tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26499148292972086732024-03-13T08:03:43.394-07:00ALPHA AND OMEGAA Divine Christ is what the world needs, and He is with us.Jesus Christ is the son of God, the creator of the Universe. Jesus Christ is God made man; he died and was resurrected by the Father. Faith is a gift of God, become a member of the church where Jesus-Christ is the lord. Join me in my study. Colossians 1,9-23Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-26643165609950431812023-08-19T19:59:00.001-07:002023-08-19T20:42:24.995-07:00The Gospel, our transition for love is criticized<p> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What christian denomination provides the most accessible way of receiving eternal life by following the Gospel? </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a31563f2-7fff-ee46-8753-da33ea38d8f9"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Facts are that any denomination is good when it makes us follow the gospel </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/10-17.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Romans 10:17</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The gospel for christianity is the good news of God with us: The Gospel is the love of God that redeemed us leaving us his commands; in summary, the Gospel is the good news of God with us where the one and only true son of God suffered to redeem all humankind by putting the sins of the world on himself, he was pure without sin, and suffered to his death washing away the sins of everyone by paying the price of redemption with his blood. He died, resurrected and sat at the right side of God; the Holy Ghost remains with us so we can understand the teachings of salvation </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/14-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 14:26</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> , and so that we know the word of God </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/1-1.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 1:1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. We must repent and follow God’s commands.Following God’s commands is the solution of love for everyone given by the Word </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/14-21.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 14:21,</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/8-28.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> John 8:28</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/13-34.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 13:34</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/revelation/19-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Revelation 19:13</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We must follow to the best of our ability the example given by Jesus Christ when we repent. We must not judge others but strive to better ourselves with the grace of God.</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+13%3A1-5&version=NIV;NCB" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Luke 13:1-5</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. We must pray for our forgiveness and for the well being of everyone </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_timothy/4-10.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Timothy 4:10</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">,</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/18-1.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Luke 18:1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I do not believe that condaming or accusing a christian denomination of not following the Gospel, that it is justified when the reason for the attack seems uncertain and non-existent for those that are practicing with the bible and following the denomination in question.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I am not a writer and I have difficulties assembling what I believe is good to transmit as proper information. I also have difficulties presenting everything in a readable and interesting fashion. I tend to mostly go direct to the subject and whatever comes through on paper can be the result of many trials and errors. It can take me many weeks to render what I consider satisfactory and still, sometimes, I just give up, and go ahead with the information as I have it without adding more arrangement. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Lord knows how much time we have, and we may have a sense of urgency to acquire for ourselves and others the gift, the recognition of the redemption that God gives. But, God has all the time and many servants as ourself that follow Him with whatever spiritual gift we have to help others. Still, In many cases, I just give out a message as I can, not finding a better way to transmit it; other times, I get tired and I put my writings away to come back to it days later when I feel up to it. I rely on the help of the Holy Ghost that can remind me of what I have read in the bible that should be true for a message toward a particular cause or case. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I read what I have written and sometimes I find it exhausting, so the Holy Spirit is not always dominant with me or in me. And I question myself, I think why am I attacked by so many evil thoughts scrambling my mind trying to stop me? I think back on many of my sins that are stilI haunting me and I understand that I am not giving myself all out to God. I believed in redemption and being washed clean, but I sin again in many ways so I have to fight to understand myself better and have the motivation to help others, so that everyone can better themselves. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hell seems often where I will go with my frustration and bad temper. I am not excusing myself, on the contrary, but anyone that works beyond their normal capacity for everyday necessities and maybe more, will understand that there is sometimes no relief on earth and the devil will find circumstances or other persons to crush you more. So calyces on the hands may bring imaginary ones in the mind. Hope is what sometimes all that remains, and we must persevere. I personally believe that God is Almighty and that He does not rely on criteria that would condemn innocent people, ignorant people or tired people.</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/9-41.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 9:41.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Charity or love is the only way to paradise. Living one day at a time is meaningful when you are following Jesus </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/6-34.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mathew 6:34,</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> but living day to day doing anything may be useless in the sense of helping others or even yourself. Still, the Father sees us and waits with patience. Most of us have heard the saying: Love is the strongest power on earth, we may also say that love is the strongest power in the universe. Love is in fact the one and only way to God </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 13:13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, but why is it through faith that we please God </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrews/11-6.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Hebrews 11;6</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We must understand where grace comes from </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+7%3A41-48&version=NIV;NCB" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Luke 7:41-42</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and where it goes. I believe that God wants us to understand that He is the greatest power </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/15-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 15:13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> as we can also recognize greater Love </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/12-31.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 12:31</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. With Faith, and by our repentance, we must be humble and grateful to the truth of God’s existence by his work,</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/6-29.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 6:26</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. I believe that true love is knowing Jesus and so from the truth comes grace with eternal life. Hope brings us strength to follow the commands of Jesus Christ. I am so much a sinner that it makes me weep sometimes and cry other times mostly on myself, evidently we must follow all his commands if we say that we know him </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_john/2-4.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 John 2:4.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think we must have an incentive to reach others and bring everyone to God, and that is because we all need His help for any problems and we must love one another. We are all free to receive the gift of faith when we ask for it by hope in the work of God, and to be part of our Fathers family through the husband of the New Jerusalem, the church of Jesus Christ </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+21%3A1-4&version=NCV" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Revelations 21:1-4</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. But we must also understand that He may want us to know some of the beginning, God wants to be recognized, He created the earth without any ill caused pollution, He choose the people that were closer to Him, and he gave his only son to finally save our souls </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/3-16.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 3;16</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">,</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/14-9.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> John 14:9</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/15-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 15;3</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It is difficult for saints to be just, even today, as it was difficult when following the law of Moses </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/7-15.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Romans 7:15</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. We must know that God is the Alpha and the Omega and that we must find him alive in us by pushing away what is bad </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/12-9.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Romans 12:9</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and remembering and trusting what is good and true by Jesus Christ </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/colossians/1-16.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Colossians 1:16</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> We must now live by the New Covenant already announce in the Old Testament </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+31%3A31-34&version=NIV;NCB" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jeremiah 31:31-34.</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The gift of faith to Paul was drastic, Paul could not see past the works of the law, but was called upon by Jesus who first blinded him </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/acts/22-11.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Acts 22:11</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> but then called on a disciple to cure him of his physical blindness, Paul gained his sight back and became a disciple with a ministry for the Gentiles, understanding the purpose of Jesus Christ, the work of God </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/acts/9-15.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Acts 9:15 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Faith in Jesus Christ is the most important gift that God provides to those that step forward or where chosen </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-8.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> E</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-8.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">phesians 2:8-9</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. which is then so amazing whether we show God that we are worthy or that we acknowledge that we are dependent on his mercy through Jesus Christ our redeemer that makes us worthy </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/6-22.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Romans 6:22</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/niv/1_corinthians/12.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 12</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Years on and years off is the way I practiced my religion, but by not ever forgetting Christ all together. I did not practice my religion for some time but I always believed in our Lord Jesus Christ even though I did move apart in so many ways by lack of devotion to others</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/25-45.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Matthew 25:45 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">but not without any hope of redemption because I still wanted to do what is right by Him. I kept remembering the Lord and reading more of the bible now and then. But it is easy to get lost in the world.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I was raised as a catholic, but I understand that all depends on yourself and the grace of God. Still, sacraments are a blessing that guide us and remind us of the Lord. Sacraments also remind us that we are a family. I wonder sometimes about the hierarchy and the use of certain terms like father. Even orphans may know a father and a mother and a father that is God so why not a father that is a priest even though it is said to not call anyone father</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/23-9.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Mathew 23:9</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> ;but the context mostly include the title of teacher, so we must understand the value of vocabulary where the meaning is in the truth given to our heart; and we know of the authority of a good father or a teacher by what we may have experienced in our life, so we must understand, conclude,hope and believe that the best does exist. To me, God is the true father and Lord, like Jesus is also Lord, we pray to the father but also for everybody with the help of the Holy Ghost.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I often wonder about other christian denominations, but I keep an open mind. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We all come across different people and we can gather information here and there about what they think is just; and of course, today we can find different preachers on the internet. Love remains the true essence to share, or way to follow and to please God. Sacrificing something that we have is proof of love where Jesus showed real love by sacrificing himself. Jesus gave his life </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/15-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 15:13.</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> There is one true church, the New Jerusalem, and it englobes every denomination and all congregations where those that follow the gospel are devoted to Jesus Christ </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/12-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 12:25-27</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. I believe that every Christian congregation does have christians with something to offer in the body of Christ, but it can be good to find where we feel that we belong among certain differences. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/niv/romans/12.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Romans 12</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We are all sinners, so anywhere we are, there are always pros and cons; except that I believe, like I was taught, that if you do not have anything good to say about somebody, just don’t say anything, unless, of course, you think someone can be in danger. So I wonder about those that criticize saying that they are better. I believe that it is wrong to raise yourself by diminishing others. God is self supporting and his merciful grace is universal. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I wanted to answer a critic of catholicism on youtube mocking the eucharist among other things. I did not leave a comment, I did not want to discourage those that find it uplifting to believe in the christian ministry that was now criticizing. It may be good for them to search for faults enabling them to choose a christian environment.There are some faults in catholicism like the indulgence and individual errors that were hidden, but Christ is still very well announced. To accuse and search beyond what at first seems very well acceptable not knowing how intrinsic it can all be for a certain individual follower is to me irresponsible. It is so shameful to label the followers to be without grace or in error. The eucharist is reliving the sacrifice made by Christ for our salvation, with the help of the Holy Ghost, making it our hope for grace, for we are the deserving one of punishment that got freed; and so, we can find strength to resurrect from our sins in spirit in this world and beyond. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/11-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 11:26</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> And </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+11%3A27&version=NCB" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 11:27</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> seems to me, asking for a celebration done in a responsible manner, like all actions of our life should be driven by repentance.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The church has many dénominations and all members are by definition born again when they embrace the christian faith with understanding. We must repent and do our best to follow the Lord. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_john/1-9.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 John 1:9</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> No one is good but God, and redemption is the only way to the Father through the blood of Christ. I believe that instead of accusing when we find faults in someone, that we must be sure they understand what those faults are and may so correct themself, otherwise, we should think of complementing them by giving them support or by sharing a better influence until they seem to be able to pursue life in God’s image for everyone. I believe that worshiping makes everyone acceptable among every christians with prayers for others. How can everyone be in accord? The example given is that if the suffering is mostly ours, we still need help to carry the cross </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/27-32.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 27:32,</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> we should give of ourselves to better others. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Remember </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/james/2-18.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">James 2;18</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Everyone has their faults, some may criticize too much I would say. Of course, explanations may be required. Works can be following the law of Moses or doing good deeds, but I do not believe in judging others because only God knows more than anyone the complexity we may find. And who is to say that one is following or not what is above his head when the basic truth of Jesus Christ is proclaimed in front of the follower? All that matters is in the heart with the grace of God, repentance is the only way, still we might need to be disciplined </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-6.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hebrews 12:6.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Repentance makes way for little suffering compared to the cross of Christ </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/11-30.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 11:30 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and we do have joyful celebration with the grace of God like at the Wedding in Cana </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202%3A1-12&version=CEB" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 2:1-12</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. But we are bought with a price </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/6-20.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 6:20</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.The eucharist is part of mass celebration, reflecting on the redeemer and praying and worshiping God for our salvation. We must celebrate a partnership with the grace of Jesus Christ </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/22-19.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Luke 22 verse 19</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/11-27.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 11:27</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, The Corinthians have gatherings that seemed unjust to Paul where some would eat the lot they have and others nothing; so Paul concluded for there gathering that they should eat lightly and recall the last supper </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/11-33.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> 1 Corinthians 11:32-33.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Catholics are recommended to confess their sins if a burden exists before participating in the eucharist. Protestant confess themself directly to God, but catholics also confess themself to a priest </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/james/5-16.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">James 5:16</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some people celebrate the joy of freedom, singing and dancing. There are different denominations, different congregations and so different celebrations or manifestations. Most protestant churches have hymns or songs at the service. But we need to think of sacrifices to help others. Jesus said:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Do this in remembrance of me</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and what is it to remember of the last supper but the crucifixion that follows?</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/22-19.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Luke 22:19.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Lets not forget </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-2.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hebrews 12 verses 1-3 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the author and finisher of our faith, where obedience is synonym of our salvation </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/26-39.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 26:39 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If we live in repentance, then we can recall communion with Jesus Christ, because we love the work of God, and with the help of the eucharist we may marry Jesus with our body and soul to reach higher understanding with prayers. God may answer our prayers so we can resolve our mind and our heart to do what good we can on earth in waiting for the coming of Jesus Christ </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/11-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 11:26</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> . To mock the eucharist is to mock the last supper where they surely ate and drank; We do not live by bread alone </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/4-4.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 4;4 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">but with the nourishment of the Word and the Word is the Spirit made flesh </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/revelation/19-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Revelation 19:13.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #a80000; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When two or more are gathered in my name I am among them</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Jesus said </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/18-20.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 18:20</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. And who is to criticize and say that they know how to pray or manifest a prayer</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/8-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Romans 8:26</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. To me, the eucharist means that we participate tangibly in the sacrifice by obedience in union with God made flesh </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-4.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Hebrews 12:4</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. So we can manifest our communion with repentance and maybe with joy or assurance thinking, if you will, of the Son at the right hand of the Father. Faith remains making the Word stronger in us when we practice what is recommended. Protestants may give thanks before a meal, but Is it to common or singular to say that we are what we eat </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A12-18&version=NCB" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 8:12-18</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, so in fact, the entire body of christ is spirit that is now at the right hand of the Father.</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/14-23.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 14:23</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+1%3A7-11&version=NCB" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Acts 1:7-11</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Preachers study all the time, ordinary people work and play. Sacraments are reminders of promises through sacrifice. Be careful when reading</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/18-10.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Matthew 18-10</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Care for the little ones. For those that criticize, to say that you love someone and being at the same time judgemental seems out of place to me. Remember that some people are in progress that we can say like in</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Hebrew 5-13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> where milk is sufficient, and I must say that believing in the sacrifice of the Lord in the flesh can not be a deception. Be careful when you criticize, because it is commonly said that the road to hell is paved by good intentions; just remember not to judge too much for it is written in</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/7-1.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Mathew 7 verse 1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+15%3A11-32&version=NIV" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And did the father rebuke his prodigal son?</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> No! So who is to say who is astray? There is always hope </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mathew 19:26</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and more so for those near us as many catholics are devoted to serve in obedience for all we should know.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I was myself very critical of catholicism but never condaming or accusing because so much good came of it from the good followers, yet evil found ways to obstruct either up in the hierarchy or down with any individual. I always return to my roots to practice year on year off. Of course, there are many efforts that we must make to follow the word of God but know that in every mass there are scriptures that are read to be understood with a sermon, and prayers are done for others living in the world and never are there any condamnations or criticism…And evidently, lectures are available to be read again at home to remind to pursue the word on our own. Maybe those that are critical of others should look at some good examples or efforts, and maybe, offer ways to complement not just the good but whatever may seem to be missing.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For the paintings and statues of churches that some compare to idols, they are only stimulants for the imagination, or works of art. Every christian knows that God is Spirit and Love. Historically, I figure that images and statues are a great help for the illiterate with few preachers and no megaphone available? A picture is worth a thousand words. Many sacrifices were made by priests and nuns to show the proper motivation throughout the ages. For others, like Paul said: As long as the word is preached… Remember</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/philippians/1-18.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Philippians 1-18</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. But I do wonder about some blessings or ritual toward inanimate things, again it must be a stimulus for the observer, still it must be tradition; and still, about objects, just the clothes of Paul ,a simple disciple, would cure sicknesses </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/acts/19-12.