A FAMINE IN THE LAND

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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:05:33 -0400, you wrote:

>God intends for us to keep our word-- even when it is costly. 

Yes Sir!
 
>I have often wondered just how much of our National and personal distress has
>been caused by the breaking of our word of honor, which we have given at some
>time.

>Our great nation is not yet 400 years old, and many different
>"administrations" have come and gone since that beginning.  Have some of the
>reversals of policy by some of those administrations been contributing
>factors to the mess we find ourselves in today?

Strange as it may seem, repentance is the consistent answer to keeping
one's pledges to error.

The time for repentance is always NOW.

God repented of a thing when alternatives opened up which provided for
his GREATER will.

In the church, breech of comittement is very severe indeed. We can
loose EVERYTHING over a few generations. The pledges and statements
that the Apostolic church makes causing binding and loosing in heaven.


The Embassy of Jesus Christ is dictatorial. A failure on that front in
the form of doublemindedness can bring the curse of Ruben, "unstable
as water" (i.e. conformable to his circumstances). His birthright,
power, strength, and dignity were not enough to overcome is
instability.

We are in this world to tell the powers of darkness "how its gonna
be". To retreat from a pledge is to declare the one who we pledge
unto, and by whom we pledge, to be false. No wonder judgement comes.
No wonder the Lord's name ought not be "taken in vain".

"A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and
with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.  Death and life are
in the  power  of the  tongue : and they that love it shall eat the
fruit thereof. " -Proverbs 18:20-21