tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87995795778343109122024-03-13T11:48:24.579-05:00For His Glory"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
This Biblical text sums up the purpose of our blog. As a Physician and Minister Team, we will explore the worlds of Health, Life and Spirituality from within the realms of our respective careers. We love what we do because we do it FOR HIS GLORY!Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-89773037356692998392012-01-04T08:51:00.000-06:002012-01-04T08:51:51.837-06:00Personal Testimony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9KM3XzDHr-w/TwRnOxsY1LI/AAAAAAAAAD0/bgRikFuvH5E/s1600/images-10.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9KM3XzDHr-w/TwRnOxsY1LI/AAAAAAAAAD0/bgRikFuvH5E/s1600/images-10.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As I reflect back on 2011 from a lifestyle stand point I have a personal testimony to share. All of my adult life I have suffered from allergies and when I got an episode it was bad. Itchy, watery eyes, running nose, lots and lots of sneezing. I was laid out for the rest of the day. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Larie would say to herself, “well I lost my husband for the day.” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was very annoying to say the least. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I just thought it was who I was and that my biological make up left me susceptible to having allergic reactions. We’ve all heard it before. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I have diabetes because it runs in the family” or </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“My family has a history of heart disease” etc. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well I too was susceptible to that kind of thinking. My dad has always suffered from allergies and so have many of my uncles in my family. It was just something we dealt with and moved on, a product of a “sinful world,” but is it?</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When a particular disease runs in a family whether it be diabetes, heart problem, obesity, allergies, strokes, what is at the very core that makes these problems prominent in a family? </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What is it that they all have in common? </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well genetically they are very similar and so we are lead to believe that “it must be our genes” and so we feel like “helpless victims”, dealt a “bad hand” in the game of life. Stinks doesn’t it? </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yet I discovered something else families have in common: diet. The majority of the top killer diseases and allergies are diet/lifestyle related. Diseases are prevalent in families because they tend to eat the same things. I can see a light bulb going on in your head. Makes sense. Food acts primarily as a trigger and if you are genetically predisposed to heart disease or strokes or diabetes it is usually what you eat that determines if those genes will express themselves. We are what we eat. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Back to my story, I have been eating a whole foods plant based diet and I have seen the benefits however I have to admit I still ate items that had traces of dairy. For example morning star veggie meats have egg white and milk in it. The majority of the whole wheat bread also have some sort of dairy ingredient. However because of my allergies I decided to experiment with eliminating even trace amounts of dairy from my diet. You can guess what happened, NO MORE ALLERGIES! </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made and when we give our bodies God’s ideal diet we see our bodies immune system working at its best. Let’s make 2012 the year of eating for the glory and honor of God.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Cor 10:31</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
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--------------------------- The information on this site is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on or available through this web site is for general information purposes only. For His Glory makes no representation and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained on or available through this web site, and such information is subject to change without notice. You are encouraged to confirm any information obtained from or through this web site with other sources, and review all information regarding any medical condition or treatment with your physician. NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE. For His Glory does not recommend, endorse or make any representation about the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any specific tests, products, procedures, treatments, services, opinions, health care providers or other information that may be contained on or available through this web site. FOR HIS GLORY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-40393350640710572972011-11-21T17:16:00.001-06:002011-11-21T17:33:49.896-06:00Leukemia With Our Cornflakes?<a href="webkit-fake-url://16C1F1F7-61AC-421E-8E01-8E8B55750D14/whitewash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">So I've been reading this book entitled "Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk and Your Health," by Joseph Keon, and I ran across some interesting facts to share:</span></span></a><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">1. 40% of American beef are infected with bovine leukemia virus.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">2. 89% of American dairy cows are infected with bovine leukemia virus (BLV).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">3. Bovine leukemia is the most common fatal malignancy in cows.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">4. There is evidence this virus may be capable of spreading to humans.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">5. Pasteurization is supposed to inactivae the virus (most of the time)</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">6. 2/3 of raw milk has live BLV</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">7. Dairy farmers are one population with higher rates of leukemia.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">8. Human leukemia (ALL=acute lymphocytic leukemia) is high in area where BLV is high in dairy herds.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">...if all these things add up I'd have to agree with the author that:</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"...we don't need leukemia retroviruses, inactivated through pasteurization or not, on our cornflakes."</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">--------------------------- The information on this site is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on or available through this web site is for general information purposes only. For His Glory makes no representation and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained on or available through this web site, and such information is subject to change without notice. You are encouraged to confirm any information obtained from or through this web site with other sources, and review all information regarding any medical condition or treatment with your physician. NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE. For His Glory does not recommend, endorse or make any representation about the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any specific tests, products, procedures, treatments, services, opinions, health care providers or other information that may be contained on or available through this web site. FOR HIS GLORY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.</span>Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-80046358723436263792011-10-12T10:39:00.003-05:002011-10-12T11:47:58.616-05:00Choose your Quotes wisely.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/316/a/b/Apple_in_the_Spotlight_by_atomicpinkgoth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/316/a/b/Apple_in_the_Spotlight_by_atomicpinkgoth.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." - Steve Jobs</i></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The above quote has been circulated profusely since the death of Apple’s brilliant CEO Steve Jobs. Many find it inspiring. This quote was given at a graduation ceremony in 2005.</span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">However, I find it disturbing.</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As a spiritual leader I have to look at things differently. Words are powerful</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(1):</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> words lead to thoughts, thoughts lead to action, and actions form our character</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(2)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So from a christian perspective what does this quote teach?</span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Steve urges us not to be “trapped by dogma.”</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dogma is defined as “a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true:” </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As Christians we follow the “dogma” of Jesus Christ, in other words we do live by someone else’s teaching. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;” Gal 2:20 </span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lastly Steve’s quote ask us to follow our “inner voice,” “to follow your heart and intuition.” Christianity warns us that our heart can deceive us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(3)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and encourages us to follow the leading of the Spirit of God</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(4)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When I read Steve’s quote it can be summarized in one dangerous phrase, “do what you will!”</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I say no thanks Steve, I would rather do God’s will! </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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However when I have mentioned to others that I am going on a juice fast, the first question is, "why, you aren't fat?" My reply is "should I wait till I am out of shape to do something about it?" That being said I do have a little belly fat I want to get rid off to help me lower my body fat percentage. I am not trying to lose weight just fat.<br />