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Acts 19:11-12</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and remember Jesus </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/mark/6-56.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark 6:56</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. We must hope and believe in so many gifts, and that God’s grace is always manifested on earth for those with faith.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mary became the mother of John,</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/19-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> John 19:26-27</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> could it have been a good omen for her to become the mother of all? I pray little to Mary, for the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=hail+mary+prayer&rlz=1C1CHBF_frCA1066CA1066&oq=hail+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j46i67i650j0i67i650l2j46i67i650j46i340i512l2j0i512l2j0i271.597173788j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hail Mary prayer </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I like to say Holy Mary mother made of flesh, mother of God made man; and to ask her to pray for us is a little like hoping for help from the Holy Spirit </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/8-25.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Romans 8:25-28</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. God knows very well the heart that is praying in hope.Those critics that talk about symbols and figurative that are wrongfully used or understood they should revise themself for the future of their own ministry. Judge not and you shall not be judged like what goes around comes around, still, love is what counts the most </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> 1 corinthians 13:13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. God is love, God is spirit, Jesus Christ is the word of God and the Holy Spirit reminds us of the Trinity. God bless everybody. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Again, who dares criticize the eucharist instead of reaching for understanding or compassion, it seems quite unchristian like not to expand into positive understanding with blessing for the poor in spirit if you will </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/8-25.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Romans 8:25</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. So eating the bread and drinking the cup may very well be a spiritual affair but how many people are open to understanding the truth if not with hope to start than faith after sweating at work all week or racking your brain on any problems? Everything is tangible on earth and so may be the present of God for those that seek him. Of course, it is good to be in the Spirit at all times and to pray or give blessings before a meal and in all moments, but how do we truly carry the proper cross and how can we without help </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/27-32.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mathieu 7:32</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and who is so good but God only</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/18-19.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Luke 18:19</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> all I am saying is that the Holy Spirit knows what is happening. I wasn't raised giving thanks before a meal, but we can pray by ourselves and for others at any time by hope and faith. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I lost track of the video that first captured my attention by its criticism of catholics, it was by Living Waters but this one is even more aggressive. I retrace some of the sayings mentioned in the video about the Council of Trent and I believe it to be somewhat like what they read, but the understanding may be arbitrary, prayers remain what God receives. For CANON IX, Those that call Lord Lord </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 7:21</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, do they have love above all like in </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 13:13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to aim to please with faith in the necessity of believing the work of God. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To believe in the scriptures without the Holy Spirit is incongruous and seems to me what is to be understood in what has been read in CANON XI, that the Holy Spirit brings Love to us in the Trinity. But like we say sometimes: Too much is like not enough. Why make it simple when we can stretch it to be complicated? But I can not believe in the accusation of wrong Gospel. And we go uphill to what seems to me teaching for priesthood when everything is happening in common sense? We must do our best and know that God knows the heart and we should ask for a bigger heart so we have a better understanding approaching God’s will.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CANON IX.-If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">will; let him be anathema.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CANON XI.-If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to the </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">exclusion </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">; or even that the grace, whereby we are justified, is only the favor of God; let him be anathema.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I will not at the moment read the Council of Trent. It takes me a lot of time to read verses of the bible. It is not for me to know what is anathema, of course they are bad people in the world, but I am not the one to judge although some dictators or warmongers are likely influence by evil; I still believe in praying for everyone and God knows where it’s at for all of us on the judgment day to come. I understand the efforts made to follow God’s orientation </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/18-18.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mathew 18:18</span></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> but it is not my place to judge but to forgive. In </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/niv/matthew/18.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 18</span></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> about dealing with sin in the church, forgiveness is to me what is mostly put forward as Jesus says to Peter that he should forgive his brother not just seven times but seventy-seven times </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/18-22.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mathew 18:22</span></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Council/Trent/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Council of Trent</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 11px; overflow: hidden; width: 11px;"><img height="11" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/80Kbq_CaeCe-jDSTtJ7m4qi_jZW5OdEBTUaJwfSUdeAzb_YDJFaVLYrXd9DAvjXzXhsaNbJVi_1pD3il3CE0KimNeziEDIW9uNIFQuuH_t7sYeSOPuwEQv6LR2UvaEm0RpxC2Mo4J4hIu3jW0WzYkgY" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="11" /></span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sixth Session, Canons</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 11px; overflow: hidden; width: 11px;"><img height="11" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p6foGMhQLgveoLOucA_T-R8mV_YRBmWyKYof3jvHxrRto_zhrrS2wSgZufH1KXe_EUaH3PsgKUE8r3vZUQIk8e5Fm-HW5oMrLVEOXaaNyNGzq-A3bN5lNQyJmcEMrGUh7tyig6tk67NTvaU_xClyrBk" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="11" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Council/Trent/Sixth_Session,_Canons.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">http://traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Council/Trent/Sixth_Session,_Canons.html</span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/NreMcWhSrcY" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">https://youtu.be/NreMcWhSrcY</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Love or charity demands of ourselves a sacrifice either big or small, may it be material, time, understanding with patience whatever sacrifice it may be for someone, and Jesus gave all he had… I must say what I believe of Paul, his epistles were cause oriented for a problem in particular, like in Galatians where in chapter 1,2,3 Paut is confronted with the Old Testament where the Jews want to include the law of moses. We may graduate the epistles to be universal but some do remain somewhat contradictory for example </span><a href="https://saintebible.com/1_corinthians/14-34.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 corinthians 14:34</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> where women are to be silent in assemblies and </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/galatians/3-28.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Galatians 3:28</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> where there is no differences in Christ between male and female and </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/7-14.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 corinthians 7:14</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> where I would guess the believing woman may have had good opinions to share or even instruction for the husband that has an open mind or heart.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We must have faith and also know what it entails, we may have repentance before Christ or be full of joy with others, all by the grace of God for our freedom. So we can conclude with </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 13:13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> which is love that God has for us. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/7-21.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 7:21</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Everything in </span><a href="https://youtu.be/NreMcWhSrcY" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">this video </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">is an accusation and a denial of real love where charity demands a sacrifice of yourself either big or small. To claim that it is possible to control the grace of God is senseless and that is one of the accusations against catholicism in this video. I understand, now that I have done different research, where it might all come from. Of course, some protestant need a reason to protest and carry their denomination, but I wish they would stick to the obvious, like for example hiding the sinning priest, or the indulgence.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Protestant confess directly to God where different denominations confess to their priest like catholics do; but prayers and confessions done directly to God are also for catholics. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/james/5-16.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">James 5:16</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> As a catholic, I have to confess my sins to a priest, where I am pardon in the name of the Trinity, so I believe that the priest has the power to pray for us, but he may also decide who is eligible or not:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One young man, a cousin of mine, had his own father go to the priest to fix things because the priest had excommunicated him. Because coming out of the confession boot the young man cursed against the person coming into the boot while he was still there.</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-6.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hebrews 12:6.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I do not believe it to be possible that any denomination would not accept the grace of God, because grace saves lives and God remains the one and only to attribute his will. We must remember that only God is good </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/mark/10-18.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark 10:18 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and that for God all things are possible </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/mark/10-27.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mark 10:27</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. So I believe in grace for anyone that God cares for because God is Love and knows the heart </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_timothy/4-10.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Timothy 4:10</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As a catholic, and the sinner that I am, I always believed in redemption, and grace. I am still far from home, exhausted physically or exasperated for some reason and having a bad temper and still swearing sometimes making my cross always heavy. So I hopefully get what I deserve </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-6.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hebrew 12:6 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.But after all, I have help from God to pick up the pieces when I recall how I am washed clean </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/15-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 15:26.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> with maybe some corrections </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-6.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hebrews 12:6</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Preaching the Gospel is also living the gospel. To me the gospel is not knowing everything that we should do but to do what we know to the best of our ability and that does not necessarily mean to give our life away without rejoicing on earth. We must live and have families and love one another. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When I get too tired from the work that I do, as a maintenance painter and plasterer, I am very attacked by evil because I may get impatient, and the news are also bad about what we find all around in the world, and the world has all sorts of temptations. I hope to finally survive after being far from fitting in. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/9-62.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Luke 9:62</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. God has patience to give and I need his help. Of course we all have different gifts </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/12-4.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 12:4.</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If there are contradictions in the way we perceive how the gospel should be followed, I do not believe in condamnation of false doing, but to act toward more in the invitation to participate in better doing or to demonstrate ways and prayers for better doing, all the contrary of condemnation or general accusations. Like helping to carry the cross instead of putting weight on it.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Of course, they are faults that are not to be taken lightly. I personally do not appreciate the indulgences of the catholic church that appears to still take place where God’s help can be bought with money, if it where only meant and deserved as a sacrifice like for the poor widow. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/mark/10-18.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">No one is good except God alone</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and we must pray for others.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Widow’s Offering</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19pt;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/21-1.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #008ae6; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/21-2.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #008ae6; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/21-3.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #008ae6; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #a80000; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Truly I tell you,”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> he said, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #a80000; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“this poor widow has put in more than all the others.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/21-4.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #008ae6; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">4</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #a80000; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I do wonder about the catholic church hierarchy where they seem to look to define ways to solidify the denomination, but I never heard false preaching in mass. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There are ways to live the gospel, some manifest sacrifices and the most important is by charity or love where we do not judge one another but rejoice in helping one another like when Jesus sent his followers and</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/10-17.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> he saw evil fall out of the sky Luke 10:7.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/9-1.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Luke 9:1</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d7150; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> And he called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/9-2.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d7150; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d7150; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And he sent them forth to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Paul lived in celibacy but was open to others and gave sense to carrying a cross so that we can all be as one</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here is a matter of love where one spouse is good and the other one not so bad.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">An opinion from Paul.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/7-12.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 7:12</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Notice (The following translation uses brother instead of husband).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/7-14.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">English revised version 1 Corinthians 7: 14 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0d7150; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Our blessings is what God wants us to be recognize by. So Paul is blessing the children by one spouse, the spouse that saves the family. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/18-18.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Matthew 18;18</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #a80000; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Back to Mary, did she go through life a virgin? Still she was surely washed in the blood of Christ.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We have here a good example of how tradition identifies one another to brother and sister when we compare</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/erv/1_corinthians/7.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> 1 Corinthians 7:14 of the English revised version </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/mark/6-3.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Mark 6:3</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and to make the brothers and sisters conform to protestant understanding should Joseph not be mentioned somewhere in Mark 6:3?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Remembering Mary our holy mother: Catholics believe Mary to have been a virgin all her life, which I think that it is not defined. At first, I thought she was a virgin for life, then I believed in the family of brothers and sisters born from Mary, then I found that it is recognized that cousins or close friends are traditionally brothers. And I thought of John the Baptist, a cousin that was not defined as a brother for all I know, even though he paved the way for Jesus </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/1-23.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 1:23</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, he remains behind </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/3-30.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 3:30</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/7-28.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Luke 7:28</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> .</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">With Jesus being the Alpha and the Omega </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/revelation/1-8.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Revelation 1:8</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> , it seems appropriate that Mary remains definitely a virgin, for sure she is not the spiritual parent of Jesus, so why can she not have given birth to others? God the Father is the spirit of the word. We all understand that Mary had good sense raising him from childbirth, and if Mary did have other children, I do not believe that she would be anything less before the eyes of Jesus. We may or may not believe she had an influence on him celebrating a wedding at Cana </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202%3A1-12&version=ESV" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 2:1-2</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. But who can deny or even understand the pain she had to deal with at his crucifixion. Having harsh arguments over it all seems to me very out of place when nothing is really explained in the scriptures as we now have it. Different denominations and congregations are to me necessary to complement one another and never to be rivals. But Jesus being the Alpha and the Omega, the word of the Beginning and the End, where through him all that exist remains, Mary being chosen among all women, making it billions of women through the ages, could she not keep her blessing as a virgin, even if she depends on having been washed by the blood of her son the Lord Jesus Christ? </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-9.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ephesians 2:8-10.</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> But Mary was not just any servant, so is it justifiable to give praise to motherhood if we identify it </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/19-27.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 19:27</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> coming from God? But we know very little of Mary except what we hope, and our hope must be from all our strength more directed to the coming of Jesus Christ the work, but how do we balance everything when we are so amazed by everything surrounding the work of God?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We must believe Paul, him that Jesus chose, Paul regained sight, Was chosen by Jesus Christ for his ministry to the Gentiles and he defines charity to be what remains the most important </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 13:13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">So I believe the gospel to be a major requirement to enter the kingdom of God, that it should be taught to everyone. Contrary to other thinking and most probably catholicism, I believe that some people ignorant of the Gospel may also have God’s attention. Not referring to works but to love as the law and way of life, I think of those that are not reached by the preaching of the truth but do love in sacrifice of themselves, that they are heaven bound. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/romans/2-14.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Romains 2:14</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. But what can I say for all those ignorant of the Gospel when they need a redeemer? Prayers are surely what we must have for them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It is through faith in the work of God which is God’s act of love that with faith we can truly move mountains, where it is better to move mountains with Love </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 Corinthians 13:13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. We should do our best to inform others of God. And I believe baptism to be a family seal, and I do believe in the strength of the sacrament to provide help from the Holy Spirit, but I believe in God above to care for all the innocent people like babies unbaptise or even all members of other faiths that would sacrifice themselves by love for others. Baptism is a command from Jesus Christ to spread the Good News that may come to be a tradition. God is Spirit and God is Love. </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/4-24.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John 4:24</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_john/4-16.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 John 4:16</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And if the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/proverbs/9-10.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Proverbs 9:10</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/proverbs/8-13.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Proverbs 8:13</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, I believe the teaching of grace and the Gospel is more in concordance with </span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_john/4-18.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1 John 4:18 </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> where there is no fear in love.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">God knows the heart. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></span>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-3658980480703639322018-03-08T05:02:00.001-08:002018-03-08T05:02:47.384-08:00Lost - 4. Three Strikes But Not Out<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UH4EnZ34mvY" width="480"></iframe>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-21490533586187491042018-03-04T12:50:00.000-08:002018-03-06T08:53:45.847-08:00What we deserve <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">I should progress and make better sense
around me. I do sometimes recall Jesus at work with my fellow building
painters and sometimes I recall the Gospel anywhere with hope to
leave a proper message, but my mouth is shut most of the time. I should be a
better example, with more patience.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "" sans-serif "" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I was working once with an aggravating partner that was also a sort of
foreman. Back at home after work, I could only find relief by destroying him in
my thoughts, still I had to be kind to him at work to compensate for my bad
thinking. I had a misunderstanding with a brother some time ago and recently
with the other one. I have two brothers and one sister. I get along fine with
my sister. And I am reconciled with my brothers. But frustration can bring bad
thoughts at time, foolishness that you wouldn’t dare practice, but Jesus says
not to think of bad deeds. So we are also guilty of bad thoughts even if we
keep them to ourselves, not hurting others.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "" sans-serif "" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I regret my outrageous thoughts sometime taking over in my solitude,
brutal, thoughts, even if they last for just a minute.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "" sans-serif "" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">we must regret and repent, thinking of God sake on the cross helps </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "" serif "" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "" sans-serif "" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-28.htm" target="_blank">because we can truly understand what we deserve</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "" sans-serif "" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. I know that we must abandon ourselves to God and not to our primal
instinct, that God does procure instant cure, so I must find a proper and
stable way to be the right person, and that is to let love take over by the strength of the Holy Ghost. Everybody want love, and we must not judge the behavior of others. I believe that humility
is always a great part of love; and a way to confirm it is to put our pride in
Jesus Christ that is merciful. If I could only learn to express the truth of
the gospel by being a better example, life would be more thankful.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "" sans-serif "" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> I did some work on my French blogs recently and now I find it
attracting to do some translation. And I think God planned this post for me to
translate at this time.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "" sans-serif "" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Also, In today’s news, many
are criticising the president Trump of the United State of America, but who is
praying God to influence the president to make the better decisions?
