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He Empathizes with Us, Pt 1
As a Christian, do you find yourself not talking to Him about what concerns you, preferring instead to keep it to yourself and handle things on your own? How can we think we will get to know Him when we do that? God allows trials and issues to come our way so that we will take them to Him, so that we can see Him actually work in our lives. When we see Him moving and taking care of things, this increases and strengthens our faith in Him.
Do We Christians Do This?
By the time of Malachi, Israel had literally become numb toward God, having gotten to that point by deliberately and continually moving from faithful and obedient to becoming full faithless and disobedient. They eventually became bitter toward God. Can you imagine that? They actually harbored animosity and bitterness toward the God who had rescued them from Egypt and many troubles after that.
Can We Avoid Being Anxious?
Over the years, as I have faced situations that have caused anxiety in me, sometimes, I have submitted myself to the Lord for His keeping and His guidance. On other occasions, I have only half-heartedly done this and it usually resulted in works of the flesh. The problem for me has usually been the fact that I tend to feel as though I’m sinning because the anxiety is getting to me. Doesn’t the Bible tell us that God will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is set on Him (Isaiah 26:3)? So when I’m not at peace within, I feel as though I failed. This is wrong. When we are not at peace within, it essentially means that God is trying to get our attention so that we can bring our cares and concerns to Him for Him to deal with for us (1 Peter 5:7).
Easter Blessings and Death of a Heretic
Easter’s resurrection of our Lord proved that perfect love conquers all evil. The grave could not keep Jesus. He arose due to His sinlessness and deity. He lives due to His sinlessness and deity. He loves due to His sinlessness and deity. He is God, very God, who took on the outer “robe” of humanity in order that He would perfectly fulfill the will of His Father and offered His life not only as a model of how we should live, but as a perfect substitution for us (Philippians 2), so that we personally, do not have to pay that price. He died so that we can gain eternal life and it is by faith in His propitiation that we find solace, comfort, eternal life and full acceptance by the Father.
Unlawful
Let’s not forget the Left’s “woke” movement in the United States, which, among other things, pushed the climate change scam, the mRNA jab and trans people to the front, demanding that critical thinking people accept their designated gender identification. Science that had been the norm for eons, signifying that gender was based on chromosomes, was replaced with a new “science,” one that was based totally on how a person felt about themselves. It didn’t matter if they were born male or female because that was called being “assigned” a gender (not recognizing the gender based on male or female genitalia). The only thing that mattered today is how a person saw themselves. Increasingly, the USA was being reshaped with an emphasis on pronouns and self-identification.
AI Church and Jesus??
Though I’m not a prophet, I can clearly see a defined role of AI during the coming Tribulation period. Will AI be used by Technocrats to support their threats against humanity? Will AI robotic armies be sent to round up those who do not take the mark, or pledge loyalty to the False Prophet and Antichrist? Does the False Prophet use AI to make the image of the beast appears to live (Revelation 13:15)?
Ever Before Me…
I thought about David’s reaction and his desire to have his sins blotted out, to be washed thoroughly from his iniquity and to be cleansed from his sin. Commentators believe this occurred just prior to the birth (and death), of Bathsheba’s child. During those months, he had apparently hardened his heart toward God and his own moral failures. Yet, the Psalm shows the process that David finally went through in order to regain the closeness with God he had experienced prior to his sins.
Virtue Signaling is All That Remains
I’m quite certain that there are good people trying to get into the USA. Unfortunately, those people are nearly completely eclipsed by those whose intentions are not good and in any case, everyone coming into the USA by illegal means is breaking America’s laws. Turner seems to be saying that we should set all this aside and simply view them as people in need. Of course, their biggest need is salvation. I’d agree with that, but there’s more to it than that.
What Can Happen to Society, Pt 3
This is how far the Israelite society had fallen because of their continued rejection of God and His truth. They didn’t want to do things His way. They wanted to do things their way, much like the way global society today is doing things. God out. Self in. They think because there has been no immediate reckoning, that God either doesn’t hear, or worse, doesn’t exist. This is the exact same type of thinking that Israel entered into and because of it, got themselves in serious trouble time and time again.
Zechariah 13: An End to Idolatry
Israel’s problems came from the fact that they often wandered from God, literally turning their backs on Him, to worship false gods (demons). While they often continued to observe the sacrificial system, their hearts were not in it. They simply went through the motions of worship to check things off. God saw their hearts, that they were far from Him. Because they had turned their backs on Him, He chose to turn His back (temporarily) on Israel in order to refine and purify those within Israel who were dedicated to Him.
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