Speaking the Truth in Love

I have often thought about why people’s hearts seem so open or closed at times. It’s easy to blame them for their rejection of what we say, but more often than not it may be our fault, especially when it comes to other believers. We often believe that our doctrine and interpretations of scripture are superior to others and we ascribe the success of our lives to these tenets, not necessarily God’s grace, giftings, calling and election. The most important message that we can convey to people within the orthodoxy of our faith is how we love them. Love has been redefined in recent ages. It takes on the context of a nurturing, tolerant, grandmotherly approach. It’s not; it is bold and unflinching. It is the most powerful, candid,  life changing stuff known to the universe. In fact the Apostle John stated this, “…perfect love cast out all fear. For fear has to do with punishment and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” (1st John 4:18)  Our mission in life is not to focus so much on doctrine and denominationalism- our mission is to focus on loving one another. With the kind of love Christ had in mind when He said, “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

In modern times we have cast away love and opted for teaching and denominationalism. By accentuating certain tenets we gaurd against deception, believing this will insulate us from cults and sects. We do well to examine doctrine, but we also have to understand that Christ has promised to guide us based on the immutable fact He selected us in the first place and promised a unity amongst His sheep.

John 10:14-16

14“I am the good  shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15just as the Father  knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16I have other sheep  that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

Paul focused on love and the inevitable unity it produces…

Ephesians 4:15

15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Paul addressed arguments and quarrels here…

2nd Timothy 2:23-25

23Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 24And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

Holidays, The Lord’s day, Sabbaths and Food here…

Romans 14: 4-12
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4Who are you to judge  someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand,  for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5One man considers one
day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one
should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6He who regards one day
as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he
gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks
to God. 7For none of us lives  to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8If we live, we live to  the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we
belong to the Lord. 9For this very reason,  Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead  and the living. 10You, then, why do  you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all  stand before God’s judgment seat. 11It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’”a 12So then, each of us  will give an account of himself to God.

In the nearly 19 years I’ve walked with the Lord I have had periods of apathy and backslid into things I’m not proud of, and at times acted in very unchristlike ways, but the one thing that has not changed is His love for me. So saints, keep in mind that there are many denominations out there that will attempt to bend your ear to their doctrines, teachings and beliefs. And many of them have helpful truths that feed us milk filtered through the minds of men. But…Christ and love are the greatest truths of scripture. We need Him and we need to be surrounded by people who love us. So let’s major in the majors and minor in the minors.

My advice is to pray about all things and love everyone even when you disagree with them. Take hold of the covenant God has made with you through new birth and “Be fully convinced in your own mind.” in regards to what you are doing or pursuing based on your calling. Peter amplifies this point when he was summing up faith in Peter 4:8 “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” We will be wise if we follow this advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Paradox of Time and What it Births: Expedience or Obedience?

“The paradox of time is this, it is the most valuable thing we have, yet we can render it valueless. In short, time can be both valuable and valueless.”  Hakim

Never before has time been under siege like today. Our most valuable resource has to be balanced and divided among innumerable competitors. Someone will always be left out and feel shorted when we choose to invest ours in something or someone else. How many relationships, business wise and personal, have perished because time was not allocated sufficiently to them? Let’s face it; as time diminishes, we are forced to prioritize what’s important. The constant checking of our watches and the urgency that we attach to our schedules often prohibits us from living in the moment and gleaning the most from it and our relationships. Christians are not much different in this regard. We too live in a global age with many demands and urgent requests.

I think it is very important to remember that waiting on the Lord is not a passive, apathetic thing, but rather a purposeful, active seeking to know His will while we are engaging the world. The story of Lazarus comes to mind here. ( http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+11&version=NIV )

The passage above takes us to a point in Jesus life and journey when an urgent request for His assistance came from Martha and Mary. They reported that their brother was gravely ill. Jesus remained another 2 days where He was at – seeking God. The sisters could not understand when He finally came to see them why He allowed Lazarus to die when He had healed so many previously.

