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HELEN SANDERS
11-12-2020
TATTOOS AND DIRTY CLOTHES
 
It is easy to look at someone’s outward appearance and make a judgement. One day I was working in our church thrift shop and a young man came in dressed very dirty and had lots of tattoos. He didn’t fit the “profile” of what one would call a believer. From his appearance I immediately I made a judgement call that was wrong. I figured I should witness to this “sinner” and maybe he would get saved.  When he came to the counter to pay for a few things he wanted to purchase, I arrogantly asked him where he went to church, expecting him to answer in a way that I could judge him again. He said that he had just started to go to church about two weeks earlier, and that he had recently asked Jesus to be his savior. Boy did the Lord convict me of my judgmental attitude. I had to repent immediately. I was absolutely wrong, and I am sure some of you have made the same mistake. 
 
I wonder If those that looked at Mary Magdalene after she received forgiveness still saw her as a whore. The change was apparent in her life. What about Peter? He denied the Lord three times, but he was forgiven. Yes, the body of Christ is to judge sin in the camp, (the church) but it is for the whole purpose of reconciling the sinner to God. We must remember though when repentance comes the sin is under the blood and God forgets it for eternity. Then we must give the person grace to allow change to take place in their lives.
 
This country is so divided. Even those that call themselves Christians are slinging mud and using profanity. It saddens Father's heart. One day each of us will stand before God. Your life will come before your eyes. Every evil word and every good word that you have said will be judged. I am sure that some of us will be very ashamed of that moment. No one will be there to blame, my friends. No one will be there to give you an excuse for what we have said, and what we have done. 
 
This message isn’t intended to condemn anyone, but if makes you realize how important loving the repentant sinner is, and you haven’t done it, then please, get your heart right with God. Don't call yourself a Christian and live like the devil. The Word says you will know people by the fruit in their lives. 
 
I could put page upon page in this newsletter of the sin of those I love, but that would be wrong. The scripture tells us: “He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.” (Proverbs 17:9. KJV.) When we think of ourselves more highly than others, that is called pride, and that is what caused Satan to fall from heaven. If God hated it, we should too. We must remember that while we were yet sinners, that Christ died for US!   I had to repent, what about you?

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RUSSELL SANDERS
11-12-2020
ABRAHAM PART 30
THE OATH AND THE GROVE
 
In Genesis 20 we saw how Abraham and Sarah moved to Philistia where Abimelech was king. They deceived him about Sarah’s marital status causing much grief. Abimelech rebuked them both and sent them away. He gave them a “peace offering” of herds and servants.
 
In Genesis 20:22-34 we now see Abimelech seeking out Abraham to secure the peace. Abraham was still living in Philistia although distanced from Abimelech who desired no trouble with a wealthy and powerful Abraham.
 
After settling a dispute over a water well, they made a covenant of peace generationally between them and their heirs. The place where this was done was named Beer-Sheba by Abraham. “Beer” meant “well,” and “Sheba” meant “seven” or “oath.” Beer-Sheba then could mean “well of seven” or the “seventh well.” It could also mean “well of the oath” as this was the well where they swore an oath of covenant.
 
There is no indication that Abraham sought God about making an oath or covenant. However, there was peace generationally during the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as Abimelech had requested it for three generations. Nevertheless, when those generations passed, and after Israel left Egypt and the wilderness, and they occupied Canaan the Philistines sorely afflicted Israel for many years.
 
Another interesting matter is seen in Genesis 21:33 as Abraham “planted a grove” and called upon the name of the Lord. The pagans of that time, and for many centuries later, planted “groves” for their places of worship. Abraham appears to have followed that custom for a place of worship to his God.
 
These were called “groves” because pedestals resembling the trunk of a tree were erected and an altar or graven image was placed on top of it. People would then worship their god there. God wanted nothing to do with such a practice since it resembled the idolatrous practices. That is why in the Law of Moses this practice was prohibited. Deuteronomy 16:21 says, “Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.”
 
In fairness to Abraham, the Law of Moses (Deut. 16:21) was not yet given, being yet about 500 years away. Genesis 21:33 does make it clear that it was done as unto Abraham’s God, Jehovah (Yahweh), the “everlasting God.” It is in this verse that God is identified by two names, not just one. First is YHWH, written as LORD, Jehovah, Yahweh, YHWH, or Jehoshua.
 
The second name used here is El Olam, translated as “the everlasting God.” The Hebrew word “Olam” means the secret or “hidden” things. This might have been a name for God to which Abimelech could more easily relate since Yahweh, the Everlasting One, had been hidden from his understanding. I know of no other place where the name of “El Olam” is used for God.
 
Abraham built this grove in a part of Philistia that he re-named Beer-Sheba, and he lived there. Centuries later Beer-Sheba became the southernmost part of Israel, a country which did not yet exist. It became part of God’s promised land.

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