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For His Glory does not recommend, endorse or make any representation about the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any specific tests, products, procedures, treatments, services, opinions, health care providers or other information that may be contained on or available through this web site. FOR HIS GLORY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-69623633945343384152011-03-29T10:51:00.001-05:002011-03-29T11:06:05.645-05:00Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Go to the Source<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Omega-3 fatty acids have become all the rage recently, and for good reason. Significant evidence supports their benefit for a wide range of medical conditions including depression, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, and a number of other conditions. So doctors and naturopaths have started advising that we get our share of this important nutrient. The fish industry has also capitalized on this new information since certain fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids. People have been encouraged to eat more fish, and supplements with fish oil have been marketed to benefit people with heart disease and other conditions. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Unfortunately there are problems with getting our omega-3 fatty acids from fish. An obvious concern is fact that the cholesterol per serving is almost the same as from any other meat source. Also as with other meat sources, most fish are high in saturated fat which encourages the body to make more cholesterol. Another concern is that fish concentrate (up to a million times even in only mildly polluted water) and contain chemicals such as mercury, pesticides, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and dioxin, and also can contain PCBs, various heavy metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, halogenated organic compounds, and lead. For this reason pregnant women are advised by the FDA against eating certain fish altogether (shark, king mackerel, tilefish due to high levels of mercury) and advised to limit intake of other fish with lower content of mercury to 12 ounces per week or only 6 ounces of albacore tuna per week (other fish: shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollock, catfish).</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But do we really need to get our omega-3’s from fish? Should we settle for low levels of mercury and other toxin exposure when we could avoid all the toxins in fish? Well, let me tell you a little secret. The omega-3 fatty acids that you get from fish are second hand omega-3’s. In other words, the fish contain omega-3 fatty acids because they ate plants that contain them. Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) is the precursor found in plants which our bodies break down into EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (end products found in fish). So the good news is that we can go to the source instead of eating it second hand in the form of a high cholesterol, polluted animal fat package (animal fat in general is linked to cancer and atherosclerosis as well as obesity and related diseases). </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Studies have shown an expected significant rise in EPA in the body after a given amount of alpha-linolenic acid is ingested in the form of a plant product. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Unfortunately some sources insist that you must get this nutrient from fish. </span>It is true that current studies show that humans only break down about 5-6% of the linolenic acid into EPA which is another reason that fish consumption is being urged upon us. However, who is to say how much of this EPA we really need? This advice is also skewed based on the study population used to produce the data. The amount of EPA that we are advised to get from fish is based on the amount that has been shown to benefit heart disease patients, people eating a high fat, high cholesterol diet, and some studies have shown up to 50% decrease in heart disease deaths (Dutch study of 852 men). However, studies have also shown that individuals on a total vegetarian diet decrease risk of heart disease deaths up to 86%. Thus there is more benefit from eating a total vegetarian diet than from eating fish. Therefore for those who insist on eating a diet rich in fat and cholesterol, fish may be a good addition to their diet or perhaps a substitution for other meats. However for someone already on a good diet adding fish could actually increase the risk of heart disease by increasing fat and cholesterol levels as seen in a Harvard study of 44,895 men showing that the addition of fish actually increased the risk of heart disease. So the amount of omega-3 fatty acids that we need is really unknown, but it is clear that getting them from a source with high fat and high cholesterol is not ideal. It also is clear that our bodies break down ALA to EPA. So it seems that the best place we can get these nutrients is from our everyday foods: flaxseed oil and flaxseed, english walnuts, soybean oil, canned spinach, as well as smaller amounts in more common foods such as beans, banana, apple, bread, and potatoes. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Over the years we have seen time and again that nutrients, when given in isolated, supplement form, can actually be harmful because they are more concentrated and interact differently in the body when they are just poured in instead of allowing the body to regulate their use, distribution, and breakdown. Take for example studies on vitamin E. In the setting of a vitamin E-rich diet, vitamin E seemed to decrease risk of lung cancer, but when given in supplement form it actually increased the risk of lung cancer. There have been many other similar examples.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So is this vitamin actually bad for us? Of course not. It is very important, but the format in which it is delivered is also very important. So when we supplement with fish oil, which is already broken down by the fish into EPA, we are </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">supplementing</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> something that is not in its natural form. We already know that there is risk of too much EPA leading to hemorrhage and thus stroke. So why don’t we get back to nature instead and eat the whole food </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> let our bodies choose to break it down as it is needed instead of risk having some negative effect because of the form we choose to ingest. Also, why seek a necessary nutrient in a cholesterol rich, polluted package when we can get that nutrient directly from the same source that the fish gets it from? Let’s go to the source: plants.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span>References:</div><div style="color: #0225a3; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.obfocus.com/nutrition/seafood">www.obfocus.com/nutrition/seafood</a></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Proof Positive. Neil Nedley, MD.</span></div><ol style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li style="color: #ab3c13; font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Kromhout D, Bosschieter EB, de Lezenne Coulander C. The inverse relation between fish consumption and 20-year mortality from coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med 1985 May 9;312(19):1205-1209.</span></li>
<li style="color: #ab3c13; font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Phillips R, Lemon F, Kuzma J. Coronary heart disease mortality among Seventh-Day Adventists with differing dietary habits. Am J Clin Nutr 1978 Oct;31(10 Suppl):S191-S198.</span></li>
<li style="color: #ab3c13; font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Ascherio A, Rimm EB, et al. Dietary intake of marine n-3 fatty acids, fish intake, and the risk of coronary disease among men. N Engl J Med 1995 Apr 13;332(15):977-982.</span></li>
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Below are gleanings I got from the study of the word rebuke. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Since this is a biblical study, below is one of the definitions of the word rebuke:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The Greek word is </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helena; letter-spacing: 0px;">e˙piti÷mhson </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">which has this meaning: “to rebuke — in order to curb one’s ferocity or violence.” “to tax upon, i.e. censure or admonish; by implication, forbid: — (straitly) charge, rebuke.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now that we know this definition, more will follow, let’s examine some verses that use the word rebuke. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Luke 17:3 “Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Here we read Jesus calling for his believer to rebuke a “brother” who has offended him. Interesting to note is that the rebuke may or may not illicit the brother’s repentance. Yet the implication is that you should rebuke someone simply because he has sinned against you—sin being the operative word. The need for rebuke is not dependent on the outcome expected. (Although in Matthew 18, there is a stated desired result—the regaining of an injured relationship.) Rather, the rebuke is to “curb/forbid” or declare a boundary—declaring that a brother cannot continue to sin against you without response</span>.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">(The danger in this verse is in someone using the injunction to rebuke when no sin is involved, but simply an offense caused by misunderstanding or need for training. Our first line of action must always be that of differentiating between sin and mistakes/misunderstandings between you and your ‘brother.’ A high percentage of offenses seen are not due to sin, but to misunderstanding another’s words or action—and then someone jumping to wrong conclusions. No rebuke is needed in that case—only clarification and explanation to renew trust that may have been lost.)</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">With that understood, if sin is the cause of the offense, the attitude that…</span></div><div style="color: #2c2cfb; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“I am not going to say anything because it won’t change his or her mind,” will not be beneficial to either party.