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        <p>Written by: Paul Drockton<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One
thing that all Christians need to understand is that God is not
influenced by our decisions or values. We are influenced by His.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That
is, we can make all the laws we want to legalize sexual deviancy and
try and make it &quot;mainstream&quot; behavior. However, we will never get to
the point where honest men and women will reject their conscience and
values in favor of popularity and acceptance.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our
world is now in the hands of the Satanists and Luciferians. They have
bought it with their gold and silver. Better yet, they have bought it
through a system that forces us to pay them interest just for the
privilege of using their paper currency. With this interest, they now
lay claim to politicians, corporations, media outlets and our most
hallowed institutions.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They cannot, however, buy those things that state they are &quot;Not For Sale&quot;. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Everything
in life has its opposite. We have the Sun and we have the moon. We have
daytime and we have nighttime. We have light, and we have darkness.
Ultimately, we have good and we have evil.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The
rules of mortality state that you can only have good by personally
experiencing and rejecting the bad. I have learned many great truths,
but each and every one of them have come with a very steep price. Its
called &quot;Paying Your Dues&quot;.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For
example: When I lost my short-term memory in a car accident, I lost one
of the things that had the greatest value to me and my intellect. That
was bad. Or, so I thought. The reality is, by being unable to rely on
my physical mind, I was forced to humble myself and ask God for His
council on a frequent basis. I would not have survived without His
strengthening and encouragement. I would have learned nothing without
His inspiration.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I
learned that I could choose bitterness and self-destruction, or I could
use the experience to develop my latent spiritual abilities with God&#39;s
help. Opposition from great evil continues in my life, but through my
experiences, I have learned what is truly good and what is truly evil.
Now I can clearly judge between both without hesitation.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">God
ordained marriage in the Garden of Eden. It is His law that all men
should be loyal to that institution whether they are married or single.
He has also commanded men not to undermine the institution of marriage
between a man and a woman.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At
the same time, he has permitted some men and women to be tempted by
Same-Sex attraction. Some through multi-generational influences, some
through sexual abuse as a child and some through the influence of those
that practice homosexuality.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">These
tendencies can either be a blessing or a curse. By opposing them, a man
or woman eventually gains power over them, and develops a deeper
understanding of true good and true evil.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">By
embracing them, the man or woman rejects the good and is left to the
influence of that which is evil. The longer the evil influence remains,
the deeper the affinity for greater evil that manifests itself in the
behavior of the individual. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To Quote Paul in his Letter to the Romans:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><div id="rom/1/18"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">&quot;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">18 For the </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/18a" title="TG God, Indignation of." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">wrath</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/18b" title="JST Rom. 1: 18  . . .  who love not the truth, but remain in unrighteousness." type="H"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">who</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/18c" title="IE restrain the truth by unrighteousness." type="D"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">hold</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> the truth in </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/18d" title="TG Unrighteous Dominion." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">unrighteousness</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">;</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="19"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/19"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/19a" title="GR among, within." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">in</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> them; for God hath shewed </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> unto them.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="20"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/20"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  20 For the </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/20a" title="Acts 14: 17." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">invisible</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">even</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> his </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/20b" title="TG God, Eternal Nature of." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">eternal</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/20c" title="TG Jesus Christ, Power of." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">power</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="21"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/21"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  21 </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Because that, when they knew God, they glorified </span></span></span></strong><em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">him</span></span></span></strong></em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> not as God, neither were </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/21a" title="TG Ingratitude." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">thankful</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">; but became </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/21b" title="GR corrupt in their reasonings, deliberations; 2 Kgs. 17: 15." type="Q"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">vain</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> in their imaginations, and their </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/21c" title="Isa. 44: 20; Hosea 4: 12." type="A"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">foolish</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> heart was </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/21d" title="TG Darkness, Spiritual." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">darkened</span></span></span></strong></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="22"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/22"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  2</span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2 Professing themselves to be </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/22a" title="2 Ne. 9: 28; TG Learning." type="C"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">wise</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, they became fools,</span></span></span></strong></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="23"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/23"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  23 And changed the glory of the </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/23a" title="GR incorruptible, immortal." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">uncorruptible</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> God into an </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/23b" title="Ex. 32: 4." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">image</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> made like to </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/23c" title="GR (also) perishable." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">corruptible</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="24"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/24"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  24 </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wherefore God also </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/24a" title="Acts 7: 42." type="A"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">gave</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> them up to </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/24b" title="TG Uncleanness." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">uncleanness</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:</span></span></span></strong></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="25"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/25"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  25 </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen</span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="26"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/26"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  26</span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> For this cause God </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/26a" title="GR abandoned, delivered." type="P"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">gave</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> them up unto </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/26b" title="GR sufferings, passions of dishonor; 2 Tim. 3: 3." type="Q"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">vile</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/26c" title="Judg. 19: 22." type="A"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">affections</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">: for even their </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/26d" title="TG Woman." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">women</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> did change the natural use into that which is against nature:</span></span></span></strong></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="27"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/27"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  27 </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/27a" title="TG Homosexuality; TG Lust." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">lust</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">
one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.</span></span></span></strong></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="28"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/28"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I
saw this while reading Suetonius&#39;s &quot;The Twelve Caesars&quot;. Almost every
Roman Emperor was corrupted by the availability of sex on command. As
they grow more perverse and wicked, so did their sexual appetites.
