bask in the beautiful, Lord, just remembering of Your birth, and Your Incarnation. And, Lord, lifting You up, Lord.

“For those who are celebrating Hanukkah, I pray that You will bless them too, Lord, as they just remember, Lord, how You are the Light of the world, how You want us to shine Your Light in this world. We do pray that You will help us to be shining lights, Lord, not flickering lights, but shining lights in this dark world.

“I pray for Your peace, Your rest, and Your blessing, to be on every family listening. In the precious Name of Jesus, Amen.”

Blessings from Nancy Campbell * www.aboverubies.org

Transcribed by Darlene Norris * This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.