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False repentance is grounded in selfishness, rather than the honor of God, because it has nothing to do with the honor of God, and only has to do with the regret that a person has because of the consequence of sin. It's not built on the fear of hell, or the fear of dishonoring God. False repentance also leaves the feelings unchanged. The love of sin is not subdued and the passion for holiness is not initiated. False repentance leads men to hypocritical concealment. Once you've falsely repented, now you've got to keep it up. And so you just lay on one more level of hypocrisy after another to keep up the deception. That leads eventually to self-deception and to a deadly false security where you begin to believe the lie you're living that you wanted originally others to believe and now you've come to believe it, and that is that you really are God's when in fact you're not. And that hardens your heart. Each time shallow sorrow washes over the emotions of the heart, and doesn't truly break that heart, the fountains of feeling are more and more dried up. And then the conscience is seared and then you're irretrievable.

John MacArthur

Does the Bible Prohibit Cremation? 1. Scripture says nothing about a required mode of burial for either believers or non-believers. However, burying the body was the standard practice among the Israelites in the Old Testament and Christians in the New (exceptions: 1 Sam. 31:8-13; Jos. 7:25). 2. Obviously any buried body will eventually decompose (Ecc. 12:7). So cremation isn’t a strange or wrong practice – it merely accelerates the natural process of oxidation. 3. The believer will one day receive a new body (1 Cor. 15:42-49; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; Job 19:25-26), thus the state of what remains of the old body is unimportant. 4. The imagery of Christ’s resurrection pictures burial and then a raising up from the dead (Rom. 6:3-5; 1 Cor. 15:3-4). Because of that, many Christians prefer burial to cremation to maintain a likeness to Christ's burial (although literally He was laid in state in a cave, not buried in the ground).

John MacArthur

We Love God!

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Chocolate Pudding For Fifty

January 27, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Grains, Eggs		Choco2	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

9	qt	Milk
2 1/4	lb	Sugar
1		Vanilla bean, split or 1 Tb
		vanilla extra
1	pn	Salt
13 1/2	oz	Cornstarch
13 1/2	oz	Cocoa powder
1	lb	+ 13 oz eggs [*]
9	oz	Butter

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine milk, sugar, and salt. Bring to a boil. Add vanilla bean to
hot milk and allow to steep 15 minutes off heat. (Or stir in vanilla
extract.) Sift sugar, cornstarch, and cocoa together. Mix in eggs.
Remove bean, if used, from milk mixture. Add some of the hot milk
mixture to the egg mixture and combine well. Then pour the egg  mixture
into the remaining milk mixture and combine. Bring to a  second boil.
Remove from heat and stir in butter. Pour into mold and  chill.  From
THE PROFESSIONAL CHEF, which I believe is published by the  Culinary
Institute of America, although I cannot remember who the  author is.
(If there is a way to measure egg quantities based on pounds and
ounces, I don't know it. If it's in the FAQ and I missed it, I
apologize.)  [*] Ed. note: The submitted recipe said "1 pound, 13 oz
eggs". I'm  pretty sure that's "1 pound and 13 ounces of eggs" not "1
pound of 13  ounce eggs". But since I've never seen eggs listed by
weight, I'm not  totally sure.  Recipe by: Phyllis Johnpoll
<phyllis.johnpoll@ncsl.org>  Posted to CHILE-HEADS DIGEST V3 #,
converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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“Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts. #Andrew Murray”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 42881 Calories From Fat: 3840 Total Fat: 439.8g Cholesterol: 1251.3mg Sodium: 5521.7mg Potassium: 33837.5mg Carbohydrates: 3346.3g Fiber: 130.5g Sugar: 2803.1g Protein: 374.4g