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LIFE PRINCIPLES

The solution to virtually every problem in life is a passage from the Holy Bible, if you'll speak it, believe it, meditate on it, & do it.  God has victory for his people and healing and deliverance from demons. 

But if you call G a liar, then you don't have the solutions to the problems.  

Without faith it's imposs to please God (Heb).  Someone might say, "You're telling me what to do to please God, but I'm not entirely sure I want to put forth a lot of effort to please God.  Why do I have to work to please God?

O.K. One reason to put forth effort to please God is that Judgment Day is coming, and on Judgment Day, you'll want to have a good record with God so that you'll have a good reward.  But also, in this life, it's desirable to be pleasing to the Lord so that he'll make things go well for you.  If you're displeasing to God, he will withhold blessings from you that you could have had.  But if you delight yourself in the Lord, he'll give you the desires of your heart (Ps 37?).

Furthermore, let me ask you, have you accepted salvation from the Lord, are you a Christian?  If you're not a Christian, the most important thing for you to do now is become a Christian, 'cause if you put it off, you could wind up in hell.  But if you are a Christian, then we are not our own, we're bought with a price, so we ought to try to please God because he has bought us, and because things will go better for us when we live in such a way that we're pleasing to Him.   

Let me give you an example.  Do you ever use elevators?  I used an elevator nearly every day at one place I lived.  Did you ever get stuck on an elevator?  I got stuck on an elevator once, but not for very long.  The elevator malfunctoned, so I pressed the alarm button, and soon the maintenance man was there helping me get out of the elevator.  

So then, it was not a monumental inconvenience, but it was an inconvenience.

So now, when I get on an elevator, I have something I do.  

If there's someone else on the elevator, then I sort of mutter it, so the other person is not aware what I'm saying.  

In fact, there's a scripture that talks about "the wayfaring man even if he's a fool won't err therein" (in God's plan of salvation.)  In the Old Testament, I think.  In one of the prophets, probably.  Don't currently have a concordance for looking up where scriptures are in the Bible.  The best concordance to the King James Bible is, I believe, the Strong's unabridged concordance, available at Border's Books (which also has had some good prices on Bibles.)  Seems like there's a Border's at about Sunset & Vine in Hollywood, not too far a walk from the Red Line exit at Hollywood & Vine.  Or, there's no doubt a bus from Hollywood Blvd to Sunset.  

What is the way God has provided so people can go to heaven?  John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No man comes to the Father except by me," Jesus said.  The Father means God the Father who lives in heaven.  If you want to go to heaven, you go through Jesus.  

Now the way that you make other arrangements so you don't go to hell is, like Jesus told Nicodemus, you get born again.  

So how do I do that, brother Fred?  You get born again by hearing the gospel message that All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.  That the wages of sin is death (not just physical death, but also the going to hell.)  That the gift of God is eternal life (you go to heaven) through Jesus Christ our Lord.  That God raised Jesus from the dead after Jesus died on the cross.  

Here's something people don't know who don't read the Bible:  When you die, it's only your body that dies.  That body was just a house that you lived in.  

It was on the news recently that there was flooding, and some people lost their houses.  So now what?  Well now, they have to go find a different place to live.  Losing their homes was a serious inconvenience, but you don't die just because your house dies.  Nor do you die just because your body dies.  It's just your flesh and blood body that dies, and then you, the person who lived inside that house that was your body go on to your destination.  To what destination?  To one of two places: heaven, or hell.  And Jesus said most people go to hell.

Broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in there; narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it, Jesus said.  

In Hebrews we read, "as it is appointed to man once to die, and after this the judgment."  If you had a traffic ticket and then died before your court appearance, they'll not prosecute because you died.  But after you die, you still go to Judgment Day because it was only your body that died.  

In the book of Revelation we see that only those who have their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life, in heaven, will go to heaven.

So how do I get my name written in the Lamb's Book of Life?  By getting born-again, is how.  

After hearing the gospel message, you're still not saved just because of what you heard.  No, you have to do something.  

You have to say "Yes" to Jesus.  Is the word yes in your vocabulary?  If the word yes is not in your vocabulary, you must be very, very young.  So young, in fact, that you probably can't understand most of what I'm saying.  But if you can understand most of what I'm saying, then no doubt you can say yes to Jesus.

In Revelation chapter 3, verse 20, Jesus says, "See, I stand at the door, and knock, if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I'll come in to him, and will eat with him, and he with me."

Open your heart to Jesus.  Invite him in.  Say, "Lord Jesus I want your salvation, I accept your salvation, I believe God raised you from the dead, I want to go to heaven."