Christ sought to encourage Martha: “Your brother will rise again.”

Martha was dismissive and let Jesus know she understood theology but this outcome was not what she wanted: “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

We all know the rest of the story. Christ performed a powerful miracle.  He modeled faith and patience to produce a miracle. The same principles are in effect today and will produce miracles in our dead, lifeless situations. Martha had sound theology, but lacked a present, in the moment faith. What about us? How do we model it?

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The same is true in our current economic crisis. No doubt many of us have pressing financial issues and deadlines regarding our work and personal lives. From time to time, we do what’s financially expedient not necessarily what’s best or right with our resources. We are staying one step ahead of the demons of debt rather than patiently living within our means.

Crises, urgency and expediency are ever present and carefully construct webs of deceit in our minds. These things drive us and indeed have for some time. The more we move, the more the spiders (devils) are alerted. Let’s sloooooooooow down and figure out what is happening. There is a phrase for what ails us; it’s called “the tryanny of urgency.” We would do well to not submit to it’s yoke. We are called to obedience, not expedience. God bless you and please take time muse differently.

Here is another article worth reading. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2004/s04120111.htm

 

 

 

Sticks and Stones: Dealing With External and Internal Bullies (Guest Post By Taylor Aldridge)

In 6th grade I was continually bullied by a 7th grader on the bus. He would mock
and tease me, generally about my Christianity and the fact I wasn’t Catholic,
(or Italian) as were most kids in my neighborhood. One day he said that my mom was a b**ch. At first I wanted to hit him, but he was bigger and stronger than me and I didn’t want to get hit back.

…But for some reason, on that day, his name calling hit me in a very literal way. He
had never met my mom; therefore, he had no idea whether or not she was nice or
mean. I saw his statement has a flawed math equation; (like 2+2=17) he was not
only wrong; he was stupid and had no business making that assessment. He was
offering an uneducated, ignorant opinion. With more taunting he asked me what I was going to do about it. I calmly turned around in my seat and said, “That would have really hurt my feelings, if I valued your opinion!”

He was stunned, desperately trying to comprehend what I had just said. I received
a standing ovation on the bus. Some 8th graders high 5’d me, and he never again
offered me another opinion about my mom nor anything else.

This became my mantra of sorts. (to this day, I suppose) However, about 7 years
later I was sitting alone in my room, a new freshman at a Christian college
(where I did NOT fit in) sad, depressed and not liking myself wanting to go
away form the school but not wanting to go home, I was lost.

God spoke to me that day and reminded me of that old saying I had used against the
name caller. He told me that it not only applied to those around me, but that
it applied to me too. I thought about the “names” I was calling
myself, (loser, misfit, unlovable) and realized I had become my own bully, and
no less ignorant and uninformed as the boisterous 7th grader had been about my
mom. God quielty spoke again as said He had already evaluated me and found me worthy of the grace and love bought with His Son’s death.

He sharply asked me, “Who are you, to have such an audacity to think you are
capable of rendering a judgment to something I (God) had already decided.”
I had never felt such a reprimand from God as I did that day, and I had never
understood how much He loved and valued me either. So I no longer value my own
“opinions” of myself. This decision nukes depression and world based
judgments.

In my bible studies I have often asked high school kids to rate themselves on a
scale of 1-10 (10 being awesome). It is funny to see the faux humbled 8s and
8.5s as well as the 3s and 4s. In either case, it always seems like a burden or
weight for them to answer such a question.

I then ask them what number God would pick. I would receive everything from
giggles to tears as they realized the true nature of my original question. One
girl began to cry as she wadded up her paper (not sharing her number) and said
God didn’t need a scale because Jesus was beyond value and she now realized
that God loved her “that” much. (beyond and in place of her own self
assessments) Later that night I found her paper when I was cleaning up. I
opened up the paper wad to see she had written in a ZERO.

About a year ago, my wife asked me if I was happy. I honestly had no idea how to
answer. I new I wasn’t unhappy, but I didn’t “feel” happy either. I
loved my life and almost everything about it. I had not pursued happiness, nor
joy for that matter, sense that college encounter with God. To me, joy was a
mere result of living in the kingdom.

