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WHEN WAS THAT?

When he said to a doubting Thomas and, I might add, to all those future generations adamant for his personal physical return:  “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”¹¹⁸  That was the way he had lived his life as the “God-man,” as a pattern for all his siblings to follow.¹¹⁹

YOU KEEP SAYING, “THE BEST IS YET TO COME.”  WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?

I can’t say enough about “those who are of the household of faith.”¹²⁰  They are not some parenthetical “plan B,” as many in error would have you to believe.  They are my uniquely endeared ones who have been in my heart and mind all along.  They are our primary agency by which all the ills of society as you know it will be rectified.  I know it seems at present as if so many are trying hard not to act like it, but we will turn that around.  We continue to raise up voices which are causing more and more to awaken from the stupor of false doctrines of men.¹²¹

I MUST ADMIT THAT MUCH OF WHAT YOU HAVE TOLD ME SEEMS INCREDULOUS.  IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE “HOUSEHOLD” BELIEVE SOMETHING ELSE.  HOW COULD YOU HAVE ALLOWED THAT TO HAPPEN?  HOW COULD SO MANY BELIEVE SOMETHING AND IT STILL BE FALSE?

I like your spunk.  You ask good questions.  You display an unmistakable desire to know my ways.  The truth is, we’ve been up against these odds before and were not unduly hindered.

WHEN DO YOU MEAN?

When we had Moses send spies into Canaan, how did that go?

118           (John 20:29b)  “Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer” (2 Corinthians 5:16b).

119           “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked” (1 John 2:6).

120           “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10).

121           “. . . (Why) do you subject yourself to regulations . . . according to the commandments and doctrines of men?” (Colossians 2:20b, 22b).  “And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” (Mark 7:7).  “If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or I speak of My own authority” (John 7:17).  “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers” (Acts 2:42).