Criticizing has little substance compared to prayers. I believe that most of
our anger resides in criticizing when we should be praying, blessing, and
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pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person
is powerful and effective.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">What we deserve:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #12ae66; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at living a holy life,
for those who are not holy will not see the Lord.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The messiah was prophetise
long before the coming of Christ. Liberty is given to those that accept Jesus
Christ in there life. In Galatians 4:22-31, the allegori remains clearly
identified today where the muslims are slaves and the christians are free. I
find it very sad for the muslim, because they do not realise how they are under
the ruling of the flesh; I believe that there women are persecuted and many
must hope for deliverance. It is a shame that they can not know freedom because
of the lack of teaching or for being afraid of reprisal from the men.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If I look at what freedom
gives when we understand, and believe in it, my heart warms up from the
forgiveness given by God’s love. But the world carries many distractions where
it is also obvious that most people prefer the selfish pleasure of the
flesh than to participate in the work of God and the help of others. Of course,
anyone can practice good deeds, but God’s good deed is for the soul of
everyone. Being christian is to pursue the work of God in a way of becoming a
real saint. Personally, for me, only a miracle can save me, still it is
possible and I do feel it sometimes. We are all sinners, and we will all die as
such, only God’s forgiveness can save us. So, we must believe in the redemption
brought to us by Jesus Christ.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Islam, with the scripture
of the Quran, cannot grasp the true light that may shine in anyone. The muslim
may try to be good but are restricted by their belief. To start, the women are
not equal to men, and that, not because of male gender stubbornness in a world
of men, but because of what is written in the Quran. In</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/5-2.htm" target="_blank"> Genesis 5:2</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> there is no difference in a man and a woman both are made to the
image of God to become mankind, and this saying is even greater in </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/3-28.htm" target="_blank">Galatians 3:28</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> where we are unified in Jesus Christ.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-13.htm" target="_blank">Mankind can be obedient, but is disobedient most of the time</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. So the Muslims with their severe rules believe that they have the
wright way, but they are wrong in the fundamentals. Jesus Christ says to love
your enemy which they do not and they do not treat women as equal. And there is
only Jesus Christ to redeem us by showing that a true God sent spirit can be
holy in the flesh, surviving temptation and death all in the name of the </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/4-24.htm" target="_blank">Father</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #12ae66; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">10 </span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #12ae66; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So she
said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this
slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.” <b>11 </b>And the
thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son. <b>12 </b>But
God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your
slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac
shall your offspring be named. <b>13 </b>And I will make a nation of
the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.”</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I do
believe that God can invite to his home people from different faith because He
knows all hearts, but there is only one true version of God’s work, and that is
christianity. The muslim may try to go through the small gate by following the
Quran, but do not recognise </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-44.htm" target="_blank">the true spirit of charity</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> by not recognising the work of God that sent
his only begotten son that was crucified and resurrected. Also, many
christian are far from following Jesus Christ. We must pray for each other.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Muslims, like the Jews, are under a law of works instead of being under a law
by faith and love. </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-4.htm" target="_blank">A true christian </a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">should</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%202%3A1-5&version=AMPC;NIV" target="_blank"> not be part of an army that bears arms.</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> We are all sinners and but a few shall really
see God. Still, God forgives whom he wants.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #12ae66; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the prophecy of Hosea, "Those
who were not my people, I will now call my people. And I will love those whom I
did not love before."</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I compare
the Jews to the Muslim or vice versa. It is impossible to break the rule of the
heart, we either believe in Jesus Christ being the son of God or we don’t and,
if we believe, we must act by exemple. So rules under the flesh do not compare
to</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+31%3A31-34&version=AMPC;NIV" target="_blank"> rules under the spirit</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. With God’s blessing, </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-26.htm" target="_blank">anyone can acknowledge the truth in their heart</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #12ae66; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of
the dead but of the living."</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Like the
Jews that do not believe in Jesus Christ, I think that the Muslims come from a
very important tree and they are greatly part of a hopeful future where they become christians.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For me,
I read the old testament with prophecies in mind, and prophecies that reach the
lord Jesus Christ. So I go beyond historical facts and understand that a union
between hopeful people is a union that can be compared to hopeful in Christ and
that union remains for eternity; and to me, </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/22-13.htm" target="_blank">true eternity comes from Jesus Christ</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. So we must all look to unite in love.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you,
righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of
a donkey.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus gave his life so we
might serve our fellow man with the sense of earning eternal life.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Like
little children, we must accept the guidance given to us by our father that as
sent our big brother to save us. In fact, Jesus his much more than a big
brother, he is the Alpha and Omega that we must join.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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believe that one of our purpose in life is to practice charity. An easy
guideline would be to do better than the pharisees, those hypocrites that judge
others to the point of having Jesus Christ crucified...</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
world is the same today, as it was when Christ walked the earth. Christianity
as put forward a sense of brotherhood that today seems to have lost
truthfulness by leaving God as a myth with empty churches. People are claiming
human rights for other countries but having nothing to share of their house,
condo, two cars, trips here and there, with those suffering around
them...Politicians on the right want more and politicians on the left don’t
believe in humanity like christians. This world of consumption and lust is made
easy, so easy that the suffering do not have much of a voice, being descredit
for not finding a way to succeed in this world of riches. Yes they are efforts
being made, but not like recommended by God.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sometime
we must learn the hard way. The importance is in the lesson. And love is of the
essence. An important link is the following: </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011%3A28-30&version=AMPC;NIV" target="_blank">Matthew11:28-30</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> also: </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-13.htm" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 10:13</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Even though we seem to fail, I believe that
God says that there is still a way to succeed, it just might take more time.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus is a teacher and a
healer.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our
spiritual body is what we must cultivate for </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0066cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/4-24.htm" target="_blank">God is spirit</a></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a thousand years, so there is also life for our physical body; it is very
commendable that mankind can achieve such a faith with the help of God. We must
believe in the New Jerusalem and the coming of Jesus by doing good around us.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-91847235565286413382017-10-22T11:39:00.000-07:002017-10-22T13:38:01.658-07:00The work of God<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We must keep faith in the truth and look forward to reach a higher state with trust in God which is forever faithful.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/bsb/hebrews/6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> Hebrews 6</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Today, historical fact may be the premise of our faith but the word remains the truth, so blessed are those that believe without having seen. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Psalm 51, 17</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-15.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">15</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">O Lord, open my lips,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> That my mouth may declare Your praise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-16.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">16</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> You are not pleased with burnt offering.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-17.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">17</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Isaiah 53, 5 </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/53-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">5</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #35907a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But He was pierced through for our transgressions,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #35907a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He was crushed for our iniquities;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #35907a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The chastening for our well-being </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #35907a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fell</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #35907a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> upon Him,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #35907a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And by His scourging we are healed.</span></div>
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But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-2.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-3.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">3</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-4.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">4</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">5</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/2-6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">6</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/20-9.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">9</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/20-10.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">10</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/20-11.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">11</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/20-12.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">12</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/20-13.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">13</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/20-14.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">14</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/20-15.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">15</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/matthew/20.htm#footnotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.199999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">b</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/20-16.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">16</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So the last will be first, and the first last.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luke 13, 25-27</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/13-25.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">25</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/13-26.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">26</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/13-27.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">27</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More aberrant is </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matthew 7, 21-24 </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-21.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">21</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-22.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">22</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’ </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-23.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">23</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We must learn to follow the true meaning of the word. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matthew 7, 24 </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-24.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">24</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A force was sometime known to leave Jesus, for example when he healed </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+8%3A43-48&version=ASV" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the bleeding woman</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. And Jesus would often claim: "your faith has saved you". By the Father’s will, Jesus is always among us. He may be healing by the faith of the sick or by the faith of the healer.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Luke 9,49-50 </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/9-49.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">49</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #35907a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/9-50.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">50</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John 15,12-17 </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-12.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">12</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-13.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">13</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; 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color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No longer do I call you servants,</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/john/15.htm#footnotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.199999999999998pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-16.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">16</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1d8165; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-17.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">17</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; 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Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-70190067215896931642016-09-14T17:41:00.003-07:002017-02-10T05:52:38.291-08:00The sacrifice that saves<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.6434782608695653; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://biblehub.com/niv/romans/6.htm" target="_blank">New International Version</a> </div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-8.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">8</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-9.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-10.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-11.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-12.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-13.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-14.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sin is a shame, and by so, we are all shameful, because although we may claim to be slaves to righteousness we always remain sinners. But the fact remains that perseverance is what we must have to be successful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul talks as if we could become angels on earth, it may be so in a sense of righteousness, but in today’s world there are many distractions that make us forget that angels may even exist. I can not agree with Paul, because I think that the blood of Christ is always pouring for those that need it. Asking for help is needing help. God answers those that cry to him. God is all merciful and we are all sinners in need of help, and everytime we fall down God will help us back up. Paul did come to Christ after persecuting christians, and may be an example of those extreme persons that must not finish their life in the opposite of their better learning. Still we must regret our faults and act accordingly: </span><a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/luke/passage/?q=luke+23:27-31" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luke 23:27-31</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We may associate to it arrogant manipulators, egotistical hypocrites and liars that fade away from love commandments. we may find certain people that would traffic miracles for personal profits with no other consideration. Others are cruel, pretentious, thinking only of their own edification, and those without repent compared to thorns and thistles. It is said that the labourer is worthy of his hire, but it is also said: You have received freely give freely. It is evident to me that this passage shows exasperation from the part of Paul. We must strive to be perfect in the just way, so that if we may fall it is not from too high. The last will be first.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-23.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-24.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-25.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">25</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-26.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">26</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-27.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">27</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-28.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-47.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John 12, 47</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/1-15.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1 Timothy 1,15</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-7.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John 10,7</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #09823d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore Jesus said again, "Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the father is omniscient and knows all outcome but everyone must take their own decisions and be responsible for their acts. knowing the word does not mean knowing texts to reproduce, but it is to act accordingly with Jesus desires which is simply to live by what love dictates. Lord, give me the force to do better and forgive my trespasses and may I be part of your infinite love.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bless is the Lord the unique son of God made man, died and resurrected by the father for the salvation of all mankind.</span>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-43011890933265025032016-08-03T08:58:00.000-07:002016-08-07T17:13:32.406-07:00Conciliation<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The koran is very honorable with the Salat. The koran recalls books from the old testament or the Thora where God showed he existed with great might. The koran reinforces the belief in a unique God, and that is what christian believe also, faith in a unique God. In the old testament, it is declared that the beginning of wisdom starts with the fear of God, and that is where are the muslims today, in the beginning. Now, it took centuries to come to a turning point, but God, as we all know, can act in an instant. The turning point for muslims is to understand that love is what it’s all about. Love is what it all boils down to.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The difference between muslims and christians, is that we christians believe in Jesus Christ. I believe that love is what it all boils down to. A unique love where the kingdom of heaven came down to earth. I believe that having true love is what is necessary to reach God. For me, an ultimate sacrifice by true love is what God would consider in haven. Let’s say a person of whatever faith, for love sake, would give his or her life to save someone, let’s say that person saves a stranger, may it be anywhere, in a jungle, a forest, a desert or a crowded city, a person steps in front of a wild animal or an oncoming vehicle to save another person, and love is the only motivation, and to save a complete stranger...What are the odds of that happening? It would be kind of unique. Yet I think it happens somewhere, in our space and time, and that it is not known to anybody but God. I do believe that that person will be in heaven…The bible tells us, with the new testament, that God is spirit and that we should adore him in spirit, and that God is love. Jesus Christ said: No one goes to the father but by the son. That is because Jesus christ is true love. And yes he is the savior by </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">example, by teaching and that is a fact.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The difference between muslims and christians is the belief in Jesus Christ, and by all means the Saint Trinity. The Saint Trinity is God on earth as evident as the old testament with God’s intervention. The trinity once explain is nothing else but true fact. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 john 5, 5-8 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the resume. Some bible are a bit easy going with transcription or translation, still it is written to be explained: The spirit is the truth, the historical truth that liberates, the water is the baptism by John the baptist which gives us a sacrament to celebrate, the blood is the implication by the father where the Christ is known as the lamb. And the verse starts in a way that implicates and association. Now, if one desires and association of facts, so be it. Still the sacrament of baptism is asked to be performed in one association: The Father, the Son and the holy Ghost, where God becomes personal with fathehood. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, I must recall that God acknowledged Jesus as His son when Jesus was baptised in water.</span></div>
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Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-76201686068648431602016-06-24T06:28:00.003-07:002017-02-10T05:18:02.912-08:00Christianity and the unique God. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The more we suffer, the more we need an outstretched hand. What can a sinner hope for? Can he pray so much to be forgiven? And what happens when new sins are brought to is understanding, every day, every hour, every minute, may it be a lack of patience, forgetting to help, a whim, a lie, smal our big sins accumulate where consciously he is before God that knows everything. Now, this sinner may be hill fortunate with a multitude of problems related to work, health, family etc. Like a wounded man that has to take care of his family, and what becomes of a widow? Will the simple fact of praying God save a sinner? It is better to have a high priest to assist us like Jesus and he is there for everyone </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A1-2&version=ESV" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1John 2,1-2</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The concept is what makes Jesus Christ unique. God is spirit and we must adore him in spirit. With the teaching of Jesus Christ we may pray for the assistance of the Holy Ghost and hope for forgiveness, knowing how God is so much love it is easy to regret our weaknesses and pray more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Translation ESV </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/acts/4.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Acts 4, 8-12</a></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Jesus</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%204&version=ESV#fen-ESV-27022a" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%204&version=ESV#fen-ESV-27022b" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">b</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%204&version=ESV#fen-ESV-27023c" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">c</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3da776; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by which we must be saved.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-36.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">36</a> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-37.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">37 </a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; line-height: 25.2px; text-indent: 25.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-38.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">38 </a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; line-height: 25.2px; text-indent: 25.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the great and first commandment. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-39.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">39</a> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; line-height: 25.2px; text-indent: 25.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-40.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">40</a> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-41.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">41 </a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; line-height: 25.2px; text-indent: 25.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-42.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">42 </a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; line-height: 25.2px; text-indent: 25.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">saying</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-43.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">43 </a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; line-height: 25.2px; text-indent: 25.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">He </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-45.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">45</a> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-46.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">46 </a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; line-height: 25.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #42a44e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And he says in another place,</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-7.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-8.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-9.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/5-10.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Jesus saw what was happening, he was angry with his disciples. He said to them, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/philippians/2-4.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/philippians/2-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/philippians/2.htm#footnotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.199999999999999px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/philippians/2-6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/philippians/2-7.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/philippians/2.htm#footnotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.199999999999999px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">b</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> being born in the likeness of men. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/philippians/2-8.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/11-17.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/11-18.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/niv/hebrews/11.htm#footnotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.199999999999999px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">c</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/11-19.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">19</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-1.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-9.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-10.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-11.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> But the angel of the </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-12.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bible will explain itself, like we can notice by </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hebrews 11, 17-19 </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It may be important to read the bible but we must comprehend that the New Testament is sufficient for the grace of the Lord; like Jesus said: We do not put new wine in old wineskins. Adam’s sin was transmitted to all generations, which is what we call the original sine. Since Adam, everyone is mortal and mankind grows in number. Since Abraham, there in now the chosen people. The real God is recognised by faith, submission and prayers where wars are won when justice is maintain. For their faith and submission in the true God, though prisoners, the friends of Daniel are saved from being burned in a furnace: </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel 3, 28</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/3-28.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The chosen people are historically determined by their leaders where they are sometimes good, sometimes bad. They must follow a law, gave by God with ramification determined by Moses to guide them. They are many prophets in the history of the Jews, they maintain the belief in the true and only God. Wisdom comes with fear of God, but since Jesus the christian turns to the father with repentance and assurance to find help because the way to love is shown. Repentance washes away all sin with the promise of redemption. Today, life can be difficult and we may ask ourselves: If God exist, why is this or that happening? The story of Job in the old testament makes for good reading. Job was a just and important man and for no apparent reason he lost everything and suffered. He reflects with his friends: Why did God reserved him such a faith. It turns out to be just a test of faith and Job retrieves his good fortune. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hebrews 12, 3-9</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-3.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-4.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-7.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-8.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-9.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hebrews 13, 15-16 </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/13-15.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/13-16.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #3c78d8; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will trust in the name of the </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centuries passes by and mankind remains the same but the humble is always respected. Mankind strives to subsist and the just prays for others. The poor has a step ahead in the run to join with God. The poor is unjustly treated when the rich protects himself. The rich will entertain himself with no regards for others, while the poors consoles themselves with words.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romans 9, 18-27</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/9-18.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So you see, God chooses to show mercy to some, and he chooses to harden the hearts of others so they refuse to listen.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/9-19.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">19</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Well then, you might say, “Why does God blame people for not responding? Haven’t they simply done what he makes them do?”</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/9-20.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?” </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/9-21.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">21</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into? </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/9-22.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">22</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In the same way, even though God has the right to show his anger and his power, he is very patient with those on whom his anger falls, who are destined for destruction. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/9-23.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He does this to make the riches of his glory shine even brighter on those to whom he shows mercy, who were prepared in advance for glory. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/9-24.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And we are among those whom he selected, both from the Jews and from the Gentiles.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/9-25.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">25</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the prophecy of Hosea,</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/zephaniah/3-14.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sing, O daughter of Zion;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hebrews 12, 11-15 </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-11.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-12.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-13.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Make level paths for your feet,”</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/niv/hebrews/12.htm#footnotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.199999999999999px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">b</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-14.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-15.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #e06666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hebrews 3, 5-6</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moses was certainly faithful in God’s house as a servant. His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal later.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/3-6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John 14, 20</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-27.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Genesis 1, 27</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-1.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-2.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-3.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and sent his servants</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/matthew/22.htm#footnotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.199999999999999px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-4.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-7.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-8.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-9.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-10.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-11.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-12.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-13.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-14.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For many are called, but few are chosen.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is impossible to have the best of two worlds because for God we must have only one world which is one of complete charity. A lot of people are tormented and are sacrificing a lot for there family, that is already a world of charity. Far from family, along against evil, like the prodigal son, there is comfort in repentance; constant repentance for daily sins. It is obvious that we are constantly in faults, may it be a slight lack of patience, but that doesn’t take away the joy of a beautiful day and the celebration of grace.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus that was without fault, suffered for all mankind. He had to join the dying and miserables, he had to save those good in spirit but lost without comfort. He made of his life on earth miracles by is affinity with his father, for the glory of the father. Now, the father will assist those that love the son.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-13.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John 15, 13</a> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-14.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John 15, 14</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are my friends if you do what I command.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nlt/romans/6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Romans 6, 1-14</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-1.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-2.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-3.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-4.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-7.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-8.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-9.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-10.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-11.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-12.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Do not let sin control the way you live;</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/nlt/romans/6.htm#footnotesa" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 7.199999999999999px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> do not give in to sinful desires.</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-13.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-14.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But we must deserve grace. Jesus is Divine Love, the greatest love possible to recognise on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/john/15.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John 15, 1-12</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-1.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-2.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-3.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-4.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-6.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-7.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-8.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-9.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-10.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-11.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.</span></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/john/15-12.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adam sinned and man admitted himself disobedient and established rules, laws to please God, but with each offense forgiveness seemed to be further away because sacrificed offerings on an altar was the way for redemption, we can than believe that the means where not available to everyone, and the heart of man could but be miserable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/romans/5.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Romans 5, 18-21</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-18.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-19.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">19</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-20.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/5-21.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">21</span></a><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #009800; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bless is the Lord Jesus, the true only son of God, made man, died and resurrected by the Father for the salvation of mankind.</span></div>
<br />Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-61141865890006988012016-02-01T04:55:00.002-08:002017-02-10T05:45:55.858-08:00Going forward! Addition<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA">A cure for
our illness, to regain and keep our sanity, is to praise the lord in
everything. Our best start is to give
our life to him so that he may commend our moves. Thereafter we find the hand of God in everything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">For Jesus
and the Father <span style="color: #c00000;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-10.htm" target="_blank">(John 14, 10-11)</a> </span>I believe
that they are teaching that evolution starts with our own intentions and charity, no one must believe in a sovereignty other than the
one that has an outstretched hand or open arms like for the prodigal son, where
forgiveness is accorded before even asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #c00000; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">World English bible: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="reftext"><span style="background: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-10.htm"><b><span style="color: #0092f2; text-decoration: none;">10</span></b></a></span></span><span style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Don't you believe
that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I
speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #001320; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><span class="reftext"><span style="background: #fdfeff; color: #0092f2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-11.htm"><b><span style="color: #0092f2; text-decoration: none;">11</span></b></a></span></span><span style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Believe me that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works'
sake.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #fdfeff; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/24-47.htm" target="_blank">Luke 24, 47</a> </span><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="reftext" style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 2px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25px; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/24-47.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="woc" style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-family: "trebuchet" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25px;">and that repentance and<span class="footnote" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 1px;"><sup><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/luke/24.htm#footnotes" style="text-decoration: none;" title="Some manuscripts for">c</a></sup></span> forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-family: "trebuchet" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen.</span>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-16436695612734674052015-11-27T08:27:00.002-08:002016-03-18T08:08:24.688-07:00Going forward!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Evolution is the name of
the game. Is it a question of being more materialistic with science and
futuristic toys or should it be a spiritual matter? The answer is in ourselves
in what we individually think that is the most profitable. What can we gain personally?
