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the i.r.a.d. thing

2/25/2020

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         The I.R.A.D. Thing…

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hosea 4:6 
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Isaiah 1:3 

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Jeremiah 4:22
 
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (Colossians 3:16)

TODAY'S: "THE I.R.A.D. THING..." IS A CONTINUATION of yesterday’s “Review…” article.
So, how do we best learn the Word of God? When I began searching to nail down the practical principles of learning, I had no idea what I was looking for. The first clue I found was in an Air Force Manual written not long after World War 2. A school mate who had been in the Air Force gave it to me.

BURIED IN THE HALF-INCH PAPERBACK AIR FORCE MANUAL was a summary statement that said: “Learning relates strongly to 1. Impression 2. Repetition, and 3. Association.” At the time, I didn’t know I had found the essential principles of learning. Somebody in the Air Force was a sharp cookie! After thinking about it for forty years, I decided that we should add one more part: 4. Desire. More on this, later.


THE FIRST I.R.A.D. PRINCIPLE OF LEARNING is IMPRESSION. The stronger the impression, the less you have to repeat it and the longer it lasts, up to a lifetime. The second principle of learning is REPETITION. The weaker the impression, the more often the experience must be repeated. The third principle of learning is: ASSOCIATION. If you can associate or relate a new thing to an older, already learned experience, if will help you to recall the new thing learned.

THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE OF LEARNING (I am adding) is: DESIRE. You may want to repeat these four things, out loud, to set them in your mind. WARNING: If you have no interest in learning, this whole article will whiz by you and you will have gained nothing. So, stop right here and break down IRAD. Repeat each letter and its word several times. I-R-A-D. IMPRESSION – REPETITION – ASSOCIATION – DESIRE. One word to remember (IRAD). Repeat it throughout the day for 30 days.

THE PROPHETS, APOSTLES AND JESUS ALL TOLD STORIES to reinforce their message. So, I will give some eyewitness accounts to reinforce our theme for today. 

MOST (IF NOT ALL) STATES IN AMERICA HAVE A LAW OF COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. When 63 churches and their pastors, in the 1980’s were at war with the State of North Carolina over the laws that related us to the State, the then State Director of Non-public schools, Calvin Criner, shared with us that law can require
school attendance but cannot require education. “You can spend all the money you want to, but you can’t make Johnny read if Johnny doesn’t want to read.” The N.C. Constitution said that all children of school age “…shall attend the public school unless educated by other means.” 

THAT HAS BEEN IN THE N.C. CONSTITUTION from soon after the end of the Civil War (April 9, 1865). The assumption was that if a child attended school, he/she would “become educated.” TRUTH: Education may or may not take place. But, there’s no enforcement of a child to be educated.  There IS enforcement on attending school.


THE MAIN REASON IS SIMPLE: you cannot educate a child against his/her will. Since parents are responsible by law for school attendance, that exercise can be measured, and the parent can be fined or imprisoned if it is not carried out. But a parent cannot be fined or imprisoned if the child is not educated. It is too hard to define and too hard to carry out.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, RUDOLPH FLESCH WROTE A BOOK:  “Why Johnny Can’t Read.” It created a storm of agreement and protest. In a few years, he wrote another book: “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read.” (I bought and read both books. He was on Johnny’s side.)
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=book+why+johnny+can%27t+read&ref=nb_sb_noss 

THESE BOOKS CAN STILL BE PURCHASED AT AMAZON, and…..a whole string of books on Why Johnny can’t do this and that. Seems Johnny is having trouble all over the place and people are trying to fix Johnny. Check out the link above to see the available books. (Mr. Rudolph listed several things that hinder Johnny from learning.)


PUBLIC SCHOOLS, CHURCH SCHOOLS, AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS are not held accountable for education. But they are held accountable for feeding into the schools, certain educational efforts and for keeping school attendance records. I learned this in the court room and the N.C. Legislature where I spent many months, full-time, mixing with the powers-that-be.

THE ABOVE PARAGRAPHS HAVE PRACTICAL MEANING in this article in that God will not make us submit to Him against our will. God will not make us hear, read, study, memorize or meditate on the Word of God against our will even though God has commanded us to do these things. If we don’t want to obey God, He won’t make us. We have to want to. We have to be willing. This article today is an appeal to you (and a reminder to me) to obey God and embrace His Word. We don’t have to. We can wait and explain to Him why we didn’t obey Him.
 

