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FIRST, THE WILDERNESS OF TEMPTATION, GETHSEMANE, THEN CALVARY

August 20, 2020

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

FIRST, THE WILDERNESS OF TEMPTATION, GETHSEMANE, THEN CALVARY (a wilderness, a garden, then a lonely hill)

“Satan had once challenged God, accusing [the patriarch] Job for serving Him for ULTERIOR [self-serving, self-promoting] motives. ‘Doth Job serve God for nought (nothing)?’ he had sneeringly asked.

Job 1:9.

“To show the falsity of Satan’s ACCUSATIONS, he was permitted [by God] to test Job. Satan applies every possible torture, but Job did not sin. At last Satan retired defeated. Job had STOOD THE TEST and proved Satan’s accusation false. ‘Though He slay me yet will I TRUST Him,’ he exclaimed. Job 13:15.”

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Do not labor for the food which perished but for the food which ensures to everlasting life

August 12, 2019

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

Do not labor for the food which perished but for the food which ensures to everlasting life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread he will live forever. John 6: 27, 49, 51. “The life of Christ that gives life  to the world is IN HIS WORD…..the whole Bible is a manifestation of Christ. As our physical life is sustained by food, so our spiritual life is sustained by the Word of God and every soul is to receive life from God”s Word for himself.

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