Building your house on the word from God

God leads us today by scriptures, HIS Word, which he brings to us out of both the Old and New Testaments

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Examples given of God doing this with various Christians.  Patterns of how God speaks to us today by HIS Word.  Faith in that which God says to us.
 
From the Old Testament:  an example of following God by doing what God says.
 
God calls Joshua to lead the children of Israel after the death of Moses, and how to accomplish the will of God for our lives.  These things apply to that which God has told us to do today.
 
When God tells you to do something today, the pattern which will show you what to do and how to have good success.
 
Philippians 4:13  The apostle Paul says:  I can do all things through Christ (the Word given me by God in the issue of this life) which strengtheneth me.
 
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Pam Padgett, a member of the body of Christ, saw a word from Old Testament which showed her to take early retirement because her job was destruction to her.
 
Micah 2:10  Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
 
What would she do with all that time ?
 
Pam retired in February, 2012, at age of approximately 56.
 
God gave me a dream to start a blog in March, 2012.  I called Pam to see if she could set it up and run it for the ministry.  (Then we learned that Pam has spiritual gift of "helps".)
 
I Corinthians 12:28  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. 28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
 
Everything turned out very well for her after early retirement.  She has been working with us since she retired.  Now she has set up and maintains blog, our books with Amazon, and since 2020 Podcasts, and now the addition of the Classical Music Podcast.
 
Recently we had to get another church person to help Pam with all the work she has had to do.
 
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On this Podcast, I present how God leads us, often with Old Testament scripture.
 
Joshua 1  (God taught Joshua how to do the work to replace Moses in the job of leading the Children into the promised land.)
 
1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
 
2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
 
(The assignment given Joshua differs from our assignment but the method of doing the assignment still applies to the New Testament church today.)
 
3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
 
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
 
6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
 
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
 
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
 
(The "book of the law" for us is the New Testament Bible which contains laws of God for the New Covenant church.  Also many promises of God apply to the New Testament church today.)
 
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
 
Explained on this Podcast.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

When we go in the way directed by God, signs will follow

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
I felt strongly God wanted us to go through the Old Testament and compare the ways of God in OT with parallels in the New Testament.  So when I was convinced to do this, that it was what God wanted, I began taking us through the examples in the OT presenting them on the Podcasts and talking about NT ways, comparing them with OT.
 
The Old Testament so often shows us how God views various issues and we see things that greatly please God and also see those things and ways that anger God mightily.
 
God changes us from within as we consider the Old Testament!  And often we don't even realize we are being changed until something arises to show us how different we are about the issue from past feelings.
 
When they complained, it greatly displeased God.  And God brought enormous plagues upon the congregation and killed thousands in the plagues.
 
If we complain, we show lack of faith in God.
 
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Recently the main amplifier that runs my left front speaker on my sound system quit working.  This is like having the motor fall out of your car for the amplifier forces the sound out of the system.
 
I've been involved with high end sound equipment since 1990. I have God-given special abilities to hear sound.  So I am very affected by sound and various quality of sound.
 
The amp quit working in late August, 2023.
 
I noticed a change in me when this happened.  Normally I would have been very upset over this, even depressed!  Certainly inwardly complaining.
 
But this time, I just sat looking at that amp which was doing nothing at all.
 
We tried all the things the sound manual said to do to reboot the unit and nothing worked.
 
The amp would have to be sent to either Austin, Texas, or to New York, to one of three authorized repair shops.
 
The unit weighs 150 lbs.  
 
But we have already planned to have two men come to do some work at the house and they will be able to lift the unit and box it for shipping and put it into the garage.  We can send it by truck to the service recommended by the manufacturer.  I'm sure Pam Padgett will make the necessary arrangements for me.
 
I made a statement to Pam that I was surprised I wasn't upset over this like I have been in past years when sound equipment has gone down.
 
God then showed me I have been greatly changed by HIM from within as I have read these Old Testament scriptures during the past few months.
 
Amazing!  I didn't even know God was doing this work inside of me, but HE was.
 
We see so many examples of the people in the Old Testament complaining and how this greatly displeases God!
 
(And weren't we changed when we were born again, when God gave us HIS Word?)
 
The Word of God has great power to change us from within ourselves, causing us to automatically react in a way that pleases God for we know God is in charge and makes a way for us when there seems to be "no way".
 
