On how to deal with it
- Write a letter to bell with a copy to your what useless too elected officials, Consumer Affairs Ministers, and copies to the major news editors asking your ISP or Bell to respect their past contract agreement with you and also to give you a credit for your past inadequate services too ASAP. Immediately too.- Register in wrting a complain with a proper regulating body..
The Press Association - Guardian Unlimited - Broadband Watchdog - Which?
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UK ISPs pressed to explain slow broadband
Telecoms.com (subscription), UK - 11 Oct 2007
The UK regulator’s consumer advisory body, the Ofcom Consumer Panel, has called on internet service providers to clarify advertised broadband speeds. …
ISPs quizzed over slow broadband
Which?, UK - 10 Oct 2007
Britain’s top internet service providers (ISPs) have been asked to explain why consumers often don’t get advertised broadband connection speeds. …
In august Which? reported that although many packages advertise speeds of ‘up to’ 8 megabytes per second, the average speed for such connections was 2.7 Mbps.
http://www.scenta.co.uk/Gadgets/1707239/ofcom-calls-for-try-before-you-buy-broadband.htm
1. The “Speed” that they actually get.
2. Down time experience.
3. Speed Capping, and port blocking.
4. Tech support. In a case that the service is not obtained from the owner of the system (I.e. the Internet provider is not your regular Cable or Telephone provider). It is very important to ask how Tech support works. In many situations the Tech. on site response can be very slow since your provider might need the actual line owner to provide the service.
> You have reached Bell Internet Services, my name is Arun Kumar Singh and
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> With reference to your Email,I apologize for any performance issues you are currently experiencing using a specific applications. Bell is committed to deliver the best possible Internet performance, but when you are on the Internet, speeds may vary by application, time of day, or during peak periods when a lot of people are actively using the Internet. I do not support P2P file sharing applications specifically and their speeds may vary due to congestion on the Internet and/or the possible lack of download sources. During busy periods, Bell Sympatico uses Internet Traffic Management to ensure all our customers can access the Internet and experience fair use of all applications.
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> P2P file-sharing applications provide the ability to share files on-line via an Internet connection between multiple computers that are often unknown to the user. Computers can communicate with each other even if you are not present and engaged in using the computer.
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> If you are using P2P file sharing, Bell Sympatico recommends that you protect your computer by installing and updating Anti-Virus and Firewallsoftware on a regular basis, as well as enabling Network Address Translation (NAT) on your home gateway/router if so equipped to ensure your computer is not being used by others without your knowledge.?
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> The only requirements for a computer to join a peer-to-peer network is an Internet connection and P2P software. Common P2P software applications include bitTorrent.
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> We do prohibit the use of the Service in a way that impedes the use and enjoyment by other customers or creates an unusually large burden on ournetworks. To ensure this does not happen during peak periods we also make our best efforts to deliver fair use of the network to all of our customers. We also continue to invest in the network to meet the growing demands of our customers.
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> You will not be able to use both the programs simentenously as bittorrent blocks Email and that’s the reason you are unable to get it done.
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Interesting
3: I had written that the 2 weeks quarantine period for the SARS diseases was too short and it should be at least 3 weeks..and so it happened I was next proven right
4: Contrary again to all those rosy spin doctors, I had also written and said that the quarantine of cattle in Canada due to mad cow disease would not be a short term period, or quickly resolved too.. and so it happened I was next proven right
5: When the honourable US president George Bush, had come into office I had immiedately written to him that the RCMP overall is a generally bad, poor, unacceptable Police force still in Canada, in spite of all the RCMP spins even to the president and I was proven right here too.
6: I had written that the top RCMP management was very bad, unacceptable, and Conservative MP Jason Kenney had even asked me to stop writign to him about this.. and next I was proven right here too.
* By the way did you know that the subject that I got the most email replies from the legislator in Canada of any that I had emailed? even over the CBC, the bad RCMP and gays.. it was from 22 prominent alcoholic politicians in Canada who had strongly now objected to me stating that no citizens tax Meetings is to be used to buy any alcohol anywhere the government, all alcoholics working for, in the governments should get immediate treatment or be rightfully fired as well, and all alcoholics on social welfare must get go mandatory to an alcoholic anonymous meeting as well, and that the governments should take a real harsher stand against drunk drivers now too.
I had more Professing Christian politicians, persons next objecting to me writing to them and others as well than over any others.
Writing the truth to a news editor that a certain politician was committing adultery, sleeping with a women that was not his wife is a definite sure but ineffective way to get the politician to send the police to your home to falsely denial one’s free speech, right now next ex premier Ernie Ewes of Ontario? .. and also now proving to all that a politician was clearly an alcoholic was a sure way to have him lose his reelection now as well. No matter what their religious preference most citizens do not go along with adulterous persons, and alcoholics still too in Canada.. and not also with just the money abusers, thieves, tax evader, major liars, people slanderers, abusers.
The exampalry Public exposure by the news media and prosecution of the major guilty persons by the government serves adequately for all next too..
I can say
(1 Tim 5:20 KJV) Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Micah 3:11 – The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money:
yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Luke 16:13 – No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon
Luke 16:11 – If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil”
Christ keeps me safe, so that the evil one cannot touch me (1 John 5:18)
a: I know about his or her faults but God is doing a work in him, her and he who started it will finnish it till the day of redemtion..
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
At our chapel Sunday school, we often used to sing this favorite chorus of mine
I met Jesus at the crossroads,
Where the two ways meet,
Satan, too was standing there,
And he said “Come this way
Lots and lots of pleasures,
I will give you today.”
But I said ” NO!!
There’s Jesus here,
Just see what He offers me….
Down here my sins forgiven,
Up there a home in heaven
Praise God, That’s the way for me!!
Even though all the Sunday teachers to there where not perfect we sang some real great choruses there.
“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mineenemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over” -Psalm 23 vs.5
My cup is full and running over*
Since the Lord loves me,
I’m as happy as can be! **
My cup*** is full and* running over.
(Sung to Rise and Shine)
CHORUS: (sung between each verse)
Oh, rise and shine and give Him the glory, glory,
Rise and shine and give Him the glory, glory,
Rise and shine and give Him the glory, glory,
Children of the Lord.
O you can’t get to heaven, (o you can’t get to heaven)
On roller skates, (on roller skates)
O you can’t get to heaven, (o you can’t get to heaven)
on roller ska-a-a-ates.
O you can’t get to heaven on roller skates
you’ll roll right past those pearly gates,
all my sins are washed away, I’ve been redeemed.
O you can’t get to heaven, (echo)
In a big, fine car, (echo)
O you can’t get to heaven (echo)
In a big fine car-a-a-ar.
O you can’t get to heaven in a big, fine car
A big fine car can’t drive that far
all my sins are washed away, I’ve been redeemed.
Old Noah, he built him, he built him an arky, arky,
Noah, he built him, he built him an arky, arky,
Built it out of birchy barky, barky
Children of the Lord.
The animals, they came in, they came in by twosies, twosies,
Animals, they came in, they came in by twosies, twosies,
Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies,
Children of the Lord.
It rained, it rained for forty daysies, daysies,
Rained, it rained for forty daysies, daysies,
Almost drove those children crazy, crazy,
Children of the Lord.
The sun came out and dried up the landy, landy,
Sun came out and dried up the landy, landy,
Everything was fine and dandy, dandy,
Children of the Lord.
When We All Get to Heaven
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Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,
Sing His mercy and His grace;
In the mansions bright and blessed
He’ll prepare for us a place.- Refrain:
When we all get to heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
We’ll sing and shout the victory!
- Refrain:
- While we walk the pilgrim pathway,
Clouds will overspread the sky;
But when trav’ling days are over,
Not a shadow, not a sigh. - Let us then be true and faithful,
Trusting, serving every day;
Just one glimpse of Him in glory
Will the toils of life repay. - Onward to the prize before us!
Soon His beauty we’ll behold;
Soon the pearly gates will open;
We shall tread the streets of gold.
I’ll Be a Sunbeam
- Jesus wants me for a sunbeam,
To shine for Him each day;
In every way try to please Him,
At home, at school, at play.- Refrain:
A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam;
A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
I’ll be a sunbeam for Him.
- Refrain:
- Jesus wants me to be loving,
And kind to all I see;
Showing how pleasant and happy,
His little one can be. - I will ask Jesus to help me
To keep my heart from sin;
Ever reflecting His goodness,
And always shine for Him. - I’ll be a sunbeam for Jesus,
I can if I but try;
Serving Him moment by moment,
Then live for Him on high.
- Jesus bids us shine with a clear, pure light,
Like a little candle burning in the night;
In this world of darkness, we must shine,
You in your small corner, and I in mine. - Jesus bids us shine, first of all for Him;
Well He sees and knows it if our light is dim;
He looks down from heaven, sees us shine,
You in your small corner, and I in mine. - Jesus bids us shine, then, for all around,
Many kinds of darkness in this world abound:
Sin, and want, and sorrow—we must shine,
You in your small corner, and I in mine.
