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²² The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. 
Against such things there is no law.
–Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)–

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
–1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)–

¹ Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. ² For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. ³ But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging, and comfort.
–1 Corinthians 14:1-3 (NIV)–

²⁵ If an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are CONVICTED OF SIN and are brought under judgment by all, ²⁵ as THE SECRETS OF THEIR HEARTS are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”
–1 Corinthians 14:24-25 (NIV)–

⁷ I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, THE COMFORTER will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. ⁸ And when he is come, he will reprove the world of SIN, and of RIGHTEOUSNESS, and of JUDGMENT.
–Jesus in John 16:7-8 (KJV)–

¹⁰ And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. ¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from His presence, and there was no place for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hell gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. ¹⁴ Then death and Hell were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. ¹⁵ Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
–Revelation 20:10-15 (NIV)–

The cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.
–Revelation 21:8 (NIV)–

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Dr. Wayne Grudem, The Gift of Prophecy (Crossway, 2000).

Dr. Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022).

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994), p. 213.

A. W. Pink, The Attributes of God (Baker Books, 2006).

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.

Origin of consciousness
Fat acid rhetoric
Promulgate me mentally
Twisted to make no deity

Something more
Something more

Interpret reality
Sell to me no absolutes
Moral relativity
This world is false

Something more
Something more

I have a soul
Of not flesh and bone
It has a spirit
That cries out to know God

Your speculation seems so vague
It does not reveal
What’s real

Don’t pacify spiritual
Teach me to be me in Christ
Origin of consciousness
Spiritual

I am not what meets the eye
I am not what meets the eye
I am not what meets the eye
I am not what meets the eye

–Living Sacrifice, “Something More”–

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Satan himself may put on
the appearance of an angel of light.
–2 Corinthians 11:14 (Mace’s NT)–

His appearance was like lightning,
and his clothes were white as snow.
–Matthew 28:3 (NIV)–

He makes his angels winds
and his ministers a flame of fire.
–Hebrews 1:7 (ESV)–

 To another discerning of spirits.
–1 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV)–

I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
–Jesus in Luke 10:18 (NIV)–

I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; 
they came out of the mouth of the dragon, 
out of the mouth of the beast 
and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
–Revelation 16:13 (NIV)–

These signs will accompany those who believe:
In My name they will drive out demons; 
they will speak in new tongues.
–Mark 16:17 (NIV)–

⁶ One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. ⁷ The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.” ⁸ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” ⁹ “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. ¹⁰ “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. ¹¹ But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” ¹² The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
–Job 1:6-12 (NIV)–

¹⁷ Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.’” ¹⁸ The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?” ¹⁹ Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. ²⁰ And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?’ “One suggested this, and another that. ²¹ Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ²² “‘By what means?’ the Lord asked. “‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said. “‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the Lord. ‘Go and do it.’ ²³ “So now the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you.”
–1 Kings 22:17-23 (NIV)–

¹ Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. ² After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. ³ The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” ⁴ Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” ⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. ⁶ “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” ⁷ Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” ⁸ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ⁹ “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” ¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’” ¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
–Matthew 4:1-11 (NIV)–

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Athanasius, The Life of Antony (Paulist Press, 1979).

Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story (Ignatius Press, 1999).

—. An Exorcist: More Stories (Ignatius Press, 2002).

Francis MacNutt, Deliverance from Evil Spirits (Chosen Books, 2009).

Herbert Thurston, Ghosts and Poltergeists (Burns Oates, 1953), “The Exorcism of Haunted Houses.”

John Wimber, Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987), ch. 6: “Healing the Demonized.”

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley, ch. 2.

Father, forgive them,
for they do not know what they are doing.
–Luke 23:34 (NIV)–

Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
–Matthew 6:12 (NIV)–

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. 
For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?
Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
–2 Corinthians 6:14 (NIV)–

Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world
becomes an enemy of God.
–James 4:4 (NIV)–

Do not suppose that I have come
to bring peace to the earth.
I did not come to bring peace,
but a sword. 
For I have come to turn
‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
–Matthew 10:34-36 (NIV)–

You stiff-necked people! 
Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised.
You are just like your ancestors:
You always resist the Holy Spirit!
–Acts 7:51 (NIV)–

I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me…‘I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’
–Genesis 31:5, 13 (NIV)–

You hypocrites!
Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.’
–Matthew 15:7-8 (NIV)–

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Charles Spurgeon, “The Bitterness of the Cross.”

Reign, Most High
Almighty reign, Most High
Almighty I, Most High
Almighty I, Most High

What good is for a man to gain the whole world
Yet lose of forfeit his very self?
He must deny himself and
Take up his cross daily and follow Me, follow Me

If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words
Then I will be ashamed of him
When the time comes in His glory, we will rise

Reign, Most High
Almighty reign, Most High
Almighty I, Most High
Almighty I, Most High

I tell you the truth
Some of you who are standing here
Will not taste death before they see Jah
Creation come with His power, power

What can a man give in exchange
For his own soul he cannot save?
When the time comes in His glory, we will rise

Reign, Most High
Almighty reign, Most High
Almighty I, Most High
Almighty I, Most High

When the time comes in His glory, we will rise

–P.O.D., “Follow Me”–

This is the best film version of the Book of Acts that I’ve seen. Lots of open air preaching. Great acting with Anthony Hopkins as the apostle Paul. It was a miniseries that won two Emmy Awards. It picks up from where Jesus of Nazareth (1977) leaves off. Click on the poster to go to the video. –J.B.

