This week I posted about worry.

Why you shouldn't worry, promises from the Bible to help you when scary things do worry you, and a story of God's faithfulness to my family.

Read it here!
https://www.beansforlunch.com/....post/scriptures-for-

I feel like everytime I look something up on the Internet, I'm actually shaking up one of these:!

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"Seek Yahweh, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire"

Amos 5

There will now be a hopefully thought prevoking subject each month on which you are invited to participate by either posting a question in a Post that others can comment on, or creating a Forum discussion or posting an Article if you have a more definitive study that you would like to make public.

You'll see the subject on the top of the main News Feed on the home page and it will look as following:

If your religion doesn't help to conform your heart to God's, then it's false and probably involves more worship of self than anything else.
#proverbs 21:3

https://rumble.com/vdx8mv-prov....erbs-213-and-pure-re

There is a deep chiasm in Genesis 47:2-20 centered on Jacob's age and framed by Joseph presenting his brothers to Pharaoh at one end and subjugating the people of Egypt to Pharaoh on the other. In between those points are drought, famine, migrations, and blessings.

All of life is a procession of trials and triumphs. The greater the troubles that come your way, the greater the changes that God is trying to work in you and those around you.

Everything I have spoken about in this series all goes back to the same concept: we as believers should be following the whole Bible. This includes the Law/Torah that is found in the Old Testament.

I recently saw a comment on social media to a ministry's post about God's commands are not a buffet table, we can't pick and choose. By the language used in the comment, I would say this person was not a believer. To clean it up the comment went like this: "but Jesus came and cleared all the rules. This religion is confusing."

That right there is the witness most of the church is giving to the outside world right now. God says in Deut. 30:11 that the Law is not too hard to do. And in Deut. 4:8 that the nations (non-believers) will look and say "who are these people with such just laws".

So, if God says the Law is just and is easy to do, yet the church is teaching that is burdensome and something we shouldn't be keeping - isn't that quite the contradiction? Isn't that a lot of why the world sees hypocrisy when they look at believers today? Yet, we have believers will still quote things from that very Law to say THAT part is still for today.

For example, they will quote Leviticus 18:22 (Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.) but ignore in the same book, Leviticus 11:12 ( Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.) and eat catfish.

If after going through all this series and you still believe the Law is something you shouldn't be doing, answer me this: How, in any logical sense, would God be a just God to have one set of standards to be His people for thousands of years and held everyone to those standards, then all of a sudden change His mind and throw out those standards?

https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/720

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Long life is in wisdom's right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Proverbs 3:16

Long life, riches, and honor are all good things to desire and benefits of wisdom, but long life, being in the right hand of wisdom, is portrayed as superior.

THIS WEEK

Vayigash וַיִּגַּשׁ
And He Came Near

TORAH Genesis 44:18-47:27
PROPHETS Ezekiel 37:15-28
GOSPEL Luke 24:30-48

Portion Outline
TORAH

Genesis 44:18 Judah Pleads for Benjamin's Release
Genesis 45:1 Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers
Genesis 46:1 Jacob Brings His Whole Family to Egypt
Genesis 46:28 Jacob Settles in Goshen
Genesis 47:13 The Famine in Egypt

PROPHETS

Eze 37:15 The Two Sticks