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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Women don't like to hear that they are more easily deceived. In fact, they argue with me that this could not be true. <i>"It was only Eve who was deceived and it certainly doesn't mean we all can be," </i>they tell me. Here are is the verse about women being deceived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><i><b>"But I do not
allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain
quiet"</b></i> (1 Timothy 2:12).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background: white;">The reasons the Apostle Paul gives that women aren’t to teach or
be in authority over men are from the following verses. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b><i>"For it was Adam who was first created, and
then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived,
fell into transgression"</i></b> (1 Timothy 2:13, 14).</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #333333;">Then women tell me that this doesn't prove that women are more easily deceived since this verse is only speaking about Eve. Are they saying the sinless and perfect
Eve who walked in the Garden with the Lord but then was deceived by Satan was
not as good as them and if they were in the same situation and a serpent tried to
convince them that they should eat the forbidden fruit they would would have quickly responded, </span><i style="color: #333333;">“No way, Satan,
you can’t deceive me since God said I wasn’t to eat that fruit. You aren't going to deceive me!” </i><span style="color: #333333;">Oh yes, they mistakenly believe, they would have responded to Satan much differently than Eve and would have not dashed
all of civilizations ever to exist into decay and death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do these women make a good point? No. They are wrong and women are more easily deceived than men. Haven’t
they ever heard of the car salesmen jokes about the salesmen hoping to sell to women
rather than men since they can sell women the cars for a much higher price. I would never
buy a car without Ken by my side since I know I would be much easier deceived
than Ken would be. (Do you know why all the sales call are in the middle of the day? So they can talk to women and deceive them into buying their products.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love what Debi
Pearl wrote about the nature of men and women. <i>“God designed the woman to be
sensitive and vulnerable for the sake of the little ones whom she must nurture.
The soul of a mother had to be vulnerable, the outer shell thin. She must be
quick to feel, to hurt, to love, to have compassion, to take in the broken, and
to believe the best. Vulnerability is a woman’s greatest natural asset and the point
of her greatest weakness.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A woman can become
tough and hard, skeptical, and cautious in relationships just like a man. She
can become guarded and cynical, but in so doing, she is no longer feminine, no
longer attractive to a man, and she will even begin to not like herself.
Unprotected by the covering of her husband, she will grow miserable fighting
her own battles and trying to survive on an equal footing with men.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Just look at the
faces and mannerisms of outspoken feminists. In their attempt to shed their
vulnerability and express their independence, feminists begin to exhibit traits
and behaviors completely outside of their created feminine nature. They lose
their beauty and charm.” </i>(Created to Be His Help Meet on page 108)</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reason we need to understand this, women, is so we won't be led astray easily and have make sure we follow our husband's lead and ask him when we have a question. Search scripture for answers and allow it to lead you into Truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Los
Angeles Times has an article called <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-levine-cosleeping-bedsharing-global-20160916-snap-story.html" target="_blank">It's Okay to sleep next to your infant child. In fact, it's
beneficial.</a> They wrote that sleeping with an infant is common in other
cultures, therefore it is probably the best way to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">The </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/american-academy-of-pediatrics-ORCIG000056-topic.html" id="ORCIG000056" title="American Academy of Pediatrics"><span style="background: white; color: #4591b8; text-decoration: none;">American Academy of
Pediatrics</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"> advises against <i>parent-child co-sleeping,
or “bed-sharing,” citing safety concerns from accidental suffocation or falls.
Doctors worry that tired — or intoxicated — parents will roll onto their
infants in the middle of the night without realizing it. Putting babies in
cribs or cots in a separate room is also customary in Britain, Germany and
other parts of Western Europe.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Much of the rest of the world believes it is <i>“downright cruel to have a
baby sleep alone.” </i>There is so much contrary information out there; what is a
mother supposed to do? Speak to your husband about it and see what he would
prefer. This is the most important thing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way in deciding how to do this, unless a
mother is an alcoholic, drug addict, or heavy sleeper. I would accidentally sleep
with my babies when they were infants while I was nursing and we would both
fall asleep but most of the time, I would put them in their bed right by my bed up until six weeks old.
Ken and I are such light sleepers that all of their little squeaks and noises
would keep us awake. There was no way we could sleep with them in the same room
for long. A mother and father getting no sleep or little sleep is not a good thing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also, it doesn’t matter what the rest of the world thinks or does. There
are many women I know who always slept with their infants and raised great children.
There are many women, like me, who didn’t sleep with their children and raised
great children. This should never be a cause for conflict among mothers. They should
do what their husbands want and feel comfortable with.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We made our infants sleep through the night by six weeks. I was too
exhausted to be woken up all throughout the night. It was better for both of us
when we had a good night sleep. A baby doesn’t know how to put themselves to
sleep so every time they wake up, they cry. Allowing them to cry the first time
they wake until they go to sleep will teach them that they can go to sleep without
their mama. This didn’t harm my children at all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other mothers could never dream of allowing their babies to “cry it out”
so they shouldn’t if they don’t want to as long as they aren't getting emotionally
and physically distraught for lack of sleep. Then they need to allow their
babies to cry so they can get to sleep. An terribly exhausted mother is not good for
anyone. However, this is no cause for conflict either. It’s a non-issue in my
mind. You’re not a better mom for whatever way you chose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You’re a good mother if you raise your children in the nurture and the
admonition of the Lord. Period. This is what is important to the Lord so it
should be what is most important to us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">Christian, you
ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed
by them, why do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly
to; they have never proved His faithfulness as you have done, and it is no
wonder if they are bowed down with alarm and cowed with fear: but you profess
to be of another spirit; you have been begotten again unto a lively hope, and
your heart lives in heaven and not on earthly things; now, if you are seen to
be distracted as other men, what is the value of that grace which you profess
to have received? Where is the dignity of that new nature which you claim to
possess?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Again, if you
should be filled with alarm, as others are, you would, doubtless, be led into
the sins so common to others under trying circumstances. The ungodly, when they
are overtaken by evil tidings, rebel against God; they murmur, and think that
God deals hardly with them. Will you fall into that same sin? Will you provoke
the Lord as they do? Moreover, unconverted men often run to wrong means in
order to escape from difficulties, and you will be sure to do the same if your
mind yields to the present pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trust in the Lord, and wait patiently for him.
Your wisest course is to do as Moses did at the Red Sea, <i>"Stand still and
see the salvation of God." </i>For if you give way to fear when you hear of
evil tidings, you will be unable to meet the trouble with that calm composure
which nerves for duty, and sustains under adversity. How can you glorify God if
you play the coward? Saints have often sung God's high praises in the fires,
but will your doubting and desponding, as if you had none to help you, magnify
the Most High? Then take courage, and relying in sure confidence upon the
faithfulness of your covenant God, <i>"let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid."</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>He shall not be afraid of evil tidings.</i></b></span></span></div>
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-13595923323216424322016-09-30T06:00:00.003-07:002016-09-30T06:06:26.039-07:00Divorced Parents Raise Less Religious Children<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background: white; color: #191e23;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If passing your faith onto your children is of utmost importance to you as it was to me, do everything in your power to stay married to your husband until death do you part. Have you noticed how faith is dwindling in this country as the divorce rate rises? There is a reason for this and it is the same reason God hates divorce: it's consequences are devastating on the children and future generations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #191e23;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Ken and I got married, we made a pact with each other that divorce would never be in our vocabulary. Marriage was for life for both of us through all the trials we most undoubtedly would go through. Having been home full time with my children and staying committed to Ken was instrumental in raising secure and mentally stable children who love the Lord and it will be for your children too. I am sure all of you know many people who have come from broken homes and the devastation it has caused in their lives. Do you want this for your children?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #191e23; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God hates divorce. He is clear about this in
His Word. Marriage is defined by Him and is one man and one woman becoming one
flesh until death do they part. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #191e23; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-style: italic;">What God has joined together, let no man tear
asunder</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #191e23; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (Matthew 10:9). One of the purposes of marriage is to create godly offspring.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #191e23; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There have been studies on the effect of divorce on children and how more and more children are walking away from their faith because of their parent's divorce. </span><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/children-of-divorced-parents-tend-to-be-less-religious/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">An article</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #191e23; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> about this issue states that divorce is not as high as it used to be but that is because
more couples just live together and when they split up, it’s not called divorce. But it harms the children just as much as if their parents divorced and has a great potential of causing them to leave the faith if they have any. (It's tragic how many couples who call themselves Christians are living with each other before marriage these days.)</span></div>
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younger Americans tending to shy away from religion in much greater numbers
than previous generations, but now, researchers think they may have found the