I am about to bring war upon you
I will kill your people in front of your idols
The place will be littered with corpses
And you will know that I alone
I am the Lord

I am (I am)
The brethren (the brethren)
Marked by the banishment
My tribe (my tribe)
Wage war (wage war)
Until God decimates

Sodomites
Sodomites
Sodomites
Sodomites

There shall be no whores of the daughters of Israel
Nor a Sodomite of the sons of Israel
No!

Ways of Sodom
Sin of Gomorrah
Dissolved by flame
In Leviathan’s den
Hail hosanna
Slaying their prophets
Rape their covenant
None shall escape

Sodomites
Sodomites
Sodomites
Sodomites

(Hail)
Sin of flesh
(Hail)
Manifest
(Hail)
Tempest rasp
(Hail)
Serpent lion
(Hail)
Jebel usdum
(Hail)
I am possessed

–Soulfly, “Sodomites”–

Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities,
which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, 
serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
–Jude 1:7 (ESV)–

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Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About the Homosexuals (Sword of the Lord, 2000).

ACT, The Gay Plague: Homosexuality and Disease (Alert Citizens of Texas, 1983).

Maze Jackson, “Will the Homosexuals Destroy Us All?”

A Bible-based version of the 1990 film Flatliners (never watch that without the Clearplay DVD), where agnostic medical professionals discuss near-death experiences and the reality of the afterlife. Finally, one distressed doctor puts himself to sleep with a shot and has visions of Heaven and Hell. –J.B.

Box! Box! Box! Box!

Yesterday I was just a boy
In days of youthful hero worship
My kind have been molded by images on the screen
Brought up to emulate the big guns

Just another guest on death’s best show
The influence cuts deeper than mom’s
Those electric waves
The demons fly

Now could we just be
Bred to kill or die

There must be somethin’ else
For the blame I place on myself
Behind the tired eyes
The tears go uncried

In the box
Doin’ time
In the box
Just like doin’ time
In the box
Doin’ time
In the box

Now that I’m grown
Abandoned childhood toys
But still what danger
Have I retained
To grab the brass ring
To go in for the kill
And covet the good you know ‘dem got for murder

It’s just another guest on death’s best show
The influence cuts deeper than mom’s
Those electric waves
The demons fly

Now could we just be
Bred to kill or die

There’s got to be somethin’ else
For the blame I place on myself
Behind tired eyes
The demons stir
The tears go uncried

In the box
Doin’ time
In the box
Just like doin’ time
In the box
Doin’ time
In the box

Minds are locked down

–Snot, “The Box”–

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The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
–Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)–

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together.
–Jeremiah 6:10-11 (KJV)–

Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins…Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
–Isaiah 58:1, 6 (NIV)–

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Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man. (Teaches Quietism; all emotions are called “soulish”).

Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer, pp. 491-492, 495. “This is the principle that stands out from the writings of this sect. Given that some practical resolution is to be made, action will be taken solely when we are urged thereto by God. As long as the Holy Spirit has not set the soul in motion, she will wait without doing anything whatever…abandonment, exaggerated to the point of reducing oneself to a passive state of expectation…in this way desires and abandonment were falsely considered as two dispositions incompatible with one another…Let us not think of God as a jealous, intractable, sullen king who will not tolerate any initiative and who wishes to reduce us to a slave’s mute obedience.”

Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water, ch. 5. (On Social Justice).

John Wesley, “A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Rutherforth,” Part III. (On feeling the fruits).

Dr. John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 1946, 1985).

—. What Is Wrong With the Movies? (Sword of the Lord, 1938).

—. Adultery and Sex Perversion (Sword of the Lord, 1978).

Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying (Bethany House, 1962), ch. 14: “Be Ye Angry.”

—. “Be Ye Angry And Sin Not” (Last Days Ministries, 1985).

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth,
with its top reaching to heaven,
and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
–Genesis 28:12 (NIV)–

In the last days, God says,
    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
    your young men will see visions,
    your old men will dream dreams.
–Acts 2:17 (NIV)–

You stiff-necked people! 
Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised.
You are just like your ancestors:
You always resist the Holy Spirit!
–Acts 7:51 (NIV)–

Were not our hearts burning within us 
while he talked with us on the road
and opened the Scriptures to us?
–Luke 24:32 (NIV)–

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit 
that we are God’s children.
–Romans 8:16 (NIV)–

We demolish arguments and every pretension
that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, 
and we take captive every thought
to make it obedient to Christ.
–2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)–

That your faith might not rest
on human wisdom,
but on God’s power.
–1 Corinthians 2:5 (NIV)–

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Lee Strobel, Seeing the Supernatural (Zondervan, 2025). This is a really unique book. Written by a hard nosed skeptic, former atheist, and leading Christian apologist. Supports an evidence-based supernatural worldview.