And is sharing ourselves or our material possessions a gain for each one of us
toward evolution?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">We all need help; not knowing so is being blind
to the truth. Even the rich are often stumbling into incomprehensible voids.
The fact of the matter is that love supports everything and if we drift apart
from it, we are setting ourselves up for drastic consequences. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We must look for the
light, and as I write, I pray God for guidance. Now, I am mostly copying what I
have already written in French some years ago. I find my French writings
sometimes awkward to reach the better meaning to be shared; still I am
translating what message I wanted to transcribe. I am still learning the good
sense that God holds for us. I understand that it is all a matter of love and
striving to evolve in the matter, but lessons are always to be communicated,
first to be learned, appreciated, and shared. We are all sinners and I believe
that knowing so is part of God’s grace. We can put aside our arrogance or false
pride, selfishness, and think of constructing truly what is universal toward
sharing life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I am hoping for
inspiration to translate what I believe to be God’s intention which is to bring
us all to a higher level and ultimately that is solidarity through charity. Of
course we are all sinners and I am always looking for redemption when I
acknowledge my faults; sometimes, I feel God’s love when I don’t deserve much
consideration, but God is there to help us all. Knowing that I am so pitiful
and small with many of my actions and reactions and yet I understand through
Jesus Christ that I always have a helping hand where love makes everyone
beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I have seen myself accusing him or denying him, that
is how low I can be and how great and merciful Jesus is by forgiving our worst
fear and rebellion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Jesus is, my lord, my savior, my God and my best
friend. How is it possible to bite the hand that feeds us? Yet it is happening
again and again; some people can get mad at their love one for senseless
reasons like because they died, then they may turn to god in the wrong way;
some people are bad mouths and swear, some people can be very outrageous and
then hate themselves and have no other choice than to cry and hope in God’s
bosom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">So many people think they have no wrong and that they
are justified in what they do, but how can anybody be right about everything? It
makes me think how atheists are so pretentious. The Bible is an accumulation of
facts pertaining to the coming of Christ. It is wisdom through the ages that
still transpires today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I believe that love is our only mean to survive, to
survive as brothers and sisters in a cosmopolitan way and to survive through
all earthly obstacles, and then we may hope, by the hand of God, to survive
death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">God is love,<a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-16.htm"> </a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-16.htm">(1 John 4, 16),</a> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the father
loves his children that bring peace </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-9.htm">(Mathew 5, 9)</a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. The father is spirit</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CA;"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/4-24.htm">(John 4, 24)</a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> and we are
made to his image </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-27.htm">(Genesis 1, 27)</a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Jesus is
himself God </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/1-1.htm">( John 1,1)</a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> so God made
himself human and proved is fidelity and saved all human kind by the example of
Christ.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Mankind is often pretentious in believing his success is self maid. Like
for the construction of the Babel tower, some think of themselves as kings and
are not perceiving Gods words, so the results of their pride and selfishness is
dispersion and anarchy before God. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">On the better hand God gives the gift of faith to the humble. I believe
that Gods intention is that his human creation evolves in Jesus Christ.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">From the same post of my French blog, I have much to ad. It will come
later as I am intellectually slowing down, so it feels. My body is aging
rapidly with osteoarthritis of the hip and my energy is spent largely at my
manual work as a painter. But hope is what remains
when we have Christ. All deadly sins can be pardon because God, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">by his son, </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">overcame death
for us all . God’s work is that we believe in Jesus Christ, the one
he as sent. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CA;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/6-29.htm">John 6, 29</a></span></div>
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French post:<br />
<a href="http://divinchrist.blogspot.ca/2009/03/il-faut-evoluer.html">http://divinchrist.blogspot.ca/2009/03/il-faut-evoluer.html</a><br />
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Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-20371911874127136842014-10-26T13:19:00.000-07:002017-02-10T05:44:57.050-08:00God’s kingdom is near.<div class="MsoNormal">
Where is
the king of kings? Come to us lord and
bring us peace.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We are
struggling in a world hoping for universal peace. Yet many are looking elsewhere
either for entertainment, adventure or for seemingly scientific reason they wonder
about life elsewhere than on earth. We may refer to principals pertaining that
conditions for life on earth are very rare and possibly unique. For me, what is
important is that there is life where we are, and to see what we make of it is
really saddening, at the list aberrant. From so much grief affecting others and
destruction or pollution of the earth we wash our hands; with all our mistrust
we embark in space voyages and send peace messages hoping to find other
intelligence to communicate with. It’s a good thing that ridicule never killed
anyone. We must find peace with our own environment to be the least credible to
address others on the mater. Pretending to be good and just in front of
strangers not even existing yet, we forget reality and truth. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/greetings.html" target="_blank">http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/greetings.html</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">A few years
ago, a stock market crash caused banks and pension funds to collapse. Trillions
of dollars where lost. A parcel of that money would feed the hungry people of
the world for more than a hundred years. Where is our faith, our prayers, our example,
our love? Our works must be so absent in front of God. Of course Jesus preached
to us how we must separate ourselves from the world. It is so obvious that we
must repent.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Scientist
will acknowledge Darwin’s theory of evolution, and we may all appreciate it. Bu
what is evolution for God? Jesus did instantaneous miracles. Reality is what we
know that has a place in time and space. Mankind must evolve accordingly to
God’s desire where I believe our heart, soul and spirit are united to approach
God by the name of Jesus Christ; that is the reality we must find.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sunday
school is what we really need to survive and progress, but our world is far
from perfect and liberty is a word that often brings enslavement to
materialistic desires. Everyone is free to study what they wish or to believe
what they want, and many do not make the better choice. I am not against
philosophies but there are many and the study of them is not accessible to
everyone. So we may consider schooling as a luxury for many people, unless it
can be free like Sunday school. <span style="color: red;">Mathew 10, 8</span> <span style="color: #00b050;">freely you have receive, freely give.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #00b050;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The gospel
is the truth available for everyone in the developed world and Jesus is infinitely
more than Plato’s king philosopher. <span style="color: red;">John 6, 15</span> <span style="color: #00b050;">Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him
king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.</span> Christ brings us
more than we hope for by remaining with us as our lord and savior.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We must
share what we discover to be most profitable to mankind; Christ is our
salvation. <span style="color: red;">Luc 10, 17-22<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are
subject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like
lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on
serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall
hurt you. 20 nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject
to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank
you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from
the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father,
for such was your gracious will. 22 All things have been handed over to me by
my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father
is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The power
of God is above all philosophies and is accessible to everyone that believes in
Christ.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I know
since my young age how eternity is long. I was in a catholic school where a nun
was the principal. One day she told us a story how a little bird would pass by
the greatest mountain and slightly brush it’s wing against it; eternity is
longer than the time it takes for the little bird to wear the mountain. But
time has no importance to God.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Scientists
have calculated that the universe was created 13.7 billion years ago. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Scientists
refute the theory of creation, so does governments and schools. But no one can
find anything beyond the Big Bang theory. Again it is a good thing that
ridicule does not kill anyone. I do not blame science and I cannot blame anyone
in believing in instantaneous miracles like Jesus did. To me it is so obvious.
For the sake of an argument we seem to cut short on the scale of time. I
believe that what we know is what God wants us to know.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">God is the
universe and Jesus is God, so Jesus is the universe. The whole bible is
impregnated by Christ. <span style="color: red;">Mathew5, 17</span> <span style="color: red;">New International Version </span><span style="color: #00b050;">"Do
not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come
to abolish them but to fulfill them. </span>It is not like we should believe
that the Old Testament is out of date, what we must retain are the examples
pertaining to life under God’s infinite fidelity. The biggest example is
submission to God, since Christ resurrection, it is the more obvious that
charity is the main example. Sadly centuries have past by and Christians are
still holding a cross in one hand and a sword in the other. Reconciliation
between people and countries are difficult. Even the laws inside countries are
broken. What hope is there in this worldly and egoistical situation but to hope
for the grace of the lord?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">God
presents peace for humanity. He may have influence winning battles but the war
he wins is for peace. He wants mankind to love one another that is why he gave
his beloved son as an example, a servant that established redemption for all of
humanity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The truth
is that redemption leads to resurrection. We recognize truth when we hear it
from a living voice. The bible is Gods voice, so it is what is the most vibrant
and spiritual on earth when it is read. Obviously it is nothing if we do not
take hold of the words written. The importance of the bible resides in the
gospel that recalls the coming of God made man that died and was resurrected by
the father for the redemption of all mankind. But some passages of the gospel refer
to the Old Testament; it is also good to know the old to understand the new,
but it is not so necessary: <span style="color: red;">Mathew 9, 17New
International Version </span><span style="color: #00b050;">Neither does people
pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine
will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new
wineskins, and both are preserved."<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #00b050;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Also if we
are like old men from the Old Testament we must renew ourselves to embrace the
grace of the lord. The lord is our example for our greater evolution. We must
manifest, proclaim, and vocalize our belief; give example which is summarized
in the word charity and the verb to love.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We may hear
critics on God from unbelievers saying: How can he exist and permit so much
sufferance? But he has given us many means to help ourselves. The simple fact
of having the gift of faith is a southing matter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John
14, 12New Living Translation </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me
will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going
to be with the Father.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Luke
10, 8-9 </span><span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat
what is offered to you.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to
you.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Luke 10, 17</span></span><span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> The seventy-two
returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Luke 6, 17-19</span></span><span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> 17 And he came down
with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a
great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre
and Sidon, 18 who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those
who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 19 And all the crowd sought
to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Mathew 10, 8</span></span><span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Heal the sick, raise
the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you
have received!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Mathew 15, 30 New Living Translation </span></span><span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">A
vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who
couldn't speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and he healed
them all.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Mathew 4, 24</span></span><span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> News about him
spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various
diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having
seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">1Corinthians 12, 27-31 New Living Translation </span></span><span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> 27 All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it. 28 Here
are some of the parts God has appointed for the church:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">first are apostles,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">second are prophets,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">third are teachers,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">those who have the gift of healing,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">those who can help others,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">those who have the gift of leadership,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">those who speak in unknown languages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">29 Are we all apostles? Are we all prophets?
Are we all teachers? Do we all have the power to do miracles? 30 Do we all have
the gift of healing? Do we all have the ability to speak in unknown languages?
Do we all have the ability to interpret unknown languages? Of course not! 31 So
you should earnestly desire the most helpful gifts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But now let me show you a way of life that is
best of all.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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First, We must repent.
The more we learn from the bible, the more we want to ask forgiveness for our
sins, and the more we see the glory of God.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="red"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #fdfeff; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">May the grace of Jesus Christ be with you!</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-86060061205742622132014-09-14T05:08:00.003-07:002014-12-08T17:59:08.312-08:00The Bible<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US"> Books are great; reading will bring pleasure
to those that appreciate that pass time. Books can be at the same time
educative and entertaining. Big or small books with images or not, they all
have their own interest. Commercial publicity may introduce us to many books
also word to mouth will bring us its reputation; we then look for it, once we
found it, we look at its cover, we read it summarily, we look at the price and
decide if we buy it or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">There are
books for all tastes, science, history, poetry, fiction, biographies, essays
etc. The bible is known as the word of God, it contains many books that are all
related. What can be more interesting than the word of God? I cannot imagine. God’s design is showing the
way that man must progress from its fall from grace to redemption; how can a
flaw be mended, how faith is given by the all faithful, all as been created to
identify God made man, the unique son of God, The Alpha and Omega.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">First,
creation is recalled, than man’s insouciance for whom means him great good. Man
goes on becoming intolerant before constraint. Man survives by recognizing a
merciful God and must adjust to recommendations. The fear of God is for the
wise, and rules are written down. Finally fear must be replaced by true love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The Old Testament,
all the books of the first part of the bible exists to announce and prepare the
arrival of the Lord Jesus-Christ. The bible is God’s link to mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Colossians
12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And so,
from the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that
you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and
understanding, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> to lead a life worthy
of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and
increasing in the knowledge of God. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">May you be strengthened with all power, according to
his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">12</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> giving thanks to the Father, who
has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He has delivered us
from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved
Son, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">15 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of
all creation. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> For by him all things
were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or
dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for
him. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> And he is before all
things, and in him all things hold together. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> And he is the head of the body,
the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in
everything he might be preeminent. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">19</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to
dwell, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and through him to
reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by
the blood of his cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">We must repent.
The more we learn from the bible, the more we want to ask forgiveness for our
sins, and the more we see the glory of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">May the
grace of our Lord Jesus-Christ be with everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-60893534108828852922014-02-22T07:21:00.003-08:002014-02-22T07:21:59.789-08:00I believe in God.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">It is
stimulating to learn, may it be technical information, cultural or social,
news, or developing aptitude for different sports. Today it is remarkable what
we can achieve. We are now going into other space, we have personal computers,
we surf on the internet and our athletes are still breaking records. For many,
the lucky ones, life is sweet and beautiful, there is no lack of entertainment,
but there is still something missing. Faith in God is what brings security
before death. Some may believe in securing life on earth in brotherhood through
the development of human rights, but they are helpless when the time comes to
leave all they have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Mankind or
men, doesn’t always accept the invisible if it is not what they can hope to
control or manage. What is invisible as to be perceived as an eventual conquest
or measurable ideal, I believe that is what dictates the atheist in their
refusal to believe in God, by so they are free to act as they choose. And they
are those who are religious and aware of their weakness and pray God for help.