Now brother Fred, If I do that, isn't there the chance that Jesus will say he doesn't want me?  No, there isn't.  The Bible says all that call on the name of the Lord shall be saved, and you can be a part of that all.  

I was having some dental pain while also doing a little traveling, so I took some pain pills.  But the problem seemed to be getting worse.  I know from the Bible that healing belongs to us as Christians, along with salvation from sins.  I remembered something Norvel Hayes had said.  I guess he had been sitting on a platform at a church, perhaps as guest speaker.  He said the Lord told him, "If there's anyone out there with anything wrong with their bodies, they're not worshipping me enough."

I remembered that the one book in the Bible that seems to be most focused on praise and worship is the Psalms.  After the traveling, I had been listening to audio cassette tapes of Alexander Scourby reading the King James Bible, the book of Isaiah.  So I put that cassette aside, and began listening to the Psalms.  I probably listened 4 or 5 hours, and also quoted along with Scourby parts that I had in my memory.  There's a Psalm where in every verse is the phrase, "For his mercy endures forever."  And I would speak those words along with Scourby.  You can also get it on compact discs, which are somewhat sturdier than tapes.  

Perhaps I did like that also the next day.  The pain went away, and I stopped taking pain pills, praise God!  Norvel Hayes is pretty good as a Bible teacher, and he has books and tapes and, I think, DVD's.  On the internet, seems like his web address is nhm.cc.  Think he also has NorvelHayes.com.  If you don't have your own computer, you can get on the internet at the public library, or at Fedex/Kinko's, which I think is now called Fedex Office, where you can rent a computer for like 25 cents per minute.  Better call first.  Perhaps not every store has the computers.  

I recently happened to catch Norvel Hayes on Direct TV (one of the satellite TV networks.)  He was on the GTV channel ("God TV" they call it--seems like it was channel 365.)  They probably have it on some of the cable TV networks.  Hayes said he had a female student.  She didn't like his teaching much at first.  "Too strong," she said.  There was something wrong with her legs.  She used crutches when she walked.  He told her to command her legs to be normal every day.  She started commanding her legs to be normal every day, and sometimes several times a day.  

After about six months, she went to the mall with her friends.  She was walking along with her crutches, and she felt the power of God come on her.  She threw down her crutches, and walked off with normal legs.  That's what Hayes said.  I believe it.  

Norvel said the Lord told him, "My people don't worship me enough, and you don't either, son.  You tell the people if they'll spend time worshipping me, they can have anything they want."

the casting out of devils, or demons...  I told you about an authority in that field, Kenneth E. Hagin.  He has cast out many demons out of people.  Though he passed in about 2003, he has written close to a hundred books, most of which are best sellers (have sold more than a million copies each.)  He has a son, Kenneth Hagin Jr., who now is called Kenneth W. Hagin, I think.  Rhema Bible Training Center is the Bible College that K.E.Hagin started in Broken Arrow, OK, near Tulsa.  Hagin Jr. (W)  also has written books, but I prefer K.E.Hagin.  Also there are audio cassette tapes and videos.  

And in Ephesians chapt 6, we see that our main enemy is not flesh & blood (people), but rather (and K.E.Hagin says these are the four categories of demons) principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and "spiritual wickedness in high places."  But this last part, in quotations, Hagin says, a better translation is "wicked spirits in high places."

In Mark chapt 16, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow those who believe:  In my name they shall cast out devils,  they shall speak with new tongues (languages), ...they shall lay hands on the sick & they shall recover."  So, Jesus wants his people to cast out devils.  Norvel Hayes said the Lord told him that these words in Mark chapt 16 are the most important words that ever came out of Jesus' mouth.  

It was Pastor Win Worley who came to Houston and taught me that yes, even Christians, can have demons.  I hadn't known that.  

Demons don't ever want to go out of a person once they get in, until that person dies.  Then they go looking for someone else to get into.  They don't have to go out unless a Christian casts them out.  Unfortunately, there's not enough teaching about this.  

Another authority on casting out devils was Dr. Lester Sumrall, who started LeSEA, Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Assn.  Seems like it's P.O.Box 12, South Bend, IN.  The zip code would be available at USPS.com, or by calling 1 (800) ASK USPS, I believe.  

I think they also now have LeSEA Broadcasting, which is also on the Internet.  Sumrall had three sons that went into the ministry.  In fact, I saw Lester Sumrall teaching on Direct TV recently, though he has passed on.  But a video, I guess.  Direct TV has some religious channels at about channel 360 to 379, but of course, I don't watch the Catholic channel, nor the Mormon channel.

