Hair - was RE: REVIVAL

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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:59:17 PST, you wrote:

> What happens to the women who have a brain tumor or cancer and their
>hair falls out  because of the chemotherapy or it has to be cut to get
>to the tumor?? Have they lost their "glory" in God's eyes? What do you
>think??

No, these inevitable things are not deliberate uncovering.

"... for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the
outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. " - 1 Sam 16:6b

Thank God we live under the new covenant, where, because we may be
filled with the Holy Ghost, this wisdom is applicable to our
salvation.

17  Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever [he be] of thy seed in their
generations that hath [any] blemish, let him not approach to offer the
bread of his God.  18  For whatsoever man [he be] that hath a blemish,
he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat
nose, or any thing superfluous,  19  Or a man that is brokenfooted, or
brokenhanded,  20  Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish
in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his  stones  broken;  21
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come
nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a
blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.  22  He
shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most holy, and of the
holy.  23  Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto
the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.  - Lev 21:17-23


-- That was the Old Covenant. Under that covenant, chemtherapy miht
have saved the life of the flesh, but prohibited entry into the form
of the presence of God.


But the TRUE Covenant of Salvation is also the covenant of healing:

" Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be
turned out of the way; but  let it  rather  be  healed . " - Heb
12:12-13

Circumstances that impose upon us because of the crulty of life are
not a hinderance in our truth born, spirit quickened relationship with
God:

35  Who shall  separate   us  from the  love  of Christ? [shall]
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? 36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all
the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  37  Nay,
in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved
us .  38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come,  39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to  separate   us  from the  love  of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8

Brazen defiance of the word of the Apostles, and rationalization so as
to dismiss the significance of the Word (as tradition for example) is
a completely different thing from weakness, and with each comes
totally different consequences:

"7  And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance
of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the
messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above
measure.  8  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might
depart from me.  9  And he said unto me, My  grace  is  sufficient
for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly
therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me.  10  Therefore I take pleasure in
infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." -
2 Cor 12

Now if this isn't GLORY, I don't know what is! 

-mwb