Seized Opportunity
Today I was performing procedures on patients at work and had an interesting
experience with one male patient. He was the type of black man that we
would immediately stero-type to be "from the hood," to use common slang. He
was decorated with gang-type tattoos, dressed like a gangster, and carried
himself like one with that common cocky swagger. It is sad, but we
automatically "peg" such people as "the bad crowd" from the "wrong side of
the tracks" and lift our noses up in the air. The patient's history
included a previous head-injury from being hit in the head with a shot-gun
and other such gang / city - related incidents. One could already conjure
up the most violent movies and TV shows picture this man right in the center of the show. "Classic Gangster."
The examining rooms have televisions with cable to keep the patients
occupied and entertained, as some of the procedures are very lengthy. As we
begin, we explain the process and then hand the TV remote to the patient
because they are not supposed to move during the first portion of the
procedure. Sometimes patients would rather chit-chat, while others prefer
to flip through channels and ignore us.........whatever makes them more
comfortable. This particular patient immediately flipped to a music channel
that shows mostly rap music videos that we immediately associate with this
type of city-dweller. He commented that he "HAD to have his music" and
asked if I minded. We're used to tuning out our surroundings when working
and I assured him that I did not mind at all. He needed reassurance and
asked me again if I was "SURE" I didn't mind him playing that particular TV
channel. I assured him that it was alright, in the usual professional,
friendly manner and continued with my work.............continuing to slip my
opinion of this man into the "black, gangster, city-dweller, hood" category,
as the steady thumping of rap music surrounded us in the little room.
The patient was very nice and cordial, and as we conversed, I began to see a
different side of him.......hidden under those baggy pants with hanging
chains, backwards cap, and spiritualistic, territorial tattoos glaring back
at me from his sleeveless shirt. He was kind and polite and very
well-mannered and well-spoken. I was so busy "categorizing" him that I
almost missed the fact that he was actually a very nice and rather
interesting man. I felt a pang of guilt and immediately lifted a silent
prayer on behalf of this precious child of God. The man was a REAL PERSON
and a very nice one at that, and I felt so guilty for placing myself ABOVE
him and for ignoring the fact that he was also a child of God and simply a
product of his environment.
Near the end of the procedure, the man looked at me and prefaced his
comments with a very polite apology if I would be offended by what he was
about to ask. He quietly and reverently asked about my religion because of
my modest dress and because of the headcovering that I wear. When I told
him of my religious affiliation, he began to ask more questions, wanting to
know more. I briefly explained our faith and then fetched one of my
business cards for him. Time did not permit me to engage in lengthy
discussion, but I encouraged him to visit my business website to review more
information about our faith and beliefs. I kept a prayer in my heart as we
spoke, realizing that this was a precious, seeking soul, and that it was MY
job to plant the seed.................only plant the seed. By then I had
come to respect and appreciate the patient for the man he really is, and
hardly noticed his tough exterior. He was most definitely one of my NICEST
and more pleasant patients during the entire day! He apparently knew
another patient in our office and shared with me the concern he had felt
during their growing-up years together, because the other young man "hung
around with the rest of the street gangs." He had worried a great deal
about the boy's future and had encouraged him to make something of his
life..........to stop smoking and hanging out with the wrong crowd.......and
to avoid ruining his life by choosing the wrong roads in life. He was very
pleased and happy to learn that the young man had gone on to win a bronze
medal in a past summer olympic games and that he was now teaching at an
elite university. He was over-joyed to hear the news and very thankful for
the his young friend's success in life.
Once again, I saw the man as he really IS and not the gangster with a cocky
swagger. I was touched and blessed and humbled all at once.
I scheduled the patient's follow-up appointment and gave him the final
discharge instructions. He started to walk away and suddenly turned back
and asked............"Hey, do you have more of those business cards that I
can put up at my work and can give to the guys at my work? They might be
really interested." I was surprised, and happily supplied him plenty of
cards to spread like the leaves autumn. He smiled and waved an eager thanks
for the procedure and for my sharing, and hurried on his way.
