

The curse of appeasement
2 Kings 16:10-18 NIV Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for its construction. [11] So Uriah the priest built an altar in accordance with all the plans that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus and finished it before King Ahaz returned. [12] When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.
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He's Alive
Acts 25:17-19 NIV When they came here with me, I did not delay the case, but convened the court the next day and ordered the man (Paul) to be brought in. [18] When his accusers got up to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected. [19] Instead, they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive. We all like Paul stand accused of the same "crime" of proclaiming that Jesus is Al
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Evil's deadly strategy
John 10:10 NLT The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. 2 Kings 8:7-15 NLT Elisha went to Damascus, the capital of Aram, where King Ben-hadad lay sick. When someone told the king that the man of God had come, [8] the king said to Hazael, "Take a gift to the man of God. Then tell him to ask the LORD, 'Will I recover from this illness?'" [9] So Hazael loaded down forty camels with the finest products of Damascu
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Challenge to multi-faiths
2 Kings 1:5-6 NKJV And when the messengers returned to him (the king), he said to them, "Why have you come back?" [6] So they said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you, and say to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.'"'" God doesn't r
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