Tiberius Caesar, a pedophile and bisexual enjoyed tyeing off the male
urethra until the victims bladder exploded. Then, he would throw them
off of a cliff.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Caligula,
Nero, etc., were even more perverted and eventually the only thing that
would satisfy their sexual lusts was the inclusion of bestiality,
torture, &quot;snuff&quot; sex (where the victim was throttled during the act) or
blood sacrifice.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Satan
is the opposite of God. Therefore, he is the opposite of good. He will
try and establish as many opposites to the truth as he possible can.
While God is Love, Satan is pure, unbridled lust. While God is Courage,
Satan is fear. God is high &quot;self-esteem&quot;. Satan is self-loathing. After
all, what does he have to be proud of? Last of all, while God is Life,
Satan is death.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Marriage
between a man and a woman is the only institution that is legal in
God&#39;s eyes. Ideally, it provides a nurturing environment for raising
children to be productive and stable adults. The destruction of
Marriage is one of Satan&#39;s primary goals.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Which
is why we have a Bible. So we don&#39;t have to make the same mistakes as
those many generations that have gone before us. Paul continues to
explain what happens to those that follow the homosexual lifestyle:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><div id="rom/1/28"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> 28 And even as they did not like to </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/28a" title="GR discern, choose." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">retain</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> God in </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">their</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> knowledge, God </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/28b" title="Ps. 81: 12." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">gave</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> them over to a </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/28c" title="GR worthless, unable to stand test." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">reprobate</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> mind, to do those things which are not convenient;</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="29"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/29"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  29 </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/29a" title="TG Wickedness." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">wickedness</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, covetousness, </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/29b" title="TG Malice." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">maliciousness</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">; full of envy, murder, </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/29c" title="GR strife, discord." type="P"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">debate</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/29d" title="TG Deceit." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">deceit</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, malignity; whisperers,</span></span></span></strong></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="30"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/30"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  30 </span></span></span><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/30a" title="GR Slanderers; TG Backbiting." type="R"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Backbiters</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, haters of God, </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/30b" title="GR violent, overbearing." type="P"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">despiteful</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/30c" title="TG Pride." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">proud</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/30d" title="TG Boasting; TG Haughtiness." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">boasters</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, inventors of evil things, </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">e</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/30e" title="TG Disobedience; TG Family, Children, Duties of." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">disobedient</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> to parents,</span></span></span></strong></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="31"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/31"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  31 </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Without </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/31a" title="TG Understanding." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">understanding</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:</span></span></span></strong></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="32"></a></span></span></span><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  32 </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/32a" title="TG Capital Punishment." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">death</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, not only do the same, but </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/32b" title="GR approve of them, sympathize with them." type="P"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">have</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/rom/rom/1/32c" title="Jer. 5: 31." type="A"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">pleasure</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> in them that do them.</span></span></span></strong></div><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></div><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So,
according to the Scripture, those that embrace the homosexual lifestyle
and participate in it will be unable to experience the opposite of
lust, which is love. He also calls them implacable. So, no matter how
many concessions a society or religion makes to homosexuals, it will
never be enough. </span></span></strong></span></div><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></div><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They
will only seek after the legalization of greater and greater
perversions. We are seeing that right now with movements towards
Man-Child sex, incest, beastiality etc. Lust is never satiated and
never satisfied.</span></span></strong></span></div><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></div><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The
Old Testament is replete with warnings and judgements to those who
embraced the practice of &quot;sodomy&quot;. It was one of the major reasons that