When I went to clean and sterilize the room before calling my next patient,
I had to sit for a moment and contemplate what had just transpired in that
tiny little room, in that small space of time. And I was very
thankful.........not just for the experience, but for the blessing of the
Lord's gentle reminder that His children are EVERYWHERE all around us,
colorfully disguised in the various costumes of the world. We might
actually see them for ourselves if we removed the blinders of stereotyped
preconceptions. Too often we try so hard to be "like the world" to be more
"attractive and less offensive or intimidating" in order to reach the
unsaved. How surprised we would be if we could only realize that the world
does not WANT us to pattern ourselves after their own wayward lives.
They WANT to see in us something different, something pure, something
inviting, something that opens their hearts to the One for Whom they have
been unconsciously searching. It is our place to show the example and
lovingly lead the way by our uncompromised, unassuming witness.
If I had blended seamlessly into the world like everyone else, I probably
would never have seen the true and personal identity of this precious man.
He would have remained just a bad memory of a distasteful "gangster" patient
from the "hood" and I would have been too anxious to "cleanse" and sterilize
the room from his contamination...........glad to send him on his way, back
to the "wrong side of the tracks." What a beautiful opportunity would have
been lost..........if I had chosen to be........more like the world.
Kim Hamme, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Letters from an Amish Farmer
The letters listed below are exact, unaltered copies of a collection of correspondence between an Amish man and his parents, friends, family, and church leaders. This man and his family belong to the Swartzentruber sect of the Old Order Amish and are currently under the bann (shunning) because of the convictions he outlines so beautifully in his heartfelt letters. They continue to remain living and farming among the Old Order and have done so, despite the shunning, for over five years, which is a miracle and testimony in itself to the amazing conviction and commitment of this dear family.
The testimony is even more touching and powerful when one pictures this humble, Amish farmer, sitting at his kitchen table in the evenings, under the gentle hissing of the gas lamp above his head, surrounded by his Bibles and study materials, meticulously HAND-WRITING this amazing testimony, filled with the conviction of a devoted son, father, husband and Christian.
(More letters and correspondence will be added to this page as time permits.)
12/13/1997
Dear Parents,
Greetings in our dear Savior's holy name. This leaves us on a Saturday morning at 8:20. Mattie and Katie are on the rocking chair beside me, and Malinda at the window on my other side. Temperature was 30 this morning and is cloudy and seems like it could snow. We had some snow flurries yesterday.
Wonder how you all are doing. Was glad to hear that you are doing well. We are doing fine, which is much to be thankful for.
I guess I should try to answer your last two letters the best I can. Your letters are very welcome here, even if you don't agree with us in everything.
I wish we could comfort you better, and wish people would understand us better. I believe we should obey our Heavenly Father above anybody else. I believe if we knowingly disobey God in order to obey people, we are putting man above God and loving man more than Christ, which would be idolatry. See what happened to Saul when he feared the people, and obeyed their voice; thereby transgressing the commandment of the lord; Please read 1 Samuel 15:19-24. Exodus 23:2. Matthew 10:37. John 14:15.
I don't want to judge anybody with this. There may be many people who serve God the best they know how with all their heart, even if they see things different than we do. We make many mistakes ourselves. I believe we honor you if we obey God, even if we have to disobey you. If we would disobey God in order to obey you, we would be dishonoring you AND God. Read 2 Chronicles 30:7-9, 34:21.
I am so glad you are asking God for help, He is our only strength. We also want to obey you about the Sabbath if you can show us where the Bible says, "Thou shalt not keep the seventh day holy anymore." And where does it say "You must now keep the first day as the Sabbath instead of the seventh?"
I have not been able to find such texts. I guess you know that the German Bibles don't all read the same about the Sabbath and first day of the week in the new testament. It's clear to me that Baron Carl Hildebrand changed that in the Martin Luther Bibles which he rewrote. In front of the large German Bible it says that Carl Hildebrand rewrote most of the German Martin Luther Bibles, and in the front of the large print German New Testament is the story of him doing it.