THE AIR FORCE MANUAL NEEDED POINT 4 IN THEIR PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING. Who am I to be so forward in advising them? The Air Force is a bastion of precision. That’s the way the pilots successfully carry out missions and return home to sleep in their beds. But I do think that if the U.S. Air Force is still printing that book and teaching from it, they should add “desire” to the three elements of learning.

WOULD I HAVE READ THE AIR FORCE BOOK IF I HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY developed a keen interest in “how do we learn?”  In observing people (and myself) it is clear that people learn what they are interested in. We learn what we desire to learn. Why does America read the comic-cartoon page in newspapers? Because we want to read it. Desire. I still remember Dagwood smacking his neighbor, Herb Woodley in the mouth with a wet paint brush because Herb was such a nuisance. Out of all the years of reading the comic page, I remember that one. One other: Blondie answered the phone and talked for an hour. Dagwood asked: “Who was that?” She: “I don’t know. It was a wrong number.”

I TAUGHT PIANO FOR 25 YEARS TO AN AVERAGE OF 20-25 STUDENTS and for a few years taught class music to a thousand students per week. I led class music by walking around in the room among them and taught them from what I had memorized. Some of them learned and performed well and some of them survived the best way they could until it was over, and learned little, if anything.
 

IN PRIVATE LESSONS, JOHNNY OR JANE WAS ON MY PIANO BENCH because they wanted to be there or because Mama wanted them to be there. If the student wanted to be there, learning was a breeze. If piano was Mama’s project, it was slow and difficult and nigh on to impossible.

IMPRESSION: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. While I was enrolled in the Homestead High School at Crossville, TN, four of us decided that we needed a day in the pool hall at Crossville, 4 miles away. On the set day, we got off our bus and quietly made our way off campus and stood by the side of the road. Traffic was light. An old International pickup moseyed down the road at about 25 m.p.h. We thumbed him and he stopped. A 1939 International pickup DID NOT have a big plush cab. Two passengers and maybe a third. There were four of us plus the driver. The driver had a comfortable space between him and his door.  
 
THE OTHERS SCOOTED INTO THE CAB AND I WAS THE LAST ONE IN. Fine. Now, all we had to do was to close the door, which was a heavy, clunky thing. I reached out for the door, braced my feet on the floor, and positioned my left hand inside the cab above the door opening. At the same time, I pulled the door with all my strength to slam it hard. The door slammed and closed tight. The farmer, an older man, revved up the engine and the truck began to move. I had felt the pain, but it hadn’t hit me yet. When I tried to bring my left hand down into my lap, my hand wouldn’t come down.
 
MY THUMB WAS CAUGHT OVERHEAD IN THE DOOR, UP TO THE FIRST KNUCKLE. I opened the door, removed my thumb, and slammed the door again. We were all excited! We were on our way! We were going to play hooky from school and shoot pool all day! But I had a secret. My mind was no longer on shooting pool. The feeling had come back into my flat thumb, and the feeling was 100% PAIN! I quickly decided to “man-up” and not complain about it. At Crossville, we asked to get out at the pool hall.
 
I KEPT MY HAND IN MY POCKET TO KEEP IT WARM. I played pool a little, but mostly I concentrated on my thumb, which was throbbing…bad! I discovered I should NOT put my hand in my pocket, but to hold it up at chest level. Time to hitch-hike back to school to catch our busses. One of the fellows suggested I go see the principal: Mrs. Looney. I did and showed her my purple thumb. She looked and winced. “I caught it in a door,” I told her. I told her the truth: sort of. It was a door. It just happened to be a truck door. In her mind, she thought it was one of the heavy wooden school doors.
 
MRS. LOONEY HAD A RAZOR BLADE IN HER DESK DRAWER. She wiped it clean, poured some alcohol on it, and I extended my thumb to her. She placed my hand on the corner of her desk, and with the skill of a surgeon, at an angle she sliced through my thumb nail at the cuticle, reversed the angle and made another cut to remove a V of nail. With the last cut, a spurt of purple blood shot up and oozed all over.
 
SHE WIPED IT OFF WITH A KLEENEX, took my thumb in her fingers and squeezed it until all the purple blood was out of it. Immediately! All the pain was GONE! “She has done this before,” I thought. I did not expect such immediate relief. I came close to hugging her, but she was a dignified lady and I didn’t dare. Somehow, the playing hooky thing just went away. Not a single teacher marked us “absent” that day. We got back in time to catch our busses home. I had trouble milking the cow that day and for a couple of weeks.
 
