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Jeremiah 6:16 (KJV) Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

 

 


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The Effect on the Body

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In the world, there is a thought that “my life is my own, I can do what I want, it doesn’t affect anyone.”  Actually, that is not true.  It’s not that hard for anyone to see that.  Here are a few points:  stolen election through complicity of individuals involved in vote manipulation, Hunter’s laptop, an overdosed-on-drugs person that local fire department has spend time and resources to come rescue, a drunk driver on the road that may endanger others, rioters that break a store window or steal goods and affect the business.

Or, here is a more recent incident.

Individual actions do affect others.  Stolen goods don’t steal themselves.  Windows don’t crack on their own.  Laptops don’t download porn on their own.  Cars don’t drive drunk.  Voting machines that have been properly certified should work properly, but not if there is manipulation or hacking by individuals (which is why all elections should use only security paper, paper ballots …. I mean, hand counting couldn’t possibly take longer than the current records, right? … the upside is that we won’t have to wait until they manipulate and massage the numbers until they get the results they want … funny thing … in everything else technology works at top notch speed except when it comes to counting votes).  AIs are programmed by someone.  Individuals who touch the levers of power illegally affect other individuals and society.  There is not some elusive force like magnetism or gravity causing a voting machine to miscount.  It takes an individual doing some hacking or an individual that programs an AI to do some hacking.

But this post is not as concerned about the world as the effect on the body of Christ.  It is actually about how various members of the body of Christ can affect other members.

I Corinthians 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

If you walk into a church service, over time  you will notice that the Holy Spirit can take a turn of direction for the service.  Sometimes the minister or pastor will even say that.  “I had a sermon prepared, but I am going to preach something else.”  Why does that happen?  Because in that auditorium is the living, breathing body of Christ and there is some member(s) of the body that needs to hear something specific.  Everyone can draw something out of any message, but sometimes there are specific messages for specific members.

If someone would say that it doesn’t matter what another member of the body of Christ does, think of the analogy that Paul uses … the body of Christ.  Think of the physical body.  If there is something going on with a physical body … a cold, a sprain, a stubbed toe, anything … that problem big or small affects the working of the body.  As a matter of fact, the whole body gets involved in restoring the troubled part.

For example, consider heat exhaustion.  When the body is dehydrated, the brain tells the muscles of the body to get to a sink or source of water, and for muscles to work together to bring the water to mouth and drink to restore hydration.  So many parts of the body must work properly for that simple act of drinking water.   What if the muscles don’t want to work and do what they are told to do by the brain?   What if the body refuses to go to the source of water?  In severe cases, it can result in death.

II Kings 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

 

In a human body, if nutrition or oxygen is needed, and the blood cells decide to go on strike and not carry nutrition or oxygen to the point of need, again, the body dies, including the blood cells that went on strike.  It is important that the body of Christ function properly, or there is loss overall.

When prayers are prayed, how are they answered?  There are times when God sovereignly moves, such as sending rain for farmers.  But oftentimes on earth there is some connection through which the answer comes.

“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”

― Teresa of Avila

 

I Corinthians 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

 

If the attitude is, “I don’t care,” then the law of sowing and reaping may kick in.  If when a part of the body is called upon to help, and does not, then when that part has a need it might be “at the back of the line”  so to speak.   It’s not God that does that.  It is the law of sowing and reaping.

This scripture works both ways. If you give nothing to the body, if you give zero, if you are totally immersed in yourself, then when you call none will answer.

Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

 

Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

 

Proverbs 11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.


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“Her house is on the way to hell….”

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Proverbs 8:1 (KVJ) My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.


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Conversion

Bible readings for the home circle - comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics (1888) (14594680977)

 

I John 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

 

James 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

 

Luke 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

 

Acts3:17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:

 

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Acts 2:12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:

21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.


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A Foundation on the Words of Jesus

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Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:

29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

 

There are those who would say … how do we know the Bible is real?  If  your teacher can teach you something, and then demonstrate it by rising from the dead, do you think you should listen to him?

If there are those who say, how do we know that Jesus rose from the dead?  The historical evidence proves it.

Look, if you live in a society that in spite of biology, that society can’t figure out what a woman is, do you think it has the mental capacity to study the facts related to the resurrection?  You will either have to become mentally alert and aware yourself, or be sucked down the drainhole with the rest of the unbelievers.  At some point, you have to have the courage to say, there are only two sexes, man and woman.  Likewise, you can study the case for the resurrection which has been amply discussed by those who major in the field of apologetics … books, movies, facts have been presented.  Go study it out for yourself.

But again, if people are sucked into believing that there are 57+ varieties of genders, rather than the biological man and women, they probably don’t have the interest to figure out anything else.  For the sake of your eternal salvation, you are at some point going to have to break away and  evaluate facts for yourself.

Jesus said it is the fear of other people’s opinions that keep people from believing.

John 5:44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

 

Years ago, Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Emperor’s New Clothes.  The same phenomena exists today.  The Bible says that there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

 

The same forces, problems, and potential solutions are recycled generation after generation until someone finally enacts that which works.  Gardening today is basically the same as gardening centuries ago.  2 + 2 still equals 4.  It is only when a progressive, dictatorial government tries to take over that it disrupts the very foundations of all that society has been built upon in order to crash the existing order and bring in a dictatorship.  We see that happening today.

One of the things a dictatorship tries to break down is the structure of the family.  There is a certain amount of pushback against that.  However, there is more distance to go.  Ultimately, the model has to be that which is described in the Bible.  To take part of the Bible and ignore the rest leaves one open to the forces of darkness.

II Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

 

The Bible indicates that we can be servants of something other than God.

Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

 

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

 

The apostle John indicates here there are various aspects to that battle.

I John 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.


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The Destruction of the Family

Moses' basket on the Nile River in The Ten Commandments trailer

In Genesis the purposes of God are introduced and fleshed out through the rest of the Old and New Testament.

The Fall that occurred in the garden is described.   The purpose of God to redeem mankind is introduced.

Genesis 3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

 

The purposes of God regarding the family are introduced.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,

 

Since God’s purposes involve the family, why is the family under such attack?

What is presented here is not new information.  There are those who have written on these topics in a much more scholarly way, but this is to simplify it, like a shopping list.

There are those who want to be in power.

To be in power, they need to weaken the opposition.

To be in power, they have to offer something to people so people will vote them into power.

They can offer money, OPM (other people’s money).  Politicians get OPM through taxes.

Why would anyone need their money?  If someone is prosperous, why would anyone need anything from the government?

For people to need the money,  a weakened class needs to be created.

What is a weakened class?  Single moms with children and no dad in the home would qualify.

So to create that class within society, the moral fiber of society needs to be broken down.   Images  of the Ten Commandments are taken out of the schools.  Prayer and Bible are taken out of the schools.  The sabbath is no longer respected.  Sports are played in competition to church.  The laws of God are not taught.  The family dissolves.

The state takes care of the women and children through welfare.  The men are left on the outside.

To make sure the men don’t rebel against the system they are drugged, feminized, entertained and pulled out of the loop of society.  Finally, they are castrated through transgenderism.

Having created a weakened female class that looks to politicians for money, and a weakened male class that won’t rise up and break off the chains of this corrupted system, corrupted politicians hope to retain power.

Lately, there has been a certain amount of “revival” of manhood.  Men are going to the gym.  They’re getting buff.  However, this manhood revival is only going so far.  What place is given to these men who are defining manhood as merely becoming more muscular in this secular, post-Christian society?   The state still needs these men to go around and get women pregnant so the women and children will be vassals of the state.   However, the marriage covenant of God does not seemto be encouraged.  It is manhood without virtue, the virtue of the covenant of marriage, the virtue of raising a family in the knowledge of the Lord.

2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

 

To sort of “seal the deal” and make sure that society is trapped into a bondage from which there is no escape,  some extra measures being taken.  Feminize the men but let them into the arena of women so that capable women cannot rise while men steal their prizes in unfair competitions.  That keeps out a certain amount of female leadership.   It puts male transgender voices in the marketplace instead of what would come through accomplished women.   There is no question that throughout history that certain women have been put in place in certain times to accomplish things, Esther being one.

It is also the awareness of women who preserved certain men who were to become leaders.  Moses’s mother is one.  Without her, Moses would have perished.  It was Moses’s mother who created the reed basket that preserved Moses.  The willingness of Mary to go with Joseph to Egypt to protect the Christ child is another.  How many women today would get up in the middle of the night at the behest of their husbands and travel to another country?  The prophet Samuel (who anointed King David) was a product of Hannah’s prayers as her husband was clueless.

I Samuel 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

 

The greatest tragedy in King David’s life was the breaking of the marriage covenant in a maneuver that involved adultery and murder.  While he was forgiven, there was a heavy price to pay.  Will modern day society pay any less price for similar sins?

2 Samuel 12:1 And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

5 And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:

6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

8 And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

11 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

 

You will notice how much the left and the left stream media focuses on “perception.”  It doesn’t mean whatever is being discussed is factual.  The facts can actually be the opposite in reality.  But if your perception can be changed, you will operate on perception and not facts.  The left tries to create the perception (among other perceptions they put forth) that marriage and the family is not needed.  But God created the family.  For solid lives and a solid society, things have to be done God’s way.

Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:

29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.


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Take a Stand

While probably many of those who visit this blog don’t drink beer, this is being posted because he states a strong and correct message.

 

Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

 

As long as we are on this earth, we can take a stand with everyday shopping choices.

Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

 

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Malachi Chapter 3

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Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:

3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.

13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.


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King Zedekiah and Jeremiah

Jeremiah tells the king that Jerusalem shall be taken

Jeremiah 38:14 (KJV) Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the Lord: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.

15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?

16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the Lord hath shewed me:

22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.

27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

Jeremiah 39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

 


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