I believe you are using the Bibles that were rewritten by Baron Carl Hildebrand to try to make it look like Sabbath has been changed from Saturday to Sunday by Christ or the Apostles.
I believe the beast in Daniel 7:23-25 intended to change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. There is a table in the front of the large German Bible on page 21 that lays this beast out at the roman catholic papal system. The catholics themselves say they have changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
We have the Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine which shows that they have intended to change God's Ten Commandments. They have done away with the second commandment and divided the tenth in two, so they still have ten commandments.
They have questions and answers in this catechism, and this is what they say about their their commandment:
Q. What is the Third Commandment?
A. The Third Commandment is: "Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day."
Q. Which is the Sabbath day?
A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity form Saturday to Sunday.
Q. Why did the Catholic Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday, because Christ rose form the dead on a Sunday, and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles on a Sunday.
Q. By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her.
Q. What does the Third Commandment command?
A. The Third Commandment commands us to sanctify Sunday as the Lord's Day.
Q. What does the Third Commandment forbid?
A. The Third Commandment forbids
1) The omission of prayer and divine worship
2) All unnecessary servile work
3) Whatever hinders the keeping of the Lord's Day holy
Q. Is the Desecration of the Lord's Day a grievous matter?
A. The desecration of the Lord's Day is a grievous matter in itself, though it admits of light matter.
Will we love our Heavenly Father enough to keep all His laws and commandments, or will we choose to keep the laws the way the beast in Daniel 7:23-25 intended to change them? God's commandments do not change. The works of His hands are verity and judgement; all His commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness, Psalm 111:7,8. "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Psalm 89:34, Malachi 3:6.
I think that Martin Luther Bibles which were rewritten by Baron Carl Hildebrand could be very confusing to some people because he put "the first day of the week" in as "the Sabbath or Sabbather" in some places in the New Testament. I have not found any other versions that read that way; not even Greek and not all the German Bibles. Ben Raber wrote to me one time saying that all the German Bibles that he sells were originally written by Martin Luther, but later rewritten by three different people. many people have talked to us, saying, Jesus or the Apostles have changed the Sabbath. But we have never found such Scripture, or anything to give us an excuse not to keep the seventh day Sabbath and now keep the first day as the Sabbath.
Our understanding is that the Messiah was crucified on Friday, rested in the tomb over the Sabbath, and rose again on Sunday. In Mark 15:42 to 16:6 it looks like He was buried the day before the Sabbath and rose again the day after the Sabbath, and the women bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint Him on the first day of the week, so they evidently did not keep Sunday holy.
Luke 23:54 also shows that He was buried on the preparation day, and the Sabbath drew on. And verse 56 shows that they kept the Sabbath day according to the commandment. Then on the first day of the week, the women cam with the spices, but He was already risen. John 19:14 shows that Jesus was before Pilate on the preparation day; verses 30.31 that He died on the preparation day.
Luke 23:54 shows the Sabbath to be the day after the preparation day; then He rose the day after the Sabbath. I don't find anything in John 20:19 that the disciples were assembled for worship or for honoring Christ's resurrection or for honoring a new Sabbath. In Acts 20:7, there is record of the disciples coming together to break bread and Paul preached to them til midnight. Since this gathering was in the night, it must have been Saturday night, as the days change in the evening (see Leviticus 23:32). Sunday night would have been the second day of the week. To my understanding Paul went for a long journey by foot that same day, still being the first day of the week.
If Acts 20:7 gives us an excuse to keep Sunday holy, what should we do about the other days mentioned in Acts 2:46,47 and Acts 1:15? I don't see any Sunday holiness in 1 Corinthians 16:2 either.
I believe Paul was actually telling them to work upon the first day of the week, gathering things for poor in Jerusalem (and collecting the tithe for Paul to gather upon his next visit to take to Jerusalem).