NOW THEN. DO YOU THINK I HAD TO LOOK IN A FILE DRAWER and find some notes to tell this story? I tell you; I did not need any notes! I can see the whole thing just like it happened 70 years ago. BECAUSE…the IMPRESSION of that experience was so intense, so vivid, so deeply recorded that I did not have to repeat it to remember it.
 
I ALSO REMEMBER A LATER TIME WHEN I WAS MILKING OLD RED. She did a lightening kick and brought her split hoof down onto the rim of the bucket of milk. I had my finger under the bucket bail so I could snatch the bucket away from a fast kick. NOT GOOD! Her split hoof was split over the rim of the bucket and she was leaning hard on the bucket to keep from falling. With all my might, I pushed back with my head and shoulder in her flank and got her weight off that bucket bail…and retrieved my finger. I know for sure which finger it was and I don’t need to watch a video to remember it. IMPRESSION! The stronger the impression, the less often it has to be repeated to remember it. This is how learning works. It also works that way in Bible study.
 
MANY (most?) HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES HAVE A HARD TIME their first year in college because they have not learned how to study. They have not learned how to extract the important points from the textbook, how to make notes, and how to store them into the brain for the upcoming test.  The notes should summarize the textbook and the notes should be studied by repeating the notes OUT LOUD! I learned this from memorizing Scripture. It helped me a lot when I found the laws of learning.
 
WHEN WE HEAR, READ, STUDY, MEMORIZE AND MEDITATE on the Word of God, the first impression will be slight, and we will have to repeat the verses many times until they are etched into our brains. And as we etch the Word of God into our brains, we decide if we will take it to heart and submit to all we understand. Hiding the Word in our heads is not the same as hiding the Word in our hearts. I.R.A.D. is there for you to use, anytime you want to take advantage of it. Now then, can you look at I.R.A.D. and say the four words? And be careful about closing truck doors and milking the family cow.
 

Good Verses To Memorize:
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 6:6-7

Read Through the Bible in a Year 
FEBRUARY 25, 2020 - TUESDAY
 A.M. Numbers 14-15    P.M. Mark 6:1-32    
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Song for Today: 
Victory in Jesus
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1st-2nd Grades -Calvary Christian School – Southern Pines, NC
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IT'S TIME FOR A REVIEW

2/22/2020

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It's Time for a Review…

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 6:6-7

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;  Deuteronomy 4:9
 

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T’S TIME FOR ME TO REVIEW ALL MY BIBLE VERSES, Genesis-Revelation, and to select a few new verses to add to them. I haven’t done this in a while and I’m ashamed of myself. There are at least 100 verses on prayer that I need to focus on this year. I’m 85 but I still need to review and learn. I hope you will join me in reviewing all the verses you know and add a few new verses. Have you ever done this? Please do it.

YOU PROBABLY KNOW MORE VERSES THAN YOU THINK. At least, you know significant phrases from verses. If you know some Bible phrases, look them up and copy the complete verse. I urge you to compile all the verses you know (use paper, half-3x5 cards, or computer). It may take you several months. As I said, above, include the verses that you only know in part. Look them up and finish writing the verse.

YOU WILL DO BETTER ON HALF-3x5 CARDS with lines on one side (opinion). Staples Office Supply (or similar store) will sell you the cards and cut them in half for you at a reasonable price. If you don’t have an office supply in your town, cut a template: 3 ½ x 2 ½ from a cereal box and lay it on top of a 3x5 card and cut with scissors, one at a time. Depending on the scissors you’re are using, you may need to trim the 2 ½” template down slightly to make room for the bevel on the scissors when you are cutting the cards.  You may not need to trim it.

IF ALL OF THIS IS TOO MUCH, LET ME KNOW and I’ll cut some for you. I have a commercial paper cutter that will cut it right. I would need to cut them a pack at a time (100 3x5 cards). Suggested colors: bright/neon green, bright/neon pink, canary yellow, white.

I USE THE BRIGHT-GREEN (NEON) COLOR.The colored cards are easier to find if I lay them down somewhere in the house. Pink? Canary yellow? White? Use a color you like. You can also get cards at Amazon.com. Go to the link below and scroll down. Amazon’s Choice or Oxford, 100 or 1,000 cards.
 
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=3x5+index+card&crid=2PPL4EXU9KPBH&sprefix=3x5%2Cprime-instant-video%2C158&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_3

AVOID BLUE BECAUSE THE COLOR CONTRAST between card and ink is weaker and a little harder to read. Use medium black ball-point pen or Sharpie extra-fine point.

