A true seeker has come under the convicting power of the Holy Spirit by virtue of a true understanding of the law of God. A true seeker has been broken and contrite in heart by being measured against the law of God and found guilty before God. A true seeker knows that there is no way to earn salvation by works. And a true seeker is so desperate for eternal life as to gladly abandon everything in this life for that greatest of all gifts and willingly submit to the lordship of Jesus Christ. Those are the tests that separate the false seeker from the true seeker. The true seeker can be saved because God alone produces that kind of repentance and submission. The false seeker cannot be saved because it's impossible if you're just coming on your own.

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Cakes	10	Servings

INGREDIENTS

5	lg	Egg whites
3/4	c	Unsalted butter; softened
1 1/2	c	Granulated sugar
2	ts	Vanilla extract
1	ts	Almond extract
2	c	All-purpose flour
1	tb	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
1	c	Milk
		WHITE SILK FROSTING AND CHOCOLATE:
1	lb	Cream cheese; softened
6	tb	Unsalted butter; softened
2	ts	Vanilla extract
1	ts	Almond extract
2	lb	Confectioners sugar
3		Squares semisweet chocolate; melted, cooled
1	tb	Amaretto
		White and Dark chocolate leaves, for garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

AMARETTO FILLING
Preheat oven to 350F and arrange rack to the center position. Grease and
flour three, 8-inch round cake pans. Beat egg whites until stiff, but not
dry and set aside briefly. In a separate bowl, beat the butter with the
sugar until light and fluffy, then add the vanilla and almond extracts.
Blend smooth. Whisk the flour with the baking powder and salt and add
alternately to the batter with the milk, beginning and ending with the dry
mixture. Fold egg whites into the batter and divide mixture evenly between
the two prepared pans. Bake about 20 minutes or until a wooden pick
inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool layers in their
pans 10 minutes, then loosen and turn out onto a rack to complete cooling.
YIELD: Three 8-inch layers
Beat cream cheese with butter until smooth. Blend in vanilla and almond
extracts. Gradually beat in confectioners sugar until smooth. Remove 1 cup
of frosting and blend with the chocolate and Amaretto. Reserve the
remaining white frosting and set aside. Spread 1/2 of the chocolate
frosting evenly over bottom layer of cake. Arrange the second cake layer
over the first, then repeat, using the remaining chocolate frosting. Use
the served white frosting to cover the sides and top of the cake. Decorate
the top of the cake with an assortment of white and dark chocolate leaves.
YIELD: One 8-inch cake
Recipe by: Homemade Good News (Vol 16 No 4) Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest
V1 #195 by Sean Coate <swcoate@peganet.com> on Aug 18, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“You’re not God’s judge. One day you’ll discover it’s the other way around”

It is not persecution alone that we ought to fear, not those forces that in open warfare range abroad to overthrow and defeat the servants of God. It is easy enough to be on one’s guard when the danger is obvious; one can stir up one’s courage for the fight when the Enemy shows himself in his true colors. There is more need to fear and beware of the Enemy when he creeps up secretly, when he beguiles us by a show of peace and steals forward by those hidden approaches which have earned him the name of the 'Serpent.'… Those whom he has failed to keep in the blindness of their old [pagan] ways he beguiles, and leads them up a new road of illusion. He snatches away people from within the Church herself, and while they think that coming close to the light they have now done with the night of the world, he plunges them unexpectedly into darkness of another kind. They still call themselves Christians after abandoning the Gospel of Christ and the observance of His [moral] law; though walking in darkness they think they still enjoy the light.

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