Apr 18, 2022
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I want to talk about Safety in the workplace-I work in
manufacturing and it’s good to think about tactics and tools
but it’s also good to think about the Why behind safety. I work in
manufacturing and I’ve seen this Why of safety addressed in
different ways and usually is a tug in our heart strings or playing
in our sense of guilt but talking about how your family needs you
to come home safe. I’d like to address the Why of Safety at a
higher level, that safety is about maintaining and fostering Shalom
which is the way God intended things to be in a fallen world. God
doesn’t wants us injured. We can and should pray for supernatural
intervention to keep us safe but we have a role play in this area
of life as with all areas of life. So I try to think of acting
safely similar to how I think of Gods law, not as something we have
to do but something we want to do in order show our love to God and
preserve Shalom.
I also wanted to share that today is what is called
Resurrection Sunday. While I join all Christians who
celebrate the resurrection, I don't agree with the use of the name
Easter, the dating system that's used to select the date each year,
or many of the traditions that are a part of the average Easter
celebration. The reason I don't agree and why I think this
issue is important is that the name, the date and the traditions
are all rooted in Pagan religions which are the same religions that
God was so angry with in the Old Testament. These pagan
religions are ultimately worshipping
Satan. Rome merged aspects of the Christian beliefs
with pagan beliefs and practices when they formed what became known
as the Roman Catholic Church, and this included changing God's
appointed Sabbath to day 1, Sunday, instead of day 7,
abandoning most of the commandments and appointed times given by
God, and creating man-made religious holidays rooted in
paganism.
If you'd like more information on the history of Easter,
please check out the link in the show notes for a message from Ron
at TruthUnedited.com
Our church celebrated Passover this past Friday, April 15,
which is Nissan 14 on the Hebrew Calendar. Today, April 17th,
which is the morrow after the Sabbath we will begin counting the
omer and will do so for 50 days leading up to Shavuot also known as
Pentecost. We also began celebrating the Feast of Unleavened
Bread on Nissan 15 beginning at Sunset this past Friday
evening. We got red of leavened products in our house and
will be eating leavened bread for the next 7
days.
We do this because God told us to do this, and didn't tell us
to stop doing this. There are commandments in the Torah which
cannot be followed since there is no longer a temple, including the
sacrificial system. Jesus was the fulfillment of that
sacrificial system since he was the perfect sinless lamb that was
sacrificed for us. However, I don't see a justification in
the scripture for abandoning everything else God told us to do, his
expectations for how we are to live and interact with Him, how we
are to show that we love Him.
I don't have all this figured out, but I'm trying to simply
follow the Bible and not traditions of men, both of which we were
told to do by Jesus.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against
such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus
have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:22-24 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Galatians%205:22-24&version=ESV
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Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in
everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not
pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they
may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
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Jokes
Finland is closing its border, no one gets across the Finnish
line