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Despise, Faint, or Endure

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  DESPISE, FAINT, OR ENDURE     Dealing with correction is one of the hardest things the human ego must learn to  ENDURE .      Fortunately, Hebrews 12 addresses that issue… quoting Proverbs 3:11-12.   “My son,  DESPISE NOT   the chastening of the Lord,  NOR FAINT   when you are rebuked by Him;  for whom the Lord loves He chastens,  and scourges every son whom He receives." (Heb12:5-6)       The author dissects, examines, and then pieces back together how our soul reacts… and then should react…    to  chastisement  -  correction, instruction, rebuke, and reproof...  training .      Verse 1 starts right off explaining how we are running a race and must lay aside everything weighing us down… as well as the particular sin which so  EASILY BESETS US  - [properly, a serious hindrance that " encircles " (hampers) someone who desperately needs to advance. ...

The Watchman

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  THE WATCHMAN     “Except YAHWEH build the house, they labour in vain that build it:  except YAHWEH keep the  city,  the  WATCHMAN  waketh but in vain.” (Ps127:1)     Mtt5:14  “ You  are the light of the world.  A  city  set on a hill cannot be hidden.”     YOU  are the  city  our Father is guarding, protecting, and setting a  WATCH OVER.      Heb12:9AMPC “…we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. Shall we not much more  cheerfully submit  to the  FATHER OF SPIRITS  and so [truly] live?     Yahweh, God is the Father of Spirits.  He, Himself, is your builder and maker,  WATCHING , keeping, and continually breathing life into your Spirit man.      Your spirit in turn is the  WATCHMAN  over your soul and subsequently… “bringing your body u...