So does God exist? We can all bend over
a microscope and discover what was just before invisible to our human eye. Why
are so many people pretentious to believe that we are not so minuscule in the
universe, yet known by God? I believe in a universal God that brings hope to
all mankind, reaching our hearts to teach us to share with our brothers and
sisters for the best life on earth and in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">With all
our being, thoughts, emotions, soul, we freely progress in and with Christ
toward a greater evolution. Does the devil exist? Yes, Satan is mention
throughout the bible and also by Jesus. Jesus himself was tempted by him when
fasting in the desert and rejected him. Philosophers or psychologist will say
that Satan or demons are just part of our subconscious reacting, but evil has
nothing to gain and no power in front of Gods angels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">We must
believe in God to be saved, God is merciful. It is astonishing how nowadays
some religions are still implicating abusive corporal punishments. We may say
that all religions are well intended, but not all are so good. Nothing can
compare to Christianity. Some religions seem to be peaceful but are impregnated
by extremists and fanatics that wage ware on other religions or are
discriminate against women leaving them no freedom or possibility to evolve,
even children are not permitted to play; apparently it is all due to miss
interpretation of their scriptures. Still nothing compares to the love of God
that shared our sufferings with his beloved son Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">There is
nothing more sufficient or satisfying than to want and search for universal
accord and God answers prayers ask in Jesus name. Sadly the world will
disregard what is true love and companionship for life. Harmony is what is essential;
all troublesome people hope to rejoice in peace. But everywhere we can
recognize a world of selfish and malicious people, so governments are
installing laws to protect the innocents, and sometimes governments are
themselves corrupt. If only everyone would receive Christ…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">God rejects
the world and its lust, but, also, loves mercifully everyone that recognizes
his son. The sad part of being part of a rejected world is not doing more for
ourselves and others because we are all redeemable. No one is better than the
other, God may reject some mundane attitudes, but grace is for everyone. I
personally may be full of sins or errors, but still I strive to better myself
to develop living values. I am so weak, but the best I can do is to pray for
others and hope to become a subject of joy for the Lord. Far from an apostle of
any meaning I question myself on modern subjects of purpose or influence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Christ is
modernization for all times. But how do we live our Christianity? We learn how
by reading the bible but I do not do everything Wright. I am without great
value, I can only understand how I must kneel down before the Lord, and may I
stay humble before God’s love. The fear of God is wisdom from the old
testament, that fear should now be replace by regrets of our sins washed by the
blood of the lam of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I pray for
the help of the Holy Ghost that fortifies our being and I ask forgiveness for
my sins in front of Jesus who suffered for me. Jesus is the love of the father
who replaces the fear of the just whit the desire to love; redemption is for
those that repent. The more we know the more we must act even if I am so little
and mundane at that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Philippians
4:13</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: red;">New Living Translation
</span><span style="color: #00b050;">For I can do everything through Christ, who
gives me strength. </span>I must correct myself and do more for the glory of
Jesus Christ my Lord. Every part of the bible gravitates to the blood of Christ
that delivers us from our sins; it is necessary to persevere in the best way. I
do not believe that God abandons any sinners. Every sick person that comes to
Jesus Christ is helped. Jesus is an undeniable pure source, the fact that we
recognize him or believe in him, is sufficient to save us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John
11:25 New Living Translation </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the
life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John
12:44 New International Version </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then Jesus cried out, "Whoever believes in me
does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. </span><span lang="EN-US">Our true God has always mercy at
hand for mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1
John 4:18 International Standard Version </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is no fear where love
exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and
the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I think
about other cultures, other beliefs, I think that anywhere that love dominates
in a form of self sacrifice for the benefits of others in genuine charity, that
God recognizes people has knowing Jesus
after all; but it must also be pure without insignificant Idols. It is
difficult to please God, but so easy when we know Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The
strength of a human will survive death if God accept the heart that he sees. If
Satan amuses himself cutting the grass just beneath our feet to make us believe
that good cannot survive, we must not rebel but pursue in the best way. We must
remember the parable of the weed and not be deserving of the furnace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">It is
uneasy to know that sometimes we may deserve the weeds fate but we must look
upon Jesus Christ for our redemption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Acts
15 New Living Translation </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">God knows people’s hearts, and he confirmed that he
accepts Gentiles by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">We are all
invited to know Jesus Christ. God loves everyone. If our conscious is
overwhelmed by our surroundings, like when someone is emerge in complete
incomprehension, it is unlikely to condemn such persons if they have a thirst
for justice or love for mankind so I believe they may have the fate of a handicap
person and have a place with God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Matthew
5 New International Version Introduction to the Sermon on the Mount<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now when Jesus saw the
crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and he began to teach them.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Blessed are the poor in spirit, for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">When we
hope but still commit errors, we must pray for the help of the Holy Ghost and
persevere. We must read the word because the word will prune us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John
15, 2-4 New International Version The Vine and the Branches 1</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I am the true vine,
and my Father is the gardener. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,
while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more
fruitful. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> You are already clean
because of the word I have spoken to you. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Remain in me, as I also remain in
you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither
can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. </span><span lang="EN-US">Jesus is love, he is the humanity chosen by the
Father for eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I believe
in Jesus, now I must try to please him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The
encounter between Jesus and the rich young ruler is something to remember. God
will always ask more of us but God loves everyone. The rich young man calls
Jesus good, not knowing he is the son of god, he ask Jesus what he must do to
inherit eternal life. <span style="color: red;">Mark 10, 18 New International
Version </span><span style="color: #00b050;">"Why do you call me good?"
Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone. </span>We must
understand that no one is perfect; there is only grace to make us perfect. <span style="color: red;">19</span><span style="color: #00b050;"> You know the
commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall
not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor
your father and mother. ” </span><span style="color: red;">20</span><span style="color: #00b050;"> “Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept since I
was a boy.”</span><span style="color: red;">21</span><span style="color: #00b050;">
Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell
everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Then come, follow me.”</span><span style="color: red;">22</span><span style="color: #00b050;"> At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because
he had great wealth.</span><span style="color: red;">23 </span><span style="color: #00b050;">Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard
it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”</span><span style="color: red;">24
</span><span style="color: #00b050;">The disciples were amazed at his words. But
Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! </span><span style="color: red;">25 </span><span style="color: #00b050;">It is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter
the kingdom of God.”</span><span style="color: red;">26</span><span style="color: #00b050;"> The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each
other, “Who then can be saved?”</span><span style="color: red;">27</span><span style="color: #00b050;"> Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is
impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #00b050;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Jesus knows
that the conscious of the rich is limited for what tends to charity and Jesus
loves the needy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Matthew
25,42-45 42</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me
nothing to drink, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">43</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not
clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">44</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> “They also will answer, ‘Lord,
when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick
or in prison, and did not help you?’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">45</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did
not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">We must
admit that acting without consequence in much easier than trying to save
everybody.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1
John 3, 17 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If
anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no
pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Grace is
here for everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John
3, 17</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: #00b050;">For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn
the world, but to save the world through him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #00b050;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">It is
impossible to be perfect. Only faith in Jesus Christ can help us, where the
Father demonstrated that Jesus was perfect by resurrecting him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ephesians
2:8 New International Version </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John 4, 10</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: #00b050;">Jesus
answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for
a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living
water."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #00b050;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John
7, 38 New Living Translation </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the
Scriptures declare, 'Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.'"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I cannot follow
to the letter the scriptures but I can try and hope. If we do not give away all
our belonging we must at least remember others in need and help. Like the Good
Samaritan whoever acts as sort pleases Jesus and I think is also recognize by
the Father even if he is of a different faith than Christian. Like for the rich
young ruler noting is impossible for God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Romans
13:10 New Living Translation </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the
requirements of God's law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1
Corinthians 13:3 New American Standard Bible </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And if I give all my possessions
to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have
love, it profits me nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The Jews
are known for asking for signs to put their belief in something. But a simple
primary attraction would gather them around Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">New
International Version John 6, 26-27 26</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: #00b050;">Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you
are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you
ate the loaves and had your fill. </span><span style="color: red;">27 </span><span style="color: #00b050;">Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that
endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the
Father has placed his seal of approval.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #00b050;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I believe
in God. When I say so, some people ask me which God? The answer is the creator
of everything with his greater love for mankind by the realization of his son
made flesh. Jesus is the one and only son of God. He’s God’s love in the flesh.
Jesus represents mankind as what is pure and just, he was crucified, died and
was resurrected by the father. The blood of Jesus Christ washes away all sins
of those who believe in him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-51077699180044430112013-11-24T05:46:00.000-08:002013-11-24T05:46:01.717-08:00The best way<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The best
way to reach any goals is through Jesus-Christ. Jesus thought how to go through
life apart of the world, and by so to be free of most condemnation and bless by
believing in him. Never the less we are all sinners and myself I must carry my
part of the world’s burden; so I criticize and I search for different solutions
for our surrounding. It is so simple when we put our trust in God. Jesus said
do not judge and you will not be judge. I believe that all sins can be pardoned;
we must repent of our sins and pray the Holy Ghost to find our better way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In Quebec
the people are becoming more like the gentiles of the bible. Still trying to
create a sociable relation with everyone where love and fraternity can
flourish, where families can live in peace. Looking at the empty churches it
feels like we are putting aside our belief in God as if we can really succeed
without him… Really if everyone on the planet would love one another practicing
true charity we could wonder what becomes of all that is invisible because we
could be in Eden, still something would be missing for all those hoping in an afterlife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">It is well
to create a society that is good to live in but there will always be some
mishaps, there are those people like you and me that succumb to temptation and
those that make a career out of it, they distort all good reasoning and abuse
as much as they can may it be for luxury, cupidity, power etc. So we create
laws that are of course transgressed. Man as changed very little for thousands of
years and probably since its present form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Charity may
be thought but to me all resides in Jesus-Christ. With Christ we can lose our
way and find it again like did the prodigal son. The churches in Québec are
abandoned and I can only put the blame on our servants the preachers and the
hierarchy of the Catholic Church, of course it is hard to obtain recognizance
from obstinate people. Like Jesus said: The first will be last; like the Jews
that wouldn’t open their heart or the workers that wanted more pay than the
others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">If the
Pharisees in Mathew 23 where to sever with what tended to the law, our
preachers did not ask enough of our laicism. Of course to err is human and I
believe that in Quebec the error was to mix religion with politics. Many French
speaking people are still looking for better recognition and others are just
too overwhelmed with our modern situation to really care or realize the
distress of so many others. I am not judging but what once caught my attention
was when a well educated preacher had a brief television appearance. He had a
way easy to follow and I thought how come we don’t see him more often? And I
said to myself they must be studying more for themselves rather than preaching.
Of course I did not know all the work he might have been doing nor how it works
with television deals…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mathew
23, 1-12 New International Version<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then
Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 2 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“The teachers of the law and the
Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So you must be careful to do everything they tell you.
But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They tie up heavy, cumbersome
loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not
willing to lift a finger to move them. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Everything they do is done for
people to see: They make their phylacteriesa wide and the tassels on their
garments long; </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> they love the place
of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">they love to be greeted with
respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“But you are not to be called
‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And do not call anyone on earth
‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nor are you to be
called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The greatest among you
will be your servant. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">12 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For
those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves
will be exalted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">If the
Pharisees tie up heavy loads on other people’s shoulders, Christ is charitable
with his grace. The best way is showed so we must follow it but a small well
intended imitation is all ready good. Facts are that we must remember what is
true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">May the
grace of Jesus Christ be with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-82992435287542685762013-10-28T16:45:00.004-07:002013-10-28T16:46:28.427-07:00Growing up<div class="MsoNormal">
This is something
I first wrote in the French language. It was the week of coming together for
different Christian congregations. I am catholic by heritage which means that I
follow into my parent’s belief. God bless their souls.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I pray for
my church and others without judgment. Although I recognize that the Catholic
Church has made errors throughout the ages, it is up to the lord to judge, for
he only knows the hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">What counts
is love, and how can we pretend to have love when we forget others or push them
away? Love has no restriction but too often we follow this material world which
is really limited.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Volunteering
our time and ourselves to help others is what God loves. We all feel good when
we do so; where the saying comes: There
is more pleasure in giving than in receiving. Yet we lose ourselves in the face
of temptation. I am as much a sinner as anyone, lacking self control and
judgment, but the Lord’s word brings warmth to my heart, strengthens my spirit
and shows me the way. <span style="color: red;">James 4, 3</span> <span style="background: white; color: #00b050;">when you ask, you do not receive,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>because you ask with wrong motives,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that you may spend what you get on
your pleasures.</span><span style="background: white;"> I do not believe that we
must be without pleasure; on the contrary we must have a lot and be willing to
share it. We may remember how John the Baptist lived; he deprived himself of
everything preparing his followers for the coming of the lord. But the lord was
the opposite having a lot to share. <span style="color: red;">Mathew 9, 10-13</span>
<span style="color: #00b050;">10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s
house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples.
11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your
teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”12 On hearing this, Jesus said,
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn
what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call
the righteous, but sinners.”</span> And Jesus changed water into wine. <span style="color: red;">John 2, 11 </span><span style="color: #00b050;">What Jesus did
here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed
his glory; and his disciples believed in him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jesus talk of himself as being the groom, we must understand that he is
the system which we must marry and that we must please. It is not a matter of
depriving ourselves but more one of remembering others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The love of God is so tender that we must not be afraid of punishment
because the Lord is always near and disposed to help us; all we need to do is
to recognize him. <span style="color: red;">Luc 15, 7</span></span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="background: white; color: #00b050;">I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing
in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons
who do not need to repent. </span><span style="background: white; color: red;">Mathew
20, 16 </span><span style="background: white; color: #00b050;">“So the last will be
first, and the first will be last.” </span><span style="background: white;">Whatever
pleases God is what should please us. So we must be merciful and rejoice with
one another proclaiming Gods word.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The bible mentions the flames of eternal hell where burns what is
useless, but I believe that our sovereign really wants our redemption and best
try, all is there for different characters of mankind. Some people need a
strong hand to show them the way; others need comfort, encouragement or
examples, some tenderness, but love and reconciliation is for everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I heard a friend on the radio saying how good it is to receive the lord
in our life, we must open our heart to him and let him shine is light on us,
which is the enrichment of compassion and love. We must let him grow in us like
a grain of mustard. <span style="color: red;">Mathew 13, 31-3231</span> <span style="color: #00b050;">He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is
like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 32 Though it is
the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden
plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with everyone!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-14375009338210527292013-07-02T06:38:00.004-07:002013-07-02T06:49:24.004-07:00Sharing<div class="MsoNormal">
In today’s
industrialized world we want to escape for a better life, not realizing that
love and sharing is all that we need to do and have. A life of consumption is
at hand and well publicized to reach the mass population. Democracies around
the world are much alike where we find the rich, the middle class and the poor.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In Quebec a
social net is well in place. So now we can say that the government will take
care of the poor, putting aside our personal charity. Forgetting the meaning of
charity, unions or syndicates grow in popularity where solidarity is now
proclaimed. Politically from the left,
the right or the center, winning votes is often a means without scruples. To me,
honesty must include justice where a good life must be hopeful for all classes
of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Governments
are formed by people; there humanity may be put to test depending on their
responsibilities. But charity remains an individual affair and cannot be
automated by someone else. Charity cannot be a question of administration; it is
a matter of conscious where each one of us must recognize oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">To me
charity as no boundaries, it is a matter of personal love and spirituality. We
live in a world of consumption and entertainment, where it is very easy to
forget those that are in distress close or far away. Our conscious is so much
solicited by publicity that all that seems to matter is the next best thing. We
must stay alert and understand what we really need for our work or leisure
time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Entertainment
can be important, like sports, arts, may it be static, energetic, creative,
dreamlike or spectacular. There is a lot of talent to be shared between
citizens of the modern world; but we forget our own people, those of the last
rank of our society, the sick, and the lonely of different means. So many are
abandoned and neglected in this fast paced world where we always look for the
finer things; we even forget the existence of orphans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">How can we
explain the foolishness of a world so rich that claims to be humanely concern?
