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Ormiston Green

Phone: 0738217807

Address: 8-12 Thorn Street 4160

Website: http://www.OrmistonCFC.com.au

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23.01.2022 "Unsettled Again? It Could be Good!" By Peter Barfoot If your troubled life has not long settled down and you now find yourself unsettled again, reading this a...rticle may prove helpful. Moab was the kind of relative the Jews could well have done without. In a passage never found in children’s bible story books, Lot’s two daughters got him drunk and had sex with him. (Their husbands had died in the destruction of Sodom and their mother, Lot’s wife, had looked back and become a statue of salt.) Lot called the two sons born of that incestuous act Moab and Ammon. (Read on, it gets better...) Moab and Ammon settled down on lands east of the Dead Sea and their descendants became to the Jews something like what troublesome relatives are to respectable families: embarrassments that just will not go away. The Edomites, ancestors of Esau, were known for their spitefulness toward the Jewish relatives. Verses 12-14 of Obadiah list eight things they ought not to have done when Babylon invaded Judah. Moab, though marginally less bitter and vindictive than Ammon, infamously hired the corrupt prophet Balaam to curse the children of Israel, but that didn’t work out (Numbers 21-23). So evil were the Moabites and Ammonites that none of their descendants were permitted to enter the congregation of Israel until the tenth generation by which time living among those they hated would purge them from their forefathers’ influence (Deuteronomy 23:3-6). The Moabite king Eglon oppressed Israel for 18 years until, in another story best not read to children, the patriot Ehud sank a dagger into his belly -- and that was that (Judges 3:12-26). God punished Moab as a people because they arrogantly magnified themselves against Him. Yet the wife of Moses was a Moabite, as was Ruth, David’s great-grandmother, and Moses was buried in the land of Moab. Notwithstanding these exceptions, there are more prophecies against Moab than Ammon (today's Amman). (Isaiah, chapters 15-16; Ezekiel 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zephaniah 2:8-11; Jeremiah, chapter 48) Moab represents those who are not believers but are close relatives who, at times, are a problem. Their land was no larger than 100km x 50km in area, but being on a high tableland, it allowed them to glare down at them arrogantly over the Dead Sea. Jeremiah's graphic prophecy likens Moab to impure wine, which in those days had to emptied at intervals from one vessel into another to remove its impurities). Moab [the nation here spoken of as a person] has been at ease since his youth and has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity [as the Jews did for seventy years to purify them from idolatry]. Therefore his taste remains in him [being unpurified by trials the Moabites were still a bad taste] and his scent [bouquet] is unchanged [He is unpalatable]. (Jeremiah 48:11) We complain about the Lord’s ongoing dealings in our lives, not realizing that each time He allows us to be emptied from a settled situation into an unsettled one, more impure dregs of the old life are left behind. Foreign raiders would eventually break Moab as a people, in the way that bottles of wine unfit to drink are smashed (verse 12). The lesson is, it’s better to be emptied from one situation into another than to be left alone until we are of no value whatever -- even if regular emptying means it takes us a while to settle down again. Decanted wine has a much better taste, and we all have dregs from our old life that we could well do without. So let's stop complaining, "Not again!" Instead, let's thank God for 'emptying' us into more new situations and circumstances, because they'll surely result in changes that will make us more agreeable to the Lord -- and no doubt to those who have to live with us, as well. (Grumpy old men, please note.)

19.01.2022 An exciting new series on the Armour of God begins with this lesson: Who Is Saul? Meet tour guides Octavius and Octavia to see the Roman Forum and learn about... Roman citizenship. Open a Pizzeria, Quick March the Memory Verse. Practice a Sword Drill and play a game of Tame Lion. Visit: http://cooeekidsministry.com.au//Every-Day-Armour-Lesson-1 Illustration by Sweet Publishing at Free Bible Images See more

17.01.2022 The day when an appointed, unelected commissioner dictates to an elected senator will be the day our democracy dies.

15.01.2022 The Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught during his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:9-13) includes a prelude on the necessity of personal forgiveness (verse 9). So ...too do our Lord's words on the Mount of Olives, spoken the day after the fig tree, which he cursed, had died (Mark 11:20-24). Christians of all denominations are familiar with The Lord's Prayer (well, they were until recent years); and the words of Jesus about the withered fig tree are beloved of Pentecostals. My two statements, above, are not meant to be mutually exclusive: many 'mainline' Christians speak with authority, and many Pentecostals pray the Lord's Prayer. In both cases, the emphasis is on the necessity of forgiveness. Personal forgiveness, toward those who have offended them, by those who are about to pray to God or to speak authoritatively with God-given faith. I suggest that the amount of unforgiveness in Christians who have been offended in some way by the words or acts of Christians, is directly related to the ineffectiveness of their prayers and their lack of authority to 'move mountains'. I am no paragon of virtue in this regard, which qualifies me write these words. Pause and consider? See more

15.01.2022 "It's Time to Pay those Vows." By Peter Barfoot An IOU is a note of promise, and a vow is a verbal version of the same. "What shall I render unto the LORD for a...ll His benefits toward me?" asks the psalmist (Psalm 116:12). He owes God for services rendered, and is considering how he should pay. One way is to "take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord". To pay his vows unto the LORD, in the presence of all His people. In other words, he would fulfil the promises he made to God in the presence of witnesses. Under the Law of Moses, vows were verbal commitments to God that were not made lightly. A husband had the authority to cancel a foolish vow made by his wife, and a father could do the same in regard to one made by his daughter (Numbers 30). All others were responsible before God to pay their vows. A vow later regretted was one that ought not to have been made in the first place. I have said all that to say this: Many Christians have vowed to the Lord that they would do certain things -- and I believe that the time has come for them to pay those vows in full. I am not referring to rash vows made by the immature or the inexperienced in times when the Spirit of God was moving and they were caught up in the moment. Nor am I referring to money (at least, not primarily). As Paul the apostle put it: "We seek not yours but you." Not your money or your possessions, but you! Paul was a people person. Bottom Line: Out There in churches (or not in them) are countless numbers of genuine believers in the Lord Jesus who have made vows to him in the form of promises. Promises of lives that were dedicated to Jesus. Believers who vowed they would pay the price, no matter the cost. Many made these verbal IOUs in the first flush of newfound faith, not rashly but when called by the Spirit of the Lord. They owe it and they know it. Many are middle-aged, and remember such vows when awake at night and their marriage partners sleep blissfully alongside them, not knowing that such vows were ever made. The "God-shaped vacuum" inside them that cries out for fulfillment can only be filled when accounts rendered are paid in full. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I hereby 'call in' these spiritual IOUs -- these yet-to-be-paid verbal promises of total commitment to the cause of Christ. They can be 'paid' at a local church, in statements of recommitments in the presence of witnesses. Again, not just in money, unless the Lord so directs, but in regular fellowship, in spiritual gifts, in natural talents such as music, or in some manner of service -- however and in whichever way your contribution can help. Or in some other way, as the Lord directs. Well, there it is; the matter is now in your hands.