LATER, I MAY TYPE THE CARDS ON WHITE Half-3x5 CARDS. I still have the typewriter I started typing on when I was five (1935 Royal). It’s fun and is good finger exercise.

NONE OF THE ABOVE VERSES WERE EVER READ IN MY HOME or in any of the several churches I attended. I was almost 20 years old before I “stumbled” over the verses that commends us and commands us to take in the Word of God. I found them as I read through the Old Testament.
 
I RECKON NOBODY, INCLUDING MY SEVERAL PASTOR/PREACHERS, had ever gotten this far in their Bible reading. Or, maybe some read the verses and thought everyone else knew about them. We didn’t! I didn’t! I had never heard or read these verses. You’ve caught me. I was not a Bible reader. If I had been reading my Bible through, I would have found these verses sooner. You think?
 
PREACHERS AND BIBLE READERS TEND TO FOCUS on the New Testament and avoid the Old Testament altogether. BIG MISTAKE! “The New Testament is in the Old contained; and the Old Testament is in the New, explained.”

FINDING THESE OLD TESTAMENT VERSES SHOOK ME UP! “But, that’s in the OLD TESTAMENT!”  Uh huh. But Colossians 3:1i6, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 4:10, Ephesians 6:17, 1Peter 2:1,2, 2Timothy 3:15, 2Timothy 2:15, 2Peter 3:15, Romans 15:4, are in the New Testament and they are ignored as well as the Old Testament. Few preachers use these verses. That puzzles me. I’ve wondered if it’s because they do not practice it themselves.
 
PAUL FERGUSON TOLD ME that when he was corresponding with Dr. John R. Rice about Paul’s preparation for preaching, Dr. Rice said: “Be sure and memorize a lot of Scripture. Preachers tend to be lazy about memorizing Scripture and that makes their preaching weak.”
 
SO, PAUL FERGUSON TOOK IT TO HEART AND BEGAN MEMORIZING Scripture. Over time, he memorized over 8,000 verses. His sermons were mostly Scripture, fastened together with an outline. He had been beat up so many times on his head in the boxing ring that he couldn’t memorize. One night he was on his knees in a dark room, praying for God to help him with memorizing. After a while, a light shone from the ceiling (there was no light there) and God spoke to him in his spirit: “There now, I have fixed you so you can memorize.” From that day forward, he could memorize normally.
 
DR.LEE ROBERSON, WHO WROTE THE FOREWORD TO THE BOOK: “Paul Ferguson the Fighter” did not have a problem with Paul’s claim. There are 31,173 verses and 1,189 chapters in the King James Bible. PaulFerguson memorized a fourth of the Bible. Jack Van Impe (who died recently at 88) memorized 11,000.
 
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND (1940-45 and 1951-55) is famous for saying: “Men occasionally stumble over the truth. But most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened.”

IN BIBLE COLLEGE THEY TOLD US TO BUY A PACK OF 3X5 CARDS and cut them in half and write our verses on the cards and put a rubber band around them. Ok. Got it! Cards, rubber band, write the verses, go over the verses, say them out loud, say them to anybody who will listen to you. I still didn’t have the big picture of what learning was all about. We studied to pass the upcoming tests: weekly, six weeks, semester. But with the Word of God, you want to keep it for life.

IT FINALLY DAWNED ON ME THAT IT TAKES 60 DAYS of daily review to learn a Bible verse. And then, you review it monthly for a year. And then you review it every year for the rest of your life. Reviewing enables you to spot the weak verses and throw them back into daily review for a while. I DID NOT learn that in college. I learned it from another teaching group, the NAVIGATORS.

IN SCHOOL, I BECAME AWARE OF A GROUP OF NAVY VETERANS on campus who had gone through the NAVIGATORS TOPICAL MEMORY COURSE in California or in a war zone. I began asking them questions and they invited me to their next meeting, and I joined them. Through the NAVIGATORS, I began a diligent study of 108 verses printed on little cards in a carrying case. We met for an hour, once a month on Thursday. There were 36 topics and three verses on each topic. From them, I learned: HOW TO LEARN AND RETAIN WHAT I HAD LEARNED. Here is their website:
 
https://www.navigators.org/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_Le6ud_h5wIVBJSzCh3EfwyvEAAYASAAEgJwj_D_BwE
Inside, scroll down to the dark section that contains a white circle with a triangle inside it. Click on the circle and watch the short video.
 
