Regeneration and faith in Christ should be seen as taking place in the same instant. From a human perspective, it may seem like faith precedes regeneration. But from Gods’ perspective, regeneration precedes faith. We cannot believe unless we are born again. The important factor is that God, in His grace, has enabled both regeneration and faith despite your sin. You believe because God has enabled you to do so. Belief is actually an evidence that someone has experienced the new birth. “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God” (1 John 5:1).

Ben Peays

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	White sugar
2	c	White Karo syrup
1	cn	(14 oz.) Eagle Brand
1/2	lb	(2 sticks) butter

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook slow until rolling boil the sugar, Karo syrup and butter, stirring
constantly and slowly add Eagle Brand and cook to 234 degrees. In double
boiler, melt on low heat chocolate wafers; coat candy mold with chocolate.
Top with spoonful of caramel; top with nuts, then cover to seal with
chocolate. Set in freezer 5 minutes to set. Take out and serve. Caramel
filling and 3 pounds chocolate make 60 turtles.
Posted to recipelu-digest by Kara9718 <Kara9718@aol.com> on Mar 16, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. #C.S. Lewis”

So the meaning of away from the presence of the Lord does not mean that God is absent in every sense, but in those senses [His love which produces His pleasures forevermore/fullness of joy]. God will be terribly present in another sense. All reality continues to say: In Him we live and move and have our being. And it is still in hell that no one can hide from the Lord or escape the terrible countenance of His anger. So God's power is present in hell as the One who sustains our being and the One who enforces justice and the One who maintains suffering. He is present in all the ways men do not want Him to be present and none of the ways that believers enjoy His presence.

John Piper