tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31428312895070426352024-03-14T05:26:07.941+00:00just worship Godjust worship God - The aim of this blog is to provide links, quotes, videos, music and other resources to help us worship Jesus in every aspect of our lives.michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comBlogger1771125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-2021392200880165692018-06-26T17:00:00.000+01:002018-06-26T17:00:17.701+01:00Hebrews Two - Comfort<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-31498188642513491622018-06-25T17:00:00.000+01:002018-06-25T17:00:05.346+01:00Hebrews Two - Atonement<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">As our priest he makes atonement for the sins of the people - he lived the perfect human life that none of us has ever lived </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>"In Jesus (becoming a man) for the first time there is a human being living in perfect fellowship with God. Loving God with all his heart, soul, mind and strength, loving his neighbour as himself, he is the first ever to keep and fulfil the law of God.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mike Reeves</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">He did not deserve to die but died in our place, taking our sins and giving us his perfect record - that’s the gospel!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">When we sin, again, we should not despair, but look to Jesus' perfect life that is given to us, and his death which takes away all our sin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For this reason he had to be made like them,</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hebrews 2:16-17</span></span></blockquote>
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-15510405617418395352018-06-22T17:00:00.000+01:002018-06-22T17:00:01.396+01:00Hebrews Two - Fear of Death<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In some ways the fear of death is a good thing - it’s what stops us walking out infront of traffic. But the problem is that we all know that, despite all of those sensible decisions, we can not avoid death.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It governs so many of our decisions. We try and ignore it or laugh it off but we all get quiet when we hear about a tragic accident because we know it could just as easily have been us. We can’t really let ourselves think about it because we would all freak out. What it means to be a ‘normal’ person in our world is to push that fear of death far enough to the back of our mind that we can carry on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Most advice is to focus on making positive choices, living a healthy lifestyle, accepting that some things are out of your control etc. This is not bad advice but it does not deal with the problem of death because nothing can.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one has overcome death - except Jesus!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Death’s bite has been rendered insipid by Christ’s death… As our champion he has stormed the very gates of the enemy and laid hold of his stronghold, opening wide the doors of our captivity and pointing us to the path of freedom” Guthrie</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When confronted with death, or the fear of death, or both, look to Jesus, who took on flesh and blood like us, and died in our place - walking back out of the grave three days later!</span></span><br />
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-7153822137434351992018-06-21T17:00:00.000+01:002018-06-21T17:00:11.850+01:00Hebrews Two - Not Ashamed of You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holy and unholy things should not be able to come together in the same way that an ice cube can’t come together with a bonfire - the ice cube will cease to exist!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus is perfect. Jesus is different to us. But here we are described as the same family! We are made holy!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">He knows how bad your sin is - so bad that he had to die for it. But it wasn’t begrudging sacrifice, it was out of love.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">God is bringing us, his sons and daughters, into glory - into the position we were made for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are made glorious not because we’ve conquered the world and won at life, we are made glorious because our champion went out and won for us. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">He wins through losing. He brings glory through suffering. This is the upside down way that God’s kingdom works. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we are confused or discouraged by the world around us, w</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">hen we feel weak, powerless and unglorious - we should look at Jesus and remember that through his life and death he is bringing us into his glory. It might not look like we expect, but it’s better.</span></span><br />
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-50133734469122627012018-06-19T17:00:00.000+01:002018-06-19T17:00:23.621+01:00Hebrews Two - Where to look<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We do not currently see the world as God created it, or as it should be, with mankind, crowned with glory and ruling creation in the image of their almighty king. What should we do when life is going badly, doesn't feel right, isn't right?</span></div>
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<span class="text Heb-2-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The writer of Hebrews says we should look at Jesus - specifically his humanity/incarnation and his death - because in Jesus we see what humanity was designed to be and in his death we see his glory most clearly revealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-2-8" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.</span><span class="text Heb-2-8" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b> </b></span></i><span class="text Heb-2-9" id="en-NIVUK-29987" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honour because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.</i></span><span class="text Heb-2-9" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hebrews 2:8-9</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We all know people who have drifted away from God. Those people are no different to you and me, we are all at risk. Our tendency is to drift away from God, not towards him, so we need to pay careful attention to this.</span><br />
