THE CHECKLIST Many people sort of use the Ten Commandments as a checklist to see if they are doing well. No other gods (X) Idols (X) Swearing, (X) Sabbath, (X) Honor parents, (X), commit adultery, (X) steal, (X) lie (X) Covet, (X) The only problem with this check list is that the Law was not written for the righteous man, but for the sinner. The Ten Commandments forms the basic rules for a peaceful society. They stand between us and chaos. But they can never make us what God wants us to become. So, if keeping the Commandments is not God’s ultimate objective for us then what is? John the Baptist came into Israel...
THE BAHAMAS The Bahamas are bracing for unimaginable news. This Hurricane has been unprecedented in its fury and destruction. There are 70,000 people in need of food and shelter and there are 6,600 persons still missing. When you look at the endless piles of rubble and the flooding and such it is easy to see why they haven’t found many of the victims yet. In the summer’s heat it is going to be a gruesome task to gather up and identify the bodies… and how does one begin when the entire infrastructure of a place including businesses and homes and churches and utility companies and police and fire and construction crews are all in the same boat? I have friends that live there, or used to. Where are they now? ...
GOD SEES In Job chapter one, we see that the sons of God came to present themselves to the Lord and Satan came in among them. We notice right off that while Satan seems big and formidable on earth, he seems very small in the presence of God, and while God knows everything, he more or less pretends not to know where Satan has come from. It’s like God is saying, “Oh yeah, that’s right, you are that guy that hijacked that tiny little planet on the outskirts of nowhere.” We can also notice here that God did not greet him as” Lucifer, son of the morning.” He lost that title in the fall. He is now known as Satan (The Adversary) the one blemish in God’s otherwise perfect creation. Nevertheles...
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