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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The word curious here meant inspired by the Holy Spirit. It did not mean inquisitiveness, like that curiosity that “killed the cat.” In the Bible, it means skillful or expert in workmanship. The girdle was wound about the waist of the high priest and fastened in the front, the long ends …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The way the onyx stones and breastplate were bound together ensured that Israel’s warriors were to be “victors in their spiritual warfare.” (Read more below.) Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says he agrees with the health.news article that suggests remedies to heal an under- or …
Worship: For Heaven’s Sake “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.” (Read more below.) Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says anger and bitterness …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake “At the right and left of the breastplate were two large stones of great brilliancy. These were known as the Urim and Thummim. By them the will of God was made known through the high priest. When questions were brought for decision before the Lord, a halo of light encircling the …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The breastplate of judgment, like the ephod, “was made of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine-twined linen.” These colors (blue, scarlet and purple) represent obedience learned through suffering, which produces the royal character of Christ, represented by the royal color of purple. According to Job 23:10, as gold emerges …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Pastor Flemons recounted the story of the ten lepers whom Jesus cleansed while on their way to show themselves to the priests, according to His command. Only one leper returned to give thanks. That one was not only cleansed but made whole, according to Luke 17:11-19. Then Pastor Flemons introduced Sis. …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake God is in control no matter how things appear. The government is on His shoulder. So should be our burdens. This is represented by the onyx stones that held together the ephod at the shoulders of the high priest, who represented Jesus, our great High Priest. As badges of honor and …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Everybody has a past that they prefer nobody knows. “When people accuse and judge, they generally have an agenda,” and are guilty of the same, especially when they expose sexual sin, says Pastor Flemons. This is the reason people who come into the church tend to go out of the church. …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The ephod, sometimes translated as apron, was worn over the blue robe of the high priest of Israel. “It was the most costly and the most magnificent of his garments, being made entirely of ‘gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine-twined linen,’ Ex. 39:3, every thread of which represented the …
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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake As the sinner receives the Word of God and the Savior’s love into his heart, he is cleansed from sin and all of Heaven rejoices. This is reflected in the joyful sound of the golden bells on the robe of the priest, as he ministered in the most holy place. “As …
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