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2018, Gospel of John

Salad or Spoon

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Last evening was group study night. We pool dishes of food and the combination is always a feast for us young and older suburban women. My contribution this time was a Superfood Salad. 

So with my Sweet Kale salad mixed in a crystal bowl and a fine, fancy-designed, and crafted spoon for serving, I was all set – expecting at least one lady to notice my unique spoon.

Nope. Just the salad. The salad was all they could talk about.  How did I make it?  What’s in it?
Open the bag and mix.
Broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, chicory, dried cranberries, roasted pumpkin seeds, and a poppy-seed dressing.
Where can we buy it? I got it at that place everybody complains about going but goes anyway. You know the place.
On they went: This is so good! And to think it is healthy! Not a word about the spoon!

As it should be!

Now. Let’s say we are the spoon and JESUS is the salad. Which one should the questions be about?

Oh, HOLY SPIRIT, make me a spoon and The LORD JESUS all the people talk about when the message is served.

John 3:27 John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,’ but rather, ‘I am sent before Him.’ 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the best man rejoices when he stands and hears the bridegroom’s voice. So now my joy is complete! 30 He must increase, while I must decrease.”  source

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2018, Deuteronomy

Wings!

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Deuteronomy 32:9 But Adonai’s portion is His people— Jacob is the share of His inheritance.
10 He found him in the wilderness land, in the void of a howling waste. He surrounded him, cared for him, guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, He spreads His wings, catches him, lifts him up on His pinions.
12 Adonai alone guided him—there was no foreign god with him.  source

Are you in the void of a howling waste? Then let Him come, care for you, lovingly guard you, be as fiercely protective over you as the pupil of His eye. Let Him spread His wings over you as an eagle does its young. Let Him teach you to fly. Let none of us have foreign gods!

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1 Corinthians, 2018, Guests, Resurrection Sunday

From 1st Corinthians 15

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Christ’s Resurrection Guarantees Ours

20 But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 

21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.

22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

23 But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to Christ.

24 Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he abolishes all rule and all authority and power.

Victorious Resurrection

50 What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Listen, I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,

52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

53 For this corruptible body must be clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality.

54 When this corruptible body is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place:

Death has been swallowed up in victory.
55 Where, death, is your victory?
Where, death, is your sting?

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.  source

Additional reading: First Fruits and The Seven Feasts of Israel

An excerpt from the link above:  no I’m not kidding.  “Where Easter is concerned, however, we have confused a pagan ritual with First Fruits. Each spring, the Babylonians saw the genuine first fruits and assumed it would be a fine time to ask their goddess, Ishtar (Easter), for new babies. They worshipped the things in nature which represented fertility, such as the rabbit and the egg. The people wore new costumes, in keeping with the new buds on the trees and shrubbery. Today, we continue the Babylonian rite with our Easter Bunny and our painted eggs and our new outfits for the Easter Parade. An egg hunt, of course, represents the attempt to conceive a baby.”

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