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Subject: All you say

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Hillbilly

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Date Posted: 13:52:11 05/02/09 Sat
In reply to: Hillbilly 's message, "Gen. 19 vss 37-38 Post # 105" on 16:33:24 04/26/09 Sun

is very true. As in the case of Ruth you certainly have the exception just as you do with some Muslims today. Exceptions prove the rule or it wouldn't be an exception. Every Pharisee had the opportunity to turn to Jesus just as Saul of Tarsus. I am reminded also that Orpah, Ruth's sister-in-law had the same opportunity as Ruth. She chose to go back to her people and their gods.

We are all sinners and just being born after the Adam nature makes us unclean and unfit for fellowship with God. It is why we must be born again into spiritual beings after the heavenly and not after the earthly.

My aim was to point out that sin has unseen and unintended consequences that may have it's effect through many many generations.

I am glad and thankful of the fact that God can take a sinner such as I and clean me up. Not that I am sinless not that I am worthy of anything. The hymn says "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind by now I see.

What I see is someone unlovable being loved.
Someone dirty being made clean.
Someone without the capacity for true love to be made able to love.

The ground is level at the foot of the cross and no one who comes with a broken heart and contrite spirit is turned away.

Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.

Thanks Julie.

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