Fall greetings and blessings,
I think it was the comedian Gallagher who used to say, "Things that make you go Hmmmmmm???" I think the one I liked the best was "Why do they call them apartments if they are all together?" I was listening to a sermon the other day and drifted off as I sometimes do. (Did I say that?) What came first the chicken or the egg? If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one around to hear it, did it really make a sound? If you break the law and you don't get caught, did you really break the law? If you speak badly of someone, and you know what you are saying is a lie, and they never find out about it, is that really so bad? If you sin and no one catches you, is it still a sin? After all, you didn't get caught. Did you know you were doing wrong when you did it? Ultimately, God will be the one who knows. Like I said, things that make you go Hmmmmmmm!
1 John 3:18-23 in the New King James Version reads like this, “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.”
You should be able to Hmmmmm a new tune if you were originally confused.
I trust you have been enjoying the entrance into the fall season of the year. Here at CI we are preparing for September APT's (Apostolic Prophetic Training) and October's IGAP (International Gathering of the Apostles and Prophets). The distance training school continues to become more user friendly on the internet. The MTC (on-campus Ministry Training Center) has garnered quite a few foreign students this year and starts the week prior to APT's.
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