tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17194978329192031932024-03-19T05:05:34.563+08:00The Simplicity of ScriptureGOD's LAW is pure, perfect, and preciseLeila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-81363405150929159052024-03-19T02:57:00.014+08:002024-03-19T05:05:02.502+08:00WHO are our BROTHERS?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGpnfRedsU71KgR_H1P_YFf4GFMbuvaR1uD66RjJDsGgOsc2bgJfLf0q7ckNr3gSxWCt8dJRbRH0JM13yM43Efnr_Rns_7KfQyjluvEIIMjH_ekSVH9vQZo_v9q9u_wyF805k2YlJeZnqfgoDWcDDeexOtTScRhC228CaHf3vYh293kFFRKO9URnRDfeu/s252/images%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGpnfRedsU71KgR_H1P_YFf4GFMbuvaR1uD66RjJDsGgOsc2bgJfLf0q7ckNr3gSxWCt8dJRbRH0JM13yM43Efnr_Rns_7KfQyjluvEIIMjH_ekSVH9vQZo_v9q9u_wyF805k2YlJeZnqfgoDWcDDeexOtTScRhC228CaHf3vYh293kFFRKO9URnRDfeu/w194-h154/images%20(1).jpg" width="194" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Proverbs 17:17</span></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 A friend loveth at all times, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and a brother is born for adversity</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://themagnificenceandmajestyofgod.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-only-power-is-of-god.html" target="_blank">GOD</a> woke me up really early.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Not quite midnight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A little past, and we were already writing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First, He made me look into <a href="https://wordcomprehension.blogspot.com/2024/03/my-brothers-keeper.html" target="_blank">Cain and Abel</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Article done, I thought that was it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nope, GOD made me write again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This time, He wanted me to tell you about "brothers".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who are our brothers?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is it just our blood brothers?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Or perhaps there's more?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Scripture tells us CHRIST's reply.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As always, <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/jesus.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a> makes us think.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Apart from ending all debate.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There will be a time of reckoning:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 25:30-33</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>into outer darkness: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and all the holy angels with him, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and he shall separate them one from another, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>but the goats on the left</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 25:34-36</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>34 Then shall the King say unto them </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>on his right hand, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Come, ye blessed of my Father, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>inherit the kingdom prepared for you </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from the foundation of the world:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I was a stranger, and ye took me in:</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">36 Naked, and ye clothed me: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I was sick, and ye visited me: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>I was in prison, and ye came unto me</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 25:37-39</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or thirsty, and gave thee drink?</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">or naked, and clothed thee?</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">39 Or when saw we thee sick, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">or in prison, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and came unto thee</b>?</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 25:40</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Verily I say unto you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the least of these my brethren, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye have done it unto me</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 25:41-43</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>prepared for the devil and his angels:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">naked, and ye clothed me not: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 25:44-46</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and did not minister unto thee?</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">45 Then shall he answer them, saying, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Verily I say unto you, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ye did it not to me.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">46 And these shall go away </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">into everlasting punishment: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>but the righteous into life eternal</b>.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">JESUS gave another powerful verse on "brotherhood":</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 12:50</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">50 For whosoever shall do </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the will of my Father which is in heaven, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the same is my brother, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and sister, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and mother</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Does it end here?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is there more to "brotherhood"?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Well, it seems we're just warming up.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">From the looks of it, this will be a series of posts.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">GOD wants more articles done.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://studentofspirit.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-spirit-of-god.html" target="_blank">SPIRIT</a> already alerted me to the next one.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span>Click <a href="https://forthehealingofnations.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-brotherhood-verses.html" target="_blank">here</a> for the </span>BROTHERHOOD verses.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>P.S</u></b>.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Six days ago, my laptop conked out.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For good.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>So I went to an internet shop, and wrote.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>But had great difficulty.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>GOD made it easier.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>He "appointed" a minister of His to help.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>GOD makes me write ANY TIME.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Now, I could write, in the peace of our home.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>My pastor-friend is a TRUE brother.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>I suppose, JESUS will consider us as "brothers".</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://simplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-it-means-to-be-born-again.html" target="_blank">BORN AGAIN</a> brothers.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>We only care to do the <a href="https://simplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/p/gods-will.html" target="_blank">WILL of the LORD</a>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>In JESUS, we live, breathe, and work.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Related material:</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://forthehealingofnations.blogspot.com/p/brotherhood.html" target="_blank">BROTHERHOOD</a></i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Image: <a href="https://clipart-library.com/search1/?q=brothers#gsc.tab=1&gsc.q=brothers&gsc.page=1" target="_blank">Clipart Library</a></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-5449954548699386622024-01-12T18:29:00.003+08:002024-01-12T21:21:23.870+08:00The LEVIATHAN<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpSPUm0AdNb3zqrFxH-axGOopmU-wHxsG824_Kh2NrobJqN0cx5UyJ5Kc5JBJZbaqkSjIQQD78cgZsSsBGKgqVTnU5HvxXVpaXHM2-THt_7Nrw43iRUm3qwVMV7GHHaYuB95I_UnEDNs9rHFIOBqIv8IIxniXqvjthPbcXEp3DfzXpH95iAZ5dmu298w5K/s327/images%20(6).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="327" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpSPUm0AdNb3zqrFxH-axGOopmU-wHxsG824_Kh2NrobJqN0cx5UyJ5Kc5JBJZbaqkSjIQQD78cgZsSsBGKgqVTnU5HvxXVpaXHM2-THt_7Nrw43iRUm3qwVMV7GHHaYuB95I_UnEDNs9rHFIOBqIv8IIxniXqvjthPbcXEp3DfzXpH95iAZ5dmu298w5K/w250-h118/images%20(6).jpg" width="250" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What does the <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/word-of-god.html" target="_blank">Bible</a> say about the Leviathan?</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Job 41</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>41 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">or bore his jaw through with a thorn?</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">will he speak soft words unto thee?</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4 Will he make a covenant with thee? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens</b>?</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">shall they part him among the merchants?</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">or his head with fish spears?</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">8 Lay thine hand upon him, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">remember the battle, do no more.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>who then is able to stand before me</b>?</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">12 I will not conceal his parts, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">nor his power, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">nor his comely proportion.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13 Who can discover the face of his garment? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">or who can come to him with his double bridle?</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14 Who can open the doors of his face? </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">his teeth are terrible round about.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15 His scales are his pride, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>shut up together as with a close seal</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">16 One is so near to another, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that no air can come between them.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">17 They are joined one to another, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18 By his neesings a light doth shine, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and sparks of fire leap out</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">as out of a seething pot or caldron.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">21 His breath kindleth coals, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and a flame goeth out of his mouth.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">22 In his neck remaineth strength, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and sorrow is turned into joy before him.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24 His heart is as firm as a stone; </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">by reason of breakings they purify themselves.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">27 He esteemeth iron as straw, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and brass as rotten wood.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28 The arrow cannot make him flee: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">slingstones are turned with him into stubble.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">29 Darts are counted as stubble: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>he laugheth at the shaking of a spear</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">30 Sharp stones are under him: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">32 He maketh a path to shine after him; </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">one would think the deep to be hoary.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">33 Upon earth there is not his like, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">who is made without fear.</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">34 He beholdeth all high things: </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>he is a king over all the children of pride</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 74:13-14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and gavest him to be meat </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to the people </b></i><i><b>inhabiting the wilderness</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 104:25-30</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>25 So is this great and wide sea, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>wherein are things creeping innumerable, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>both small and great beasts.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whom thou hast made to play therein.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 These wait all upon thee; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>28 That thou givest them they gather: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou takest away their breath, they die, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and return to their dust.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and thou renewest the face of the earth</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 27:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 In that day the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with his sore and great and strong sword </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall punish leviathan </b></i><i><b>the piercing serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even leviathan that crooked serpent; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://thesimplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/p/snakes-and-dragons.html" target="_blank">Snakes and Dragons</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Image: <a href="https://clipart-library.com/search1/?q=sea+serpent#gsc.tab=1&gsc.q=sea%20serpent&gsc.page=1" target="_blank">Clipart Library</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-53010645796706943482024-01-12T17:52:00.006+08:002024-01-14T05:33:00.928+08:00On DRAGONS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK1Fe5qVEPiAEXQ8K-GUu6hIsaYp0LRl7WRrhEXfAuMi9OYsFYURH5DL4easrRBr7aUaG6u3WcdoZFktGIfGsysKJgoXhh3hD5-Aj_4aSdX4gMP-wSvjhl1oWUnIi9bO8yb7okStviSbvYodWNVlEZX0_Kl9KukjWI8f5H39BbnwIkPKddsCNdPP1HV4sL/s249/images%20(5).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="249" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK1Fe5qVEPiAEXQ8K-GUu6hIsaYp0LRl7WRrhEXfAuMi9OYsFYURH5DL4easrRBr7aUaG6u3WcdoZFktGIfGsysKJgoXhh3hD5-Aj_4aSdX4gMP-wSvjhl1oWUnIi9bO8yb7okStviSbvYodWNVlEZX0_Kl9KukjWI8f5H39BbnwIkPKddsCNdPP1HV4sL/w179-h145/images%20(5).jpg" width="179" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What does the <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/word-of-god.html" target="_blank">Bible</a> say about dragons?</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Deuteronomy 32:33</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the cruel venom of asps</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 44:18-19</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 Our heart is not turned back, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither have our steps declined from thy way;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 Though thou hast sore broken us </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the place of dragons, and covered us </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with the shadow of death</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 74:12-14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 For God is my King of old, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>working salvation in the midst of the earth.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and gavest him to be meat </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to the people inhabiting the wilderness</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 91:13</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the young lion and the dragon </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shalt thou trample under feet</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 148:7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 Praise the Lord from the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye dragons, and all deeps</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 13:22</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in their desolate houses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and dragons in their pleasant palaces: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and her time is near to come, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and her days shall not be prolonged</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 27:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 In that day the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with his sore and great and strong sword </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even leviathan that crooked serpent; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 34:13</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it shall be an habitation of dragons, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and a court for owls</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 43:20</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 The beast of the field shall honour me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the dragons and the owls: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because I give waters in the wilderness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and rivers in the desert, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to give drink to my people, my chosen</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 51:9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 Awake, awake, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>put on strength, O arm of the Lord; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>awake, as in the ancient days, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>n the generations of old. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and wounded the dragon</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Jeremiah 14:6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they snuffed up the wind like dragons; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>their eyes did fail, because there was no grass</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Jeremiah 51:34</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>hath devoured me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he hath crushed me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he hath made me an empty vessel, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he hath filled his belly with my delicates, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he hath cast me out</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ezekiel 29:1-6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the twelfth day of the month, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 Son of man, set thy face </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>against Pharaoh king of Egypt, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and prophesy against him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and against all Egypt:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Speak, and say, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Thus saith the Lord God; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which hath said, My river is mine own, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I have made it for myself.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will cause the fish of thy rivers </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to stick unto thy scales, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will bring thee up </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>out of the midst of thy rivers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and all the fish of thy rivers </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall stick unto thy scales.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thee and all the fish of thy rivers: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou shalt fall upon the open fields; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I have given thee for meat </b></i><i><b>to the beasts of the field </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and to the fowls of the heaven.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that I am the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because they have been a staff of reed </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to the house of Israel</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Micah 1:8-9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 Therefore I will wail and howl, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will go stripped and naked: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will make a wailing like the dragons, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and mourning as the owls.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 For her wound is incurable; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for it is come unto Judah; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he is come unto the gate of my people,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even to Jerusalem</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Malachi 1:1-5</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>by Malachi.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 I have loved you, saith the Lord. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>yet I loved Jacob,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And I hated Esau, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and laid his mountains and his heritage waste </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the dragons of the wilderness.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but we will return and build the desolate places; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thus saith the Lord of hosts, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>They shall build, but I will throw down; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they shall call them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>The border of wickedness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and, </b></i><i><b>The people against whom </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the Lord hath indignation for ever.</span></b></i></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>The Lord will be magnified </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from the border of Israel</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 12:3-4</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and behold a great red dragon, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>having seven heads and ten horns, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and seven crowns upon his heads.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 And his tail drew the third part </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the stars of heaven, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and did cast them to the earth: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the dragon stood before the woman </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which was ready to be delivered, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for to devour her child as soon as it was born</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 12:7-9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 And there was war in heaven: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the dragon fought and his angels,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And prevailed not; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither was their place found any more in heaven.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 And the great dragon was cast out, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which deceiveth the whole world: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he was cast out into the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and his angels were cast out with him</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 12:10-12</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Now is come salvation, and strength, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the kingdom of our God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the power of his Christ: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which accused them before our God day and night.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and by the word of their testimony; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they loved not their lives unto the death.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye that dwell in them. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the devil is come down unto you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>having great wrath, because he knoweth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he hath but a short time</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 12:13-14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 And when the dragon saw </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he was cast unto the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he persecuted the woman </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which brought forth the man child.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And to the woman were given </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>two wings of a great eagle, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that she might fly into the wilderness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>into her place, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>where she is nourished for a time, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and times, and half a time, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from the face of the serpent</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 12:15-17</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as a flood after the woman, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he might cause her </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to be carried away of the flood.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 And the earth helped the woman, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the earth opened her mouth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and swallowed up the flood </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which the dragon cast out of his mouth.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which keep the commandments of God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and have the testimony of Jesus Christ</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 20:1-3</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>having the key of the bottomless pit </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and a great chain in his hand.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 And he laid hold on the dragon, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and bound him a thousand years,</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he should deceive the nations no more, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>till the thousand years should be fulfilled: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and after that he must be loosed a little season</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 20:7-10</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 And when the thousand years are expired, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And shall go out to deceive the nations </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which are in the four quarters of the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and compassed the camp of the saints about, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the beloved city: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and fire came down from God out of heaven,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> and devoured them.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 And the devil that deceived them </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>where the beast and the false prophet are, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and shall be tormented day and night </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for ever and ever</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://thesimplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/p/snakes-and-dragons.html" target="_blank">Snakes and Dragons</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Image: <a href="https://clipart-library.com/search1/?q=dragons#gsc.tab=1&gsc.q=dragons&gsc.page=9" target="_blank">Clipart Library</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-32442538019726795602024-01-12T16:44:00.016+08:002024-01-12T21:19:15.517+08:00On SERPENTS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjp1f3iY1e11vUuZ0VHqzbxArSnznUKY-M_XW5NVTLb_IKRBWEYPA28BOUqwOQFCKrKclU5WtUAS9l4BIyLWqqTwZdVFkpspSsbni7IVxGV5QoLN3kq17f91pTnBu0g2FIgotrQthf3Zw4Ie1NJTPvzW5j6A7JQIJBgShTQ0ltg9tyDwBR855DKfhavMF/s364/images%20(10).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="139" data-original-width="364" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjp1f3iY1e11vUuZ0VHqzbxArSnznUKY-M_XW5NVTLb_IKRBWEYPA28BOUqwOQFCKrKclU5WtUAS9l4BIyLWqqTwZdVFkpspSsbni7IVxGV5QoLN3kq17f91pTnBu0g2FIgotrQthf3Zw4Ie1NJTPvzW5j6A7JQIJBgShTQ0ltg9tyDwBR855DKfhavMF/w275-h105/images%20(10).png" width="275" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What does the <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/word-of-god.html" target="_blank">Bible</a> say about serpents?</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Genesis 3:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Now the serpent was more subtil </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>than any beast of the field </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which the Lord God had made. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>And he said unto the woman, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Yea, hath God said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Genesis 3:14-15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Because thou hast done this, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou art cursed above all cattle, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and above every beast of the field; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon thy belly shalt thou go, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>15 And I will put enmity </b></i></span><i><b>between thee and the woman, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and between thy seed and her seed; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it shall bruise thy head, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and thou shalt bruise his heel</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 7:8-12</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And the Lord spake unto Moses </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and unto Aaron, saying,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Shew a miracle for you: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>then thou shalt say unto Aaron, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it shall become a serpent.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they did so as the Lord had commanded: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and before his servants, and it became a serpent.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 Then Pharaoh also called </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the wise men and the sorcerers: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>now the magicians of Egypt, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they also did in like manner with their enchantments.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 For they cast down every man his rod, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they became serpents: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Numbers 21:5-6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And the people spake against God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and against Moses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to die in the wilderness? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for there is no bread, neither is there any water; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and our soul loatheth this light bread.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they bit the people; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and much people of Israel died</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Numbers 21:7-9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>We have sinned, for we have spoken </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>against the Lord, and against thee; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>pray unto the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he take away the serpents from us. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>And Moses prayed for the people.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And the Lord said unto Moses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Make thee a fiery serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and set it upon a pole: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it shall come to pass, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that every one that is bitten, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when he looketh upon it, shall live.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and put it upon a pole, </b></i><i><b>and it came to pass, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">that if a serpent had bitten any man, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Deuteronomy 32:33</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the cruel venom of asps</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Job 20:14-16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it is the gall of asps within him.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 He hath swallowed down riches, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he shall vomit them up again: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>God shall cast them out of his belly.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 He shall suck the poison of asps: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the viper's tongue shall slay him</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 140:1-3</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>140 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>preserve me from the violent man;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>continually are they gathered together for war.