In the case of my amp, the way was all laid out in front of me immediately, as soon as the problem arose:  We have a small but excellent Jeff Rolland amp which Pam easily carried to my room and set beside the speaker and hooked it up.  We will go ahead and set up the repair date with the authorized service, even setting approximate date they can expect to receive the unit.  We will arrange for unit to be boxed and then shipped by truck.  Pam even has a Fed Ex retired employee discount for shipping.  And Pam has a working amp just exactly like my amp sitting in the room adjacent to my room so it can be moved into my room for me to use until my amp has been repaired and returned to me, as soon as strong men arrive at our house to do work!
 
And we can know if something matters to us, God is already on the case!
 
God says:
 
Isaiah 45:2  I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
 
These truths grow within us and live within us!
 
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When we do the will of God, signs follow:  Jesus says:
 
Mark 16
 
15 And HE (Jesus) said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
 
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
 
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In MY name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
 
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
 
19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, HE was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
 
20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

When there is sin, God is appeased by judgment

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Numbers 25
 
3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
 
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
 
5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
 
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6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;  8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
 
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
 
10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned MY wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for MY sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in MY jealousy.
 
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
 
13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
 
14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
 
15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
 
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
 
18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Death of Balaam

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Balaam put himself with the enemies of God and when the children of Israel were sent by God to destroy those enemies, Balaam was killed with them.
 
Joshua 13:22  Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
 
Numbers 31
 
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
 
7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
 
8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.  (What was Balaam doing with the Midianites who were the enemies of God?)
 
Why do you delight in being with enemies of God?
 
I Corinthians 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
 
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2 Corinthians 6
 
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
 
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
 
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.
 
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,
 
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be MY sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
 
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Warning concerning going in the way of Balaam for reward of this world.
 
2 Peter 2
 
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
 
Micah 6:5  O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
 
The righteousness of God is doing that which God says to us.
 
Jude v. 11  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
 
Mark 8:36  (Jesus says)  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
 
I know ministers who go all over the world speaking of Jesus and yet lie in other matters and even steal from worldly people.
 
Matthew 23  (Jesus says)
 
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
 
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God blesses the children of Israel

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
King Balak brought Balaam to curse the large army that came out of Egypt which was camped beside his land of Moab.
 
God told Balaam not to do this because these people were blessed by God.
 
But Balaam desired the reward the king would give him if he cursed the nation of Israel.
 
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3 times Balaam built alters and presented burnt offerings and three times blessings came from Balaam's lips instead of curses.
 
One time God even said to Balaam, "What is it that these men are with you?  What are you doing with these men who are against God?"  (Numbers 22:9)
 
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Blessing # 1.
 
Numbers 22
 
39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth. 40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him. 41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
 
(They went to the place of Baal, a false god of the people.  You see Balaam who hopes to hear from the God of Israel let himself be led to the high place of Baal, a false god.)
 
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Numbers 23
 
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
 
6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.  7 And he (Balaam) took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy (challenge the power of)  Israel.
 
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, (defy: openly resist or refuse; challenge the power of;) whom the LORD hath not defied?
 
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. (They shall be separate and above all nations.)
 
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
 
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11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
 
12 And he (Balaam) answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
 
(Balaam's way was perverse otherwise he wouldn't be with Balak.  But he did speak truth to Balak and he did speak the words God put into his heart.  But Balaam's end will not turn out well.)
 
13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
 
14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
 
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Blessing # 2 spoken by Balaam over the army of Israel:
 
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
 
17 And when he (Balaam) came to him (king Balak), behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
 
18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: 
 
19 God is not a man, that HE should lie; neither the son of man, that HE should repent: hath HE said, and shall HE not do it? or hath HE spoken, and shall HE not make it good?
 
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and HE hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
 
21 HE hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath HE seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. 22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. 23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
 
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
 
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25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
 
26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
 
27 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
 
28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
 
29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
 
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
 
Numbers 24
 
Blessing # 3:
 
1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
 
2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
 
3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
 
5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
 
6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
 
7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
 
8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
 
9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
 
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Now Balak, the king, is really angry.
 
Numbers 24
 
10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times. 11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.
 
12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, 13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
 
14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
 
Balaam prophesies over Israel:
 
15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
 
16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
 
17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
 
18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
 
(Though Balaam knew these things, he continued to hang out with Moab and the enemies of God. It will be to Balaam's destruction in the end.)
 
