Heavy

A 5-kg bag of rice is not heavy to me. For my daughter, that bag is heavy, because she herself only weigh about 25 kg. So if we pass a law on the definition of heavy, what should it be?

Pray Straight to the Point

When we pray, we sometimes use very roundabout expressions; we do not come straight to the point; we seem to imagine that a kind of religious etiquette forbids us from speaking plainly at the throne of grace. I am persuaded that this notion is altogether wrong; and instead of God approving this mode of speaking to him in prayer, he would much rather have us speak to him as a child speaks to his earthly father, — respectfully, reverently, remembering that he is in heaven, and we are on earth, yet simply and plainly, for our Heavenly Father needs no garnishing of our speech; and the poor tawdry flowers of eloquence, with which some of our brethren at times adorn their prayers, must be displeasing to God rather than acceptable to him.

From Jacob’s Model Prayer by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a sermon published on Thursday, October 18th, 1906, delivered at The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington on Lord’s Day evening, June 16th, 1867.

Show thee great and mighty things

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not (Jeremiah 33:3 KJV).

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it (Psalm 81:10 KJV).

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32 KJV)

Ruth went to the field of Boaz, expecting to get a handful of barley, but instead, she found a husband.

Unbelievers can perform miracles in Jesus's Name

Matthew 7:21-23 (New American Standard Bible)
Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'
And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

Numbers 24:2 (New American Standard Bible)
And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe ; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

Many miracles were performed by money loving pastors. These miracles are performed in Jesus's Name. But on the day of judgement, Jesus will deny them. We already have an example in the Old Testament, where the prophet Balaam, who is rejected by God, although he is a true prophet who prophesied in God's name.

Balaam is a warning to all the money loving miracle working pastors, who "loved the wages of unrighteousness" (2 Peter 2:15-16).

Money Circulation and Blood Circulation

Blood circulation pumped by the heart keeps the body alive. Money circulation pumped by faith (exactly like religion, which is why Jesus said you either serve God or Mammon) keeps the economy going. Actually it is not faith, but the object of faith, which in today’s economy, are the financial institutions.

When a person is greedy and eats a lot of fat food, he gets cardiac arrest and the heart needs operation. The mouth, which enjoyed the food, is not punished. Instead, it is the innocent skin that has to be cut to reach the heart.

When the financial institutions are greedy and faith in them drops, money supply drop and the economy suffer cardiac arrest. The innocent people suffer when the economy goes into depression.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil

God saw all that He had made, and it was very good (Genesis 1:31 HCSB). The LORD God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the midst of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:9 HCSB).

We note that in the beginning, everything was very good. There was no evil, and no knowledge of evil. Everyone knew what good is. But no one knew what evil is.

But in the Garden of Eden, there was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If anyone eats of the tree, they will know evil, they will know imperfection, they will know suffering.

Adam and Eve know what good is, but they know not evil. So they ate the fruit and they found out what evil is. Since then, every human have the knowledge of good and evil.

Restitution

Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering (Leviticus 6:5 KJV).

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift (Matthew 5:23-24 KJV).

If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep (Exodus 22:1 KJV).

One must restore to the offended brother full restitution and add to it one-fifth more before offering the trespass offering to God. In Luke 19, Zaccheus is willing to give half of his possessions to the poor and pay four-fold restitution to those he has defrauded.