Stay focused...it's all about Jesus

Ephesians 2:1-10 (MSG)
It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

1 Corinthians 15:33

1 Corinthians 15:33 (MSG)
But don't fool yourselves. Don't let yourselves be poisoned by this anti-resurrection loose talk. "Bad company ruins good manners."

Luke 2:52

Luke 2:52 (NIV)
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Luke 3:21-23

Luke 3:21-23 (MSG)
After all the people were baptized, Jesus was baptized. As he was praying, the sky opened up and the Holy Spirit, like a dove descending, came down on him. And along with the Spirit, a voice: "You are my Son, chosen and marked by my love, pride of my life."

Psalm 61:1

Psalm 61:1 (MSG)
God, listen to me shout, bend an ear to my prayer. When I'm far from anywhere, down to my last gasp, I call out, "Guide me up High Rock Mountain!"

1 Corinthians 9:24

1 Corinthians 9:24 (NIV)
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

Genesis 22:1

Genesis 22:1 (MSG)
After all this, God tested Abraham. God said, "Abraham!" "Yes?" answered Abraham. "I'm listening."

1 John 5:2

1 John 5:2 (NIV)
This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

Deuteronomy 6:4

Deuteronomy 6:4 (MSG)
Attention, Israel! god, our God! god the one and only!

Isaiah 26:8

Isaiah 26:8 (MSG)
We're in no hurry, God. We're content to linger in the path sign-posted with your decisions. Who you are and what you've done are all we'll ever want.

Romans 2:6

Romans 2:6 (MSG)
Make no mistake: In the end you get what's coming to you -

John 3:36

John 3:36 (MSG)
That is why whoever accepts and trusts the Son gets in on everything, life complete and forever! And that is also why the person who avoids and distrusts the Son is in the dark and doesn't see life. All he experiences of God is darkness, and an angry darkness at that."

Isaiah 1:13

Isaiah 1:13 (MSG)
"Quit your worship charades. I can't stand your trivial religious games: Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings— meetings, meetings, meetings—I can't stand one more! Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! You've worn me out! I'm sick of your religion, religion, religion, while you go right on sinning. When you put on your next prayer-performance, I'll be looking the other way. No matter how long or loud or often you pray, I'll not be listening. And do you know why? Because you've been tearing people to pieces, and your hands are bloody. Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don't have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong. Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless. Go to bat for the defenseless.

Isaiah 53:7

Isaiah 53:7 (MSG)
He was beaten, he was tortured, but he didn't say a word. Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared, he took it all in silence. Justice miscarried, and he was led off— and did anyone really know what was happening? He died without a thought for his own welfare, beaten bloody for the sins of my people. They buried him with the wicked, threw him in a grave with a rich man, Even though he'd never hurt a soul or said one word that wasn't true.

Matthew 27:46

Matthew 27:46 (MSG)
Around mid-afternoon Jesus groaned out of the depths, crying loudly, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?"

1 Corinthians 15:33

1 Corinthians 15:33 (MSG)
But don't fool yourselves. Don't let yourselves be poisoned by this anti-resurrection loose talk. "Bad company ruins good manners."

Psalm 119:101

Psalm 119:101 (MSG)
I watch my step, avoiding the ditches and ruts of evil so I can spend all my time keeping your Word.

Revelation 22:13

Revelation 22:13 (NIV)
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Psalm 139:13

Psalm 139:13 (NIV)
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

1 John 2:18

1 John 2:18 (NIV)
Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.

Matthew 28:19

Matthew 28:19 (NIV)
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Romans 6:23

Romans 6:23 (NIV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 9:24

1 Corinthians 9:24 (NIV)
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

Ephesians 6:11

Ephesians 6:11 (NIV)
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.

1 Timothy 4:12

1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV)
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.