Tag: punishment
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Understand today the discipline of the LORD your God
Do YOU, (children) claiming God as your Father and Jesus Christ as YOUR Lord know this one? 11:1 וְאָהַבְתָּ אֵת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְשָׁמַרְתָּ מִשְׁמַרְתּוֹ וְחֻקֹּתָיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו וּמִצְוֺתָיו כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃ Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11 :: Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of…
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You Will Not Be Led -8- All but Two
Joshua & Caleb Observe carefully those faithful to the LORD and also leaders faithful to Moses. Then listen to the grumbling rabble of the disobedient and see a stark contrast. Two faithful successors stand out because these contemporaries of Moses (who began this forty year exodus at age 80) stood faithfully with the LORD’s anointed…
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Jesus – Disaster & Sin – Tower of Siloam
“I tell you, no! But … What day’s NEWS doesn’t HEADLINE: DISASTER? The world asks why God would allow this. Were those killed worse sinners than others, so God punished them by death? This is how we think. Even if we acknowledge sin (in others) we want to blame God for punishment, especially in providential…
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Our Lament and Weeping -3- What city has not terrors?
God’s repeated warnings to repent had been ignored and destruction of the land follows with terror and deaths as he now joins the captives driven from Jerusalem. From Terror to Elegy After the terrors of Jerusalem at the hand of its enemies are complete Jeremiah shares four sad songs as acrostic elegies. Elegy An Elegy…
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By the sweat of your face
“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” – Genesis 3:19 Had a rough day at work? Or maybe you have had a tough time finding work. Do you find as many…
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In God We Trusted – 5
The political ‘spin’ has been spun. The gradual fall is begun. How? lament the People… Why? In God we trusted. “Lamentations” was derived from a translation of the title as found in the Latin Vulgate (Vg.) translation of the Greek OT, the Septuagint (LXX), and conveys the idea of “loud cries.” The Hebrew exclamation ekah…