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>adders' poison is under their lips. Selah</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 23:31-32</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when it giveth his colour in the cup, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when it moveth itself aright.</b></i></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and stingeth like an adder</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 11:8-10</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And the sucking child shall play </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>on the hole of the asp, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the weaned child shall put his hand </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>on the cockatrice' den.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 They shall not hurt nor destroy </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in all my holy mountain: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the earth shall be full </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the knowledge of the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as the waters cover the sea.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which shall stand for an ensign of the people; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to it shall the Gentiles seek: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and his rest shall be glorious</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 14:29-32</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for out of the serpent's root </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall come forth a cockatrice, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the needy shall lie down in safety: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will kill thy root with famine, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he shall slay thy remnant.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for there shall come from the north a smoke, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and none shall be alone in his appointed times.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 What shall one then answer </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the messengers of the nation? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>That the Lord hath founded Zion, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the poor of his people shall trust in it</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 27:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 In that day the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with his sore and great and strong sword </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even leviathan that crooked serpent; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 30:6-7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 The burden of the beasts of the south: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>into the land of trouble and anguish, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from whence come the young and old lion, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the viper and fiery flying serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they will carry their riches </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon the shoulders of young asses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to a people that shall not profit them.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and to no purpose: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>therefore have I cried concerning this, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Their strength is to sit still</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 59:1-5</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>59 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that it cannot save; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 But your iniquities have separated </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>between you and your God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and your sins have hid his face from you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he will not hear.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 For your hands are defiled with blood, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and your fingers with iniquity; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>your lips have spoken lies, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>your tongue hath muttered perverseness.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they trust in vanity, and speak lies; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and weave the spider's web: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he that eateth of their eggs dieth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that which is crushed </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>breaketh out into a viper</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Jeremiah 8:14-17</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Why do we sit still? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>assemble yourselves, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and let us enter into the defenced cities, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and let us be silent there: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and given us water of gall to drink, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because we have sinned against the Lord.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 We looked for peace, but no good came; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and for a time of health, and behold trouble!</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the whole land trembled at the sound </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the neighing of his strong ones; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for they are come, and have devoured the land, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and all that is in it; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the city, and those that dwell therein.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 For, behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which will not be charmed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they shall bite you, saith the Lord</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Micah 7:16-17</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 The nations shall see </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and be confounded at all their might: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>their ears shall be deaf.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they shall move out of their holes </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>like worms of the earth: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and shall fear because of thee</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 3:7-8</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and Sadducees come to his baptism, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>O generation of vipers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who hath warned you to flee </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from the wrath to come?</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 Bring forth therefore fruits </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>meet for repentance</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 10:16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the midst of wolves: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>be ye therefore wise as serpents, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and harmless as doves</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 12:34-37</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>34 O generation of vipers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>how can ye, being evil, speak good things? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for out of the abundance of the heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the mouth speaketh.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>bringeth forth good things: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and an evil man out of the evil treasure </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>bringeth forth evil things.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>36 But I say unto you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>That every idle word that men shall speak, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they shall give account thereof </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the day of judgment.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and by thy words thou shalt be condemned</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 23:29-33</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because ye build the tombs of the prophets, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>we would not have been partakers with them </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the blood of the prophets.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that ye are the children of them </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which killed the prophets.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>how can ye escape the damnation of hell</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Mark 16:17-18</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>In my name shall they cast out devils; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they shall speak with new tongues;</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 They shall take up serpents; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and if they drink any deadly thing, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">it shall not hurt them; </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">they shall lay hands on the sick, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and they shall recover</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 10:19-20</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 Behold, I give unto you power </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to tread on serpents and scorpions, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and over all the power of the enemy:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and nothing shall by any means hurt you.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that the spirits are subject unto you; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but rather rejoice, because your names </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are written in heaven</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:14-15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And as Moses lifted up </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the serpent in the wilderness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even so must the Son of man be lifted up:</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 That whosoever believeth in him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>should not perish, but have eternal life</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Acts 28:3-6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and laid them on the fire, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there came a viper out of the heat, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and fastened on his hand.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 And when the barbarians saw </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the venomous beast hang on his hand, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they said among themselves, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>No doubt this man is a murderer, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whom, though he hath escaped the sea, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>yet vengeance suffereth not to live.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and felt no harm.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or fallen down dead suddenly: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but after they had looked a great while, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and saw no harm come to him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they changed their minds, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and said that he was a god</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 3:10-14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 As it is written, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>There is none righteous, no, not one:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 There is none that understandeth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there is none that seeketh after God.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 They are all gone out of the way, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they are together become unprofitable; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there is none that doeth good, no, not one.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with their tongues they have used deceit; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the poison of asps is under their lips:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 12:9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 And the great dragon was cast out, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which deceiveth the whole world: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he was cast out into the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and his angels were cast out with him</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://armagedreamer.blogspot.com/2022/06/that-old-serpent.html" target="_blank">That OLD serpent</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://priestfromjuda.blogspot.com/p/scribes-and-pharisees.html" target="_blank">Scribes and Pharisees</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://thesimplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/p/snakes-and-dragons.html" target="_blank">Snakes and Dragons</a></i></span></p><p><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asp_(snake)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Asps</span></a></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatrice#:~:text=A%20cockatrice%20is%20a%20mythical,thought%20and%20myth%20for%20centuries." target="_blank">Cockatrice</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Image: <a href="https://clipart-library.com/search1/?q=snakes#gsc.tab=1&gsc.q=snakes&gsc.page=2" target="_blank">Clipart Library</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-46096592033916213342023-11-23T17:55:00.006+08:002023-11-24T08:40:16.059+08:00NOT of GOD<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAOhXqjHv20SUCb3Z1HyKdv0dhpnqIn7mH5_EtQsmcfXIeB4UUEXIbg_Ql_G4NKYTTL3ctkopo70TZBw9Yup4QkDntzYkIXRytOShmATMkK-YJyjXM3eghFFBngtsyNnnsMu8TUBr7V1uNi286zju1VHe7dNzOX11Ds0vztNCMR3SfmZIa-9MFHprAN5zQ/s275/images%20(4).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAOhXqjHv20SUCb3Z1HyKdv0dhpnqIn7mH5_EtQsmcfXIeB4UUEXIbg_Ql_G4NKYTTL3ctkopo70TZBw9Yup4QkDntzYkIXRytOShmATMkK-YJyjXM3eghFFBngtsyNnnsMu8TUBr7V1uNi286zju1VHe7dNzOX11Ds0vztNCMR3SfmZIa-9MFHprAN5zQ/s1600/images%20(4).png" width="275" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 Timothy 3:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 This know also, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that in the last days </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>perilous times shall come</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How can you tell if you are of <a href="https://themagnificenceandmajestyofgod.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-only-power-is-of-god.html" target="_blank">GOD</a>?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And if you're not?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Really simple.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/word-of-god.html" target="_blank">Scripture</a> doesn't lie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Scripture tells it plainly:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 16:15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And he said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but God knoweth your hearts: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for that which is highly esteemed among men </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is abomination in the sight of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 8:42-45</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>42 Jesus said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>If God were your Father, ye would love me: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for I proceeded forth and came from God; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither came I of myself, but he sent me.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>43 Why do ye not understand my speech? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even because ye cannot hear my word.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>44 Ye are of your father the devil, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the lusts of your father ye will do. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>He was a murderer from the beginning, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and abode not in the truth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because there is no truth in him. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for he is a liar, and the father of it.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">45 And because I tell you the truth, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>ye believe me not</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 8:47</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>47 He that is of God heareth God's words: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye therefore hear them not, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because ye are not of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 10:23-26</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>24 Then came the Jews round about him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and said unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>How long dost thou make us to doubt? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>25 Jesus answered them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I told you, and ye believed not: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the works that I do in my Father's name, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they bear witness of me.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 But ye believe not, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because ye are not of my sheep, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as I said unto you</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 1:28-32</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>28 And even as they did not like </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to retain God in their knowledge, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>God gave them over to a reprobate mind, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to do those things which are not convenient;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>fornication, wickedness, covetousness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>maliciousness; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>full of envy, murder, debate, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>deceit, malignity; whisperers,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>disobedient to parents,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:</b></i></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 Who knowing the judgment of God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that they which commit such things </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are worthy of death, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>not only do the same, but have pleasure in them</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> that do them</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Corinthians 6:9-10</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 Know ye not that the unrighteous </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall not inherit the kingdom of God? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Be not deceived: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither fornicators, nor idolaters, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor adulterers, nor effeminate, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor abusers of themselves with mankind,</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor revilers, nor extortioners, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall inherit the kingdom of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 2:15-16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 Love not the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither the things that are in the world.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> If any man love the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the love of the Father is not in him.</b></i></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 For all that is in the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the lust of the flesh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the lust of the eyes, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the pride of life, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is not of the Father, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but is of the world</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 3:10</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 In this the children of God are manifest, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the children of the devil: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither he that loveth not his brother</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 4:3</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And every spirit that confesseth not </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and this is that spirit of antichrist, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whereof ye have heard that it should come; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and even now already is it in the world</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 4:6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 We are of God: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he that knoweth God heareth us; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he that is not of God heareth not us. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Hereby know we the spirit of truth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the spirit of error</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 4:8</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for God is love</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 22:14-15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that they may have right to the tree of life, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and may enter in through the gates into the city.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Knowing all these, we ask a few questions.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What is the state of the world now?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Will any be with GOD?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Are any of GOD?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Related material:</span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://prophecylessons.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-wicked-shall-perish.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The WICKED shall PERISH</span></a></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://realhopeforcrazytimes.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-devils-devices.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The devil's DEVICES</span></a></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://thehardteachings.blogspot.com/p/sin-awareness.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sin AWARENESS</span></a></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Image: <a href="https://clipart-library.com/search1/?q=cliff#gsc.tab=1&gsc.q=cliff&gsc.page=1" target="_blank">Clipart Library</a></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-75408708190334008012023-05-24T03:26:00.019+08:002023-05-24T05:08:50.839+08:00The HUMAN heart<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5m6tkEDdLwdz_IA4Gv5vPlySeQLbHfIQaa4rcBvnzHLn-_VseP04svR95BNR7cZk48VJqFghRX0WbKnTm7QZFvqJMtzWADt8RvL1vLaiDVOHHgZkMFIwxs6wPxxqZ5tX6rvoGZY50Ozhpp-YG_3u-k6oMynbylECocE1oDoFQb5wRjedcIAbfNA9cQ/s405/pngtree-gentle-rose-girl-girl-beautiful-girl-image_1366879.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="270" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5m6tkEDdLwdz_IA4Gv5vPlySeQLbHfIQaa4rcBvnzHLn-_VseP04svR95BNR7cZk48VJqFghRX0WbKnTm7QZFvqJMtzWADt8RvL1vLaiDVOHHgZkMFIwxs6wPxxqZ5tX6rvoGZY50Ozhpp-YG_3u-k6oMynbylECocE1oDoFQb5wRjedcIAbfNA9cQ/w146-h219/pngtree-gentle-rose-girl-girl-beautiful-girl-image_1366879.jpg" width="146" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 Corinthians 2:14</span></i></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 But the natural man </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for they are foolishness unto him: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither can he know them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because they are spiritually discerned</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We've all been given that advice:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"Follow your heart."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Is man's heart trustworthy?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Does that ensure right decisions?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A <a href="https://simplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-it-means-to-be-born-again.html" target="_blank">born again</a> looks to GOD's laws.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here's what we found:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>Man's heart cannot be trusted</u>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Genesis 6:5-6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And God saw that the wickedness of man </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>was great in the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that every imagination </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the thoughts of his heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>was only evil continually.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And it repented the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he had made man on the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it grieved him at his heart</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 14:2-3</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 The Lord looked down from heaven </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon the children of men, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to see if there were any that did understand, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and seek God.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 They are all gone aside, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they are all together become filthy: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there is none that doeth good, no, not one</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 146:3-4</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Put not your trust in princes, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in that very day his thoughts perish</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Proverbs 21:2</span></i></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but the Lord pondereth the hearts</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Jeremiah 17:9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 The heart is deceitful above all things, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and desperately wicked: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who can know it</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 15:16-19</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 And Jesus said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Are ye also yet without understanding?</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 Do not ye yet understand, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>goeth into the belly, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and is cast out into the draught?</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>come forth from the heart; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they defile the man.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>murders, adulteries, fornications, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thefts, false witness, blasphemies</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 3:23</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 For all have sinned, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and come short of the glory of God</b>;</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>Only GOD can be trusted</u>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Samuel 16:7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Look not on his countenance, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or on the height of his stature; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because I have refused him: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for man looketh on the outward appearance, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but the Lord looketh on the heart</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 146:5-6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whose hope is in the Lord his God:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and all that therein is: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which keepeth truth for ever</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 21:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as the rivers of water: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he turneth it whithersoever he will</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 55:8-9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither are your ways my ways, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saith the Lord.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>so are my ways higher than your ways, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and my thoughts than your thoughts</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jeremiah 17:10</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 I the Lord search the heart, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I try the reins, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even to give every man according to his ways, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and according to the fruit of his doings</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 1:14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And the Word was made flesh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and dwelt among us, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>(and we beheld his glory, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>full of grace and truth</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 1:17</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 For the law was given by Moses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 14:6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 Jesus saith unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I am the way, the truth, and the life: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>no man cometh unto the Father, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but by me</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 8:26-27</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for we know not what we should pray for </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as we ought: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with groanings which cannot be uttered.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 And he that searcheth the hearts </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because he maketh intercession for the saints </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>according to the will of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hebrews 4:12-13</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 For the word of God is quick, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and powerful, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sharper than any twoedged sword, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>piercing even to the dividing asunder </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of soul and spirit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and of the joints and marrow, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and is a discerner of the thoughts </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and intents of the heart.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Neither is there any creature </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that is not manifest in his sight: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but all things are naked and opened </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 2:27</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 But the anointing </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which ye have received of him abideth in you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye need not that any man teach you: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and is truth, and is no lie, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and even as it hath taught you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye shall abide in him</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>How GOD wants to purify us</u>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ezekiel 11:19-20</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 And I will give them one heart, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will put a new spirit within you; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and will give them an heart of flesh:</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 That they may walk in my statutes, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and keep mine ordinances, and do them:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they shall be my people, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will be their God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ezekiel 36:23</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 And I will sanctify my great name, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which was profaned among the heathen, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which ye have profaned in the midst of them; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saith the Lord God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ezekiel 36:24</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>24 For I will take you from among the heathen, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and gather you out of all countries, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and will bring you into your own land.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ezekiel 36:25</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ezekiel 36:26</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 A new heart also will I give you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and a new spirit will I put within you: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will give you an heart of flesh.