God or the world?

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.”

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Beverly Carradine quote

“…God wants the church

to be a perfect contrast to the world.”

– Beverly Carradine, from his Church Entertainments

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2 + 2

There are two super important Births in this world: Christ’s and yours.

There are two super important Deaths in this world: Christ’s and yours.

The One who did not need two births died to give you the Second Birth.

And the One over whom second death had no power, died so you don’t have to face the Second Death.

– eab, 4/22/16

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Hannah

She prayed with her lips without sound;

Thought Eli, “a drunk I have found.”

She told him her plight,

God made everything right,

Soon son Samuel was temple-bound. 1Sa 1.13

– eab, Mar 2005

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Heaven or hell

Men do not go to hell because they have faults

– they go below because they ARE false.

Heaven (wonderful contrast) has no faults and has nothing that is false.

– eab, 12/20/15

Adam had a job in the Garden of Eden (pre-sin). Heaven may well have “work” – without sweat 🙂  – (post-sin). Hell? Well, hell may be a boring place without a chore to take your mind off all the misery.

– eab, 6/28/16

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Clement

Ante-Nicene Quote

“…David the king…exhorted to the truth and dissuaded from idols, was so far from celebrating demon in song, that in reality they were driven away by his music.”

Clement, from his EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN

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