Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.
A wall keeps people out but a gate is on henges to let people in.
The henges represent a choice.
Joshua 24:15
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord ."
The Tree of Life
Genesis 2:9
The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The tree of life could have been put outside because he wanted them to decide for themselves.
God will always provide a place of refuge.
Numbers 35
City of Refuge
v 6. "Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.
v.9-15 When you cross the River Jordan into the country of Canaan, designate your asylum-cities, towns to which a person who accidentally kills someone can flee for asylum.
Psalm 91:1-2
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord , "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
Psalm 37:7
Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Don't let someone talk you out of the King's protection
2 Samuel 3:6-38
Abner had crossed the River Jordan into the city of refuge
David negotiated a treaty with Abner via messenger.
Even when negotiating, Abner did not leave Asylum until an agreement was reached.
David sent Abner safely on his way
v. 22-26 But just after David had sent Abner away in safety, Joab and some of David’s troops returned from a raid and found out about the treaty
v. 27 When Abner arrived back at Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gateway as if to speak with him privately. But then he stabbed Abner in the stomach and killed him in revenge for killing his brother Asahel.
v. 33 Then the king sang this funeral song for Abner: “Should Abner have died as fools die? 34 Your hands were not bound; your feet were not chained. No, you were murdered— the victim of a wicked plot.”
All Abner had to do was stay in the city of refuge and he could have lived.
He removed himself from the King's protection
Don't be lured through the gate away from God's protection.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Revelations 21:21
The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
Matthew 16:17-19
...“Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
The praise that costs the most counts the most.
You have to get victory over your personal enemies before you can fight God's enemies. David fought the lion and the bear before he defeated Goliath
Whatever it is that gives you entrance into the place that God has delivered you from is a gate that needs to be removed. The music, the internet, alcohol, etc. There's no joy with one foot in the city of refuge and one foot out. Quit explaining it and get rid of it.
Judges 16:3
But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
Hongkong is the capitol of Tattoos. Born loser is the most popular tattoo . Before a tattoo Is placed on a persons body, it is already permanently inked on your mind.
Christoper Columbus
According to Earl Rosenthal, author of The Palace of Charles V in Granada (1985), the motto is closely associated with the Pillars of Hercules, which, according to Greek mythology, were built by Hercules near the Straits of Gibraltar to mark the edge of the then known world. According to mythology the pillars bore the warning Nec plus ultra (also Non plus ultra, "nothing farther beyond"), serving as a warning to sailors and navigators to go no farther and also a warning not to go farther.
After Columbus sailed to the Americas, The Spanish coat of arms depicts two crown-topped pillars of Hercules (with red banners displaying the motto in Latin, "PLUS ULTRA," meaning "More Beyond," alluding to Columbus' discovery of the New World).
That tattoo was removed!
Roger Banister
Roger Bannister was the first person to break the 4-minute mile demolishing a long standing myth that it could never be done. Once he broke through the paper barrier, 17 other people broke the 4-minute mile that year and over 100 the next year.
That tattoo was removed.
•Philippians 3:11-14
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Do not be overcome by the devil's tattoos .
Romans 12:1-2 KJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to thisworld: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
l am who God says l am.
A hundred dollar bill's value doesn't change no matter what it goes through because it's creator says that it's worth one hundred dollars. Even if someone uses it to buy drugs, then it's used to bribe someone in a bad business deal, then pay for a prostitute…it's still worth $100
How to remove a tattoo: a laser light stirs up the blood on the inside .
1 John 1:7 "...if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
IF Satan keeps bringing up my past then it means that he doesn't have any new material. When you are reminded of your past, praise God that you aren't there anymore.
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