culprit…<u>if you want your children to stay in church, it helps to stay with your
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Post, "Everything in a divorce gets divided. Literally everything. …
Everyone takes sides. Even religion takes sides. The church gets divided. Dad
leaves Mom's faith, or vice versa. Negotiating those worlds becomes
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<span style="color: #191e23;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marriage and families are what great cultures are built upon. As marriages crumble so do societies and you can see this happening in ours. Gangs are becoming more and more prevalent because of the lack of a father in these young men's lives. They are looking for a family to be a part of and it is the wrong family.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #191e23;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Divorce causes so much pain and bitterness in children since many times they believe it was their fault that their parents divorced and this often causes them to grow up to be angry adults. Most times, this anger is directed at God (atheists are just people who are mad at God for how He's running the world) and they don't want to have anything to do with a God that would allow the break up of their family.</span></span></div>
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for your marriage, women. Fight for the souls of your husband, if he is not a
believer, and for the souls of your children. I have seen women who are married
to unbelievers raise godly children because they stayed with their unbelieving
husband and this gave security to the children. The believing mothers sanctified the home with their presence (1 Corinthians 7:14) since Jesus lives inside of them. The children were modeled a godly
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told by almost every one in their life to divorce their husband. They won’t
hear that message from me or those in the chat room. We encourage women to stay married,
win their husband without a word by being in subjection to them with godly behavior,
and give their children the security of a home united and faith in Christ being
displayed for all to see.</span></span></div>
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-46999622143582651982016-09-29T06:00:00.003-07:002016-09-29T06:00:04.257-07:00Taking Pictures With Tongues Out<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As many of you know, I have two new granddaughters. One was born in July and the other in August. They are beautiful and fun to watch. We laugh when their little tongues come continually out of their mouths. When they toot, we think it's funny. When they burp, we all laugh and are happy they got their air out so it won't cause a tummy ache. All of their noises are so sweet to all of us. However, when grown women are doing these things, they aren't funny or cute anymore. It is disgusting and they are not being discreet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sticking out your tongue for pictures and having tooting and burping contests are common among women today. I hear it directly from them. They think it's funny. The Bible tells us otherwise: <span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; text-align: center;"><b><i>When I was a
child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but
when I became a man, I put away childish things.</i></b> (1 Corinthians 13:11) Even as our children grew older, they never stuck their tongues out or looked like the girl in the picture. We would never have allowed this. They didn't burp or toot on purpose in front of us either. (I actually never heard them burp since they had healthy gallbladders.) We taught them from a young age to have manners. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't ever remember having a problem with burping. I have heard that if you burp a lot, you are having problem with your gall bladder so check out ways to <a href="http://lorialexander.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-you-burb-lot.html" target="_blank">heal your gallbladder</a>. (Ken had many horrible gall bladder attacks but was able to heal it completely.) I would have never stuck out my tongue for pictures, ever. When I see women do this, it looks disgusting. Tongues are meant to help us talk and eat to enjoy our food, not show off to other people, especially when they are coated with a thick white film which usually means they eat too much dairy and other unhealthy foods. (You may want to check out how to heal this too.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be a godly feminine woman. Show discretion in all that you do and don't try to gain attention by doing something that is ugly. You are grown up now and have put childish ways behind you. No longer give into your feelings and emotions but be guided by the clear teachings of the Word of God. Don't follow what culture is doing but follow what the Lord wants you to do: <b><i>"Let it be the hidden person of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price" </i></b>(1 Peter 3:4).</span><br />
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-56341287765298507202016-09-28T06:00:00.000-07:002016-09-28T06:00:11.705-07:00Blogging and Neglecting Your Family<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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specifically states that leaders in the church shouldn’t be young so they won’t
be puffed up with pride; <span style="background: rgb(253 , 254 , 255); color: #001320;"><i><b>Not a novice, lest
being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil</b> </i>(1
Timothy 3:6).</span> A novice is <i>“<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">a person new to or
inexperienced in a field or situation.</span>” </i>I read blogs written by young women with huge followings
and they write books and tour the country giving speeches. I see a
problem with this and one of my friends did too. She wrote me this text:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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post and, oh my, that woman needs some serious conviction and repentance. It's
embarrassing to see a Christian mom so irresponsible and unconcerned about her
lack of stewardship over her household and children. And she gives women with
more than two children a bad name and is feeding into people’s idea that they
shouldn't have multiple children because they won't be able to handle it. How
can she so proudly display her sin for all to see? She needs to stop spending
her time blogging, speaking, and writing and fulfill her role as a wife and
mom. She absolutely does have the time and energy to be a godly mother, but she
decides to spend her energies on people outside her home at the expense of her
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The problems I see
with these women are that for starters, many times they are teaching men in
their crowds. Women are specifically forbidden for teaching men. <b><i>“</i></b></span><span style="background: rgb(253 , 254 , 255); color: #001320; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b><i>But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority
over a man, but to remain quiet”</i></b> (1 Timothy 2:12). Secondly, God has given the responsibility
of teaching younger women to older women for a reason. They have experience
raising children and being married for a long time. Younger women do not since they usually have children in the home who should be their first priority.</span></div>
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<span style="background: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background: rgb(253 , 254 , 255); color: #001320; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">On John Piper’s
blog, a woman named <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/moral-failures-in-ministry-and-my-social-media" target="_blank">Liz Wann</a> wrote some strong words about being marinated in
the Word and experiences in life before beginning any type of ministry to
others, less there be a temptation to be puffed up with pride and begin living
in sin. <i>“</i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Jesus is the sinless example of the intersection of public
and private living. For starters, Jesus did not have a public ministry until
his thirties. First, he sweated decades over the hard manual labor of
carpentry. For the majority of his life, Jesus was unknown and seemingly
ordinary. Yet he was faithful in the mundane. He worked with his hands and
created form and beauty out of planks of wood… In some astonishingly mysterious
way, Jesus’s pre-ministry years were purposeful and necessary for him to increase
<b>“in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man”</b> (Luke 2:52)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="text-align: start;"> It was in the field of carpentry that Jesus
learned and grew into a sympathetic High Priest, and it is here that he models
for us that no form of work — even the most mundane — is below the God-man. It
is a calling — a place to be, and live, authentically.</span>”</span></span></i></div>
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He is speaking about those who have raised children. <b><i>“</i></b></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b><i>Well
reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged
strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the
afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work”</i></b> (1 Timothy 5:10). Older women should be those who have spent the <i>“unknown and seemingly ordinary”</i> days being <i>“faithful in the
mundane”</i> of raising and disciplining children, being a help meet to their husband, and staying busy in the home. Younger women haven’t done this long enough and are still in the process of doing
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following while you are younger. Spend your days with your husband, children
and keeping a clean and tidy home. Fame is a pit of destruction for many people, especially when they are young. They crawl
into it since they believe they are <i>“above the Law”</i> and don’t practice what
they preach or don’t have the experience they should have to be doing what they
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If you are a mother with children still in the home, focus your time and energies on loving and obeying your husband. Be the best help meet
to him you possibly can. Love your children and raise them to be
self-controlled lovers of Jesus. Fix your family nourishing food, help those in
need when you have time, and take care of all the things that a home requires.
This is a good work and what the Lord has called you to do. Then if you have a bit of extra time to do some blogging, go ahead and do it but don't allow it to consume your time and energy. Always keep time with the Lord, your marriage, children and home your priority. This is God's will for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joshua
and Anna Duggar just celebrated their eighth anniversary. This is what was said
about them: <i>“Throughout this ordeal, Anna remained faithful to her husband.
While she publicly shared the deep grief and betrayal that she felt, she never
once talked badly about Josh. She continued to trust in God and be strong for
her children, and she waited patiently for her husband to complete his program and
return home.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The
world can’t understand this type of love and forgiveness. They consistently
ridicule the Duggar family’s values and of course they do. The Duggar family
lives for the Lord and His glory, not the world’s. Yes, Josh committed terrible
sins against his wife but she was determined to show him the grace and
forgiveness the Lord shows us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Apostle Paul murdered Christians. <b><i>“</i></b><b><i><span style="background: rgb(253, 254, 255); color: #001320;">For I am the least
of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted
the church of God.</span> But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace
which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was bestowed</i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i> upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which
was with me” </i></b>(1 Corinthians 15:9, 10). God showed His grace and forgiveness to
an evil man who was murdering His children and used him in a mighty way. The
Apostle Paul saw Jesus, took part in the beginnings of the Church, and wrote the
most powerful books in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(253, 254, 255); color: #001320;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God did this to
show His depth of compassion and love upon us and that no one is beyond
redemption. There are women in the chat room fighting for their marriages.