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Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on His gentle breast;
There by His love o’ershaded,
Sweetly my soul shall rest.
Hark! ’tis the voice of angels
Borne in a song to me,
Over the fields of glory,
Over the jasper sea.- Refrain:
Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on His gentle breast;
There by His love o’ershaded,
Sweetly my soul shall rest.
- Refrain:
- Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe from corroding care,
Safe from the world’s temptations;
Sin cannot harm me there.
Free from the blight of sorrow,
Free from my doubts and fears;
Only a few more trials,
Only a few more tears! - Jesus, my heart’s dear Refuge,
Jesus has died for me;
Firm on the Rock of Ages
Ever my trust shall be.
Here let me wait with patience,
Wait till the night is o’er;
Wait till I see the morning
Break on the golden shore.
Bad Canadian Evangelical Churches
http://groups.msn.com/AFOLLOWEROFCHRIST2
http://groups.msn.com/HolySpiritCome
http://pbulow.tripod.com
There is no such thing still as a little bit pregnant and any significant deviation expounded can next mostly lead to great deviations, errors too.
Believe it or not my having been both an adherent of the very local Christian Missionary Alliance church, (C&MA)for about 8 years, and my having attended, me having got to know personally also the senior pastor of the Calgary First alliance church too, I can fully say that the Conservative platform has been significantly shaped by the values of the CMA itself, esspecially their rich persons who wrongly despise the poor persons, and they do also steal from the poor now too, and wrongfully negelect, ostrich the poor people.. but (C&MA) are already known also in falsely finding jobs solely for their friends which has always been in Canada a false (C&MA) agenda as well..
Helping the poor people seems to have been left mainly to the Catholic church it seems.. Anyone who thinks that the Sally Ann realy helpa the poor and not themselves too should vist their kinky stores where they sell things for profit firstly.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) is an Evangelical Protestant denomination within Christianity. The Christian Missionary Alliance for the most part. is very similar to Baptist with Wesleyan mix. They are Trinitarian They are classed among the “conservative Protestant” churches. “Founded by Rev. Albert Benjamin Simpson in 1887, the Christian & Missionary Alliance did not start off as a denomination, but rather began as two distinct parachurch organizations: The Christian Alliance which focused on the pursuit and promotion of the Higher Christian life and The Evangelical Missionary Alliance, which focused on mobilizing “consecrated” Christians in the work of foreign missionary efforts. These two groups amalgamated in 1897 to form The Christian and Missionary Alliance. It was only much later during the mid twentieth century that an official denomination was formed.” The Christian and Missionary Alliance church, is was strongly allied to the “higher life” , meaning that they are selfishly so heavenly minded that they still tend not to be of any personal earthly good.. and they have wrongfully excluded helping poor persons in their main doctrines. http://www.cmalliance.org/whoweare/doctrine.jsp
Note this undeniably too - The original Apostles had clearly stated that money was to be weekly collected in the local church for the poor people, but historical the Evangelicals next distorted this commandment to mean that this money should be used rather for missionary work, and church empire building, not biblical still too, but the (C&MA) clearly next expounded on this that this also that money should go specially to the support of all of their Christian workers, pastors, too many of whom do try and like to live well off too.. in accordance to the (C&MA) as far as the poor they can help themselves on their own and not on any of the money from the (C&MA)church.. nor are the really welcomed to come to the (C&MA)church now too. sad but true. The clearly established biblical requirement of giving of 1/7 of all the tithe income collected to the local poor has also never been carried out. And as you can see ehe PM Stephen Harper is really not much different from the views of the (C&MA). It is also historical fact that the greatest theologians of the CMA A B Simpson a “ Political libertarian with ties to the Christian Right. … (1843 – 1919) – preacher, writer, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) ” included, or Dr. Andrew Bonar, A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), even in reference to their many writings the references to the poor generally are not mentioned, non existent, rare.. and yet the Bible, the New testament contains tones of references to the subject still too. The main platform of the (C&MA)Jesus as savior, healer, sanctifier, coming king now wrongfully excludes this need to help the poor now too. The (C&MA) is a self made, self centered, mostly a male dominated bastion now too
“During the beginning of the twentieth century, Simpson became closely involved with the growing Pentecostal movement, an offshoot of the Holiness movement. It became common for Pentecostal pastors and missionaries to receive their training at the Missionary Training Institute that Simpson founded. Consequently, Simpson and the C&MA had a great influence on Pentecostalism, in particular the Assemblies of God and the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. This influence included evangelical emphasis, C&MA doctrine, Simpson’s hymns and books, and the use of the term ‘Gospel Tabernacle,’ which led to many Pentecostal churches being known as ‘Full Gospel Tabernacles.After Simpson’s death in 1919, the C&MA distanced itself from Pentecostalism, rejecting the premise that speaking in tongues necessarily indicates being filled with the Holy Spirit, ‘” The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada churches a historical direct break away from the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) wrongfully also tends to despise the poor persons as well. Does the Toronto airport Christian fellowship church also not really are about helping poor people wrongfully too?
The Christian Missionary Alliance church tends to operates in a dictatorial, pyramid structure, and not in the rightfuly New testament plurality of elders, congressional approach. All acys, doctrines are also determined from central point like Roman Catholic faith:” “The General Assembly,” [world headquarters] “is the ultimate authority under God of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada.” (The Manual, Ordination of ministers section, Christian Missionary Alliance church) Understanding the dictatorial approach of the Christian Missionary Alliance church is related also now to their claiming direct Heavenly, godly inspiration to all truths by their leaders.The infallibility of the Pope doctrine too. It also destructive to truth, because individuals in the Christian Missionary Alliance church conclude that all of their faith and doctrine is, must be without error, because the Holy Spirit directly taught it to them. This is also known as the error of “irresistible grace“, one of the tenets of Calvinism. It is false doctrine. So is this Church. ”The Christian Missionary Alliance church is one of the few remaining churches that actually believe in the word for word inspiration of the Bible and that it is error free and as they say in article #4: is “the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice” (Christian Missionary Alliance Statement of Faith, Article 4). We applaud this rare quality of believing in error free inspiration of the Bible. However the big problem is that what they say and what they do are two different things. Their members, ministers churches and seminaries are required to “pledge allegiance” to the Alliance Creed (Statement of Faith). This means that the creed has precedence over the Bible itself and actually competes with the Bible as a sole standard of authority. As you will plainly see, the Bible is NOT the sole standard of faith, but a human origin creed is.” “ Members required to adhere to creed:”Qualifications for Local Church Membership: (1) A credible testimony of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (2) A commitment to the principles expressed in the Statement of Faith of The Christian and Missionary Alliance.” (The Manual, Christian Missionary Alliance church) Ministers required to adhere to creed even where it contradicts the Bible:Ordination of ministers: “Only a person who is in genuine agreement with the doctrines and teachings of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, may be approved by The Christian and Missionary Alliance as a minister of the Gospel.” (The Manual, Christian Missionary Alliance church) “A candidate shall state on the provided forms, knowledge of Bible doctrine and acceptance of doctrinal distinctives of The Christian and Missionary Alliance. Willingness to accept the constituted authority of The Christian and Missionary Alliance must also be expressed.” (The Manual, Ordination of ministers section, Christian Missionary Alliance church) Ministers fired if they deviate from church creed even if they learn it teaches things that contradict the Bible:” Expulsion: Where the accused minister has been found guilty of teaching doctrines contrary to the Statement of Faith.” (The Manual, Ordination of ministers section, Christian Missionary Alliance church) Seminaries that ordain ministers are controlled by Headquarters who demand the creed be followed even if it teaches false doctrine:”The doctrinal statement of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada, as found in the General Constitution, will be binding on the colleges and/or seminaries.” (The Manual, Ordination of ministers section, Christian Missionary Alliance church) Local church assets will be seized if they don’t follow the creed:”This church operates in accordance with its Statement of Faith. Should this church cease to be subject to the doctrines and teachings of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, all of its property shall become the property of the district corporation.” (The Manual, Ordination of ministers section, Christian Missionary Alliance church) . “Their creed on how a sinner should be saved is both incomplete and false. “those who repent and believe in Him are born again” (Christian Missionary Alliance Statement of Faith, Article 6) Personally Repent, Belive, accept jesus Christ as your lord and be baptized is what the new testament actually says, commands..The “Articles of Faith” quoted are copyright of the Christian Missionary Alliance church and based upon the General Councils 1965, 1966, 1974, 1995. The “Manual”, Christian Missionary Alliance church is copyright of the Christian Missionary Alliance church.
” One of the snares in Assembly Of God and Christian Missionary Alliance and other denominations is the REVERSION CLAUSE. It is one of the main lynch pins which holds the power of the elite together at the expense of the local church. It should really be called the perversion clause, because it is a license to steal, giving power and authority to the headquarters of these denominations which it should not have in the first place. It gets further compounded (and builds even more absolute power to the elite) when tithing pledges and building fund pledges and covenants snare the members into even more bondage. If a local Church decides it does not want to be C&MA or AOG anymore for promoting false teachers…the reversion clause give the hdqrs absolute sovereignty over the local church, rendering any local sovereignty statements null and void. The reversion clause is nothing more than entitlement syndrome to the C&MA (or AOG) clamoring for something it did not pay for…it is the old Henny Penny Parable whose moral (immoral) theme is: “You do all of the work on the farm and I will take the fruit of all your labors…all of the harvest!” This reminds me of the collective farms in the Soviet Union in which the citizens owned nothing, only the State owned property. But in this case it would be the national C&MA church that owns your property. The reversion clause was originally designed to keep wayward pastors and maverick churches from straying from sound Biblical doctrine and denomination policies and supposed safeguard its members. But it does not protect the local congregation when the national leadership and hierarchy go apostate, rendering the clause a very convenient, but unilateral. Local churches also do make percentage of income payments to the hdqrs and/or send part of tithes and offerings to the headquarters, the reversion clause, it still gives them what is tantamount to a license to steal! ” http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/James/ReversionClauseCMA&AOG.pdf
Prominent bad former (C&MA) members- Interesting
- Charles Templeton, post-war evangelist. Subsequently left and became an agnostic.
- David Berg (deceased), who left to found the cult the Children of God, now known as The Family International
The Liberals thmselves are in direct Biblical errors, even do now oppose the Catholic church by supporting abortions, women instituted divorce, and allowing the gays and lesbians now too.
PS: It is also interesting to note the ties between the Church of the Nazarene and the Christian and Missionary Alliance. ’” Ambrose University College (AUC) is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Calgary, Alberta. It is the official Canadian school of both the Church of the Nazarene and the Christian and Missionary Alliance. It is one of 10 colleges and universities affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene in North America and one of 8 colleges and universities affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance.[citation needed] In terms of its affiliation with the Nazarene church, AUC (formerly Canadian Nazarene University College) is the college for the Canada Region.[1]Ambrose University College is the product of similar educational journeys begun in the first half of the twentieth century.[2]The Calgary Bible Institute was first established in 1921 in the basement of the Calgary First Church of the Nazarene. In 1927, the school relocated to Red Deer, where it became known as Alberta School of Evangelism, and then Northern Bible College (NBC) with the construction of a new campus. In 1940, it was renamed again as Canadian Nazarene College (CNC) as it began offering theology degrees. In 1960, CNC moved to Winnipeg and was established as the official Canadian university college for the Church of the Nazarene.Similarly but independently, the Canadian Bible Institute was founded in 1941. In 1949, it was recognized by Saskatchewan and renamed Western Canadian Bible Institute (WCBI). It was renamed again in 1957 as the Canadian Bible College (CBC) of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) and, in the 1960s, became associated with the University of Regina. Canadian Theological College (CTC) was established in 1970 as a graduate sister school to CBC, and was renamed Canadian Theological Seminary (CTS) in 1982.
Dr. Riley Coulter, President of CNC, determined that Manitoba would not accredit private institutions of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences. CNC thus moved back to its first home, Calgary, in 1995, became an accredited university college in 1999, and changed its name to Nazarene University College (NUC). Dr. George Durance, President of CBC/CTS, came to similar realizations regarding the accreditation status of his school in Saskatchewan and, in 2000, CBC/CTS made a similar decision. In 2003, CBC/CTS officially relocated to join NUC on the same campus, received accreditation in 2004, and changed its name to Alliance University College (AUC). AUC and NUC maintained a close relationship and were often referred to as Alliance University College-Nazarene University College (AUC-NUC), though the two granted degrees independently until 2007.
In 2007 Alliance University College and Nazarene University College became a single entity, known as Ambrose University College, in honour of Ambrose.[3] Ambrose is building a new campus in west Calgary. The project began in April 2007 and the new campus is expected be ready in September 2008 “
“For all intents and purposes, the basic doctrines of the Alliance and Nazarene denominations are identical. Their central doctrine of “entire sanctification” is based upon John Wesley’s “Christian Perfection”–a “perfection” that is adjusted down to a level they feel can be attained. This ploy is characteristic of all “holiness,” experience-centered movements.” http://withchrist.org/MJS/cma.htm
The Department of National Defence of all things needs to rewrite their page http://www.dnd.ca/hr/religions/engraph/religions07_e.asp about the Christian and Missionary Alliance chruch in Canada“Men feel the economy and military defense are top issues” – and the women tend to be more spiritually, church inclined.. and thus tend to significantly live longer over men too,.
The Department of National Defence of all things needs to rewrite their page http://www.dnd.ca/hr/religions/engraph/religions07_e.asp about the Christian and Missionary Alliance chruch in Canada
but firstly what is the Canadian federal department of defense doing having even now an interent page on religion, churches? RSVP
Canada
I remember that I was once young, well really not that young I was 35 years old, compared to me being over 60 now, and now nothing I had tried I was able to do fully successfully or consistently next.. even though I had graduated from university with a civil engineering degree. I was thus really concerned about my own future career, my future incomes, my future employment.. and in real desperation I next turned directly to God in prayer, and I asked him to clearly talk to me about all of this. God next had told me to go out in the open country, to a specific place, to site and to sit quietly before him, and next to praise him.. and then I heard God speak in a still small inner voice to me and he told me what he had planned for my life.. it was not specifically at all what I had even imagined.. and there when I next asked God about my finances.. he told me it was none of my business, for God would supply my needs his way.. and Isa. 55:8, 9 was one of the many verses God had given to me to meditate on at that time too.
If I could put my whole life on one page I would say that God does knows what he is going to do with our life beforehand, and he has put in some of our natural desires to do His will. Since I was a teenager I have loved to become a news reporter, to write to others, and I have loved to paint natural scenery. Well God used both of these talents in my blogs, web sites, emailing and also in my many Bible versed wallpaper sites. I have also learned we all need to have our own work, and we cannot rely upon others and their works. Canadatoday Canadatoday2 Canadatoday5 http://pbulow.tripod.com
Today, while we may heap some justifiable blame even on our leaders, our prime minister, or our president, but we must still all also take continual stock of our own lives and activities. Is it possible, or RATHER MORE LIKELY that we too now are somewhere SIMILAR down the road toward sin and do await our own REAL NEGATIVE PERSONAL CONSEQUENCES NEXT TOO? Yes even Idleness, the Investigation of others, our Ignoring God’s word, and his warnings to us, they all also can lead to the commission of OUR OWN sin. Instead bashing others is still too common of an approach.
The Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Deut. 1:31
I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought YOU unto myself. Exo. 19:4
In fact most professing Christians tend not to have still learned to even do this, for in their acts they are still trying to please mere men, even self, family members, friends, pastors, elders or politicians, or whatever..
And we all do need to stop caring about, doing what the other people are telling us to do and instead we need only to solely please God and to do what God tell us to do.
Here is what God also told me here, that if you do listen to all of the voices all around you, to the suggestions of men, the others.. they will all drive you to insanity…
So do learn to recognize only God’s voice and learn to do only what he tells you too. Check it out twice, pray about it too.