Norvel Hayes is also something of an authority on casting out of devils, and was a student of Lester Sumrall.  There's an excellent book by Sumrall, "Demons, the Answer Book."  Especially see the Chapter, "Bitten by Demons," about a woman in the Philippines that Sumrall cast demons out of perhaps sixty years ago.  It was a national news story at the time in the Philippines.  

The woman had teeth marks in her arm from being bitten by demons.  The teeth marks were not of human teeth.  

There is an excellent book by Charles Capps, "God's Creative Power Will Work for You."  It has sold over 4 million  copies.  His address is P.O. Box 69, England, AR, 72046.  The book is about quoting God's promises to help you get whatever you need from God, such as healing or finances, or whatever.  Think he's also at CharlesCapps.com, or you can google him at google.com. 

When you die, it's only your body that dies.  Then, you, the man who had that body as his house, will go either to heaven, or to hell.  How do I know?  Jesus said so, in the Bible, and Dave, I know that Jesus doesn't tell lies.  

Jesus told about two men.  One of them was a beggar, named Lazarus.  The other was a rich man, at whose gate Lazarus laid, full of sores, hoping to be fed from the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table.  Jesus didn't tell us the rich man's name, but we know he had a name, because Jesus said, "There was a certain rich man..."

Then both men died.  Lazarus was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.  The rich man's body was buried, and then in hell, the rich man lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.  The rich man said, "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, so he can dip his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." 

Jesus said that in hell, there's weeping and gnashing of teeth, where their worms don't die, and where the fire is not quenched." 

Abraham answered the rich man, "Son, you know that in your lifetime, you received your good things, and he, evil things, but now he's comforted, and you're tormented.  And beside all this, between us and you there is this great gulf fixed, so that if anyone wanted to come from here to there, they can't."

Then the formerly rich man said, "Then send him back to earth, for I have five brothers, so that they don't also come to this place of torment."  

Abraham answered, "They have Moses (books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy) and the prophets, let them hear them."   

The rich man said, "No, Father Abraham, but if someone went back from the dead, they'd believe."

Abraham answered, "If they won't listen to Moses and the prophets, they wouldn't believe even if someone went back from the dead."

Jesus also teaches that most people go to hell, when he says, "Broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat; narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it."

But I'm one of those who has found salvation, and eternal life, and heaven, by becoming a born again Christian, but to Jews, I try to say, become a Messianic Jew, and accept Jesus the Messiah.  It costs you not one penny to become a Messianic Jew, or in other words, a fulfilled Jew.  

Judaiasm used to be the number one religion in the world up until about 2,000 years ago.  The Jewish religion, Judiasm, correctly teaches that a savior, a messiah would come.

Here is the good news, the promised Messiah has come, and his name is The Lord Jesus Christ, born of a virgin in the city of Bethlehem, who died for our sins, whom God raised from the dead on the third day.  

But then Judaism became the second best religion, because the Jews generally rejected Jesus as their messiah.  I think they were expecting that the Messiah would immediately set up a kingdom on earth.  But Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this earth."  Jesus said the kingdom of God is in your hearts (if you're a Messianic Jew).  The number one religion is the Christian religion, or, Messianic Judaism, which includes some Jews and some gentiles.  

As a Christian, the Bible says I'm grafted into Israel. 

Jesus said in the book of Revelation, "See, I stand at the door and knock.  If any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."  Open the door, and say with your mouth, Yes to Jesus, Dave. 

The Bible says, "All that call on the name of the Lord shall be saved."  Open your mouth, Dave, and ask Jesus to save you.  He will hear from heaven and save you.   

And there are lots of scriptures about being led by the Spirit of God.  "I will guide thee with my eye." (Psalms, I think)

As one of his sheep, I know the Lord's voice.  Because I draw near to God, he draws near to me.  
My heart devises my way, but the Lord directs my steps.  The Lord keeps the heart of the king, even king Fred.  

My steps R ordered by the L & he delights in my way.  Ps 37:23

The L establishes my goings.

I dwell in the secret place of the most high.  Ps 91

The L guides me w his counsel & afterward receives me to glory.  Ps 73:24

The L has seen my ways & healed me;  he leads me also & restores comforts 2 me & 2 my mourners. Isa. 57:18

The L has set my feet on a rock & established my goings.  Ps

The L instructs me 2 discretion.  Isa

The L teaches me 2 profit & leads me by the way that I should go.  Isa 48:17

Norvel Hayes said the Lord told him, "Now these are the most important words that ever came out of my mouth."  And he meant those words from Mark chapt. 16, "These signs shall follow those who believe, in my name they'll cast out devils, they'll lay hands on the sick and they'll recover, they'll speak with new tongues (or, languages)..."