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ezekiel 36:27-28</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 And I will put my spirit within you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and cause you to walk in my statutes, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>28 And ye shall dwell in the land </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that I gave to your fathers; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye shall be my people, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will be your God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:5-7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Jesus answered, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Verily, verily, I say unto thee, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Ye must be born again</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>How we are to be</u>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 3:5</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and lean not unto thine own understanding</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 3:6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he shall direct thy paths</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 3:7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>fear the Lord, and depart from evil</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 51:10</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and renew a right spirit within me</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 4:23</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for out of it are the issues of life</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Jeremiah 17:7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and whose hope the Lord is</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 5:8</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 Blessed are the pure in heart: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for they shall see God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 5:48</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>48 Be ye therefore perfect, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even as your Father which is in heaven </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is perfect</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">James 4:8</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 Draw nigh to God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he will draw nigh to you. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and purify your hearts, ye double minded</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Peter 1:15-16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 But as he which hath called you is holy, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 Because it is written, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Be ye holy; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for I am holy</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>And if people don't want to listen</u>?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ezekiel 11:21</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 But as for them whose heart walketh </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>after the heart of their detestable things </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and their abominations, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will recompense their way </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon their own heads, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saith the Lord God</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>All power comes from <a href="https://archaeologistofthesoul.blogspot.com/2022/03/jesus-is-way.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a> alone</u>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 15:5</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 I am the vine, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye are the branches: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>He that abideth in me, and I in him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the same bringeth forth much fruit: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for without me ye can do nothing</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related posts:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://studentofspirit.blogspot.com/2021/04/what-god-looks-for.html" target="_blank">What GOD Looks For</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://thesimplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/2023/01/mans-true-nature.html" target="_blank">Man's TRUE nature</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/2023/05/nonnegotiable-gospel.html" target="_blank">NONNEGOTIABLE gospel</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://itsallpreparationnow.blogspot.com/2023/05/focus-on-jesus.html" target="_blank">FOCUS on JESUS</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://thehardteachings.blogspot.com/p/sin-awareness.html" target="_blank">Sin AWARENESS</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://bornagainclassics.blogspot.com/2023/01/born-again-classics.html" target="_blank">BORN AGAIN classics</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Image: <a href="https://pngtree.com/freepng/gentle-rose-girl-girl-beautiful-girl_4605918.html" target="_blank">Png Tree</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-43312108331950925772023-01-18T10:16:00.010+08:002023-05-15T10:49:08.146+08:00Man's TRUE nature<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnqYia908-TBOfWYafBBfo8ZMx_0gCVddUsgAVa44vZT1Q4uxHHHiVezbuDCz28kGdO_fa_NOiwlbHgzC5ZpfZq7B044DY78aTz7s44NpZ-Om1JGCvE8-UsDzdtQ5hjuEA7u9pe2phetrOywgMWstByZcO1YaQc3PwssfnFo0F-eQr0BheUXc5wXttg/s262/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="193" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnqYia908-TBOfWYafBBfo8ZMx_0gCVddUsgAVa44vZT1Q4uxHHHiVezbuDCz28kGdO_fa_NOiwlbHgzC5ZpfZq7B044DY78aTz7s44NpZ-Om1JGCvE8-UsDzdtQ5hjuEA7u9pe2phetrOywgMWstByZcO1YaQc3PwssfnFo0F-eQr0BheUXc5wXttg/s1600/download.jpg" width="193" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Mark 10:18</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 And Jesus said unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Why callest thou me good? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there is none good but one, that is, God</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To know man's nature, first, we must know GOD's nature.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">JESUS says <a href="https://themagnificenceandmajestyofgod.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-might-power-and-glory-of-god.html" target="_blank">ONLY GOD</a> is good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If you can accept that, then you're on the right track.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The purpose being, not to cut down man, but to let <a href="https://prophecylessons.blogspot.com/p/the.html" target="_blank">SPIRIT</a> and <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/word-of-god.html" target="_blank">SCRIPTURE</a> correct us:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 16:8-14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And when he is come, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he will reprove the world of sin, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and of righteousness, and of judgment:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye see me no more;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is judged.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 I have yet many things to say unto you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but ye cannot bear them now.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he will guide you into all truth: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for he shall not speak of himself; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he will shew you things to come.</b></i></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 He shall glorify me: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for he shall receive of mine, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and shall shew it unto you</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2 Timothy 3:16-17</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> and is profitable for doctrine, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for reproof, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for correction, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for instruction in righteousness:</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 That the man of God may be perfect, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thoroughly furnished unto all good works</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hebrews 4:12</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 For the word of God is quick, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and powerful, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sharper than any twoedged sword, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>piercing even to the dividing asunder </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of soul and spirit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and of the joints and marrow, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and is a discerner of the thoughts </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and intents of the heart</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Surely, there's a part of you that wants to change.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If we want to be with <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/jesus.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a>, we must change.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We must become <a href="https://simplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-it-means-to-be-born-again.html" target="_blank">born again</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That we may know how we have wronged the LORD, others, and ourselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And be aware <a href="https://prophecylessons.blogspot.com/2019/10/on-knowing-enemy-of-christ.html" target="_blank">who</a> causes us to sin.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let us not be guilty of this:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 8:44-45</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>44 Ye are of your father the devil, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the lusts of your father ye will do. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>He was a murderer from the beginning, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and abode not in the truth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because there is no truth in him. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for he is a liar, and the father of it.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>45 And because I tell you the truth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye believe me not</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now, it's time to know the TRUE nature of man:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Genesis 6:5-7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And God saw that the wickedness of man </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>was great in the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that every imagination </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the thoughts of his heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>was only evil continually.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And it repented the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he had made man on the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it grieved him at his heart.</b></i></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 And the Lord said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will destroy man </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whom I have created from the face of the earth; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>both man, and beast, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the creeping thing, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the fowls of the air; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for it repenteth me that I have made them</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Jeremiah 17:9-10</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 The heart is deceitful above all things, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and desperately wicked: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who can know it?</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 I the Lord search the heart, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I try the reins, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even to give every man according to his ways, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and according to the fruit of his doings</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 15:11</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 Not that which goeth into the mouth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>defileth a man; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but that which cometh out of the mouth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>this defileth a man</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 15:18-20</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>come forth from the heart; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they defile the man.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>murders, adulteries, fornications, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thefts, false witness, blasphemies:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 These are the things which defile a man: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 3:9-10</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 What then? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are we better than they? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>No, in no wise: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that they are all under sin;</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 As it is written, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>There is none righteous, no, not one</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 3:11</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 There is none that understandeth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there is none that seeketh after God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 3:12</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 They are all gone out of the way, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they are together become unprofitable; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there is none that doeth good, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>no, not one</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 3:23</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 For all have sinned, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and come short of the glory of God</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 6:6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 Knowing this, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that our old man is crucified with him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that the body of sin might be destroyed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that henceforth we should not serve sin</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 7:18</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 For I know that in me </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>(that is, in my flesh,) </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>dwelleth no good thing: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for to will is present with me; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but how to perform that which is good I find not</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 7:23</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 But I see another law in my members, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>warring against the law of my mind, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which is in my members</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 7:24-25</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>24 O wretched man that I am! </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who shall deliver me from the body of this death?</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but with the flesh the law of sin</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Galatians 5:19-21</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which are these; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>revellings, and such like: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the which I tell you before, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as I have also told you in time past,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> that they which do such things </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall not inherit the kingdom of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Colossians 3:5-6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Mortify therefore your members </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which are upon the earth; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>fornication, uncleanness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>inordinate affection, </b></i><i><b>evil concupiscence, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and covetousness, which is idolatry:</span></b></i></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>on the children of disobedience</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>James 1:13-16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Let no man say when he is tempted, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I am tempted of God: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for God cannot be tempted with evil, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither tempteth he any man:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 But every man is tempted, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when he is drawn away of his own lust, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and enticed.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 Then when lust hath conceived, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it bringeth forth sin: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 Do not err, my beloved brethren</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>James 4:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 From whence come wars </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and fightings among you? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>come they not hence, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even of your lusts </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that war in your members</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>James 4:2-3</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 Ye lust, and have not: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that ye may consume it upon your lusts</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>James 4:4</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>know ye not that the friendship of the world </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is enmity with God? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is the enemy of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>James 4:16-17</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>all such rejoicing is evil.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and doeth it not, to him it is sin</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Related material:</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKOJhB0nIS6-xP6elThaWTqmc81XTIJKYbBiJTYYAQNBwJY9mXEg2MOSJB45Sp4MJYt7TgfFyJYo88qVcJnMZOvxB4sc-p011TEj_2wTDD6aZsqWXpYBMc46kGbuxRUrJgeo4m9C0KI0z1v7mvruDY2m2Qvm6mJRdbdF6ej32VYkW7fYbKJM8P_a3k0w/s274/wolf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKOJhB0nIS6-xP6elThaWTqmc81XTIJKYbBiJTYYAQNBwJY9mXEg2MOSJB45Sp4MJYt7TgfFyJYo88qVcJnMZOvxB4sc-p011TEj_2wTDD6aZsqWXpYBMc46kGbuxRUrJgeo4m9C0KI0z1v7mvruDY2m2Qvm6mJRdbdF6ej32VYkW7fYbKJM8P_a3k0w/s1600/wolf.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> <u>JESUS warned us</u>:</span></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 7:15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 Beware of false prophets, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which come to you in sheep's clothing, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but inwardly they are ravening wolves</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With the way the world is steeped in darkness, you can well believe wolves outnumber sheep, thus, we call this post "sheep among wolves".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/jesus.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a> warned us about wolves in sheep's clothing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The LORD knows who are His.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 10:16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>be ye therefore wise as serpents, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and harmless as doves</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 10:27-28</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 My sheep hear my voice, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I know them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they follow me:</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>28 And I give unto them eternal life; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they shall never perish, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here's how to know the sheep, from the wolves.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The sheep follow JESUS.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Much as we are mocked by the world, we don't follow blindly.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We follow the LIGHT, and never walk in darkness.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 8:12</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I am the light of the world: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but shall have the light of life</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thejoyofbeingbornagain.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-can-you-not-want-to-become-born.html" target="_blank">Born agains</a> abide by what JESUS commanded us:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 22:37-40</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>37 Jesus said unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Thou shalt love the Lord thy God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with all thy heart, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and with all thy soul, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and with all thy mind.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>38 This is the first and great commandment.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>39 And the second is like unto it, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>40 On these two commandments hang </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>all the law and the prophets</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Mark 1:15</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>The time is fulfilled, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the kingdom of God is at hand: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>repent ye, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and believe the gospel</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 16:15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And he said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but God knoweth your hearts: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for that which is highly esteemed among men </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is abomination in the sight of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:3-7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Jesus answered and said unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Verily, verily, I say unto thee, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Except a man be born again, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he cannot see the kingdom of God.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 Nicodemus saith unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>How can a man be born when he is old? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and be born?</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Jesus answered, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Verily, verily, I say unto thee, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Ye must be born again</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:16-21</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 For God so loved the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he gave his only begotten Son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but have everlasting life.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 For God sent not his Son into the world </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to condemn the world; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but that the world through him might be saved.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but he that believeth not is condemned already, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because he hath not believed in the name </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the only begotten Son of God.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 And this is the condemnation, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that light is come into the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and men loved darkness rather than light, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because their deeds were evil.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither cometh to the light, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>lest his deeds should be reproved.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that his deeds may be made manifest, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that they are wrought in God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 14:15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 If ye love me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>keep my commandments</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://championingthebible.blogspot.com/p/kjv-bible.html" target="_blank">Bible</a> was very clear Who we must FOCUS on:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Colossians 3:1-2</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 If ye then be risen with Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>seek those things which are above, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 Set your affection on things above, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>not on things on the earth</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As born again, <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/2021/09/live-by-bible.html" target="_blank">living by the Bible</a>, loving the LORD, studying what I may share with you, I know what to focus on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://archaeologistofthesoul.blogspot.com/2022/03/jesus-is-way.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a>, and JESUS alone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There is nothing else but JESUS.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 24:35</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but my words shall not pass away</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He is the WORD, made manifest.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 1:14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And the Word was made flesh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and dwelt among us, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>(and we beheld his glory, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>full of grace and truth</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://archaeologistofthesoul.blogspot.com/2022/10/gods-light.html" target="_blank">GOD's LIGHT</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://bornagainperspective.blogspot.com/p/the-sheep.html" target="_blank">The SHEEP</a></i></span></p><p><i><a href="https://godsgloryblogs.blogspot.com/p/born-again-articles.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BORN AGAIN articles</span></a></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/word-of-god.html" target="_blank">WORD of GOD</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://realhopeforcrazytimes.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-devils-devices.html" target="_blank">The devil's DEVICES</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Image: <a href="https://www.clipartlogo.com/free/wolf-in-sheep%27s-clothing.html" target="_blank">Clipart Logo</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-1107700371589783062022-02-24T11:24:00.005+08:002022-02-24T21:59:53.025+08:00Who Did the Apostles Say JESUS Was?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0O_77TsSBOtHOUbvVS1v1ufKIER6NECqK2HBK_AGwH19M_QFL0FVk8VztmL7hYGsvQvWGGCBL7mFei-_xcjTRu4QjgHc8_OtHsxOvI4LIIkQ6brCATXvhD_X-xVPhbezYhARF1exQWxp/s320/the-four-evangelists-n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0O_77TsSBOtHOUbvVS1v1ufKIER6NECqK2HBK_AGwH19M_QFL0FVk8VztmL7hYGsvQvWGGCBL7mFei-_xcjTRu4QjgHc8_OtHsxOvI4LIIkQ6brCATXvhD_X-xVPhbezYhARF1exQWxp/s0/the-four-evangelists-n.jpg" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">According to these four apostles' gospel, this is who JESUS is:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" target="_blank">MATTHEW</a></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 14:33 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>33 Then they that were in the ship came </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and worshipped him, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>saying, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Of a truth thou art the Son of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" target="_blank">MARK</a></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Mark 1:1 </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the Son of God</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" target="_blank">LUKE</a></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 1:30-33 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>30 And the angel said unto her, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Fear not, Mary: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>for thou hast found favour with God.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>31 And, behold, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>thou shalt conceive in thy womb, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and bring forth a son, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and shalt call his name Jesus.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 He shall be great, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and shall be called the Son of the Highest</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and the Lord God shall give unto him </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>the throne of his father David:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>33 And he shall reign </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>over the house of Jacob for ever; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and of his kingdom there shall be no end.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John" target="_blank">JOHN</a></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 1:32-34 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>32 And John bare record, saying, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>I saw the Spirit descending from heaven </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>like a dove, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and it abode upon him.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>33 And I knew him not: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>but he that sent me to baptize with water, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>the same said unto me, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and remaining on him, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>the same is he </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>34 And I saw, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and bare record </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that this is the Son of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-79253524696623729102022-02-15T01:59:00.007+08:002023-03-03T05:14:21.836+08:00What Makes JESUS the True MEDIATOR of GOD?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy8xrPj6UtAS9xDq1kq0PoJEn1z-bqQxb_R57DJxi1c7bDGgX95seR3Ys7f2rKo40Q4R9LDznriC9QWrbuK-io5njdMxKHkHmA1-0rAgzg-yAAne57baLKsaL6dT5oxF_RGOSC34KmZpXx/s280/Filming-the-mountain-Jesus-of-Rio-de-Janeiro-from-different-angles-Stock-Photo-04-280x235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy8xrPj6UtAS9xDq1kq0PoJEn1z-bqQxb_R57DJxi1c7bDGgX95seR3Ys7f2rKo40Q4R9LDznriC9QWrbuK-io5njdMxKHkHmA1-0rAgzg-yAAne57baLKsaL6dT5oxF_RGOSC34KmZpXx/w268-h225/Filming-the-mountain-Jesus-of-Rio-de-Janeiro-from-different-angles-Stock-Photo-04-280x235.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">John 1:18 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i><b>18 No man </b></i></span><i><b>hath seen God </b></i></span><i><b>at any time, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the only begotten Son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>which is </b></i></span><i><b>in the bosom </b></i><i><b>of the Father, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>he hath </b></i></span><i><b>declared him</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What makes <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/jesus.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a> the true MEDIATOR of <a href="https://themagnificenceandmajestyofgod.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">GOD</a>?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://championingthebible.blogspot.com/p/kjv-bible.html" target="_blank">Scripture</a> is pure, perfect, and precise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You will find proof in these powerful verses:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Matthew 10:32-33 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">before men, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>him will I confess also </b></i></span><i><b>before my Father </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which is in heaven</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>33 But whosoever shall deny me </i></span><i>before men, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>him will I also deny </i></span><i>before my Father </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>which is in heaven</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 11:27 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i><b>27 All things are delivered </b></i></span><i><b>unto me </b></i></span><i><b>of my Father</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and no man knoweth the Son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but the Father; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>neither knoweth any man </i></span><i>the Father, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>save the Son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><span><i>and he </i></span><i>to whomsoever the Son </i></b></span><i><b>will reveal him</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Matthew 28:18 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 And Jesus came </b></i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and spake unto them, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">saying, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>All power </b></i></span><i><b>is given unto me </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>in heaven </b></i></span><i><b>and in earth.