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
 
20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
 
21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. 22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
 
23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
 
24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
 
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25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
 
Nehemiah 13:2   Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
 
Numbers 24:9  Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

The angel of God stands as an adversary before Balaam

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Numbers 22
 
23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
 
24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
 
25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
 
26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
 
27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
 
28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
 
29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
 
30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
 
31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
 
32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
 
(perverse:  self willed in your own desires; showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unacceptable; contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice; turned away from what is right or good)
 
33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
 
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34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
 
35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
 
36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
 
37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
 
38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
 
(Balaam sounds right now but don't be deceived.  You will soon see who it is that he chooses to hang out with at the end.)
 
39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.
 
40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
 
41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
 
(Baal is the god of this world and is worshipped by people of the world.  How could sacrifices to God be offered in the high places of Baal? We see the perversion of Balaam.)
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Numbers 22: King Balak calls on Balaam to curse the people of God.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
The children of Israel had 603,000 men of war in their army walking through the wilderness of the land for 40 years before entering the promised land.
 
God was leading them from place to place and the people of those lands heard about them and were very afraid of them.
 
Numbers 22
 
1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
 
2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
 
3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
 
4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
 
5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:  6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot (know) that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
 
7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
 
8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
 
9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?  
 
(What is it that these men are here with you?  A negative statement from God.  What are you doing being with this type of person?)
 
10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
 
11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
 
12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
 
13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
 
The men returned to their land and their king, Balak, and told him Balaam refused to go with them.
 
But Balak didn't give up and sent even more honorable men with rewards to Balaam.
 
In his heart Balaam had a desire for the rewards that the king could give him and he shows his lust through the next things he did.
 
Balaam decided to ask God again if he could go with the king's men.
 
What did God say the first time Balaam asked this of God?
 
12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
 
This should have ended the matter with Balaam.
 
Keep the Word from God in front of you and go forward doing that word and being led by that word.
 
How could you want to curse people who are blessed?
 
(You are sure to lose doing that!  You will bring curses upon yourself doing that.  And why would you even want to do that, setting yourself with enemies of God and setting yourself against God and HIS people?)
 
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Numbers 22
 
16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: 17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
 
18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
 
That should have ended the matter.  Balaam should have refused to be around these men further and should have sent them away.
 
(But instead Balaam said:)
 
19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
 
(Such a bad idea to ask God again if he can go curse the children of Israel!  If you keep on at God, HE might turn you lose to pursue your own desires.)
 
20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
 
21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
 
22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him.
 
Why would God be angry?  God told him to go.  This was a type of test to view the true heart of Balaam who lusted for the reward of man.
 
When God revealed these people were blessed of God, Balaam should have restrained himself and refused to go against them in any way knowing now they are blessed of God.
 
But Balaam coveted reward from the worldly king.
 
Let us set our heart as Abraham did when the king of Sodom offered him reward:
 
Genesis 14
 
21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
 
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
 
23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
 
We should set our hearts wanting our "wealth" to come from God only ... and wanting our praise to come from God in matters pertaining to this life.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

The children of Israel make a vow to God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Numbers 21
 
1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
 
2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If THOU wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
 
3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
 
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New Testament Church:  We tear down their gods, destroy their graven images, kill their gods by presenting the truth of the God who created the heaven and the earth, the true God.  We allow nothing of their previous gods to live in them for we counter their gods with the truth of the Word of God, burning their gods alive with the Word from our God.
 
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Numbers 21
 
4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
 
5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
 
6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
 
 
I Corinthians 10
 
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
 
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
 
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
 
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
 
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
 
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
 
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.  (Numbers 21)
 
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
 
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There is such a difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament:
 
In the Old Testament, the people were not given the Holy Spirit of God so they most often saw with their natural eyes.
 
In the New Testament church, all who are born of God are born of the Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit lives inside each believer to guide him into all truth, to teach him all things, to remind him of that which Jesus says, and to show him things to come.  (John 14:26 & John 16:13)
 
Numbers 21
 
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
 
8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
 
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
 
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Numbers 21
 
10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
 
11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
 
12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
 
13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
 
14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
 
15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
 
16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
 
17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
 
18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
 
When they sinned in searching out the land (Numbers 13-14), God set a penalty upon the children of Israel, that they would wander about in the wilderness for 40 years until all who were of the evil generation above the age of 20 died in the wilderness.  Their children would be brought by God into the promised land because the fathers said God would not be able to do this thing.
 
Numbers 14
 
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
 
22  (God says)  Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
 
23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
 
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
 
28 (God says)  Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
 
(Record:  examples of faith ... James 1 ... no shadow of turning)
 
29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
 
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 
31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
 
32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
 
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
 
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
 
35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
 
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
 
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
 
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
 
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
 
(But even though they then mourned, God did not change HIS mind and they wandered 40 years in the wilderness and none of them who spoke against God lived to see the promised land.)
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Edom refuses children of Israel passage; Aaron dies by the commandment of the Lord.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Numbers 20
 
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
 
(Why would Moses call Edom "his brother"?  
 
Genesis 36:1  Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.  Jacob and Esau were the children of Isaac.  God said of these twins:  Romans 9  And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; 11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of HIM that calleth;) 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.)
 
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Numbers 20  (Moses says to Edom)
 
15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
 
16 And when we cried unto the LORD, HE heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
 
17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
 
18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
 
19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
 
20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
 
(This was a big sin against the children of Israel and God will repay Edom later for doing this.)
 
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
 
(Later God will remember this act.)
 
Ezekiel 25:14  (God says) And I will lay MY vengeance upon Edom by the hand of MY people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to MINE anger and according to MY fury; and they shall know MY vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
 
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Aaron dies:
 
22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
 
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
 
24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
 
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
 
26 And strip Aaron of his garments (of priesthood), and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
 
27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
 
28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
 
29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Believe God to sanctify HIM in the sight of all the people

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
We set our hearts to believe God regardless of what we might think or see.  We make God our God.
 
After I broke my hip, at the hospital, they made me do "physical therapy".  But I knew what God says in the Bible.
 
I Timothy 4
 
7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.  8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
 
During that time I made a conscious effort to set God above the theories of man.  I knew if I recovered it would be God that caused my recovery.  
 
I believe that is an example of sanctifying God in front of man.
 
It is a choice we make.  How can I put my faith in man and turn down so great a salvation?
 
And God greatly rewarded me.
 
Later one of the physical therapists told me this:  "I used to think I was pretty good as a physical therapists but I've come to see that in time that person recovers without doing anything."
 
I showed her that scripture:  "bodily exercise profiteth little:"
 
She said, "That's what I see."
 
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In all things, it is God who works it out for us!
 
Concerning money:
 
Genesis 14
 
21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
 
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
 
23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
 
As a new Christian, when I read this scripture, I said to God:  "That's what I want.  I want my possessions to come from YOU."
 
Sanctify God in front of the people.
 
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Potipher's wife wanted to have sex with Joseph.  But Joseph said to her:  There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
 
Joseph sanctified God in the sight of Potiphar's wife. (Genesis 39)
 
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In 2023, I sought the help of a woman who had lived in Germany to pronounce the name of a German Orchestra Conductor.
 
When the subject of opera of Wagner came up in our conversation.  I told her of late I had been interested in knowing about his 4 operas which are called "The Ring."
 
She excitedly told me these are her favorite operas and she has many books and DVD of this opera and I would be welcome to borrow these.
 
She sent me 2 emails to introduce me to these works of Wagner.  When I found these were about a dwarf who stole a ring from a god named Wolten, I sent a note to this woman telling her if a dwarf could steal a ring from my God, then I would be out looking for another God.
 
Then I told her I would not want to see DVD's of these operas.  I just listen to opera as I listen to other music.  I consider the voices to be instruments that produce music and I hear opera as music, not caring about the meaning of the words.  For if I knew what they were singing about, I would likely hear their sins.  When I hear the pure music, it is abstract and for me no sin.
 
My God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus Christ, God's son ... the God who created the heaven and the earth and has power, and I worship HIM, so I wouldn't want to see these gods of Wagner.
 
I believe this sanctifies God in the sight of men.
 
It's not something I try to do.  It's just in my heart this way.
 
And you are saying, "I'm not doing this. I'm not worshipping your God."
 
And Job said: "Though YOU slay me, yet will I serve YOU."
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Exodus 20
 
1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
 
2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
 
3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
 
4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
 
5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
 
(Those who complained forgot how bad it was in Egypt where Pharaoh commanded all males who were new born be killed because there were too many Israelites.)
 
6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
 
7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
 
9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as HE commanded him.
 
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
 
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
 
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed ME not, to sanctify ME in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. 
 
By failing to do what God said to do, Moses exalted himself above God in the eyes of the people, and this one time Moses failed to sanctify God in front of the people.
 
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Moses would die before entering the promised land.  Joshua would take his place leading the children of Israel.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God is a spirit. How can you make an image of a spirit?

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
John 4  (Jesus says)
 
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship HIM.
 
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.
 