Do they have those signs following at the church you go to, Brother Gary?  

the Lord wants every Christian to be baptized with the Holy Ghost.  This is different from the baptism in water.  And how does one know whether he has been baptized with the Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit, or Comforter?  The evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost is the speaking in unknown tongues.  The person will speak in a language he never learned.  When he does, he won't understand what he's saying, but God understands all languages.  Have you been baptized in the Holy Ghost?

The one who baptizes with the Holy Ghost is Jesus, says John the Baptist in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and in John.  If you don't yet pray in unknown tongues, ask Jesus to baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

In Mark ch. 16 it also says, "The Lord worked with them, confirming the word with signs following."  (Mark 16:20)

Norvel Hayes said the Lord told him, "You don't have to go into a church and judge.  Just wait until the end of the service, and see whether I confirm the word with signs following." Mk16:20

But then Judaism became the second best religion, because the Jews generally rejected Jesus as their messiah.  I think they were expecting that the Messiah would immediately set up a kingdom on earth.  But Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this earth."  Jesus said the kingdom of God is in your hearts (if you're a Messianic Jew).  The number one religion is the Christian religion, or, Messianic Judaism, which includes some Jews and some gentiles.  

As a Christian, the Bible says I'm grafted into Israel. 

Jesus said in the book of Revelation, "See, I stand at the door and knock.  If any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."  Open the door, and say with your mouth, Yes to Jesus, Dave. 

The Bible says, "All that call on the name of the Lord shall be saved."  Open your mouth, Dave, and ask Jesus to save you.  He will hear from heaven and save you.   

apptd to men once 2 die Heb 9:27
now commands all men everywhere 2 repent Acts 17:30
him that comes 2 me I will in no wise cast out Jhn 6:37
lake of fire.  lamb's book of life  Rev ch 20, 22

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.  Prov. 14:12

I've been a Christian since I was 4 yrs. old.  The Lord Jesus baptized me with his Holy Spirit when I was about 13 or 14.  There is a calling on my life and an anointing from God to preach and teach.  It's not just something I'd like to do, it's something God wants me to do, and I don't dare say no to God.  The Bible says the fear of G is the beginning of wisdom, and I'm one of those who fear God.  

Another scripture says, "Happy is the man that fears always."

Of course, there's a healthy kind of fear, and also unhealthy fears that God doesn't want his people to have.     

The Lord made me a promise when I was a youth.  He told me that my seed would be as the sand of the sea.  I'll win many people to Jesus.  I'll get many people healed.  I'll get many people baptized with the Holy Spirit of God.  I'll cast out demons from people.  I'll help people go to heaven.

God has good things for his people, and it pleases the Lord when we receive from him all that he wants to give us.  But the Lord looks for faith in his people, if they are to receive from him.  

We get salvation by faith.  You hear that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23).  You hear that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom 6:23).  

You hear that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you're saved.  For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made for salvation.   (Rom 10:9,10).  You believe that, and you pray a simple prayer asking Jesus to save you.  He will hear from heaven, and grant your request.  That's how you get saved, by faith.  

The bible says, "All that call on the Lord shall be saved." 

Acts 2:21  And it shall be, that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.  

In Rev. 3:20, Jesus says, "See, I stand at the door, and knock, if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I'll come in to him, and will eat with him, and he with me."  When you say yes to Jesus you get saved; you get born-again. 

You said it was your eyes, and that the vision problem was due to diabetes.  You said you've accepted your diabetes.  I said, "God doesn't want you to accept it."  What God wants is to heal you from diabetes," and from everything wrong with your body.  Psalm 103:3 says, God forgives all our sins, and heals all our diseases.  

Exodus 15:26 says, "I am the Lord that heals you."  

Romans 8:2 says, "For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death."

In Deuteronomy chapter 28, many diseases are listed as part of "the curse of the law."  But in Galatians chapt. 3, we learn that, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree so that the blessing of Abraham would come on the gentiles through Jesus Christ."  So we don't have to put up with those diseases that are from the curse of the law. 

From John Chapter 5: vs. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. 9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

Jesus healed the man of an infirmity he had had for 38 years.  But notice, before Jesus healed the man, he asked whether the man wanted healing.  If the man had said he didn't want healing, Jesus wouldn't have healed him.  Jesus doesn't force healing on people.  

