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So glad your trip up here was so pleasant.
Glad you could gather with your friends.
It is always good to gather with other believers in person.
To understand as well why did God strike him dead aligned with everything already written above? God commissioned the generations of Judah and there was to be a child with Onan. But Onan did this to spite God. Further judgement with Judah as he withheld his youngest son and was to be seduced by Tamar.
Overall too (the bigger picture of this), Judah was there to first suggest Joseph to be sold to the Egyptians. He was not the sole brother responsible but spoke the idea and troubled their father Jacob (Israel). Right after Joseph's abduction, we're not told the judgements of the other brethren. But we're told of Judah's specifically because of the wickedness that was in his heart. So was Judah judged as well as his children.
His heart to overflow with compassion. An uplifting word when one is needed. To come alongside in a difficulty. A ride to Church. A "hi how are ya" at the grocery store.
This age in society people sorta shut out the community.
I know people who are so insulated at home, it's tragic.
I'm an evangelist and everybody I run into are gonna get some "SON shine" on them :D
It takes so very little emotional investment to have a moment to share, a good word, a little testimony, an invite to sit with me at churchI'll be the one with a red shirt. Jesus routinely loved on the little children in the Bible. To me that's an encouragement to do the same.
Jesus is lookin' for FollowersI will make you fishers of men/women/children
Go ye into your neighborhood. Amen.
Mishael
I don't necessarily like to call tongues in Corinthians 1 carnal as in "of the flesh" but meaning they weren't the same tongues in the book of Acts (which is true). In Acts, all spoke tongues from each others province and this was the sign God gave only to those Jews that were in the court of Solomon as prophesied by Joel.
There was a spiritual gift to minister in tongues (other languages) too. Is not the ability to play music for God a Spiritual gift due to its use? The same for those who are bi-lingual/multi-lingual. Paul warns of those who speak in an unknown tongue (not speaking of the gibberish spoken by churches of the 20th-century/21st-century West); but those who spoke in another language without interpreter. If you travel today to a country as a missionary such as Vietnam; you're going to find a majority don't speak English. If you preach to those Vietnamese and they don't understand your message; this is not because God cannot work but because there's a language barrier. To the mission incoming an unknown tongue and to the receiver an unknown tongue.
It may not be a point that you agree with or others do. But, I believe this to be the correct interpretation of tongues from both contexts given in the New Testament. And I hold no hardened heart for those who've disagreement. God bless you and the best I can encourage is to study the Word and God will reveal to you everything you need to know Spiritually.
One day I was sitting at an open window doing bills and I heard the children outside have a conversation about having to spend summers with their other parent ( as in cases of divorce). They labeled theirselves "Divorced Children." It broke my heart. I went outside and ministered the love of Jesus to them. They seemed to accept that "the other parent" loved them too. Loss hurts everyone: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. It takes huge effort to share your child with other "family."
I had to work, and did not want my son alone from 4pm to 530. I budgeted money for a tutor (from my church) to come to my house and help my kid do his homework. It worked out really great, if they finished early, they played catch outside. Dinners were a lot more relaxed.
This was a 5 day a week gig. You can find tutors at church or through their school office. The tutor would be a high school student who wanted to earn money for college.
It gets us through choppy waters to where, things are more orderly. Shared routines. I got to do the fun things with my son; spur of the moment stuff. It helps you realize life isn't over. There are possibilities.
This is what the Body of Christ is here for.
mishael
Amen
Revelation 10, that's Elijah taking office, before the day of the Lord.
8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
10 And he enquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord: because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord.
18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day..
Sorry I took so long to reply, there wasn't a reply link, to your comment. I just found it today. I was looking through my comments & went to this link, to check if I had errored in replying to wrong question. GOD is always good!!
Your perspective is powerful. May GOD almighty lead you to your precise powerful place in the BODY, you've got a gifting!
Thank you much for the blessings
1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
David is a type of the Lord Jesus in rejection (He came unto His own and His own received Him not.) Those who came to the Lord outside the camp are a type of Christians who came to the Lord as lost sinners out of all sorts of brokenness and trouble (not many wise, not many noble, and not many mighty are called.)