Practice Justice and Mercy
Mt 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone."
Acknowledge Christ Before Men
Mt 10:32-33 "Then everyone who shall confess Me before men, I will confess him before My Father who is in Heaven. But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in Heaven."
Luke 9:26 "For whoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, the Son of man shall be ashamed of him when He shall come in His own and in His Father's glory, and that of the holy angels."
Lu 12:8-12 "Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess Me before men, the Son of man also shall confess him before the angels of God. But he who denies Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God."
"And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven.
"And when they bring you into the synagogues, and to rulers and authorities, take no thought as to how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say. For the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the same hour what you ought to say."
The last passage affirms the need of the Holy Spirit and its importance in witnessing. The internal always links to the exterior. The fruit shows.
Let Your Yes Be Yes and Your No Be No.
Mt 5:33 "Again, you have heard that it has been said to the ancients, 'You shall not swear falsely, but you shall perform your oaths to the Lord.'
"But I say to you, Do not swear at all! Not by Heaven, because it is God's throne; not by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet; not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King; nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black."
"But let your word be, Yes, yes; No, no. For whatever is more than these comes from evil."