Their husbands are living with their girlfriend, trapped in addictive drugs,
and living in direct disobedience to the Lord. Yet, these women know what is at
stake: their husband’s eternal souls. This is what they are fighting for. They
have an eternal perspective, not a selfish, <i>"it’s-all-about me and my pain"</i> attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(253, 254, 255); color: #001320;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The stakes are
high, women. Eternity in hell is a long, long, time. Men who are caught in
Satan’s web are blessed who have godly wives who are broken up inside from the
rejection and suffering they are going through but continue to stand strong in the
Lord like Anna. In the Lord’s strength, they are being Jesus to their
disobedient husbands and showing love, warmth, and joy to them. It’s amazing to
read their testimonies when their husbands come home and want healing for their
marriage. Some begin going to church and loving the Jesus they see in their
wives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(253, 254, 255); color: #001320;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No, the world can’t
understand denying ourselves and living for something so much bigger than us. Time
here is short and it is far better to live our lives for others and for His
glory than for ourselves and for the pleasures this world has to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(253, 254, 255); color: #001320;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Duggars are
consistently being mocked for their faith because they are willing to put it on
display for all to see. I have learned from them and I am sure many others
have. We’ve learned what a blessing children and strong marriages are and the importance of dressing modestly. We’ve seen them go on mission trips, take treats to the
local policemen and firemen, and how they handle difficulties by trusting in
the Lord. We’ve seen them forgive others who have sinned against them. The
children wait patiently for the one they are going to marry and stay pure
during the courtship and engagement, then go on to have strong marriages,
except the precious one who forgave her husband who sinned greatly against her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love the
writings of Charles Spurgeon, as you know. He wrote: </span><i style="color: #001320; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You tell me there are no
persecutions now. Indeed, perhaps if you followed Christ more fully, you would
find out there were.”</i><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Follow Christ fully, trust the Lord, and expect to be
ridiculed by many in this evil age but never take part in the mocking of other
believers who are living their lives for the Lord. Rejoice with them when their prodigal comes home.</span></div>
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-1909512336066407252016-09-26T06:00:00.000-07:002016-09-26T06:00:00.159-07:00Emotions Are Not Dictators<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we know from the Bible, women are the weaker sex (1 Peter 3:7) and are more easily
deceived (1 Timothy 2:14). We allow our emotions to control some of our life and decisions. This is why God
has said that women are not to teach nor be in authority over men (1 Timothy 2:12). God made
women and men differently for the different purposes He has created them for.
He has created women to get married, bear children, and guide the home (1
Timothy 5:14 and Titus 2:4, 5). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reason women are flocking to <a href="http://lorialexander.blogspot.com/2015/11/beware-of-jesus-calling.html" target="_blank">Jesus Calling</a> and many of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4gtTMPqQM" target="_blank">female Bible teachers</a> and writers is because they appeal to their emotional nature. Women
love to feel things. If they don't feel in love with
their husbands, they will often divorce them to find another man they might feel in love with. They may not even feel that they love one of their children but they must regardless of their feelings. Women love to feel emotional over the Lord and His Word. I am not
saying this is wrong but it shouldn't be our goal. Our goal should be to obey
the Lord by doing what He has clearly told us to do in His Word without
depending upon our emotions to lead us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I went to a wonderful retreat this past weekend where a close friend of
ours led a women's one-day retreat. Carol Hopson said, <i>"Emotions are not
dictators; they are indicators of our need to run to Jesus." </i>Women
absolutely have a tendency to allow their emotions to dictate their behaviors.
Emotions and feelings aren't always right and often lie to us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When <a href="http://lorialexander.blogspot.com/2015/02/an-ugly-twisted-form-of-submission.html" target="_blank">Fifty Shades of Grey</a> was popular, I read some blogs and women
praising this book and how much better their sex lives were from seeing this
movie. They were being led by their emotions and not by love for their
husbands. I am sure the women who had <i>"great sex lives"</i> from this
movie don't have great sex lives anymore because emotional highs don't last very
long. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since we know we are the weaker vessel and easily deceived, it is all the
more reason to be in the Word daily and be led by the perfect will of God, no
longer allowing our emotions to run and ruin our lives. If you want God to
speak to you personally, as Justin Peter said, <i>"Dear ones, if you
want to hear God speak to you, there’s one way I can guarantee you that you
will hear God speak, read your Bible. If you want to hear God speak to you
audibly, read it out loud. I promise you, I promise you, you’ll hear Him
speak."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If you want to grow strong in the wisdom and the
knowledge of the Lord, the only path is through His Word, not feel-good, warm
and fuzzy devotionals, female preachers, emotions, and books. God's Word is convicting, challenging, and
encouraging so read and listen to Christian authors, teachers, and male
preachers who teach convicting, challenging, and encouraging messages.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If you're sick of being a baby Christian and only drinking milk, unable to distinguish clearly between right and wrong, and not understanding who you are in Christ, I encourage you to listen to this teaching by Michael Pearl on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thedooroflobelville/videos/326349411047778/" target="_blank">Romans 8</a>. Romans is one of the most powerful and important books of the Bible. Paul explains what happens to us when we believe and how we can walk in the Spirit. Chapter 8 is the culmination of these teachings in Romans. This is good, solid meat for you to chew on and mature you in your walk with the Lord.</span></div>
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so don't allow the enemy to have any foothold into your life
and deceive you by following your emotions instead of the Word of
God. Don't be led astray by the popular feel-good devotionals, sexually charged books or anything that doesn't line up with the pure Word of God. Walking in the Spirit and being set apart is what the Lord calls us to do. Heed the call and run to Jesus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many children die and it is so painful for the parents and all who loved these children. The parents ask, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">"Why?" </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and others ask </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">"How could a loving God take a child when He controls everything?"</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> People will say things like, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">"God must have needed them more than you"</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> or others things that are painful for the parents to hear. Michael Pearl is asked about this in his latest magazine so I thought I would publish it here for you to see.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My name is_____ and I am
struggling with my faith. I don’t understand why God takes kids and good people
up to him at such a young age. I have written fellow Christians and ministries
in search of guidance, but they ignore my letters. I am hungry for Jesus and
would be grateful if you would help me understand this.</span></span></i></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Michael Answers</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You ask why “God takes”
kids and good people at such a young age. Your question is based on incomplete
and inaccurate assumptions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some of your false
assumptions are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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so because God decides to end their time here on earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->That we are like dolls in a
playhouse that God moves around at his pleasure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->That nothing happens unless
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->That it is his duty to not
allow anything bad to befall anyone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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make only good things happen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]-->That staying here on earth
is the best option; that it is bad to die and end up in God’s presence rather
than staying here on earth in all the sin, sadness, and sometimes pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Furthermore, in expressing
consternation over “bad things” happening to kids or good people, you are
assuming that it is appropriate for bad things to happen to adults or bad
people. In that case, you are assuming that youth or goodness merits some
special favor from God, and that older adults or bad people deserve to die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only to provoke a point, I
say you seem to know more than God does about what is best. If you were an
adult I would tell you to read my book, <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://nogreaterjoy.org/shop/by-divine-design-book"><span style="color: #ff4400;">By Divine Design</span></a></span></i>. It addresses your
underlying assumptions. I do not have space to address every point, and much
could be said, but I will make a quick pass at answering your question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Christians or children
die, they pass into God’s presence. Jesus said of children who die,<b><i> </i></b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><b>“That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my
Father which is in heaven”</b> (Matthew 18:10)</span></i>. Paul said, <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><b><i>“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the
body, and to be present with the Lord”</i></b><i> (2 Corinthians 5:8).</i></span> He
further revealed that he had <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><b><i>“a desire to depart, and to be
with Christ; which is far better”</i> </b><i>(Philippians 1:23).</i></span> Paul, a
“good man” considered it better to die and be with Christ. I am sure that many
people were very sad at his departing, and some might have wondered why God
would take such a good and useful man from their presence, but Paul was present
with the Lord and was surrounded by children beholding the face of the Father.
So even if you had the power to prevent him from dying or the power to bring
him back, he would have chosen to stay dead and in the presence of God. And the
children now beholding the face of the Father no doubt prefer their present
circumstances to what they see down here on earth where people doubt God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #368ab5;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God does not always force
his will in the face of human free will.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As to your assumption that
God is the doer of all things and only his will is done, heed the passage that
says God is <b><i>“not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance”</i></b> (2 Peter 3:9). God does not will that any should perish, yet many
perish every day. God does not always force his will in the face of human free
will. He allows us to live in an environment of cause and effect, making our
own choices and learning from them, suffering the consequences of violating the
laws of nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Solomon said,<b><i> </i></b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><b>“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and
chance happeneth to them all” </b>(Ecclesiastes 9:11)</span></i>. Contrary to
popular belief, one can be in the wrong place at the wrong time and by chance
catch a disease or be hit by a car and die. God doesn’t make such things
happen, except on special occasions when he is judging someone for a reason;
they happen to us all as we take our chances in a world that is fallen and
separated from its creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Further, death is
inevitable for us all, because we inherited it from our great, great, great…
grandfather Adam. <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><b>“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned”</b><i> (Romans 5:12).</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally, bad things do
happen in this world, so bad that there is no way we could hold God
responsible. Bad people are free to do bad things and hurt children and others.
Many people have suffered unjustly, and there is no way to connect God to it.