There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. Josh. 13:1
It is also mainly the sex maniacs evangelical pastors who counsel divorce, for as clearly stated in the Bible still God, and Jesus oppose divorce too between Christians, and they also do oppose sex outside of the marriage of a man and a women,
Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. Phil. 1:20-23
I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:19, 20
“50% of Sermons Are Not Biblical http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/archives/2006/02/_50_of_modern_s.php ”Preaching the Gospel is not acceptable to living it. All pastors still do need to read the Bible for one hour a day at least, and pray for one hour a day at least. Almost 80 % of them do not. At least 50 percent of Church and TV, Internet sermons thus are unbiblical because most pastors do not use or read the Bible itself. Great, big Church pastors even steal their sermons from others as I have witnessed firsthand too. I interviewed personally 45 evangelical pastors in one city, Calgary Alberta, and none of them even used the Bible in their counseling ministry with their members and adherents. We have too many impostors, hirelings in the Ministry, bad persons not directly called by God to minister and that is why they also do cheat, lie, steal, commit adultery, tax evasions and abuse others, slander as well. ”" The way I see it still ..It is also always interesting to me that while many of the evangelicals in Canada they preach God’s love, they next too many of them they tend to still practice both divorce and also the false ostracizing of others, especially the people who do not go along with them, and they even wrongfully do try to deny others wrongfully their rights too, the right to be heard…. Unacceptable. I rightfully do not show false partialities to any person, office, organization, denomination, leader, individual, groups etc.., “ Secondly there are the unacceptable bullies, people abusers, AND YOU EASILY can find them on the net, in politics, police stations, city halls, and in our churches as well, those dictatorial persons who are control freaks and so they abuse everyone, men , women, children as well who try to shout down any of their opponents, and next will even wickedly, violently abuse anyone by any means who still stands in their way. I unexpectedly encountered one on the net last week who still wrongfully likes spreading hatred towards Pentecostals and their supporters…” Those Immoral persons who cannot honestly deal with the truths, facts presented resort wrongfully to bullying, lying, slandering you next do still need to repent .. Their acts are, were all Unacceptable and you can say I said so too..”"Anyone familiar with basic North American Christianity can see firsthand how too many of the Plymouth Brethren, evangelical Fundamentals, Baptists too often spread their lies, hatreds towards the Pentecostal as well even on the Internet. They too should be investigated, prosecuted as well.” “In the last 3 decades in Canada over 50 percent of the Canadian Evangelical pastors I had encountered, dealt with were basically crooked.. I witnessed them stealing funds, attempting adultery, a Plymouth Brethren pastor reading pornography, pastors abusing their flocks. And I have already helped to close one church, exposed many others bad pastors too, plus I also have removed two founding bad pastors from their own churches as well. I interviewed about 45 evangelical pastors face to face in the city of Calgary and almost none of them used the Bible in marriage counseling too.” http://thenonconformer.blogspot.com/
My views on Canadian Politics. For decades I have been writing to news editors, politicians about important issues… and every once a while there come at different peaks significant writings that do have historical effect.. such as this one.. that affected both Ralph Klein’s and Paul Martin’s political career. Can you really believe as the truth what most of these too many still too alcoholic politicians say to us these days too??”"Not only is any cheating, lying, stealing, tax payer’s money abuses is unacceptable also for any civil, public servant, elected representatives, not even for one of them, and no matter what political party they may support too, it is also always inappropriate, unethical, immoral to use one cent of the taxpayer’s money on booze, alcohol as well at any time and anywhere now too.Since we normal persons already tend to know the negative effect of Alcoholism.. Let me be also very clear about it too, I am rightfully against any brain damaged or not alcoholics having any position, job in governments, the civil, public services, rather they should all be fired immediately rather and that includes any Prime Minister, Premier, Member of Parliament or their staff members This may be the season for some to be jolly with booze, drugs but keep it all, all out of politics, the governments.Clearly there is the public disgust for both Prime Ministers , the Conservative Brian Mulroney and Liberal PM Paul Martin and it was also definitely related to their alcoholism, which had destroyed their sensitivity to needs of others.. like it did also for premier Ralph Klein too.. thus the public really despises the deeds, the placement of the alcoholics in the government, into political office.. not one cent of tax payer’s money should be used for any alcoholic entertainment, expenses by an civil or public servant, politicians, and all the Alcoholics in the government, civil and public services who refused treatment should be fired immediately. Fire all the drunks, alcoholics, tax payer money abusers in the government firstly too. There are also plenty of places to try to save the tax payer’s money but starting to save the tax payer’s money at the expense of the poor people and their welfare programs is not the best way to do this, not at all the way to do it! The governments firstly should though clearly manage better it’s civil and public servants..and the capital expenditures. Why? Well I do also know from real experiences that it is also the services to the poor and needy persons, those who can afford it the least, that are wrongfully cut to make up for the past budget mismanagement by Ministers, managers of the civil and public servants too in Canada’s Provinces, Municipalities too.We all need to care about the unemployed and the poor people, Elected officials now included. It also seems even the governments and it’s managers are too often rather still just for sale to the highest bidder… and it doesn’t care who they are involved with or what they are up to or what it looks like as long as they are rewarding themselves or their friends, and thus they wrongfully and too tend not too really look after all of the good ordinary citizens welfare.. this is still never acceptable. They all Civil and public servants, politicians, need to be regularly supervised too. That is why we need and have the auditors, News media, Opposition parties, concerned citizens to do this too.. and it still generally is not enough as we can see.The fish stinks from the head but many cut the tail of first.. That seems how the governments wrongfully does respond to money and the poor people too now rather than firstly with the major crooks, the real tax abusers too.. “ Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.(Galatians 2:10 KJV) ” It should be very clear to the honest New Testament Bible scholars that the Church of the New Testament was seriously concerned about the poor persons in their midst and helped them, and so should we all as well today, but even many Evangelical churches in Canada wrongfully also still do not..
(James 2:1 KJV) My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: 4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? 7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? 8 If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. “Let Him without guilt cast the first stone.” ” and go and sin no more lest a worse thing befall you too”"
(James 1:19 KJV) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
It is amazing how even most of our elected Members of our political legislatures clearly still cannot agree on what their own duties, functions now even are, should be .. all while them mostly l;ip service claiming to be here to service all of the people. Many they would like to add the note “as well”, because too many rather firstly, solely are self serving Ministers who they do wrongfully still do think they are there to get rich, to still make themselves more important, to advance themselves, their own incomes, pensions, to look after clearly firstly themselves. But the word “Minister” means to serve others not oneself, and it certainly does not mean to be Ministered too.. as even the honorable Prime should know…and rightfully I also do wish some of his colleagues would understanding of what it means to be a servant leader. The Minister who had even said she believes in a democratic government, also clearly too often does not even believe in the same thing I do, for apparently she thinks that democracy means now she can now do whatever she wants, all without any personal restraints, even getting drunk at work at the taxpayer’s expense, her having no inhibitions whereas democracy to me means accountability, transparency, mutual submission, equal rights, all done in love thus being able to freely and full serve the good welfare of all others> Democracy has mutual positive restraints for the good welfare of others now as well. The False Buck passing. still goes on too often these days too in the civil and public services, governments, it is even wrongfully used by too many of the elected representatives, and that is why our writing to the News media, the opposition party too, is required now as well., so we can all know about the wrongs being done and deal effectively with them now too. Now I personally have dealt with too many bad federal cabinet Ministers, provincial ones too, on behalf of all Canadians, and how one of them next treats me is really how one generally treats the other citizens of Canada as well. For the most part the self serving persons in politics in Canada are still really not acceptable. Politicians are paid by the tax payers to look after the good welfare of all citizens and sadly this has not been the case the last 20 years even in the federal cabinet. It should be still the case.
(Jer 3:13 KJV) Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.well.(Prov 29:16 KJV) When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall. (Eccl 3:17 KJV) God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Kindly please do note this fact that all MPs, MLAs, all Ministers even have to get used too.. I and every citizen in Canada can write a letter, email it too freely to any of the supposedly even big shots, the Premiers, Members of the legislatures, Members of Parliament, News editors- reporters, using mine and our free speech in Canada because now this is a right of all, each and every Citizen under the Canadian Charter. Now why is it any of the bad guys do not like me to use this right and even send the police falsely to my home to try to stop it six times so far too? cause they are bad. Next the same Bad guys trying to persecute, slander the rightful accuser, complainer is also a something very old, not new acts but still unacceptable. Anyway still someone has to be a whistle blower too.
