Honouring God

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Honouring God

• Studies in 1 John Love, Dont Love the World
• Sunday, August 3, 2008

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Last week Christian Theory of Everything

• Far be it from Me-- for those who honor Me I
  will honor, and those who despise Me will be
  lightly esteemed (1 Samuel 230).

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Letter from Intercessor (Brenda)

• Hi Peter,
• For a week or so now, whenever I pray for
  people, makes little difference who it is, this
  passage from Psalm 18 has been coming to me.  In
  pre-service prayer in Walt's office yesterday, I
  was again reminded of it--and what leads up to
  it,

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• (The Lord hearing the cries of His people and
  stepping out of heaven to act on their behalf in
  a pretty dramatic way).  I felt maybe it would
  have been helpful to share this yesterday in
  light of the debate that was going on. 

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Psalm 1824-28

• 24 The LORD has rewarded me according to my
  righteousness,        according to the cleanness
  of my hands in his sight.
• 25 To the faithful you show yourself faithful,
         to the blameless you show yourself
  blameless,

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Psalm 1824-28

• 26 to the pure you show yourself pure,       
  but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
• 27 You save the humble        but bring low
  those whose eyes are haughty.
• 28 You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning       
  my God turns my darkness into light.

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• On Thursday morning we were thanking God for
  some of his attributes, and someone was thanking
  Him for his unchangeable-ness and his ability to
  come to people as they needed him to show up
  (can't remember if it was the same person).  So,
  I began praying this passage--to the faithful he
  shows himself faithful and so on.  But, I
  couldn't get this idea

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• out of my head.  He shows up in the way we need
  him, but we play a part.  A minuscule part to be
  sure since our faithfulness is pretty
  changing--but he is not.  So, in prayer, I've
  been using this passage to talk to God about his
  faithful ones, his pure, his blameless.  Lorraine
  and I were praying this for you and Mary Ellen
  yesterday morning

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• because we were reminding God how you guys have
  comforted so many others, and now it was your
  turn to be comforted.  Anyway, I don't think I'm
  doing this justice in words.  Hope it makes
  sense.
• Brenda

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Mike Cheatleys Observations

• Far be it from Me-- for those who honor Me I
  will honor, and those who despise Me will be
  lightly esteemed (1 Samuel 230).
• What does honour look like? What if a child
  pushed itself away from its parents reach?
  Compare . . .

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Reminds me of Prodigal Son

• Possible to leave the sphere of the Fathers
  protection and provision
• Possible to do this without moving very far
  (older brother)
• What was the Father thinking when He gave in to
  the young sons request?