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2Co 12.26-27

“And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

“Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”

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Oswald Chambers Quote

“Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way…

[it] is wicked…Deliberately tell God…you will not fret about that thing…”

– Oswald Chambers, from his book, My Utmost for His Highest

Should I leave room for an “Amen” – – – or an “Ouch”?

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Not in NT

Were any NT Christians involved in politics? No (unless already “there” before being redeemed.)

OT? Yes; Joseph was 2^nd man, Mordecai was 2^nd man, Daniel was 2^nd man – all OT, all Jewish

(another of several huge contrasts between the Testaments).

– eab, 8/20/11

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MAKE A god?

 

That man would make his own little god,

Make it of stone, chrome metal, or sod,

Make it faceless or with a long face,

Set it up in a prominent place,

Give his “making” a worshipful nod –

That, friend, is sadly, extremely odd.

– eab, 10/27/06

 

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Read and THINK

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”  – Dwight D. Eisenhower, from a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/1953.

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