Another nice fairy tale!
"Carl" <saints@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Matt 14:15-21
> 15 As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a
> remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so
they
> can go to the villages and buy themselves some food."
>
> 16 Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something
to
> eat."
>
> 17 "We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish," they answered.
>
> 18 "Bring them here to me," he said. 19 And he directed the people to
sit
> down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking
up
> to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the
> disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate
and
> were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken
> pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about
five
> thousand men, besides women and children.
>
> May God bless,
> Carl
> my website -- http://www.nettally.com/saints/
> my blog -- http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/
>
> ---
>
> Vicarious Intercession
> by Oswald Chambers
>
> .having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus. -Hebrews
> 10:19
>
> Beware of thinking that intercession means bringing our own personal
> sympathies and concerns into the presence of God, and then demanding
that
> He do whatever we ask. Our ability to approach God is due entirely to
the
> vicarious, or substitutionary, identification of our Lord with sin. We
> have "boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus."
>
> Spiritual stubbornness is the most effective hindrance to intercession,
> because it is based on a sympathetic "understanding" of things we see in
> ourselves and others that we think needs no atonement. We have the idea
> that there are certain good and virtuous things in each of us that do
not
> need to be based on the atonement by the Cross of Christ. Just the
> sluggishness and lack of interest produced by this kind of thinking
makes
> us unable to intercede. We do not identify ourselves with God's
interests
> and concerns for others, and we get irritated with Him. Yet we are
always
> ready with our own ideas, and our intercession becomes only the
> glorification of our own natural sympathies. We have to realize that the
> identification of Jesus with sin means a radical change of all of our
> sympathies and interests. Vicarious intercession means that we
> deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural
sympathy
> with them.
>
> Am I stubborn or substituted? Am I spoiled or complete in my
relation****p
> to God? Am I irritable or spiritual? Am I determined to have my own way
or
> determined to be identified with Him?
>
>
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