So I told her I was content in where I thought God wanted me to be and that
sometimes I enjoyed where God had me and other times it was far less pleasant.
But I really had no expectations that I am supposed to be happy. It took her a
while to understand this, but I think it was a huge, liberating relief to know
it wasn’t her job to “cause” me happiness.

…and nor is it mine.

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From Ray Charles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xk1P1913y0

And so they came… from all over the globe to form what is without question the greatest nation the world has ever known. Though young, as far as nations go, no country has ever been so mighty in terms of the different measures of power and influence. Teeming with promise even while in its stages of infancy, America was beautiful, mighty, and unique in history.
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Let’s celebrate and labor to prolong her legacy. As a believer, I have been truly blessed to be born in a country that offers political freedom, even more blessed to have the spiritual freedom found in Christ. Freedom Squared is born out of this uniqueness and we celebrate Independence Day with thanksgiving!

Many Reasons to be Concerned, But None to Fear.

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world
you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

Saints, He has overcome the world and we will soon be with Him. In this world people are beset by many problems and tribulations. Some of their own doing and some by simply being born. Christ promised us many blessings by following him, but he also prophesied trouble, difficulty and persecution. The reality is we have to receive the whole counsel of God and not just the stuff that feels good or soothing. There are many reasons to be concerned on this journey of life, but truly – none to fear.

“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was
afraid of is come unto me.   I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither
was I quiet; yet trouble came” (Job 3:25-26).

We all have lingering fears and doubts in our hearts that we harbor. Taking heart means taking control of this. More specifically, take heart means to gain, aquire or capture courage. The underlying axiom behind Jesus statement, “…you will have trouble…” is simple; trouble will be a feature of your life and it will come to you in many forms. Financial, health, relationships and in other unforeseen ways. Trouble means to disturb, to create unrest, tribulation, frustration and disruption.

We live in a world where we have done our best to create restful, insulated lives- because the pursuit of peace and happiness is a natural desire. When we are faced with trouble, calamity, and distress we have a command to follow. The fiat from God is always the same: “Fear not! Take heart. Be strong and courageous.” We are never instructed to come undone or fall apart at the seams, even when it seems we can’t do anything else. Now the command does not change, but as fragile creatures, we rarely live up to this.  We may grieve, weep, become angry and frustrated, but that is natural and part of the process. The key is to keep believing God through the process.
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One way to overcome fear and anxiety is to simply look at the outcomes and paralysis it creates and how it places worst case scenario thinking at the forefront of your mind. Fear is natural and it’s presence requires courage. It can instruct us and make us concerned about real and present threats and dangers but we cannot allow fear to turn us into cowards. Being afraid is not the problem- it is how you deal with it that matters.

It is impossible to be human and not feel fear. The secret is to reduce it’s power to one of concern, a concern you will have to DEAL WITH- but not alone- unless you foolishly choose to resist God’s instructions. By refusing to yield to it, you will find peace. The Apostle Paul tells us in Phillipians 4:6-7:

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of
God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds
in Christ Jesus.

Final thoughts – cowardice is a sin, a form of self-indulgence, a choice to give into a primal emotion without challenging it with the weapons God has supplied. Take heart; take courage and take back any and all areas of  your life that you have yielded over to fear. God loves you with fervency and sincerity.

Deliverance: A Despised Concept

“They cried out to the LORD in their trouble and He delivered them from their distresses.” Psalm 107:6

It’s important to understand what it means to be delivered or saved. From a biblical perspective salvation comes to those who are in a place or condition of powerlessness or helplessness. All they can do is cry out with sincerity. The character traits of those who need to be delivered are considered unworthy of dialogue or mention in this modern age of self help and improvement. The bilblical narrative reminds us that apart from God all that we do is dead and lifeless – without any eternal merit. And so we are reminded of our dependency on Him. John 15:5 exhorts us to remain humble and sober regarding our spiritual journey. “I am the vine you are the branches… apart from me you can do nothing.” There is nothing sexy or heroic about a branch or continual dependency on someone. The very concept is despised by the carnal man. But from God’s vantage point it is not a concept, but an absolute truth. We are in need of the Savior.