I remember decades ago in Quebec that we where announcing a leisure society for
the future, liberty 55 was greatly publicized where 55 is the age of
retirement, true for only a minority. Now retirement is push forward, 67 years
old instead of 65. Retirement may be well deserved for some leisure time but
there is always a possibility to help others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The orphans
are often those that we forget. We are now able to adopt babies from other
countries and I do find it very admirable, but what about those around us, too
old or maybe handicapped? Still a minority of people think of adopting. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The
children and adults of countries or regions struck by famine count poorly
when we are on a ski hill, an ice ring, or in a ball park. Restaurants are
everywhere, theaters, we can wine and dine, dance and be merry. But for
thousands of years, we where thought to share those riches. Is our world truly modern,
what is it about our evolution? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Deuteronomy
24 (New International Version) </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">19 When you are harvesting in your field and you
overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the
fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the
work of your hands. 20 When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over
the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the
fatherless and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do
not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the
fatherless and the widow. 22 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is
why I command you to do this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with everyone!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-69802022360756204562013-06-24T07:58:00.008-07:002013-06-24T07:58:50.041-07:00Learning, understanding, relating…<div class="MsoNormal">
We often go
trough out life as all is due to us. Going about everything as it comes along
and so be it. The young might prove to be excessive or rebellious and the
adults respond can be patronizing. Engulf in this world preoccupation and speed
up modernization, we may go about our religious belief like everything else as
if all is due to us by just going through the motions.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Schooling is
obviously a plus for everyone; but nowadays, we are looking more to philosophy
for the young, it may result in some understanding of situation but I fear that
it is debilitating our love and charity which defines our relation with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I believe
that we should recognize that we are God’s creation and that we must pursue our
better evolution which is to develop our spirit, our hearth with the help of
the all mighty. We must put the time to develop our inside to obtain results
like we did for the outside with the evolution of science.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Many
scholars believe in the theory of evolution, yet accept the Big Bang theory; I
find it to be ironic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Obviously we
can only teach what we know, and someone that wants to learn must inform
oneself. To know God we must read the book that describes him. God is love and
may be found everywhere but the bible is a direct link to God’s handout to
mankind. The all mighty as universal love for mankind, a solution that heals
the body and the hearth, a strength that comes from within, always a blessing,
sometimes resembling the Big Bang showing love where there was none our like
moving a giant rock that blocked the flowing for resurrection.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Colossians
2,8<b><sup> </sup></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive
philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual
forces<b><sup> </sup></b> of this world rather than on Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Christ
procured grace for all times, We are for always under the watchful eyes of the
father who cares for his creation that suffers and needs his help throughout
his preferred son Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John
12, 44-50</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only,
but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who
sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes
in me should stay in darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that
person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There
is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very
words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49 For I did not speak
on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have
spoken. 50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is
just what the Father has told me to say.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with everyone!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-6942319741761536592012-12-24T08:29:00.002-08:002012-12-24T08:38:24.978-08:00God loves usHow can we define or acknowledge God. I
believe that God may choose to reach us rather than us being successful to find
him just by looking for him. From the word of the bible and love from within, he
explains to us what can be perfection for mankind. We are full of faults yet we
can be perfected by his grace. Sometimes I believe that we chose to run away
from God, otherwise we would know him
much better because he is constantly talking to us; by looking at the greatness
of the universe is in a way listening to God if we open our hearth to him.<br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">God is magnificent and beyond our
understanding, yet he has given us a way to understand where we come from and
where we may end; all we have to do is to study the bible. We may recognize a
good part of him simply by paying attention to our surroundings and listening
to our hearth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Today science will explain evolution where
a long process was at hand. Eventually we arrive to man as we know him today. Historically
man gave a name to what he could recognize, like did Adam in the bible, the
first man from creation, the humanity that God wants us to recognise as our beginning
and our ancestor for the start of our spiritual evolution reaching justice with
Abraham and true redemption with Jesus Christ. Adam is the example of our
present physiognomy and weakness, we are sinners saved by the grace of Jesus
Christ.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"> Man
identifies with what he knows, and everything man knows has a name, so recalls
the bible.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Nowadays everything seems to be accelerated,
commodities and distractions are making us very presumptuous, believing like
always that we can be self sufficient by having earthly forces, and forgetting
all concept of being under a greater power and will.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">We must admit that intelligence, man’s intelligence,
had its beginning and if it really was spontaneous in the creation, man still
had to go through apprenticeship. Intelligence, consciousness, state of mind, love,
and other attributes, are all in togetherness with our soul. God wants us to be
healthy so that we may have eternal life. So our soul is what we must be more
concerned about.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">The way to eternal life is given in the
bible. Jesus-Christ is the saviour of mankind; now we must do our best to
better ourselves and be grateful to have our saviour and lord Jesus Christ. The
bible contains the word of God which explains everything trough the experience
of the Jews.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Mankind will cry for help when all is lost
and all powerful God is merciful to reach and strengthen his people. Thousands
of years have passed by and mankind is still the same. The strong are not
questioning themselves, the weak are suffering, and those in the middle are
usually contempt and do not want to make waves, so crime, wars and love stories
remain the same. But the history of the Jews recalls how God disapproved abused
over his people.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Man came to identify that blood is what is
the most valuable, that blood gives life and blood purifies. A blood sacrifice
would be what appeases God the most and cleans someone of his sins so was the
belief, but God never asked for sacrifices. God for man’s sake had to put an
end to foolishness by sharing man’s hurt and implementing true meanings in
suffering hearths.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">After the old covenant where10 written laws
were given by God to Moses, and multiple other laws were added, we now live
under the New Testament which is the grace of God.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">Jeremiah 31:33 (New
International Version)</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;"> “This is
the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares
the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I
will be their God, and they will be my people.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">34 </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;">No longer
will they teach their neighbor, or say
to one another, ‘Know the lord,’because they will all know me, from the least
of them to the greatest,”declares the Lord.“For I will forgive their
wickedness and will remember their sins
no more.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">Matthew 12,7</span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire
mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">8 </span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">For the Son of Man
is Lord of the Sabbath.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">God answers prayers:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">The Old Testament is full of interventions
where God or “I am” favours justice. I believe that I am is the most
appropriate name for our creator, recalling our faith; many other names are
meaningful, the most common being God. The Old Testament recalls today’s man
full of interior constraints between God and social requirement, what was then approved
by the elders. There are the Ten Commandments and different Jewish laws that we
can find in the bible. Some laws are often what we would conceder as being mostly
sanitary rather than purification, others relate to the Sabbath. If the law was
a cause of committing faults the New Testament brings redemption to all men.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Today some people like to believe that they
can save themselves, at least to what tends to their life on earth. That by
thinking positively and believing to be in contact with the universe is all
that is needed to realise their enterprise. But there are missing a link to
this union of force, which is love and the manifestation of love. <span style="color: red;">(1 cor.13) </span>Why would someone want to invent what already
exists or go around the blessed requirements and renouncing believing in the
history with the recollection of miraculous happenings?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Realising that good has been universalised is
a great plus for mankind, and God’s
blessing, where education and charity improves. Jesus uses the term truth
surely for the better universal sense. Thousands of years of love past and where
is humanity today?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">Hebrews 10:5</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;"> Therefore, when Christ came into the world,
he said:“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">6</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;">
with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">7 </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;">Then I said,
‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will,
my God.’” </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">8</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;"> First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt
offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with
them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">9 </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;">Then
he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to
establish the second. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">10 </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;">And by that will, we have been made holy
through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">1 John 4:19</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;"> We love because he first loved us. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">20</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;">
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever
does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God,
whom they have not seen. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red;">21</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #00b050;"> And he has given us this command: Anyone who
loves God must also love their brother and sister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you
all!</span></div>
Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-56813955743249884642012-04-01T19:41:00.006-07:002012-04-02T13:21:58.692-07:00Christ and the world<p class="MsoNormal">In 2008 everything came apart where the capitalist system had to deploy there reserves to save banks around the world. All because of cupidity and what could be recognise as criminal administration, but did not come out much in the news.</p><a href="https://www.google.ca/#hl=fr&sclient=psy-ab&q=2008+banking+bailout&oq=2008+banking+b&aq=0L&aqi=g-L1g-vL1g-jL1&aql=&gs_l=hp.1.0.0i19j0i15i19j0i18i19.4888l10423l3l11565l2l2l0l0l0l0l81l155l2l2l0.frgbld.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=100d57457a52a301&biw=1024&bih=613">https://www.google.ca/#hl=fr&sclient=psy-ab&q=2008+banking+bailout&oq=2008+banking+b&aq=0L&aqi=g-L1g-vL1g-jL1&aql=&gs_l=hp.1.0.0i19j0i15i19j0i18i19.4888l10423l3l11565l2l2l0l0l0l0l81l155l2l2l0.frgbld.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=100d57457a52a301&biw=1024&bih=613</a><br /><p class="MsoNormal">I do believe that Satan exists but I rarely mention him because I think for now that we must recognise that we must evolve without him. So I will instead talk about the fault of men as unscrupulous. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Being carefree is a game that should be reserved for children. How much can evil manifest itself when we put aside our better sense? Our better sense is being open to God.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I believe the bible to have a true language where we practice yes for yes and no for no. The Jews believed in signs to orient them to please God. Facts are retained to describe prophesies, we can recall the corner stone or Jonas in the whale. But fiction books may also hide truth to come like “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, “1984” by George Orwell our “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. We can often recognise the manipulators and the victims as also those victims of themselves.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Often are victims those that want to be, I believe that the lack of consciousness and prayer will keep a person carefree until it is too late. One day’s trouble may be enough but when we also think of others.</p><p class="MsoNormal">If we do not look for truthfulness, blood thirsty creatures will find for us what we are missing making us believe what they want, like the Morlocks of H.G.Wells.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Today we know what is happening around the world instantly, what is our excuse for not helping others?</p><p class="MsoNormal">As I wrote in 2008 in my French blog, I was driving and the vehicle in front of me had a bumper sticker saying something like my business is my name our my work is my name. When someone looses is name business wise it’s downhill all the way, I think we all understand that. Everyone wants to keep a good name. It is to me a little peculiar why so many people are looking for the real name of God. I believe it to be well mention when we read “He is the God of Abraham, He is the God of Isaac, He is the God of Jacob” He is the God of generations; his name is even much longer than that. His name is the total of his works. If someone feels love using a form of his name, that is the name of God.</p><p class="MsoNormal">We may think that God was severe through the ages but how much patience has he showed during the thousands of years of prophesies of the coming of his only son: Love for the true way.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Gods name is his word and his works. His word was reported by the prophets, than by Jesus Christ himself God made man who came to make everything come true. By Adam’s disobedience comes death and by Christ obedience comes life. Following the old law keeps life, disobeying it recalls Adam and death but recalling Jesus and recognising Jesus Christ, love, will save for eternity.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red;">Revelation 21 New International Version 1984</span><span style="color:#00b050;"> </span><span style="color:red;">1</span><span style="color:#00b050;"> then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. </span><span style="color:red;">2 </span><span style="color:#00b050;">I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. </span><span style="color:red;">3</span><span style="color:#00b050;"> And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. </span><span style="color:red;">4</span><span style="color:#00b050;"> He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” <!--?xml:namespace prefix = o /--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red;">5</span><span style="color:#00b050;"> He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red;">6</span><span style="color:#00b050;"> He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. </span><span style="color:red;">7</span><span style="color:#00b050;"> He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.</span><span style="color:red;"> 8</span><span style="color:#00b050;"> But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Considering that I am writing this on April first, I do not want to be funny because of april fool day, on the contrary but I did ad something to my French blog consisting of some alike situation of the world that I thought I was going to had here aside a practically word for word translation of my December 12 2008 blog post. I think that we must be alert to face anything but the word of God is what we really need. Doing our best and repenting for our wrong doing is all that we really have to do. Praying and praising the Lord is among our best doing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Take care and God bless everyone! <o:p></o:p></p>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-87067710607101988752012-02-26T11:57:00.003-08:002012-02-28T15:14:04.549-08:00Jesus lives!<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Many among us are complaining with a full belly. What then can be said about the misery of the third world? We choose to persevere in a righteous way still hoping for more financial freedom. After all, good intentions remain where we can raise a family or participate in charity works. Perseverance brings an answer.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I am not being sarcastic, facts remain that we are all sinners. We must humble ourselves and pray because we do not know the day he will come. I find it very comforting to ear successful preachers but at the same time I ask myself this question: Is limiting the family the way to success? I believe not, therefore poverty can be a blessing where making ends meet by praying the Lord brings joy to the children at the table.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We must always try to better ourselves, and to each one of us the means comes from the word of God. We must give blessing to what ever we have. But we must never give up. Sometime we just pray for the wrong thing or we believe that our situation is not of our own making like if our reason for being poor was not cause by foolish spending.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We must pray and persevere in a better way to be part of God’s family where Jesus is the groom.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">New Living Translation John 3,17</span> <span style="color:#00B050">God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Luc 11,9-10</span><span style="color:#00B050"> 9 “And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Romans 6, 14-16</span><span style="color:#00B050"> 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050">15 Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! 16 Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Knowing that we sin is recognising our faults. We must continuously try to do better and deserve forgiveness. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">New Living Translation Romans 13,10 </span><span style="color:#00B050">Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God's law.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Bless are those accomplishing God’s will not knowing it. But how fragile can our love be? How easily we can turn on one another?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Like Jesus that multiplied the bread taken among the people we must give the bread that we have so that the grace of God can be fruitful. We can save a multitude sharing the bread of life which is the word of God that we easily find in the bible. Jesus the son of God made man suffered and died for our sins and the father resurrected him from the dead.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">John 6,35</span> <span style="color:#00B050">Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Jews blessed God as much as they could. By Adam they recognise the weakness of humanity through sin. Searching to be just under God’s authority they received divine intervention when deserved. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Knowing Jesus is knowing the truth. What can we hope for more? The one that really knows Jesus does not sin. May God have mercy on the sinners that we are.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">New International Version 1984 Romans 5 </span><span style="color:#00B050">1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050">6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050">9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050">12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— 13for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. 14Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050">15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050">18Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. 19For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050">20The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Jews had many laws in regard to their faith. I have not studied them except for the Ten Commandments. What I believe is that Jesus ask us to do what we know to be our most accomplished part of ourselves, and that is to love God above all and our neighbour as ourselves.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 5, 17-19</span><span style="color:#00B050"> 17“Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved. 19So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">John 13, 34</span><span style="color:#00B050"> So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">New Living Translation Romans 6, 4</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with everyone!</p>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-3891603986744358852012-02-19T14:32:00.001-08:002012-02-19T14:32:44.309-08:00Where is justice, love, light?<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; ">New International Version 1984 Mathew 5, 6</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We must work to better ourselves to be a blessing for others. The New Jerusalem is where we want to end but there is so much that we must all change. I am a poor example of what I can truly achieve. How can I stop making so many terrible sins like drinking too much every now and then? It can be so simple to please God and yet… I can only cry on myself.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The world is as it as always been, full of unconsciousness causing pain and grief. Daring to go into details may bring unwanted strife but today we are plunge in a monstrous state of despair facing universal justice. How can we admit loving our fellow man?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; ">World English Bible 1 Timothy 6, 10</span> <span style="color:#00B050">For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In reference of the world’s market crisis, we are now taking away money intended to help poor countries to replenish banks where the managers have flaunted their assets. A monster called commercial papers has collapse bringing down every hill advised. We may recall the tower of Babel like idolatry our simple stupidity. In this case there seams to be evident manipulation where greed is the center. With so much teaching available with the bible, how can we be so faded to practically disappear into nothingness not knowing what to conceive? <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; ">New Living Translation 1 john 2,29</span> <span style="color:#00B050">Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God's children.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We want to be saved so we believe that Jesus died for everyone in redemption for our sins. But what is sin? Sin is doing what we know is wrong, sin is relevant to each one of us. We must always try to do what is right. Christianity is the way to life. Believing in Jesus is practicing his teaching. We are all sinners and we will all die as such, only the blood of Christ can wash us clean where we can recognize true love. Love makes the world go round yet evil tries to destroy everything.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The parable of the lamp<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; ">New American Standard Bible Luc8,16-18 16</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); ">“Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light. </span><span style="color: red; ">17</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> “For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. </span><span style="color: red; ">18 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); ">“So take care how you listen; for whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him.”</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">If the light shines on us we must show it. We must share what we know to be the most beneficial. Even big sinners may have their moment that is the blessing of the Lord where everyone can be comforting by announcing redemption and eternal life. Everything is in the bible; all we need is to take note of it. The one that does not have is the one that did not understand. I learned that when someone reads a text and does not retain or remember the sense, the reason is that there is a word ore some words that the signification is not clear. It is the same with the bible, the meaning must be clear and the sum of it all is love. Sometimes it may not be obvious, so what we must do is read more and eventually we find the answer. The more we read the bible, the more we understand. A great way to reach love is by praying. Reading the word and sharing the word brings light to the world.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; ">New American Standard Bible Romans 10, 8-11 8</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, </span><span style="color: red; ">9 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); ">that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; </span><span style="color: red; ">10</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.</span><span style="color: red; "> 11</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Whoever truly believes, acts accordingly.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the parable of the Sower.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;color:red">GOD'S WORD Translation 1995 </span><span style="color: red; ">Luc 8, 15</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> The seeds that were planted on good ground are people who also hear the word. But they keep it in their good and honest hearts and produce what is good despite what life may bring.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Life can be diminishing for many among us, so we must remember the passion of the lord carrying his cross to save every last one of us; we must than persevere in a better way.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; ">New International Version 1984 John 15,1-8 1</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); ">“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.</span><span style="color: red; "> 2</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. </span><span style="color: red; ">3</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. </span><span style="color: red; ">4 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); ">Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red; ">5</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.</span><span style="color: red; "> 6</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. </span><span style="color: red; ">7</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. </span><span style="color: red; ">8</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); "> This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is beneficial to be on the vine near Jesus feeling free and away from temptation. I believe fruits to be the value we bring to our surrounding and inside of us the value of our perception, a true reality that we must preach by the grace of Jesus. When we truly love like Jesus, our love can be contagious.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;color:red">New International Version 1984 Mathew 5, 13</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;color:#00B050"> You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We must understand that salt is use as a preservative, as example, for meat, marinades etc. How can we resalt the salt? The warning is not to be diminish, the danger is life threatening. We must repent for having lost our way and return to the word of God to recreate what was gone to know that miracles happen every day.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jesus is god made man, alpha and omega. We must love to survive. It is evident that humanity is sick because of the lack of love; still God as the word available to save the world.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;color:red">GOD'S WORD Translation 1995 Revelation 22,21 </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;color:#00B050">The good will of the Lord Jesus be with all of you. Amen!<o:p></o:p></span></p>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-12599662063747161042011-09-30T19:00:00.001-07:002011-09-30T19:00:42.334-07:00The Sacrifice<p class="MsoNormal">Faith is a gift given by the grace of God; but it is still demanding to be an inspired teacher or preacher. I try to be true by giving proper verses to what I want to put forward, but the facts are that I am still learning. In a way a true believer does not have to learn, because praising the Lord is all that is necessary and the way is given by faith. Still they are so many passages that surprise me every now and than when I here someone else talk about it or when I just come across them by myself. I believe that everyone should be teaching and preaching even when knowing few bible verses.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">By faith we know the bible to be true. The truthiness of the bible is in fact it’s teaching for the well being of our soul. I can not really explain what the soul is or what will survive next to Jesus, but I truly believe that he will care for his children. When our soul is healthy all our being is healthy. I can not explain the sickness and all the injuries but what I can say is that Jesus cured every human suffering when he was on earth and his heritage is still going strong.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Today’s scientists are doing their best to explain the miracles of the Old and the New Testament. The plagues of Egypt that eventually gave freedom to the Jews are explain by the eruption of a volcano probably Santorini that may coincide with the time period. Similar phenomena’s have happened in our modern time with the eruption of volcanoes; water turning orange red, gas killing people sleeping on the ground like for the first born of the Egyptian. Natural or not the crossing of the red sea comes by a fantastic timing. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Passover where the Jews saved their family from an angel of death by putting the blood of a sheep on their door is in fact the announcement of the coming of the Lord where the Father has his revenge saving all life that he chooses with the faithfulness of his son. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The New Testament is about Jesus and his miracles are spontaneous. We must now live by the light of Jesus, looking to him when the devil bights us. Our wrongs are washed away by our belief in the blood of Christ.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>About Jesus who was sacrifice<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mark 12, 28-31</span><span style="color:#00B050"> One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">29</span><span style="color:#00B050">“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. </span><span style="color:red">30</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ </span><span style="color:red">31</span><span style="color:#00B050">The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 18, 1-5</span><span style="color:#00B050"> At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050"><span> </span></span><span style="color:red">2</span><span style="color:#00B050"> He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. </span><span style="color:red">3</span><span style="color:#00B050"> And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.</span><span style="color:red"> 4</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.</span><span style="color:red"> 5 </span><span style="color:#00B050">And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jesus has an obedient child accepts his fathers decisions<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 16, 21-23</span><span style="color:#00B050"> From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">22</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” <span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">23</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 23, 11</span><span style="color:#00B050">The greatest among you will be your servant.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p>Righteous people will sometime sacrifice themselves for the love of God by living a secluded life like so many congregations have done through the years. I do not believe in sacrifice without production, still God must appreciate every effort to please him. We must help others but we must also be in accordance with God. If God can destroy the world because mankind is ruining the better aspect of creation where spirituality exist like the shining light of love, God can also bring meaning to everything.<span style="color:#00B050"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Luke 19 39-40</span> <span style="color:#00B050">and some of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, Teacher, rebuke thy disciples. <span> </span></span><span style="color:red">40</span><span style="color:#00B050"> And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jesus man made flesh said:<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">John 19</span><span style="color:#00B050"> … Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up</span>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 12, 40</span><span style="color:#00B050"> for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Luc 22, 42-44</span><span style="color:#00B050"> “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”</span><span style="color:red"> 43</span><span style="color:#00B050"> An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. </span><span style="color:red">44</span><span style="color:#00B050"> And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Was the sweat already blood or blood to be? To me it is the same greatness of reality where a divine healer will be put to the test of resurrection. Still we must consider the torture of our God made man in obedience to the greater part of himself, the father of all creation.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jesus, who loved everyone, healed the sick, thought charity and the path to follow, had to pray for his soul in the pursuit of his# accomplishment.<span> </span>Jesus is God and said so himself in simple terms. He is God’s only son, light born from light. We must understand that such purity will be strong at its return. Jesus was on a mission for the father.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">When I was an adolescent I read science-fiction comics and I still like the related cinema and series like Star Trek, they had good moral and meaning. What I mean to say is that it feels like reliving with Jesus what I often contemplated, that man has the universe inside of himself, for the simple reason that I believe that what ever we may think or imagine, exist in a dimension somewhere, what ever we learn exist and we are just comparing the notes that we find; this said, we must be careful not to sin by thought because it might affect our reality.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I like the following verses showing how Jesus is God.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Colossians 1, 12-20</span><span style="color:#00B050"> and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. </span><span style="color:red">13</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, </span><span style="color:red">14 </span><span style="color:#00B050">in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">15</span><span style="color:#00B050"> The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.