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I may at times need to rebuke another to stop him from continuing to sin against me. But my goal is not to protect my feelings, but to protect the relationship, regain unity, and protect the brother from sin. However if my brother repents I am commanded to forgive him. Both the call to rebuke and to forgive is given to us as a command by Jesus Himself. We move on to our next verse.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">1 Tim 5:1</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> “Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers.” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The word translated rebuke in this verse is different and adds the nuance of not doing so “sharply” when it comes to those advanced in years. This rebuke is:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“To be very tender in rebuking elders--elders in age, elders by office. Respect must be had to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the dignity of their years and place, and therefore they must not be rebuked sharply nor magisterially;”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> By implication it also includes the other groups mentioned in the verse</span>. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Therefore the key to appropriate rebuke (or correction) is in understanding the nature of the offense. If rebellious, sharp rebuke; if an offense of ignorance, simply correcting with all gentleness may suffice.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Nevertheless there is still implied a call to rebuke if the nuance added is taken into consideration, just not sharply. However the ideal and preferred would be exhortation.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">1 Tim 5:20</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> “Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now the word for rebuke here adds still another meaning:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">“</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helena; letter-spacing: 0px;">e˙le÷gcein</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> is a much more pregnant word; it is so to rebuke another, with such effectual wielding of the victorious arms of the truth, as to bring him, if not always to a confession, yet at least to a conviction, of his sin (Job v. 17; Prov. xix. 25), just as in juristic Greek, </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helena; letter-spacing: 0px;">e˙le÷gcein</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> is not merely to reply to, but to refute, an opponent.” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the context of the chapter this is calling for an open rebuke of church elders who are sinning. I know people who would venture that this type of rebuke would be unbiblical, and yet here it is in the Bible. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The reason for the rebuke is two fold: (1) to convict the individual of sin and (2) to make others know that they too will be not get away with sinning.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">2 Tim 4:2</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This rebuke is just like the first one we saw in Luke 17:3 where the rebuke is given mainly to set boundaries for the sinner. Conviction may or may not come. Nevertheless the rebuke has to be given. These rebukes have to have Biblical principles behind them— hence inclusion of the phrase, “preach the word.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">What is scary is that in this context we have to be always ready to give a rebuke or hear one, ouch!</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Titus 1:13</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> “This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the context of this verse the word rebuke is the same as found in 1 Tim 5:20. It is to rebuke sharply in order to help convict the individuals of their sin. If you read the context correctly you will notice this rebuke is to prevent people who claim to be in a relationship with God from influencing others toward their heresies—to prevent them from teaching false doctrines within the church. We notice here again (according to the context) that the sharp rebuke is for the insubordinate—the idle talkers and deceivers, the dishonest ones, abominable and disobedient. These cannot be reclaimed by gentle exhortation. The purpose of open rebuke to the rebellious seems not so much for the ones being rebuked as it is for ones listening in, the whole church, to warn them of the sins condemned, and to separate their sympathies from the ones rebuked.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Titus 2:15</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> ¶ “Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This too has the same meaning of both 1 Tim 5:20 & Titus 1:13</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> Paul is giving Timothy the encouragement to be faithful to task of calling others to the purity of the gospel.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF REBUKES: </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Acts 13:10</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> “and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Read the words of above, spoken today, many would think they are “too harsh” or “un-Christ like” however they were used by the apostle Paul. They were spoken to someone whom he hardly knew, if he knew him at all. Furthermore the individual was not even a church member; he was outside the body of believers. What warranted the words? The individual was perverting the gospel. God calls believers to guard the gospel truth as most precious. That constitutes a Godly rebuke:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“There are those who think that a Spirit-filled Christian will show only the relatively passive “fruit of the Spirit” catalogued by Paul in Gal. 5:22, 23. But the Spirit also leads His messengers to identify and define sin frankly, and to condemn it in clear terms. The Spirit-filled Paul did this very thing in the case of Elymas.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> Of course, one of the descriptions of the fruit of the Spirit is faithfulness—which is demonstrated in those who are willing to rebuke as necessary.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Acts 2:23</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> “Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Peter declares the truth to his listeners however unpleasant it might be. He is direct and precise. This type of precision would be frowned upon today, but why? Has man’s inner heart become better? People are still potentially as wicked now as the people who crucified Jesus.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Acts 7:51, 52</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> ¶ “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Some observations: (1) Stephen knew they were not going to listen to him. (2) How did he know they resist the Holy Spirit? Because of their habitual actions (3) He even rightly accused their heritage because their spirit showed they shared the same father.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Some observations: (1) actions do give us insights into the heart. (2) God’s gifts cannot be purchased; hence it is by grace alone</span>. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> (3) You CAN recognize and call someone’s actions “wickedness.” (4) You can recognize in others a “bitter/poison filled, heart/attitude who is bound by sin.” We have not condemned the person, but that which is controlling the person. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Acts 16:16</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-18 “Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> "But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour." But, you say, she spoke good words, and why should Paul rebuke her? It was Satan speaking through her, hoping to mingle his sophistry with the truths taught by those who were proclaiming the Word of God.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It is important that he who speaks the gospel lives the gospel, otherwise the influence is ultimately for evil.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“The same danger exists today. The enemy is trying to bring in his sophistry through those who ought to be on their knees before God, praying for an understanding of what saith the Scriptures, that they may stand against the evil influences that fill the world. God desires scientific sophistry to be purged from every heart. He desires us to rebuke every evil devising, every evil work. If we allow such devising to go un-rebuked, we shall have to suffer the consequences. . . . God wants us to go to Him for light, and to carry His presence with us wherever we go. . . .”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Nevertheless a word of caution:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There are individuals who rebuke and harshly correct when only recommendations, guidance, and assistance in understanding are what is needed. It takes grace and patience to know the difference. In bringing correction to the non-rebellious, we must always remember the gentleness of Jesus. The rebellious person is the one in need of a sharp rebuke. May God help us to know the difference.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In conclusion: Rebuking is Biblical and yet it is certainly a lost art. This lack of rebuke is much of what is hindering the church today. No one is willing to call sin by its name, and this is blunting our witness to the world. May God help each one of us to live authentic, Biblically-centered lives for His glory and honor.</span></div><div style="color: #2c2cfb; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #2c2cfb; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-10436493946257487522011-03-15T22:49:00.001-05:002011-03-16T11:59:27.767-05:00Love Wins: A Review on Rob Bells Book<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DJk3rZXUSI0/TYDrPy3PMGI/AAAAAAAAADY/BF0kN1vPPgU/s1600/rob-bell-love-wins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DJk3rZXUSI0/TYDrPy3PMGI/AAAAAAAAADY/BF0kN1vPPgU/s320/rob-bell-love-wins.jpg" width="213" /></a></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I Just finished reading Love Wins, a book written by Pastor Rob Bell, a supposedly controversial book about Heaven and Hell. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Claims of heresy have been floating around and many a stir has been made by one man’s new look into an age old argument. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">What about heaven & hell? </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Is God really going to punish people forever and ever throughout all eternity? </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Is Rob a universalist? Etc... According to Rob Bell the answer is....</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">NO! </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Rob Bell is not a universalist. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">If anything, his book is more a rejection of the typical understanding of Hell that the majority of Christians hold. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Rob asks:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“Have billions of people been created only to spend eternity in conscious punishment and torment, suffering infinitely for the finite sins they committed in the few years they spent on earth?”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Love Wins rejects this understanding but doesn’t say in the end what happens with those who ultimately reject Gods love (I’ll explain later why I believe this takes place). He rejects an ever burning, torturous hell. Therefore if that was your curiosity about his book, perhaps your curiosity is answered. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Hopefully you will continue to read and understand that his book is more than a repudiation of the “typical” view of hell but rather a valid attempt to get people to think in different directions within the scope of Christianity. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Love Wins, in the end is true. Love does ultimately win. Therefore what I enjoyed most about this book is this line which I believe to be true: </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“Love demands freedom, and freedom provides that possibility.” p. 94</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God has allowed each of us the freedom to choose Him or not. Love demands such freedom but in the end Love wins because we in essence get what “we want,”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“That’s how love works. It can’t be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want, because love wins.” p. 101</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Rob goes out of his way to show the love of God, to entice others to see God’s love from a different point of view. To demonstrate that God is at work to save everyone including those that do not fit in our theological boxes. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Yes! </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God is trying to save the Muslim. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Yes! </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God is trying to save the Buddhist. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Yes, yes, yes God is trying to save the world! </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And God will do what ever it takes to get that done. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It is a resounding yes that God is trying to save everyone. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I believe that and that is why I enjoyed the book because it paints a beautiful picture that God is love.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In all it is a simple book to understand. However there are other aspects of the book that are incomplete and this is where I differ form him theologically.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Rob rejects God tormenting people forever and so do I, but then Rob can not come up with an explanation as to what happens with those who Rob even acknowledges have the freedom to reject God. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">He misunderstands scripture and hints at the notion that the saved and the lost will live in a parallel “state” throughout eternity. Rob goes even as far as to speculate that the gates in the New Jerusalem will never be shut therefore speculating that the lost can perhaps change their mind and enter the city of God. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“But gates, gates are for keeping people in and keeping people out. If the gates are never shut, then people are free to come and go. Can God bring proper, lasting justice, banishing certain actions-- and the people who do them-- from the new creation while at the same time allowing and waiting and hoping for the possibility of the reconciliation of those very same people?” p.96</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">All this stems from his misunderstanding of what happens at death. He rejects an eternally burning hell and rejects universalism but doesn’t quite know what to do with the lost. Since in his framework he believes in an immortal soul he leaves it unclear what happens to the lost. He has bought into the very first lie, “you shall not die” uttered by Satan to Adam and Eve. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I personally believe that the strides he makes in this book would be complete if he properly understood the state of the dead. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In summary Rob is trying to demonstrate that God is love and I commend him for that. I commend him for thinking outside of the main stream of Christianity and rejecting a view that God is a tormentor yet I encourage him to be more faithful to the scriptures. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We humans do not have an inherent immortality because only God is immortal. 1 Tim 6:16</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-7101324194560204952011-03-15T09:06:00.000-05:002011-03-15T09:06:03.752-05:00Who are you becoming?<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Have you ever heard a child say, </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“I want to be the most deceitful, crummiest, most despised person in the world when I grow up?” </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Or have you ever known of newly weds who have started their marriage with the intent to make it the most miserable marriage in the world? </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Absurd! </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">No one starts with the intention of making life miserable for themselves. Furthermore, no one starts out life wanting to be anything like the list we find in the book of Romans chapter 1:</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“...being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.” </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Yet the truth is, we hear about these kind of people all the time. We might even know some of them. Hopefully this list does not characterize who we are, or who we are becoming.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Yet the Bible states we are either going in one direction or the other. We are either growing closer to Christ or growing closer to the above list. </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So the question begs to be asked,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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</div>Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-24491311355016616022011-02-07T11:35:00.002-06:002011-02-18T14:10:14.378-06:00The Old and the New Covenant: A Brief Study.<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">IT IS WRITTEN: </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">2 Tim 3:16</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> “</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">All Scripture </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9PcgUkogxCI/TVAs7k97ULI/AAAAAAAAADU/8gWjMbZ6ZJA/s1600/New_Covenant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9PcgUkogxCI/TVAs7k97ULI/AAAAAAAAADU/8gWjMbZ6ZJA/s320/New_Covenant.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">The Covenants: <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">The covenant with Abram was 3 fold (Based on Genesis 15)<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><ol style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God promised him a son from his own loins</span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">He (God) promised Abram descendants as the stars of the sky; uncountable</span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">He promised them the land of Canaan a.k.a. “the promise land”</span></li>
</ol><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In this Genesis 15 God confirms this promise to Abram by “passing through the animals, i.e. staking His (God's) own life as the assurance that the promise will be true. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Genesis chapter 17: establishes in more detail other aspects of the covenant. There will be kings from the line of David. God calls for circumcision as an act of obedience. If they do not obey the covenant is broken. Exodus 34:28 establishes the Ten Commandments as the words of the covenant. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Exod 34:28 “So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deut 4:13 once again establishes the Ten Commandments as His covenant Stipulations that what He spoke is His covenant. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God spoke the Ten Commandments. Contrast it with verse 14 and you see the difference between the Ten Commandments of God and the other laws God gave to Moses.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deut 4:14 “And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 84.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 169.5px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.”</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 84.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 167.8px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.”</span></div></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In verse 13 God declared to the entire people the ten commandments and then wrote them Himself on two tables of stone.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In verse 14 God commanded Moses to teach them statutes and judgments. Later we’ll see Moses wrote those himself.