My view on World Politics..Thursday, August 10 , 2006, 9:30 (BST) A Christian Aid partner in Lebanon has been forced to close the nursery it runs for Palestinian refugees after an Israeli missile attack on Tuesday night. Israeli’s military shelled Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, the Ein el-Hilweh camp on the outskirts of Sidon, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, leaving at least one person dead. Ein el-Hilweh is the largest of Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps, housing around 75,000 Palestinian refugees and their descendants who were left homeless by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Kadija Abdelal works for Christian Aid partner Najdeh, an organisation that supports Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. He said staff and residents in the camp were afraid it would be the target of Israeli bombing again. “We have a kindergarten here for 83 children and today we were going to open it up and welcome more children from Lebanese families who have run from the fighting further south and who are also now staying at this camp,” said Ms Abdelal. “But the kindergarten is near where the missile struck and it has been damaged. So we have closed it.” She added that around 25 families who had come to escape from fighting further in the south had run away. “No one knows where they have gone,” she said. According to media reports, the Ein el-Hilweh camp has been the scene of years of bombings, assassinations and shootings as rival factions in the camp vie for control. It is also believed to be a haven for fugitives wanted by Lebanese authorities and militant groups. Some 350,000 Palestinians live in refugee camps in Lebanon that have developed into large shanty towns over the years. Israeli troops seized the Christian towns of Marjayoun and Qlaiah in south Lebanon on Thursday, according to witnesses, despite assurances from Israel that it has held off plans to expand its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas. Maria Mackay mmackay@christiantoday.com ” “Israel requested a rush shipment of short-range antipersonnel rockets from the U.S.The new missiles carry hundreds of small grenade-like bombs that scatter over a wide area. The request was reported to soon be approved by the U.S. State Department”
You are not to be congratulated Stephen Harper, George Bush, Tony Blair for all of this as well even for wrongfully now letting Israel attack the Christians areas of Lebanon as well. Dream on if you think this was endorsed by God himself. Now God himself had caused the Jews to be expelled from Israel under the Romans as well. Jesus predicted it too. Mat 21:19 KJV) “And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away” So have other prophets. (Jer 29:28 KJV) “For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.” What we all need to know about the Nation Of Israel today and the Arabs. (Psalm 133:1 KJV) Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! (Mat 5:43 KJV)Jews and Arabs have common ancestry. Both do trace back to the Biblical family leader Abraham. Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. Isaac also had two sons, Esau and Jacob Jews today live in nearly every nation on earth as a result of their first Babylonian captivity and next due to the Roman expulsion. And there is absolutely not one New Testament verse, justification for “Zionism”, the Jews now returning to their ancient homeland, this same Zionist movement that eventually resulted in the re-establishment of a nation of Israel in 1948. Neither Jesus or any of the Apostles of Jesus, had ever promised, or discussed, confirmed the re- establishment of the Nation of Israel in fact. in reality. There will be no peace for or in Israel until the Jesus the Messiah, the Prince of Peace is accepted by the Jews.. (Mat 23:38 KJV) Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
- Secondly movies, television and radio or also the devils’ favorite weapons..here the devil likes to play as a spin doctor and try to lower our moral, spiritual values as well.
- On top of that I have already clearly mentioned that bad people cause us unnecessary stress and unresolved this can lead to health problems. About ten years ago I made a choice not to communicate with any of my past bad friends, and I have been next happy to have done this. But what surprised me was how often the devil tried to use the telephone the last ten years to harass me. Bad people who no longer visited me would try to disturb me on the phone and weekly. Most of the harassment I have gotten from the devil almost weekly come from the phone, sometimes I get about 26 unwanted and unsolicited phone calls per week. I have often rightfully said that if the devil cannot influence us directly he will try to use another person to do this. Even the phone now too.
(Isa 30:21 KJV) And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
(James 4:7 KJV) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(Prov 4:14 KJV) Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
(Prov 24:1 KJV) Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
(Prov 24:19 KJV) Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;
(2 Tim 3:13 KJV) But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
(Deu 6:14 KJV) Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
(2 Cor 4:17 KJV) For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2 Cor 5:1 KJV) For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
(Heb 13:20 KJV) Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Prov 14:12 KJV) There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Jesus
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
(1 Pet 2:22 KJV) Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
(1 John 3:5 KJV) And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
(John 18:38 KJV) Pilate ..saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
Jesus did not sin.
Jesus knew no sin.
He, Jesus was the perfect, sinless, holy, righteous Son of God.
Jesus Christ is sinless.
There is nothing wrong with him, Jesus.
There’s no fault in him, jesus.
There’s no shadow of turning in him, Jesus.
There’s no guile or deception in him, jesus.
He, Jesus is a sinless Savior.
Pilate said, “I don’t find anything wrong with him”…
The death of Jesus was a very vicious death.
First of all, Jesus, his death was vicious physically.
First Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns.
they clothed him, Jesus in a purpose robe.
and they struck him in the face.
They made Jesus cary his own cross.
And so here is Jesus carrying this cross that weighs probably several hundred pounds.
and next they crucified him, Jesus”This is what is written, the Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem.” (Luke 24:46)
For the Son of God who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim!
Hallelujah! What a Savior!Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned He stood;
Sealed my pardon with His blood:
Hallelujah! What a Savior!Guilty, vile and helpless, we:
Spotless Lamb of God was He:
“Full atonement!” can it be?
Hallelujah! What a Savior! “Lifted up” was He to die,
“It is finished,” was His cry;
Now in heav’n exalted high:
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
When He comes, our glorious King,
All His ransomed home to bring,
Then anew this song we’ll sing:
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Jesus death on a cross
He jesus was suspended up between heaven and earth…
And there Jesus died the most horrible, vicious death known to man.
But if Jesus Christ had not died upon the cross for us…
Then you and I would be hopelessly lost in our sin.”And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit:
and having said thus, he gave up the ghost”, Luke 23:46.
“… God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
& for sin condemned sin in the flesh”, Romans 8:3.”But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”, Romans 5:8.
Jesus Christ is the lid of covering. His blood covers all our sin (I John 1:7).
“the Lamb of GOD who taketh away the sin of the world”, John 1:29.
He had come here to finish His Father’s work and to do His Father’s will.
His death on the cross finished this work, overcoming the curse of sin and death.
All that had been lost would now be gathered & made new again in Chirst & restored to the Father.
Jesus said, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
This he said, signifying what death he should die.” John 12:32 and 33.
“He did that once for all when he offered himself.” (Hebrews 7:28).
Deuteronomy 21:23 … “He that is hanged is accursed is accursed of God.”
Galatians 3:13 … “Cursed in anyone that hangeth on a tree.”
When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He died as a sacrifice,
to pay for the sins of each, all the people like you and me.
When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He purchased, made possible
a new relationship between God and sinful people … a relationship of love and peace.
“And the sun was darkened, & the veil of the temple was rent in the midst”, Luke 23:45.
“And the earth did quake, & the rocks rent …”, Matthew 27:51.
The Old Testament scriptures contain the law & the Messianic prophecies that Jesus would fulfill.
And He fulfilled them all. Let us look at some of these. Jesus was nailed to the cross. There is an account in Exodus 17:8-15, of the battle between Israel and Amalek. It is taught that this battle represents the battle between spirit & flesh. The imagery in this account in Exodus parallels that of the crucifiction. Moses standing on a hill with Aaron and Hur. When the hands of Moses were raised Israel prevailed but when they became heavy and began to fall to his side Amalek prevailed. So Aaron & Hur helped Moses to hold up his hands. When Moses was too tired to stand, he sat on a rock. The rock representing Christ but also there is some speculation that there was a ledge on the cross to sit on. This is a picture of the crucifiction. Jesus in the middle and the two malefactors on either side. The difference being that the nails held up the hands of Jesus in victory. The scripture declaring, “And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place…”, Isaiah 22:23.It is written in Matthew 27:35, “And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots…”, which fulfilled Psalm 22:18. “They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture”. This brings to mind two things. First, “…for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness…”, Isaiah 61:10. The second, that the action of dividing his garments was a sign that believers would receive a portion and be covered with, “His garments of salvation & the robe of His righteousness”.Matthew 27:39-40, “And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads”, which fulfilled both Psalm 22:7 & 109:25. Matthew 27 verse 40, “And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross”.There is an account in Nehemiah, in the 6th chapter, of the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. The enemies of Nehemiah tried to get him to come down from his work on the wall. “…Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. And I sent messengers unto them saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you”, Nehemiah 6:2-3.
John 19:28, “…Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scriptures might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst”.
“Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar,
“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished”, John 19:30.
Jesus had come to do His Father’s work. “Jesus saith unto them,
Jesus said, “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Our Advocate (1 John 2:1), the Alpha and Omega (Revelation 1:8), the Amen (Revelation 3:14),
and the Author and Finisher of our Faith (Hebrews 12:2).
He is the Beloved Son (Matthew 12:18), the Bridegroom (Mark 2:19-20), Branch (Isaiah 4:2)
and Bread of Life (John 6:32).
Jesus is the Captain of our Salvation (Hebrews 2:10), the Corner-stone (Isaiah 28:16),
Counselor (Isaiah 9:6), Creator (John 1:3), Dayspring (Luke 1:78), our Deliverer (Romans 11:26),
the Door (John 10:7, 9), Emmanuel (Isaiah 9:6) and the Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6).
He’s the Faithful Witness (Revelation 1:5), the First Begotten of the Dead (Revelation 1:5),
the Glory of the Lord (John 17:1), the Good Shepherd (John 10:11),
our Great High Priest (Hebrews 4:14), Head of the Church (Ephesians 1:22), the Holy One (Acts 3:14)
and the Horn of our Salvation (Luke 1:69).
Jesus Christ is the Great I Am (Exodus 3:14; John 6:35), the Image of God (II Corinthians 4:4),
the Judge (Matthew 25:31-46), the Just One (Acts 7:52), King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16),
the Lamb of God (John 1:29,36), the Life (John 14:6), Light of the World (John 8:1)
and the Lion of Judah (Rev 5:5). Jesus is the Man of Sorrows (Isaiah 53:3), Mediator (I Timothy 2:5),
Messiah (John 1:41), Morning Star (Revelation 22:16), the Nazarene (Matthew 2:23),
our Passover (I Corinthians 5:7), Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6) and Prophet (Acts 3:22).
