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The marital relationship may be the best way to help us understand the difference between sinful jealousy and righteous jealousy. I can be jealous over my relationship with my wife in a wrong way or in a right way. For example, if I feel resentment or anger merely because I see her talking to another man, that would be self-centered possessiveness and unreasonable domination – in other words, sinful jealousy. It would stem from my own selfishness or insecurity rather than from my commitment to her and to what is right. But, on the other hand, if I see some man actually trying to alienate my wife’s affections and seduce her, then I have reason to be righteously jealous. God gave her to me to be my wife. Her body is mine just as my body is hers. I have the exclusive right to enjoy her fully, and for someone else to assume that right would be a violation of God’s holy standards. I am zealous for the exclusiveness and purity of our marriage, and that is a righteous jealousy.

Richard Strauss

If a doctor, able to help, were at the side of a sick person and promised to help him from his trouble and advised him how to combat his ailment or the poison he had taken, and if the sick person knew that the doctor could help him but nonetheless said: Oh, get out, I won’t accept your advice; you are no doctor, but a highwayman; I am not sick, nor have I taken poison; it will not hurt me; and if the sick person wanted to kill the doctor, would you not say that this fellow, who persecuted and wanted to kill his doctor, was not only sick but demented, mad, and irrational as well?... But this spiritual madness – that we do not want to accept help when God’s Son wants to help us – is ten times worse. Should our Lord God not be angry and let hellfire, sulfur, and pitch rain upon such ingrates? For besides being sinners, we are also so wretched as to reject help and chase away and kill those who urge us to accept it.

Martin Luther

We Love God!

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

Amazon Chocolate Cake

January 22, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Arab	Cakes	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	c	Flour
2/3	c	Unsweetened, good quality
		Cocoa
2	ts	Baking soda
2	c	Sugar
1	ts	Salt
2	c	Cold water
1/2	c	Plus 2 Tbs corn oil
1	tb	Vanilla
2	tb	White vinegar or lemon
		Juice

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt together and then sift the
mixture. In a separate bowl mix the water, corn oil vanilla and
vinegar or lemon juice. The whisk the wet and dry mixtures together.
Pour through a strainer into a clean bowl, breaking up and pressing
through any lumps. Mix again and the pour the mixture into a greased
9 x 13 x 2-inch pan. Tap the edge of the pan against the counter or,
for more fun but comparable results, drop the entire pan from a
height of about 6-inches onto the counter top or the floor a few
times to pop and dislodge any air bubbles. Bake at 350 degrees for 25
to 30 minutes.
Trust this recipe. The omission of eggs or butter is not an
oversight. And you must pop the air bubbles as directed. I've had
this cake several times and it IS good! Now, if you don't think this
is OINKY enough, check out the following variation:
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmkah001.zip

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