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Jeremiah 35
15
I have sent you prophet after prophet to tell you to turn from your wicked ways and to stop worshiping other gods, so that you might live in peace here in the land I gave to you and your ancestors. But you would not listen to me or obey.
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The families of Recab have obeyed their ancestor completely, but you have refused to listen to me.'

NOTE:
PRAY FOR ME! I am doing a lesson in our cell group on Friday evening about “the shoes of Peace”, part of the armor of God.

Ephesians 6
15
And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace.

PEACE. We will ONLY experience it if we yield to the Lord, listen to His Word, repent, and invite the Spirit to indwell and govern our lives.

Jeremiah 36
3
Perhaps the people of Judah will repent if they see in writing all the terrible things I have planned for them. Then I will be able to forgive their sins and wrongdoings."

NOTE:
God paid for salvation in the Lord Jesus. In fact, that the Father no longer counts sins against them! However, without repentance, they cannot receive forgiveness!

2 Corinthians 5 (Amplified)
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It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor).

I Timothy 5
8
But those who won't care for their own relatives, especially those living in the same household, have denied what we believe. Such people are worse than unbelievers.

QUESTION / NOTE:
I admit that I am still seeking the Lord about how to understand loyalty to family and loyalty to Jesus. TRUE PEACE is rooted in ALWAYS putting the Lord Jesus FIRST, serving Him out of love and worship.

COMPARE what the Holy Spirit said in I Timothy 5:8 with the reality of what the Lord Jesus said in Matthew 10 (Amplified):
34
Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35
For I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a newly married wife from her mother-in-law—
36
And a man's foes will be they of his own household.
37
He who loves [and takes more pleasure in] father or mother more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves [and takes more pleasure in] son or daughter more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me;

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As I try to understand how to put these two passages together, I come up with this:
a. God always calls us to truly love our relatives, but ALWAYS to love the Lord Jesus MORE.

b. Even if our family is against us, or disowns us, as we follow the Lord Jesus, we are ALWAYS called to find ways to provide for them.

“As far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.”

Proverbs 25
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"If the godly compromise with the wicked, it is like polluting a fountain or muddying a spring."

NOTE:
This verse makes me realize that we need to take great care about the deep friendships we have and the people we marry. If we make a covenant with these friends or with a spouse, we will pollute our lives!

1 Corinthians 15 (Amplified)
33
Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character.

2 Corinthians 6 (Amplified)
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Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?
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What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial [the devil]? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
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What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Though we are cautioned to not be unequally yoked there can be a situation where an equally yoked married couple are both unsaved. Later one of them comes to the Lord. Scripture talks about it at length.
1 Corinthians 7.12-16
12To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband.
15(But if the husband or wife who isn’t a believer insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the believing husband or wifee is no longer bound to the other, for God has called youf to live in peace.) 16Don’t you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don’t you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you?
God is faithful in helping the Christian live their life bringing glory to God. The only exception would be if there is any abuse.

Again it always behooves me how much people in the day of the prophets and God so present in the place gives scroll and then other rulers burn the words of the Lord. The Lord had Jeremiah rewrite and write all plus some..it angered the Loed for them to do that and yet their heart was so vexed and turned against God's practices. Wow! What a shame!
1 Timothy talks about secrets and having a person. I like to think it's Nathan..my spouse. Hebis my person ..almost 25 yrs come November and 3.5 before marriage. Love him so. Also taking care of widows and elderly family. I tried so with my mom. I tried to be a good daughter and tend to her weekly while she was living..it was hard at the end. She was sick and took shots (she was potassium high) and she got lung cancer in the end. Really painful at that time of my life with seeing her like that and my spouse and babies only 3 and 5.


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