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He wasn’t dead, just asleep.

If a man wakes up after a public and violent death and then walks within the community and meets with friends, then death has no power over him. He must be the Messiah, the son of God. What does such a person say when he meets with others.

Yeshua said to them,”Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them , “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven, if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”

About a week later his friends were fishing from a boat and Yeshua was on the shore, he called out to them;

“Children do you have any fish” No they answered.”Cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some”

When they landed the boat, they saw a charcoal fire in place, with fish laid on it and bread. Yeshua said “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught”..”Come and have some breakfast”

When he was on the Earth, he healed the sick, raised the dead, fed thousands, restored sight, stopped storms, walked on water, cast out demons and asked for nothing in return. He lived a modest life and rewarded kindness, yet he spoke with authority.

Through Yeshua we find a person who cares about the daily woes of his friends, and seeks to help them, when they are in need: despite being King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

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War?

How do you prepare for War?

During the recess of WW1 and WW2, could the German Jewish war veterans that fought for the German Army, have imagined that a new war was coming, that would destroy them, if it could. In those day’s Europe folded, now they follow the piper. These are new days.

In the second war, some unlikely alliances rose to survive; England, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the Old Commonwealth; then the Americans came to fight. As these quarters rested, new wars brewed and we often wonder, who lit the match. The Asian wars, the African wars and the Middle East. Nation against nation. Weapons, Hired Guns and Slaves are a thriving enterprise and someone is making a profit.

Refugees; homeless, all full of anxiety, rock in the ocean and await angry shores for a smile, a wave and a welcome new home. Could it be you, will it be you?

How do you prepare for war? Who are our friends, who is a spy? If the bully fails, are we safer or worse off? Do our blind guides know where they are going?

Will the garden idols save us? Who are the hired hands fighting for? Don’t lose your head, stay calm; why should we care?

How do you prepare for war? Will your house survive? Where will you hide? What will you wear? Can you make a fire, or plant a garden when the fuel and food are gone. Who will you pray too, when the bombs fall? Ask a refugee and ask how they survived a war.

 

The Top Ten

EASTER

For some it’s an annual 4 day Autumn weekend, mass exodus to the coast.

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For others, it is the EXODUS

It’s that Holy time of the year for Jews and Christians, Passover and  Resurrection rituals reminding the faithful of a power stronger than death. Revolutionary leaders such as Martin Luther King and Gandhi have drawn from these ancient beliefs to alter the fate of the future. The original set of Commandments were the moral compass for the refugees that were escaping slavery and dreaming of a better place.

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Moslems a branch of Abraham, Commandments: 1/47:19  2/14:35  3/2:24  4/62:9  5/17:23 6/5:32  7/17:32 8/5:38  9/2:283  10 20:131

Although Jews, Moslems and Christians are keen to point out their differences, the ‘top ten’ applies to them all.

1. CREATOR
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.”

2. NO IDOLS
“You shall not recognise other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.”

3. RESPECT
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.”

4. SATURDAY
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant, your animal or your stranger within your gates.”

5. PARENTS
“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.”

6. KILLING
“You shall not murder.”

7. CHEATING
“You shall not commit adultery.”

8 THEFT
“You shall not steal.”

9. SLANDER
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

10. ENVY 
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools” Matin Luther King

For Christians there was an add on.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.  By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

“The true measure of any society is how it treats it’s most vulnerable members” Gandhi

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EARTH IS A PRISON