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Through the Roof

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The Bible is big business. Have you perused a magazine lately  to see just what is being offered? I have a catalog. 68 pages. Yes! 68 pages of Bibles.

Such as: New Study Bibles
Church & Recovery Bibles
Economy & Outreach Bibles
Children’s Bibles
Pew Bibles
Church Bibles
Discipleship & Recovery Bibles
Student & Teen Bibles
Bible Bargains
Parallel & Wide-Margin Bibles
Specialty Bibles & Accessories
Journaling & Note-Taking Bibles

There are more.

My point? Glad you ask. 

Selling Bibles is a lucrative business, I think.  However, I also think it’s not the business GOD was fostering when He had the Manuscript penned. Not that He begrudges the printing, the selling or even the acquiring of a financial profit on the making of Bibles. I really don’t think He minds paying the oxen for a good day’s work. :)

Having said that, let me step on my own toes: if all those Bibles sold were faithfully, consistently read and obeyed, we’d be living in a better culture than this. 

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for restoration, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the person belonging to God may be capable, fully equipped for every good deed. source 

See what I mean?
So.
Are we going to make the reading, studying and obeying the Bible our business? When we do I dare say our ‘profits’ will go through the roof!

Speaking of through the roof. Here’s a story about through the roof.
Luke 5:17-39 or
Mark 2:1-12

[My Beloved has read his a few times (well, more than a few), from the aforementioned addresses, he immediately recalled the event. ]

Chazaq! 

2 Timothy, Acts

Not for Sissies

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The Bible is not for sissies.   I’m still in Acts 13.

49 Now the word of the Lord spread throughout the whole region. 50 But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and they drove them out of their district. 51 But Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet against them, and they went on to Iconium. 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and the Ruach ha-Kodesh.  source

The influential church ladies and the leading men, (notice the women are mentioned first) people with a form of godliness but no relationship with YESHUA, (see 2 Timothy 3:5-7) rose up against the people of GOD.

I am seeing a form of this today.  Media has streamed it right into our living rooms: Influential women who talk a good game of helping women have joined forces and voices (and some men have joined them) to speak against and ‘run out of town’ the people of GOD.

So what do we do? The same as did Paul and Barnabas. Let us be filled with the HOLY SPIRIT and the Joy of the LORD, shake off the dust and move on to those who have not considered themselves UNFIT for the Salvation of GOD.   (verse 46)

Keep Pursuing Him  ΑΩ 
Kathie