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  10/14/2022 Jeremiah 29:8 …“Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have." The enemy is pleased when God is cursed by society because of his own people. Our grumbling and complaining about our lot in exile (which society can sometimes seem to be) give inspiration to the false prophets among us who imagine they are 'speaking truth to power' in the name of God when they feed the flames of our hostility against those who despise and criminalize us for being God’s people. This becomes a self-fulling prophecy that goads God's people to strive against society. Jeremiah goes on to prophecy how Israel must stand up against their captivity by living normal lives and supporting and praying for their captors because God is going to bless them now and restore them in 70 years. That is the context for a following oft-quoted verse 11, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper...

  10/12/2022 John 8:32 – “…you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” “Decide your own truth” is the ‘upside-down’ to Truth. It is a lie designed to imprison us in our own selfishness. Like the bizarre underworld in the popular streaming series where everything good in this world is transmogrified into a twisted counterpart in a parallel world, our selfish nature creates a toxic world where one can come to believe good is evil and evil is good. It separates rather than unites, causing ever-narrowing divisions as it isolates us through fear and loathing of all who challenge our own truth. God is the embodiment of Truth and unites all who love and obey Him into a growing eternal family. Godliness is evidenced by love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, and other expressions of the highest form of love, which is God Himself. Receiving God’s Truth expressed in Jesus the only begotten son of God who redeemed us from our sin, frees us from selfishness and forms the lovin...