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Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction. — Deuteronomy 7:26

A little corruption, a little poison, and a little rotten are all oxymorons. God has made us pure and perfect in Jesus. What a glorious thought! Why would we want to stain his perfection with what is evil. Our Father wants us to dedicate ourselves to him, and to living as his holy people (Rom. 12:1-2; 1 Pet. 1:13-16).

Questions in 2 Kings 

9:11

When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac  come to you?”

 “You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.

9:17

When the lookout  standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.”

 “Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?

9:18

The horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’”

 “What do you have to do with peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”

 The lookout reported, “The messenger has reached them, but he isn’t coming back.”

God’s Word for God’s People

. Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - James 4:7

. Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. - Proverbs 3:5-6

. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. - Psalm 27:14

. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will. - Romans 12:2

. What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? - Romans 8:31

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