So we don't go to a place to worship God.  We don't go to a building to worship God.  We worship God wherever we are day and night for God dwells in us.
 
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We worship HIM who is invisible as did Moses.
 
Hebrews 11:27  By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing HIM who is invisible.
 
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We can't make an image of a spirit for a spirit has no image.  To do such is to worship something which is a creation our of the mind of man.
 
Therefore, no crosses, no images of a man molded in the form of the flesh.  These are "idols".
 
We fall down before God each time we do the instruction given by God by HIS Word.
 
We worship God day and night, even while we sleep, and wherever we are because God is in us.
 
I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
 
Therefore put away those idols which you see with your natural eyes, and worship in your heart the God who is a spirit and cannot be seen, the God who created the heaven and earth.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Way of the Old Testament vs. way of the New Testament today

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
As we read the Old Testament Bible, we see many ways different from the New Testament Bible.
 
In the OT the people were given outward ways of remembering God and following God.  Whereas in the NT we have God living inside us so HE is always present with each individual who belongs to HIM.
 
It is a better way God has given to us today.
 
Yet we are greatly admonished and warned and see strength and power of God strongly as we read Old Testament examples.
 
I Corinthians 10
 
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
 
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
 
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
 
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
 
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Numbers 15
 
37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
 
39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
 
40 That ye may remember, and do all MY commandments, and be holy unto your God.
 
41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
 
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Today in the New Testament Church, God dwells in us, in each individual who is born again by HIS Spirit.
 
I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
 
Acts 17
 
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that HE is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
 
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though HE needed any thing, seeing HE giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
 
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
 
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after HIM, and find HIM, though HE be not far from every one of us:
 
28 For in HIM we live, and move, and have our being;
 
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God's Holy Spirit lives in us:
 
After Jesus shed HIS blood for our sins, HE established the New Testament Church from Heaven after HE was raised from the dead by God the Father.
 
Every believer in Jesus is given HIS Holy Spirit to live in us and teach us and guide us while we live on this present earth.
 
John 14:26  (Jesus says)  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
 
John 16:13  Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
 
I Corinthians 2
 
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
 
(God sent the Spirit of Jesus to live in each believer after Jesus was raised from the dead.  Now we follow that Spirit and the Word God gives us through HIM and by the New Testament Bible.)
 
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
 
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
 
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
 
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
 
The World cannot follow the Spirit of God for they do not have the Spirit of God but they have the spirit of the flesh of man.
 
Jesus says:  Ye must be born again.  (John 3)
 
When God speaks to us and we believe that Word God speaks, we are born again.  Now we have the Holy Spirit of Jesus in us and can understand what God says to us.
 
John 4  (Jesus says)
 
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship HIM.
 
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.
 
We don't go to a place to worship God.  God lives in us so we worship God wherever we are.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Example of the severity of the Old Testament Law

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Numbers 15
 
32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
 
33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
 
34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
 
35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
 
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses. 
 
This may seem a shocking story to us.
 
But it demonstrates that the word of God is to be obeyed.
 
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The New Testament sabbath is different from the laws of the Old Testament sabbath.
 
We offer ourselves daily to the Lord in the NT church.
 
Romans 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
 
And the primary sabbath offering of the New Testament church is to cease from our own works and to rest in God's works and in God's word daily.
 
Hebrews 3
 
6 But Christ as a son over HIS own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
 
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted ME, proved ME, and saw MY works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known MY ways. 11 So I sware in MY wrath, They shall not enter into MY rest.)
 
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
 
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
 
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
 
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
 
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
 
17 But with whom was HE grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 
18 And to whom sware HE that they should not enter into HIS rest, but to them that believed not?
 
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
 
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Hebrews 4
 
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into HIS rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
 
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
 
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as HE said, As I have sworn in MY wrath, if they shall enter into MY rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
 
4 For HE spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all HIS works.
 
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into MY rest.
 
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
 
7 Again, HE limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts.
 
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would HE not afterward have spoken of another day.
 
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
 
10 For HE that is entered into HIS rest, HE also hath ceased from HIS own works, as God did from HIS.
 
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
 
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
 
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in HIS sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of HIM with whom we have to do.
 
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The New Testament is founded on "better" promises.
 
Hebrews 8
 
6 But now hath HE (Jesus) obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also HE is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
 
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
 
8 For finding fault with them, HE saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
 
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in MY covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
 
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:
 
In the New Covenant the laws of God are written by God in our minds and in our hearts.
 