He is called Rabbi (John 3:2), Redeemer (Job 19:25), Resurrection (John 11:25),
Rock (I Corinthians 10:4), Rose of Sharon (Song of Songs 2:1), Savior (Luke 2:11),
the Son of the Highest (Luke 1:32), Son of Man (John 6:53), Suffering Servant (Isaiah 42:1-4)
and the Sun of Righteousness (Malachi 4:2).
Jesus is the Truth (John 14:6), the Vine (John 15:1), the Way (John 14:6), the Witness (Isaiah 55:4)
and the Word (John 1:1).
Ps 99:1 The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He dwells between the cherubim; let the earth be moved!(Exo 25:17-22 KJV) And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. {18} And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. {19} And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. {20} And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. {21} And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. {22} And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.Exod 25:8-9 “And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.”
Exod 25:22 “And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.”
When God had spoken to Moses out of the midst of the cloud upon Sinai, He also told him that He would come down to speak with him in the midst of His people. It was from the area above the Mercy Seat that He did:
Num 7:89 Now when Moses went into the tabernacle of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice of One speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; thus He spoke to him.
Heb 9:2-5 “For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary; and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle, which is, called the Holiest of All, which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.”
Rom 3:23-26 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
The Greek word for Mercy Seat is ‘hilasterion’. It is used here in Romans 3:25 where Paul says (literally) that God presented Christ as a propitiation or ‘mercy seat’. This means that Jesus Christ is the mercy seat.
The Mercy Seat did not derive its worth from the purity of its gold but from the fact that it was the place where the blood of sacrifice was sprinkled in the presence of God.
The word for “mercy seat” is the same root for the word “atonement”. It means to cover, cancel, appease, or cleanse.
The Greek equivalent is the word “propitiation”.
Lk 18:13 “And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, `God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
Ex 25:18-20 “And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. “Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat. “And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another;
- They represent the judgment of God.
- Their position indicates that God’s judgment upon Israel was averted because of the blood-sprinkled mercy seat.
- The Cherubim are revealed by Ezekiel in chapter 1:5-10 as 4 living creatures, each one having 4 different faces, the face of a man, lion, ox, and eagle.
This mercy seat was placed on top of the ark and it was here that the blood was sprinkled.
Lev 16:11-15 “And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself. “Then he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, with his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil. “And he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die. “He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times. “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
Lev 16:30 “For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
- Because of the mercy seat the tabernacle was called “the tent of meeting”. Because here God met with man:
Ex 25:21-22 “You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. “And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel
1 Jn 2:2 And He ( Jesus) Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
Note that the
1.Ark – contained God’s holy laws the ten commandements- – and there was no hope for me even keeping them there – “all come short of the glory of God and every mouth is stopped.” = condemned to DEATH We are all bad sinnners, enough to be condemned to death. I am guilty before God. Any hope? or “It’s the best I could do?” Can I have such hope of dslavation based on the law? No.
2. Mercy Seat – cover of ark with cherubim = represents our personal justification by the covering of our sin
Propitiation = Christ set forth to be a covering or complete payment for the “sin of the world.” God provided his sacrifice to completely fulfill the penalty of our sin.
Where do the cherubim look? They look down on the mercy seat at the blood and the site where God meets His own. This teaches us all :Christ accepted on my behalf the punishment for our sin in the presence of God! The pure gold represents the most valuable possible symbol to show the price paid to unlock the gate of heaven to us.
3: The veil reminds us of God previously hid in heaven, yet next by Jesuss God is in complete access to all believers today. The ark/mercy seat point to our forerunner, the Lord Jesus Christ. This is based on His propitiation for our sins:Romans 3:25 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;I John 4:10 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.Lk 22:20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
1 Pet 1:18-19 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Heb 9:11-12 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
Heb 9:28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Dan 7:9-10 “I watched till thrones were put in place, and the Ancient of Days was seated; his garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire; A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, and the books were opened.
Dan 7:13-14 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Rev 5:1-13 And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?” And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it. So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.” And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.” Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honor and glory and blessing!” And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: “Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever!”
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Intro
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
“Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?” (Mat 13:55).
“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.” (Mar 6:3).
and they thus had missed the words, the work of God too, Jesus and his followers doing the will of the Lord, laying hands on the sick, casting out demons, tearing down strongholds andf anyone without love is like “… sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Cor 13: 1). And these people without love become like the Scribes, Pharisees and Sadducee. and t hey are fixed on doing works and outward appearances for salvation. The exact letter of the law was more important to them than love. Jesus again rebuked them when He said:“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.” (Mt 23: 23).
Gal 2: 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.2 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Peter’s example would certainly be called “two faced” today. And do we also still say one thing in front of people and another behind their backs? “We all still do need to “walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel even elders and pastors”.
The ministry of truth but also of compassion is also a very important element of the Apostle’s ministry. Paul revealed four important elements of that ministry as revealed in Jesus’ life in Hebrews 2: 9-18. These are the characteristics that should be present in anyone carrying the title “Apostle”.
While the unrepentant wicked persons they do even twist the scriptures, do try to manipulate other people, playing on the mass, trying to getting the whole crowd even to do things their way. They also manipulated People’s weakness and they try to manipulate even daily events. But we will rise again for no weapon will prosper against the servant of the Lord.
[1] Who was involved
[2] Sin involved
[3] Effects/Consequences of the sin (direct or related)
Ham & Noah (Gen 9:20-27)
Voyeurism (looking at naked body)
Ham’s son Canaan and his descendants are cursed (future Canaanites)
Angels taking human wives (Gen 6:1-12, Jude 6-7, 2 Pet 2:4)
Sodom & Gomorrah (Jude 6-7, Gen 18:16-33; 19:1-29, Ezek 16:48-50)
Both cities and the surrounding territory were destroyed by God
Lot & his daughters
(Gen 19:30-38)
The descendants (Ammonites and Moabites) became hated enemies of God’s people
Abraham, Sarah & Hagar (Gen 16:1-16; 21:8-21)
Judah & Tamar (Gen 38)
Rueben and his father’s concubine (Gen 35:22; 49:3-4; 1 Chron 5:1)
Joseph & Potiphar’s wife (Gen 39:6-13)
Israelites w/Moabite & Midianite women (Num 25:1-10)
Samson (Judges 14-16)
The Levite, the harlot concubine and the Benjamite mob (Judges 19)
David & Bathsheba (2 Sam 11-12)
Amnon and Tamar (2 Sam 13)
Absalom & his father’s wives
(2 Sam 16:21-22; 18:6-15)
Solomon & wives (1 Kg 11)
The seductress and her victim (Prov 6:24-26)
Jerusalem’s spiritual harlotry (Ezek 16- metaphorical)
Oholah (Ezek 23:1-10, 36-49) – metaphorical for the northern kingdom of Samaria)
Oholibah (Ezek 23:1-4, 11-49 – metaphorical for the southern kingdom of Judah)
The Romans (Rom 1:20-32)
The sexually immoral brother and the Corinthian church (1 Cor 5:1-13)
Paul instructed the church to:
-Not keep company with the unrepentant brother
-Deliver the brother to Satan in hopes that he would repent
The Jezebel spirit and the church (Rev 2:19-25)
WATCH & PRAY
Negative consequences here on earth
“We had learned that Henry Lyons, the leader of the National Baptist Convention USA, with an estimated 8.5 million members, admitted to having an affair with a female member of his staff. He came before the convention and asked for forgiveness.
Let’s stop for a minute and get something straight. For a man to be unfaithful to his wife and engage in lovemaking with someone other than his wife, this is not just “some mistake”. It’s not like slobbering soup on your suit; and it’s not like forgetting to write down a check in your ledger and then bouncing a check due to insufficient funds. It’s not even like cheating on your 1040.
It may have come as no surprise then, that this same church convention body passed a resolution in support of President Clinton, who has apologized for his “inappropriate relationship” with a former White House intern.
“We stand firmly behind our president,” said Henry Lyons, who admitted to his own brand of marriage infidelity. “We’d like to see the Republican majority in Congress off his back. We thank God that he and Mrs. Clinton are faring well.”
Then the convention’s board of directors took up a mass offering for Lyons’ legal defense fund. More than 70 ministers each donated $500 or more and ushers emptied dozens of baskets filled with cash into a large trash bag What are we to do with this?
When finally the president was backed to the wall and forced to admit his sin, there quickly arose many voices calling for forgiveness. We are told that our president has been forgiven by his wife, so that should be all that’s necessary.