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 14:6 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 Jesus saith unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>I am the way, </b></i></span><i><b>the truth, </b></i><i><b>and the life: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>no man cometh </b></i></span><i><b>unto the Father, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but by me.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">John 15:16 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 Ye have not chosen me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but I have chosen you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ordained you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>that ye should go </i></span><i>and bring forth fruit, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and that your fruit </b></i></span><i><b>should remain</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>that whatsoever ye shall ask </b></i></span><i><b>of the Father </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in my name, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he may give it you</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Acts 16:31 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>31 And they said</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and thou shalt be saved, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and thy house</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Romans 8:34 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>34 Who is he </i></span><i>that condemneth? </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>It is Christ </i></span><i>that died, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>yea rather, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that is risen again</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>who is even </b></i></span><i><b>at the right hand </b></i><i><b>of God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>who also </b></i></span><i><b>maketh intercession </b></i><i><b>for us</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ephesians 2:18 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>18 For through him </b></i></span><i><b>we both have access </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>by one Spirit </b></i></span><i><b>unto the Father</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ephesians 2:19-22 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>19 Now therefore </i></span><i>ye are </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>no more strangers </i><i>and foreigners, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>but fellowcitizens </i></span><i>with the saints, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>and of the household </i></span><i>of God;</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><i>20 And are built </i></span><i>upon </i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>the foundation </i></span><span><i>of the apostles </i></span></b><i><b>and prophets</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>Jesus Christ himself </b></i></span><i><b>being the chief corner stone</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>21 In whom </i></span><i>all the building </i><i>fitly framed together </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>groweth unto an holy temple </b></i></span><i><b>in the Lord</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>22 In whom </b></i></span><i><b>ye also are builded together </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>for an habitation of God </b></i></span><i><b>through the Spirit</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Timothy 2:5-6 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 For there is one God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and one mediator </b></i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">between God and men, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the man Christ Jesus</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>6 Who gave himself </i></span><i>a ransom for all, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to be testified in due time</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hebrews 7:25 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i><b>25 Wherefore </b></i></span><i><b>he is able also </b></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>to save them </b></i></span><i><b>to the uttermost </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>that come </b></i><i><b>unto God </b></i></span><i><b>by him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>seeing he ever liveth </b></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b><span>to make intercession </span></b></i><i><b>for them</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hebrews 9:14-15 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>14 How much more </i></span><i>shall the blood of Christ, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>who through </i></span><i>the eternal Spirit </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>offered himself </i></span><i>without spot </i><i>to God, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>purge your conscience </i></span><i>from dead works </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>to serve </b></i></span><i><b>the living God</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>15 And for this cause </b></i></span><i><b>he is the mediator </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the new testament</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that by means of death, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>for the redemption </i></span><i>of the transgressions </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>that were under </i></span><i>the first testament, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><i>they </i></span><i>which are called </i></span><span><i>might receive </i></span><i>the promise </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of eternal inheritance</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hebrews 9:24 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>24 For Christ is not entered </i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>into the holy places </i><i>made with hands, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>which are </b></i></span><i><b>the figures of the true</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but into heaven itself, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>now to appear </b></i></span><i><b>in the presence of God </b></i><i><b>for us</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hebrews 12:2 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>2 Looking unto Jesus </b></i></span><i><b>the author </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and finisher </b></i></span><i><b>of our faith</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>who </i></span><i>for the joy </i><i>that was set </i><i>before him </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>e</i></span><i>ndured the cross, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>despising the shame, </b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and is set down </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">at the right hand </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>of the throne </b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>of God</b>.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 John 5:10-12 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>10 He that believeth </i></span><i>on the Son of God </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>hath the witness </i></span><i>in himself: </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>he that believeth </i></span><i>not God </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">hath made him </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">a liar; </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">because he believeth not </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the record </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>that God gave </b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>of his Son</b>.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 And this is the record, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>that God hath given to us </b></i></span><i><b>eternal life, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and this life is </b></i></span><i><b>in his Son</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>12 He that hath the Son </i></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">hath life; </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><span><i>and he </i></span><i>that hath not the Son of God </i></b></span><i><b>hath not life</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Revelation 1:5-6 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And from Jesus Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who is the faithful witness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>and the first begotten </i></span><i>of the dead, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>and the prince </i></span><i>of the kings of the earth. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>Unto him </i></span><i>that loved us, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b><span><i>and washed us </i></span><i>from our sins </i></b></span><i><b>in his own blood</b>,</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>6 And hath made us </b></i></span><i><b>kings and priests </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>unto God </b></i></span><i><b>and his Father</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><i>to him </i></span><i>be glory </i><i>and dominion </i></span><span><i>for ever </i></span><i>and ever. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Amen</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 5:5 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>5 And one of the elders saith unto me</b>, </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Weep not: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>behold, </b></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the Lion </b></i></span><i><b>of the tribe of Judah, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the Root of David, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>hath prevailed </b></i></span><i><b>to open the book</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and to loose </b></i></span><i><b>the seven seals thereof</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 5:7-9 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>7 And he came </i></span><i>and took the book </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>out of the right hand </i></span><i>of him </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>that sat </i><i>upon the throne.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And when he had taken the book, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the four beasts </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and four and twenty elders </b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>fell down </i></span><i>before the Lamb, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>having every one of them harps, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>and golden vials </i></span><i>full of odours, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>which are the prayers </b></i></span><i><b>of saints</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 And they sung a new song, saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>Thou art worthy </b></i></span><i><b>to take the book, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and to open </b></i></span><i><b>the seals thereof: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for thou wast slain, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and hast redeemed us </b></i></span><i><b>to God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>by thy blood</b> </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>out of every kindred, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and tongue, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and people, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and nation</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>More verses <a href="https://www.openbible.info/topics/jesus_being_the_only_way" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related post:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/jesus.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 3 March 2023</i></span></p><p><br /></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-7170177937709634732022-02-06T15:06:00.001+08:002022-09-07T20:46:31.661+08:00MANNA from GOD<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ80n0I71ijs8nRnIffo-KwitNqNTIpi0ouqV7TmeWRqAoNjRUlGQWWrQDqn7motd8X0knd-7_NALDV25GzYz2AXHW6SXzXD2SuHq2vNgIdjV2BOUrvIpYebqw2_7XFMFWmRahvl35OIb_/s512/manna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="413" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ80n0I71ijs8nRnIffo-KwitNqNTIpi0ouqV7TmeWRqAoNjRUlGQWWrQDqn7motd8X0knd-7_NALDV25GzYz2AXHW6SXzXD2SuHq2vNgIdjV2BOUrvIpYebqw2_7XFMFWmRahvl35OIb_/w171-h212/manna.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:12</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 I have heard the murmurings </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the children of Israel: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>speak unto them, saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>At even ye shall eat flesh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The whole chapter of Exodus 16 spoke of manna, the bread from heaven.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let's explore the verses.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The children of Israel find themselves in Sin -- the wilderness.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 And they took their journey from Elim, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and all the congregation of the children of Israel </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>came unto the wilderness of Sin</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which is between Elim and Sinai, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>on the fifteenth day of the second month </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>after their departing out of the land of Egypt</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hungry, they start to complain.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:2-3</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>murmured against Moses and Aaron </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the wilderness</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And the children of Israel said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the land of Egypt, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when we sat by the flesh pots, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and when we did eat bread to the full; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to kill this whole assembly with hunger</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our merciful God responds.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:4-5</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 Then said the Lord unto Moses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will rain bread from heaven for you</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> and the people shall go out </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and gather a certain rate every day, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that I may prove them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whether they will walk in my law, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or no</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And it shall come to pass, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that on the sixth day they shall prepare </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that which they bring in; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Moses and Aaron admonish the children of Israel.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:6-9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And Moses and Aaron said </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>unto all the children of Israel, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>At even, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>then ye shall know that the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>hath brought you out from the land of Egypt</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 And in the morning, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and what are we, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that ye murmur against us</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And Moses said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>This shall be, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when the Lord shall give you in the evening </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>flesh to eat, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and in the morning bread to the full; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for that the Lord heareth your murmurings </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which ye murmur against him: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and what are we? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>your murmurings are not against us, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but against the Lord</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Come near before the Lord: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for he hath heard your murmurings</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The glory of God appears in a cloud.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:10-12</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 And it came to pass, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the children of Israel, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that they looked toward the wilderness, and, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>speak unto them, saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>At even ye shall eat flesh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Manna shows up.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:13-14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 And it came to pass, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that at even the quails came up, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and covered the camp: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and in the morning the dew lay round about the host</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And when the dew that lay was gone up</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon the face of the wilderness </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there lay a small round thing, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as small as the hoar frost on the ground</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Moses gives them instructions how to gather the manna.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:15-19</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And when the children of Israel saw it, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they said one to another, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>It is manna: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for they wist not what it was. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>And Moses said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Gather of it every man according to his eating, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>an omer for every man, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>according to the number of your persons; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>take ye every man for them which are in his tents.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 And the children of Israel did so, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and gathered, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some more, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some less.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 And when they did mete it with an omer</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he that gathered much had nothing over, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he that gathered little had no lack</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they gathered every man according to his eating</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 And Moses said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Let no man leave of it till the morning</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The children of Israel didn't follow Moses' instructions.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:20-22</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but some of them left of it until the morning, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it bred worms, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and stank</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and Moses was wroth with them</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 And they gathered it every morning, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>every man according to his eating: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and when the sun waxed hot, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it melted</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>22 And it came to pass, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that on the sixth day they gathered </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>twice as much bread</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>two omers for one man: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Moses speaks of the Sabbath, according to God's instructions.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:23-26</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 And he said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>This is that which the Lord hath said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>To morrow is the rest </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>bake that which ye will bake to day, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and seethe that ye will seethe; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that which remaineth over lay up for you </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to be kept until the morning</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>24 And they laid it up till the morning, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as Moses bade: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it did not stink, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither was there any worm therein</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>25 And Moses said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Eat that to day; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to day ye shall not find it in the field</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 Six days ye shall gather it; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but on the seventh day, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which is the sabbath, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in it there shall be none</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Again, the people fail to follow the Lord's instructions.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:27-30</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 And it came to pass, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that there went out some of the people on the seventh day </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for to gather, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they found none</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>28 And the Lord said unto Moses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>How long refuse ye </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to keep my commandments and my laws</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">God anticipated the need of the people, in spite of the Sabbath.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:27-30</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>29 See</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>therefore he giveth you on the sixth day </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the bread of two days; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>abide ye every man in his place, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>let no man go out of his place on the seventh day</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>30 So the people rested on the seventh day</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How manna tastes like.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:31</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it was like coriander seed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>white; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the taste of it was like wafers </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>made with honey</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">God commands the people to keep manna for future generations.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:32-34</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 And Moses said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that they may see the bread </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>33 And Moses said unto Aaron, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Take a pot</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and put an omer full of manna therein, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and lay it up before the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to be kept for your generations</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>34 As the Lord commanded Moses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to be kept</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Manna sustained the children of Israel for 40 years.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 16:35-36</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>35 And the children of Israel </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>did eat manna forty years, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>until they came to a land inhabited; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they did eat manna, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>until they came unto the borders </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the land of Canaan</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u><i>Note:</i></u></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>An <b>ephah</b> is a bushel, or equivalent to nearly 35 1/4 liters.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>One-tenth of that, or 3.534 liters is an <b>omer</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://bornagainperspective.blogspot.com/p/food-for-spirit.html" target="_blank">FOOD for the SPIRIT</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Image source: <a href="http://clipart-library.com/manna-coloring-page.html" target="_blank">Clipart Library</a></i></span></p><p><br /></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-28849616680507617332021-12-05T07:02:00.011+08:002021-12-05T08:44:05.104+08:00WORKMAN's FAITH<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIiEJ-wUTob8wWgO1yIQVDJps9M9lwsDbIYMFpBNL9pGKi5Hz8yqXOseMKdRoh0eeistB4zI96dHYEQFJA0CeaC3j_DfwPgjG1kpS8lQQgJEmvDS5jTxUnpJjFEa5QVB9ipMpI7SAPMreVvfCp7KsE8SRbmNskukXeMFBSpuqb1v8hhUgLmSxvcOvf7A=s750" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIiEJ-wUTob8wWgO1yIQVDJps9M9lwsDbIYMFpBNL9pGKi5Hz8yqXOseMKdRoh0eeistB4zI96dHYEQFJA0CeaC3j_DfwPgjG1kpS8lQQgJEmvDS5jTxUnpJjFEa5QVB9ipMpI7SAPMreVvfCp7KsE8SRbmNskukXeMFBSpuqb1v8hhUgLmSxvcOvf7A=w152-h229" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ephesians 6:10</span></i></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 Finally, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>my brethren, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>be strong in the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and in the power of his might</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It's been quite a journey.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A life-long journey.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Searching for truth.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ultimate truth.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which turned out to be <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-only-thing-you-can-trust.html" target="_blank">GOD's TRUTH</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And when I did find it, peace prevailed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BECOMING a workman for God, nearly 27 months now.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 Timothy 2:15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>rightly dividing the word of truth</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SHARING the WORD of GOD each day, with you.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hebrews 4:12</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 For the word of God is quick, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and powerful, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sharper than any twoedged sword, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>piercing even to the dividing asunder </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of soul and spirit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and of the joints and marrow, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and is a discerner of the thoughts </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and intents of the heart</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">DELIGHTING in the simplicity of the GOSPEL.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Corinthians 15:3-4</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>3 For I delivered unto you first of all </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>that which I also received, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>how that Christ died for our sins </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>according to the scriptures;</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 And that he was buried, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that he rose again the third day </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>according to the scriptures</b>:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">TRUSTING in God completely.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Psalm 31:15</span></i></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 My times are in thy hand</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and from them that persecute me.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">KNOWING I am safe, with GOD.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 118:6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 The Lord is on my side; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will not fear</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>what can man do unto me?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">TRUSTING in His promise.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 For God so loved the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he gave his only begotten Son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that whosoever believeth in him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>should not perish, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but have everlasting life</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BECOMING child-like with JESUS.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 18:3</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Verily I say unto you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Except ye be converted, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and become as little children, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">HAVING faith in Him alone.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 8:31</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>31 What shall we then say to these things? </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>If God be for us, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who can be against us</b>?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">FOCUSING on Him, above all.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Colossians 3:1-2</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 If ye then be risen with Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>seek those things which are above, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 Set your affection on things above, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>not on things on the earth</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BEING conformed to GOD's WILL alone.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Romans 12:2</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 And be not conformed to this world: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but be ye transformed </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>by the renewing of your mind, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that ye may prove what is that good, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and acceptable, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and perfect, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>will of God</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WALKING with Spirit, each moment.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Galatians 5:16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>16 This I say then, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Walk in the Spirit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and ye shall not fulfil </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the lust of the flesh</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WAITING to be taught, each day.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 16:13</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Howbeit when he, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the Spirit of truth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is come, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he will guide you into all truth: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for he shall not speak of himself; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but whatsoever he shall hear, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that shall he speak: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he will shew you things to come</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LIVING by FAITH alone.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ephesians 2:8</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that not of yourselves: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it is the gift of God</b>:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BEING born again.