Satan is “the god of this world,” (2 Corinthians 4:4) who has blinded people
and led them to do hurtful and stupid things to each other. There will be
justice in the life to come, but at present there is no fairness and very
little justice. Don’t blame God, blame Adam for separating us from God; and we
can blame ourselves for using our free will in harmful ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don’t have space to say
more, but know that we have a promise from God: <b><i>“And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
away” </i></b>(Revelation 21:4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A friend of mine spent some time with a family that is very left leaning, meaning they are usually anti-God, socialists, support abortion, and mostly everything that is against the Word of God. These people, she said, live in fear and anxiety about what is happening in the culture. They feel our nation needs to go more to the left to be a better place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know many women who are on the far right, meaning they are usually Christians who love the Lord and His ways. They fight against abortion, for a small government, and mostly for the values found in the Bible. These women live in fear and anxiety about what is happening in our culture. They feel our nation needs to go more the the right to be a better place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's something terribly wrong with this picture. Anything that takes away your joy for long has become an idol. The direction of our culture has become an idol in their lives. They have all lost their joy. This is understandable to those who are on the left since they refuse to acknowledge the Lord and walk in His ways. This is not understandable to those who are on the right since they know how the story ends, who sits on the throne, who will be victorious, and have been commanded to not be anxious but to cast their cares upon the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If believers in the risen Savior look no different than those who have refused Him and made the state of our culture their idol and lost their joy, they need to stop listening to the news and spend a lot more time in the Word and in prayer. We are commanded to pray for our leaders and leave it all in the Lord's very capable hands. He tells us to not fear for He is with us and will never leave us. Do you believe this? If you do, stop worrying and being anxious. You are being a terrible witness for the joy of the Lord. Get rid of your idols and make God the Lord of your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Knowing the Lord, serving Him, and shining His light to a dark and decaying world is what we are called to do. This isn't our home. We are strangers and aliens passing through. Our mansions are on a brand new earth where there will be no more death, sickness, pain, or suffering. Live for this home instead and store your treasures in heaven. Yes, vote, pray, and do what you can to get those who live by godly principles or at least, closer to them elected </span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">(we will be writing a post about who we will be voting for)</span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">, but then leave the outcome with the Lord since He is sovereign, you know. </span></div>
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-86198602460024121712016-09-22T06:00:00.001-07:002016-09-22T06:14:15.052-07:00"No One That is Submissive is Happy"<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Can
you imagine this society without a rule of law? Few would stop at stoplights.
They would go however fast they chose without worrying about a ticket. Hey, get
drunk and drive home and if you kill someone on the way home, no big deal since
there are no policemen and jails. It would be chaos! We have to live by the
rules and if we don’t, we suffer consequences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">People at work have to obey
their bosses or else they will get fired. Children who obey their parents
usually grow up to be children who obey all authority in their lives (teachers,
coaches, and bosses) and make others’ lives pleasant. In every institution on earth,
there is someone in the leadership position and all those under them are in
submission to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
receive a lot of hateful comments as many of you saw when my post went viral.
Our culture hates the truth of God’s Word and as everyone can see who watches
the news, the rule of law in our land is meaning less and less and chaos is
beginning to show its ugly face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One
woman made this comment on my Facebook Always Learning page, <i>“<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">I don't tend to go on feminist rants but holy hell this<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Always-Learning-299701696710545/"><span style="background: white; color: #365899; text-decoration: none;">Always Learning</span></a> </i><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><i>page is a huge help to the patriarchy...might I even say rape
culture in one of these posts. I'm so grateful that I was not taught this way
and have learned recently about how this type of thinking only breeds hate and
system of oppression of women everywhere. This is the type of stuff on Facebook
that actually scares me bc people don't truly think about what they are posting
before they do it. Just because this lady is clearly a Christian doesn't mean
what she is saying is worth any substance. Husbands and wives both need to be
happy and no one that is being submissive is happy...ever. I can't.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">Therefore, according to her logic, all children who are submissive and obey their parents are miserable. All employees who are submissive and obey their bosses are miserable. All citizens who are submissive to their governments and obey the law of the land are miserable. All wives who are submissive to their husbands and obey them are unhappy. In conclusion, you can only be happy if you live in rebellion to all those who are in authority over you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">She is terribly mistaken. Most marriages where the wives become submissive heals and strengthens the marriage which usually results in making both of them happier. All those who are in rebellion to authority are the ones who are miserable. God has set an authority structure so there will be peace. When people obey those who are in authority over them, more people will likely be happy since things run more smoothly and those under authority must use self-control to do what is right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">It takes a lot more discipline to be submissive to authority rather than just do what you feel like doing. Most can see the chaos beginning to reign in our culture as many are doing as they please: broken homes, prisons overflowing, riots in the streets, less safety for all, STDs, drugs addictions, and miserable, unhappy people</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">She has listened to the lies of the enemy of her soul. I pray her blinders come off and she can see the error of her ways and decide to repent and follow the King of kings. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was happy, however, that she can tell that I am </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">"clearly a Christian." </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was my favorite part of her comment! I have never been happier in my life since I learned submission to my husband. We have a wonderful life together now that I am not continually battling his decisions and there isn't an undercurrent of disharmony in our home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">Unfortunately, this
woman has twisted godly submission into an ugly thing. </span>I love what John
Piper says about submission: <i>“At the core of all godly women, cemented in the
soul, there is a simple but steadfast hope in God. It is from the security of
this hope that wives fear nothing that is frightening — even submission to
husbands who do not follow Jesus. These godly women adorn their souls with a
peculiar beauty: <u>not base servility or brash power</u>, but a combination of
humility and lion-like courage that the world cannot explain.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The world cannot make women this way. Their beauty comes from somewhere —
from someone — else. With their souls beautified by God, Christian women
display Jesus in such a way that unbelievers may be won to Christ, even without
a word being spoken. (1 Peter 3:1)”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Knowing Jesus, loving Him, and living for Him is the only way to find happiness and joy. Many have tried to get me to change my message, tone it out, or stop writing, but Truth is the only thing that convicts and changes people, plus I only stand accountable to the Savior of my soul.</span><br />
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-52597716237449809742016-09-21T06:00:00.000-07:002016-09-21T06:10:53.800-07:00"Everybody" is Talking About Brad and Angelina<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you haven't heard the news and aren't up on pop culture like most people are, Brad and Angelina are getting a divorce. (They are famous movie stars for those who have no idea. I actually can't remember ever seeing a movie either of them are in.) They lived together for ten years and then decided to get married in August of 2014. Now, only two years later, they are getting a divorce according to <a href="http://abc7news.com/1518815/" target="_blank">this article</a>. You would have thought with ten years of experience living together, they would have known for sure that they were perfect for each other and this is why they married. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Culture no longer understands the definition of marriage and puts little value on it. Marriage was created by God and it is the union between a male and a female for life, until death do they part. The marriage bed is to be kept undefiled so this means there is to be no sexual relationships before marriage or after marriage with anybody other than their spouse. (Yes, I know the majority of Hollywood could care less about God and His ways. However, He is still their Creator and they will suffer the consequences of disobeying His ways.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sad part is that many Christian couples look no different than Hollywood couples. They live (have sex) with each other and try it out before committing to marriage believing that this will better help them to decide if marriage is right for them. Many chose never to marry and most go separate ways after a while which is similar in feeling to a divorce. They are learning from Hollywood instead of from God's Word. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Too few women have wisdom today. They misunderstand men. Godly men marry so they can have sex and have it freely. They wait to find a godly woman who wants a godly man to commit their lives to each other. Women who aren't godly give themselves away for free. They place no value on themselves or the men they live with. Sex is cheap for them and commitment is old-fashioned and not worth waiting for. They have missed out on the beauty of marriage the way God created it from the beginning of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Women, if you aren't teaching your children about the Lord and His ways consistently, your children will grow up to act more like unbelievers than believers. Our nation idolizes Hollywood. Hollywood is constantly having award nights to acknowledge and fawn over each other. (We never watch them since we have no idea what any of the movies are and few of the actors and actresses, plus the women flaunt their immodesty by the dresses they wear.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I just finished reading and studying 1 John. It's all about love and how Christians should be walking in love and known for their love towards others. If you don't love, you aren't His child. Interestingly, the last verse states,<b><i> "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."</i></b> Now, this seems like it was quickly thrown in there since the rest of the chapter is talking about love. However, idols keep us from loving and living as we should. God should be the only one we serve because He is the beginning and definition of love. God is love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you serve and idolize Hollywood, you won't love as you are commanded to love. Love does another no harm. Cheating on a spouse, having sex before marriage, being involved in porn, living together before marriage, and all the other sexual sins have nothing to do with love. They only have to do with self and idolizing something other than the Lord. If you truly love, you will do nothing to harm anyone else, including your future spouse if you aren't married, your spouse if you are, and your children from divorce. This means you won't commit fornication, adultery, or be involved in any type of sexual immorality with anyone else ever because of the harm it does to everyone involved. This is why God commands us to flee it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Make the Lord the only "idol" in your life. Serve Him and obey Him. He tells us to believe on Him and love others. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves, including your future husband or your present one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>And this is His commandment. That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.</i></b></span><br />
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-66522255212858836742016-09-20T06:00:00.000-07:002016-09-20T06:00:11.557-07:00Must You Honor Sinful Parents?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Charles
Spurgeon wrote<i>, “Never try to live on the
old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt.”</i> As believers in Jesus Christ,
we should not try to find marriage counselors from the secular world, help for
training and disciplining children or any type of relational advice from them
either, since they come from an entirely different perspective with different
goals than a Christ follower.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Recently, Susan wrote to me about her father who is living a sinful lifestyle and she
doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. However, she knows from Scripture
that she must honor her mother and father. How does she reconcile the two? If
she went to the secular world or probably even many lukewarm believers, they
would probably tell her she didn’t need to have anything to do with him if he
was doing something she didn’t like. The Bible is outdated and written by men
any ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What
does the Bible say? We are to honor our father and mother regardless of their
behavior. <i>Our parent’s disobedience
doesn’t give us a right to be disobedient, just as a husband’s disobedience
doesn’t give his wife the right to be disobedient.</i> We will one day stand
alone in the presence of the Lord and have to give an account for our actions,
not our parent's or spouse's. We are told to reverence our husbands and respect
all those in authority over us for the positions they hold and the
responsibility that goes along with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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does Susan honor her father who is living a sinful lifestyle? She needs to gain
an eternal perspective. Hell is an awful place to spend eternity and she must
keep his eternal soul in mind in all her behavior towards him. Pray for him
consistently. Write him notes with Scripture verses and encouraging words. When
she sees him, she should always be kind and loving since the Lord may use her to win him to the Lord. Remember, even Jesus asked the Father to forgive those
who were murdering him. Those trapped in sinful lifestyles are in bondage to
sin and the enemy is winning their soul. It is all a spiritual battle being
waged in the heavenlies. When you try to win your parent, spouse, children, and
friends to the Lord, you use the same weaponry: the armor of the Lord to fight
this battle. Once you put on the Lord’s armor, you have a great chance of
winning them to the Lord because greater is He who is in you than he who is in
the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whenever
you have a relationship problem, go to the Word or to a godly person you know.