TRUTH IS, FOR $2.00, (STUDENT RATE IN 1953) I had learned how to turn short-term learning into life-time learning. I will be coming back to this encounter many times as we study God’s method of learning His Word. Other good writers are: Oscar Lowry, Norm Lewis, Ron Hood, Lorne Sanny. Jack Van Impe memorized 11,000 verses. I led singing for him in a meeting. But, as far as I know, he did not write anything on memorizing. I picked his brain for a week and learned some good things to add to what others have practiced. More on him at a later time.

FOLLOWING THIS AMAZING ENCOUNTER WITH “How to do It,” I continued to search for and read every book, booklet, and pamphlet I could find. After 40+ years of searching, reading and experimenting, I concluded that I had found the best there is. The NAVIGATORS is the best entry level of memorizing and studying the Word of God. I urge you to search out their website (link above).

THIS ARTICLE IS A ROUGH SUMMARY of the best I learned in 40 years of searching. There remains the IRA thing that I will explore in a following article. 

DAWSON TROTMAN, WHO FOUNDED THE NAVIGATORS, came to Tennessee Temple to speak in chapel. It so happened that I was scheduled to sing in chapel that day. Dawson Trotman died in a boating accident at a Bible camp. He was trying to rescue a camper who had fallen overboard into the lake.

•THESE WORDS: Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,  (1Peter 2:1) 
•COME BEFORE: As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1Peter 2:2)
 

Read Through the Bible in a Year 
FEBRUARY 21, 2020 - FRIDAY
 A.M. Numbers 5-6    P.M. Mark 4:1-20
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Good Verses to Memorize:
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 6:6-7

Song for Today: 
Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart
The Claremont Kids
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the milk and meat of the word

2/18/2020

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          The Milk and Meat of the Word

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?  (1Corinthians 3:2-4)

“HOW TO BE SAVED" and “How to live after we’re saved” needs to be clear. In a world that is exploding in population and swimming in immorality, some church leaders are trying to make the Gospel of Christ as easy as possible to attract as many people as they can. But Jesus said, up front: … If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. (Luke 9:23)

JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JESUS both preached out of the Old Testament, because there was no other testament to preach from. They both preached repentance (a change of mind that results in a change of behavior). Paul summarized his preaching: Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 20:21

RECENTLY, I LEARNED THAT A “respected name” pastor in Atlanta, Georgia has given up preaching from the Old Testament and does all of his preaching out of the New Testament. He’s tired of defending the Old Testament against all the accusations brought against it.
 
JESUS NEVER PAINTED AN EASY, ROSY PATH: And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  (Luke 9:23) This is up front! The cross is an instrument of death and He is saying that we are to embrace the cross daily. “If you accept me, this is what you are getting into.” His disciples had a hard time getting it.
 
LIVING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE INCLUDES the assembling of ourselves together for feeding and fellowship, but it also includes death to self and being alive unto God. It doesn’t take much to stop a surface believer, one whose commitment is barely skin deep. It has always been that way. In the above verse (Luke 9:23) Jesus was giving us the attitude we are to have if we are going to follow Christ. I memorized this verse in 1953.
 
SOMETIMES THERE IS A BIG COVER-UP of the real Gospel. God will save people in the hog pen but loves them too much to leave them there, wallowing in the mud. Getting saved is like being converted from a hog into a sheep. The nature of a hog is to wallow in the mud and filth. The nature of a sheep is to leave the hog pen and get on high, dry ground. God requires that we accept Christ as Savior and Lord. We are to repent of our sins and put our faith in the finished work of Christ on the Cross. HE WILL NOT ACQUIT THE GUILTY. ACQUIT means to count one as not guilty of sin. He will not count as His own, those who persist willfully in sin. When we are saved, we have two opposing natures and they are at war with each other.
 
PETER SAID: As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1Peter 2:2) We understand that. What a nice thought that a Christian must begin with the milk of the Word. He says it is to be sincere milk. I once read that in Roman pottery shops, the glazed vessels would sometimes come out of the kiln with a hairline crack. To cover up the crack, they would rub the vase with a wax that would make it hard to detest the crack until after it was sold. To counter this cheap trick, merchants began labeling their perfect vases with the word sincere (meaning: without wax).
 
•These words: Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,  (1Peter 2:1) 
•come before: As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1Peter 2:2)
 
Read Through the Bible in a Year 
FEBRUARY 19, 2019 - WEDNESDAY
 A.M. Numbers 1-2  P.M. Mark 3:1-21
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Good Verse to Memorize:
And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.  (Luke 19:40)

Song for Today: 
Let the Rocks Cry Out (2:48) (Calvary Memorial Church)
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