Thus the laws of God are in us by the Holy Spirit who is in us today and leads us and guides us.  And we rest in that word given to us by God and trust in that word. 
 
But some, ignorant of the laws of God today, try to put upon us partial laws pertaining to the Old Testament and by doing such they end up following in part laws of God from both the Old and New Testaments and fail to fulfill either, for they do not know what it is they say.
 
Today we have the New Testament which pertains to the way of God for today's New Testament Church.
 
We cease from our own works and do HIS works and rest in HIM, in HIS Word.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Aaron’s rod buds. God stopped the complaining.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Numbers 17
 
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
 
3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
 
4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
 
5 And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
 
6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
 
7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
 
8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
 
9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
 
10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
 
11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
 
12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
 
13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
 
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God made it known in a visible way that HE had chosen Aaron as HIS minister and no one can choose himself as such.  God chooses.
 
A woman who was leader of our little neighbor prayer group once said, "If God will show Joan Boney, then HE will show me.  God is no respecter of persons."
 
But God chooses the ministers as HE wills and God gives the gifts of the Holy Spirit as HE wills.
 
Why does it matter who gives the information so long as each of us get to hear the message?
 
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God gives the spiritual gifts as HE wills.
 
I Corinthians 12:11  But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as HE will.
 
Ephesians 4:8  Wherefore HE saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
 
(That spiritual gift is given so the church can benefit.)
 
11-12  And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
 
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
 
God gives that spiritual gift so the church may be edified by the gift and also the minister may be identified as a minister set in the church by God.
 
I Corinthians 12
 
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
 
28 And God hath set some in the church (to care for the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
 
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One day at church, a woman came to me and said, "I want to do what you're doing."  It rather shocked me and I replied, "You do?"
 
(I suppose she was referring to being on radio to exhort the church.  She didn't know God put me on radio by an angle of God giving me instructions as I was asleep in the night on January 10, 1980.  The angel, with a trumpet like voice spoke these 3 words into my ear:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"
 
When I learned KWJS was a radio station, I said to God, "Are YOU showing me to go on radio?  I wouldn't know how to do that."  The Holy Spirit brought this to my mind immediately to instruct me.  "Call the radio station manager."
 
That same morning, I called KWJS and asked to speak to the radio station manager.  I told him God might be showing me to go on radio.  And I asked, "How would you do that?"
 
The station manager replied,  "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to me and if you fit our programming we will offer you a contract."
 
After that phone call, I got my cassette tape recorder and my kitchen timer and made a tape exhorting the church and sent it to the station manager.
 
Within 5 days, I was speaking exhortations to the church at the noon time hour on KWJS.
 
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We are trained by God for the work of the ministry and led by God and set into the ministries as God wills.
 
But many today try to be ministers without being trained by God and without being placed in the ministry by God.  It is by their own will.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Rebellion against Moses: Korah, Dathan, Abiram

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Numbers 16
 
1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
 
3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
 
4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
 
5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
 
6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
 
7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
 
8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
 
9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
 
10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
 
11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
 
12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us? 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
 
15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
 
16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow: 17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
 
18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
 
19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
 
20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
 
22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? 
 
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
 
25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
 
26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
 
27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
 
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me. 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
 
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:  32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
 
34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
 
35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
 
36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
 
38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
 
39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar: 40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
 
41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
 
42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
 
43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
 
46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
 
47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
 
48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
 
49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
 
50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
 
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I typed "Sins of Korah" on my Bible computer and received 28 references to this sin. Here are a few of those citations.
 
Psalm 46:1  (To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.) God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
 
Psalm 49:1  (To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.) Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
 
Genesis 36:5  And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.  (Remember what God said about Esau, even before Esau was born?   Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.  Romans 9:13)
 
Numbers 26:10   And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

In the New Testament, we are an offering to the Lord!

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Romans 12:1
 
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
 
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Daily we offer ourselves to God to serve HIM that day as HE wills.
 
It is most certainly "our reasonable service."
 
God gave us a new heart and a new spirit so we could serve HIM.  God recreated us inside in HIS images as sons and daughters.  God made us into new creatures.
 
Ezekiel 36
 
23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
 
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
 
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
 
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
 
27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.
 
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2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God places a severe penalty upon the 10 men who brought back an evil report to the congregation

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Numbers 14
 
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke ME? and how long will it be ere they believe ME, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
 
12  I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
 
13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for THOU broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them;)
 
14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that THOU LORD art among this people, that THOU LORD art seen face to face, and that Thy cloud standeth over them, and that THOU goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
 
15 Now if THOU shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of THEE will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which HE sware unto them, therefore HE hath slain them in the wilderness.
 
