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The snake asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”…The snake replied, “That’s not true; you will not die. God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God and know what is good and what is bad.”
–Satan in Genesis 3:1, 4-5 (GNT)–

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Who am I to question
Every day to understand
This precious beginning
Now fading, passing
This is the feelin’ of a sadness
Where will solace find me?
Where will peace begin?
Where will peace begin?
I have the call to be true
Find a way for you
The peace be inside
Follow safely home
In my God, in His smile
Nothing is impossible
Every day brings an awesome hope
Grace will lead the way
And joy will follow
My heart leaps at the sound of Your voice
Calling my name
And You are so perfect
In every way
A testimony of creation
Beautiful is Your Name
I can’t wait to see Him when I wake
Fresh and new
Simple and true
Formed by mercy
Formed by grace
Earth and sky
In Your eyes
Blessed
Pure
You’re more than I deserve
You’re my blessing
You’re my wisdom
You’re my freedom
You’re my mission
I live for His glory

–Living Sacrifice, “Reach for the Sky”–

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A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Wingspread, 1982).

Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries (Bethany House, 1979).

Basil Miller, George Muller: Man of Faith and Miracles (Bethany House, 1972).

Dr. Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline (HarperOne, 2018).

Disfigured, bloodless exit
Soul embraced, soul in pain
With a burning existence, eternally separated
Savior lost, Heaven lost
Tortured within, what could have been
Separation, this afterlife in death
In one breath
Could it be this darkness
Is a product of my design
My choice of self over God
I took what’s mine
I denied, denied

Father of Lies
Burn with your legion
Suffer inside eternal Abyss
God has terminated my soul
The committed:
“I want to dwell within Your Embrace.”

I had a dream of this reality
My decision to live by my means
I took what’s mine, never regret, until now
Separation from the love I took for granted
Separation from the truth revealed to me

–Living Sacrifice, “Separation”–

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There are people in other religions who…
belong to Christ without knowing it.
For example, a Buddhist.
–C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
(HarperCollins, 2009), pgs. 208-209–

FALSE PROPHET.

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John MacArthur, The Gospel According to the Apostles (Thomas Nelson, 2005).

Dr. John R. Rice, The Unequal Yoke (Sword of the Lord, 1946).

If the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.
–Ezekiel 33:6 (ESV)–

As for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord.
–Joshua 24:15 (ESV)–

These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
–Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (ESV)–

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, ²⁶ that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ²⁷ so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰ because we are members of his body. ³¹ “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” ³² This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. ³³ However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
–Ephesians 5:22-33 (ESV)–

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William Gouge, Building a Godly Home, 3 vols (Reformation Heritage Books, 2013-14).

Richard Baxter, The Godly Home (Crossway, 2010).

J. C. Ryle, Duties of Parents (Evangelical Press, 2023).

John Wesley, “On Family Religion.”