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                    [065].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – EARTH IS GOING TO REAP ITS SINFULNESS
“You will get what you deserve!”  “I hope you get into lots of trouble.”  These may be the sayings of children and the thoughts of adults.  What they are all looking to is retribution.  Retribution is usually associated with
                    
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                    NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS
Archbishop Desmond Tutu cited the crucifixion as his inspiration. Tutu, daily living in the shadow of apartheid, said that the newly empowered South African blacks readily forgave their white persecutors, because they followed "the Jewish rabbi who, when he was
                    
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                    Contributed by Thomas Donelan on Aug 4, 2010
                
                
                
                    	He wanted to get out from out of the sphere of his father’s influence. Think about it, every year we get flooded in Florida for about a week or so every year with a bunch of college students for a thing called “spring break” and these kids go out and get drunk, do drugs, get their groove on, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 28, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Henry Blackaby -On Tsumani
Blackaby says natural disasters can point to God’s judgment 
By Ken Walker 
Baptist Press 
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The author of the bestselling "Experiencing God" study thinks divine retribution was at work in the tsunami that struck southern Asia in late December.
Henry
                    
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                    Walter Kaiser’s article on “where Job’s friends went wrong about suffering” is very interesting. In the article, Kaiser identifies eight types of suffering mentioned in the Bible.
1.	retributive suffering (caused by sin and disobedience to God)
2.	educational or disciplinary suffering (as in
                    
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                    Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 28, 2017
                
                
                
                    Janez Rus lived in Germany during the days of the Nazi ruler Adolf Hitler. During that time he was a young shoemaker, looking to make his name prominent. Because of the power of the German government, he participated in public supports of the Nazi regime in hopes of gaining recognition. But after
                    
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                    Contributed by Jonathan  Busch on Jan 13, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When I was growing up my parents raised chickens.  Chickens have a very interesting social life.
Bill Hybels notes: "Take ten chickens, any ten. Put them in a pen together, and spread a little chicken feed. In short order, you will witness an amazing phenomenon. In a matter of minutes, the
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jan 4, 2008
                
                
                
                    You are probably aware that Corrie ten Boom, along with her sister and father, were sent to Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp, for hiding Jews.
Her sister and father died there, but Corrie was released, due to a “clerical error.”  And the Kingdom of God is better off for it.
Corrie ten Boom
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on May 12, 2010
                
                
                
                    Why did the Father will the death of his only beloved Son, and in so painful and shameful a form? Because the Father had “laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isa. 53:6). Jesus’ death was vicarious (undergone in our place) and atoning (securing remission of sins for us and reconciliation to God).
                    
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                    Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Dec 16, 2007
                
                
                
                    Just this past Thursday we learned the results of what is being called the "Mitchell" report.  For those of us who are baseball fans it was a pretty dark day.  Former Senator George Mitchell concluded his almost two year investigation into the game and released his conclusions and one of those
                    
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                    Jim Jones – He started out as a pastor and became deceived and it lead to the death of 100’s.
This was a Christian destructive, doomsday cult founded and led by James Warren Jones (1931-1978). Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University. He was not a Fundamentalist pastor
                    
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                    The story of Rick Warren and his best-selling book the "The Purpose Driven Life."
What is he doing with all the money?
USA Today article: June 4th 2006 edition:
A uniter, not a divider 
Warren is no liberal. He backed President Bush in the 2004 election and opposes abortion and stem cell
                    
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