I agree with you that Jesus was crucified on Friday and rose on Sunday and was not seen on Saturday, because He rested in the tomb on the Sabbath. That corresponds with the table in front of the large German Bible on page 26.
You wrote that, when Christ established His church, the Apostles mostly had congregation on the Sabbath, which I agree, but I don't see any evidence that the Sabbath was changed to Sunday in the Bible. Hebrews chapter 4 still talks about the seventh day and a rest for God's people. Verse 9 and 10 in the Lamsa's translation says "It is therefore the duty of the people of God to keep the Sabbath. For he who has entered into his rest also has ceased from His own works, as God did from His."
If we want to cease from our own works, as God did from His, then we should try to rest on the same day as God did. I believe some laws came to an end, like eye for eye, tooth for tooth, circumcision of the flesh, animal sacrifices, meat or drink offerings, holy days, new moons, and yearly Sabbaths; some of which were a shadow of Christ.
Taking a complete condordance and carefully reading every verse in the Bible about the weekly Sabbath, I could not see that it was ever to change or come to an end, nor was it as shadow of Christ as it was given before man sinned.
Many people say the fourth commandment has been changed or done away with, but the Savior said "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, til heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven, but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Read Matthew 5:17-19, Ecclesiastes 3:14, Revelation 22:18-19, Deuteronomy 12:32.
Yes, our forefathers kept Sunday for a long time and may have been better in the spirit than we are, because they may not have been aware of the true Bible Sabbath. "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." (James 4:17) Should we now have the forefathers as our guide or the Bible?
Different places in the Bible times, people lost some of God's laws for centuries, but when they were shown their mistake, they changed and obeyed God's commandments if they chose to be God's true people.
Hezekiah and Josiah are a few examples in the Bible that we should have the Scriptures as our guide and not our forefathers. Read 2 Kings 18:1-7 and 2 Kings chapters 22 and 23. Following are more examples that we should not just follow our forefathers, church leaders, or our own thoughts, but we should have God's word (the Scriptures) as our guide. Jeremiah 3:25; 9:12-25; 13:10,16,17; 16:10-13; 17:5-8,21-27; 18:11,12,18.
I believe God is pleased with you, this church, and our forefathers if people do the best they know. But not wanting to know is all different and very dangerous. Read Hosea 4:6, Proverbs 28:9, Isaiah 30:9-13.
Are we keeping the Sabbath proper and faithfully if we don't keep the day that God blessed and sanctified and told us to keep it holy? Can anybody reverse the blessing that God has put on the seventh day?
God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent; hath He said, and shall He not do it? Or hath He spoken and shall He not make it good? Behold I have received the commandment to bless; and He hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. Numbers 23:19,20. For thou blessest, O Lord, and it shall be blessed forever. 1 Chronicles 17:27. how do you know that you are not shunning us for keeping God's commandments? Please read John 16:2.3.
Yes, we realize that our parents, siblings, and church feel grieved about us, and that really made it hard for us to make this change. Just to please our own will, we would not have made this change. But because of our love for our Heavenly Father we want to keep all His laws and commandments and try to do all His will. I believe we are very weak in doing all His will and we cannot please Him with our own strength. We need to rely on God for our Strength in doing His will. We are probably making mistakes and still don't understand all His laws and commandments that we should keep.
Please show us clearly out of the Scriptures that we are sinning to keep the Sabbath on Saturday and we will recant if you can show us that. Where did the church have a true witness to ban us? They, of course, all voted in agreement to ban us, but, did the Scriptures show them that we are in open sin? If so, then please show us clearly from the Bible. Remember that we are not pushing anybody to do what we are doing.
We sometimes feel lonely that nobody agrees with us, which may be good for us; it may help us to realize that we are dust of the earth. I wish we could have explained our beliefs better to the preachers. I will still say, God's blessings are in this church. But that doesn't make it so perfect that we should have a church for our guide instead of the Bible. We are not perfect either and I would not want anybody to follows us in disobedience to God.
If everybody would have just kept what their forefathers taught them since before the Reformation, we would all be Roman Catholic. I have never found found the Bible saying the Lord's day is the first day of the week.
