JB_Reformed Baptist

<p><span style="color:#b22222;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“How entirely different is the God of Holy Writ from the fictitious one of the sentimental dreamers of this effeminate age!” A.W.P</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff8c00;">As for my people, <strong>children are their oppressors</strong>, and <strong>women rule over them</strong>.</span> <span style="color:#006400;">O my people, <strong>they which lead thee cause thee to err</strong>, and <strong>destroy the way of thy paths</strong>.&nbsp;Isa 3:12</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(165,42,42);">Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? <strong>Our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased</strong>.</span> Psa 115:2-3</p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">“And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and who can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?”</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;"> (Dan. 4:35).</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#8b4513;">- </span><span style="color:#b22222;"><strong>A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief</strong>. </span><span style="color:#8b4513;">&nbsp;-</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#0000cd;"><span style="font-size:.75em;font-weight:bold;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;<strong>Jesus said</strong>...&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">‘<strong>I tell you the truth</strong>, insofar as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ <span style="font-size:12px;">Mt 25:40 KJV</span></span></span></p>
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<p>&nbsp;<span style="color:#006400;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;">&nbsp;</span><strong>Jesus said</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;">...&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>And whosoever</strong> <strong>shall</strong> give to drink unto one of these <strong>little ones</strong> a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.&nbsp;Mt 10:42</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#a52a2a;"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>So likewise ye</strong>, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, <u>say</u>, <strong>We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</strong>&nbsp;Luke 17:10&nbsp;</span></span></p>


In regeneration, the Holy Spirit unites us to Christ. First, by the drawing of God the father, he then vivifies us through the outward call cast forth by the preaching of the Word, disarms our innate hostility, removes our blindness, illumines our mind, creates understanding, turns our heart of stone to a heart of flesh -- giving rise to a delight in His Word -- all that we might, with our renewed affections, willingly & gladly embrace Christ.

It's a mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied to the degree to which a subject omits and not seek exactness where only an approximation of the truth can be found. Aristotle

He that has the patience to learn simple things perfectly, acquires the skills to do difficult things easily. Anon