Let me register this reminder to all that “We got what we voted for!” Even before his election, we know that the president had not been faithful to his wife. And we elected him anyway. The fact is, the sin of our president is not his alone, it is ours as a nation. We have been saying for a long time now, we don’t care about character, we only care about the economy. “It’s the economy, stupid” has now become one of the better known political statements of the present generation. But look at what’s happening now – our unwillingness to deal with the character issue is bringing the economy to its knees. But please note, not only ours, but the economy of the world. And when the other nations of the world should be looking to America for stability and leadership, they find a president using the power of his office to gratify his own fleshly desires by carrying out a long term affair and making love in the hall way with a woman less than half his age.
This raises some very difficult questions. Does God’s forgiveness exempt us from the consequences of our sin? Should the American people do the Christian thing, and forgive the president? Of course, there are some who might suggest we have nothing to forgive because the sin was not against us, it was against the president’s wife, and his lovers. That may be a fair statement, but when the president looked us right in the camera’s eye and denied the accusations, he blatantly lied to us, and that lie does call for our forgiveness.
And what about punishment and its more positive side, discipline? Is it enough that God punishes, God disciplines?
One minister said of the president, “He couldn’t have a greater hell on Earth than he is facing right now. So we don’t need to do more to him. Who are we to play God?”
Or should we also initiate punishment and discipline toward someone who has sinned against us? The Scripture does make it clear that governments are ordained by God to punish evil, and we hope that ours will fulfill its God given responsibility toward all, regardless of status.
There is also the matter of trust. Can a leader lead who cannot be trusted? If blatant lies are convincingly proven, how can we trust a president to represent us before the world?
Some would make us think that we looking for perfection in a president. No one in this world today is sinless, so the argument goes, so we shouldn’t expect it of our president.
Of course I’m speaking of the story of David and Bathsheba in II Samuel 11
Following his story gives us a lesson about the downward steps of a godly man:
We know that idleness results in poverty “By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.” (KJV) If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks. (NIV) Ecclesiastes 10:18
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Proverbs 19:15
But worse yet, idleness leads to sin. Hear what God said about Sodom, “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. (KJV) (Ezekiel 16:49)
The Apostle Paul also gives a warning about idleness: “Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.” (1 Timothy 5:13)
This too, more than ever, is our problem. Daily we have multiple opportunities to see things with our eyes which have the potential of leading us into sin. Television, New Stands, Bill Boards, real live people in our face.
Remember the First Lady, Eve? She was tempted by merely looking at the forbidden fruit. “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye” (Genesis 3)
“Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?” (KJV) “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?” (NIV) (Habakkuk 1:13)
For David, the investigation went further, he inquired about the woman that he saw. Thus he took another step down the road to sin. There’s no reason to investigate sin.
- We might want to fault the messenger for not being more forceful. But perhaps we don’t understand the power of this man, the king. To go against the king’s wishes, to stand up to him, would be like suicide. Let’s look at it this way. God always places a block of some sort, there’s always something in our way along the pathway toward sin. Maybe it’s that inner voice of conscience, or the memory of a parent’s warning, or a friend’s caution, or an unusual circumstance that catches our attention. God, in His mercy, makes an effort to keep us from taking that last step toward the fulfillment of the sin. I have a friend who had begun to go down the slippery slope into the world of pornography. In a distant city, far from anyone who could possibly recognize him, he slipped into a chair in the back corner of a strip bar. As he ordered a coke, he saw the door at the other end of the room open, and a uniformed Salvation Army man walked through the room, smiled at my friend, dropped a copy of the “War Cry” (a Christian magazine) on the table, then turned and walked back out of the bar without ever saying a word. God used that stranger to stop my friend dead in his tracks, and that night he took the first steps back away from the precipice. But in our Biblical story, David ignored the hindrance, and took the next step. He
But he didn’t; the prophet Nathan confronted him, and got him to confess his sin “against the Lord”. Immediately, David was told, “The Lord has taken away your sin.” And David lived happily ever after. Right? Wrong!
2. Then one of his sons raped the sister of another one of David’s sons. (II Samuel 13)
3. The brother of the rape victim took revenge, Absolom killed Amnon.
4. When David found out, he banished Absolom for three years (II Samuel 13)
5. Joab deceived David to get him to bring his son back to Jerusalem. (II Samuel 14), but that set the stage for an all out rebellion of Absolom, he successfully conspired and took over the throne for a while, David had to flee from the city (II Samuel 15).
6. Absolom was killed (II Samuel 18)
7. Later there was another rebellion by Sheba, who apparently tried to divide Israel from Judah.
- “In David’s later years his kingdom stretched from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south. David,decided that he ought to take a census of the people of his expanded nation in order to know how big an army he could call out to battle. The scripture says that David’s decision was inspired by Satan. Joab started the taking of the census. However, the scripture says that the taking of the census was abhorrent to Joab. He stopped short of completing the entire census, leaving out the tribes of Levi and Benjamin. However he reported the partial count to David, apparently as a complete count of all Israel. God was not pleased that the census had been taken. The prophet, Gad, let David know that he had sinned and that all Israel was in danger of the immediate wrath of God. David’s heart troubled him and he cried out to God, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, 0 Lord, please take away the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” However, the prophet Gad informed David that God had already determined to strike Israel. God was willing to let David chose from three possible punishments, which He might impose. David had to choose from: (1) seven years of famine to the entire land, (2) three months flight by David from his foes while they pursued him,’ or (3) three days of pestilence in the land. David chose the latter, with the statement to God, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hands of man.” The pestilence which fell upon Israel resulted in the deaths of seventy thousand men from Dan to Beersheba. The scriptural record seems to indicate that God, at first, had intended to destroy far more people of Israel than the seventy thousand men who died. God sent His destroying angel to Jerusalem to kill the people there as well. David saw the angel of God standing beside the threshing floor of Araunah on the top of the mountain later to be known as Mount Zion. The angel had drawn his sword and was looking down on the city of Jerusalem. Then David spoke to the Lord and said, “Behold, it is I who have sinned, and it is I who has done wrong; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let Thy hand be against me and against my father’s house.” God said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand!” God answered David’s plea through the prophet Gad, who relayed God’s message for David to go up to the threshing floor of Araunah and there erect an altar to the Lord. David immediately bought the mountain top which contained the threshing floor from a Jebusite, Araunah, and built an altar there. David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings to God there. Thus the Lord was moved by entreaty for the land, and the plague was held back from the people of Jerusalem. (2nd Samuel 24; 1st Chronicles 21)”(Psa 51:1 KJV) To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.Yes even King David He was altogether human. But soley because he acknowledged and repented of his sins, God instead of rejecting him, like he did with King saul, he God next forgave King David and made everything work out for the ultimate good of him and all mankind. God brought ultimate spiritual good from the life of sinners like David if they remained faithful to God through acknowledgement and repentance of their sins. We are reminded that King Saul had not learned to deal with,, confess his own sins as well and paid real negative consequences for I too.(1 Sam 15:23 KJV) For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.Absolom now himself had taken his own vengeance in disobedience to the command of God who says all vengeance is His alone. (Rom 12:19 KJV) “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” He Absolom clearly now had done his muderous act out of anger, rage, and resentment over the rape and incest of his sister Tamar by her half-brother Amnon. Note also the unacceptable sins of Absolom next also who too had to otehrs pretended he was a good person and who next reblled and was killed for doing so too..”Absolom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.” (2nd Samuel 15) Absolom usurped the throne and lawful authority of his father David. Absalom clearly in his false pride strives to make himself more popular with the people of Israel over his own father in an effort even to become the new king. Absolom, next during his brief rebellion, named Amasa as head of the army in place of Joab. David instructed all his men to avoid any harm to his son Absolom. Joab he ignored David’s wishes and killed David’s son. “There is an ironic similarity between the death of Uriah and the death of Absalom. In killing Absalom, Joab ignores the king’s plea, “Deal gently with the young man, Absalom. Perhaps he’s remembering instead David’s contadictory message to him after the death of Uriah which David ordered. “Do not let this matter trouble you for the sword devours now one and now another.” What had in the past to King David made Joab friendship so useful in Uriah’s death is not the least bit useful next when it comes to the death of david’s son Absalom.” Joab does rather helped easily in two wrongful deaths.Rebellion against David did not end with Absolom’s rebellion. The scripture speaks of a “worthless fellow” named Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, who for awhile rallied Israel against Judah. Sheba called out to the men of Israel, ‘ we have no portion in David, nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, 0 Israel”. The scripture then says, “So all the men of Israel withdrew from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah remained steadfast to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.” King David as an old man was still plagued by uprising and rebellion against him. His fourth son, Adonijah, believing David to have become feeble, began to aspire to be king in his place.Adonijah himself was killed next too. The scripture also says that Joab rebelled, and had followed Adonijah, although he had not followed Absolom. Even Joab was killed and finally brought to justice(1st Kings 2) Those who show no mercy to others, receive none when it is their time to receive justice.
