💥 When Jesus comes to gather the church.

 

In the last days, before the end of this present world, Jesus will come in the clouds to gather the dead in Christ and the elect of God to take them to the new heaven and new earth created for them by God.  There will be only righteousness there.  There will be no more death because we will then be as God, a spirit.  We will not have flesh and blood bodies that can die or have pain or disease or sin.

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Revelation 21  (The apostle John says:)

1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God HIMSELF shall be with them, and be their God.

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.

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I Corinthians 15  (The apostle Paul says:)

47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,

(One reason I have not made arrangments for a funeral is that I don't know for sure that I will die.  When Jesus comes, HE will raise the living as-well-as the dead in Christ.)

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

(Blink ... That is how fast we will be changed out of these human bodies.)

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

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Matthew 24  (Jesus says)

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

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2 Peter 3  (The apostle Peter says)

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Since no one knows the day or hour of Jesus' return, we would need to live each day in peace, without spot and blameless through continual faith in God in all things and constant prayer, especially over problems.

Philippians 4

6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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Podcast: God's commandment when it came time for the children of Israel to posses the land given to them by God

 

 

 

Numbers 33

50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

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2 Corinthians 6

14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

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Romans 10 (Reading through the Bible)

 

 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

² For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

³ For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

⁵ For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

⁶ But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
⁷ Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
⁸ But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

⁹ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus (The Word), and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

¹⁰ For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

¹¹ For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him (on The Word) shall not be ashamed.

(So it is with all scripture.  If we believe what the scripture says, we believe on Jesus, the Word.)

¹² For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.

¹³ For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord (The Word) shall be saved.

¹⁴ How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
¹⁵ And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

¹⁶ But they have not all obeyed the gospel.

For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

¹⁷ So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

(God speaks through scripture.  God speaks through thoughts.  God speaks through dreams.  It doesn't matter what form God uses to speak to us.  After we hear the word, we have a foundation for faith. We believe that Word given us by God and by believing we are saved.)

¹⁸ But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

¹⁹ But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

²⁰ But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought Me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after Me.

(Some of us were not seeking Jesus when HE revealed Himself to us. Others were very religious and try to be saved by their own works.)

²¹ But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth My hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

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🎶 Beethoven Symphony No. 2

 

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Symphony No. 2 in D-dur (1801-02), op. 36

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1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
2. Larghetto
3. Scherzo. Allegro
4. Allegro molto

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Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)

(1964/24:00)

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💥 Give me another mountain!

 

When Joshua was dividing the land among the 12 tribes of Israel, Caleb was 85 years old and he went to Joshua and said,  

Joshua 14

5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.

7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.

10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as HE said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. (85-years-old)

11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.

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Long ago, my pastor at Word of Faith church loved to tell how Caleb said he was 85 and said, "Give me this mountain!"  Even while old, Caleb was ready to fight for another mountain.  And that mountain was given to Caleb.

Recently, in September, 2023, God gave me a dream showing me I was being given another very big assignment. 

 I wondered about this "big" assignment.  I'm almost 86.  I can't walk much.  I rarely even leave my house.  I work daily on the assignments I have been given in the past:  blog (2015); books (Amazon in 2015); Podcasts starting the first week in February, 2020 ... now, another "big mountain" ?

Like Caleb I was glad ... I just wondered how it could be and what it would be.  But I readily said in my heart:  "Yeah.  Bring it on."

I believe I know what the assignment is:  King Saul disobeyed God and ended up having God take away the kingdom as a result.  Evil spirits came on Saul and the Holy Spirit departed from Saul.  His servants knew something that would help king Saul and in this scripture they tell this to Saul.

I Samuel 16

13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him (David) in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.

19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.

21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.

22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.

23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

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I began to realize that instrumental music played well, had the power to cause evil Spirits to depart.  People often listen to music when stuck in traffic and it helps them to endure the traffic.  When I was traveling in the 1980's, church people would pick me up at the airport where a meeting was scheduled and take me to my hotel.  During this time, I noticed that almost always the person who came for me had been playing the radio in his car.  (The radio seemed to be of help to him.)

Music has great power to affect the emotions of man.

(We see how Saul was helped when David played skillfully, "And the evil spirit departed from him.")

Would listening to skillfully played instrumental music (classical music) be helpful to the church?

I wondered and I began to pray about this.

I know the times will grow increasingly difficult in the days ahead on this earth.  In fact Paul said the time would come when the time would be "perilous".

2 Timothy 3  (Paul warns the church)

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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I began asking God if HE wanted me to do this?  We could probably set up a second blog on on provider, Podbean, and play classical music on that blog.

Why classical music?  

Classical music usually is only instrumental (as David played on his harp before Saul.)

Classical music is very abstract sound without images.  So no one is singing about their lost loves, making listeners remember things they should not remember.

Popular music is often contrary to scripture:

Philippians 3  (The apostle Paul says,)

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

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After thinking and praying about playing classical music on our blog to help Christians which have torments caused by devils, I kept going back to the example of Saul and David and how when David played skillfully on his harp, the evil spirit fled from king Saul.

And I heard:  "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."  (I Thessalonians 5:21)

So on September 12, we began playing classical music on a section of our daily blog:  "Jesus Ministries Exhortations"

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Pam found a website which provided large numbers of compositions with an archive of performers from the beginning of period of time when sound recordings were made in the early 1900's, as far back as examples of the opera singer, Enrico Caruso, 1909 recordings.  

I was fascinated with these, getting to hear him and others.  I didn't know there were any examples of recording that early.

