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³ Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. ⁴ Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. ⁵ For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, ⁶ like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
–1 Peter 3:3-6 (NIV)–

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Elizabeth Rice Handford, Your Clothes Say It for You (Sword of the Lord, 2000).

COMMUNIST



PROPAGANDA

Embrace, reaction, reaction, we ain’t God
But here he comes
Destiny’s real, and she comes with a smile
Passing by your grave, pass

(Plague, plague) Reach the plague
(Plague, plague) Reach the plague
(Plague, plague) Reach the plague
(Plague, plague) Reach the plague

Black plague
Black plague
Black plague
Black plague

In this city that never sleeps, and wakes up swinging
Reach (the plague)
We (will paint)
We (will paint)
Red (stay calm)
And we’ll paint the rivers red, it’s fate
Shake hands (shake hands)
And (with fate)
Shake (and with fate)
Hands (shake hands)
Because they sing the same songs, and they just keep singing
Shake hands (shake hands)
And (with fate)
Shake (and with fate)
Hands (shake hands)
And up above, every storm is the day
Shake hands (shake hands)
And (with fate)
Shake (and with fate)
Hands (shake hands)

How happy is every child of grace, who feels his sins forgiven
This world, he cries, is not my place
I seek a place in heaven
A country far from mortal sight, yet oh, by faith I see!
The land of rest, the saint’s delight, a heaven prepared for me
Oh, what a blessed hope is ours while here on earth we stay
We more than taste the heavenly powers and antedate that day
We feel the resurrection near
Our life in Christ concealed and with his glorious presence here our earthen vessels filled

–The Chariot, “And Shot Each Other”–

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Let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.
–Jesus Christ in Luke 22:36 (ESV)–

Put your sword back into its place.
For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
–Jesus Christ in Matthew 26:52 (ESV)–

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called sons of God.
–Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:9 (ESV)–

PRAISE GOD!

¹ We ask you, brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling with him, ² not to be shaken out of your minds suddenly, or to be alarmed either by a “spirit,” or by an oral statement, or by a letter allegedly from us to the effect that the day of the Lord is at hand. ³ Let no one deceive you in any way. For unless the apostasy comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one doomed to perdition, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so as to seat himself in the temple of God, claiming that he is a god.
–2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 (New American Bible)–

George Whitefield

Leonard Ravenhill

Sam Jones

Dr. John R. Rice

Charles Finney

John Knox

John Bunyan

John Wesley

Billy Sunday

D. L. Moody

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What did all of these preachers have in common?

(1)
The Born Again Experience

(2)
Strong Confrontation of Sin

(3)
Urgently Warning About the Danger of Hell

(4)
Calling Considered Direct from God

(5)
Faith in the Inspiration of the Bible

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None of them were fans of C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter–or anything even close. Pilgrim’s Progress was as close as they got–and even then, that’s worlds apart.

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