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<span class="text Heb-2-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span class="text Heb-2-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. </span><span class="text Heb-2-2" id="en-NIVUK-29980" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">2 </span>For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, </span><span class="text Heb-2-3" id="en-NIVUK-29981" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">3 </span>how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. </span><span class="text Heb-2-4" id="en-NIVUK-29982" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">4 </span>God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.</span></i></span><span class="text Heb-2-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Heb-2-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Hebrews 2:1-4</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I look at Jesus I am not in the position of authority, deciding whether his words are something I agree with. When I look at Jesus I am in the presence of God. I should approach like the angels, in humble worship as a servant, not with the swagger of someone who lives life as if I am on the throne!</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In the Old Testament, God worked through prophets, priests and kings to reveal himself to people. The prophets spoke God's word to the people, the priests and their duties reminded the people of their sin and God's grace and the kings represented the authority of God as the ultimate ruler. This was all great news, what a privilege that God reveals himself to people in the first place! But they were all shadows at best, a dim reflection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Jesus is The Priest - </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">We are impure, He is pure. How can a dirty thing make itself clean? We are just pushing the dirt around. We need an external purification agent - and we have got one. Jesus! This did not just </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">get us back to square one to make a better stab at it next time. Jesus sits in heaven because the job is completed. Sin has been dealt with once and for all. It is finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Jesus is The King - He created and sustains all things. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">He is sustaining the atoms in my body right now. That's why I am more dependant on his word than on bread, because without his word my digestive system can't do anything with the bread! All things belong to Him. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">All things. All my things. Me. All of it belongs to him, it is his </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">possession.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Jesus is an attractive and revolutionary person because he radiates God's glory. In the Old Testament, to look at God's glory was to die. To look at God's glory in Jesus is to find life. By looking at Jesus, w</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">e can know exactly what God is like. We do not worship a vague, unknowable force but a walking, talking, loving person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Most of us tend to create a 'god' in our own image. A god that's happy with whatever we're doing and disapproves of the things we disapprove of. To believe (or not) in a god is irrelevant as far as Christianity is concerned. The real question is: what is your response to Jesus?</span><br />
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-46973355908074777962018-06-06T17:00:00.000+01:002018-06-06T17:00:11.500+01:00Hebrews One - Creator and Sustainer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus is the heir of all things. All things. All my things. Me. All of it belongs to him, it is his possession. Why do all things belong to Him? Because he created them. And He sustains them with his word. He is sustaining the world we live in now. He is sustaining the atoms in my body right now. That's why I am more dependant on his word than on bread, because without his word my digestive system can't do anything with the bread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Heb-1-2" id="en-NIVUK-29966" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">"in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.</span><span class="text Heb-1-3" id="en-NIVUK-29967" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word."</span></span><br />
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-56360001933773044462018-04-18T17:00:00.000+01:002018-04-18T17:00:25.592+01:00Genesis Fifty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This statement from Joseph to his brothers summarises the story of the entire book of Genesis. God is good. People sin. God's goodness outweighs our sin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joseph's final words are an act of faith, looking forward to a time when God will bring his people out of Egypt and carry his bones with them. In Genesis we see that God created a good world that has been broken and corrupted by our sin. God graciously acts towards people <i>at that time</i>, but his promises are not <i>perfectly </i>fulfilled within their lifetime, they are looking forward into the future for the fulfilment of those promises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We live in the same beautiful but broken world. Jesus has stepped into that world and, in him, we see what God is doing. Like Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, we look forward to the day when God will bring all of his promises to a glorious consummation. How do we know? We have encountered Jesus!</span><br />
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<i><span class="text Gen-49-9" id="en-NIVUK-1483" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><a name='more'></a>You are a lion’s cub, Judah;</span><span class="text Gen-49-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 6.72px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span></span><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Gen-49-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">you return from the prey, my son. </span></span><span class="text Gen-49-9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Like a lion he crouches and lies down,</span><span class="text Gen-49-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 6.72px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span></span><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Gen-49-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">like a lioness – who dares to rouse him? </span></span><span class="text Gen-49-10" id="en-NIVUK-1484" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">The sceptre will not depart from Judah,</span><span class="text Gen-49-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 6.72px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span></span><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Gen-49-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, </span></span><span class="text Gen-49-10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">until he to whom it belongs</span><span class="text Gen-49-10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: 10px;"> </span>shall come</span><span class="text Gen-49-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 6.72px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span></span></i><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Gen-49-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><i>and the obedience of the nations shall be his.</i></span></span><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Gen-49-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Genesis 49:9-10</span></span></blockquote>