Don’t seek help in Egypt. Years ago, Egypt said pornography was fine. Now, they
are realizing the harm in it. We always knew sexual immorality is evil and
something we must flee since the Word is clear about it. Read and study the
Word to find principles to live by. You will never go wrong obeying the Lord in
what He commands that you do. It is much better to reap rewards from the Lord,
than the manna the world has to offer that quickly spoils.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But
without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must
believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-73597266412739782602016-09-19T06:00:00.004-07:002021-05-05T08:16:54.697-07:00Reacting to Well Known Christians Involved in Sexual Sin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZg4si004k6YcwakrS6WOjQAN_eZ82CWQWGCwzwW8LhVngY1K8z9idnD_tOG9Zps5P5BDAE5MtKQMyWiQg-3toABPEM27pvHD1sA1Akd1VS1gvAHwuJgmk5LY5tKlSHqcuINBTgRfUSYpK/s1353/clipboard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1353" data-original-width="1011" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZg4si004k6YcwakrS6WOjQAN_eZ82CWQWGCwzwW8LhVngY1K8z9idnD_tOG9Zps5P5BDAE5MtKQMyWiQg-3toABPEM27pvHD1sA1Akd1VS1gvAHwuJgmk5LY5tKlSHqcuINBTgRfUSYpK/w478-h640/clipboard.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Joshua
Duggar comes from a godly, wholesome family, yet he was caught being deeply
involved in fornication. Then we find that the father of the Willis family (twelve beautiful and talented children that are homeschooled and perform
around the world) has been arrested for molesting his own daughters. Someone wrote
this comment on my blog recently:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">"And the Willis
family! The husband was just arrested for SEXUALLY molesting his own daughters. I'm
glad I don't follow these 'people.' I do not like the Duggars and
never watched the Willis family. People are so quick to watch a 'Christian' family, because they claim to be. I'm glad I have
discernment!"</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, everyone
has their opinions but what should our reactions b</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e when we hear of a Christian
being caught in a sinful lifestyle that blasphemes the name of the God they
serve? We grieve for them, for their family, and for the black eye they give
Christianity, then we pray for them and their families. We don’t mock them or
join the culture in tearing them apart. We live in a highly sexualized culture, and Satan is on the prowl looking for whom he may devour.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Probably most of
you have heard of well-known pastors getting caught for being involved in fornication. Yes, it’s painful and awful. We never would celebrate it and make
it a cause for bragging like this woman who made a comment on the Willis family. It
should grieve us like it grieves the Father; for He wants all to repent and walk
in the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">We are commanded
to "</span><span style="background: rgb(253, 254, 255); color: #001320;">exhort one another daily, while it is
called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin" </span>(Hebrews
3:13). If you see a brother or sister heading in the wrong direction, say
something! Exhort them to walk in obedience. Exhort means to<i> </i>“<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.</span>”
Encourage others to walk faithfully with the Lord, be in the Word, and be
transformed by it and not by the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is why I exhort
women to be keepers at home, so they can be the ones raising and watching
carefully over their children's behavior and thinking. They need to be taught to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and flee fornication (1 Corinthians 6:18). Continually warn them about the evil of our culture. Yes, we should be
sheltering our children when they are young so when they are grown up, their roots
will be deep and strong in the Lord. They will clearly know His ways and have
hidden His word in their hearts, so they won’t sin against Him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Duggar and Toby Willis gave into a small temptation; drawn away by their own lusts, enticed, and then acted upon their lusts and brought forth sin. "</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 115%;">But
every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. </span>Then when lust hath conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is
finished, brings forth death" (James 1:14, 15). They didn't "fall into sin." They chose it, but i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t doesn’t mean all Christians will chose to sin in such a way. </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are many
who have lived godly, influential lives and continued to walk on the narrow
road until the day they died. Do not lose heart! Stay in the Word and make sure
your children know it. Live out love and kindness to your husband, children, and all those
you know. Allow the Lord to use you as His instrument to a fallen world and
stay strong in Him and His mighty power.</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. </span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.</span></span></span></i></b></span></div>
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use lights to make manifest. A Christian man (and woman) should so shine in his life, that
a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. His
conversation (lifestyle) should be such that all who are about him should clearly perceive
whose he is, and whom he serves; and should see the image of Jesus reflected in
his daily actions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are intended for guidance. We are to help those around us who are in the dark.
We are to hold forth to them the Word of life. We are to point sinners to the
Saviour, and the weary to a divine resting-place. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sometimes read their Bibles, and fail to understand them; we should be ready,
like Philip, to instruct the inquirer in the meaning of God's Word, the way of
salvation, and the life of godliness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are also used for warning. On our rocks and shoals a light-house is sure to be
erected. Christian men should know that there are many false lights shown
everywhere in the world, and therefore the right light is needed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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wreckers of Satan are always abroad, tempting the ungodly to sin under the name
of pleasure; they hoist the wrong light. Be it ours to put up the true light
upon every dangerous rock, to point out every sin, and tell what it leads to,
that so we may be clear of the blood of all men, shining as lights in the
world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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also have a very cheering influence, and so have Christians. A Christian ought
to be a comforter, with kind words on his lips, and sympathy in his heart; he should
carry sunshine wherever he goes, and diffuse happiness around him.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #555555; letter-spacing: -0.8pt;">"<b><i>In the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation, </i></b></span></span></div>
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-34260966376794962842016-09-16T06:00:00.001-07:002016-09-16T15:04:14.580-07:00My Mom is Very Sick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My eighty five year old mother has just been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. Many are mourning for her since she is so well-loved. We will all miss her terribly but my two sisters and I know that she has no fear of going home to be with the Lord. After all, the Bible says we will only live seventy, maybe eighty years. <b><i>As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years</i></b> (Psalm 90:10).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Up until she was eighty years old, she had great health. She has eaten healthy, organic food for many years. She has no aches or pains. She still doesn't have arthritis and her blood tests mostly come back great. She's just very tired and has been dizzy since she turned eighty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This world is not our home. We have a much better place to go to for eternity; perfect in every way! Death is ugly no matter how old someone is since we will miss them until we meet them again with Jesus. However, most old people told me that once they hit eighty years old, their health very much deteriorates and this is the way it is supposed to be. If there weren't all these drugs, few people would live past eighty and even with all the great medical care we have, the average age of death is still seventy eight years old! Therefore, medicine hasn't helped a ton since we still aren't living much past what the Bible states. Man will never be able to outsmart the Lord. He has given man a time limit on earth and nothing man does will extend it past that for the majority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's amusing to see what people do to try and extend their lives and that they believe humans should be living to 150 years old. With all of our modern technology, it still isn't happening and it won't because God knows and He is the one who created us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We will all die one day. It's hard to wrap our heads around it but it is 100% sure that we will. However, when you know where you will spend eternity, it doesn't make it so difficult. Sure, many of us love living on this beautiful earth with our loved ones, but if they know the Lord, they will live in eternity with you too. This is why the most important thing you can do, mothers, is to continually teach your children about the Lord. You want to spend eternity with them. If your husband isn't a believer, live a godly life in front of him so he will come to want the Jesus whom you serve. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My mom is amazing! She loves life and loves people. She's incredibly generous and loves taking care of others. Now, my dad is taking great care of her. She has always been my greatest cheerleader and wants me to hurry and finish my book so she can read it before she can't see anymore. She has loved Jesus all of her life and made sure to marry a man who did too. She has been a great role model to me in many ways. We have been best friends for many, many years and I will have a emptiness in my heart when she dies. All the years I have been so ill, she could hardly stand seeing me so sick. She always wished it could be her suffering instead of me. Thankfully, we get to spend eternity with Jesus together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's four generations in that picture above. Cassi had her precious baby in July and loves being a mother. If you could pray for anything, pray that my mom isn't in a lot of pain. Thank you. The Lord gives and He takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsq-yXkxyq8" target="_blank"><i>When We All Get to Heaven</i></a></span></div>
Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-18391112751258931922016-09-15T06:00:00.000-07:002016-09-15T06:00:28.582-07:00Does Your Godliness Turn Your Husband Off?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Tim
Challies wrote an article called “<a href="http://www.challies.com/articles/the-curse-of-a-godly-wife" target="_blank">The Curse of a Godly Wife</a>” and how men who
are married to godly wives are often times intimidated by them. From my
experience, it is because they let their husbands clearly know that they are godlier
than them. They pray elaborate prayers. They are often involved in Bible
studies and some are even the teachers. Since many of them don’t work outside
the home, they have more time to study their Bibles, listen to preachers, and
godly radio programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Mr.