Although you are able to deal with the current effects of diabetes, things could get worse because of the diabetes.  I had a Christian friend, Tom, in Mountain View, CA.  I think he had not been a Christian for very long.  He was manager of a hotel in that city.  While I was away in another town, there was a fire at the hotel.  

In hurrying around to put out the fire, Tom apparently broke his foot, but he didn't realize he had broken his foot until later in the day.  Tom was a diabetic.  The broken foot didn't heal up right.  He had to buy a $900 pair of shoes.  I told Tom about Kenneth E. Hagin, a teacher on the subject of healing, and about Norvel Hayes, another teacher.  

Tom went for perhaps two years, but then the doctor said he'd have to amputate the foot.  

The point I'm trying to make is that diabetes can get worse than what you have now.  In Tom's case, I believe he would have welcomed healing, but I don't think he put much effort into seeking the Lord for his healing.  I don't think he got his faith up to the level it needed to be to receive the healing from God.  

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  (Romans 10:17)  We need faith to get things from God, and we can strengthen our faith by hearing the word of God.

The Bible says, "The just shall live by his faith."

Hab 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. 

Once you get the Baptism with the Holy Ghost from Jesus, you can build up yourself on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost. (Jude vs 20)

20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

But you don't pray in the Holy Ghost until you get Jesus to baptize you with the Holy Ghost with the speaking in unknown tongues.  

Jesus also taught that prayer and fasting strengthens faith. 

In Hebrews chapt. 11, we read  vs. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

We can't please God without faith, but he'll reward us if we diligently seek him.  

It seems that in life, we are either moving forward, or we are moving backward.  It seems there is no simply standing still.  You can move forward toward the healing God has for you, or you can go downhill.  

There is a scripture where God tells us:  "See, I set before you life and death.  Choose life."  You have to choose life, brother Tad.

Yes, but the Lord is well able to meet our needs, even if a healing disqualifies us for certain benefits.  In Phil 4:19 we read,  But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  But again, we must use our God-given faith.  

Psalm 1:3 tells us that God wants whatever we do to prosper.
Ps 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Ps 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Ps 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Ps 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Ps 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Ps 1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

LIFE PRINCIPLES

The solution to virtually every problem is a passage from the Holy Bible, if you'll speak it, believe it, meditate on it, & do it.  

But if you call G a liar, then you don't have the solutions to the problems.  

Someone might say, "I'm a deaf-mute, I don't talk, how do I say yes to Jesus?"  Let me explain this to you.  Jesus understands sign language, and every other language.  In whatever language you received this message, use that language and say yes to Jesus.  And by the way, Jesus has healing for you so that you can hear and speak.  There is no problem with your body that Jesus can't heal.  

Someone might say, "I guess you're right, but I don't want to take care of that right now; a more convenient time will come."  Are you really sure a more convenient time will come?  The Bible says now is the hour of salvation.  I don't know that you'll have another opportunity to accept Jesus as savior, and neither do you, my friend.  Don't boast about tomorrow, for you don't know what a day can bring forth, the Bible says. 

There have been lots of people who thought they would take care of something tomorrow, and then tomorrow never came because death came first.  

Now that this has come to your attention, take care of it now, and get right with God now.  Get born again now by saying yes to Jesus.  He will hear you, and accept you as a Christian.

But if you're already a Christian, I thank God for that, please stay tuned, I have good information for you.

But Jesus, your Lord and Savior, has some things for you to do.  These instructions are found in the Bible.  During his approximately three-year ministry on earth, Jesus spoke many words.  Most of those words are in the first four books of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.  There are other words Jesus spoke in the book of Revelation.  

But one thing Jesus said is, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the word of God."  Well, every word from the mouth of God means the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation, all sixty six books.

Someone could say, but don't you believe Paul wrote those letters to those churches in the New Testament?  Yes, I do.  And I believe Paul was divinely inspired by God's Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost to write those words that Paul wrote.  So then Paul is not really the author, but God.  Paul was the typewriter that God used.  And I am sure that Paul didn't mind being a typewriter for God.  And Paul will get his reward on Judgement Day.  

But it's pretty hard to do what Jesus said if we don't know what Jesus said.  And it's pretty hard to know what Jesus said if we don't read the Bible.  These days, I prefer the King James Version of the Bible.  Do not use "The New World Translation" because that is a counterfeit Bible from a false religion, the Jehovah's Witnesses.