We continue our little stroll down musical memory lane. Life in a band, life around other creative types. Along the way we discuss what makes a good musician? Is it simply technical prowess? Surely proficiency is important and valuable, but there's more to that in the musical arts. Let's all learn to express ourselves creatively. We can't all be Rembrandt or Mozart or even Matthew Wilder, but we can all produce something from within ourselves. And it's even better when we allow the Lord to speak his truths through us.

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We take a small detour from our studies, a road less traveled, and just chat about being in a local, indie band. In part one, I ramble on about what it was like playing in a Greensboro (North Carolina) band in the 80s and 90s (and into the 2000s). The music, the friendships, the fantasies.

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We continue to apply the principles of Right Division (2 Tim 2:15) to our interpretation of scripture. Even after Peter is sent to Cornelius in Acts 10 (much against his will), he and the rest of the Apostles to the Circumcision (who had the Gospel to the Circumcision) went to Jews only in Acts 11 as confirmed in the epistle to the Galatians. When Peter and James write to the "dispersion" ("the twelve tribes scattered abroad"), they meant it.

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We get back to Jeremiah 11 and other parts of scripture to show how dangerous it is to our Bible study to try and apply everything to everynody in every age. We look at Noah amd Jonah and Paul and we are careful to read them all in context.

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One of the most dangerous things in theology today is trying to find everything in the news in prophecy. And part of the error (and honestly more serious) is applying the prophecies (warnings and promises) given to Israel to the United States. We are not "God's people." We are not Judah. We are not the city of Jerusalem. We do not have a covenant with the Lord. This error is most often seen when 2 Chronicles 2:14 is ripped from its context and applied to the USA or even to the "church." Today, we look at this error with a prophecy in Jeremiah.

We look at a couple of pro-trans laws in Seattle: putting rapists into women's prisons and letting boys compete against girls in sports.

We then move on to the Defund the Police movement of 2020. Like I've always said, states and locales can pass all the laws they want, but they need to be able to live with the results. That's how federalism is supposed to work. And as Churchill once said (paraphrased), no matter how beautiful the strategy, sometimes you need to look at the results.

Time is an interesting character. It never seems to stop, yet it was once unknown and it will one day be unknown again. What does that mean? I have no idea. I'm a creature of time. One thing time did was sneak up on me. One day, I'm playing baseball in the mid-summer North Carolina sun without feeling an iota of tired... next thing I know, I wake up with an aching back, a bulging belly, and four adult people in my life that I could swear were just getting on the school bus for the for time. In one way, we feel eternal, and then reality strikes us. That reality is the deception of time. Time tears away at us non-stop. It's important that we understand and appreciate time as best we can in this life and it is important that we understand how God looks at time from outside of time.

Another potpourri! We overcome (hopefully) technical issue as we briefly wander through a few issues. First, we look at those who create enemies that may or may not really exist. Then, we move in to a brief discussion of movies about the Lord. And, finally, from there, we spend the bulk of our time on the issue of time intervals, time gaps, in scripture and why we need to recognize these. We can do it, because our Lord did it in Luke 4!

We dip back into forgiveness then move on to how the powers that be want us to live in fear. And wonder of wonders, guess who is there to save us from the boogeyman? All they want is our money, our rights, our comforts, our values, our very independence... and for that small price, well, they won't do much apart from move on to the next boogeyman. And then they'll just want more of our money, more of our rights. etc.

We wander through Holy Week, as it's called for a few moments before we broach the topic of forgiveness. We talk a little bit about forgiving others and what that entails, but we want to focus on forgiving the worst person in the room, ourselves.

We remind ourselves that the primary judgment we should be worried about is our own. Not judgment for our sin (Christ has paid that), but judgment as to how we handle the Word of God and how we follow our calling. I'm not your judge and you are not my judge. We can discuss our differences in love, but we must never forget that God is watching. Yes, he is surely a patient God, but He does expect us to study to show ourselves approved unto Him alone.