17 And now, I beseech THEE, let the power of my Lord be great, according as THOU hast spoken, saying,
 
18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
 
19 Pardon, I beseech THEE, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of Thy mercy, and as THOU hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
 
20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
 
21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
 
22 Because all those men which have seen MY glory, and MY miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted ME now these ten times, and have not hearkened to MY voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked ME see it:
 
24 But MY servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed ME fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
 
25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
 
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 
27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against ME? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against ME.
 
28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in MINE ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against ME,
 
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 
31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
 
32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
 
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
 
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know MY breach of promise.
 
35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against ME: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
 
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
 
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
 
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
 
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.  
 
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Numbers 14
 
40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
 
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
 
42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
 
43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
 
44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
 
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
 
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A lack of faith in God is sin, for Paul says: ” Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” (Romans 14:23)

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
I Corinthians 10:11 
 
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
 
(admonition: warning)
 
When God sends us out, we must have it in our heart that God will not fail us and we go forward in our assignment as did Joshua, with a "charge from God" whereby we cannot fail.
 
(If we keep these words in our heart and mind and meditate upon these words until we really believe them, we will have good success in all that God gives us to do.)
 
Joshua 1
 
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
 
6 Be strong and of a good courage: ...
 
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
 
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
 
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
 
I Corinthians 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
 
To succeed, we prepare our hearts before going out.  I will discuss this on this Podcast.
 
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Numbers 13  (God sends men to search out the land of Canaan.)
 
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
 
(God gives them this land.  They cannot fail.  God has all power to overcome.  It will be their land regardless of the obstacles.  This is what they must know in their hearts before they go out.  This is also what we must know in our hearts when God send us out by HIS Word to us.)
 
3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
 
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Numbers 13
 
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
 
18 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
 
19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
 
20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
 
21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
 
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Numbers 13  (They return with their report.)
 
25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
 
26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
 
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
 
28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
 
29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
 
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
 
31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
 
32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
 
33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
 
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Numbers 14
 
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
 
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
 
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
 
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
 
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
 
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6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
 
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
 
8 If the LORD delight in us, then HE will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
 
9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
 
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
 
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This past summer, we played classical music at the end of the Podcasts.  Soon we hope to resume playing this wonderful music on our blog:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations.
 
We are currently working on the technical aspects to make this possible and will let you know when these recordings will be available again to you.
 
In the Bible, we have examples of devils fleeing from king Saul when David played skillfully on his harp.
 
I Samuel 16
 
23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
 
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Can God feed HIS people in the wilderness?

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Numbers 11
 
4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
 
5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
 
6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
 
(Despising the food God provided for them.)
 
7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
 
8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
 
9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
 
10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
 
11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in THY sight, that THOU layest the burden of all this people upon me?
 
12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that THOU shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
 
13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
 
14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
 
15 And if THOU deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in THY sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
 
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
 
17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
 
18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
 
19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
 
20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before HIM, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
 
21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
 
22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
 
23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether MY word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
 
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Numbers 11
 
31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
 
32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
 
33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
 
I Corinthians 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
 
Restrain your lusts and be content with such things as ye have.  (I Timothy 6)
 
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(We played classical music on our Podcasts for several weeks this summer.  We are currently working to move this to our blog and hope to present it again to you on Jesus Ministries Exhortation blog in the next few days.)
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Complaining before God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Numbers 11
 
1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and HIS anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
 
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
 
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Complaining shows lack of faith in God.
 
When you feel complaining coming on, you can turn it by giving thanks to God for all HE has done for you and given to you.
 
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Moses invokes God to go before them and scatter HIS enemies

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Numbers 10
 
33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
 
34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.
 
35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let THINE enemies be scattered; and let them that hate THEE flee before THEE.
 
(Enemies of God part like the Red Sea before us.)
 
36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
 
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Isaiah 45:2  (God says)
 
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
 
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At end of Podcast: 
 
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 6 (1893) Op. 74
 
1. Adagio -Allegro non troppo
2. Allegro con grazia
3. Allegro molto vivace
4. Adagio lamentoso
 
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Antal Dorati, conductor
(1983 / 45:51)
 
classical-music-online.net
$20 for 3 years
 
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The tribes of the children of Israel set out on their journey to the land promised by God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Exodus 10
 
33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
 
34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.
 
