Though judgment applies in all these cases, it’s one thing for people with very little knowledge of Jesus to reject the Savior. it’s quite another for people that grow up in Christian family and are heavily exposed to the truth. It’s even quite another for someone to profess faith in Christ, appear to walk with Jesus and then give the Lord a vote of no confidence. And it’s even quite another to do all the above and then intentionally lead other Christians astray by false teaching (see Heb. 6:4-6, 10:26-27; 2 Pet. 2: 20-22).

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Baltimore	Pickles	1	Batch

INGREDIENTS

8	qt	Cucumbers
4	c	Vinegar
2	ts	Pickling spice
8	c	Sugar
5	ts	Salt
		— Mary B. Harry
		Baltimore, MD

INSTRUCTIONS

Place cucumbers in a crock; pour boiling water over to cover each day for
four days.  Use fresh water each day. Keep crock covered and cool. On the
fifth day, cut cucumbers into 1/2" to 3/4" pieces. Mix other ingredients
and bring to a boil.  Pour over cut-up cucumbers in crock. Reheat this
syrup each day for four days and pour over cucumbers. Keep covered and cool
at all other times.
Pack cucumbers in jars and fill with heated syrup, leaving 1/2" headspace,
then seal.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges”

When the law was written on tablets of stone, there was a significant weakness. The weakness of the Old Covenant was not in the law. The weakness of the Old Covenant was the people’s hearts. They couldn’t keep the law because they lacked two basic ingredients. Both of them interestingly were mentioned in the Old Testament when God used His prophets to speak while under the Old Covenant of the coming New Covenant. First, as God said through Jeremiah, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it” (Jer. 31:34). The writing of the law went from tablets of stone to tablets of human hearts (2 Cor. 3:3). And second, as God said through Ezekiel, “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances” (Eze. 36:27). We by far have greater power to obey the law with the fullness of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us as God says, “causing” us to obey. So there should be a radical difference between us and Israel. It’s not in the God we serve. It’s not in the desire to obey Him. It’s not in the faith of a Messiah to take away our sins. It’s not in a law that is given from God to be obeyed. It’s not even in a delight in that law. The difference is simply this. The Old Covenant is characterized by people who were stiff-necked and rebellious (Dt. 9:6; 10:16; 31:27), whereas the New Covenant is characterized by people who have soft hearts and the ability to obey.

Randy Smith