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We welcome July with a repentant heart. There are things happening in this world that are changing the way we see normal. Places are opening with restrictions. Some people are realizing what foolishness is happening.  God is winning battles. Even though it looks like we have certain major losses, God is winning. We are in an amazing time and the world will never be the same again.  
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​Scripture of the Week: Job 38:4-18   
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
    Tell me, if you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
    Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk,
    or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars sang together
    and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors
    when it burst out from the womb,
9 when I made clouds its garment
    and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and prescribed limits for it
    and set bars and doors,
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
    and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?

12 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
    and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
    and the wicked be shaken out of it?
14 It is changed like clay under the seal,
    and its features stand out like a garment.
15 From the wicked their light is withheld,
    and their uplifted arm is broken.

16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea,
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
    or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
    Declare, if you know all this.














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Ahav, Agape, How do you define God's Love?

9/11/2016

 
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​When Moses was speaking in Deuteronomy he gave the one commandment that covers all ten and the subsidiary statutes. It is recorded for us today as Deut. 6:5.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all of your soul and with all of your might”
   What is Moses saying when He is telling the Hebrews that this is what God commands. This seems impossible to do. Giving all your heart, mind, and soul to an entity we cannot even physically see, touch, or feel seems like a strange request but it really isn’t when you look at what the actual word used in Scripture means. The Hebrew word used in this verse is ahav. At its most basic translation means fidelity. So what does this boil down to? Loyalty. We always hear that God has the “agape” love for us which He does but He commands us to have not just the extreme devotion of agape but the loyalty of ahav . This is the strongest, most endearing type of love there is. When a man and woman join together in the holy ordnance of marriage, they are commanded by God to have all the definitions and characteristics, and values that define love rolled into one. This does not truly echo the recent human nature saying, “Love is Love” because that is not clearly defined to the common non God fearing and they do not understand the ramifications of what they are trying to say.
   In Corinthians 13 where Paul talks of love, he is talking about God’s love for us and how we should echo it without holding any of it back. Nowhere does it equate love with lustful sexually immoral desires of humankind. He is simply stating the solid truth about what true love is which is total devotion to God and His creation.
   God’s Love: uninhibited, requited, patient, kind, binding, selfless, honorable, trusting, unfailing, honest, abhors evil intent, forgiving, not given into pride or boastfulness and NOT blind. That is the definition breakdown of the characteristics of love that this generation needs to comprehend.
   If we are to love our neighbor’s as ourselves we need to reach deep and check if we have God’s love in us. Without God’s love and acting on our own human instincts we will fail. With God’s Love and sharing His (not ours) loving kindness towards others we will succeed.     
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