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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

The badge of courage does not require that we walk through something dangerous. It simply requires that we continue to share God's love whenever and wherever we are (Tom White).
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Don't ever think for one split second that Jesus came into the world to offer a kingdom to Israel without a cross and that somehow when the Jews rejected Him as King, He had to go and die on the cross. He never offered a kingdom without a cross. He was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world.
John MacArthur