God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.
Perspective: -<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Keep the track.
Consistently moving forward is essential for success.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> But that continuous march should be in the right track as well.Simply running is not enough; run lawfully.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium
none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Notice the word of the Lord to Joshua, be careful to do according to all the law
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Which Moses my servant commanded you ..do not turn from it to the right or to the left. Jos.1:7, 8.
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4.0pt">God has designed a definite, perfect path/track for a Christian. Rom.12:2.
Treading through that path alone, a Christian will find fulfillment and success in his life.
When
we commit ourselves to take that pathway seriously and sincerely- even paying
the cost- God will be pleased in our steps and He will send the added blessings all through the way.
<div
class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">That demands constant assessment of our life, performance, and walk in the light of the
word of the LORD.We need to carefully seek the Lord to make sure that we move
<div
class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">in the right path.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium
none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Pray like the Psalmist, Make me know thy ways, O Lord; Teach me Thy paths. Ps.25:4.
Teach me thy way O Lord; I will walk in thy truth; Unite my heart fear thy name.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT:
0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Ps.86:11. Do not let me wander from thy commandments. Ps.119:10
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT:
0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Do we have the commitment to know the word and walk in His ways alone?
As Psalmist referred, need fear of God in our heart!
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Sad, many seldom take note of their track. They simply think, its OK!!
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0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">But remember, the consequences of a careless life will be far reaching.
Apart from the possible failure and subsequent troubles we will lose the reward too.
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PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">
Paul reminds Timothy categorically, .if any man competes as an athlete,
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in;
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules. 2 Tim. 2:5
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in;
BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Too many have began well but failed on the way only because they were not careful enough to keep
their steps in the right lane. Cp.1 Tim.1:19; 2 Tim.4:10. Let each one of us be very careful
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">to keep the trackto be victorious and not be ashamed.1 Cor. 10:12.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:
9"> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> N T K
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in
0pt">Study Notes:-The Sockets of Brass
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT:
medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The pillars were not embedded in the desert, and did not stand in their own strength, but stood in sockets of brass. There was evidently a stout tendon on the base of the pillar which fitted snugly into a slot or mortise in the top-centre of the socket.
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The sockets of brass represent the person of Christ and His finished work, in which we alone can stand. "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus"2 Tim.2;1. So the elders are to stand firm, not leaning this way or that, according to the prevailing winds, Eph. 4;14, but not in any self confidence, for such will fall, 1 Cor. 10;12.
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4.0pt">The brass or bronze is a metal that can withstand, and absorb the heat of fire, and thus speaks to us of the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.
All through His life, He stood the fire of persecution that was
directed against Him by those who made themselves His enemies, but when hanging on the cross, during those three hours of darkness, He bore, and exhausted, the fierce and unmitigated wrath of a holy God against sin. All that the justice and righteousness of a holy God could demand against man and his sin, the blessed substitute fully paid.
Sermon Out line: -<SPAN style="COLOR:
red">The resurrection of Christ.
<div
class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The seal of a finished work.Act.13:2930
The sign of a glorious triumph. Heb.2:14; Eph.4:8
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in;
BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The pledge of a coming resurrection. 1Cor. 15:2022
The certainty of a future Judgment. Act.17:31
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The glimpse of the power available for us.Eph.1:20
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium
none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Voltaire, the 18th century French atheist who was one of the greatest writers of his time, wielded a bitter pen against Christianity. In a moment of triumph he once boasted, In twenty years Christianity will be no more. My single hand shall destroy the edifice it took twelve apostles to rear. But Voltaires arrogance was swallowed up in his death. He died, in his own words, abandoned by God and man.Shortly after his death, the very house in which Voltaire wrote was made a depot of the Geneva Bible Society!
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mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">
Perspective: -<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Keep the track.
Consistently moving forward is essential for success.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> But that continuous march should be in the right track as well.Simply running is not enough; run lawfully.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium
none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Notice the word of the Lord to Joshua, be careful to do according to all the law
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Which Moses my servant commanded you ..do not turn from it to the right or to the left. Jos.1:7, 8.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt
4.0pt">God has designed a definite, perfect path/track for a Christian. Rom.12:2.
Treading through that path alone, a Christian will find fulfillment and success in his life.
When
we commit ourselves to take that pathway seriously and sincerely- even paying
the cost- God will be pleased in our steps and He will send the added blessings all through the way.
<div
class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">That demands constant assessment of our life, performance, and walk in the light of the
word of the LORD.We need to carefully seek the Lord to make sure that we move
<div
class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">in the right path.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium
none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Pray like the Psalmist, Make me know thy ways, O Lord; Teach me Thy paths. Ps.25:4.
Teach me thy way O Lord; I will walk in thy truth; Unite my heart fear thy name.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT:
0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Ps.86:11. Do not let me wander from thy commandments. Ps.119:10
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT:
0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Do we have the commitment to know the word and walk in His ways alone?
As Psalmist referred, need fear of God in our heart!
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0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">
Sad, many seldom take note of their track. They simply think, its OK!!
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP:
0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">But remember, the consequences of a careless life will be far reaching.
Apart from the possible failure and subsequent troubles we will lose the reward too.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">
Paul reminds Timothy categorically, .if any man competes as an athlete,
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in;
MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules. 2 Tim. 2:5
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in;
BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Too many have began well but failed on the way only because they were not careful enough to keep
their steps in the right lane. Cp.1 Tim.1:19; 2 Tim.4:10. Let each one of us be very careful
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">to keep the trackto be victorious and not be ashamed.1 Cor. 10:12.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:
9"> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> N T K
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in
0pt">Study Notes:-The Sockets of Brass
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT:
medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The pillars were not embedded in the desert, and did not stand in their own strength, but stood in sockets of brass. There was evidently a stout tendon on the base of the pillar which fitted snugly into a slot or mortise in the top-centre of the socket.
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The sockets of brass represent the person of Christ and His finished work, in which we alone can stand. "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus"2 Tim.2;1. So the elders are to stand firm, not leaning this way or that, according to the prevailing winds, Eph. 4;14, but not in any self confidence, for such will fall, 1 Cor. 10;12.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt
4.0pt">The brass or bronze is a metal that can withstand, and absorb the heat of fire, and thus speaks to us of the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.
All through His life, He stood the fire of persecution that was
directed against Him by those who made themselves His enemies, but when hanging on the cross, during those three hours of darkness, He bore, and exhausted, the fierce and unmitigated wrath of a holy God against sin. All that the justice and righteousness of a holy God could demand against man and his sin, the blessed substitute fully paid.
Sermon Out line: -<SPAN style="COLOR:
red">The resurrection of Christ.
<div
class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The seal of a finished work.Act.13:2930
The sign of a glorious triumph. Heb.2:14; Eph.4:8
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in;
BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The pledge of a coming resurrection. 1Cor. 15:2022
The certainty of a future Judgment. Act.17:31
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style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The glimpse of the power available for us.Eph.1:20
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none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Voltaire, the 18th century French atheist who was one of the greatest writers of his time, wielded a bitter pen against Christianity. In a moment of triumph he once boasted, In twenty years Christianity will be no more. My single hand shall destroy the edifice it took twelve apostles to rear. But Voltaires arrogance was swallowed up in his death. He died, in his own words, abandoned by God and man.Shortly after his death, the very house in which Voltaire wrote was made a depot of the Geneva Bible Society!
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