ancient Israel lost God&#39;s protection:</span></span></strong></span></div><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></div><div id="rom/1/32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><div id="isa/1/4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4 Ah </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/4a" title="TG Man, Natural, Not Spiritually Reborn." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">sinful</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/4b" title="Isa. 57: 4." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">children</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> that are </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/4c" title="D&amp;C 38: 11 (10-12)" type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">corrupters</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">: they have forsaken the </span></span></span><span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant: small-caps;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lord</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/4d" title="TG Anger." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">anger</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, they are gone away backward.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="5"></a></span></span></span><div id="isa/1/5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  5 ¶ Why should ye be </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/5a" title="HEB smitten." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">stricken</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> any more? ye will </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/5b" title="TG Rebellion." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">revolt</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/5c" title="HEB diseased." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">faint</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="6"></a></span></span></span><div id="isa/1/6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">there is</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> no soundness in it; </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/6a" title="HEB squeezed out." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">closed</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, neither bound up, neither </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/6b" title="HEB softened." type="P"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">mollified</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> with ointment.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="7"></a></span></span></span><div id="isa/1/7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  7 Your </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/7a" title="Deut. 28: 51 (51-52)" type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">country</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">is</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/7b" title="Jer. 9: 11; Micah 3: 12; 2 Ne. 13: 8." type="A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">desolate</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, your cities </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">are</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> burned with fire: your land, </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/7c" title="TG Israel, Scattering of." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">strangers</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> devour it in your presence, and </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">it is</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> desolate, as overthrown by strangers.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="8"></a></span></span></span><div id="isa/1/8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/8a" title="TG Vineyard of the Lord." type="B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">vineyard</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, as </span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/8b" title="IE a watchman’s hut." type="D"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="hilite" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="9"></a></span></span></span><div id="isa/1/9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  9 </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Except the </span></span></span></strong><span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant: small-caps;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lord</span></span></span></strong></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> of hosts had left unto us a very small </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/9a" title="TG Israel, Remnant of." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">remnant</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, we should have been as </span></span></span></strong><span class="searchword"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sodom</span></span></span></strong></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span></span></span></strong><em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and</span></span></span></strong></em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> we should have been like unto Gomorrah.</span></span></span></strong></div></div></div><div class="hilite" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="10"></a></span></span></span><div id="isa/1/10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  10 ¶ </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hear the word of the </span></span></span></strong><span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant: small-caps;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lord</span></span></span></strong></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, ye rulers of </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/1/isa/1/10a" title="Ezek. 16: 46 (44-55)" type="A"><span class="searchword"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sodom</span></span></span></strong></span></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.</span></span></span></strong></div></div></div></span></strong></span></div></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In fact, Satan and his followers are guilty of these same sins! It was one of the reasons they were cast out of God&#39;s presence:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><div id="jude/1/6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  </span></span></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6 And the </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/6a" title="TG Angels; TG Death, Spiritual, First; TG Devil; TG Sons of Perdition; TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">angels</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> which kept not their </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/6b" title="TG Man, Antemortal Existence of." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">first</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/6c" title="Abr. 3: 26 (24-28)" type="A"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">estate</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/6d" title="TG Judgment, The Last." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">judgment</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> of the great day.