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:5-7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Jesus answered, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Verily, verily, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I say unto thee, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Ye must be born again</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BELIEVING in JESUS, the SON of GOD.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 14:1</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>14 Let not your heart be troubled: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye believe in God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>believe also in me</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">KNOWING all come from Him.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 15:5</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 I am the vine, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye are the branches: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>He that abideth in me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I in him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the same bringeth forth much fruit: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for without me ye can do nothing</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">ALERTING me to something really urgent.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 24:39-42</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>39 And knew not until the flood came, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and took them all away; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>40 Then shall two be in the field; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the one shall be taken, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the other left</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>the one shall be taken, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and the other left.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>42 Watch therefore: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">REVEALING the time is at hand.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Mark 1:15</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>The time is fulfilled, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the kingdom of God is at hand: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>repent ye, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and believe the gospel</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WAITING for His soon return.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hebrews 9:28</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>28 So Christ was once offered </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to bear the sins of many; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and unto them that look for him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall he appear the second time </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>without sin unto salvation</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">KNOWING only God knows when.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 24:36</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>36 But of that day and hour </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>knoweth no man, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>no, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>not the angels of heaven, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but my Father only</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LOOKING forward to being with JESUS.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 21:1-5</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and there was no more sea</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 And I John saw the holy city, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>new Jerusalem, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>coming down from God out of heaven, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the tabernacle of God is with men, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he will dwell with them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they shall be his people, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and God himself shall be with them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and be their God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and there shall be no more death, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither sorrow, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor crying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither shall there be any more pain: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the former things are passed away</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>5 And he that sat upon the throne said, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I make all things new</b>. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>And he said unto me, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Write: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for these words are true </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and faithful</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A workman's work, is truly wonderful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And so very worthwhile.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">All for the <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/gods-glory.html" target="_blank">GLORY of GOD</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">(Image source: <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/adorable-baby-beautiful-child-277149/" target="_blank">Pixabay</a>)</span></i></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-29631010881462846652021-05-05T20:49:00.007+08:002022-01-22T17:08:13.187+08:00A STORY of GOD's LOVE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQAgKVoir-_QKmmzr3txJo5kOWmMuOLAIxHswS9epJrz_5xXCIu8x-xzgcH7eP7noff4C0W3t5NagmLax5pVSxnWL8SJRQxgwoCFKFa1-No3JHU-eNsvcGxIVEqyulC4bBRgz35C-wgr7/s275/download+%25286%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQAgKVoir-_QKmmzr3txJo5kOWmMuOLAIxHswS9epJrz_5xXCIu8x-xzgcH7eP7noff4C0W3t5NagmLax5pVSxnWL8SJRQxgwoCFKFa1-No3JHU-eNsvcGxIVEqyulC4bBRgz35C-wgr7/w295-h196/download+%25286%2529.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 John 1:7</span></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 But if we walk in the light, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as he is in the light, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>we have fellowship one with another, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>cleanseth us from all sin</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Have you any idea how much God loves you?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let the Bible tell us how.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">God loves us so much, He sent His only begotten Son.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:16</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 For God so loved the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he gave his only begotten Son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but have everlasting life</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Even as the world lieth in wickedness.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 5:19</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>19 And we know that we are of God, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the whole world lieth in wickedness</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He had clear instructions for Jesus.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 6:37-39</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>38 For I came down from heaven, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>not to do mine own will, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>but the will of him that sent me.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but should raise it up again at the last day</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So, Jesus came for us sinners.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 5:32</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 I came not to call the righteous, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but sinners to repentance</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For we were in great need of the Lord's healing grace.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Mark 2:17</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 When Jesus heard it, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he saith unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>They that are whole have no need of the physician, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but they that are sick</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>I came not to call the righteous, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>but sinners to repentance.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He was not about to forget anyone among us.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 15:4-6</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 What man of you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>having an hundred sheep, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>if he lose one of them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and go after that which is lost, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>until he find it</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>5 And when he hath found it, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>he layeth it on his shoulders, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>rejoicing.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And when he cometh home, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he calleth together his friends and neighbours, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saying unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Rejoice with me; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for I have found my sheep which was lost</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To be saved, we had to believe in Him.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 6:40</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>40 And this is the will of him that sent me, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>that every one which seeth the Son, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and believeth on him</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>may have everlasting life: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and I will raise him up at the last day.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We also had to keep the Father's commandments.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 2:3</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>3 And hereby we do know that we know him, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>if we keep his commandments</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We had to obey His will.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 7:21</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>21 Not every one that saith unto me, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Lord, Lord, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We had to confess our sins.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 1:8-10</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>8 If we say that we have no sin, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>we deceive ourselves, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and the truth is not in us.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 If we confess our sins, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>10 If we say that we have not sinned, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>we make him a liar, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and his word is not in us.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We had to repent.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 15:7</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 I say unto you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that likewise joy shall be in heaven </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>over one sinner that repenteth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>more than over ninety and nine just persons, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which need no repentance</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Through the Son's death, He gave us the gift of life, and sanctification.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hebrews 10:14</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>them that are sanctified</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Good works on earth couldn't give us that salvation, only God could.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ephesians 2:8-9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 For by grace are ye saved through faith</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and that not of yourselves: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it is the gift of God</b>:</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>9 Not of works, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>lest any man should boast.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jesus became our advocate.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 2:1-2</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 My little children, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>these things write I unto you, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>that ye sin not. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>And if any man sin, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>we have an advocate with the Father, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Jesus Christ the righteous</b>:</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and not for ours only, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but also for the sins of the whole world</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He became our mediator.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Timothy 2:5</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 For there is one God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and one mediator between God and men, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the man Christ Jesus</b>;</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For it is God's will all of us be saved.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Timothy 2:1-4</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 I exhort therefore, that, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>first of all, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>supplications, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>prayers, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>intercessions, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and giving of thanks, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>be made for all men;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 For kings, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and for all that are in authority; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>in all godliness and honesty.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 Who will have all men to be saved, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and to come unto the knowledge of the truth</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But He had to sacrifice His Son, that we may have eternal life.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 6:44</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>44 No man can come to me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>except the Father which hath sent me draw him: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I will raise him up at the last day</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It pleased God to give us His kingdom.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 12:32</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>32 Fear not, little flock; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which Jesus said was in our hearts, too.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 17:21</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>21 Neither shall they say, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Lo here! </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>or, lo there! </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>for, behold, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the kingdom of God is within you</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Before Jesus went back to the Father, He gave us a gift.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 14:16-17</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 And I will pray the Father, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he shall give you another Comforter, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he may abide with you for ever</b>;</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>17 Even the Spirit of truth; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>whom the world cannot receive, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>because it seeth him not, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>neither knoweth him: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>but ye know him; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for he dwelleth with you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and shall be in you</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We need the gift of the <a href="https://respectfortheholyspirit.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-purpose-of-holy-spirit.html" target="_blank">Holy Spirit</a> to help us how to pray.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 8:26</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with groanings which cannot be uttered</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And that intercession is aligned with the will of God.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 8:27</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>27 And he that searcheth the hearts </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because he maketh intercession for the saints </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>according to the will of God</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Father really wants everyone saved.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Even if we continue to defy Him.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He is just, merciful, patient, and faithful to His people.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Deuteronomy 7:9</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he is God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the faithful God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which keepeth covenant and mercy </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with them that love him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and keep his commandments </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to a thousand generations</b>;</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It is the GREATEST love of all -- this love GOD has for us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To the point of sacrificing His own Son, who knew no sin, and had to be made mortal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">May we all be worthy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 22 January 2022</i></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-85795913152388833892021-03-31T09:10:00.023+08:002023-04-25T05:15:12.560+08:00WHY Did JESUS Have to Die?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3qMgk8LY4pAUldVM76-DnBOtHauVw7Vzd26K1yiS-weXwLsUeIY6MiM6HjwM3KxoTnayrJpdbI7ARuLoISrPfU6fIuKLN70ATqmv_eNPvFY2gNzEeyDL5yAyJGtOrwb3r62T3-UbJ-_u5NLUVu1E14EcqyOw-pavG_ZzCt5uyV1juyFDG5E6Mv_nCQ/s227/cross%203.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="227" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3qMgk8LY4pAUldVM76-DnBOtHauVw7Vzd26K1yiS-weXwLsUeIY6MiM6HjwM3KxoTnayrJpdbI7ARuLoISrPfU6fIuKLN70ATqmv_eNPvFY2gNzEeyDL5yAyJGtOrwb3r62T3-UbJ-_u5NLUVu1E14EcqyOw-pavG_ZzCt5uyV1juyFDG5E6Mv_nCQ/s1600/cross%203.png" width="227" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><u><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Because GOD loved us:</span></u></i></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:16-17 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 For God so loved the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he gave his only begotten Son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that whosoever believeth in him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>should not perish, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but have everlasting life</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 For God sent not his Son into the world </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to condemn the world; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but that the world through him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>might be saved</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Apart from GOD's incomparable love for us, what other reasons did Scripture reveal why <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/jesus.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a> offered His life for us?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>1. In obedience to God.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Philippians 2:8</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 And being found in fashion as a man, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he humbled himself, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and became obedient unto death, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even the death of the cross</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>2. To destroy the devil. </u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hebrews 2:14 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Forasmuch then as the children </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are partakers of flesh and blood, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he also himself likewise took part of the same</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that through death he might destroy him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that had the power of death, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that is, the devil</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>3. In fulfillment of Scripture. </u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 24:46 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>46 And said unto them</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Thus it is written, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and to rise from the dead the third day</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>4. To reconcile us with God.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Peter 3:18 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the just for the unjust</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that he might bring us to God</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>being put to death in the flesh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but quickened by the Spirit</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>5. To give us eternal life.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hebrews 9:15 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And for this cause he is the mediator </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the new testament, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that by means of death</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the redemption of the transgressions </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that were under the first testament</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they which are called might receive </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the promise of eternal inheritance</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>6. To die for the ungodly.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 5:6 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 For when we were yet without strength, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in due time Christ died for the ungodly</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>7. To redeem us from our sins.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ephesians 1:7 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the forgiveness of sins, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>according to the riches of his grace</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>8. To redeem us from the vain traditional ways </u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>of our forefathers.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 Peter 1:18-19 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 Forasmuch as ye know </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as silver and gold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from your vain conversation </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>received by tradition from your fathers</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 But with the precious blood of Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as of a lamb without blemish and without spot</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>9. To reveal His power over death.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 10:17 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 Therefore doth my Father love me</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because I lay down my life, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that I might take it again</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>10. To show His love for us.</u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 1:5 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 And from Jesus Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who is the faithful witness</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the first begotten of the dead, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the prince of the kings of the earth</b>. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Unto him that loved us, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and washed us from our sins </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in his own blood</b>,</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related posts:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://realhopeforcrazytimes.blogspot.com/2021/04/our-hope-in-blood-of-christ.html" target="_blank">Our HOPE in the BLOOD of CHRIST</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL8mJQ39zjw" target="_blank">The Power and Message of the Cross</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.openbible.info/topics/jesus_died_for_us_individually" target="_blank">More verses on why CHRIST had to die for us</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://warriorofthespirit.blogspot.com/p/full-armor.html" target="_blank">FULL ARMOR</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related videos:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZ9xD2cmnM" target="_blank">When God Brought Hell to Earth</a> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>(Mark 15:33-39)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL8mJQ39zjw&t=1s" target="_blank">The Power and Message of the Cross</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>(Alistair Begg)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HVMkux7_fU" target="_blank">Penal Substitution</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>(Keith Malcomson)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veN8V7xEbfU" target="_blank">Enemies of the Cross</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>(Keith Malcomson)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSbNl6LJzDc" target="_blank">The Bleeding Lamb</a> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>(Keith Malcomson)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z4UHrsdRT0" target="_blank">The Day of Atonement</a> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>(Keith Malcomson)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM6Gvom6How" target="_blank">REDEMPTION BY THE BLOOD</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>(Keith Malcomson)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 24 April 2023</i></span></p><p><br /></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-57332402003593542292021-01-21T20:13:00.002+08:002022-01-22T17:09:49.951+08:00What is RIGHT HEART?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CUk9syTTMgU" width="320" youtube-src-id="CUk9syTTMgU"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 23:26 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 My son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>give me thine heart, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and let thine eyes observe my ways</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What does it mean to have the right heart?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What is pleasing to the LORD?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This amazing 41-minute video will fill your heart with things of the heart, through verses chosen by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Ryle" target="_blank">J.C. Ryle</a>*.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Read beautifully, this will open your heart to the LORD.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A wonderful way to begin, and end your day -- listening to Scripture, making sure you get God's WORD right.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>*Ryle was a writer, pastor, and evangelical preacher. His heart was close to the Jews, and was part of the movement that led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration" target="_blank">Balfour Declaration</a>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 22 January 2022</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-67483216572387383252021-01-08T18:00:00.015+08:002023-07-10T03:34:44.637+08:00What Do the PARABLES of JESUS Mean?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3t4QKXB9DPoThI-n-ERSjZ5mhb7uRnpYesZEZwbkC2nLd51GnWj0ek5Hoq5JBvdV1CyBej7R0AKxNSRMIVZXC_fy-v9VHVPy8ItMXJjXtQfM6LfXek77mIlPw3XF5ZkOrJLIFclC4hIT/s259/download+%25285%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3t4QKXB9DPoThI-n-ERSjZ5mhb7uRnpYesZEZwbkC2nLd51GnWj0ek5Hoq5JBvdV1CyBej7R0AKxNSRMIVZXC_fy-v9VHVPy8ItMXJjXtQfM6LfXek77mIlPw3XF5ZkOrJLIFclC4hIT/s0/download+%25285%2529.jpg" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In the <a href="https://thesimplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/2021/01/why-does-jesus-speak-in-parables.html" target="_blank">previous article</a>, we spoke of what the word "parable" means, and why JESUS often spoke in parables.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What are some of the LORD's parables, and what do they mean?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Are they easy to understand?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Find out through these examples from Matthew 13.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">JESUS really made everything simple for us to understand.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A backgrounder -- where JESUS spoke these parables:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:1-2 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 The same day went Jesus out of the house, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sat by the sea side.</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 And great multitudes </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>were gathered together unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>so that he went into a ship, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sat</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the whole multitude stood on the shore</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Parable of the sower: </u></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:3-9 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 And he spake many things unto them </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>in parables, </b></i></span><i><b>saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>a sower went forth to sow;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 And when he sowed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some seeds fell by the way side, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the fowls came and devoured them up:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Some fell upon stony places, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>where they had not much earth: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and forthwith they sprung up, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because they had no deepness of earth:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And when the sun was up, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they were scorched; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and because they had no root, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they withered away.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 And some fell among thorns; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the thorns sprung up, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and choked them:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 But other fell into good ground, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and brought forth fruit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some an hundredfold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some sixtyfold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some thirtyfold.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 Who hath ears to hear, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>let him hear</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>JESUS explains the parable of the sower:</u></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:18-23 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and understandeth it not, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>then cometh the wicked one, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and catcheth away </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that which was sown in his heart. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>This is he which received seed by the way side.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 But he that received the seed into stony places, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the same is he that heareth the word, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and anon with joy receiveth it;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 Yet hath he not root in himself, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but dureth for a while: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for when tribulation or persecution ariseth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because of the word, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>by and by he is offended.