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Away With the Old Crumbs!

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  In 1 Corinthians 11, the apostle Paul admonished us regarding the Passover, “Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup” (1 Cor. 11:27-28). This word “examine” is the same one translated “test” in 1 Thes. 5:21: “Test all things; hold fast what is good.” It’s Strong’s # G1381, dokimazo , and it means to try, test, examine, prove, or scrutinize. So before Passover, each one of us must scrutinize and examine his or her own heart, to avoid partaking in an unworthy manner. Among the Corinthians, failure to do this brought about God’s judgment: “For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep” (1 Cor. 11:30). Paul added, “For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged” (v. 31). By this time, most of us have probably begun de-leavening our houses in anticipation of the Feast of Unleavened B
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Warning! Nudity Ahead!

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You will often see a warning on movies if it contains nudity or even partial nudity. In a lot of places, indecent exposure still even carries a fine! Not that that gets enforced nowadays. We often hear that we shouldn’t look at porn and that it’s important for us to wear modest clothing in the Christian world. Why is that? Who determines what is modest for us to wear, and who gets to determine what nudity is? Does the Bible have a standard of modesty, or is modesty simply a standard set by the culture around us? Just writing that last sentence makes me cringe inside.  Let’s start by looking at what qualifies as men's and women’s clothing. This may seem unrelated, and it is. What does the Bible say about what constitutes men's or women's clothing? Deu 22:5 "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all who do so [are] an abomination to the LORD your God. That’s pretty much it. The determining factor of what
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