</span></span></span></strong></div></div><div class="hilite" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="7"></a></span></span></span></strong><div id="jude/1/7"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">  7 Even as </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/7a" title="Gen. 19: 24; 2 Pet. 2: 6 (1-9)" type="A"><span class="searchword"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sodom</span></span></span></strong></span></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/7b" title="TG Fornication." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">fornication</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, and going after </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">c</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/7c" title="TG Homosexuality." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">strange</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> flesh, are set forth for an </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/7d" title="TG Example." type="B"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">example</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, suffering the </span></span></span></strong><sup><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">e</span></span></span></strong></sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jude/1/jude/1/7e" title="D&amp;C 76: 105; TG Punishment." type="C"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">vengeance</span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> of eternal fire.  (Jude 1)</span></span></span></strong></div></div></div><div class="verse" style="padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a name="8" style="color: rgb(64, 99, 157);"></a></span></span><div id="jude/1/8">   </div></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Satan
is the opposite of God. His modern day followers, that now govern this
world, trace their history back to military religious orders where
homosexuality was permitted and encouraged. They justify their behavior
on the fact that Sparta, their ideal military state, also encouraged
this practice among its soldiers.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When you think about it, the bloodiest murderers are the ones that are without natural affection for their fellow man.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There is no virtue in vice.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><span style="color: #669922">JOSEPH</span> </span></p>
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<div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><strong>Read Genesis 37</strong><br /><br /><em>Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.</em> Genesis 37:3–4 NIV<br /></span>
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<div style="text-align: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em">Jacob and Rachel waited many years before Rachel conceived. By then, Jacob already had sons by his wife Leah and their two maidservants, Zilpah and Bilhah. Rachael&#39;s firstborn, Joseph quickly became his father&#39;s favorite. This special treatment of the younger son caused resentment and hatred, particularly by the sons of Jacob&#39;s concubines. Jacob must have forgotten the pain of his own father&#39;s preferential love for Esau, for now he was repeating the pattern. Both Isaac and Jacob suffered the loss of a son because of favoritism. Jacob had to flee to his relatives and Joseph was sold into slavery in Egypt. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em">Lord, help us to avoid comparing our children or grandchildren in an unfavorable way. Give us sensitivity to the feelings of each child and the ability to appreciate his or her unique personality and abilities. I pray like the Psalmist, &quot;<em>Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.&quot;</em> (Psalm 19:12, 14 NKJV)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><em>Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted.… Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh&#39;s officials.<br /></em>Genesis 37:34–36 NIV </span></div></div>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <p>We had a fun time at church this Halloween.&#160; It was supposed to be a &quot;Trunk or Treat&quot;, but we got rained out.&#160; So, we set up tables in the fellowship hall, and invited people in to go &quot;trick-or-treat&quot; from table to table.&#160; We also had a Jack-o-lantern pinata for the kids.&#160; We turned out the lights and had all our pumpkins out &amp; glowing that we had carved at the pumpkin carving the night before.&#160; It was lots of fun!&#160; Here&#39;s a few pics...</p>
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        <title>The Land of the Lost</title>   
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        <p>Skip if you don&#39;t want to read a grizzly tale.</p><p>I read a news article the other day about a young woman who disappeared on her way home from work. A search was taken, but she couldn&#39;t be found. About a week later, a person hunting mushrooms in the mountains found a severed head and called the police, who later identified it as the missing woman&#39;s. According to police reports, it appears that the head was placed there after being severed from the body elsewhere, and the body has yet to be found. She was just 19, her whole life ahead of her, trying to pay for college.</p><p>I don&#39;t know why, but I can&#39;t shake this story. Life is so meaningless to so many people. The other person is nothing more than a doll or mannequin, waiting to be abused. Media around the world glorifies the suffering of others, treats it as entertainment. But I don&#39;t think that&#39;s why I can&#39;t stop thinking about this story, not this time.</p><p>When I think of what nation this horrific crime occurred in, I can&#39;t help but see it as an inevitable outcome of their hopelessness and emptiness. It is the only place I have been where I have felt an overwhelming spiritual darkness and every smile and shining eye hides a desperate soul screaming to find meaning. They have ups and downs, happiness and sadness, like everyone else, but it is empty. And they know it. They try to fill the emptiness and find meaning with financial/educational success, ritual activities (both religious and secular), and doing everything to perfection, but in the end none of it satisfies. Suicide is commonplace as an escape from the endless rat-race. All because they are missing one thing.</p><p>Hope.</p><p>I write with one place in mind, but really this applies to the entire globe. My heart goes out to this specific place, though. Beautiful people, beautiful traditions and culture, desperate for the hope of Christ. I wonder why they have been hesitant to believe? What is the missing piece of the puzzle?<br /></p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Transexualising Jesus?</title>   
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        <title>Was Jesus a &#39;Leftie&#39;?</title>   
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        <title>Canvas: The Battle Within Part 2</title>   