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<a name='more'></a><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then he blessed Joseph and said,‘May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who has been</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my shepherd all my life to this day, the Angel who has delivered me from all harm – may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly on the earth.’</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As Jacob is about to die he blesses his sons and passes on God's promises to them. He has an approach to God's blessing that is much longer than my individual view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am the result of God working in generations before me. By His grace I will be part of what God is doing in my family in generations long after I've gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My prayers should not just be for me and my children but their children's children's children.</span><br />
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<i><span class="text Gen-47-29" id="en-NIVUK-1450" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a name='more'></a>When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, ‘If I have found favour in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt, </span><span class="text Gen-47-30" id="en-NIVUK-1451" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.’</span></i><span class="text Gen-47-30" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 47:29-30</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jacob's family, the Israelite, are growing in number and in wealth but they are still in someone else's land. As Jacob is about to die, he has faith that God will fulfil ALL of his promise, and one day they will go out of Egypt to a land God has prepared for them. He has faith that God will answer, even if he is not around to see it himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do I ever think about the fulfilment of God's promises for my great great grandchildren and beyond? I'm totally focused on the next few decades and if God is not something right now then I start to doubt it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not all about me. God is working a plan throughout history and eternity.</span><br />
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<i><span class="text Gen-46-3" id="en-NIVUK-1390" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>‘I am God, the God of your father,’ he said. ‘Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. </span><span class="text Gen-46-4" id="en-NIVUK-1391" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again.</span></i><span class="text Gen-46-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 46:3-4</span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Gen-46-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">God's promised Abraham that He would make his descendants into a great nation, in a land, under his blessing. The nation bit is beginning to take shape but here they are going down into somebody else's land. God promises that he will bring them out of Egypt, but that will not occur until after Jacob (and Joseph) are dead. Jacob is looking forward, beyond his own life, to the fulfilment of God's promises.</span><br />
<span class="text Gen-46-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And now, do not be distressed</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1364J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1364J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here,</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1364K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1364K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 45:5</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Who sent Joseph to Egypt in slavery?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Joseph is clear - his brother's sinful decisions put him there AND God sent him there in order to save lives.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Bible says that we are responsible for our own sinful decisions AND that God is control of everything that happens. Mind blown!</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1358BT" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1358BT" title="See cross-reference BT">BT</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> in place of the boy,</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1358BU" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1358BU" title="See cross-reference BU">BU</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and let the boy return with his brothers.</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 44:33</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Joseph tests his brothers and, the same brothers who were willing to sell one of their own number into slavery are now offering themselves into slavery to save a brother! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Jesus fulfils both sides of this. He was sold (to death) by his brothers. He gave himself to save his brothers' lives.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I have sold myself into slavery of sin and have a death sentence. Jesus became a slave so that I could be free. Jesus died so that I could live</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“It’s all right,” he said. “Don’t be afraid. Your God, the God of your father,</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1314AW" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1314AW" title="See cross-reference AW">AW</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> has given you treasure in your sacks;</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1314AX" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1314AX" title="See cross-reference AX">AX</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> I received your silver.” </span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 43:23</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">God had indeed put their treasure back in their sacks after their first visit to Egypt to buy grain. He didn't do it by making it miraculously appear there, but by taking Joseph into slavery, then into Potiphar's house, then into prison, then into the palace, then into the position of power he now occupied. That is not less miraculous (it's possibly more), it just seems less spectacular at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">God works in mysterious ways. Sometimes dramatic and spectacular, sometimes in a series of events seemingly random at the time but 'miraculously' strung together in hindsight.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">It's easy when looking back in my life to see how God used random events together for a specific purpose. It's not easy to see that in the middle of them because they appear so random. I am in the middle of a sequencye of those events that God is using to bring about his purposes right now. How do I know? Because I always am!</span><br />