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>22 He also that received seed among the thorns </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is he that heareth the word; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the care of this world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the deceitfulness of riches, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>choke the word, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he becometh unfruitful</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 But he that received seed into the good ground </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is he that heareth the word, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and understandeth it; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which also beareth fruit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and bringeth forth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some an hundredfold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some sixty, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>some thirty</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>------------------------</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Parable of the tares of the field:</u></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:24-30 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>24 Another parable put he forth unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saying</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which sowed good seed in his field:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>25 But while men slept, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and went his way.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 But when the blade was sprung up, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and brought forth fruit, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>then appeared the tares also.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>27 So the servants of the householder came </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and said unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from whence then hath it tares</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>28 He said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>An enemy hath done this</b>. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>The servants said unto him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>29 But he said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>ye root up also the wheat with them</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>30 Let both grow together until the harvest</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Gather ye together first the tares, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and bind them in bundles to burn them: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but gather the wheat into my barn</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>JESUS explains the parable of the tares of the field.</u></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:37-50 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>37 He answered and said unto them</b>, </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>38 The field is the world; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the good seed are the children of the kingdom; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but the tares are the children of the wicked one;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the harvest is the end of the world; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the reapers are the angels</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>40 As therefore the tares are gathered </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and burned in the fire; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>so shall it be in the end of this world.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they shall gather out of his kingdom </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>all things that offend, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and them which do iniquity;</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the kingdom of their Father. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Who hath ears to hear, let him hear</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>44 Again, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the kingdom of heaven </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is like unto treasure hid in a field</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the which when a man hath found, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he hideth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and for joy thereof goeth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and selleth all that he hath, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and buyeth that field</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>45 Again, the kingdom of heaven</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> is like unto a merchant man, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>seeking goodly pearls</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>46 Who, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when he had found one pearl of great price, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>went and sold all that he had, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and bought it</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that was cast into the sea, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and gathered of every kind</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>48 Which, when it was full, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they drew to shore, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sat down, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and gathered the good into vessels, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but cast the bad away</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>49 So shall it be at the end of the world: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the angels shall come forth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sever the wicked from among the just,</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>---------------------</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Parable of the mustard seed:</u></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:31-32</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>31 Another parable put he forth unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saying</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>The kingdom of heaven </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is like to a grain of mustard seed</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which a man took, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and sowed in his field:</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but when it is grown, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it is the greatest among herbs, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and becometh a tree, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>so that the birds of the air come </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and lodge in the branches thereo</b>f.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Parable of the leaven:</u></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:33</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>33 Another parable spake he unto them</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which a woman took, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and hid in three measures of meal, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>till the whole was leavened</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://godswordforever.blogspot.com/2023/05/sower-and-seed.html" target="_blank">SOWER and SEED</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 10 July 2023</i></span></p><p><br /></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-25836096924866905982021-01-08T16:51:00.006+08:002023-07-10T03:33:27.796+08:00Why Does JESUS Speak in PARABLES?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU4T14om0X2iJRXUmpah64-SLLbAYmHT-xadEkeWzzojfOEzbiWJpH3fi7b6-75lIpNCJbJF3qWrpN4-e90kf2eST3VoE210JhZ0NX8wfiYkpoI69m-TsUoK-TjKuHAop5O033TIEvtPoB/s259/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="259" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU4T14om0X2iJRXUmpah64-SLLbAYmHT-xadEkeWzzojfOEzbiWJpH3fi7b6-75lIpNCJbJF3qWrpN4-e90kf2eST3VoE210JhZ0NX8wfiYkpoI69m-TsUoK-TjKuHAop5O033TIEvtPoB/w222-h167/images.png" width="222" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What is a parable?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">According to Google, a parable is:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>"<b>a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels</b>"</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ah, that probably explains why <a href="https://educationfromspirit.blogspot.com/p/jesus.html" target="_blank">JESUS</a> teaches us through parables.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But let the LORD tell you Himself why He speaks to us in parables:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:10-17 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>10 And the disciples came, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and said unto him, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Why speakest thou unto them in parables?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 He answered and said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Because it is given unto you </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but to them it is not given</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>12 For whosoever hath, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>to him shall be given, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and he shall have more abundance: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>but whosoever hath not, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>from him shall be taken away even that he hath.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>because they seeing see not; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and hearing they hear not, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither do they understand</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>which saith, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>By hearing ye shall hear, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and shall not understand; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and seeing ye shall see, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and shall not perceive:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and their ears are dull of hearing, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and their eyes they have closed; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>lest at any time they should see with their eyes </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and hear with their ears, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and should understand with their heart, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and should be converted, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I should heal them</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and your ears, for they hear.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>17 For verily I say unto you, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>those things which ye see, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and have not seen them; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and to hear those things which ye hear, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and have not heard them.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 13:34-35 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>34 All these things spake Jesus </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>unto the multitude in parables; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and without a parable spake he not unto them:</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>35 That it might be fulfilled </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which was spoken by the prophet, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will open my mouth in parables; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will utter things which have been kept secret </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from the foundation of the world</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://godswordforever.blogspot.com/2023/05/sower-and-seed.html" target="_blank">SOWER and SEED</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 10 July 2023</i></span></p><div><br /></div>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-7956969091091132922021-01-05T08:28:00.012+08:002023-10-03T08:32:47.925+08:00What are ABOMINATIONS to GOD?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjubpFHsM1f3Zv_PeHOqB7v9GvKw8P6ykYXcqdRs43x7q8v2rhc-m7lpHK3WheOqyAn70e2lv-xUZAEQ25u0kv1MMRoOP91pAi0Ggt5wQJ61Y6ZoTRtFDq-JfcuTFOwFw9fW7wGygbojUo/s320/waves.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjubpFHsM1f3Zv_PeHOqB7v9GvKw8P6ykYXcqdRs43x7q8v2rhc-m7lpHK3WheOqyAn70e2lv-xUZAEQ25u0kv1MMRoOP91pAi0Ggt5wQJ61Y6ZoTRtFDq-JfcuTFOwFw9fW7wGygbojUo/w323-h181/waves.jpg" width="323" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 16:15 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And he said unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but God knoweth your hearts</b>:<b> </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for that which is highly esteemed among men </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is abomination in the sight of God</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What, then, are things "highly esteemed among men", which causes God's wrath the most?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 20:2-5 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 I am the Lord thy God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>out of the house of bondage</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or that is in the earth beneath, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or that is in the water under the earth</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor serve them: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>unto the third and fourth generation of them </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that hate me</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Exodus 35:2 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 Six days shall work be done, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but on the seventh day </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>there shall be to you an holy day, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>a sabbath of rest to the Lord</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whosoever doeth work therein </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall be put to death</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Leviticus 11:10 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and in the rivers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of all that move in the waters, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and of any living thing which is in the waters, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they shall be an abomination unto you</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Leviticus 11:13 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 And these are they which ye shall have </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in abomination among the fowls</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they shall not be eaten, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they are an abomination: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the eagle, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the ossifrage***, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the ospray</b>,</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Leviticus 11:23 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 But all other flying creeping things, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which have four feet, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall be an abomination unto you</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Leviticus 11:42 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly****, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and whatsoever goeth upon all four, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or whatsoever hath more feet </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>among all creeping things </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that creep upon the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>them ye shall not eat; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for they are an abomination</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Leviticus 18:22 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as with womankind: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it is abomination</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Leviticus 19:26 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither shall ye use enchantment, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor observe times</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Leviticus 19:28 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for the dead, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor print any marks upon you</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I am the Lord</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Deuteronomy 7:25-26 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>25 The graven images of their gods </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall ye burn with fire</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou shalt not desire the silver or gold </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that is on them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor take it unto thee, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>lest thou be snared therin: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 Neither shalt thou bring </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>an abomination into thine house</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>lest thou be a cursed thing like it: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but thou shalt utterly detest it, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and thou shalt utterly abhor it</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for it is a cursed thing</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Deuteronomy 18:10-13 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 There shall not be found among you any one </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that maketh his son or his daughter </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to pass through the fire, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or that useth divination, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or an observer of times, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or an enchanter, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or a witch.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 Or a charmer, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or a consulter with familiar spirits, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or a wizard, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or a necromancer</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 For all that do these things </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are an abomination unto the Lord: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and because of these abominations the Lord thy God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>doth drive them out from before thee</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Deuteronomy 22:5 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 The woman shall not wear </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that which pertaineth unto a man, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for all that do so </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are abomination unto the Lord thy God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 Kings 11:1-6 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>11 But king Solomon loved many strange** women</b>, </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>together with the daughter of Pharaoh, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>women of the Moabites, </b></i></span><i><b>Ammonites, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>Edomites, </b></i></span><i><b>Zidonians, </b></i><i><b>and Hittites</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>2 Of the nations concerning which </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the Lord said unto the children of Israel, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Ye shall not go in to them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither shall they come in unto you: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for surely they will turn away your heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>after their gods</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Solomon clave unto these in love.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>3 And he had seven hundred wives, </b></i></span><i><b>princesses, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and three hundred concubines</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and his wives turned away his heart</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 For it came to pass</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>when Solomon was old, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that his wives turned away his heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>after other gods: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as was the heart of David his father</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the goddess of the Zidonians, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and after Milcom </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the abomination of the Ammonites</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and went not fully after the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as did David his father</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 3:32 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>32 For the froward* is abomination to the Lord</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but his secret is with the righteous</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 6:16-19 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 These six things doth the Lord hate</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>yea,</b> <b>seven are an abomination unto him</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 A proud look, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>a lying tongue, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and hands that shed innocent blood,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>feet that be swift in running to mischief,</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 A false witness that speaketh lies, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he that soweth discord among brethren</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 8:13 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>pride, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and arrogancy, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the evil way, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the froward* mouth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>do I hate</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Proverbs 11:1 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 A false balance is abomination to the Lord</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but a just weight is his delight</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Proverbs 11:20 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 They that are of a froward* heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are abomination to the Lord</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but such as are upright in their way </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are his delight</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Proverbs 15:8 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 The sacrifice of the wicked </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is an abomination to the Lord</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but the prayer of the upright is his delight</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 16:5 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Every one that is proud in heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is an abomination to the Lord</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>though hand join in hand, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he shall not be unpunished</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 17:5 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he that is glad at calamities </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall not be unpunished</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 17:15 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 He that justifieth the wicked, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he that condemneth the just, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even they both are abomination to the Lord</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 1:11-16 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 To what purpose </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saith the Lord</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the fat of fed beasts; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or of lambs, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>or of he goats.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 When ye come to appear before me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who hath required this at your hand, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to tread my courts</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Bring no more vain oblations; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>incense is an abomination unto me; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the new moons and sabbaths,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> the calling of assemblies, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I cannot away with; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it is iniquity, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>even the solemn meeting</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>my soul hateth</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>they are a trouble unto me; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I am weary to bear them.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And when ye spread forth your hands, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will hide mine eyes from you: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>yea, when ye make many prayers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>I will not hear: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>your hands are full of blood</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 Wash you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>make you clean; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>put away the evil of your doings </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>from before mine eyes; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>cease to do evil</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Mark 7:20-23 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 And he said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>That which cometh out of the man, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that defileth the man</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 For from within, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>out of the heart of men, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>proceed evil thoughts, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>adulteries, </b></i></span><i><b>fornications, </b></i><i><b>murders,</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>22 Thefts, </b></i></span><i><b>covetousness, </b></i><i><b>wickedness, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>deceit, </b></i></span><i><b>lasciviousness, </b></i><i><b>an evil eye, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>blasphemy, </b></i></span><i><b>pride, </b></i><i><b>foolishness</b>:</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 All these evil things come from within, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and defile the man</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1 Corinthians 6:9-10 </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">King James Version</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>9 Know ye not that the unrighteous </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall not inherit the kingdom of God</b>? </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Be not deceived</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>neither fornicators, </b></i></span><i><b>nor idolaters, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>nor adulterers, </b></i></span><i><b>nor effeminate, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>nor abusers of themselves with mankind,</b></i></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>10 Nor thieves, </b></i></span><i><b>nor covetous, </b></i><i><b>nor drunkards, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>nor revilers, </b></i></span><i><b>nor extortioners, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall inherit the kingdom of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><u style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">NOTES:</span></u></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">*Froward is a person "difficult to deal with; contrary".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">**Strange means "foreign". More definitions <a href="https://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-dictionary/strange.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">***Ossifrage is "an older name for the bearded vulture, a scavenger famous for dropping animal bones and live tortoises on top of rocks to crack them open". (Wikipedia)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">****That "belly" verse is supported by this verse, when God cursed the serpent that deceived Eve:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Genesis 3:14-15 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Because thou hast done this, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thou art cursed above all cattle, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and above every beast of the field; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon thy belly shalt thou go, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life</b>:</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and between thy seed and her seed; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>it shall bruise thy head, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and thou shalt bruise his heel</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://thehardteachings.blogspot.com/p/sin-awareness.html" target="_blank">Sin AWARENESS</a></i></span></p><div><br /></div>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-61553671303001438892020-12-22T17:36:00.010+08:002023-03-30T18:56:59.843+08:00What is the SEAL of the HOLY SPIRIT?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtungxsAiKqkVRA0zXTTsl7gbKyTRQHo2_9vehzSL5-YnvTwGuXmNQMPgBICs2_YYq5oYXebVbP46qtQw3VfqIuxvPYj2qCpVp5TzsJbm4z0sIKpPl_sgGQMCaOcimDc9lFHlpT6-3fMk/s180/seal+of+the+HS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="180" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtungxsAiKqkVRA0zXTTsl7gbKyTRQHo2_9vehzSL5-YnvTwGuXmNQMPgBICs2_YYq5oYXebVbP46qtQw3VfqIuxvPYj2qCpVp5TzsJbm4z0sIKpPl_sgGQMCaOcimDc9lFHlpT6-3fMk/w163-h162/seal+of+the+HS.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I had no idea.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So I searched SCRIPTURE.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And here's what Scripture had to say:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ephesians 1:13 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>13 In whom </i></span><i>ye also trusted, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>after that </i></span><i>ye heard </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>the word </i></span><i>of truth, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the gospel </b></i></span><i><b>of your salvation</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>in whom also </i></span><i>after that </i><i>ye believed, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>ye were sealed </b></i></span><i><b>with that holy Spirit </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of promise</b>,</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ephesians 4:30 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>30 And grieve not </i></span><i>the holy Spirit </i></b><i><b>of God</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>whereby ye </b></i></span><i><b>are sealed </b></i><i><b>unto the day </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of redemption</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 Corinthians 1:21-22 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>21 Now he </i></span><i>which stablisheth us </i><i>with you </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and hath anointed us, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is God</b>;</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>22 Who hath </b></i></span><i><b>also sealed us, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and given </b></i></span><i><b>the earnest </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>of the Spirit </b></i></span><i><b>in our hearts</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 Corinthians 5:5 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>5 Now he </i></span><i>that hath wrought us </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>for the selfsame thing </b></i></span><i><b>is God</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>who also </b></i></span><i><b>hath given </b></i><i><b>unto us </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the earnest </b></i></span><i><b>of the Spirit</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 6:27 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>27 Labour not </b></i></span><i><b>for the meat </b></i><i><b>which perisheth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>but for that meat </b></i></span><i><b>which endureth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>unto everlasting life, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i><b>which the Son </b></i></span><i><b>of man </b></i></span><span><i><b>shall give </b></i></span><i><b>unto you: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>for him </b></i></span><i><b>hath God </b></i><i><b>the Father </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>sealed</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 7:3-4 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Saying</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>Hurt not the earth, </b></i></span><i><b>neither the sea, </b></i><i><b>nor the trees, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i><b>till we </b></i></span><i><b>have sealed </b></i></span><span><i><b>the servants </b></i></span><i><b>of our God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in their foreheads</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i>4 And I heard </i></span><i>the number </i></span><span><i>of them </i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>which were sealed</b>: </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and there were sealed </b></i></span><i><b>an hundred </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and forty </b></i></span><i><b>and four thousand </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>of all the tribes </b></i></span><span><i><b>of the children </b></i></span><i><b>of Israel</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 9:4 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>4 And it </i></span><i>was commanded them </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that they </i></span><i>should not hurt </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>the grass </i></span><i>of the earth, </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">neither any green thing, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>neither any tree</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but only those men </b></i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">which have not </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i><b>the seal </b></i></span><i><b>of God </b></i></span><i><b>in their foreheads</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 14:1 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And I looked, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and, lo</b>, </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>a Lamb stood </b></i></span><i><b>on the mount Sion, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i><b>and with him </b></i></span><i><b>an hundred forty </b></i></span><i><b>and four thousand, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>having his Father's name </b></i></span><i><b>written </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in their foreheads</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Revelation 22:4 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>4 And they </i></span><i>shall see </i></b><i><b>his face</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and his name </b></i></span><i><b>shall be </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in their foreheads</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 42:1 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>42 Behold my servant, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whom I uphold; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>mine elect, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>in whom </b></i></span><i><b>my soul delighteth</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span><i><b>I have put </b></i></span><i><b>my spirit </b></i></span><i><b>upon him</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>he shall bring forth </b></i></span><i><b>judgment </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>to the Gentiles</b>.