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Are you stealing?

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God knows the answer and you who teach others to stop doing whatever the law says we should never do should either say what God says or do what the law requires. Plead guilty.

“Guilty as charged” suffices

Now we know that what things whatsoever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Romans 3:19

Dead and alive

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Deny that the dead do not praise God and you show whose side you will take when the lying wonders break out. If we take both David and Solomon to the landfill whose legs will we stand on?

I said, “What good is it if I die and go down to the grave? The dead just lie in the dirt. They cannot praise you. They cannot tell anyone how faithful you are.

Psalms 30:9
Here is the songwriter asking and answering.
A prophetic witness

Run sister! Run brother!

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I can guarantee you that my great, great, grandfather’s loins were rocking with protest against the slavemaster and his assertion of property rights. If you are wondering, I am a descendant of African people, a part of the waves of westward transported labour to America and the Caribbean.

Since the 17th century, European powers (Spain, Portugal, France, England, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany) have been exploiting their own poor and people in far-flung lands with various justifications.

I would have been a runner: running off the slaveowners property to entrust my life to God. They would have had to chain me 24/7 or kill me.

Running is good for the believer.

  • When temptation seems to corner us we should run
  • When persecution closes in on us we can run
  • When Christ says follow me we should run

We live because Christ gave us life

We sing because Christ gave us a song

We conquer because Christ gave us the victory

We should run – live – for life’s sake and remember that our crown does not come from anyone overcoming sin.  Even with laws in our hearts and near countless constant recitations of God’s will we come to God with contrition or prove that we are still lost, having no Spirit to help because we did not really believe that God forgives sin all the time and powers our life moment by moment.

Mighty like

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Ecclesiastes 12:14 gets recycled perhaps as often as “Yahweh loves a cheerful giver” and “Yahweh is my shepherd” and with the same effect. Nothing big happens just for saying or believing these things. If 12:14 is TRUE we are all dead: fallen on our way to what we thought was rest and sanctuary, slaughtered by the idolatrous streak in our nature and by unbelief.  Mighty Mount of Likes! It is still a lie.

Who is doing the judging and sentencing?

Where to look!

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We cannot look away from Christ- the Nazarene- and call what we see truth.

He has the promises

He has the remedy to death

He has the bread to nourish us


All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him. Matthew 11:27