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Guardrails and fences Part 2

Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in  safe guard.- 1 Samuel 22:23 In the last post we painted the scenario of a child of God leaving the sheepfold, and getting farther away from safety with each justified step.  This scenario is an example of how one never intends to separate from God, yet,  as the song says,  it is a slow fade. When one word from God's scripture  is compromised, it's entire fabric unravels. Like a moth eaten blanket, it is no longer a solid covering when holes are poked in it.  For example in  1 Samuel 13:13-14,  Saul's compromise, cost him the kingdom. Unfortunately he did not learn his lesson in obeying the Word of God COMPLETELY. We find him two chapters later in a situation where incomplete obedience cost him his anointing as well. 1 Samuel 15:13; 1 Samuel 15:20-22; 1 Samuel 16:14 Is wrestling with the word, because of inconvenience or perceived i...

The greatest commandment?: The Shema

Devarim 6:4 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) 4  Shema Yisroel Adonoi Eloheinu Adonoi Echad. The Greatest commandment Greater or lesser commandments? I would not think this to be so, but when asked which is the first commandment of all, this was the response: Mark 12:29-31 King James Version (KJV) 29  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30  And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. No other commandment greater than these says Jesus. "No other commandment greater than these." Deuteronomy 6:4- King James Version (KJV) 4  Hear, O Israel: The  Lord  our God is one  Lord : 5  And tho...