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  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

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Psalm 40:16
Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let those who love Your salvation say continually,
"The LORD be magnified!"

May God be praised and glorfied for His goodness and Truth!

 
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Psa 22:1-31
(1) [1] My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning?
(2) O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear;
And in the night season, and am not silent.
(3) But You are holy,
Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
(4) Our fathers trusted in You;
They trusted, and You delivered them.
(5) They cried to You, and were delivered;
They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.
(6) But I am a worm, and no man;
A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
(7) All those who see Me ridicule Me;
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
(8) "He trusted[2] in the LORD, let Him rescue Him;
Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!"
(9) But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
You made Me trust while on My mother's breasts.
(10) I was cast upon You from birth.
From My mother's womb
You have been My God.
(11) Be not far from Me,
For trouble is near;
For there is none to help.
(12) Many bulls have surrounded Me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
(13) They gape at Me with their mouths,
Like a raging and roaring lion.
(14) I am poured out like water,
And all My bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It has melted within Me.
(15) My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And My tongue clings to My jaws;
You have brought Me to the dust of death.
(16) For dogs have surrounded Me;
The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.
They pierced[3] My hands and My feet;
(17) I can count all My bones.
They look and stare at Me.
(18) They divide My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.
(19) But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me;
O My Strength, hasten to help Me!
(20) Deliver Me from the sword,
My precious life from the power of the dog.
(21) Save Me from the lion's mouth
And from the horns of the wild oxen!


You have answered Me.
(22) I will declare Your name to My brethren;
In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
(23) You who fear the LORD, praise Him!
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,
And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel!
(24) For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from Him;
But when He cried to Him, He heard.
(25) My praise shall be of You in the great assembly;
I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.
(26) The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will praise the LORD.
Let your heart live forever!
(27) All the ends of the world
Shall remember and turn to the LORD,
And all the families of the nations
Shall worship before You.[4]
(28) For the kingdom is the LORD's,
And He rules over the nations.
(29) All the prosperous of the earth
Shall eat and worship;
All those who go down to the dust
Shall bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep himself alive.
(30) A posterity shall serve Him.
It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
(31) They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,
That He has done this.

 

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And as we stare in astonishment at that cross, what held Jesus to those grim timbers? It wasn't the nails ! "He was crucified on a cross of wood; yet He made the hill on which it stood."
The Creator of the Universe could have said at any time, "Enough is enough. I'm out of here!"15 It was His love for you and me. He is, indeed, the Ultimate Valentine. --- Chuck Missler An Easter Devotional: The Scarlet Thread - Chuck Missler - Koinonia House
 
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And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last. And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
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I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord…That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection. (Philippians 3:8, 10)

Sanctification is that process whereby the redeemed are increasingly set apart for the purposes, use, and glory of God. The resurrection of Christ and the power of that resurrection are interwoven into that entire process. Our present passage offers additional insight into this sublime truth....
 
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Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him." So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb. The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first; and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself. So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. (John 20-1-8)

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That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. (Philippians 3:10)


Paul's all-consuming passion was "That I may know Him." This verse does not list four matters for which Paul sought an acquaintanceship (a knowledge of God, resurrection power, a fellowship in Christ's sufferings, and conformity to His death). Rather, it points out one great quest (a knowledge of God) and three different arenas in which that knowledge could grow (resurrection power, a fellowship in Christ's sufferings, and conformity to His death). We saw in our last meditation how resurrection power and suffering can increase our knowing of the Lord. Now, we add another amazing aspect to a growing acquaintanceship with Jesus: "being conformed to His death."...
 
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