The Word

Genesis 3. 22 – 23

“And the LORD God said, ‘Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:

and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:’

“Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”

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Kenneth Stetler quote

“Our job is to teach them (our children)

how to live without us.”

– Kenneth Stetler, 2/11/1985

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TV – we’ve “got your number”

It’s discouraging how many Friends (even attending “careful” churches) have “taken their liberty” (“I’m not going to do as So-N-So preached”) and bought a TV. By contrast, it’s ENCOURAGING that several Google+ followers recognize TV as the mind controller it is. Listen. If TV had no four-letter words, no porn pics, no ads ruining the contentment of your home, its programming IS programming your minds. TV is doing your THINKING for you. Destroy TV before it destroys your wife and kids with its constant flow of misinformation, illusions, and propaganda. The reel world is THE real world.

– eab, 3/24/16

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NO BODY IN THE TOMB

What? No Body in the tomb?

Who ever heard the like?

Who can thus presume,

That One has risen

That One is no longer dead long?

Who ever heard that any successfully fled.

He is not here?

Why, this is where they stopped the bier,

This is where a sheet-bound Frame

From which such wondrous words once came

This is where they laid it down,

And sorrowfully, slowly, slumped back to town.

This has to be the lonely spot 

Surely, I’ve not “forgot”

The roll of the land, the look of the vale,

This is the place, lifeless and stale

That One’s precious Body came to rest

(What other point on earth is so blest?)

But the tomb is empty, there’s no Body in the grave

What ever do you suppose? – – –

Why, here are His grave clothes,

Here is the napkin they wound ‘round His head

These are the items so know with the dead

But He, the One who briefly wore them,

Is gone – you’ll have to store them.

He’ll never need graves clothes again.

He left them low, He did ascend

He showed Himself – Many did Him see

Life gave way to eternity!

The One who came the lost to save,

Has conquered Sin, Hell, and the Grave!

– eab, Mar. ‘08

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WORLDLY AMUSEMENTS

The following may hopefully help

someone sort out and separate from WORLDLY AMUSEMENTS:

Exo 32.6…the people [Israelites in rebellion] sat down to eat & to drink, & rose up to play. Pro 6.11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth… Pro 21.17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine & oil shall not be rich. 1Ti 5.6…she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. Heb 11.25 [Moses] Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 1Jo 2.15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Wean away. The world may soon crash into oblivion.

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