Challies wrote, <i>“In
many cases it is because his wife is godlier—godlier than he is. She may have
been a Christian for longer. She may have a deeper knowledge of the Bible. She
may have read more books and listened to more sermons. She may be the one who
loves to study the Bible and whose heart goes pitter-pat when she adds a new
term to her theological lexicon. And when he compares himself to her, he feels
inadequate. He feels like a poser. He feels embarrassed to do those things he
knows he should do. He finds it easier to do nothing.”</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I was that woman who was godlier than my husband, in my mind. I
did all those things just quoted. However, I failed to realize Ken’s godly
characteristics of being faithful to me, working hard to provide for the
family, deeply loving his children, being generous every opportunity he had,
helping others whenever he saw a need, and rarely being critical of anyone.
Then there I was being critical and feeling proud because I was godlier than him.
Blech!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Let’s say a wife truly is godlier than her husband. How can she
make him not feel intimidated by it? By practicing godliness without saying
anything; being kind and loving towards her husband; respecting him as her head
and not arguing with him; not having to be right but allowing him to have the
last word. There are many ways that she can live a godly life without him
knowing what is going on behind the scenes; enabling her to win him without a
word by being in subjection to him and living a godly life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Don’t ever ask him to pray or lead devotions. Allow him to make
this decision. Let him choose what church to attend. If he doesn’t attend a
church, ask him if it is okay for you to go. Most men won’t mind unless they
have very little time at home and want to be with you. If this is the case,
find a good Bible study to attend or someway that feeds your soul. This just
may be the way you win your husband; when he sees you trying to please and obey
him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Don’t allow your godliness to become a curse to your husband.
Allow it to be a huge blessing instead. Be a wife that loves to please him,
respects him, shows him appreciation, and follows his lead. In this way, your
husband will never feel intimidated by you, but he will treasure you instead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey
not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the
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Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-86103537883164163552016-09-14T06:00:00.000-07:002016-09-14T06:02:31.699-07:00Sharing Our Brokenness With Others<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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you noticed how popular among Christians it is to write and speak about their brokenness? A woman shared an article in the chat room called, “<a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2013/july/very-worst-trend.html?paging=off" target="_blank">The Very</a></span><a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2013/july/very-worst-trend.html?paging=off" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank"> Worse Trend Ever</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.” Women bragging about having messy homes, burnt dinners, and
anything else they can think of that they failed at so they can help other
women feel content knowing that even these big name, popular female writers
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this what we, as Christian, are called to do? These women are admitting
to us that they aren’t perfect. Yes, we know this. No one is perfect even if
they act like they are. We all have struggles and hard times when we fail at
what we want to be and do. However, in God’s Word, we are told to encourage and
exhort one another daily. Paul said he disciplined his body and wouldn’t allow
his body to have control and disqualify him from the race set before him. He
told us to follow the examples of those who are living godly lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In
this article, she quotes a writer who wrote: <i><span style="color: #231f20;">"I'm broken and sinful, and I'm not
really able to make a lot of progress as a Christian. But God's grace is
awesome, and it covers me."</span></i><span style="color: #231f20;"> There
are even songs in church that goes something like: <i>“I’m broken inside…”</i> This isn’t the message of the Gospel! God
calls us saints, new creatures in Christ, freed and dead to sin, and complete
in Him. Instead of trying to make others feel comfortable in their failures by
showing your failures, learn from those who are disciplined in areas you are
weak and fail. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If there is a blog of a woman who has learned to have a clean
and tidy home, learn from her. If a woman learned to make delicious food, learn
from her. If a woman is obedient to her husband, learn from her. Learn from
women who have raised God-fearing children. I never read a blogger or writer
who shares her “brokenness” and helps others feel comfortable in their
“brokenness.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emily (a woman
in the chat room) responded to the article mentioned above this way: <i> I've
tried warning my friends about these ladies but they always think I'm
judgmental. I stopped reading or listening to these teachers and found good
solid ministries to dive into. The result? I stopped being entertained, was
convicted of my sin, and now my house is clean most of the time (and I
have three small children), my laundry stays done, and I cook three meals a
day. I stopped making excuses and I do my work for the Lord now! I am very
grateful that God pulled me out of those teachings; everything about my life
and my family has changed!</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #231f20;"><i>I don't think
anyone is saying we don't sin. We're saying these ladies glorify sin. If you're
struggling to run a godly household you should confess that sin to a dear
friend who will hold you accountable, repent, and pray that God will help you do
better, and then</i></span><i style="color: #231f20;"><span style="text-align: start;">.. Do better! You certainly shouldn't
wallow in your sin and make jokes about it - and that's what some of these
ladies do. In Jen Hatmaker's last book she says she strives to be an "okay parent, we're not shooting for the stars here." Now imagine someone
reading that as a new Christian. Do you think they're encouraged to run the
race set before them? Or laugh and joke about sinful parenting? Of course these
women are entertaining and relatable but that's because sin is comfortable. But
ultimately this 'we're all so broken and messy and just getting
through' mentality does NOT produce or encourage holiness! That's all
we're saying! This article isn't saying we should never talk about sin but that
we shouldn't be comfortable in it or glorify it."</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are told in Hebrews 12:1 to <b><i>“Lay aside every weight, and the
sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” </i></b>Lay
aside too much time on the Internet, watching television, chatting with others
on the telephone, and too much of anything that is taking away your time from
doing what you know you are supposed to be doing. Then lay aside laziness,
gluttony, gossip, and other sins you are struggling with. Run the race before
you keeping your eyes on things above. Dwell on the good and the lovely. Don’t
allow anything to cause you to get off track from being the wife and mother or
whatever you are doing. Even if you are single and/or childless, grow in the wisdom and the knowledge of the Lord and work heartily unto the Lord and not unto men.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have been told that I make women feel guilty and I have no
right to do this since I have failed in areas that I teach: working when I had
a child and being an unsubmissive wife. I have been very honest in my failures
and what I have learned to become what the Lord has called me to do. I
consistently want to grow in godliness and in the ways of the Lord. I take
seriously the command to exhort one another daily. If a woman is feeling
guilty, she needs to examine her heart against the Word of God and find out
why. My goal isn’t to make women feel guilty but to encourage them in the ways
of self-control and godliness in all areas of their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You aren’t broken, women, if you are a believer in Jesus Christ!