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-88908490061396188692018-03-20T17:00:00.000+00:002018-03-20T17:00:19.618+00:00Genesis Forty Two<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother.</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1274AO" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1274AO" title="See cross-reference AO">AO</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that’s why this distress</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1274AP" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1274AP" title="See cross-reference AP">AP</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> has come on us.”</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 42:21</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Because of the famine, Joseph's brothers go to Egypt and bow down before Joseph (who they don't recognise) in fulfilment of Joseph's dreams. They assume that this is all happening as punishment from God for their treatment of Joseph. They are half correct. This IS happening as a result of them selling Joseph into slavery (otherwise he wouldn't be here) but it is not punishment from God, but God turning their sin into a blessing. They will be saved because of this. They receive grace in exchange for sin.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">God takes my sin and produces blessing. I receive grace in exchange for my sin. What I am experiencing now may be a consequence of my sin but that does not mean it is bad or a punishment. God only gives good gifts, and good consequences.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you,</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1235AV" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1235AV" title="See cross-reference AV">AV</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> there is no one so discerning and wise as you.</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 41:39</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Pharaoh has two dreams and<i> just happens</i> to mention them around the cup bearer who <i>just happened</i> to be in prison with Joseph who<i> just happened</i> to be there because his brothers sold him into slavery and then he <i>just happened</i> to be falsely accused. The result is</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Joseph being in a position where he will be able to save his family from a famine. God saves his people through a series of seemingly random events.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I don't often understand how God's plan is working out in my life but that is because I am looking at the back of the tapestry. Every 'random' occurrence is part of what God is doing in my life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Working in a furstrating situation, for a nightmare boss, is not incidental in my life. God has a purpose for that. It may not be clear to me for a very long time, if ever, but that does not mean it is not good</span><br />
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-23041524783295176752018-03-17T17:00:00.000+00:002018-03-17T17:00:06.874+00:00Genesis Forty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.</i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 40:23</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Joseph knows God has not abandoned him in prison and when two dreams need interpreting, he is clear that all interpretations belong to God. Things are looking up as the cup-bearer promises to help Joseph out but then he promptly forgets.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Everyone else might have forgotten Joseph. But God has not.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Everyone else might have forgotten you, but God has not. No one else might be thinking about you right now, nobody else might be interested in what is going on with you, but God is.</span><br />
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<i><span class="text Gen-39-20" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But while Joseph was there in the prison, </span><span class="text Gen-39-21" id="en-NIVUK-1171" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> was with him</span></i><span class="text Gen-39-21" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 39:20-21</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">God is with me in the good times and the bad. My circumstances are not an indication that God has withdrawn his presence.</span></span><br />
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michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09237683388595635731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3142831289507042635.post-674886476036986102018-03-15T17:00:00.000+00:002018-03-15T17:00:32.550+00:00Genesis Thirty Eight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Gen-38-15" id="en-NIVUK-1135" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. </span><span class="text Gen-38-16" id="en-NIVUK-1136" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">Not realising that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, ‘Come now, let me sleep with you.’</span></i></span><span class="text Gen-38-16" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Genesis 38:15-16</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The family tree of sin continues as Judah's sons sin against Tamar, who then pretends to be a prostitute and Judah sleeps with her. There is then a bit of self-righteous hypocrisy thrown in as Judah wants Tamar burned for sleeping with someone, before the public humiliation of realising it was him who impregnated her. These are Jesus' ancestors!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus family line is made of messed up people, just like yours and mine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No matter how messy life and family has become, it is not beyond the redemptive power of Jesus</span><br />
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