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deut 5:2,3 Establishes the covenant with the nation, as opposed to the individual personalities, the fathers (by implication Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” with that current generation. Just like you and I do when we accept Christ and come into a covenant relationship with Christ.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deut 7:9-11 Key verse is 11 notice how afterwards He speaks about the other laws as well but there is a distinction between the groups. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deut 8:16-18 if you read the context we see a direct correlation that it is God who gives us the power to keep the covenant just like in Philippians 2:12, 13 Salvation has and always will be by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deut 9:9, 11 & 15 Tables of the Covenant refers to the Ten Commandments</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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<tr> <td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Verse 9</b></span></div></td> <td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Verse 11</b></span></div></td> <td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Verse 15</b></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 112.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: </span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 112.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. </span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 112.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. </span></div></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deut 10:5 Establishes where the book of the law, given to Moses, was placed. Contrast the locations.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Note that the book of the law was placed in the side of the ark of the COVENANT, a.k.a the Ten Commandments. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deut 29:20-21 tell us what the curses/punishments are for breaking the Ten Commandments/Covenant</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">2 Kings 18:12 & Jeremiah 11:3 and onward establishes later on in Israel’s history that the covenant is God’s words spoken at Mount Sinai. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">2 Kgs 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Jer 11:3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Jeremiah 31:31ff refers to a new covenant but we shall see that the only thing that has changed is the location of the law; from tables of stone to the hearts of the people. The law remains the same; the Ten Commandments. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Jeremiah 31:35-37 & 33:19-26 God says His covenant will never cease as long as there are heavens and earth or day and night.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Luke 1:72 speaks of God remembering His Holy covenant, remember we have established it is His Ten Commandments.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Luke 22:20 The New Covenant spoken of in Jeremiah is instituted at the death of Jesus. The continual blood of bulls and goats replaced by, the once and for all time sacrifice of Jesus. Yet the commandments or covenant stipulations stay the same. Jeremiah 31:33</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 Corinthians 11:25 establishes that His Blood makes the covenant new. Cf. Jeremiah 31:31</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 Cor 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">2 Cor the entire chapter 3 the chapter must be understood by the fact that the law, is written in our hearts by the Spirit and that the sacrificial system is done away by Christ’s sacrifice. Verses 15 & 16 indicate that the old covenant had to do with Moses’ writing of the book, that stipulated the curses for breaking the law. However this chapter does included the ten commandments only in the sense that the Ten Commandments CANNOT AND NEVER COULD SAVE US! Paul is fighting people who thought the commandments can save us. ONLY JESUS CAN KEEP US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW BUT THE LAW STILL STANDS.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We need to look to Jesus who did away with the veil of separation. Now because of Jesus we can come boldly to the throne of grace, no longer needing an earthly priest on our behalf.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Hebrews 7:22 Jesus makes the covenant better because it is based on HIS promises, not man's. And He remains forever and is perfect</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Hebrews chapter 8 and onward summarize the changes from Old to New the covenants:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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<tr> <td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Old Covenant</b></span></div></td> <td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>New Covenant</b></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Written on Tables of Stone</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Written in our hearts</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">From blood of bulls and goats (needed daily/yearly)</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To the blood of Jesus Christ (Sacrificed once and for all)</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">From earthly Sanctuary</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To the heavenly Sanctuary</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 28.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">From promises of an earthly promised land</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 28.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To a promise of a heavenly promised land</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 28.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">From earthly priests</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 28.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To Jesus our heavenly High Priest</span></div></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Both covenants still based on the Ten Commandments. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For example God wrote the Ten Commandments Himself, Moses wrote the book of the Law</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God writes the same Ten Commandments in our hearts now. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The promise of the New Covenant is based in the Old Testament promise found in Jeremiah 31:31</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Hebrews 10:9, 10 Jesus came to take away the continual need of sacrificing animals and once and for all made Himself the perfect Sacrifice.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Hebrews 13:20 indicates the covenant is eternal;</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Revelation 11:19 states the ark of the covenant is in heaven; the covenant stipulations never changed; they were made better by Christ’s death and are still valid even when John is looking in vision to the last days.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now those who try to say God’s eternal moral law is love are correct but lets see how God’s moral law is the same as the Ten Commandments.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“When Paul praises God’s Law as being “Holy, and Just, and Good,” and the Psalmist David exclaims that “The law of the Lord is Perfect,” we learn from the Pen of Inspiration that God’s moral Law of Ten Commandments is no mere checklist of rules! It’s a TRANSCRIPT of God’s character, reflecting its divine Author in every respect. Compare the attributes of God with inspired descriptions of His law:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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<tr> <td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>God Is:</b></span></div></td> <td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>ATTRIBUTE</b></span></div></td> <td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>God’s LAW Is:</b></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 Peter 1:16; Isaiah 6:3</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Holy</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Romans 7:12</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Revelation 15:3; Deuteronomy 32:4</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Just</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Romans 7:12</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Psalm 25:8; Luke 18:19</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Good</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Romans 7:12</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Psalm 11:7</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Righteous</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Psalm 119:172</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 John 4:8 & 16</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Love</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Matthew 22:36-40; Romans 13:8-10</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Deuteronomy 32:4</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Truth</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Psalm 119:142, 151</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 John 3:3</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Pure</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Psalm 19:8</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1 John 4:24</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Spiritual</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Romans 7:14</span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Malachi 3:6</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Unchangeable</span></div></td> <td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 31.6px; padding: 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px 5.0px; width: 168.7px;" valign="top"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Matthew 5:18</span></div></td> </tr>