35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
 
36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
 
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At end of Podcast:  
 
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897
Symphony No. 2, (1877) Op. 73
 
l. Allegro non troppo
2. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso
3. Allegretto grazioso - (Quassi Andantino) - Presto man non assai - Tempo 1
4. Allegro con spirito
 
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado, conductor
(1988 / 46:14)
 
classical-music-online.net
$20 for 3 years
 
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Ministry offices in the New Testament Church

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
The ministers of God for the New Testament church:
 
Ephesians 4
 
8  Wherefore HE saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
 
(From heaven, Jesus called HIS ministers and set them into the body of Christ as gifts to the church for the work of the ministry, to edify the body, to sound warnings as needed.)
 
11 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
 
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
 
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
 
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
 
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into HIM in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
 
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
 
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At end of Podcast: 
 
Frederic Chopin  (1810-1849)
Ballade No. 2  (1836-39), Op.38 
 
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
New York
(1959/6:42)
 
 
classical-music-online.net
$20 
 
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Numbers 10: Use of trumpets in both Old and New Testaments

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
 
Numbers 10
 
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
 
3 And when they (the priests of Levi) shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
 
5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
 
6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
 
7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
 
8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
 
9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
 
10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
 
The priests blew the trumpet which showed the people to assemble or showed danger. 
 
Today, in the New Testament church, the Word of God is sounded by the minister, especially the prophets of God, who warn the people.
 
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Exodus 19
 
17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
 
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
 
19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
 
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Trumpets:  New Testament
 
Revelation 1:10  I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
 
I, Joan Boney, heard that trumpet like voice in the night of January 10, 1980, while I was sleeping in the night ... 3 words:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"  (In my case, the instructions put me on radio to exhort the church.)
 
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I Corinthians 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: 
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
 
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Matthew 24:31  And HE (Jesus) shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
 
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Revelation 4:1  (The apostle John says:)
 
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
 
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Revelation 8:13   And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
 
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I Thessalonians 4:16  For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 
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After this Podcast:
 
Ludwig van Beethoven  (1770-1827)
Symphony No.7, (1811-12), Op. 92
 
1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
    2. Allegretto 
3. Presto
     4. Allegro con brio
 
Wiener Philharmoniker
Karl Bohm
(1972 / 37:51)
 
classical-music-online.net
$20 for 3 years
 
 
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God says in Old Testament that if anyone fails to keep the sabbath and does work on the sabbath, he will be put to death

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Christians groups often preach, "Remember the sabbath to keep it holy."  
 
I've often seen white signs in front of houses with the 10 commandments from God from the Old Testament listed.
 
Look at what God says they are to do if they fail to keep the sabbath.
 
Exodus 31
 
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily MY sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between ME and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
 
14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
 
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
 
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
 
On the sabbath of the Old Testament, they were not permitted to gather their food or cook their food on the sabbath.  (They certainly could not go to grocery to buy food on the sabbath, nor could they even go out to gather manna on the sabbath.  They had to gather a double amount of manna on the day before the sabbath for God would not give them manna on the sabbath.  (Ex. 16:19-27) )
 
They could do no work on the sabbath.  They could not leave their tents on the sabbath for it was a rest unto the Lord.
 
(You certainly could not watch entertainment on TV or go to sporting events on the Old Testament sabbath.)
 
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The New Testament sabbath is completely different from the Old Testament.
 
Here is the New Testament sabbath:
 
Hebrews 4
 
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into HIS rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
 
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
 
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as HE said, As I have sworn in MY wrath, if they shall enter into MY rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
 
4 For HE spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all HIS works.
 
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into MY rest.
 
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
 
7 Again, HE limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts.
 
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would HE not afterward have spoken of another day.
 
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
 
10 For he that is entered into HIS rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from HIS.
 
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
 
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The sabbath for the New Testament is trusting in God daily, resting in the Word God speaks that day, and ceasing from trying to "figure out what to do", a daily sabbath to the Lord as we turn to HIM with every problem and wait for God to give us the way to go in the daily issues of this present life.
 
Every day is a sabbath in the New Testament church, ceasing from our own works that we can do HIS works.
 
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After Podcast
 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No.5 (1775) KV219
 
Joshua Bell, violin
English Chamber Orchestra
Peter Maag, conductor
 
(1991/31:34)
 
classical-music-online.net
$20 for 3 years
 
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