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Guardrails and fences Part 1

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in  safe ty.- Leviticus 25:18 Safety. Protection from harm. Salvation. The action or process of bringing someone or something into safety. I am amazed at how bent out of shape believers and non-believers alike can get on the laws and principles of God. As soon as it creates a ripple in the comfort level, God's law is diluted or reasoned way altogether. It is given the description of legalistic or archaic to justify it's perceived irrelevance.  The Word of God is sometimes treated like a candy bowl, in which only the ones we like are unwrapped and savored. The rest get left behind. My heart breaks at the realization that many of the immoral issues we face in this age is due to diluting the validity and relevance of the Word of God.  For example, the stop sign is inconvenient until it's your safety on the line. When you do a rolling stop- no problem. When the other

A Lesson on Pentecost

“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel      after that time,” declares the  Lord . “I will put my law in their minds      and write it on their hearts. I will be their God,      and they will be my people. -Jeremiah 31:33 "The festival of Shavuot is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June). Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah ( or the law) to the entire Israelite nation assembled at Mount Sinai, although the association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Biblical text. Shavuot follows Passover by 50 days." ' ( from https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/ shavuot) This is where we get the celebration of Pentecost. It is no wonder that the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit was on this day- 50 days after Passover, of which Christ was the Passover lamb. In Jeremiah God promised he would put the law, this time

A way that seems Right

from debrapauli.com Joshua 9: 8-15 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye? 9  And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the  Lord  thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, ... 12  This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: 13  And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. 14  And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the  Lord . 15  And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. John Bevere wrote a book titled "Good or God", that challenges God's childre