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God’s Law of Ten Commandments is an expression of His thought, an embodiment of His very Nature! Therefore, we should no more expect it to be changed than we’d expect God to change. It is written:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1. God says, “I am the Lord, I change not.” Malachi 3:6</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span>2. He is “the Father of lights, with whom is NO variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James 1:17</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">3. “Jesus Christ is the SAME yesterday, today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div>Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-55970346028838619882010-12-19T22:03:00.001-06:002010-12-20T00:09:04.148-06:00Epigenetics: Taking Comfort In Our Genes<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For years we have been taught that our genes are determined and that the diseases we develop are the result of bad genes. There seems to be nothing we can do but just accept our fate and hope someone finds a cure for the diseases we inherit. We have even taken a sort of perverse comfort in this, throwing up our hands and saying that it is not our fault. There is really nothing we could have done differently to avoid our diseases. But is this really comforting? Would it not be more comforting if we could affect our genes in such a way to prevent the development of disease?</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Darwin introduced the idea that genes take millions of years to change based on natural selection. Genes are supposedly set in stone and produce whatever disease or beneficial trait that they encode and cannot be changed, at least by the inheritor. While we as Christians who believe in a Biblical creation do not accept Darwin’s millions-of-years idea, we have all been influenced by his thinking that the gene and gene product cannot be changed except by natural selection and changes in the gene pool. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">However, scientists are discovering that while genes themselves do not seem to change, what a gene produces is highly influenceable so that even if you have certain genetic weaknesses or programming, given the right conditions, you do not have to express those genes. That is, certain genes seem to be able to be turned on or off based on our choices.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This field of research, called epigenetics, had its beginnings in northern Sweden where the winters are harsh and the growing season can be either extremely abundant or very bleak. The data collected from generations of families who lived here during these conditions has shown that abundance versus near starvation can turn on or off certain genes and lead to disease or early death in the grandchildren of those who experienced these conditions. A couple of examples: grandchildren of those who experience near starvation in childhood had more trouble with obesity and diabetes, grandchildren of those who experienced years of plenty and overate lived significantly shorter lives.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another example of changing gene expression is that of agouti mice, born with a yellow coat and a genetic defect that results in obesity and diabetes. These mice while pregnant can be fed a special diet rich in B vitamins that turns their bad genes off so that their offspring, while born with the same genetic defect do not express it but instead are born brown, slender mice that have no weight problem or diabetes.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Even the genetic expression of brain function can be changed, it seems. Epigenetic studies have been done with mice that have a genetic memory problem. These mice have been exposed to an enriched environment with toys, games, and more stimulation and interaction, and their memories have shown some improvement. However their offspring, while having the same genetics, have displayed improved memory without any added stimulation which seems to be the result of the stimulation of their parents.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Data is also being collected on identical twins which have the same DNA and should also have the same epigenetic marks. However, scientists are finding that one twin will develop a genetic disease later in life and another will not. We still have much to learn but it seems possible that our individual choices in our own lifetime may turn on or off certain genes so that the gene expression of twins with the same genes diverge as they make different choices in life.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Our human genetic code, called DNA, is a set of code that consists of about 25,000 genes, mapped by the Human Genome Project. That code produces proteins that have certain functions in the body. Epigenetic marks are the marks above the DNA that tell it how to express that code. This is necessary since every cell has the same DNA code, yet each tissue expresses it in different ways so that we have a body with many functions and different parts such as skin cells, hair cells, brains cells, and hearts cells. We do not yet know the total number of epigenetic marks but it is estimated to be in the millions. Once complete, the Human Epigenome Project is predicted to make the Human Genome Project look “like homework that 15th century kids did with an abacus (</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1)</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">” </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In Time magazine’s article on Epigenetics, the author concludes that there is good news and bad news to these new findings. The bad news, he says, is that bad lifestyle choices can have bad effects on our children and grandchildren, while the good news is that epigenetic scientists will be working on drugs that can target these specific epigenetic marks to combat the problems we cause by our bad choices </span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(1)</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Wow! Is it just me or is there something missing in this logic? When I read that I felt like there was an elephant in the room that no one wanted to acknowledge. While it surely is bad news that our offspring will suffer from our bad choices, what I see here is good news in that if we change our lifestyle and make good choices our offspring will benefit and perhaps we can eliminate entire diseases from future generations of our family tree by creating good lifestyle habits. Can you imagine how thankful our children and grandchildren would be to not struggle with the genetic predisposition to obesity, diabetes, some forms of heart disease, or certain genetically linked cancers? Once again, medicine and science continue to look for answers to our poor lifestyle choices not by changing our lifestyle but by inventing a drug so we can continue to make the same poor choices and not reap the same consequences. Well I don’t really think it is going to work. That is just too simplistic of an approach. With millions of epigenetic marks that affect our 25,000 genes why don’t we stop trying to find the magic pill and start making good lifestyle choices? I think it makes a lot more sense.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1. Cloud, John. “Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny.” </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Time Magazine</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Jan 6, 2010.</span></span></div><div style="color: #0225a3; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951968-1,00.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951968-1,00.html</span></span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="color: #0225a3; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2. </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html</span></span></a></div><br />
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FOR HIS GLORY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-30533592900205135072010-12-02T14:46:00.001-06:002010-12-02T14:53:30.954-06:00Homosexuality: Predispositions<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I recently had a conversation with my sister and her boyfriend on the topic of homosexuality and whether or not one is born gay or chooses to be gay. What do you believe? Are homosexuals born with same sex attraction or do they choose to be attracted to the same sex? The topic intrigues me because as a minister I have to be prepared to give an answer according to the word of God. Many churches are being asked to answer these types of questions. As I contemplated on the conversation this is what I believe the word of God has to say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I personally believe sin has caused certain people to be born with a gay predisposition. It is sin and not God that has caused all predispositions to evil. Nevertheless God’s word promises everyone the power to change our sinful nature/predispositions.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">How then do I explain that many who claim to be gay say, “They have always known they were gay and God made me that way.” I believe I have a probable, plausible, persuasive and biblical explanation. Yet before we begin I build on the premise that the Bible clearly condemns a homosexual lifestyle.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that being said I go on to my explanation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We are all born with certain predispositions/temptations to sin for our natures are sinful<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>. To some food may be their vice, to others money, to others still it is a predisposition/temptation to lie, towards laziness, towards lust, the list is endless. I personally know men whose predisposition is to have many sexual partners. However a person’s disposition/temptations do not justify his/her actions when they contradict the word of God and this is where homosexuality enters the mix. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If we examine our lives carefully we all have certain temptations that strike each of us “closer to home.” Satan is always trying to find in us the path of least resistance and we all have those avenues we need to guard. Yet we also have avenues Satan does not seem fit to tempt us with. For example the enemy never tempts me with alcohol because he would be wasting his time. Nothing in me is in the least bit tempted on that avenue. The same goes for homosexuality that does not resonate with me. Yet there are individuals that it does and this is where Satan attacks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Temptations<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a> are real. Gay and straight people are both severely tempted. Yet temptations should not justify sinful choices. Nevertheless temptations are powerful. Early on Satan begins to whisper to a child that they ought to be gay. Any sign of giving in to that suggestion will be followed up by more gay suggestions. Satan will beat that temptation like a drum until it seems the constant temptations are who we are “supposed” to be. Combine that with society now applauding gay behavior and certain ministers coming out and you have the excuse there desire crave<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>. However, that tempted individual should continue to resist the temptation to gay behavior because it violates the direct teachings of the Bible. If you read the scriptures the Bible condemns the action of homosexuality not the temptation/predisposition towards it. Just like a husband is not condemned as an adulterer simply because he was tempted to it, the condemnation comes when he gives in to the temptation/predisposition and does not repent.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Condemnation for giving into temptations applies both to gay and straight individuals. A heterosexual young man engaging in premarital sex<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a> is condemned as well. Yet some would say, “at least a heterosexual young man has the hope of marriage, gays are told to live solo for life.” That may be the case but wouldn’t you rather obey God and allow His grace to sustain you<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a>? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living without sexual intimacy could be part of God’s calling on your life. Jesus, Paul, and others<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have done so for the sake of the gospel. We are all born with a predisposition to certain temptations yet giving into them is not the solution; trusting God’s word is the answer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Heterosexual men and women should not give in to their temptation to premarital sex. Thieves should not give in to their temptation to steal. Pedophiles should not give in to their temptation to molest. A spouse tempted to commit adultery should not give in to their temptation to an extramarital affair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are not to carry out every predisposition we are tempted to, simply because we are tempted. We are called to “</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">crucify the flesh with its passions and desires”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We have been given the power of choice and the grace of God to empower that choice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We all have been called to carry our cross<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a> and you might feel celibacy is one you cannot bare yet God can give you the strength to endure all things.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
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<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romans chapter 6 and 2 Cor. 5:17</div></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></a> Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26, 27</div></div><div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8799579577834310912#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></a> Romans 7:14 …but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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FOR HIS GLORY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.Gio and Larie Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446566733688857834noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8799579577834310912.post-89154207915580666462010-11-16T15:26:00.001-06:002010-11-16T22:21:15.165-06:00Cancer and Nutrition<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The purpose of this article is to present encouraging evidence regarding cancer prevention which also may be integrated into a plan for cancer treatment. You and your physician work as a team and need enough evidence to make informed decisions.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You won’t commonly hear this from the medical profession, and there are several reasons for this. One reason is that physicians receive very little nutrition instruction in medical school. Hence, most nutrition instruction in our society comes from the media and government organizations which are both heavily influenced by big industry and government lobbies. Unfortunately this represents a serious conflict of interest.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A second reason the medical profession is often silent on true prevention is that physicians tend to be focused on symptoms. We as physicians are taught to think about the underlying cause of disease, but in practice we get very used to treating symptoms with a pill or surgery. In cancer treatment there especially tends to be a disconnect when it comes to thinking about treating the cause. Most physicians tend to view cancer as a local disease that needs to be surgically removed, unless it spreads; then if it spreads, each of those components needs to be destroyed either by radiation or chemotherapy. It may seem logical to focus on a medication cure since antibiotics cure infection, and thus it would be natural to hope a medication could cure every disease. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A third reason you do not hear about nutrition and lifestyle is that there is no financial gain in this method for the researchers. The major drug companies fund most of our research. They do not profit from, nor fund, lifestyle education—they profit from drugs, so that is what they fund. Medicine is a business, like anything else, and has been greatly influenced by the drug business, and the drug-influenced research which it has produced. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A final reason diet and lifestyle as prevention or treatment is not discussed by most physicians is that it does not seem like a pleasant option, because it is not a quick fix like a pill or surgery but instead a complete lifestyle change. Physicians are paid little for the time it takes to teach and motivate. When they do take the time to teach proper lifestyle it can be disheartening because most patients tend to believe what the media says and what they have heard all their lives over what the doctor says.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">However, research on the link of nutrition and lifestyle to cancer is significant. Many do not want to acknowledge the studies because they are not the ideal study of the medical profession which is the double-blind randomized placebo controlled trial. I agree that this is the ideal study design, but there are many treatments that cannot be blinded because it would be impossible, such as certain types of surgery, and yet we still have respect for these interventions. There are also things we cannot perfectly study since we cannot randomize people to certain things because of ethics, or because the study subjects are unwilling. But that does not mean the research done should be ignored.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There have been numerous studies over the years linking diet to cancer. The most extensive review of all these individual studies was seen in the following:</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a global perspective, released by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) in 1997. This report by a panel of experts chaired by Dr John Potter based its findings on over 4,500 credible scientific studies, and details patterns of diet and cancer throughout the world and examines the effects of various aspects of diet on 18 cancer sites. From these studies the above panel concluded the following to be obvious:</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><ul><li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Symbol; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Vegetable and fruit consumption is associated with lower risk of cancer at almost every site</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Symbol; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Alcohol is highly detrimental for cancers of many sites (not just the liver) </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Symbol; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Meat and animal fats are detrimental. </span></span></li>
</ul><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Some of the most significant and recent research is from the China Study, recognized as the largest epidemiological (population study) study ever done (called the Grand Prix of Epidemiology by the New York Times). This study, lasting over 20 years surveyed the diets of the Chinese people in various regions and the diseases in those same regions. While they found thousands of correlations, in general what they found regarding cancer was that meat and dairy intake were directly related to cancer. That is, the areas that ate more meat and dairy had more cancer, and to a predictable degree. Likewise studies have shown that when individuals moved from an area of low cancer risk to an area of high cancer risk, within two generations they had the same cancer risk of the area to which they moved. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Another interesting study was done by Dr Campbell prior to his work on the China Study, in which he injected aflatoxin, a known carcinogen linked to liver cancer, into rats, then fed them varying levels of animal or plant protein diets. What he found was that the rats fed virtually no animal protein did not grow tumors, while those fed more animal protein had more and faster growing tumors. When fed plant protein at any level the rats did not grow tumors and when those with tumors were fed a diet at any level of plant protein (and no animal protein) the tumors largely arrested growth or regressed. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To be fair, there have been studies that have shown no benefit on cancer from adding plant foods to the diet, but these studies in general have had so little difference in the animal protein and plant components that they can not be considered a fair test. It would be like studying the difference in lung cancer caused by smoking filtered cigarettes compared to regular cigarettes and upon seeing no difference claiming that cigarettes are not harmful at all. Hardly a fair conclusion! </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We can clearly see that current research implicates lifestyle and diet as major contributors to cancer. Particularly, animal protein seems to be at least a significant cofactor that allows cancer to grow, while plant foods inhibit this growth. While there are many possible causes of cancer such as radiation, chemicals, toxins, viruses, and genetics, perhaps it is not so simple as an outside source invading us and taking over, or simply the inheritance of bad genetics over which we have no control. We are complex creatures and cannot afford to ignore the interaction of our own physiology with cancer and also with everything we do and eat and even think. So the most logical approach would be to think carefully about the fuel we put in our bodies, one of our most intimate interactions with our environment. Does it matter what we put in a car for fuel? Would it run as well with water or corn oil or ketchup? How much more important what we put in our bodies! How can we worry about the environment around us and how it impacts our health (a valid concern) and yet not worry about what we put in our bodies? Cancer is complex and I will not try to make it out to be simple. What we need is to take a comprehensive approach to prevention and treatment by curbing behaviors that contribute to the development of cancer and starting new behaviors that help prevent it or increase the body’s natural abilities to fight it.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Now for a word about the cancer industry. There are many great doctors and individuals working hard to solve the problem that is cancer. And they are very sincere, but despite the best of intentions research does not support that we are “winning the war” on cancer. While there have been individual treatments that have been introduced showing some benefit, treatment outcomes for most cancers really have not changed much in years. Outcomes that have changed can quite possibly be attributed to earlier screening plus the fact that all “cure” outcomes are based on 5-year survival, so that if you get screened earlier there is a good chance you will live longer regardless of treatment. And also keep in mind that the benefit of cancer treatment drugs are usually presented in terms of relative numbers which sound significantly better than the absolute numbers. An example of this is a study done with 1000 participants, half of which are put on a treatment drug X. If 2 people are expected to get a disease and now with drug X they find that only 1 person gets the disease, that is a 50% improvement with the drug, whereas the absolute benefit is only 1/1000. This is statistical terminology that most people do not understand that could make the treatment sound better than it is in reality.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What I have argued for is diet and lifestyle as prevention of cancer, which a large amount of evidence supports, but I also want to argue that diet and lifestyle should be at least part of treatment for cancer. Admittedly I have no solid evidence for this based on double blind randomized human studies because there are no large scale studies of this nature for treatment of cancer. So in making this argument all I have to go on are five things: (1) cancer risk is highly associated with diet; (2) in animal studies growth of cancer has been affected dramatically by dietary change, especially showing growth with animal protein, and showing arrest or even reversal with a plant based diet; (3) there have been numerous case studies in which individuals have had resolution of their cancer by dietary and lifestyle change; (4) traditional chemo and radiation, in terms of absolute numbers, is still not that great. I’m not saying that you should not take chemo or radiation, since this is a personal choice you make along with your physician, but I do think you should thoroughly understand the benefits and side effects of such treatment, and get the absolute numbers to help you make your decision. And I do worry that we try to fight cancer with treatments that destroy our immune system, which could help us fight it (chemo) or treatments that tend to create cancer (radiation). (5) Finally, adding proper diet as a component of cancer therapy will certainly not harm and it very well might help.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I do have hope that some day the medical profession, my profession, may catch the vision of lifestyle prevention and treatment of disease. If they do, it will not be because of any financial gain, and it will take much effort and years of swimming against the flow of the drug companies, big food industries and government lobbyists which influence government policies and education. For now I feel that I cannot ethically wait to share this information with you, for the motto of my profession is this: “FIRST, DO NO HARM.” </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">References</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. Melina, M.S., R.D., and Davis, R.D. Becoming Vegan, 2000: 26-27</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2. Campbell and Campbell II. The China Study, 2006.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3. Anderson. Healing Cancer From Inside Out, 2009.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“From where do you come?” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Satan replies, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So God chimes in and says, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Satan blurts, "Does Job fear God for nothing?"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And so the challenge was on, God knew Job would remain faithful but now Satan sought to disprove God. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Satan’s first test was to destroy all of Jobs wealth and kill his children (how diabolical), but Jobs reaction to this onslaught was to worship God. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Job continued to trust God. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">God said, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I told you Job would still trust me” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Satan replied, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Skin for skin! A man will give up everything he has to save his life.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So in a crazy turn of events God said, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"All right, do with him as you please, but spare his life."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But in all this pain and madness Job continued to trust in God, but here is where Satan makes his subtle move. God said Satan could not kill him but that was Satan’s desire for Job and his ultimate goal for you and me. We sometimes think Satan wants to destroy our finances, our families, or make us sick but that is not his plan for you. Catch the subtlety here and ponder what Jobs wife tells him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Did you catch it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Everything Satan put Job through was to drive him to a point of despair so that when his wife told him to </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Curse God and die” he would see no hope and kill himself thereby doing Satan’s dirty work for him. Sinister indeed! In all this, Job maintained his trust in God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">However the story does not end there at least not for you and me. Satan is still trying to kill every one of us. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Do you know what the top five diseases that kill Americans are?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1. Heart disease - According to the American Heart Association cardiovascular disease was responsible for over 34% of deaths in the United States and is the single leading cause of death in America today. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2. Cancer - According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is a leading cause of death in America today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3. Stroke - When an artery leading to the brain is blocked by a clot or buildup of plaque, that area of the brain can be damaged by lack of blood and oxygen. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4. Respiratory Diseases - Respiratory diseases that block airflow in your lungs such as emphysema and bronchitis are part of a group of diseases defined as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is a leading cause of death in the United States and worldwide. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5. Type II Diabetes - Type II diabetes is one of the major causes of death in America and causes damage to kidneys, nerves, eyes, and your heart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We saw earlier that God said Satan could not kill Job, and he cannot kill us either so CATCH THE SUBTLETY. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">YOU READY FOR IT?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Americans are causing these illnesses themselves, we are killing ourselves. All five can be largely avoided by the choices you make at the dinner table. Satan cannot kill us so he gets us to do it for him by the way that we eat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sinister indeed! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The evidence is clear and abundant that the American diet is the cause of these diseases. Books such as “The China Study,” “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease” and many like it have proven it with scientific evidence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The good news is that we do not have to do Satan's dirty work for him! You can basically avoid these diseases. You can tell Satan “no more!” Below are links to more information to help you gain the victory and live a long and prosperous life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvA55xj8iMI"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvA55xj8iMI</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/"><span style="color: purple;">www.forksoverknives.com</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">May God bless you to </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">make the changes you need to make and remember:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gio and Larie</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
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