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he loves me

Isaiah 43:4 (MSG)
That's how much you mean to me! That's how much I love you! I'd sell off the whole world to get you back, trade the creation just for you.

we ignore Gods warnings

Isaiah 6:9-10 (MSG)
He said, "Go and tell this people: "'Listen hard, but you aren't going to get it; look hard, but you won't catch on.' Make these people blockheads, with fingers in their ears and blindfolds on their eyes, So they won't see a thing, won't hear a word, So they won't have a clue about what's going on and, yes, so they won't turn around and be made whole."

God hates how we act religious

Isaiah 1:13-17 (MSG)
"Quit your worship charades. I can't stand your trivial religious games: Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings— meetings, meetings, meetings—I can't stand one more! Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! You've worn me out! I'm sick of your religion, religion, religion, while you go right on sinning. When you put on your next prayer-performance, I'll be looking the other way. No matter how long or loud or often you pray, I'll not be listening. And do you know why? Because you've been tearing people to pieces, and your hands are bloody. Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don't have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong. Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless. Go to bat for the defenseless.

gods children

Isaiah 1:2-5 (MSG)
Heaven and earth, you're the jury. Listen to God's case: "I had children and raised them well, and they turned on me. The ox knows who's boss, the mule knows the hand that feeds him, But not Israel. My people don't know up from down. Shame! Misguided God-dropouts, staggering under their guilt-baggage, Gang of miscreants, band of vandals— My people have walked out on me, their God, turned their backs on The Holy of Israel, walked off and never looked back.

josiah

2 Kings 23:25 (MSG)
There was no king to compare with Josiah—neither before nor after— a king who turned in total and repentant obedience to god, heart and mind and strength, following the instructions revealed to and written by Moses. The world would never again see a king like Josiah.

we pay personally for our sins

2 Kings 14:6 (MSG)
But he didn't kill the sons of the assassins. He was obedient to what God commanded, written in the Word revealed to Moses, that parents shouldn't be executed for their children's sins, nor children for those of their parents. We each pay personally for our sins.

Elisha power

2 Kings 13:21 (MSG)
One day, some men were burying a man and spotted the raiders. They threw the man into Elisha's tomb and got away. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came alive, stood up, and walked out on his own two feet.

loaves multiplied

2 Kings 4:23 (MSG)
"But why today? This isn't a holy day—it's neither New Moon nor Sabbath." She said, "Don't ask questions; I need to go right now. Trust me."

2 Kings 4:42-44 (MSG)
One day a man arrived from Baal Shalishah. He brought the man of God twenty loaves of fresh-baked bread from the early harvest, along with a few apples from the orchard. Elisha said, "Pass it around to the people to eat."

sabbath

2 Kings 4:23 (MSG)
"But why today? This isn't a holy day—it's neither New Moon nor Sabbath." She said, "Don't ask questions; I need to go right now. Trust me."

moab sacrifice

2 Kings 3:27 (KJV)
Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

1 Samuel 28:14

1 Samuel 28:14 (MSG)
"And what does he look like?" Saul asked. "An old man ascending, robed like a priest." Saul knew it was Samuel. He fell down, face to the ground, and worshiped.

Joshua 22:5

Joshua 22:5 (NKJV)
But take careful heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

1 Kings 19:8

1 Kings 19:8 (MSG)
He got up, ate and drank his fill, and set out. Nourished by that meal, he walked forty days and nights, all the way to the mountain of God, to Horeb. When he got there, he crawled into a cave and went to sleep. Then the word of god came to him: "So Elijah, what are you doing here?"

Romans 4:16

Romans 4:16 (MSG)
This is why the fulfillment of God's promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God's promise arrives as pure gift. That's the only way everyone can be sure to get in on it, those who keep the religious traditions and those who have never heard of them. For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father—that's reading the story backward. He is our faith father.

Deuteronomy 7:10

Deuteronomy 7:10 (MSG)
But he also pays back those who hate him, pays them the wages of death; he isn't slow to pay them off-those who hate him, he pays right on time.

Deuteronomy 8:3

Deuteronomy 8:3 (MSG)
He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don't live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from God's mouth.

Deuteronomy 8:5

Deuteronomy 8:5 (MSG)
You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child.

Deuteronomy 11:1

Deuteronomy 11:1 (MSG)
So love god, your God; guard well his rules and regulations; obey his commandments for the rest of time.

Deuteronomy 4:30

Deuteronomy 4:30 (MSG)
When troubles come and all these awful things happen to you, in future days you will come back to God, your God, and listen obediently to what he says.

Romans 8:5

Romans 8:5 (MSG)
Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Leviticus 23:3

Leviticus 23:3 (NIV)
"'There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the lord.

Leviticus 22:4

Leviticus 22:4 (NIV)
"'If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen,

Genesis 38:9

Genesis 38:9 (MSG)
But Onan knew that the child wouldn't be his, so whenever he slept with his brother's widow he spilled his semen on the ground so he wouldn't produce a child for his brother.

Psalm 32:1

Psalm 32:1 (NIV)
Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Ephesians 6:15

Ephesians 6:15 (NLT)
For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared.