Thoughts and Notes
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Book of life
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. Revelation 20:12 This book is not for reminding God, as if…
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Walk in a manner worthy
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:1-3 But in these days of…
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More significant than yourselves
There isn’t a lot of good said about Israel during the Exodus account. It is a long series of complaints against God and against His chosen prophet. Fewer than five months since God had brought them up out of Egypt with great signs, had rescued them from armies, and had fed them with bread and…
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Behold the King
The Erythræan sibyl, or prophetess, from Erythrae in Asia Minor is recorded as having predicted the Trojan War and prophesised to the Greeks who were moving against Ilium both that Troy would be destroyed and that Homer would write falsehoods. She lived around the time of the founding of Rome, about 750 BC. Among her writings are found these verses: Judgment shall…
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Huorns
And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men. The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword. 2 Samuel 18:7-8 The hosts of Isengard roared, swaying this…
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Stripes of the sons
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast…
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Chosen in Him
And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart,…
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Only be strong
The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken. Deuteronomy 31:3 Joshua very much foreshadows the work of Christ and the spread of the gospel into the world. God…
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Marriage covenant
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. -Deuteronomy 5 Man was not created to be autonomous, or self-governed. He was created in the image of God, but he was created from nothing. Man is a symbol,…
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Autonomy is a lie
Autonomous – Gk autonomos, independent < autos, self + nomos, law For it is not by [man] having flesh, which the devil has not, but by living according to himself – that is, according to man – that man became like the devil. For the devil too, wished to live according to himself when he…