REFORMATION RUMBLINGS
BUFF SCOTT, JR.
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Executing Surgery On A Cancer
[ROE vs WADE]
 
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   The protesters of the decision on Roe vs Wade, notably the liberal media, are yelling, “Women have a Constitutional right to abortion.” This level of absurdity is bizarre and crashes head-on with our Constitution, because our Constitution has never in its history conceded that taking an innocent life, whether born or unborn, is admissible. 
   
     It is not there. And the universal commandment from the One who issued it, says, “You shall not kill”—or take the life of an innocent person. “Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him”—an innocent man. The Lord announced his punishment. “You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth... And the Lord put a mark on Cain” [Gen. 4:8-15].
 
    Aborting a living person is among America’s most hideous cancers and abominations. An unborn person is a human creation within its mother’s womb—a creation who is kicking, making other movements, and whose heart is beating. When the biblical Elizabeth, who was carrying John the forerunner, was greeted by Mary who was carrying the child Jesus, “the baby leaped for joy in her womb” [Luke 1:39-45]. The child was a person!
 
    My question to abortionists— I assume you are pretty well contended and satisfied with life. If I’m correct, “Are you glad your Mom didn’t abort you?”
 
    Praise the Lord! The U. S. Supreme Court executed surgery on a rapidly-growing cancer. May other dangerous cancers within our society be surgically removed—whether by our country’s legal and political Representatives in the various States or by the hands and wisdom of our Creator.  
 
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Our Sunday Morning Assembly 
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“Reform your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.”—Jer. 7:3.
 
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REFORMATION RUMBLINGS

BUFF SCOTT, JR.

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Our Struggles With Sin

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“Everyone of us has a chapter in our lives we would prefer not to read aloud.”—Selected.

    In truth, most of us have more than one chapter. When I first read that statement, I was vividly reminded of my own struggles with sin. Even the apostle Paul battled with sin. Not only Paul, but all of God’s great leaders of past generations clashed with sin. Humanity bequeathed sin from Adam and Eve. All of us are plagued with it.

    Paul’s description of his struggle with sin is strikingly interesting—and uplifting. His written testimony is recorded in Romans 7:13-25. He contrasts the old Law with Life in the Spirit. Sin was so rampant in Paul’s life, even though he was a rigid Pharisee who obeyed the old Law as he understood it, he was driven to proclaim, “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”

    Strange a psychological fact that it is, it is nevertheless true that to the carnal nature what is forbidden seems especially desirable. Paul seems to be saying that when he wanted to do good, sin was knocking at his door. Or as Paul himself explained it, “For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.” The apostle explains that if he does what he does not want to do, “it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.” His inner being or spirit wanted to do what was right, but sin often reigned.

    Consequently, the renowned apostle cried out, “Oh wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death” [sin]? He answered his own question. “Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.”

    Our Lord Jesus was Paul’s rescuer! By himself, he was powerless. But when Jesus entered his life, he discovered that Grace was far greater than his fleshly weaknesses. And so it is with us. We are weak in the flesh, for we are part of Adam’s Fall. But when our Lord made His entrance into our lives, we discovered a Grace so mighty that our carnal susceptibilities lost their potential to conquer us.

    Let it be understood that our fleshly weaknesses have not been eradicated. You have yours, I have mine. But as redeemed sinners, we can say with Paul, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set us free.”

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Our Sunday Morning Assembly 

    Thank you for being one of the many hundreds in my cyber-space assembly as we mutually enlighten each other.——Buff. 

“Reform your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place .—”—Jer. 7:3.

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