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Additional material:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://prophecylessons.blogspot.com/p/the.html" target="_blank">The HOLY SPIRIT</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://thesimplicityofscripture.blogspot.com/2020/10/who-is-holy-spirit.html" target="_blank">"Who is the HOLY SPIRIT?"</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://thejoyofbeingbornagain.blogspot.com/2021/01/sealed-by-holy-spirit.html" target="_blank">SEALED by the HOLY SPIRIT</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Source: <a href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/The-Sealing-Of-The-Holy-Spirit" target="_blank">Knowing Jesus</a></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Updated 30 March 2023</span></i></p><p><br /></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-92055621831844973532020-12-21T04:24:00.004+08:002022-01-22T17:22:02.894+08:00What Did GOD Command PARENTS and CHILDREN to Do?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEYqB4YKQGVx5GN8_UkVNc6RnHPk3bxQLrIoPnnCPtpGEBdPuPJlp3DfqExPqaAuEDgfLX-dYpQbjEDTkrai_b8833nnqr7giKyYfVhJeKIslEvYlLkcqH_Bd6TBV5pvPcQdm9sak8Krf/s276/family.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="276" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEYqB4YKQGVx5GN8_UkVNc6RnHPk3bxQLrIoPnnCPtpGEBdPuPJlp3DfqExPqaAuEDgfLX-dYpQbjEDTkrai_b8833nnqr7giKyYfVhJeKIslEvYlLkcqH_Bd6TBV5pvPcQdm9sak8Krf/w249-h165/family.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">God is precise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nothing could be more precise than what He commanded parents and children to do, very early on in the Bible.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What GOD commands PARENTS to do:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Deuteronomy 6:5-7 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>5 And thou </b></i></span><i><b>shalt love </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the Lord </b></i></span><i><b>thy God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>with all </b></i></span><i><b>thine heart, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and with all </b></i></span><i><b>thy soul, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and with all </b></i></span><i><b>thy might</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>6 And these words, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>which I </i></span><i>command thee </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>this day, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>shall be </i></span><i>in thine heart:</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>7 And thou </b></i></span><i><b>shalt teach them </b></i><i><b>diligently </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>unto thy children, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and shalt talk </b></i></span><i><b>of them </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>when thou </b></i></span><i><b>sittest </b></i><i><b>in thine house, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and when thou </b></i></span><i><b>walkest </b></i><i><b>by the way, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and when thou </b></i></span><i><b>liest down, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and when thou </b></i></span><i><b>risest up</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What GOD commands CHILDREN to do:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 20:12 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>12 Honour </b></i></span><i><b>thy father </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and thy mother: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>that thy days </b></i></span><i><b>may be long </b></i><i><b>upon the land </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>which the Lord </b></i></span><i><b>thy God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>giveth thee</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 22 January 2022</i></span></p><div><br /></div>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-37830726184385194302020-12-16T20:28:00.014+08:002022-01-22T17:27:25.922+08:00What Does FEAR the LORD Really Mean?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXymEKFT2TBHPilyTCks77GtVx8an7szFIfEfpSCCNYcd94ZPBGVAnKcNygaB85dCcVQ9MFSlDHgwfbnC0m1xq8Min3tzkN14_aTCfcdTqWf9w6IDBAI7Ba9wg40I3_ypRBiu4yP14XiaS/s284/images+%252811%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXymEKFT2TBHPilyTCks77GtVx8an7szFIfEfpSCCNYcd94ZPBGVAnKcNygaB85dCcVQ9MFSlDHgwfbnC0m1xq8Min3tzkN14_aTCfcdTqWf9w6IDBAI7Ba9wg40I3_ypRBiu4yP14XiaS/w241-h150/images+%252811%2529.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What does it really mean when the Bible says, "Fear the Lord"?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As always, Scripture is precise, and you will understand clearly through these verses:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 8:13 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 The fear of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is to hate evil: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>pride, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and arrogancy, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the evil way, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the froward mouth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>do I hate</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Deuteronomy 10:12 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>12 And now, Israel, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>what doth the Lord </i></span><i>thy God </i><i>require of thee, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>but to fear </b></i></span><i><b>the Lord </b></i><i><b>thy God</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>to walk </b></i></span><i><b>in all his ways, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and to love him, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and to serve the Lord </b></i></span><i><b>thy God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>with all </b></i></span><i><b>thy heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and with all </b></i></span><i><b>thy soul</b>,</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Deuteronomy 13:4 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>4 Ye </b></i></span><i><b>shall walk </b></i><i><b>after the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">your God, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and fear him</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and keep his commandments, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and obey </i></span><i>his voice, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and ye </i></span><i>shall serve him, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and cleave </i></span><i>unto him.</i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 1:7 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>7 The fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>is the beginning </b></i></span><i><b>of knowledge</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but fools </i></span><i>despise wisdom </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and instruction.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 2:5 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>5 Then </b></i></span><i><b>shalt thou understand </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and find </b></i></span><i><b>the knowledge </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 3:7 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>7 Be not wise </i></span><i>in thine own eyes: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>fear the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and depart </b></i></span><i><b>from evil</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 10:27 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>27 The fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>prolongeth days</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but the years </i></span><i>of the wicked </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>shall be shortened.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 14:26 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>26 In the fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is strong confidence: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and his children </b></i></span><i><b>shall have </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>a place </b></i></span><i><b>of refuge</b>.</i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 14:27 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>27 The fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>is a fountain </b></i></span><i><b>of life</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>to depart </i></span><i>from the snares </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of death.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 19:23 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>23 The fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>tendeth to life</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and he </b></i></span><i><b>that hath it </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>shall abide </b></i></span><i><b>satisfied</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>he </i><i>shall </i></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">not be visited </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>with evil.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 23:17 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>but be thou </b></i></span><i><b>in the fear </b></i><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>all the day long</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Job 28:28 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>28 And unto man he said, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that is wisdom</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and to depart </i></span><i>from evil </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>is understanding.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 19:9 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>9 The fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is clean, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>enduring for ever</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>the judgments </i></span><i>of the Lord </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>are true </i></span><i>and righteous </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>altogether.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 25:14 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>14 The secret </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>is with them </b></i></span><i><b>that fear him; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and he </i></span><i>will shew them </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>his covenant.</i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 33:8 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 Let all the earth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>fear the Lord</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>let all the inhabitants </i></span><i>of the world </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>stand </i><i>in awe </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of him.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 34:7 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>7 The angel of the Lord </b></i></span><i><b>encampeth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>round about them </b></i></span><i><b>that fear him</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and delivereth them</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 86:11 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>11 Teach me </i></span><i>thy way, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>O Lord; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>I will walk </i></span><i>in thy truth: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>unite my heart </b></i></span><i><b>to fear </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>thy name</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 112:1 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>112 Praise ye </i></span><i>the Lord. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Blessed is the man </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that feareth </b></i><i><b>the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that delighteth greatly </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in his commandments</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 33:6 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>6 And wisdom </i></span><i>and knowledge </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>shall be </i></span><i>the stability </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of thy times, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and strength </i></span><i>of salvation: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the fear </b></i></span><i><b>of the Lord </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is his treasure</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 1:50 (KJV)</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>50 And his mercy </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>is on them </b></i></span><i><b>that fear him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>from generation </b></i></span><i><b>to generation</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>James 2:19 (KJV)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>19 Thou believest </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that there is </i></span><i>one God; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>thou doest well: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the devils also believe, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and tremble</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ecclesiastes 12:13 (KJV)</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>13 Let us hear </i></span><i>the conclusion </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of the whole matter: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Fear God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and keep </b></i></span><i><b>his commandments: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>for this </b></i></span><i><b>is the whole duty </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of man</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 22 January 2022</i></span></p><div><br /></div>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-71107461318077085892020-12-03T08:41:00.005+08:002022-01-22T17:33:04.183+08:00How to WALK with JESUS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsiLPusMImOjIg8tTr5blrEBi6YwxJTZ7zSRvqnbr_ZRbNpC-W4MPh9XM02GU1DcB3CXCy8J0GyDyVOZ_7811-OH5F_loYPG1q3lM8tpaArcLJYBo2yNJ4f0DJJgGhseeEoiqSuddBXkVQ/s274/images+%252815%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsiLPusMImOjIg8tTr5blrEBi6YwxJTZ7zSRvqnbr_ZRbNpC-W4MPh9XM02GU1DcB3CXCy8J0GyDyVOZ_7811-OH5F_loYPG1q3lM8tpaArcLJYBo2yNJ4f0DJJgGhseeEoiqSuddBXkVQ/w363-h244/images+%252815%2529.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We all know there is a great urgency to live right by God.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Lord JESUS showed us how.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Allow me to share with you a MAGNIFICENT find today -- a chapter in Scripture that can be a clear, and comforting guidepost, on how we are to conduct ourselves, and become pleasing in the eyes of God.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>3 If ye then </b></i></span><i><b>be risen with Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>seek those things </b></i></span><i><b>which are above</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>where Christ sitteth </i></span><i>on the right hand </i><i>of God.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>2 Set your affection </b></i></span><i><b>on things above, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>not on things </b></i></span><i><b>on the earth</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>3 For ye are dead, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and your life </b></i></span><i><b>is hid </b></i><i><b>with Christ </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>4 When Christ, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>who is our life, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>shall appear, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>then shall ye </i></span><i>also appear </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>with him </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>in glory.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>5 Mortify therefore </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>your members </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which are </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon the earth</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>fornication, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>uncleanness, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>inordinate affection, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>evil concupiscence, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and covetousness, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>which is idolatry:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>6 For which things' sake </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the wrath of God </b></i></span><i><b>cometh </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>on the children </b></i></span><i><b>of disobedience</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>7 In the which ye </i></span><i>also walked </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>some time, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>when ye lived </i></span><i>in them.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>8 But now ye also </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>put off all these; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>anger, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>wrath, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>malice, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>blasphemy, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>filthy communication</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b> out of your mouth</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>9 Lie not </i></span><i>one to another, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>seeing that ye </i></span><i>have put off </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>the old man </i></span><i>with his deeds;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 And have put on </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the new man, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>which is renewed </b></i></span><i><b>in knowledge </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>after the image </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>of him </b></i></span><i><b>that created him</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>11 Where there is </i></span><i>neither Greek </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>nor Jew, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>circumcision </i></span><i>nor uncircumcision, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Barbarian, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Scythian, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>bond </i></span><i>nor free: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>but Christ is all, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and in all.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 Put on therefore, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as the elect of God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>holy and beloved, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>bowels of mercies</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>kindness, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>humbleness of mind, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>meekness, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>longsuffering;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Forbearing one another, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and forgiving one another</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>if any man </i></span><i>have a quarrel </i><i>against any: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>even as Christ forgave you, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>so also do ye.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 And above all these things </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>put on charity</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>which is the bond </i></span><i>of perfectness.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>15 And let the peace </b></i></span><i><b>of God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>rule </b></i></span><i><b>in your hearts</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>to the which also </i></span><i>ye are called </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>in one body; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and</b> <b>be ye thankful</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>16 Let the word </b></i></span><i><b>of Christ </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>dwell in you richly </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in all wisdom</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>teaching </i></span><i>and admonishing </i><i>one another </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>in psalms </i></span><i>and hymns </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and spiritual songs, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>singing with grace </i></span><i>in your hearts </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>to the Lord.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 And whatsoever ye do </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>in word </b></i></span><i><b>or deed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>do all </b></i></span><i><b>in the name </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the Lord Jesus</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>giving thanks </i></span><i>to God </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and the Father </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>by him.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 Wives, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>submit yourselves </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>unto your own husbands</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>as it is fit </i></span><i>in the Lord.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 Husbands, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>love your wives</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and be </i></span><i>not bitter against them.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 Children, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>obey your parents </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in all things</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>for this is well pleasing </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>unto the Lord.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 Fathers, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>provoke not </b></i></span><i><b>your children </b></i><i><b>to anger</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>lest they </i></span><i>be discouraged.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>22 Servants, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>obey in all things </b></i></span><i><b>your masters </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>according to </b></i></span><i><b>the flesh</b>; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>not with eyeservice, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>as menpleasers; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but in singleness </i></span><i>of heart, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>fearing God</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 And whatsoever ye do, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>do it heartily, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as to the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and not unto men</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>24 Knowing that </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of the Lord </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>ye shall receive </i></span><i>the reward </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of the inheritance: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for ye serve </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the Lord Christ</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>25 But he that doeth wrong </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>shall receive </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>for the wrong </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>which he hath done: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and there is no respect </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of persons.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Colossians 3 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>In summary</b>:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1. Seek those things which are above -- CHRIST.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2. Mortify evils of the flesh and idolatry.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3. Put off anger, malice, blasphemy.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4. Forgive one another.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5. Put on charity.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">6. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">7. Be thankful.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">8. Let the word of Christ dwell in you.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">9. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10. Wives, submit to your husbands.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11. Husbands, love your wives.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">12. Children, obey your parents.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14. Servants, obey your masters.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15. Fear God.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">16. Do everything heartily, as to the Lord.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Updated 22 January 2022</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-8643483981402328502020-11-12T20:49:00.003+08:002022-01-22T17:39:58.157+08:00The MAGNIFICENCE of GOD<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60RfOyyA2LR1OMBZ-Gl_fHqsAxyG1B2sGYdBooKROkCCwYB1nkblL5sjuPLluP9xIa3Hhg11zHZiZojdwEvhitW-ZAgWvwVOFbVsO7_W9y03W4pGeuokPY_6y-ecm32Ki4irIzAOBfXQD/s1600/54e0bf396d1cc9dc73f387fdd9c3a9da.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60RfOyyA2LR1OMBZ-Gl_fHqsAxyG1B2sGYdBooKROkCCwYB1nkblL5sjuPLluP9xIa3Hhg11zHZiZojdwEvhitW-ZAgWvwVOFbVsO7_W9y03W4pGeuokPY_6y-ecm32Ki4irIzAOBfXQD/w331-h186/54e0bf396d1cc9dc73f387fdd9c3a9da.jpg" width="331" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Do we really know how magnificent God is?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Scripture tells us what we need to know.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>7 He stretcheth out </i></span><i>the north </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>over </i></span><i>the empty place, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and hangeth </i></span><i>the earth </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon nothing.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>8 He bindeth up </i></span><i>the waters </i><i>in his thick clouds; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and the cloud </i></span><i>is not rent </i><i>under them.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>9 He holdeth back </i></span><i>the face </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of his throne, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and spreadeth </i></span><i>his cloud </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>upon it.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>10 He hath compassed </i></span><i>the waters </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with bounds, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>until the day </i></span><i>and night </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>come </i></span><i>to an end.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>11 The pillars of heaven tremble </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and are astonished </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>at his reproof.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>12 He divideth </i></span><i>the sea </i><i>with his power, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and by his understanding </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>he smiteth through </i></span><i>the proud.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>13 By his spirit </i></span><i>he hath garnished </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the heavens; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>his hand </i></span><i>hath formed </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the crooked serpent.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Lo, these are </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>parts of his ways: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but how little </i></span><i>a portion </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>is heard </i></span><i>of him? </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but the thunder </i></span><i>of his power </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>who can understand</b>?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Job 26:7-14 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Great is the LORD, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and greatly </i></span><i>to be praised; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and his greatness </b></i></span><i><b>is unsearchable</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>4 One generation </i></span><i>shall praise </i><i>thy works </i><i>to another, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and shall declare </i></span><i>thy mighty acts.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>5 I will speak </i></span><i>of the glorious honour </i><i>of thy majesty, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and </b></i><i><b>of thy wondrous works</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 145:3-5 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>12 He hath made </i></span><i>the earth </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">by his power, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>he hath established </i></span><i>the world </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>by his wisdom, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and hath stretched out </i></span><i>the heavens </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>by his discretion</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 When he uttereth his voice, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>there is a multitude </i></span><i>of waters </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the heavens, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and he causeth </i></span><i>the vapours </i><i>to ascend </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>from the ends </i></span><i>of the earth; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>he maketh lightnings </i></span><i>with rain, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and bringeth forth </i></span><i>the wind </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>out of his treasures</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Jeremiah 10:12-13 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>4 He telleth </i></span><i>the number </i><i>of the stars; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>he calleth them all </b></i></span><i><b>by their names</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>5 Great </i></span><i>is our Lord, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and of great power: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>his understanding </b></i></span><i><b>is infinite</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 147:4-5 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>13 Let every soul </i></span><i>be subject </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>unto the higher powers. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>For there is no power </i></span><i>but of God: </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>the powers </i></span><i>that be </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>are ordained </b></i></span><i><b>of God</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>2 Whosoever therefore resisteth </i></span><i>the power, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>resisteth </i></span><i>the ordinance </i><i>of God: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and they </i></span><i>that resist </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>shall receive </i></span><i>to themselves </i><i>damnation.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 13:1-2 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Related material:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://themagnificenceandmajestyofgod.