Stop saying it and thinking it. Continually remind yourself who you are in Christ and
dwell upon this instead. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens
you and the joy of the Lord is your strength. Don’t let anything or anyone
steal your joy or try to convince you that you are broken.</span></span><br />
<b style="color: #231f20; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"><i><br /></i></b><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Colossians 2:10</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">pertain</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 Peter 1:3</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1 Peter 2:24</span></span></div>
Always Learninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764938913852283082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046083858777525940.post-43311130992806319092016-09-13T06:00:00.000-07:002016-09-13T12:00:14.725-07:00Hazing in High Schools<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Recently, I heard a sportscaster talk on
the Sports Channel about a news special happening that night on hazing
in the high schools so I watched the preview. It was about a freshmen boy who
played football. One day, he was in the bathroom and two big football players
came from behind him, tackled him, and sodomized him. Broken and with tears
streaming down his face, he said, <i>“They took away my manhood.”</i> The man
interviewing the boy said this is happening all over the country. Being
sexually molested is not happening by family members as much as it by
children’s own peers these days.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"><i>“Forty-eight percent of all students who join
any group in high school are subjected to hazing. Forty-three percent of them
reported being subjected to humiliating activities, 23 percent are involved in
substance abuse, and 29 percent of them told us they performed potentially
illegal acts as part of their initiation,” said Dr. Nadine Hoover, principal
investigator.</i></span></span><br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif;">“The prevalence of
hazing in high school should be a serious concern to all of us in higher
education," said Charles M. Edmonson, president of Alfred University. “Colleges
and universities have long considered hazing to be a problem, and they have
worked hard to prevent it. This study reveals that our challenge is much
greater than anyone appreciated.” </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(</span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95999&page=1" style="font-family: georgia, serif;" target="_blank">source</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In another story, </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/sports/high-school-hazing-where-are-the-adults.html?_r=0" style="font-family: georgia, serif;" target="_blank">Juliet Macur</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> wrote, </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif;">"I came to Chester County to inquire about 'No Gay Thursdays,' the term the district attorney says players use for hazing. One Thursday in October, the prosecutor said, a freshmen was held down and assaulted with a broomstick as seniors poked him between the legs with it, eventually penetrating him while teammates looked on.</i><br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif;">Why so many? Susan Lipkins, a psychologist and an expert on hazing, said it was happening because hazing is a sports tradition that has endured for generations, and coaches and administrators often let it happen. The adults in the room - well, they leave the room and let the mayhem ensue."</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The days are evil, women. You are the
ones the Lord has called to protect your children. With pornography rampant,
you can’t be too cautious about where you send your children and with whom you
allow them to be with. I remember being afraid of going into the bathrooms in
high school back in the seventies because they were filled with girls who were smoking and were
usually mean. I can’t even imagine what it is like today! Yes, they will begin
making more rules against initiating and hazing practices, but so few children
are been trained and raised by their mothers anymore that the rules won’t
matter much. In their minds, they have been </span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">taught
“if it feels good then do it.”</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2016/09/13/how-is-the-godless-west-working-out-n2216907" target="_blank">Dennis Prager</a> wrote, <i>"</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>In a New York Times op-ed column, a professor
of philosophy noted his shock at learning that most young Americans do not
believe that moral truths exist. They are incapable of asserting that anything,
including killing for fun, is wrong beyond personal opinion." </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Few are being raised with any biblical
morals and principles anymore to respect and obey authorities and to do what is right and good.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="background: rgb(254 , 253 , 250); color: #444444;">The mother cannot
tell what her tender little infant may grow up to be—tall or short, weak or
strong, wise or foolish—he may be any of these things or not—it is all
uncertain. But one thing the mother can say with certainty: he will have a corrupt
and sinful heart. It is natural for us to do wrong. "Folly," says
Solomon, "is bound up in the heart of a child" (Proverbs 22:15).</span><span style="background: rgb(254 , 253 , 250); color: #444444;"> "<u>A child left to himself disgraces his
mother</u>" (Proverbs 29:15).</span><span style="background: rgb(254 , 253 , 250); color: #444444;"> Our hearts are like the earth on which we walk;
leave it alone, and it is sure to bear weeds. (<a href="http://www.jcryle.info/2015/10/train-your-children-or-they-will-train.html" target="_blank">J. C. Ryle</a>)</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We must not depend solely about the
government or school authorities to protect us and our children. We are their guardians and have been
given this job from the Lord. No matter how well this boy was trained to not
let anyone touch him and to protect himself, he couldn’t have protected himself
from two boys that were bigger and stronger than him. It’s not going to get
better. It’s only going to get worse and this is why I am a homeschooling
advocate. There’s no safer place for your children to be than in your home with
you full time and being trained and disciplined by their mother. If their father is around and involved in their lives, this is
even much better since fathers have a huge influence upon their lives. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you
aren’t married, marry a godly man who you can tell has deep roots in the Lord
and walks faithfully with Him. Teach your children to marry godly spouses. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s time to take control of your
children, mothers. Our culture is deeply depraved and they aren’t going to
teach your children anything good but you can. With a lot of prayer and wisdom,
you will be able to raise your children in the nurture and the admonition of
the Lord.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many
couples today are choosing not to have children so they can focus upon each
other. I have watched my daughters-in-law with their newborn babies and my
daughters with theirs. They went through long and difficult labors. They hardly slept the first week after giving birth. They were diligent
about caring for their babies and even suffering sleepless nights and pain
while nursing to bring their children into this world and care for them. I have also watched them do everything in their power to be good and
nurturing mothers to their children. Bearing children and raising them comes
with a lot of sacrifice and unselfishness. I know; I bore four children and
raised them to adulthood. It’s the best prescription for learning to deny our
self and live to serve others. This is a good thing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tim
Challies wrote a piece called “<a href="http://www.challies.com/articles/is-it-okay-deliberately-not-to-have-children" target="_blank">Is It Okay Deliberately Not to Have Children?</a>”
He wrote<i>, </i>“A
simple, honest reading of the Bible will show how God so commonly associates
children with blessing and childlessness with curses or punishment (e.g. Psalm
127:3-5). That same reading will show that children are fundamental to God’s
mandate to human beings that we ‘be fruitful and multiply’ so we can ‘fill the
earth and subdue it’ (Genesis 1:28). It will show that of all God has created,
none has greater significance or worth than human beings (Genesis 1:26-27).
Together they build a solid case that those who marry ought to attempt to
fulfill all of God’s purposes for marriage. That includes
having children.”<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My
children are all in the thirties now and I can say, without a doubt,
they are my greatest blessings in my life. In fact, they are the gift that keeps
on giving with grandchildren. I am friends with all of them and their spouses. We all love each
other and get along great! They have all given me grandchildren and all of
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God
wants a family. He wants a family who chooses to love and follow Him. He wants
marriages to produce godly offspring, if they are able. He teaches us in His
Word how to discipline and raise them. He gives us many principles to live by
and His Holy Spirit to follow through and obey. He is an awesome God and His
ways are marvelous. Nothing this world has to offer is better than what He
gives us. I watch those precious newborns and am in
awe that they are holding an eternal being. Their greatest desire for their children
is that they walk with Jesus all of their days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If
you are blessed with the ability to have children, cherish the children the Lord blesses you with. The days are truly long but the years go
swiftly by and soon they will be adults having their own children. What joy!
Remember, this life is a blip on the scene of eternity so spend your days here glorifying the Lord and living your life for Him by doing as He has asked you
to do. Cherish the years raising children since they do grow up quickly. It is
all in God’s plan and His plan is perfect. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Lo, children </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">are</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> an heritage of the LORD: </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">and</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> the fruit of the womb </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">is his</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> reward. </span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">As arrows </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">are</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> in the hand of a mighty man; so </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">are</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> children of the youth. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Happy </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">is</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Some things in nature
must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators.
Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is
for God alone.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If this be so in the
things which are seen and temporal, I may rest assured that it is even more so
in matters spiritual and eternal. Why, then, have I been torturing my brain
with speculations as to destiny and will, fixed fate, and human responsibility?
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">These deep and dark
truths I am no more able to comprehend than to find out the depth which couched
beneath, from which old ocean draws her watery stores. Why am I so curious to
know the reason of my Lord's providences, the motive of his actions, and the
design of his visitations? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Shall I ever be able
to clasp the sun in my fist, and hold the universe in my palm? Yet these are as
a drop of a bucket compared with the Lord my God. Let me not strive to
understand the infinite, but spend my strength in love. What I cannot gain by
intellect I can possess by affection, and let that suffice me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I cannot penetrate the
heart of the sea, but I can enjoy the healthful breezes which sweep over its
bosom, and I can sail over its blue waves with propitious winds. If I could
enter the springs of the sea, the feat would serve no useful purpose either to
myself or to others, it would not save the sinking bark, or give back the
drowned mariner to his weeping wife and children; neither would my solving deep
mysteries avail me a single whit, for the least love to God, and the simplest
act of obedience to him, are better than the profoundest knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">My Lord, I leave the
infinite to thee, and pray thee to put far from me such a love for the tree of
knowledge as might keep me from the tree of life.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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entered into the springs of the sea?"</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;" />
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><a data-bibleref="Job.38.16" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job.38.16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; outline-offset: -2px; outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 5px; text-align: start;"><span style="background: white; color: #511811;">Job 38:16</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>But I discipline
my body and keep it under control, lest after
preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are made up of three distinct, yet inseparable parts of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>body soul (mind, will,
emotions) spirit.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When we do not know Jesus, the operating principles of our life
revolve around our body and feeding the desires of our flesh. It is not that
the body is in any way evil, it simply has fleshly needs that it wants met. The
body wants as much pleasure possible with the least amount of pain. Discipline
is when the mind and will step in and tell the body “No!” or pushes us to do
things that are beneficial for us longer term, over the short term. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The process of personal growth is to learn to put body and soul in
harmony to achieve those things that are beneficial in life. If we allow our
body to rule our minds we may sit around, gain weight, and feed all of our
senses and appetites without regard to the long term destruction of such
behavior. It is only a maturing mind that can step in and tell the body,<i> “No,
you can’t do this, or eat that right now.”</i> The body obeys because it
has no will of its own. Only the soul makes choices, and the body goes
along with the choice, all the while it may be telling the mind it is not happy
about it. If the flesh gives enough negative signals, the undisciplined mind
will relent and cave in, and the flesh wins, but the person loses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What sets the human apart from other animals is that we can choose
to do the right thing no matter what our circumstances, feelings or desires.