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Tonight was a night full of fun and rejoicing. We started of with a super fun game of &quot;Balloon Battle&quot;. Daniel and I blew up 120 balloons and broke the teens up into four groups. The teams need to protect their balloons while trying to pop the other teams balloons. Needless to say the kids had a blast and balloon shapnal was every where. After games and a AWESOME time of worship lead by Pastor Ben, we headed down to the church sanctuary to witness one of our youth group guys get baptized! He made a commitment before the Lord and all of Canvas to live his life for Christ. It was amazing to be there at that moment in his life. The teens cheered and clap has he was baptized. What a wonderful choice for a young man to take in his life. So proud!</p>
    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
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Tonight was week two on the Battle Within. Here is what Pastor Dan taught on:</p><p>Bottom Line: Every time you’re tempted, your confidence in God is at stake, not just your self-control.</p><p>When
facing temptation, it seems like it’s always about the choice, the
decision, the temptation. But it’s always about more than that. It’s
not just your reputation or your innocence that’s at stake—it’s your
confidence in God. The lure of temptation makes us question whether we
can really trust God to come through for us, to be there for us, to
provide for us. We begin to think He’s not in our corner, that He’s not
looking out for us. But what if we began to see Him there? What if we
realized that whatever is luring us away really has nothing to do with
what we think it’s about, and there’s a deeper issue, a trust issue, at
work? It might completely weaken the pull of that temptation, and it
might help us get to the heart of what is really going on. </p><p>Scripture References: Matthew 4:1-4; Deuteronomy 8:3, 11-14,17</p><p>When you stop trusting, you stop obeying. And when you stop obeying, eventually you stop believing.<div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00cd96fff6f44cd50123ddce804b860c 6a00cd96fff6f44cd50123f17848d1860f 6a00cd96fff6f44cd50123ddce802e860c 6a00cd96fff6f44cd50123dde228e7860d" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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        <title>THROUGH THE BIBLE - Genesis</title>   
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        <h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://devotionalprayerjournal.blogspot.com/2008/04/wrestling-with-god.html"><span style="color: #669922">[15] </span></a></h3>
<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="color: #669922">WRESTLING WITH GOD</span> </h3>
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<div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><strong>JACOB&#39;S BLESSING</strong><br /></span><strong><br /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em">Read Genesis 31–32</span></strong><br /><strong><br /></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><em>Then Jacob prayed, &quot;O God …“I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant.”</em> Genesis 32:9a, 10a NIV<br /></span>
<div style="text-align: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em">* * *</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em">After years of hardship and deception by Laban, God miraculously increased Jacob’s wealth, and caused Laban to allow him to leave. Then, alone at night, after sending his family on ahead, God once again spoke to Jacob… A man approached him and they began to fight. Jacob wrestled all night long–evidently realizing this was a heavenly visitor. <em>Jacob said to him, &quot;I will not let you go unless you bless me.&quot; The man asked him, &quot;What is your name?&quot; &quot;Jacob,&quot; he answered. Then the man said, &quot;Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.&quot;</em> … <em>So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, &quot;It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared</em>.&quot;(Genesis 32:26b–30) This strange encounter with the Lord left Jacob with an outward limp that would always remind him and his descendants that his blessings came from God.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em">* * *</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em">Lord, I can see in this story of Jacob how much You value humility. If we are to be blessed, that blessing will come from You, not from our own struggles. You are Jehovah Jirah, our provider, and like Jacob I will say <em>God has been gracious to me, and I have all I need.</em> (33:11) </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center"><em></em><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em">* * *</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><em>The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob&#39;s hip was touched near the tendon</em>. Genesis 32:31–32 NIV</span></div></div>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the wife who says, “It’s hot dogs tonight.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because she is home with me and not out with someone else. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the husband who is on the sofa being a couch potato,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because he is home with me and not out at the bars. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the teenager who is complaining about doing the dishes,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means she is at home, not on the streets. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the taxes I pay,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I am employed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the mess to clean after a party,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I have been surrounded by friends. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the clothes that fit a little too snug, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I have enough to eat. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman">For my shadow that watches me work,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160; </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I am out in the sunshine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I have a home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For all the complaining I hear about the government, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means we have freedom of speech. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the parking spot I found at the far end of the parking lot,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I am capable of walking, and I have been blessed with transportation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For my huge heating bill,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I am warm.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the lady behind me in church who sings off key, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I can hear. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the pile of laundry and ironing, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I have clothes to wear. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For too much e-mail,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I have lots of friends who are thinking about me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means I have been capable of working hard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">For the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">Because it means that I am ALIVE!</span></p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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