There Is a Way that Seems Right to a Man

But the End of it Are the Ways of Death

Chapter 1

Here is Proverbs chapter 16 from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version--

___Proverbs chapter 16

1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from the Lord.

2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits.

3 Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established.

4 The Lord has made all things for himself, yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

5 Everyone that is proud in heart is a dirty thing to the Lord, though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

6 By mercy and truth sin is purged, and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

7 When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

9 A man's heart devises his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king, his mouth doesn't transgress in judgment.

11 A just weight and balance are the Lord's, all the weights of the bag are his work.

12 It is a dirty thing to kings to commit wickedness, for the throne is established by righteousness.

13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him that speaks right.

14 The anger of a king is like a contract with a hit-man, but a wise man will pacify it.

15 In the light of the king's facial expression is life, and his favor is like a cloud of the latter rain.

16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil, he that keeps his way preserves his soul.

18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

19 It is better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

20 He that handles a matter wisely shall find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord is happy.

21 The wise of heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

22 Understanding is a wellspring of life to him that has it, but the instruction of fools is foolishness.

23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth and adds learning to his lips.

24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death.

26 He that labors does so for himself, for his mouth craves it from him.

27 An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is like a burning fire.

28 A perverse man plants strife, and a whisperer separates main friends.

29 A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.

30 He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things, moving his lips he makes evil happen.

31 The gray head is a crown of glory, if it's found in the way of righteousness.

32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.

33 The straws can be drawn, but the whole disposing of it is from the Lord.

Chapter 2

Notice verse 25, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death."

Things are not always what they seem.

Not long ago, I was taking a trip on a passenger train. A fellow passenger quoted Shakespeare to me.

I'll tell you what he quoted, but first I want to tell you that Shakespeare was dead wrong about this.

This other passenger said that Shakespeare said, "There is nothing either good or bad; it is our thinking that makes it so."

Shakespeare was very much wrong.

Things are either good or bad in the light of God's word, the Bible.

Adultery is wrong because God says it's wrong in the Ten Commandments of Exodus chapter 20.

Murder is wrong because one of the Ten Commandments is "You shall not commit murder."

Adultery and murder are not wrong because of our thinking; they are wrong because God commands us not to do them. And if you choose to do them anyway, you're going against God.

Going against God will likely send you do hell, if you don't get God to forgive you.

This fellow passenger told me he had been married to a Christian Scientist, that is, a person who had "Christian Science" as their religion.

If ever there was a name for a religion that is inappropriate, it's Christian Science, which is neither Christian, nor scientific.

It is a pack of lies from Mary Baker Eddy, who now burns in hell with everyone else who has started a false religion, such as Muhammad, who started the false religion of Islam, the religion of the Muslims.

I have known for a long time that Christian Science is a false religion.

The fellow passenger said that Mary Baker Eddy started Christian Science based on that dumb thing that Shakespeare said.

Christian Science says that sickness is just wrong thinking. What a dumb thing to say.

Is cancer just wrong thinking? Certainly not.

My favorite aunt died prematurely of cancer. It wasn't wrong thinking.

What happens is that one or more demons of cancer get in and cause the cancer in the person.

Howard Pittman has shown us that demons are specialists; they are not general practitioners.

But Dr. Norvel Hayes has told us what to do about cancer.

He quotes from Mark 11:23, "If you tell the mountain to be removed and be thrown into the ocean, and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will happen, you'll have what you say."

And who said that? Jesus.

Hayes says, "If you have cancer, that's your mountain. Command it to go." (Mark 11:23)

And that, my friends, is what to do about cancer. But first, make sure that you're a born again Christian, according to Romans 10:9,10--

"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart 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."

You see, cancer is demonic in origin, and Christians have authority over demons from Jesus in Luke 10:19, and in Mark 16:17,18.

But if you're not a Christian, then you have no authority over demons.

And what is a demon? A demon is a spirit being. They don't have flesh and blood bodies like humans. So, we don't see them with our natural eyes because our natural eyes don't see into the spirit world.

But there have been some who have seen into the spirit world such as Kenneth E. Hagin and Howard Pittman, both of whom I've written about.

Hagin wrote nearly a hundred books, most of which sold over a million copies.

Someone might say, "Why didn't you tell your aunt what Norvel Hayes said?"

I didn't tell her because I was only a boy and didn't even know at that time that there was a Norvel Hayes.

I know a man who thought that he had discovered something. I believe the thing that he thought that he had discovered was kinky sex.

But the man apparently didn't perceive that kinky sex is demonic in origin. It comes out of hell. And it will take you to hell if you get into it.

Kinky sex is referred to in 1 Tim 6:9--

"many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition." (King James Version)

Perdition is another word for hell.

You're going to have to turn loose of kinky sex, or it will take you to hell. And after someone turns loose of kinky sex, there are some demons that need to be cast out.

In another book, I wrote about "Pornography Kills."

Pornography has sent many to hell.

Jesus said, "Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart." And we know that adultery is wrong from the Ten Commandments.

___James chapter 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,

3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.

4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.

11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.

21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,

24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2

1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,

3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"

4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

6 But you have despised the poor. Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?

7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?

8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,

9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill." Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.

12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.

14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works? Can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,

16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?

17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."

19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?

22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."

24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3

1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.

2 For in many things we offend all. If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.

4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.

5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how great a matter a little fire kindles!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.

7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,

8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be.

11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries? Or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.

15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?

2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.

5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"

6 But he gives more grace. So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.

11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers. He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?

13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"

14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."

16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5

1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.

3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You've heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.

5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.

6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.

9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.

10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 See, we count them happy that endure. You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.

13 Is anyone among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is anyone merry? Let him sing psalms.

14 Is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.

16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.

17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,

20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.