“Sin has consequences and personal effects next on many. He that covers his sin shall not prosper. The way of the transgressor is hard. Sin has effects. Don’t ever kid yourself — sin is never worth it. It is just too dangerous. The gratification it promises is so illusive, so deceiving — like a trap, it will spring shut on you, catch you, and then it will be too late. You’ll be left with it.” Wrong patterns of abuse, exploitation and alienation have now too often even divided our own families as surely as the family of King David. “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Be imitators of God and live in love as Christ loved us. Loving only those who are easy to love, or onl those who serve us still however, contradicts the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ.. Let’s all learn our lessons even from Biblical history too so we won’t need to repeat them. Let’s learn also from King David that though personal forgiveness for sin was, is extended, for many negative consequences still follow those who ddid not stop on the road to sin and did not exercise God’s grace to overcome sins. ”
(Gal 6:7 KJV) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
(Heb 12:15 KJV) Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;”
The ongoing false wars between the professing Christian pastors and many others
1: It has long been recognized that the fax is a legal document and it is also an accepted legal fact that when a person sends a letter, even an electronic one, to another person, and they cannot deny they do not get it now too especially with copies being sent also to many other witnesses, and this letter stated openly their unacceptable faults, that after a reasonable amount of time say 6 months, they the accused next have not denied back the accusations, or the letter, they themselves now next cannot sue the originator person for slander, deformation of character or what ever now as well. But per the New Testament the accused they do not even need still now an original document cosigned by a barrister to repent off now next as well. This accusation of their wrong doing(s) undeniably now can also be done simply verbally with 2 or 3 witnesses.
2: It is also undeniable that the Pastors of the Toronto airport Christian fellowship Church have done even Biblical wrong by going to court instead another professing Christian brother his suppsoed slander, instead of firstly using other means to resolve the issue.(1 Cor 4:12 KJV) And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:(1 Cor 6:7 KJV) Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?(1 Cor 12:26 KJV) And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.(Phil 1:29 KJV) For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;(Phil 4:12 KJV) I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.(2 Tim 3:12 KJV) Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.(Heb 11:25 KJV) Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;(Heb 13:3 KJV) Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.(Rev 2:10 KJV) Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life
.3: Evangelical pastors should note especially this.. One does not even have to have any of the details, or now even witnesses of the wrong doings alleged, when one accuses his fellow brother of wrong doings, for next all one has to do is to have witnesses that one has asked the offending party to repent, and only 2 or 3 persons as witnesses now are required… .. (Mat 18:15 KJV) Moreover if they brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained they brother.16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. (Eph 5:21 KJV) Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
4: The term brother now used by Jesus above is a generic one, including any individual of the whole body of Jesus Christ now, not falsely being limited to a brother of a specific local church only, The term neighbor covered the rest of the persons.
5: Do also clearly note as per Jesus own Instruction to all of his followers, the pastors now of TACF included, that there is no valid New Testament prohibition above too that now excludes the matter from being made next public next as well if satisfaction ha not been obtained by the accuser…. rather it is mandatory next.
6: These clearly crooked pastors they they have wrongfully resorted to name calling, that they now all also do need to repent, to make restitution, even those pastors from the Toronto Airport Christian fellowship church, for the undeniably have been, are themselves firstly guilty of character assassination, slander, but they also behaving in an unchrist manner towards a Christian Brother
(Gal 6:1 KJV) Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
7: Now whether the accused pastor(s), individual next repents or not, the final judgment itself will also next be undertaken next by God himself. I can assured you it will be a severe one too. And they will certainly have wished they had repented when they were first had been asked too. I myself have too often now seen the pale, white faces of the trembling pastors and their wives after them being fully episode for who they really were, them there recognizing that the inevitable judgment of God was now forthcoming here, and too often now in Canada.(Heb 10:31 KJV) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.(1 Tim 6:17 KJV) Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;(Heb 3:12 KJV) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.8: There is also no doubt about it that the rightfully new testament church is a congregational one, run by a plurality of elders, and pastors are only one of the many equal ruling elders only all mutually submitting one to another too. (1 Pet 5:1 KJV) The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:9: There is also no doubt about the “tithing” giving today is not binding, but a voluntary act, and the a clear portion, 1/7 of the tithes and offerings, are also to be used to help direct the local poor Christians in the local church and/or any other Christian church, and these poor people are not limited to being only the supposedly poor pastors, church workers, missionary now as well. But even this issue was long time discussed and resolved by the Apostles in the early new Testament church by the appointment of deacons to oversee this ministry. http://pbulow.tripod.com/tithing.html
The Lord God stated that the Levites would have no inheritance of land but would be given a portion of the tithe instead. Such an injunction would also apply today to anyone claiming a right to a tithe too.Numbers 18:20 (NIV) 20 The LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.. The tithe was also paid directly to the storehouse only every 3rd year? and the other two years the tither himself enjoyed the tithes himself by feasting on it?
(Deu 12:17 KJV) Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:(Deu 14:23 KJV) And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
Also, every third year, the Israelite was required to store his tithe in his own town to feed the fatherless, aliens, and widows as required by the Lord. This was the tithe of the poor. (ma’aser ani)(Deuteronomy 14:22-29, 26:12-15) (Amos 4:4-5)1 Corinthians 16:1,2 Giving to needy saints”(Acts 4:35 KJV) And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.(Acts 6:1 KJV) And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. 3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: 6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.(1 Tim 3:10 KJV) And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.(1 Tim 3:13 KJV) For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.Note this Biblical instruction that any pastor, church worker, poor person who owns a piece of property, real estate, a home they cannot even now avail themselves of any portion of the tithe now still too.10 Crooked pastors, crooked churches can be removed , even their tax exemptions removed, and their ability to give tax receipts removed as well by the government as had been done now in the Calgary Christian center church. .(Rev 2:5 KJV) Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.(Rev 3:19 KJV) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
(Mat 7:1 KJV) Judge not, that ye be not judged.(Mat 7:2 KJV) For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.(Mat 7:3 KJV) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?(Mat 7:4 KJV) Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?(Mat 7:5 KJV) Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
One of the biggest demander of these financial reviews to Senator Grassley now was an undeniable crook himself, as often witnessed by me, and so was his own Pentecostal Church for they wrongfully tended to never use the clearly designated ( Biblical) portion by the Old Testament of 1/7 to give it directly to the local poor persons for their needs. For they were all part of “the rich who persecute the poor people” club that prevails in many churches falsely today.. Even today this Pentecostal church falsely insists that to become a member of their church one has to sign an agreement that they would “tithe” to the Trinity church. There is no such Biblical requirement in any part of the New Testament as well. And had the church and their members also paid their full taxes and not committed tax evasion their would b e also more money for the government s to help the poor and needy persons now too. This Pentecostal church itself basically, wrongfully, falsely does not help any poor people today, not even in their own church, or in their city and do note this that both they both had falsely justified their immoral approach, their lack of compassion for others, their not fulfilling the clear Biblical obligations of using the tithes to help the poor, sick needy persons by them both stating that all of the poor and sick persons were sick due to their own personal sins. This itself is mostly an unacceptable lie, a distortion of reality.
Two of the most despicable false teachings found even elsewhere but especially in the Pentecostal- evangelical circles today included that it is God’s will that we all be financially prosperous, how you got it may not matter? and that is a sin to be found poor and/or sick.. these teachings are despicable because these self centered Christians should have known better.. and they use poverty, sickness as an excuse to ostracize, kick out falsely the sick and needy, sick persons even from their own churches.. the too often bad pastors often ask the poor and sick people who cannot give to them rather to leave.. God does not overlook any of this wrong doings and he has his own way of punishing such bad persons. We had such bad persons teaching these lies around even at the time of Christ”
(Phil 3:18 KJV) (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Here is a fact I have also clearly noticed, in real life the last 50 years as well, too many, most of the people who did the loudest, biggest complaining about the supposedly bad sinful acts of others they themselves were firstly now even doing the very same thing, and that was why they were so sensitive now about such supposed acts in others. Now that has included not only pastors, a housewife, brothers, brothers and sister in laws too, acquaintances. Clearly they all were wrongfully hoping to alleviate their own low self esteem, their own personal guilty feelings, the bad feelings of their own inadequacies by diverting it to the others by bashing the others but this will, does not work. They all, pastors now included they firstly still do have to take full responsibility and real repentance for their own sins, even for their own stealing, lying, tax evasions, adultery, slandering too. Sadly even these days when any persons does wrong they tend to have not only bad associates, accomplices, the false support of others, their followers too for not repenting of their wrong doings even… all courtesy now of the devil as well. None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Rom. 14:7Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. Rom. 14:8Let no man seek his own: but every man another’s wealth. I Cor. 10:24Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. I Cor. 6:20Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. Phil. 1:20-23 I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:19, 20 “
A brother Paul
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