We love the Amish people and did not want to leave them, but were put out. The Sabbath question has really bothered me for around two and a half years before we started keeping it. When I saw in Leviticus 23:32 that God said, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath; that made me wonder why don't keep the days from evening to evening. Then I looked in the dictionary about the days of the week, and it really shocked me that the dictionary says "SATURDAY is the seventh day of the week!" That got us to search more and more if that is really true. Much more evidence shows that Saturday is the seventh day of the week. The prayers in the Lust Garetlein for each day of the week, the Hand-Worter-Buch, Buchners Hand Concordance, Bible Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, the Calendars, German Calendar, and what I have already mentioned in the Bible and Dictionary all agree that Saturday is the seventh day of the week.
We had not planned ahead when we are going to make this change, until we could no longer continue to work on the day that we believe to be the Sabbath, without a very troubled conscience. Please pray for us.
Best Wishes from Son Abraham
3-28-1998
Dear Parents,
Greetings in our dear Savior's holy name. This leaves me on a Saturday evening at 4:45. It has been windy for about 4 days now and is still not raining as I thought it would by now. We had a chance to plant potatoes and beets on Thursday. The temperature was up to 79 that day. The grass is greening up fast.
I would like to try to write some more of our understanding of the Sabbath. One thing that comes to my mind is that some people have talked to us against keeping the Sabbath on Saturday, saying that Jesus or the Apostles or the Holy Spirit has changed the Sabbath to the first day of the week and we are supposed to keep the first day as the Sabbath. But if we show them that the Bible does not say that, most of them have turned around and said: "We don't know which day the seventh day is and we might be keeping the seventh day." In this point they are confused in themselves by saying: "We have to keep the first day" and then turning around around and saying: "We might be keeping the seventh day." Yes, we were not there when God created everything, but we believe that He rested on Saturday.
Much evidence shows that Saturday is the seventh day. We shouldn't we keep the seventh day? Some people may say: "We don't know which day the seventh day is," but many of them probably don't want to know or don't care.
Many Amish believe that Jesus was crucified on Friday, so why couldn't they see in the Bible that the next day is the Sabbath? (Luke 23:50-56) Although I believe many Sunday-keepers have died that will be in heaven because they did the very best they knew, God has forgiven them.
I believe there is more light about the Sabbath in our days than it was several centuries ago, and I feel God's commandments will still be plainer to everybody before the end of the world, when the government persecutes those described in Revelation 14:12 and 12:17.
We should not just follow the forefathers or a church or leaders (1 Samuel 12:13-15), they are human and make mistakes, although they may have left us some good examples that we should follow. God's holy Scriptures should be our guide. (Amos 2:4)
I am not saying that it's wrong to be a church member (it would be nice to be one), but it will not help our salvation if we knowingly disobey our Heavenly Father. I believe there may be many church members who are only following their church and not God, which, sadly, is a form of idolatry according to 1 Samuel 15:19-24. I hope nobody ever takes me as their infallible guide.
We should have pleasure in keeping God's commandments and laws and not make them a burden to ourselves. It's interesting in Exodus 16:22-30 how God provided a double amount of food on the sixth day and none on the seventh, and told them not to gather any on the seventh day.
I understand the Ten Commandments as God's character or His ways; now to change one of the Ten Commandments, I think man would be attempting to change God's ways and God Himself. Daniel 7:23-25, 11:36; Revelation 13:5,6; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Jeremiah chapter 44 is really something to study, especially verse 15-29, how they were shown that they are disobeying God because they have not walked in God's law nor in His statutes nor in His testimonies. Verse 25 tells how they made vows and kept their vows to burn incense to the queen of heaven; yet it was sin to keep such a vow and disobey our Heavenly Father, and He punished them for it.
I believe this is showing that if we make a vow with a certain group of people and if those people will not allow us to keep God's laws and commandments; then we should break that vow with MAN and obey GOD. (Ezekiel 20:18-21) Then Peter and the other Apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29) Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John 3:4) It is sin to transgress the law of God.
