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HOW LONG HALT YE BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS?

There was severe drought and famine in the land of Israel in the Prophet Elijah’s day.   It would continue for three and a half years and severely affect the lives of most Israelites at that time.   Like today, people were feeling much uncertainty and fear for the future.   Some didn’t know where their next meal was coming from, and many were perishing from hunger.   Why was Israel left so impoverished?   It was because they had left off serving the true God and turned to worshipping Baal, an idol that was revered by some of the heathen nations around them.     Ahab, king of Israel during the time when the drought occurred, was not a good or godly man.  He managed to become even worse by the choices that he made in his personal life.  He chose Jezebel for his wife, a daughter of Ethbaal, who was the king of the Zidonians.  The name Ethbaal means “with Baal” and signifies that he reverenced and worshipped the heathen god Baal.  ...
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THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT OF GOD

“But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one [Adam] many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many .  And not as it was by one that sinned [Adam] , so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification .  For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ .)  Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life .  For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous .” (Romans 5:15-19).   “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable [indescribable] gift.” (2 Corinthians 9:15).  ...
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UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU

"And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.  And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured , the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women ."  (Luke 1:26-28)   "And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.  And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS ."  (Luke 1:30, 31)   "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you ."   (Galatians 4:19)    In the first chapter of St. Luke we find the announcement by the angel Gabriel to Mary that she would bear the Son of God.  From the start, the angel hailed her as "highly favoured" and "blessed among women," and so she was!  Never in human history had a vi...
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