The body develops bad habits that it enjoys because it always seeks pleasure.
Payback and hurting someone who you think has hurt you can result in a strong
fleshly feeling of self-gratification. <i>“That will teach him,”</i> or <i>“Boy,
did she deserve that!” “I hurt so I want others to hurt,” </i>has a
pleasure behind it that most don’t realize they are even feeling. The flesh is
controlling the mind and will and our own stated values get left behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When one violates their values they end up in a box of denial, no
longer wanting to see reality about themselves, and instead preferring to live
out the lies they believe. The fleshly mind covers up its failures by creating
self-justifications for why it allows the body to consistently do and say
things that it knows are wrong or undisciplined. Worst of all is when the undisciplined
mind gives up on its own values and says, <i>“You
just need to accept me the way I am. I will never be perfect!”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a marriage, the lies often revolve around justifications for feeling
hurt, and staying hurt. As soon as a fleshly spouse feels hurt, real or
perceived, they go into protection mode or attack mode to protect them. In this
box, we have no hope of seeing reality clearly, nor do we care much about
reality. What is most important is showing that we are right and he/she is
wrong. As we do so we demand apologies and punish with our body language and
words, because it makes our flesh feel better. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>So where does Jesus come into this saga? What if the person is a
Christian?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The good news for the Christian is that once we accept Jesus as Lord
and Savior, His Spirit unites with our Spirit and we become one with Him. The
initial stages of this looks much the same as the baby Christian begins to grow
up into Christ Jesus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>body soul (mind, will,
emotions) Spirit</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Notice that the little <b><i>s</i></b> in spirit now is
a big <b><i>S</i></b> representing the Holy Spirit who now lives
inside of us. We still must contend with the flesh sending the mind signals
that it wants to be continuously pleased, but now our mind has help by getting
input from our Spirit telling us that we need to be discerning of our fleshly
desires and pleasures. Romans 7 is the perfect example of what it looks like
for a Christian who is getting constant signals from a flesh that cannot please
God, and from the Spirit of God Himself directing the believer into the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>“For I delight in the law of God after the Spirit: But I see
another law in my flesh, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my body. <sup> </sup>O
wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I
thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve
the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Romans 7:21-25<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Biblical facts are that once a person accepts Jesus as Savior
they are to move forward with the help of the Spirit of God, who now is
inextricably linked with their spirit, to serve Jesus as Lord. We now have a
whole new set of operating instructions that has been given to our mind, not to
seek after the flesh, but the things of the Spirit. God says that His Spirit is
to win all of the time, not sometimes, not part time, but we are to be always focused
on God’s Word. We are to please our Lord and Savior over pleasing our flesh. God’s
Word makes it clear about this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>“But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man has not the Spirit of Christ,
he is none of his.<sup> </sup>And if Christ be in you, the body is dead
because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“Every Christian can have his body under absolute control for God.
God has given us the responsibility to rule over all “the temple of the Holy
Spirit,” including our thoughts and desires {</i><i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6:19">1
Corinthians 6:19</a>}</span></i><i>. We are responsible for these, and we must
never give way to improper ones. But most of us are much more severe in our
judgment of others than we are in judging ourselves. We make excuses for things
in ourselves, while we condemn things in the lives of others simply because we
are not naturally inclined to do them.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>So what does this look like for a Believer? The body is
to be kept under the Spirit and mind that is set upon God’s ways and God’s
Word:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are repeatedly told to walk in the new Spirit who lives inside
of us and to allow our minds to operate according to God’s Word and promises.
This means allowing the Spirit, united with our spirit, to rule our minds, and
our body. Paul makes it clear that he <b><i>“keeps his body under.”</i></b> This
means he disciplines his body and makes it his slave so that he can serve the
Lord Jesus without disqualification. Our mind is to be set on the Spirit and
eternal things, not the worldly pleasures that the body seeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tell me, believer, are you currently feeling disqualified? Do
you find your body is under the control of a mind that is focused on God’s Word
or do you chase after your fleshly desires freely feeding it with the things of
the world and its worldly pleasures? Do you find yourself regularly serving
Jesus as Lord, or must you go regularly back to the cross and beg forgiveness
for sins that you should have grown out of long ago? Just as personal growth is
getting the mind to discipline the body and seek higher values; spiritual
growth is getting the mind to follow the Spirit who lives inside of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No one is advocating any perfect Christians here, but what we are
saying is that we can never glorify God in the way God designed us to be as saints
until we put our body and flesh under the Spirit of God and His rulership. We
are called to walk in newness of life which looks like the things God says is
true in His Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Self-betrayal of one’s values takes an awful toll on any person,
but it has devastating consequences on a believer who betrays his own values
given in God’s Word. My heart is saddened when we work with couples where one
or both spouses is regularly acting like a non-christian towards the
other, yet they go to church together, and may read their Bible and
pray. These believers are following the flesh, all the while believing that
somehow God will bless them because “grace abounds.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please, believer, learn to walk in the Spirit and what you believe
in. If Jesus says we are to love our enemies and treat all with kindness, why would
any Christian mistreat their spouse? Put your body, your bad words, ugly moods
and bad behaviors at the foot of the cross, and stop quenching the Spirit of
God inside of you. Too many Christians do not realize that they are under the
chastisement of the Lord. If the Christian will not discipline himself, God
will do it, as He promises to grow us up into Christ. Put Jesus on the throne
of your life by allowing His Spirit to rule you according to His Word, and then
watch and see His promises come true in your life and marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Christian was never intended to take this journey of spiritual
growth alone. God gave us His Spirit and fellow believers, especially our
Christian spouse, to help us keep our body under the control and discipline of
the Spirit. Our spouse can help us with reminders and disciplines in a way that
we cannot do ourselves. Ask your spouse to help hold you accountable for all
areas where your body and flesh rule over the Spirit and the Word of God. Set
up strict disciplines as the apostle Paul admonishes us to buffet and beat the
body into submission. Did Paul do this literally or figuratively we do not
know, nor is it important, so long as we too make such a strong commitment to keep
our body under and make it body our slave, instead of being slaves to fleshly
things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of
life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in
the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created
after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">According
to many people today, men are to blame for everything! When women wear skimpy
bikinis with their entire bottoms showing and most of their breasts causing men
to lust after them, it is entirely the man’s fault according to many women and teaching
young women to be modest and discreet (not drawing attention to themselves) is
shaming women. They tell me that men need to be taught to respect women,
regardless of how women dress or act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">These
people are in La La land and have made up their own rules which are
foolishness. In the Bible, God usually puts nakedness and shame together. Once
sin entered into the world, Adam and Eve felt shame and tried to cover
themselves up with leaves but God covered them up with a coat. He knew men
would lust after the nakedness of any woman they saw and that women would try
to dress provocatively in order to cause men to lust after them. All of this is
in His Word and this is why He commands women to be modest and discreet and
Jesus speaks about the sin of men lusting (Matthew 5:28).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Are
men the only ones at fault when they lust after a woman dressed immodestly? No,
they are both at fault. She is held responsible, however, for causing another
to stumble. Women are not innocent. Women sin just as much as men but some of
their sins are different. Women generally want to control their husbands
through moods, withholding sex, nagging, quarreling, etc. They are far from
perfect, regardless of what our culture is teaching today through sitcoms and movies.
Women are not the superior of the sexes. In fact, the Bible teaches that a wise
woman builds her home up and a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
Women can win their disobedient husband without a word by being in subjection
to their husbands and having godly behavior. God has given both sexes power in
different ways and we ought to always use the power the Lord has given us to
build up and glorify God and not abuse it in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Teach
your daughters a sense shame in showing their nakedness to every other man
except for their future husband. We should feel shame about being immodest and
this culture has lost all shame about their nakedness. Teach them modesty from
the time they are young girls; never allowing them to run around naked or scantily
clad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Women,
obey the Lord in the things He has commanded you to obey Him in and leave the
areas He has commanded men to obey to men. We have no ability to change our
husbands or other men but we do need to be responsible with what the Lord has
given us. Dress modestly and discreetly. Be known for good works rather than
for what you look like or own. Build up your homes up through gentleness,
kindness, and love. Always respect and submit to your husband and appreciate everything
good that he does for you. Be women of honor and dignity, thus giving God all
the glory. Stop listening to the foolishness of this world and begin living
knowing you will one day stand before the Lord and give an account to Him for
how you alone lived your life on this earth.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">As Judy wrote on my Facebook page:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> <i>"</i></span><i>We should ask the question, if I was suddenly ushered into the Lord's
Holy presence in heaven and the company of angels, would I feel the least bit
of shame? Also, for whose glory am I dressing, mine or God's?"</i></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Thy
nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Isaiah
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Behold,
I am against thee, said the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon
they face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy
shame.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Nahum
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">I
counsel thee to buy…white raiment, that thou may be clothed, and that the shame
of thy nakedness does not appear. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Revelation
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