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"The Lord shall rule over you"

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Announcements › Forums › Unreality – October 7th, 2018 › "The Lord shall rule over you"

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  • October 3, 2018 at 8:51 am #7330
    Pilar Deblinger
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    I love this lesson selection of Judges and how Gideon responded to the adulation and requests from the Israelites that wanted to make him king. Their attempts to make a dynasty out of himself and his descendants was promptly refuted by him and his response “The Lord shall rule over you” is a warning? Advice? For the people not to seek worldly rulers but to seek the Lord’s rule. The world can never give us a just, loving ruler as the Lord Our God can be.

    Time and time again, throughout history this has been proved true, except perhaps for a few God fearing rulers the rest has only brought wars, dissent, poverty and oppression. The same can be said about Church leaders and sects, they become engorged with greed and abuses (rather than love and compassion) becomes the norm. Mary Baker Eddy was the only Church leader that had the courage to stand up and start a religion that would follow in the footsteps of the first Christians and command of Christ Jesus “healing the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons.”

    Thank you for this Lesson.

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