You may not like the idea of being called a branch; if that’s the case I have another word for you; how about lamb? “We all, like sheep, have gone astray. Each of us has turned his own way and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6 The word sheep amplifies  dependency and need.  Sheep are marvelous examples from scripture.  They are defenseless against the predator (sin, carnal nature and the Devil and his legions) and they need to be sheltered, watched over and led. True believers rejoice in deliverance. We have been saved from the wrath of God and sin. There are innumerable other things we have been saved and delivered from that we are not even aware of. Jesus instruction on how to pray included the phrase “…deliver us from the evil one…” as a constant reminder to saints  that this journey in life is filled with peril as well as joy.

And so we continue on this journey being in the world but not of it. Waiting patiently for the day of deliverance, not passively- but actively involved in our calling as sheep and branches empowerd by the Vine and led by the Good Shepherd.

Let us embrace deliverance as a biblical example of God’s goodness and grace.

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Let us give thanks continually.

Let us pray for humility.

Let us remain in Him.

 

The Faith Once For All Delivered…

Jude 1:3-4

3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ

From the days of Christ’s ministry on the earth to the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit today, our faith has been consistently counterfieted via works, deliberate distortion and liberal theology. Some place a premium on works that add things from the Old Covenant, some deliberately distort scriptures to suit their own desires and others have bowed their knees to philosophical, modern arguments fueled by deconstructionism. Such arguments produce a liberal interpretation of the faith that lead to denying Christ altogether. It was bound to happen. Christ spent a great deal of time during his earthly ministry correcting erroneous doctrines that man had erected. Doctrines had replaced God. The religious leaders of His time boldly stated that people had to have faith in their interpretations to get to God. Our creator countered these lies with a powerful message that should be echoed today.

John 7:14-19

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16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. 17 If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

This passage of scripture illustrates a point that we should heed. Faith is ultimately in a person, not a work, belief, idea, practice, custom, ritual or doctrine. Has someone deceived you with doctrine?  Are you following something dry, hollow and devoid of life? Are you becoming condemning of those who do not think like you? Do you have some cherished belief or revelation you want to compel others to believe? If so you have the wrong spirit my friend. Truth is truth, but we should always speak it in love. A truth is not the same as The Truth, which is Christ. There is one faith, one baptism, one Lord, one Sealer of the elect.

As believers we are appointed to speak the truth in love and verify all things to see how they line up with God’s purpose and word. Men love doctrine more than they do God and they also love darkness more than they do light. They seek to become the light for others. This was the case during Jesus and the apostles’ ministries. False apostles and teachers were present then and now. But take heart! The faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints is given to us not by man, but God. Let us contend for the faith as it is written on our hearts and the scriptures. The author is God. If you are in error and seeking God, He will lead you out of the confusion and fog of religion and doctrine. He alone is true and worthy of our faith.

A.W. Tozer

(This post was taken from Sermonindex.net)

The Gift of Prophetic Insight

A.W. Tozer

Excerpted from Of God and Men

A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times.

What God says to His church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour. Religious leaders who continue mechanically to expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers of Jesus’ day who faithfully parroted the Law without the remotest notion of what was going on around them spiritually. They fed the same diet to all and seemed wholly unaware that there was such a thing as meat in due season. The prophets never made that mistake nor wasted their efforts in that manner. They invariably spoke to the condition of the people of their times.

Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom is missing. We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of spiritual penetration and interpretation, the ability to appraise the religious scene as viewed from God’s position, and to tell us what is actually going on.