</span><span style="color:red"> 16</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. </span><span style="color:red">17</span><span style="color:#00B050"> He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. </span><span style="color:red">18</span><span style="color:#00B050"> And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. </span><span style="color:red">19</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,</span><span style="color:red"> 20</span><span style="color:#00B050"> and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Those verses always have an interesting translation but the following might be more southing for the sinners that we are. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Colossians 1, 21-23</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour. </span><span style="color:red">22</span><span style="color:#00B050"> But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— </span><span style="color:red">23</span><span style="color:#00B050"> if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The good news of the Gospel is love resurrected, when we reach for that divine reality, our caprices become less interesting. It is impossible to have the smallest place in heaven unless we are saint. But we all had a moment when we felt love and charity and by so we know with what we must identify. The fact is that we just have to remember our redeemer. I must better myself a lot because the old man is still within me and the child must grow. Grace is always at hand but we must be careful of the worldly content surrounding us that can very easily impregnate us, so we must always remember that we are sinners and recall our Guide and try to imitate him. Every day we have occasions to redeem ourselves but we must keep hope that all is done by Jesus-Christ our saviour and remember him so.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The following verses show how mankind has not change for thousands of years, as Paul reminds us of philosophy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Colossians 2, 6-10</span> <span style="color:#00B050">So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,</span><span style="color:red"> 7</span><span style="color:#00B050"> rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. </span><span style="color:red"><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">8</span><span style="color:#00B050"> See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><span> </span>9</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, </span><span style="color:red">10</span><span style="color:#00B050"> and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Today, I belie that we can have the luxury of philosophy in a learning process, as long as it does not interfere with our faith. I find it very surprising even shocking that so many people of different culture or social classes have a substantial library at their home but have never read the Bible or the New Testament that is so easy to go through. God knows the heart, which is why I ask for a small place in heaven; note that it is still making me a saint. The secret is to let him in and to recognise our faults that we want to be rid of and to pray and hope. Most importantly when we have faith is to keep it, we must regret our faults or our sins and repent, we must better ourselves in works and charity, and in some we must exercise ourselves in pleasing God. When we are honest in recognizing our true value for moving in the proper direction we can find our way with the help of God.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 7, 21</span><span style="color:#00B050"> <span> </span>“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">God knows our hearts and we can not cheat him.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Acts 4, 32-37</span><span style="color:#00B050"> All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.</span><span style="color:red"> 33</span><span style="color:#00B050"> With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all </span><span style="color:red">34</span><span style="color:#00B050"> that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales </span><span style="color:red">35</span><span style="color:#00B050"> and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050"><span> </span></span><span style="color:red">36</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”), </span><span style="color:red">37</span><span style="color:#00B050"> sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles’ feet. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Acts 5, 1-11 1</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. </span><span style="color:red">2</span><span style="color:#00B050"> With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><span> </span>3</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? </span><span style="color:red">4 </span><span style="color:#00B050">Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><span> </span>5</span><span style="color:#00B050"> When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened</span><span style="color:red">. 6</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><span> </span>7</span><span style="color:#00B050"> About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.</span><span style="color:red"> 8</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050"><span> </span>“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><span> </span>9</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050"><span> </span></span><span style="color:red">10</span><span style="color:#00B050"> At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. </span><span style="color:red">11 </span><span style="color:#00B050">Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Truthfulness is having. Someone who is truthful does is best.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 25, 29</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We must not just think of helping others, we must act.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 25, 31-36</span><span style="color:#00B050"> “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. </span><span style="color:red">32</span><span style="color:#00B050"> All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.</span><span style="color:red"> 33 </span><span style="color:#00B050">He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00B050"><span> </span></span><span style="color:red"><span> </span>34</span><span style="color:#00B050"> “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.</span><span style="color:red"> 35 </span><span style="color:#00B050">For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, </span><span style="color:red">36</span><span style="color:#00B050"> I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The good news is that God resurrected his son our Lord. We can now profit from his grace and from the help of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit helps us to understand the suffering of the cross, which I believe to be the thirst of mankind calling for help and the resurrection is the hope that we keep.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">1 Corinthians 1, 30-31</span><span style="color:#00B050"> It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Bad news awaits those that do not believe in the innocence of God.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Hosea 6, 6</span><span style="color:#00B050"> <span> </span>For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This past verse tells me that God did not sacrifice Jesus but mankind did take that decision. Jesus obeyed the father’s whish and the father left mankind free to choose. God gave a ram caught to Abraham to free him from the grief of sacrificing his son. But effectively God demonstrated his power and his tolerance as his mercy rendering Jesus into flesh. We may very well comprehend what is the Lamb of God. To me it is the tenderness of a child. The scriptures may have been accomplished but I do believe that better sense from mankind would have pleased God. Compared to the parable of the vine growers, here, the son his resurrected but the faith of the wrong doers will be alike so let us not be so vein as not to admit our sins but to regret them and accept Jesus redemption. We must practice ourselves to do better with the help of prayers and the Holy Spirit.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jesus has accomplished the scriptures and is the corner stone; he his symbolic for different Christian cultures and his origin is undeniable.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Hebrew 13, 9-16 <span> </span></span><span style="color:#00B050">Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so </span><span style="color:red">10</span><span style="color:#00B050"> We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><span> </span>11</span><span style="color:#00B050"> The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. </span><span style="color:red">12</span><span style="color:#00B050"> And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. </span><span style="color:red">13</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. </span><span style="color:red">14</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><span> </span>15 </span><span style="color:#00B050">Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. </span><span style="color:red">16</span><span style="color:#00B050"> And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">John 6, 27-29</span> <span style="color:#00B050">Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” </span><span style="color:red"><span> </span>28</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” <span> </span></span><span style="color:red">29</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Ephesians 2, 8-10<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">8 </span><span style="color:#00B050">For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—</span><span style="color:red"> 9 </span><span style="color:#00B050">not by works, so that no one can boast. </span><span style="color:red">10</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">1 John 4, 2 </span><span style="color:#00B050">This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We understand very well that Jesus suffered as a martyr, died and was resurrected. Now we have an example to follow in hope for forgiveness and redemption for life. The more we pray the more we near God.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.<o:p></o:p></p>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-79960654387809650932011-09-05T11:59:00.001-07:002011-09-05T11:59:36.636-07:00Faith requires works<p class="MsoNormal">Faith is a gift from the grace of God. Works are deeds or action taken. In<span style="color:red"> </span>the bible we will find different kind of works, works related to the old testament and the law that the Jews hold in extreme value but have poor value compared to the grace of the lord, there are the works of predication and there are the works of charity, miracles are a combination of the last two where God manifest himself through Jesus. Different translation will use the term works others may use the term deeds. <span> </span>In <span style="color:red">1 cor. 13 </span>we can read that love is what we must develop. If we have love we will care for one another.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">1 cor. 13-13</span><span style="color:#00B050"> and now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">John 6, 28-29</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” </span><span style="color:red"><span> </span>29</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 5, 14 </span><span style="color:#00B050">"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. </span><span style="color:red">15</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. </span><span style="color:red">16 </span><span style="color:#00B050">In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">John 10, 34</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’? </span><span style="color:red">35</span><span style="color:#00B050"> If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— </span><span style="color:red">36</span><span style="color:#00B050"> what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? </span><span style="color:red">37</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. </span><span style="color:red">38</span><span style="color:#00B050"> But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Acts 26,20</span><span style="color:#00B050"> but declared both to them of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">John 14, 6-14</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. </span><span style="color:red">7 </span><span style="color:#00B050">If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><span> </span>8</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">9 </span><span style="color:#00B050">Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? </span><span style="color:red">10 </span><span style="color:#00B050">Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. </span><span style="color:red">11</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. </span><span style="color:red">12</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Very truly I tell you, all who have faith in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. </span><span style="color:red">13 </span><span style="color:#00B050">And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. </span><span style="color:red">14</span><span style="color:#00B050"> You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Ephesians 2, 8</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— </span><span style="color:red">9</span><span style="color:#00B050"> not by works, so that no one can boast. </span><span style="color:red">10</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">James 2, 14</span><span style="color:#00B050"> What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if people claim to have faith but have no deeds? Can such faith save them? </span><span style="color:red">15</span><span style="color:#00B050"> Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.</span><span style="color:red"> 16</span><span style="color:#00B050"> If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? </span><span style="color:red">17</span><span style="color:#00B050"> In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We should be asking Jesus to intervene so often in our lives to show the works of God.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In October 2010, the news caught my attention. Quebec city, Canada’s seventh largest city, is accepting professionals from around the world of all religion and race to a city mostly catholic and white. Many cities in Canada are expending and the need for immigrants is progressing. What got me thinking is how religion is becoming lest and lest of a statistic. If it is like Montreal, the churches are mostly empty. It is sad to see how people forget, all the precious deeds that God did through his son…</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So many are still claiming to be Christians but are not practising; few are even talking about it. Boasting moral teaching is not what I think will please God the most.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To remember the precious acts performed we often need the interest, the actual need for help. There is no more fear of God and death comes with tranquillizers and often old age and the worst only seems to happen to others. Conflicts and wars are non apparent here in the surrounding of a rich country. But no one believes to be rich lacking constantly of new material things, it seems that a rich person has to be at least a millionaire. There is little participation in community prayers, few believes in having to repent, there is less real celebration of the good news that God made man paved the way for our eternal life. Christmas is becoming xmas. What is the reason for such stubbornness facing truth or reality? Is it the shame to admit guilt in front of the redeemer preferring not to believe in all is miracles? Or is it the shame of having been the cause of Gods suffering, preferring is non existence and no eternal life? What ever the reason I believe it to be of an egoistic nature. If we recognise ourselves as sinners, we must manifest it and repent. <span> </span>After all, when life nears the end, I believe that everyone is hoping for acceptance by God.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We must recognise that Jesus is everything, he is sharing the glory of God first hand, sitting at is right. Jesus knows us well for having experienced the joy of living as a man. We must be joyful, proud and satisfied thinking of his life on earth. And now we can hope for a place in heaven so small might it be where we can be satisfied for eternity.</p>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-77119217545825136512011-08-02T08:47:00.001-07:002011-08-02T08:47:44.331-07:00To act is to create<p class="MsoNormal">We must recognise the obstacles that brims our best judgement, and act consequently to develop a pathway to love.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is realist to believe that everything that we do characterises our existence and leaves an imprint in the universe. So we must do our best to deploy our better actions for ourselves and for others leaving an exemplary way for the lost ones.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Prosperity is synonym to development and is attributed to what ever evolves. We may recognise a three that prosper, a garden, someone in good health, a population for different aspects. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Some people just have finance on their minds, which has nothing to do with the gospel. The gospel exist to save our soul or what is of humanity that can live with God; like love, charity, their, we can find prosperity and evolution. Even in the Old Testament money gains are denounce as futile.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Job1, 21 Ecclesiastes 5, 15 </span><span style="color:#00B050">Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Jews fought for their existence keeping their faith in high regards, recognising a just and unique God. Everyone is under the Law of Moses, the rich and powerful as well. So then earthly prosperity is associated with those that are bless and obedient <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>to God who is faithful in is covenant:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:red">Deuteronomy 7,9</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:#00B050">Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. </span>But as we have notice in Job, the richness of this world has nothing to do with the prosperity of the soul, because for no reason everything can be taken away from us where we have only our faith and love in God left.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Today, still, all the earthly possessions are available for the faithful, but giving it away or sharing is really what brings light to matter. The story of Job reminds us how vulnerable we are, that even the rich and charitable, faithful to God, can live sever draw backs, but true light will succeed to communicate the better way. <span style="color:red">Ephesians 5,8-10</span><span style="color:#00B050"> For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">John 1, 4-5 </span><span style="color:#00B050">In him was life, and that life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">1 John 7 </span><span style="color:#00B050">But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Still there are those that are proud of their prosperity, they have gained their earthly possessions like Job, being faithful to God. At time righteous they now want to share their joyful way of life that comes from their faith and is second to the blood of Christ. It is up to each of us to determine our way to the light.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We must remember the Gospel, the force that surpasses the world, love in sacrifice, eternal life.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Luc10, 18-21 18</span> <span style="color:#00B050">He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Since then, miracles are still happening somewhere trough faith but we must remember the following verse also. <span style="color:red">1 Corinthians 13, 13</span><span style="color:#00B050"> And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">Mathew 6, 21 </span><span style="color:#00B050">For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Bless the Lord!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">We all have our ups and downs during a single daytime not to mention so many ongoing periods. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>From the sin of Adam and Eve we have the knowledge of good and evil and we know the difference of walking in the light or in darkness. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">I think that light comes from doing what we know is right. Off course sometime we are so twisted that we do not even know what is right <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and do mistakes, not to mention the wrong we do on purpose…The blood of Christ is for everyone that repents and ask for help. The blood of Christ cleans away all mistakes or sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Light is what we feel when we do good deeds, it is the warmth inside of us like sun rays on the skin. Light is like the combination of energy, knowledge and blessing. Light is also present in gratitude, light is the truth that survives. Light is eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">May the love of God shine on you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2649914829297208673.post-72378417375359770512011-07-28T20:07:00.000-07:002011-07-28T20:11:57.598-07:00Believing is the way to prosperity<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">How</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">be</span> sure <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Christianity</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">best</span> religion? <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">It</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">role</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">the</span> bible <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">up</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">to</span> date <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">like</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Jesus</span> Christ <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">is</span> alpha and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">omega</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">find</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">history</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">chosen</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">people</span> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">accompanied</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">by</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Word</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">where</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">liberated</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">grow</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">faith</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">obtain</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">eternal</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">life</span>. <span style="color:red"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>John 3, 14-15 </span><span style="color:#00B050"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">Just</span> as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">Moses</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">lifted</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">up</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">snake</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">wilderness</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">so</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">the</span> Son <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">of</span> Man must <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">lifted</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">up</span>, </span><span style="color:red">15</span><span style="color:#00B050"> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">everyone</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">who</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">believes</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">may</span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">eternal</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">life</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">him</span>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">The</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71">modern</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72">world</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">retaining</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76">interest</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77">by</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78">constantly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79">renewing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80">itself</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82">new</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83">technology</span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_84">scientist</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85">always</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86">looking</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87">proof</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89">identity</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_90">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92">should</span> put <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93">any</span> trust in but <span style="color:#00B050"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94">blessed</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95">those</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96">who</span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98">seen</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_99">yet</span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_100">believed</span> </span><span style="color:red">John 20, 29</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_101">We</span> must <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_102">attach</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_103">ourselves</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_104">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_105">the</span> bible for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_106">all</span> information <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_107">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_108">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_109">enrich</span> us.<span style="color:red"> </span>I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_110">believe</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_111">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_112">the</span> information <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_113">acquired</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_114">by</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_115">reading</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_116">ourselves</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_117">by</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_118">listening</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_119">to</span> passages are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_120">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_121">most</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_122">suited</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_123">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_124">start</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_125">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_126">best</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_127">education</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_128">Interpretation</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_129">teachings</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_130">from</span> more <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_131">experienced</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_132">people</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_133">also</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_134">blessing</span>. Bibles <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_135">may</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_136">differ</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_137">slightly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_138">from</span> a translation <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_139">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_140">another</span>, but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_141">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_142">meaning</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_143">remains</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_144">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_145">my</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_146">knowledge</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_147">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_148">same</span>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_149">Too</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_150">many</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_151">among</span> us are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_152">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_153">questioning</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_154">themselves</span> and are living for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_155">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_156">soul</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_157">purpose</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_158">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_159">their</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_160">personal</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_161">wellbeing</span>; <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_162">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_163">may</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_164">think</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_165">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_166">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_167">is</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_168">natural</span> course <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_169">of</span> nature as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_170">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_171">may</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_172">recall</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_173">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_174">parable</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_175">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_176">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_177">sower</span> but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_178">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_179">mustn</span>’t <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_180">dismiss</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_181">the</span> existence <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_182">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_183">evil</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_184">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_185">omits</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_186">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_187">better</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_188">purpose</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_189">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_190">life</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_191">witch</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_192">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_193">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_194">share</span> love. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_195">We</span> must in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_196">fact</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_197">receive</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_198">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_199">word</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_200">to</span> assure <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_201">ourselves</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_202">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_203">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_204">better</span> chances <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_205">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_206">realising</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_207">success</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_208">toward</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_209">eternal</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_210">life</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_211">Believing</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_212">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_213">word</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_214">acting</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_215">upon</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_216">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_217">is</span> a sure <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_218">way</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_219">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_220">God</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_221">Sad</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_222">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_223">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_224">fact</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_225">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_226">many</span> Christian are in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_227">fact</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_228">poor</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_229">examples</span>. In <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_230">this</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_231">world</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_232">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_233">foolishness</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_234">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_235">may</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_236">find</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_237">heroic</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_238">deeds</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_239">of</span> self sacrifice in a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_240">warzone</span> but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_241">forgetting</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_242">neighbours</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_243">God</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_244">peacetime</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_245">Facts</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_246">remain</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_247">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_248">god</span> loves <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_249">the</span> humble <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_250">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_251">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_252">pretentious</span>. <span style="color:red">John 13, 15 </span><span style="color:#00B050">I have set <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_253">you</span> an <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_254">example</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_255">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_256">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_257">should</span> do as I have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_258">done</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_259">you</span>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_260">Many</span> groups, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_261">organisations</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_262">associations</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_263">looking</span> for justice in a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_264">free</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_265">sharing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_266">world</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_267">example</span>, but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_268">how</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_269">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_270">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_271">world</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_272">progressing</span>? I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_273">hope</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_274">that</span> no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_275">matter</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_276">what</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_277">someday</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_278">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_279">may</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_280">all</span> show <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_281">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_282">charity</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_283">of</span> holding <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_284">one</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_285">another</span>’s <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_286">hand</span>. I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_287">think</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_288">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_289">charity</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_290">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_291">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_292">blessing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_293">of</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_294">stranger</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_295">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_296">is</span> gratitude <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_297">asking</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_298">nothing</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_299">return</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_300">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_301">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_302">the</span> simple <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_303">smile</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_304">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_305">even</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_306">being</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_307">stoic</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_308">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_309">those</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_310">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_311">mood</span>. But a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_312">smile</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_313">sympathy</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_314">seems</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_315">to</span> me <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_316">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_317">way</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_318">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_319">better</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_320">enrichment</span>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_321">What</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_322">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_323">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_324">evolution</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_325">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_326">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_327">would</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_328">want</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_329">universal</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_330">ourselves</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_331">those</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_332">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_333">we</span> love? <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_334">What</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_335">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_336">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_337">greatest</span> force <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_338">known</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_339">to</span> men? <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_340">We</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_341">often</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_342">declare</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_343">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_344">there</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_345">is</span> no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_346">greater</span> force <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_347">than</span> love. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_348">Than</span> if love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_349">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_350">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_351">greatest</span> force, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_352">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_353">evolution</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_354">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_355">mankind</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_356">should</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_357">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_358">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_359">become</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_360">mostly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_361">made</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_362">of</span> love, and love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_363">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_364">identified</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_365">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_366">light</span>. <span style="color:red">Romans 13, 10-12</span> <span style="color:#00B050">10 Love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_367">does</span> no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_368">harm</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_369">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_370">its</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_371">neighbour</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_372">Therefore</span> love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_373">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_374">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_375">fulfillment</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_376">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_377">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_378">law</span>. 11 And do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_379">this</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_380">understanding</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_381">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_382">present</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_383">time</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_384">The</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_385">hour</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_386">has</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_387">come</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_388">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_389">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_390">wake</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_391">up</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_392">from</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_393">your</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_394">slumber</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_395">because</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_396">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_397">salvation</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_398">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_399">nearer</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_400">now</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_401">than</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_402">when</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_403">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_404">first</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_405">believed</span>. 12 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_406">The</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_407">night</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_408">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_409">nearly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_410">over</span>; <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_411">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_412">day</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_413">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_414">almost</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_415">here</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_416">So</span> let us put <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_417">aside</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_418">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_419">deeds</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_420">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_421">darkness</span> and put on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_422">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_423">armour</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_424">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_425">light</span>. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_426">We</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_427">week</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_428">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_429">worldly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_430">desires</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_431">so</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_432">at</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_433">hand</span> but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_434">we</span> must <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_435">remember</span> love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_436">where</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_437">we</span> must <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_438">elaborate</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_439">mankind</span>’s <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_440">evolution</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_441">personally</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_442">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_443">own</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_444">interest</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_445">eternal</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_446">life</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_447">Moderation</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_448">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_449">always</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_450">good</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_451">taste</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_452">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_453">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_454">ever</span> tends <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_455">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_456">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_457">worldly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_458">lust</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_459">God</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_460">through</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_461">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_462">word</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_463">wants</span> us <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_464">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_465">forget</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_466">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_467">worldly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_468">lust</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_469">because</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_470">he</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_471">knows</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_472">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_473">we</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_474">weak</span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_475">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_476">should</span> admit <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_477">that</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_478">spite</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_479">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_480">every</span> effort <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_481">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_482">our</span> part <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_483">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_484">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_485">always</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_486">remain</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_487">sinners</span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_488">God</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_489">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_490">always</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_491">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_492">there</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_493">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_494">forgive</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_495">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_496">sins</span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_497">we</span> must <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_498">always</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_499">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_500">praising</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_501">the</span> lord <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_502">Jesus-Christ</span>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_503">How</span> do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_504">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_505">want</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_506">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_507">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_508">protected</span>? <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_509">The</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_510">answer</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_511">is</span> simple, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_512">to</span> me <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_513">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_514">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_515">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_516">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_517">received</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_518">by</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_519">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_520">All</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_521">Mighty</span>, love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_522">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_523">doesn</span>’t <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_524">hurt</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_525">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_526">nourishes</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_527">heals</span>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_528">The</span> culture <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_529">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_530">mankind</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_531">chooses</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_532">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_533">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_534">may</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_535">complete</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_536">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_537">evolution</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_538">Today</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_539">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_540">may</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_541">rapidly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_542">travel</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_543">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_544">world</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_545">bring</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_546">help</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_547">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_548">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_549">fellow</span> man <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_550">from</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_551">one</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_552">end</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_553">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_554">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_555">other</span>, for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_556">the</span> distance holding us <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_557">apart</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_558">continuously</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_559">being</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_560">conquered</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_561">We</span> must love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_562">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_563">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_564">strong</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_565">the</span> more <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_566">we</span> love, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_567">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_568">stronger</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_569">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_570">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_571">get</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_572">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_573">closer</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_574">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_575">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_576">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_577">from</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_578">one</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_579">another</span>. Love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_580">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_581">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_582">delivers</span> us <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_583">from</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_584">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_585">world</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_586">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_587">lust</span> and stagnation. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_588">Can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_589">mankind</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_590">unite</span>? Love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_591">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_592">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_593">brings</span> us <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_594">together</span>. I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_595">think</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_596">of</span> John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_597">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_598">Baptist</span>: <span style="color:red">Jean 3, 28-29 </span><span style="color:#00B050"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_599">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_600">yourselves</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_601">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_602">testify</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_603">that</span> I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_604">said</span>, ‘I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_605">am</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_606">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_607">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_608">Messiah</span> but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_609">am</span> sent <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_610">ahead</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_611">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_612">him</span>.’ 29 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_613">The</span> bride <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_614">belongs</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_615">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_616">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_617">bridegroom</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_618">The</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_619">friend</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_620">who</span> attends <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_621">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_622">bridegroom</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_623">waits</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_624">listens</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_625">him</span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_626">is</span> full <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_627">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_628">joy</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_629">when</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_630">he</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_631">hears</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_632">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_633">bridegroom</span>’s <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_634">voice</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_635">That</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_636">joy</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_637">is</span> mine, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_638">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_639">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_640">now</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_641">complete</span>.</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_642">From</span> Paul: <span style="color:red">Romans 5, 5 </span><span style="color:#00B050">And <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_643">hope</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_644">does</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_645">not</span> put us <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_646">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_647">shame</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_648">because</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_649">God</span>’s love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_650">has</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_651">been</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_652">poured</span> out <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_653">into</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_654">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_655">hearts</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_656">through</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_657">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_658">Holy</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_659">Spirit</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_660">who</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_661">has</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_662">been</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_663">given</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_664">to</span> us. </span><span style="color:red">1 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_665">Corinthians</span> 7, 12-14</span><span style="color:#00B050"> 12 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_666">To</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_667">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_668">rest</span> I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_669">say</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_670">this</span> (I, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_671">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_672">the</span> Lord): If <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_673">any</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_674">brother</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_675">has</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_676">wife</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_677">who</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_678">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_679">not</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_680">believer</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_681">she</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_682">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_683">willing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_684">to</span> live <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_685">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_686">him</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_687">he</span> must <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_688">not</span> divorce <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_689">her</span>. 13 And if a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_690">woman</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_691">has</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_692">husband</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_693">who</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_694">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_695">not</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_696">believer</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_697">he</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_698">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_699">willing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_700">to</span> live <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_701">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_702">her</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_703">she</span> must <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_704">not</span> divorce <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_705">him</span>. 14 For <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_706">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_707">unbelieving</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_708">husband</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_709">has</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_710">been</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_711">sanctified</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_712">through</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_713">his</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_714">wife</span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_715">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_716">unbelieving</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_717">wife</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_718">has</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_719">been</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_720">sanctified</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_721">through</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_722">her</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_723">believing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_724">husband</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_725">Otherwise</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_726">your</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_727">children</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_728">would</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_729">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_730">unclean</span>, but as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_731">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_732">is</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_733">they</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_734">holy</span>. </span>Paul <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_735">was</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_736">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_737">at</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_738">ease</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_739">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_740">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_741">previous</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_742">declaration</span> but I do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_743">believe</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_744">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_745">he</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_746">did</span> transmit <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_747">the</span> Lords <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_748">wishes</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_749">our</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_750">understanding</span>. <span style="color:red"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_751">Ephesians</span> 2, 8</span> <span style="color:#00B050">For <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_752">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_753">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_754">by</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_755">grace</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_756">you</span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_757">been</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_758">saved</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_759">through</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_760">faith</span>—and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_761">this</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_762">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_763">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_764">from</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_765">yourselves</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_766">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_767">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_768">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_769">gift</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_770">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_771">God</span>. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_772">God</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_773">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_774">true</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_775">faithful</span> <span style="color:red">John 3 17-18 </span><span style="color:#00B050">17 For <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_776">God</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_777">did</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_778">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_779">send</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_780">his</span> Son <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_781">into</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_782">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_783">world</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_784">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_785">condemn</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_786">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_787">world</span>, but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_788">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_789">save</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_790">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_791">world</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_792">through</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_793">him</span>. 18 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_794">Whoever</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_795">believes</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_796">him</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_797">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_798">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_799">condemned</span>, but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_800">whoever</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_801">does</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_802">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_803">believe</span> stands <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_804">condemned</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_805">already</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_806">because</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_807">they</span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_808">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_809">believed</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_810">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_811">name</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_812">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_813">God</span>’s <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_814">one</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_815">only</span> Son.</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_816">Believing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_817">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_818">reaching</span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_819">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_820">help</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_821">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_822">perfect</span> love and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_823">forgiveness</span>; no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_824">one</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_825">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_826">pretend</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_827">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_828">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_829">perfect</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_830">Fulfilling</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_831">all</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_832">scriptures</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_833">Jesus</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_834">was</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_835">condemned</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_836">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_837">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_838">crucified</span>, pure innocence, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_839">he</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_840">was</span> love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_841">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_842">was</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_843">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_844">recognised</span>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_845">Praise</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_846">the</span> Lord <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_847">Jesus</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_848">the</span> son <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_849">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_850">God</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_851">made</span> man <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_852">so</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_853">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_854">all</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_855">mankind</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_856">can</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_857">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_858">helped</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_859">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_860">reach</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_861">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_862">fathers</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_863">eternal</span> love.</p>Claude St-Amourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988739542386084543noreply@blogger.com0