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To: O'Hara who wrote (31550)	9/23/2000 12:38:12 AM
From: O'Hara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

><>...Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee...><> 1: How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2: My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 3: Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. 4: Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. 5: Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 6: Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7: They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 8: O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9: Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10: For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11: For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 12: O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

To: O'Hara who wrote (31550)	9/23/2000 12:48:30 AM
From: O'Hara	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

><>...Unbridled Affections..><> WHEN a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests,whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling evils; his spirit is weak, in a measure carnal and inclined to sensual things; he can hardly abstain from earthly desires. Hence it makes him sad to forego them; he is quick to anger if reproved. Yet if he satisfies his desires, remorse of conscience overwhelms him because he followed his passions and they did not lead to the peace he sought. True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them. There is no peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and spiritual man. Thomas A. kempis

To: O'Hara who wrote (31550)	9/23/2000 1:29:47 AM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Very aspiring platitudes from Mr. Kempis. To have reached the state of perfection he describes will not be attained in this life.(In my opinion) If God had meant for us to be living like the Saints in Heaven he would have totally separated us from what Paul describes as the law of sin within his members. Romans 7 "21I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! When I decide that I have arrived at that state of being, where sin no longer attracts me to live in the flesh, then I have lost the very small state of humility that is within me by the grace of God. My election in no way makes me feel higher than or better than the unsaved. I have absolutely no way of determining what God's will is for the unsaved as I am only allowed a glance no further than the end of my nose as to what God's final disposition is for anyone. Do not assume that the elect of God looks down on anyone or feels a position of superiority. Only true gratitude to God for his saving grace and the knowledge that he always keeps his promises to never let even an angel steal his chosen sheep from falling from grace. Now that position in God is something to bring praise to! May God fill you with grace and understanding, Take care, James