This gathering of music often has 50 to 100 or more recordings of the same composition so a musician could compare the actual performance style and interpretation of the music artist!

The cost to subscribe to this anthology was only $20 for 3 years.  classical-music-online.net

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We rented, for $109 per year, a second provider which hosted a second website for us thus allowing us to present the written exortations from the Bible and the Classical Music on the same blog daily!

And we began publishing classical music compositions daily starting with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. on September 12, 2023.

I listen to our new blog through the day each day and have found it helps me to slow down a little and focus better, even while reading the Bible.  Often thoughts come from devils which try to pull us away from Bible and get us to "do something important."  (Apparently those evil spirits flee from us as they fled from king Saul when David played his harp.  I Samuel 16)

When I have a trying day, I find I can play this music and begin to relax!  

I find it very helpful.

As things grow worse in the world, I believe it will be especially helpful to us.

And while I used to want to see what was going on by looking at the evening news and troubling myself, I find now I often even forget the news is on!

The fruits coming from listening to classical music are good fruits for me.

Prove all things; hold fast that is good.  (I Thessalonians 5:21)

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Podcast: The last battle for Moses:

 

 

 

 

Numbers 31

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.

4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

(Balaam was hanging out with the Midianites when the attack by the children of Israel came and he was slain with the Midianites.  Take heed to this example!)

9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.

(Didn't God tell them to slay all the women who had known men, had sex with men?)

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.

15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
 

16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.

21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;

22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

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25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:

27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:

28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:

29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.

30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.

31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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When I have been visiting with an unbeliever, I often pray this over myself:  

Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

When we "visit" with the world or with the apostate church people who have cast away scripture and have set up other doctrines, we "touch" the unclean.  I know God can instantly cleanse us and set us in the right spirit again.

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Romans 9 (Reading through the Bible)

 

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
² That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. ³ For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: ⁴ Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; ⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶ Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

⁷ Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

⁸ That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

⁹ For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

¹⁰ And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

¹¹ (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth;)

¹² It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

¹³ As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

¹⁵ For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

¹⁶ So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

¹⁷ For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew My power in thee, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth.

¹⁸ Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth.

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¹⁹ Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth HE yet find fault? For who hath resisted His will?

²⁰ Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?

Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

²² What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

²³ And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory,

²⁴ Even us, whom HE hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

²⁵ As He saith also in Osee, I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

²⁶ And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not MY people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

²⁷ Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

²⁸ For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

²⁹ And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

³⁰ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

³¹ But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

³² Wherefore? 

Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

³³ As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.

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🎶 Paganini: Violin Concerto No 2

 

 

Niccolo Paganini (1782–1840)

Concerto for violin and orchestra No.2 in h-moll 

`La campanella`, MS 48 (op. 7)

1. Allegro maestoso
2. Adagio
3. Ronde à la clochette

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Salvatore Accardo (violin)
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

(1975/31:02)

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💥 We believe because now we have heard HIM ourselves.

 

John 4, the woman at the well talked to Jesus and recognized HIM as being "The Prophet".  She went to other people and told them about Jesus.

After hearing the woman, 

John 4

30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto HIM.

41 And many more believed because of HIS own word;

42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard HIM ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

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When we hear Jesus ourselves, we are born again, and that makes all the difference.

August 5, 1975, I heard in my mind:  "Joan ... You know all those mistakes you've been making all these years.  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."

I was shocked.  I had no idea the "mistakes" were sins.  And the statement was made starting with my name.  It was a specific call to me. And I was never the same after that!  Instantly my life was changed forever.

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Podcast: The end of Moses' life. Joshua appointed by God to lead the children of Israel into the promised land.

 

 

 

Numbers 27

12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

14 For ye rebelled against MY commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify ME at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

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Moses asked God to appoint a man to lead the children of Israel:

Numbers 27:15

15 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,

16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;

19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.

20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.

22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:

23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

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Romans 8 (Reading through the Bible)

 

 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

(To walk after the Spirit is to walk in love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance ... Galatians 5:22-23)

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² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (The Word) hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

⁴ That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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⁵ For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh;

(Things of the flesh:  adultery, fornication, uncleanness/defrauding others, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcrafts/superstitions, hatred, variance/arguing, emulations/trying to outdo others, wrath/desiring revenge, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings/partyings ... Galations 5:19-21)  

but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

(Things of the Spirit:  love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.)

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⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

⁸ So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.

Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

¹⁰ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

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¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (make alive) your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.

¹² Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

¹³ For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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¹⁵ For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

¹⁶ The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

¹⁷ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.

(We suffer with Christ each time we see someone disobeying the Word of God and we grieve because we love the Word of God, and we follow the Word of God not letting our own flesh lead us, thereby not allowing our flesh to have it's own way and thereby causing our flesh to "suffer".  We choose instead to go by The Word of God in the matter at hand, thus walking in the Spirit of The Word. )

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¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

²⁰ For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope,

²¹ Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

²² For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

²³ And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

²⁴ For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

²⁵ But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

²⁷ And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

²⁹ For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

(Each time God, by HIS Spirit, brings to our mind The Word of God on an issue of this life and we choose to do that Word, we are conformed to the "image" of The Word, Jesus Christ, who is The Word.)

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³⁰ Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified.

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I John 1:7    But if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. 

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³¹ What shall we then say to these things?  If God be for us, who can be against us?

³² He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

³³ Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. ³⁴ Who is he that condemneth? 

(If we are justified by God through the cleansing blood of Jesus and the Spirit of God, that is all that is needed.  If God approves us, that is all that matters.)

It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

(Jesus, The Word, intercedes for us … and the Spirit intercedes for us.)

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³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

³⁶ As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

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³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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