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The MAGNIFICENCE and MAJESTY of GOD</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 22 January 2022</i></span></p><p><br /></p>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-32751421952618855382020-11-11T06:16:00.009+08:002022-01-22T17:51:17.008+08:00Why Did JESUS Love Sinners?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOJDbvwLFvN8tdMhmnmqxyLxlbyigluOgW0YQ4ByeosUBft2U5TvOwXJnzneuZPSJMxyt1QVEP_JjErrltUPWYWDERfJLDd5PNHtb8J5FUUS4X3LxfrPJOHGhbsYonNlxwKmmC5yTLJm_f/s275/doctor%2527s+bag.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOJDbvwLFvN8tdMhmnmqxyLxlbyigluOgW0YQ4ByeosUBft2U5TvOwXJnzneuZPSJMxyt1QVEP_JjErrltUPWYWDERfJLDd5PNHtb8J5FUUS4X3LxfrPJOHGhbsYonNlxwKmmC5yTLJm_f/w242-h161/doctor%2527s+bag.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 When Jesus heard it, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he saith unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>They </b></i></span><i><b>that are whole </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>have no need </b></i></span><span><i><b>of </b></i></span><i><b>the physician, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>but they </b></i></span><i><b>that are sick: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>I came not </b></i></span><i><b>to call </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the righteous, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>but sinners </b></i></span><i><b>to repentance</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Mark 2:15-17 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> <span>Scripture says we are all sinners.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But why does JESUS love us, still?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Scripture explains why.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>16 For God </i></span><i>so loved </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that he gave </i></span><i>his only begotten Son, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that whosoever believeth </i></span><i>in him </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>should not perish, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>but have </b></i></span><i><b>everlasting life</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 3:16 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>29 My Father, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which gave them me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>is greater </i></span><i>than all; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and no man </i></span><i>is able </i><i>to pluck them </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>out </b></i><i><b>of my Father's hand</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 10:29 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>37 All </i></span><i>that the Father </i><i>giveth me </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>shall come </i></span><i>to me; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and him </i></span><i>that cometh </i><i>to me </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>I will </i></span><i>in no wise </i></b><i><b>cast out</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>38 For I came down </i></span><i>from heaven, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>not to do </i></span><i>mine own will, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but the will </i></span><i>of him </i><i>that sent me.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>39 And this </i></span><i>is the Father's will </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which hath sent me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that of all </i></span><i>which he hath </i><i>given me </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>I should lose </i></span><i>nothing, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but should raise it up </i></span><i>again </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>at </b></i><i><b>the last day</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>40 And this </i></span><i>is the will </i><i>of him </i><i>that sent me, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that every one </i></span><i>which seeth </i><i>the Son, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and believeth </i></span><i>on him, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>may have </i></span><i>everlasting life: </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and I will </i></span><i>raise him up </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>at </b></i><i><b>the last day</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 6:37-40 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>15 Then drew near </i></span><i>unto him </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>all the publicans </i></span><i>and sinners </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>for to hear him.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 And the Pharisees </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and scribes murmured, saying, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>This man </i></span><i>receiveth sinners, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and eateth </i></span><i>with them.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>3 And he spake this parable </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>unto them, saying,</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>4 What man of you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>having an hundred sheep, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>if he lose one of them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>doth not leave </i></span><i>the ninety and nine </i><i>in the wilderness, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and go after that </i></span><i>which is lost, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>until he find it</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>5 And when </i></span><i>he hath found it, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>he layeth it </i></span><i>on his shoulders, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>rejoicing.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>6 And when he </i></span><i>cometh home, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>he calleth together </i></span><i>his friends </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and neighbours, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saying unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Rejoice with me; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>for I have found </i></span><i>my sheep </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which was lost</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>7 I say unto you, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that likewise </i></span><i>joy shall be </i><i>in heaven </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>over one sinner </i></span><i>that repenteth, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>more than over </i></span><i>ninety and nine just persons, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>which need </b></i></span><i><b>no repentance</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Luke 15:1-7 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>23 For the wages of sin </i><i>is death; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but the gift </i></span><i>of God </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>is eternal life </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">through Jesus Christ </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>our Lord</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 6:23 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>8 But God commendeth </i><i>his love </i><i>toward us, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in that, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>while we </i></span><i>were yet sinners, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>Christ died </b></i></span><i><b>for us</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 5:8 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>2 And he is </i></span><i>the propitiation </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>for our sins: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and not </i></span><i>for ours only, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but also </i></span><i>for the sins </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>of the whole </b></i></span><i><b>world</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 2:2 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>15 Ye judge after </i></span><i>the flesh; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>I judge </i></span><i>no man.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>16 And yet </i></span><i>if I judge, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>my judgment </i></span><i>is true: </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>for I am </i></span><i>not alone, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but I </i></span><i>and the Father </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>that sent </b></i></span><i><b>me</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>John 8:15-16 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 22 January 2022</i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Leila Casusihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13994180945927819558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1719497832919203193.post-82537076481038666522020-11-10T17:00:00.015+08:002022-01-22T18:25:46.353+08:00The POWER of GOD Over Nations<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNW-JSmgLw-L0TYpj8hebRRAzNpQzSuAwB8DdRJbEVAdjB_a6sMM2kbgtZGuLDcasNIMnHXEAIRUTDxFbbsrTVja3kbbWSXfqGb_i-0gFTV2nplICb0rX_-oA7PUWZvnHlL7mkJtLDHx-d/s200/download+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNW-JSmgLw-L0TYpj8hebRRAzNpQzSuAwB8DdRJbEVAdjB_a6sMM2kbgtZGuLDcasNIMnHXEAIRUTDxFbbsrTVja3kbbWSXfqGb_i-0gFTV2nplICb0rX_-oA7PUWZvnHlL7mkJtLDHx-d/w149-h149/download+%25282%2529.jpg" width="149" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How much do you know of GOD's power over nations, kings, rulers, and over every being He created?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Let Scripture tell you, in no uncertain terms.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>1 In the beginning </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>God created </b></i></span><i><b>the heaven </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the earth</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Genesis 1:1 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>26 And God said, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>Let us </i></span><i>make man </i><i>in our image, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>after our likeness</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and let them </i></span><i>have dominion </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>over the fish </i><i>of the sea, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and over the fowl </i></span><i>of the air, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and over the cattle, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and over all </i></span><i>the earth, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and over </i></span><i>every creeping thing </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that creepeth upon </i></span><i>the earth.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>27 So God </i></span><i>created man </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>in his own image, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>in the image </i></span><i>of God </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>created he him; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>male </i></span><i>and female </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>created he </i></span><i>them.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>28 And God </b></i></span><i><b>blessed them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and God said </b></i></span><i><b>unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Be fruitful, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and multiply, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and replenish </b></i></span><i><b>the earth, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and subdue it</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and have dominion </i></span><i>over the fish </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of the sea, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and over the fowl </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of the air, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and over every living thing </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that moveth </i></span><i>upon the earth.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Genesis 1:26-28 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>13 Let every soul </b></i><i><b>be subject unto </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the higher powers. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>For there is </b></i></span><i><b>no power </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>but of God: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the powers that be </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are ordained </b></i><i><b>of God</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Romans 13:1 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>21 Have ye not known? </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>have ye not heard? </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>hath it not been told you </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>from the beginning? </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>have ye not understood </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>from the foundations </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of the earth?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>22 It is he </b></i></span><i><b>that sitteth </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>upon the circle </b></i></span><i><b>of the earth</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and the inhabitants thereof </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>are as grasshoppers; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that stretcheth out </i></span><i>the heavens </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>as a curtain, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and spreadeth them out </i></span><i>as a tent </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>to dwell in:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>23 That bringeth </i></span><i>the princes </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to nothing; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>he maketh </i></span><i>the judges </i><i>of the earth </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as vanity</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>24 Yea, </i></span><span><i>they shall </i></span><span><i>not </i></span><i>be planted; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">yea, they shall </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">not be sown: </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">yea, their stock shall </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">not take root </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>in the earth</b>: </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and he shall also blow </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">upon them, </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and they shall wither, </b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and the whirlwind shall </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">take them away </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>as stubble</b>.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 40:21-24 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>the nations </i></span><i>are as a drop </i><i>of a bucket, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and are counted </i></span><i>as the small dust </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>of the balance</b>: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he taketh up the isles </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>as a very little thing</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 40:15 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>24 The earth </b></i></span><i><b>is the Lord's, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the fulness thereof; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and they </b></i></span><i><b>that dwell </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>therein</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 24:1 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>28 For the kingdom </i></span><i>is the Lord's: </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and he is the governor </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>among </b></i><i><b>the nations</b>.</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 22:28 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 All nations before him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are as nothing; </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they are counted to him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>less than nothing, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and vanity</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Isaiah 40:17 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 And Jesus came </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and spake unto them, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>saying, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>All power </b></i></span><i><b>is given </b></i><i><b>unto me </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in heaven </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and in earth</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew 28:18 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>12 With the ancient </i></span><i>is wisdom; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and in length of days </i></span><i>understanding.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>13 With him </i></span><i>is wisdom and strength, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>he hath counsel </b></i></span><i><b>and understanding</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he breaketh down, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and it cannot be built again: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he shutteth up a man, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and there can be </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>no opening.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 Behold, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he withholdeth the waters, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and they dry up: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>also he sendeth them out, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and they overturn </b></i></span><i><b>the earth</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>16 With him </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>is strength and wisdom: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the deceived </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and the deceiver </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>are his</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and maketh the judges fools</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>18 He looseth the bond </i></span><i>of kings, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and girdeth their loins </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>with a girdle</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and overthroweth the mighty</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 He removeth away </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the speech of the trusty, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and taketh away </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the understanding </b></i></span><i><b>of the aged</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>21 He poureth contempt </b></i></span><i><b>upon princes, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and weakeneth the strength </i></span><i>of the mighty.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>22 He discovereth deep things </i></span><i>out of darkness, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and bringeth out </i></span><i>to light </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>the shadow </b></i></span><i><b>of death</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 He increaseth the nations, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and destroyeth them: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>he enlargeth the nations, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and straiteneth them </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>again</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>24 He taketh away </i></span><i>the heart </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>of the chief </i></span><i>of the people </i><i>of the earth, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and causeth them </i></span><i>to wander </i><i>in a wilderness </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>where there </b></i></span><i><b>is no way</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>25 They grope </i></span><i>in the dark </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>without light, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and he maketh them </i></span><i>to stagger </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>like a drunken man</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Job 12:12-25 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>21 The king's heart </b></i></span><i><b>is in the hand </b></i><i><b>of the Lord, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>as the rivers </b></i></span><i><b>of water: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>he turneth it </b></i></span><i><b>whithersoever he will</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 21:1 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>14 If my people, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>which are called </i></span><i>by my name, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>shall humble themselves, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and pray, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and seek my face, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and turn </i></span><i>from their wicked ways; </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>then will I hear </i></span><i>from heaven, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and will forgive </i></span><i>their sin, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and will heal </b></i></span><i><b>their land</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2 Chronicles 7:14 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>17 This matter </i></span><i>is by the decree </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">of the watchers, </span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and the demand </i></span><i>by the word </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>of the holy ones: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>to the intent </i></span><span><i>t</i></span><i>hat the living </i><span><i>may know </i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>that </i><i>the most High </i><i>ruleth </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">in the kingdom </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">of men, </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and giveth it </b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>to whomsoever he will, </b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and setteth up </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">over it </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>the basest of men</b>.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Daniel 4:17 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>15 By me kings reign, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and princes decree justice</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 8:15 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>3 How great </i></span><i>are his signs! </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and how mighty </i></span><i>are his wonders! </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>his kingdom </i></span><i>is an everlasting kingdom, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and his dominion </i></span><i>is from generation </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to generation</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Daniel 4:3 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">19 And what </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">is the exceeding greatness </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">of his power </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">to us-ward </span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">who believe, </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>according to the working </b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>of his mighty power</b>,</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>20 Which he wrought </b></i></span><i><b>in Christ, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>when he raised him </b></i></span><i><b>from the dead, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and set him </b></i></span><i><b>at his own right hand </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>in the heavenly places</b>,</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>21 Far above all principality, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and power, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and might, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and dominion, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and every name </i></span><i>that is named, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>not only in this world, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>but also </i></span><i>in that </i></b><i><b>which is to come</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>22 And hath put </b></i></span><i><b>all things </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>under his feet, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and gave him </b></i></span><i><b>to be the head </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>over all things </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>to the church</b>,</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>23 Which is his body, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>the fulness of him </i></span><i>that filleth </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>all in all</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ephesians 1:19-23 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>21 There are many devices </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>in a man's heart; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>nevertheless </i></span><i>the counsel </i><i>of the Lord, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that shall stand</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Proverbs 19:21 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>18 O thou king, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>the most high God </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>gave Nebuchadnezzar </i><i>thy father </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>a kingdom, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and majesty, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and glory, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and honour</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>19 And for the majesty </i></span><i>that he gave him, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>all people, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>nations, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>and languages, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>trembled </i></span><i>and feared </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>before him: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>whom he would </i></span><i>he slew; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and whom he would </i></span><i>he kept alive; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and whom he would </i></span><i>he set up; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and whom he would </i></span><i>he put down.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>20 But when his heart </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>was lifted up, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and his mind hardened </i></span><i>in pride, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>he was deposed </i></span><i>from his kingly throne, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>and they took </i></span><i>his glory </i></b><i><b>from him</b>:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>21 And he was driven </i></span><i>from the sons </i><i>of men; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and his heart </i></span><i>was made </i><i>like the beasts, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and his dwelling </i></span><i>was with the wild asses: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>they fed him </i></span><i>with grass </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>like oxen, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and his body </i></span><i>was wet </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>with the dew </i><i>of heaven; </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>till he knew </b></i></span><i><b>that the most high God ruled </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>in the kingdom </b></i></span><i><b>of men</b>, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and that he appointeth </i></span><i>over it </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>whomsoever he will</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Daniel 5:18-21 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>9 Who knoweth not </i></span><i>in all these </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that the hand </i></span><i>of the Lord </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>hath wrought this</b>?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>10 In whose hand </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>is the soul </b></i></span><i><b>of every living thing, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and the breath </b></i></span><i><b>of all mankind</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Job 12:9-10 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>2 I am the Lord </i></span><i>thy God, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>which have brought thee </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>out of the land </i></span><i>of Egypt, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>out of the house </b></i></span><i><b>of bondage</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>3 Thou shalt have </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>no other gods </b></i></span><i><b>before me</b>.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>4 Thou shalt not make </i></span><i>unto thee </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>any graven image, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>or any likeness </i></span><i>of any thing </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>that is in heaven </i></span><i>above, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>or that is in the earth </i></span><i>beneath, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>or that is in the water </i></span><i>under the earth.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>5 Thou shalt </i></span><i>not bow down thyself </i><i>to them, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>nor serve them: </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>for I </i></span><i>the Lord </i><i>thy God </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>am a jealous God, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>visiting the iniquity </b></i></span><i><b>of the fathers </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>upon the children </b></i></span><i><b>unto the third </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>and fourth generation </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>of them </b></i></span><i><b>that hate me</b>;</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>6 And shewing mercy </i></span><i>unto thousands </i><i>of them </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>that love me, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and keep </b></i></span><i><b>my commandments</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Exodus 20:2-6 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>15 Love not </i></span><i>the world, </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>neither the things </i></span><i>that are </i></b><i><b>in the world</b>. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>If any man </i></span><i>love the world, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>the love </i></span><i>of the Father </i><i>is not </i><i>in him.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>16 For all </i></span><i>that is </i><i>in the world, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>the lust </i></span><i>of the flesh, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and the lust </i></span><i>of the eyes, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>and the pride </i></span><i>of life, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>is not </i></span><i>of the Father, </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i>but is </i></span><i>of the world.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1 John 2:15-16 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10 Be wise now therefore, </span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>O ye kings: </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>be instructed, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>ye judges </b></i></span><i><b>of the earth.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>11 Serve the Lord </b></i></span><i><b>with fear, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and rejoice </b></i></span><i><b>with trembling.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>12 Kiss the Son, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>lest he be angry, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>and ye perish </b></i></span><i><b>from the way, </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>when his wrath </b></i></span><i><b>is kindled </b></i><i><b>but a little. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>Blessed are all they </b></i></span><i><b>that put their trust </b></i><i><b>in him</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Psalm 2:10-12 </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>King James Version</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Important video:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Amir Tsarfati: "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tft9T32BNgc&t=13s" target="_blank">The Illuminati and the One World Government</a>"</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Updated 22 January 2022</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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