There has probably never been another time in the history of the world when so many people knew so much about religious happenings as they do today. The newspapers are eager to print religious news; the secular news magazines devote several pages of each issue to the doings of the church and the synagogue; a number of press associations gather church news and make it available to the religious journals at a small cost. Even the hiring of professional publicity men to plug one or another preacher or religious movement is no longer uncommon; the mails are stuffed with circulars and “releases,” while radio and television join to tell the listening public what religious people are doing throughout the world.

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Where is the man who can see through the ticker tape and confetti to discover which way the parade is headed, why it started in the first place and, particularly, who is riding up front in the seat of honor?

Not the fact that the churches are unusually active these days, not what religious people are doing, should engage our attention, but why these things are so. The big question is Why? And no one seems to have an answer for it. Not only is there no answer, but scarcely is there anyone to ask the question. It just never occurs to us that such a question remains to be asked. Christian people continue to gossip religious shoptalk with scarcely as much as a puzzled look. The soundness of current Christianity is assumed by the religious masses as was the soundness of Judaism when Christ appeared. People know they are seeing certain activity, but just what it means they do not know, nor have they the faintest idea of where God is or what relation He has toward the whole thing.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. Learning will enable a man to pass judgment on our yesterdays, but it requires a gift of clear seeing to pass sentence on our own day. One hundred years from now historians will know what was taking place religiously in this year of our Lord; but that will be too late for us. We should know right now.

If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation it must be by other means than any now being used. If the church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting.

Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many) he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, denounce and protest in the name of God and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom. Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the one and the salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath.

We need to have the gifts of the Spirit restored again to the church, and it is my belief that the one gift we need most now is the gift of prophecy.

Here is a sermon from this Tozer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va_BrSislsE

My Friend, What are You Filled With?

This post will examine not only the work of the Spirit, but also the nature of man and the voids he attempts to fill with destructive patterns, addictions and other things apart from God.

“Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters… ” Genesis 1:2

There is an interesting pattern of scripture that we see from the opening act of creation to the culmination of the new heavens and earth. We see a God that fills all things. The earth was formless and empty. Suddenly the fiat came: “Let there be light…” Before the days (Hebrew word Yom) of the week were completed, God had filled the earth and it was teeming with life. But this was just the beginning. God was just starting the process of filling the earth with human beings that were created to be filled by His Spirit. Peter wrote about this mystery by highlighting the pondering of Angels in Peter 1:12: “It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.”

The clear description of God throughout scripture is that He delights in creating, and not just the creation of things but volitional beings in His image and likeness. In fact there is a second creation for some known as the born again experience that many have misunderstood. It is more than repeating scripture or the sinner’s prayer – it is God causing and filling people with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that causes man or woman to become a new creation chosen by God to be grafted into His Kingdom for all of eternity.

Here are a few scriptural references regarding Old and New Covenant saints that were filled with the Spirit of God:

Genesis 41: 38 Joseph

So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?”

Luke 1:15  John the Baptist

“…for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.”

John 3:34  Jesus

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Conversely – Proverbs 27:20 comes to mind

“Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man.”

Man is a creature that is insatiable. His feral nature compels him to seek access to things through the senses and then acquire those things that are pleasing. Because of this, man has always passed laws of authorization to check this natural predisposition to take things by any means necessary. God places His laws on the consciences of men, but this is not enough to stop us. Real enforcement is necessary and temporal agents of enforcement(governments) are described in Romans 13 as a means of common grace and mercy.

What are you filled with? There are many things we can be filled with: lust, pride, cowardice, anger, anxiety, malice, envy, pity, despair and hopelessness are just a few. Ultimately, what we should seek to be filled with is Him. This union that Paul described is the very thing “angels longed to look into.” He summed it up this way:

Colossians 1:24-27

Now I rejoice in  what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in
regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
I have become its  servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its  fullness— the mystery that  has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the  saints. To them God has  chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

My friend I hope you turn and seek God today if your heart has been touched. We have a choice in what we fill our minds and hearts with. We can be filled with many of the things I mentioned above, or we can be filled with Him and all the fruit and gifts He has promised the elect. It is His desire to fill you with peace, joy, righteousness and love. Will you turn to Him?

 

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