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NASB | Exodus 22:28 ¶ "You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 22:28 ¶ "You shall not curse God, nor curse the ruler of your people [since he administers God's law]. [Acts 23:5] |
Subject: Praying Rather than Cursing |
Bible Note: "We believe that God Himself repairs the believer's will such that he is enabled to choose God. That distinction makes a whole world of difference." "Repairs" is a synonym for "takes away man's free will." " or render it void" I'm working on a teaching about the blood covenant and tonight I'm talking on Johathan and David and how their covenant touched Mephiboseth. Jonathan and Saul are dead and Mephiboseth is living on the backside of nowhere, when David asks is there no one I can show covenant kindness to? 2 Samuel 9 The servants bring Mephiboseth who probably thinks he is being dragged in to be killed. David offers him a new life as a new person. Not because of anything Mephiboseth did but because of the covenant between David and Johathan. Mephiboseth has to make a decision. To accept the offer, to love David and to become a completely different person or return to being the one that was living on the backside of nowhere. This story is a Old Testament picture of New Testament truth. We are brought into covenant relationship with God because of the New Covenant, the covenant between Christ and God. We are brought in not because of anything we did but because of what Christ did. However we have to choose to become the new man that is being offered to us. The free gift of becoming a men person in Christ (Salvation) seems like too good of deal to turn down, yet through the years I have witnessed many people flat out refuse it or walk away after having accepted it. |