I believe that Romans 3:20 and 7:7 are saying that the law shows us what sin is. I understand that if we knowingly transgress only one law, we are guilty of them all. (James 2:10,11) Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (James 4:17)
I don't believe we will be saved by keeping God's law, but by Grace. (2 Timothy 1:9; Romans 11:6; Ephesians 2:8.9) But being under Grace does not mean that we can now break the law. (Romans 5:20,21; 6:1,2,14-16; 3:31) I don't believe we are accepting God's Grace if we knowingly continue breaking His commandments.
If we truly love God with all our heart, we will try to keep all His laws and commandments and do all His will, no matter what happens to our life. (John 14:15; 15:10; 16:1-3; 1 John 2:3-6 5:2,3; Luke 6:20-26; 2 John 6; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Romans 8:38,39; Matthew 10:32-39)
Are we remembering the Sabbath Day and keeping it holy if we work on the seventh day? (Exodus 20:8-11) The seventh day is the only day recorded in the Bible as the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore he Lord BLESSED the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
To my knowledge, we can rest on another day, but we can not keep the Sabbath of the Lord on another day; therefore if we work on the seventh day of the week, we are breaking the fourth commandment. God did not say "every seventh day or one day out of seven," but He said "The SEVENTH DAY is the Sabbath."
Exodus 31:13-18 is really something to think about, how keeping the Lord's Sabbath is a sign between Him and His people, and shall be kept for a perpetual covenant. Also read Ezekiel 20:12,20.
People in Nehemiah's days profaned the Sabbath day, which was not good. (Nehemiah 13:15-22; 22:8,26; 23:38)
I believe God's people will keep the weekly Sabbath after the destruction of this sinful world. Please read Isaiah 66:22,23. I would be afraid to say "Christ or the Apostles have changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week" without having such a Scripture.
Ezekiel 22:28 says: "And her prophets have daubed them with the untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken." Also read Ezekiel 13:7.
Malachi 3:6 says: "For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." Also read Psalms 89:34 (verse 35 in German).
Reading Matthew 12:1-12 and the references to it, I don't see that Jesus changed any of His Father's laws about the Sabbath. The Pharisees had made laws in addition to God's laws, and Jesus was showing them what the Sabbath law really was. The disciples and also David and the priests of course broke the Pharisees' laws, which were commandments of MEN, but to my understanding, they did not break GOD'S law. I don't believe God ever intended for animals or people to go hungry or thirsty, or not be helped in sickness on the Sabbath day. "Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days."
I believe Jesus intended for His people to keep the Sabbath according to His and the Apostles' example to the end of the world. "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day." (Matthew 24:20) Also read Mark 1:21; 6:2; Luke 4:16,31; 6:6; 13:10; Acts 13:14,27,42-44; 15:21; 16:13; 17:2; 184.
I believe God would say the same thing about Sunday keeping as He did in Jeremiah 32:35: "Which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination." Deuteronomy 6:8 and 11:18 talk about God's commandments, laws, and His Word, etc. being a sign upon your hand and as frontlets between your eyes.
Could it be that we have the mark of the beast in our forehead or in our hand if we keep the commandments of the beast and disobey the commandments of God?
Dear Friends, please read the Bible for yourself, and don't just follow our ideas. We don't want to lead anybody away from God. We are weak human beings and make mistakes. I believe we are living in the last days, which are very dangerous and it's very important to study the Scriptures prayerfully and search for the will of our Heavenly Father. I believe we are doing the wrong thing if we just build on ourself, or other people, or tradition. We should build on God's holy Scriptures.
I have tried to write everything out of love and meant everything good. We are weak and I may have written things that I should not have. Please feel free to let us know if you see things that we should not have written, and please show us from the Bible where we are doing wrong.
Let's keep praying for each other. May our Heavenly Father bless you all, and lead us all to know His true will.
All the Best Wishes from Son Abraham
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